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VIDEO OF THE DAY: US Rep. Nancy Mace threatens physical fight at committee meeting
The increasingly unhinged South Carolina congresswoman pitched a public fit and asked Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett if she wanted to "take it outside" — universally understood to mean "let's go physically fight in the parking lot" — after Crockett called her "child" and mocked her for demonizing trans children for attention. You may recall that Mace recently spent a week wearing a sling after a trans activist...shook her hand. The circus is officially back in town. Why did we put the clowns in charge again?

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Pete Hegseth dodges questions in Senate confirmation hearing debacle
Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, alcoholic sexual predator and white supremacist Fox News host Pete Hegseth, wilted under questioning from Democrats while also enjoying some of the most outrageous Republican ass-kissing you'll ever see. During four hours of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearing, Hegseth complained long and hard about diversity and equity in the military, refused to disavow his past comments about how women shouldn't be allowed in combat zones, failed to name a single country in the ASEAN region when asked by Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and refused to promise that he wouldn't carry out any unconstitutional orders from Donald Trump. Lone GOP holdout with very serious concerns Sen. Joni Ernst had clearly heard enough and promptly signaled her approval at the conclusion of the sham hearing, making it all but certain this drunk, misogynistic asshole will be in charge of the world's most powerful military.

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Michael J. Fox leads the charge against Parkinson's disease
Michael J. Fox Foundation: With nearly 90,000 new diagnoses in the United States each year, Parkinson’s disease is the fastest growing and second-most-common neurodegenerative disease in America. Tackling this silent menace is going to require a united effort from the public and from our representatives in Congress, so Michael J. Fox is mobilizing a national movement to help policymakers understand what matters to people with Parkinson’s and share our stories to expand our understanding of this vicious disease.Will you make a donation to help fuel the fight to end this disease for good?

Biden moves to lift state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, part of deal to free prisoners
A deal brokered by the Catholic Church will lead to freedom for a number of Cuban political prisoners and freedom for Cuba from at least some of the crushing economic suffocation that the United States imposes on its island neighbor...at least until rabid Cuba hawk Marco Rubio gets into the State Department. It's something that should have happened years ago, as Cuba's ties to state-sponsored terrorism are tenuous at best and its designation as such was mostly just a decades-long policy of the United States saying "because f*ck you, that's why." "The statute that creates the terrorism list specifies giving material support to terrorists or harboring terrorists who are actively engaged in terrorism while you are harboring them," said William M. LeoGrande, a Cuba expert at American University. "Cuba just hasn't done those things."

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Trump says he will create "external revenue service" to collect tariff income
"I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources," the president-elect posted on his Truth Social network on Tuesday. "We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share." Never mind that we already have such a department — it's the "customs" part of the Customs and Border Patrol — it seems that Don is intent on reneging on his promise to shrink the government and instead doubling down on creating new meme departments. Anything to distract from actually having to produce results, right?

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GOP-led House votes to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports
That's right. Razor-focused on the issue that matters the most to American families, which apparently is....the federal bullying of transgender athletes who want to play school sports. In December, the NCAA president said there are less than 10 transgender athletes who participate in college sports — which puts in perspective just how inconsequential this issue is for everybody except the athletes themselves, who must grapple with trauma of being targeted with pointless discrimination by the United States Congress. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into the GOP for the bill in a fiery speech, saying, "Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern about women. For the first time that I've seen...Republicans who have voted consistently against the Violence Against Women Act, who have taken away the rights of all women to choose and have control over their own body...now want to pretend today that they care about women... Bigoted folks love this bill. Assaulters love this bill. But also, CEOs love this bill, because Los Angeles is on fire right now and this is the number one priority this majority has."

US TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in protest with TikTok ban looming
A renaissance of American-Sino relations is flowering on RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, the Chinese version of TikTok, which shot to #1 on the Apple App Store as countless TikTokers made the switch in protest of the looming TikTok ban, which goes into effect on January 19, 2025, unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise. Chinese users on Xiaohongshu have so far welcomed American users, demanding pictures of their pets, with some offering to teach them Chinese; others have asked for help with their English homework. Great job, politicians! Your xenophobic fearmongering over a Chinese-owned app has instead created a digital cultural exchange unlike anything we've seen before, and the kids are dangerously close to seeing Chinese people as human beings, just like them! One Chinese user commented to an American: "We are not enemy, we are human beings (living) in one world!" Decades of hysterical anti-Chinese propaganda is in serious jeopardy. Here for it!

West Virginia's new governor axes DEI and enacts vaccine exemptions on first full day in office
Polio, measles, and funeral home operators are reportedly overjoyed.

Did Elon Musk pay a gamer to level a character up, then accidentally kill it permanently due to incompetence?
Elon Musk is very vocal about how hard he supposedly works, allegedly putting in 120 hour work weeks and breaking his day into five-minute slots, allowing him to "maximize his productivity." Yeah, right. He's also, supposedly, an avid gamer and has been publicly bragging about hitting the top of the leaderboards for the action roleplaying, dungeon-crawling games Diablo IV and in Path of Exile 2. The only problem with that is that in order to have achieved these results, he would have to be spending huge chunks of his time just playing video games and actually not working very hard at all. But after a recent stream in which Elon made it very clear he doesn't actually know how to play Path of Exile 2 and permanently killed his character, it's pretty obvious that he is paying people to play games for him so he can say he's the best. "He literally has no idea what he’s doing," said PoE streamer Quin69, who has more than 892,000 Twitch followers. "This is straight-up account sharing." Does any of this matter? Not really. But, hoo lordy, what a weird, weird loser.