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Your First Look at Today's Top Stories
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Democrats Elect Hakeem Jeffries to Lead House Minority with Pelosi Resigning Office
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Daily Wire: House Democrats on Wednesday elected New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries — who has repeatedly painted conservatives as racists — as their leader, making him the successor to Nancy Pelosi, who led the House Democrats for decades and served as speaker when her party was in the majority ( Daily Wire). National Review: Jeffries will be the House minority leader come January, when Republicans retake control of the chamber. He said hopes to find “common ground when possible” with Republicans but will “oppose their extremism when we must” ( National Review).
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Elon Musk Claims Twitter Interfered in Elections
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Fox News: Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that prior to his takeover, the “obvious reality” was that Twitter “has interfered in elections” through its content moderation policies. Musk’s explosive assertion came in response to comments made by Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, who indicated the social media platform was not safer under the Tesla CEO’s leadership. Roth was speaking at a Knight Foundation conference on Tuesday when he explained why he resigned from Twitter, accusing Musk of running the company like a dictator ( Fox News). Elon Musk: The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed ( Twitter). Katie Pavlich: Most infamously, Twitter banned any mention of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. By default, they also censored Joe Biden’s deep involvement and shady business dealings with foreign adversaries ( Townhall).
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EU Threatens Musk with a European Twitter Ban if He Does Not Agree to Content Regulation
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Reuters: The European Union has threatened Elon Musk’s Twitter with a ban unless the billionaire abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform. EU industry chief Thierry Breton made the threat during a video meeting with Musk on Wednesday ( Reuters). Financial Times: Among the EU’s demands is that Musk provides clear criteria on which users are at risk of being banned. Musk has reinstated Donald Trump’s account after holding a poll of users on whether the former US president should be allowed to return to the site ( Financial Times).
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House Passes Legislation to Halt Rail strike, Send Bill to Senate
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CNBC: The House passed legislation Wednesday that would force a tentative rail labor agreement and thwart a national strike. The bill now goes to the Senate. The House voted 290 to 137 — with 79 Republicans joining 211 Democrats — to pass the legislation, which approves new contracts providing railroad workers with 24% pay increases over five years from 2020 through 2024, immediate payouts averaging $11,000 upon ratification, and an extra paid day off. Eight Democrats and 129 Republicans voted against the legislation. In a separate 221 to 207 vote, the House also approved a resolution to provide seven days of paid sick leave in the contract instead of one, which is rail workers’ main disagreement with the current deal ( CNBC).
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Biden Authorizes $1.1 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan
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No doubt an effort to thwart a Chinese invasion. Bloomberg: The Biden administration is preparing to sell $1.1 billion in missiles and radar support to Taiwan, according to an official familiar with the matter, in what would be the largest such transfer in almost two years. The package would include as much as $650 million in continued support for a surveillance radar sold earlier, about $90 million for roughly 100 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles as well as about 60 additional anti-ship Harpoon missiles, the official said. Both weapons have been sold to Taiwan previously ( Bloomberg).
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CCP Pledges to “resolutely crack down” on Protestors as Protests Continue
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Associated Press: China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to “resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces,” following the largest street demonstrations in decades by citizens fed up with strict anti-virus restrictions. A massive show of force by the security services Wednesday sought to deter further protests. The statement from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission released late Tuesday followed protests that broke out over the weekend in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and several other cities. While it did not directly address the protests, the statement was a reminder of the party’s determination to enforce its rule ( Associated Press). New York Post: The anger that started with protests against China’s brutal “zero-COVID policies” — but widened to calls for President Xi Jinping to step down — has led to at least 43 protests in 22 cities, according to Australia’s ASPI think tank. That tally does not yet include those later Tuesday ( New York Post).
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CNN Continues Slashing Jobs
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Washington Examiner: An all-staff memo was sent to employees at CNN by CEO Chris Licht indicating that the network has begun the process of layoffs. The memo was tweeted out by the news channel’s senior media reporter Oliver Darcy on Wednesday. An all-staff memo was sent to employees at CNN by CEO Chris Licht indicating that the network has begun the process of layoffs ( Washington Examiner). Axios: The network faced a messy legal battle following Zucker’s departure around the handling of its firing of Chris Cuomo. Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to continue cutting costs at CNN to pay off some of the debt from its merger earlier this year ( Axios).
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Elon Musk Resolves Differences with Apple After Meetup
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Wall Street Journal: A potential battle between Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc. appears to have been averted after a meeting between Elon Musk and Tim Cook. Mr. Musk, the new owner of Twitter, said he had met with the Apple chief executive in a set of tweets Wednesday ( Wall Street Journal). Elon Musk: Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so ( Twitter).
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Louisiana Trans Teacher Enjoys Confusing Students About Gender Identity
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Fox News: A Louisiana teacher posted on Facebook how confusing students about gender identity was enjoyable. The teacher, Blaine Banghart, is a music teacher at University Elementary School in Shreveport who uses the term Mx., as opposed to Mr. or Ms. “The kids are all confused and asking why I have a mustache if I’m a girl, if I’m Mr. Banghart now, why am I trying to look like a boy, etc.,” Banghart wrote. “I’m just ignoring these questions/redirecting, so I don’t get in trouble” ( Fox News). Inside the Classroom: This teacher claims that she enjoys causing her students to be confused about her gender identity ( Twitter).
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San Francisco Approves Use of Robots to Assist Police in Killing, Incapacitating People
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National Review: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a policy on Tuesday officially allowing police to arm human-controlled robots with explosives to kill or incapacitate people in extreme circumstances. According to the policy, which was approved in an eight-to-three vote, “robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to SFPD.” The board amended the policy Tuesday to note that only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize the use of robots as a deadly force option, and that they could only be used after other de-escalation tactics failed ( National Review).
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Charlie Kirk dispels any notion that Apple is a fair-thinking, free-speech platform and instead is a multi-trillion-dollar company in bed with the Chinese Communist Party
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Charlie Kirk: A conservative thinker, author, or writer can probably tell you why government without checks and balances, without a proper structure, can lead to tyranny. As conservatives in kind of the conservative think-tank world, it’s well accepted and with a fair amount of detail and...
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Sebastian Gorka connects the dots on a troubling pattern of sexualizing children and celebrating the perverse
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: What makes human beings human? What makes you sentient or intelligent? One of the things that’s special about humans is not just our capacity to absorb information. It’s also our unique capacity to see patterns. To recognize when seemingly disparate things are actually...
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Senator Tom Cotton about why one more seat in the Senate is so important
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Hugh Hewitt: I want to switch over to Georgia. I just talked to Ronna McDaniel. They’ve got 400 RNC staffers down there. Everybody is going to help out Herschel. But people need to know they’ve got to vote early this week until Friday at 6:00 or next Tuesday. How important is a 50-50 Senate as...
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Dennis Prager presents the reality-denying gender options for applying for San Francisco’s new GIFT program
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Dennis Prager: Boy, I remember when I reported that Facebook had 56 gender options. Now, San Francisco has 130?
“San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income for Transgender People gives applicants 130 gender, sexual orientation, and pronoun options to identify as. Individuals can select gender F” —...
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Eric Metaxas talks with Tim Tebow about the football great's new 365-day devotional, "Mission Possible"
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Eric Metaxas: Folks, welcome to the program. I often ask people like, have you won the Heisman Trophy? Some people go, yeah. Then I go, well, have you won it twice? And they go, no. Well, that’s where they and I differ with my current guest. His name is Tim Tebow, and it’s always a joy to have...
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Mike Gallagher flags Democrats in their ongoing quest to take guns away from law-abiding Americans
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Mike Gallagher: We got Biden already promising to ban guns again. There were more mass shootings last week. There was a Walmart. There was a bar in Colorado Springs. Again, awful, awful acts of violence. It’s happening in cities all over the country. And the Democrats’ default reaction is to...
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Dinesh D’Souza discusses the anti-lockdown demonstrations in China, unfolding to be an important moment in history
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Dinesh D’Souza: We are seeing massive protests break out in China. Not just in one place, but in many places. And there’s every indication that these protests are spreading. The images on social media are incredible because not only do you see large crowds, but you see the bravery of...
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