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Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Biden Vax Mandate

Oral arguments begin January 7^th. From the story: The mandate, promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), requires that all companies with 100 or more workers mandate COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing and masking for employees. The decision comes after The Daily Wire, as well as other petitioners, asked the Supreme Court to take up the case (Daily Wire). Another story notes “In a pair of orders accepting the cases, the high court put off immediate action on the mandates until after oral arguments next month” (ABC News).

Fauci: Large Gatherings This Holiday Season are Unsafe!

Imagine if this guy were your parent.

Axios

President Biden Extends the Student Loan Repayment Moratorium

From the story: The Biden administration announced Wednesday that the moratorium on federal student loan payments would be extended through May 1, as the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a new threat to the economy (NBC News). From AOC: Thank you! Next step: cancellation (Twitter). From The Daily Mail: Progressives have argued that Biden can unilaterally write-off $50,000 in debt for every borrower, but the president has been reluctant to do that with the strike of his pen. Biden has said he’d be comfortable writing off $10,000 of debt per borrower, but last week, press secretary Jen Psaki said the president wanted Congress to act (The Daily Mail).

Elizabeth Warren Blames Corporate Greed for Rising Supermarket Prices

From The Washington Examiner: Warren this week blamed the rising cost of groceries on a sinister plot by Big Supermarket (The Washington Examiner). From Elizabeth Warren: Giant grocery store chains force high food prices onto American families while rewarding executives & investors with lavish bonuses and stock buybacks. I’m demanding they answer for putting corporate profits over consumers and workers during the pandemic (Twitter). From The Hill: Consumer prices in November surged 6.8 percent, marking the highest annual inflation rate seen since 1982 as supply chains have struggled during the pandemic. Prices for food were notably up 6.1 percent for the year including 6.4 percent for food from grocery stores and 5.8 percent at restaurants (The Hill).

The College Football Championship May Be Determined by a Forfeit Due to COVID

From The Daily Wire: With the Omicron variant rapidly spreading across the country, sports leagues are canceling games left and right as athletes continue to test positive for COVID-19. on Wednesday, the College Football Playoff Management Committee announced their COVID-19 postseason policies, including the actions that will be taken if a playoff team has an “insufficient number of athletes” to field a team due to COVID-19 issues for the two semifinals games and the national championship matchup (The Daily Wire). From College Football Playoffs: If one team is able to play and the other is not and the game cannot be rescheduled or is rescheduled and cannot be played, then the team unable to play shall forfeit the game and the other team shall be declared CFP National Champion. If both teams are unable to play on either an original or rescheduled date, then the game shall be declared “no contest” and the CFP National Championship shall be vacated for this season (College Football Playoffs).

San Francisco DA Slammed Mayor London Breed’s Crackdown on Crime

From the story: San Francisco’s far-left District Attorney Chesa Boudin is slamming Mayor London Breed’s new crackdown on crime as misguided and ineffective. Breed last week announced an aggressive crackdown on crime in the city, specifically citing the Tenderloin neighborhood as an area plagued by open-air drug dealing, crime and unsanitary conditions on the streets. She unveiled a series of proposals, including securing emergency funds for law enforcement and more police funding for overtime and additional officers (Fox News). From The Police Tribune: San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose soft-on-crime policies have put criminals back out on the streets, held a press conference with activists on Monday to denounce the mayor’s strategy. “Arresting people who are addicted to drugs, jailing people who have mental health struggles, putting folks who are vending hot dogs or other food on the streets in cages will not solve these problems, and they are certainly not the only tools available,” he continued. “Right now in San Francisco, it is easier to get high than it is to get help.” Boudin is facing a recall election in June after infuriating critics who have said he is too easy on criminals (The Police Tribune).

Pandemic Relief Fraud Surpasses $100 Billion

From Breitbart: The U.S. Secret Service named a pandemic fraud recovery coordinator Tuesday as it frantically moves to stem stolen benefits draining upwards of $100 billion from government relief provisions (Breitbart). From The Secret Service: The U.S. Secret Service has named Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) Roy Dotson of the Jacksonville field office. In this role, ASAIC Dotson will coordinate efforts across multiple ongoing Secret Service investigations into the fraudulent use of COVID-19 relief applications, with potential fraudulent activity nearing $100 billion. While fraud related to personal protective equipment (PPE) was of primary concern to law enforcement, including the Secret Service, early in the pandemic, the release of federal funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act has attracted the attention of individuals and organized criminal networks worldwide (The Secret Service). From CNN: The Secret Service says its work has led to the return of more than $2.3 billion in ill-gotten gains. One hundred people have been arrested. But the agency still has more than 900 active criminal investigations into Covid-19-related financial fraud (CNN).

Blue State Residents Exiting for Red States in 2021

From the story: Millions of Americans fled Democratic-run states and flocked to Republican-run states in 2021, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. Washington, D.C., which is not a state and will never deserve statehood, in 2021 lost almost 3 percent of its population. Idaho, meanwhile, a state that has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968, saw its population increase by nearly 3 percent.

Free Beacon

New Mother Who Says She’s a Man Furious that Hospital Staff Called Her “Mom”

But, like many stories, it plays along by referring to the new mother as a male.

NY Post

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Five Planned Parenthood CEO’s Making Over Half a Million Dollars Per Year

For overseeing the killing of babies, they make more than Fauci.

Daily Wire