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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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Don't miss The Daybreak Daily — scroll to the bottom of these top news stories
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Speaker Pelosi Introduces Massive $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill
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Washington Examiner: Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is rallying her fellow Democrats to back the bipartisan $1.7 trillion omnibus spending aimed at averting a government shutdown. Pelosi rattled off a slew of liberal victories in the bill in a letter to House Democrats on Tuesday as House Republicans move aggressively to torpedo the bill in hopes of gaining more negotiating leverage when they retake the lower chamber in January ( Washington Examiner). Sen. Mike Lee: This monstrous spending bill comes to 4,155 pages. We deserve proper consideration and the chance to read, debate and amend – not a backroom deal. Opposing this isn’t radical: running our government like this is what’s radical ( Twitter). Thomas Massie: Under Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker of the House, over 40% of the federal debt accumulated since the founding of our country was incurred. No other Speaker, President, or Senate Majority Leader, can even come close to her indubitable record of deficit spending ( Twitter). Heritage Foundation: $1 million for Zora’s House in Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color.” $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City. $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia ( Twitter).
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TikTok Ban Included in Omnibus Bill
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Daily Wire: A TikTok ban on government devices is included in the latest version of the $1.7 trillion “omnibus” bill. The Tuesday draft follows the unanimous passage of the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” in the Senate last week after it was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). The concerns over TikTok have existed since at least 2020 as the China-owned social media platform can reportedly be accessed by the nation’s Communist government, making the app a national security issue ( Daily Wire). Jake Sherman: The ban on TikTok on government devices has ended up in the omnibus. This was a Josh Hawley bill. Pelosi pushed for it in the omni ( Twitter).
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Influx of Texas National Guard Troops Arrive in El Paso to Assist with Border Control
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Daily Mail: A huge Texas National Guard presence arrived at the southern border in El Paso overnight as the city prepares for an even larger influx of migrants once Title 42 ends, and asylum-seekers are now forced to come face-to-face with troops if they want to pass into the U.S. New fencing at the banks of the Rio Grande River was also erected to stop migrants from crossing after thousands came across in the last week. Migrants crossing into the U.S. at El Paso are now faced with a stand-off with National Guard troops ( Daily Mail). Bill Melugin: The Texas National Guard has deployed to the Rio Grande in El Paso, TX, placing razor wire where migrants have been crossing en masse and establishing a line of humvees. Gov. Abbott sent 400 soldiers to El Paso in anticipation of a “mass migration” event ahead of T42 drop ( Twitter). RNC Research: The White House cannot name a single thing Kamala Harris has done to secure the border. “I don’t have anything to lay out specifically on what that work looks like” ( Twitter).
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Stanford University Reveals List of Banned Words, Among Them is “American”
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Shame on you for even thinking you were “American.” Stanford University thinks you are bigoted. Fox News: Stanford University published an index of “harmful language” it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements… Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term, “American.” People are instead asked to use “U.S. Citizen” because “American” typically refers to “people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas” ( Fox News). Nicholas Christakis: What really is amazing about this situation at Stanford is that they willingly convened and *funded* a committee to do this and then promptly lacked courage to defend it by quickly withdrawing list from public availability. If you’re making a list of prohibited words, defend it ( Twitter).
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Canada Funding Dissemination of Woke Ideology
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National Review: Canada’s government granted a group of academics almost $164,000 for a research project called “Decolonizing Light: Tracing and countering colonialism in contemporary physics,” a search of grant records confirmed. Disturbingly, the academics involved admit that they have zero interest in performing science or seeking truth but are instead interested in spreading woke ideology. “The purpose of our project is not to find new or better explanations of light; we are not seeking to improve scientific ‘truth,’” scholars involved in the project wrote in one of their few published works. “Rather, our project initiatives are motivated by the marginalization of women, Black people, and Indigenous peoples particularly in physics” ( National Review).
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Wells Fargo to Pay $1.7 Billion Penalty in Case of Illegal Fees
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Wall Street Journal: Wells Fargo reached a $3.7 billion deal with regulators to resolve allegations that it harmed more than 16 million people with deposit accounts, auto loans and mortgages. The settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau includes a $1.7 billion penalty, the agency’s largest-ever fine, and more than $2 billion in consumer restitution, the regulatory agency said Tuesday. The consumer watchdog agency said the bank illegally assessed fees and interest charges on loans for cars and homes. Some consumers had their vehicles illegally repossessed while others had overdraft fees unlawfully applied, the agency said ( Wall Street Journal).
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President Zelensky to Visit Capitol Hill to Address Congress
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Axios: Capitol Hill is preparing to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a joint session of Congress this week. This would be Zelensky’s first in-person visit to the U.S. since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. While the details are not yet finalized, U.S. Capitol Police is beefing up security for a potential Wednesday visit. Zelensky is expected to thank lawmakers for the billions of dollars in aid they’ve provided to the Ukrainian war effort, as well as to make his case for why even more funding is needed ( Axios). Reporter Andrew Desiderio: ZELENSKY COMING TO CAPITOL HILL TOMORROW. It’s the Ukrainian leader’s first visit time leaving Ukraine since Russia’s war began exactly 300 days ago today ( Twitter). President Zelensky spent his day touring the front lines in Bakhmut before peaparign to depart for the US ( Wall Street Journal).
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DHS Lets Slip Cuban Deportees Sought Protection
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This is legitimately the worst-case scenario for the migrants. Los Angeles Times: The Department of Homeland Security inadvertently tipped off the Cuban government this month that some of the immigrants the agency sought to deport to the island nation had asked the U.S. for protection from persecution or torture. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are now scrambling to foreclose the possibility that the Cuban government could retaliate against individuals it knows sought protection here. The agency has paused its effort to deport the immigrants in question and is considering releasing them from U.S. custody ( Los Angeles Times). Wall Street Journal: Immigration figures show a quarter of a million Cubans have arrived in the U.S. in the past year. Many of them paid thousands of dollars each to get away from the communist island and its crumbling economy, flying to Nicaragua and then paying coyotes, or migrant smugglers, to guide them across Mexico to the U.S. border ( Wall Street Journal).
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Massive Earthquake in Northern California Leaves 70,000 Without Power
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Associated Press: A powerful earthquake that residents described as “violent” rocked a rural stretch of the Northern California coast early Tuesday, leaving 11 people injured and 70,000 without power as a rain storm was about to roll in ( Associated Press). Reuters: The tremor, which struck at 2:30 a.m. PST and was followed by more than three dozen aftershocks, was centered 215 miles north of San Francisco offshore of Humboldt County, a largely rural area known for its redwood forests, local seafood, lumber industry and dairy farms ( Reuters).
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DEA Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill Every Single American
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Daily Wire: In a press release Tuesday, the DEA said it had seized some 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl, along with more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder, with two weeks left in calendar year 2022. That amounts to more than 379 million lethal doses of fentanyl so far this year, more than enough to kill every single citizen of the United States. There are 333 million people in the United States ( Daily Wire).
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Eric Metaxas talks with stream.org’s John Zmirak about the metastatic corruption of big tech, hastened by the misapplication of Section 230
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Eric Metaxas: John, thank you for coming on. I want to ask you the same question I always ask you. What have you been writing about at stream.org? What shall we discuss first, my friend?
John Zmirak: I’ve been closely following the Twitter revelations and what they show us about the internal...
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Mike Gallagher offers his take on Elon Musk's "should I step down as head of Twitter" poll
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Mike Gallagher: Holy cow, Elon Musk is gonna step down as head of Twitter! This is pretty wild. Do you think that when Elon Musk decided Sunday night to throw up a poll question saying, “Should I step down as head of Twitter,” that it would go well for him?
I don’t know. I have no idea what...
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Brandon Tatum takes issue with Trump’s “major announcement,” which turns out to be major disappointment
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Officer Tatum: So, I guess Trump launched the NFT and then he made a speech saying the same the same stuff he’s been saying since 2016. I guess he’s walking out what he said he’s gonna do once he gets elected.
Let me just put it this way. This is the weirdest thing that I have ever seen Trump...
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Dinesh D’Souza exposes how the Chinese version of TikTok seeks to educate and protect kids, rather than corrupt and damage them
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Dinesh D’Souza: There’s been a lot of talk in America about how TikTok is a Chinese operation to collect your data, to find out all kinds of things about you, almost like a surveillance or spying operation masquerading as a social media platform.
And so, there are states that have now begun the...
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Charlie Kirk talks with Kirk Cameron about how libraries host drag queen story hours but consider Cameron’s new children’s book off limits
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Charlie Kirk: Joining us now is Kirk Cameron, a great American, and really someone I enjoy. Kirk, welcome back to the program.
Kirk Cameron: Hey, Charlie, great to be talking with you. I’m a grateful American and I’m really thankful to be talking with you today.
Charlie Kirk: So Kirk, you’ve...
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Julie Hartman relates news of SBF’s arrest and reads the list of charges that could land him in jail for a long, long time
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Julie Hartman: The U.S. government has finally announced criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, the cryptocurrency fraudster once on the covers of Forbes and Fortune.
SBF is a name that is no stranger to this broadcast. On the third episode of Timeless, I gave a short...
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Dennis Prager celebrates news of Governor DeSantis impaneling a grand jury to investigate evidence of vaccine injury
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Dennis Prager: I am about to report a major development. I believe it’s from The Florida Standard, Will Witt’s great creation in Florida. “DeSantis announces Florida grand jury investigation to hold vaccine manufacturers accountable.”
I must say that DeSantis is almost too good to be true....
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Sebastian Gorka details the long and astonishing rap sheet of Viktor Bout, the arms dealer Biden traded for basketball player, Brittney Griner
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: A black lesbian basketball player who is an Olympian has been released from her nine-year sentence for smuggling drugs into Russia because yes, she is that stupid. She took drugs to Russia.
And what are we giving to the Russians in exchange? We have no extradition treaty to...
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Hugh Hewitt talks with Alaska senator Dan Sullivan about Biden’s job-killing delay and cancellation of Alaska oil exploration
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Hugh Hewitt: Senator Sullivan, let’s talk now about Alaska and oil drilling. President Biden and his team keep going out and saying there are thousands and thousands of unused permits. Is he actually obstructing oil and gas development in Alaska?
Sen. Dan Sullivan: A hundred and ten percent,...
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