@HannahVernon 🙂

@Memor-X Elon has chosen the one.

@Memor-X apparently the whole GOP is obsessed with trans women using bathroom at the Capitol.

I still don't know why DoJ didn't bring any charges against Gaetz.

Daily Beast: Trump Picks Runner-Up for AG After Sex Scandal Doomed Matt Gaetz

because he's out of office now

I am not talking about now. They decided maybe last year or so. When he was in Congress.

> In a Thursday Truth Social post, Trump said he was “proud” to announce Pam Bondi as his next pick.

> most importantly in Trumpland, Bondi is a mainstay on Fox News, recently appearing on Fox & Friends First to discuss possible replacements for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat.

Daily Beast: Alex Jones Praises ‘Stud’ Matt Gaetz

Common Dreams: US Plutocrats $276 Billion Richer Since Trump Win—And GOP Wants to Give Them Even More

> "The tax fight is starting now," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "Will we sign our names to more giveaways to President-elect Trump's billionaire buddies, or will we fight for tax fairness for the American people?"

Georgia Fires Entire Maternal Mortality Panel After Reporting on Abortion Ban Deaths

> "This is how they cover up what abortion bans do—fire anyone who helps tell the stories of harm," said one journalist. "Everyone who is or can be pregnant will pay the price."

15 Democrats Join House GOP to Pass 'MAGA Assault' on Nonprofits

> "This bill is a five-alarm fire for anyone who seeks to protect free speech, civil society, and democracy," said one rights advocate.

> with Republicans set to take control of both chambers of Congress as well as the White House after the New Year, advocates are warning that it will ultimately give the Trump administration "unprecedented and unchecked power" to take action against groups whose mission and work President-elect Donald Trump opposes, particularly those fighting for Palestinian rights.

Guardian: ‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’

> The word is trending as Trump makes cabinet picks – but it’s not the first time it’s been used to describe lousy leadership

> "Well, look at this thing called 'accountability,'" said one MSNBC host.

Hill: Casey concedes to McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate race

Giuliani appeals decision ordering him to turn over assets to election workers

Khanna: Musk may get ‘frustrated fairly quickly’ with process to cut government jobs, spending

> “I mean, let’s see if he can get defense cuts. My guess is that there are going to be a lot of the people on that committee [who] are going to want even more defense spending. It’ll be a test.”

Daily Beast: Nancy Mace Is Rapidly Becoming One of the Worst People in the Country

> Mace, Levy says, is “rapidly becoming one of the worst people in the country,” adding, “I can’t even get to how disgusting this is… It is just as strong a case of just bigotry and bullying that I can imagine, and it’s absolutely disgusting. And my heart goes out to trans people because they are really going through it right now, and it’s just awful to see it happening.”

MSNBC: How Nancy Mace went from LGBTQ ally to anti-trans culture warrior

> But “protecting women and girls” is not what Mace is actually doing, and it’s not just the “Radical Left” that disagrees with her stand: Many moderate right-of-center Americans like myself also find her grandstanding disappointing, because there’s no actual “safety” issue being addressed here.

it never was about safety

> Nancy Mace’s stand does seem to be succeeding in its real goal: bringing widespread attention to Nancy Mace. After all, this is the same congresswoman who dramatically wore a shirt branded with a scarlet letter to work because people were criticizing her for voting to oust then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

@Memor-X of course.

Desi Lydic put it nicely:

> Assaults by transgender women in women’s bathrooms are incredibly, incredibly rare, and there is zero reason to specifically believe that McBride is going to assault anyone in a restroom. What’s more, any criminal who would enter a women’s restroom intending to assault or harass a woman is clearly already undeterred by policies or laws.

Just for the sake of argument.

Daily Beast: AOC Roasts Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘Actually Hilarious’ New DOGE Role

> Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a progressive darling and fellow three letter initialism-haver, is fine with that. “This is good, actually,” AOC tweeted Thursday. “She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading.” She then likened giving MTG the job to “giving someone an unplugged controller.”

> “Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG,” added AOC. “That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas!”

Lol

@User1865345 100% this

> 09:43 – House Speaker Mike Johnson’s new rule about transgender women and bathrooms in Congress

there is part of that in that segment that goes over Nacy Mace's behaviour and pointing out that she is 100% only doing this for for attention

@Memor-X correct assessment.

Guardian: Bitcoin rises after SEC chair says he is to step down when Trump is inaugurated

> Gary Gensler, a critic of the cyrpto industry, will leave the US financial regulator on 20 January

Common Dreams: Trump's New Attorney General Pick: A Corporate Lobbyist Who Did Wall Street's Bidding

> "We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to let corporate wrongdoers off the hook," said one consumer advocate.

ABC News: Texas is taking a final vote on allowing Bible-infused lessons in public schools

Trump's trials: Prosecutors wind down federal cases as state cases could be placed on hold

Trump's Cabinet picks boast thin résumés. That's the point: ANALYSIS

> The shifting vocabulary is just another example of Trump's ability to transform norms in Washington, but also of voter frustrations and a shifting electorate. And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.

> "If you asked most American people, guess what they would say, 'What's the difference? It's not like they've been doing a great job beforehand, so now you're worried about this guy?'" Kofinis added of would-be nominees' qualifications. "The argument is, 'you need to have people with managerial and certain type of policy expertise to run these agencies.' Based on whose opinion? Based on experts' opinion, or based on the American people's opinion?"

Raw Story: 'He goes out and gets drunk': Ex-Fox News colleague unleashes on Pete Hegseth

> "Pete Hegseth has many problems, in addition to what you just said," said Julie Roginsky, a Democratic strategist and former Fox News contributor. "Pete Hegseth, when he was at Princeton, published an article that said that women who are raped while they're passed out actually, that's not really can't consent, if they're not aware of what's happening to them, that's not rape.

> "I mean, this is somebody who's going to be in charge of a military that has had massive sexual assault scandals, to be very clear, on both sides of the aisle. This is something that people have been looking into. Senators on both sides of the aisle [know] it's a problem, and if you speak to women who've served in the military, they say it's a question of not if, but when they will be sexually assaulted."

> "I mean, the bottom line is this is exactly the kind of person that should not be serving in a national security capacity, because this is the kind of person who has things that he doesn't want coming out, that our enemies are probably already aware of. Surely there is somebody in the Trump organization and the Trump orbit who doesn't have sexual harassment issues that they can put into this job. It does not need to be Pete Hegseth."

Guardian: Trump hush-money case sentencing postponed indefinitely

Ontario bill prevents cyclists from suing province if they're injured on roads which they removed bike lanes from google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7390145

Fuck Ford. Can't believe the province voted for him twice. All thanks to the rural vote.

@User1865345 Not surprised, just disappointed

Justice dies in daylight.

Doesn't make sense just because you are President, you are beyond law and order. What to say.

@Wipqozn A good take I heard (from an Ontario cousin I think) was that Doug just wants to be mayor of Toronto, and so is writing legislation that explicitly targets Toronto city hall.

@MBraedley I've heard the same. He ran for Toronto mayor and lost, and now he's acting like a spiteful mayor.

Axios: Why recess appointments aren't a magic wand for Trump

Guardian: Trump campaign on judge's hush-money case dismissal permission: 'Decisive win'