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Here's to 2023! As we join the nation in celebrating the New Year, we will monitor the news and stories you care about. Daybreak Insider will return to your inbox on Tuesday, January 3. We are grateful for your support in 2022 and wish you a happy and successful 2023!
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Southwest Chaos: Politicians Demand Answers From Pete Buttigieg
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Fox News: Democrat and GOP elected officials and political activists demanded the Department of Transportation hold the company accountable so that customers receive full refunds and accommodations ( Fox News). Daily Mail: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was warned about airline chaos MONTHS ago – yet publicly assured travelers that air travel would be better by the holidays ( Daily Mail). Axios: The Department of Transportation tweeted that it would look into the actions of Southwest, which accounted for a large amount of the more than 3,900 flight cancelations and 8,200-plus delays within, into or out of the U.S. as of late Monday, per FlightAware data ( Axios). Bernie Sanders: @USDOT must hold Southwest’s CEO accountable for his greed and incompetence ( Twitter).
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DeSantis Investigating Highly Sexualized Drag Show Attended by Minors
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Washington Examiner: The show, “A Drag Queen Christmas,” was hosted at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 26. The show was generally restricted to adults, but children were allowed to attend if they were accompanied by a parent, according to the Hill ( Washington Examiner). Post Millennial : A drag queen with candy breasts dances provocatively at a “family friendly” Drag Queen Christmas event that has children in the audience in Orlando, Florida ( Twitter). HotAir: According to one witness who blew the whistle on the drag show, the entertainment did indeed include sexually explicit content. One skit was titled “Screwdolph the Red-Nippled Reindeer.” … It’s no surprise that Ron DeSantis is moving to take action on this. He’s already gone on record as being opposed to the sexualization of children at events like this ( HotAir).
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Welcome to Biden’s Tent City: Border Crisis in El Paso Reaching Breaking Point
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Hot Air: A giant tent is being put up in El Paso by the Border Patrol as the city prepares for the end of Title 42. It is bigger than a football field and located northeast of downtown. … Throwing up football field size tents in border communities isn’t enough. There is no substitution for securing the border with policies and agreements ( Hot Air). Washington Examiner: In November, more than 53,000 immigrants were apprehended in West Texas and New Mexico, which fall under Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector. Last month’s number is double the more than 26,000 in June, and it is ten times higher than the 5,000 apprehended in November 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The money spent responding to the thousands of immigrants released into the community each week has come out of the city’s pocket ( Washington Examiner).
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Covid Outbreak: China Continues to Keep Us in the Dark
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AP News: Moves by several countries to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak — and that the government may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough. There have been no reports of new variants to date, but China has been accused of not being forthcoming about the virus since it first surfaced in the country in late 2019. The worry is that it may not be sharing data now on any signs of evolving strains that could spark fresh outbreaks elsewhere. Research into the origins of the virus has also been stymied. A WHO expert group said in a report this year that “key pieces of data” were missing on the how the pandemic began and called for a more in-depth investigation ( AP News).
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Newly Elected California School Board Bans CRT During First Meeting
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Board had just flipped to a conservative majority. Daily Wire: In a 3-2 vote, the Temecula Valley Unified School District in southern California voted to ban schools from teaching CRT. The vote came at the end of a marathon session on Tuesday night that ran into the wee hours of Wednesday morning; a new conservative majority had just been sworn in at the beginning of the meeting ( Daily Wire). Daily Caller : Inland Empire Family PAC worked with and endorsed the three school board candidates in an effort to bring “pro-parental rights candidates” to the Temecula Valley Unified School Board, according to the group website. The group began in 2017 when parents discovered a comprehensive sex education curriculum was being taught within the school district ( Daily Caller).
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A League of They/Them Own: Boxing Organization Introduces Transgender Category for 2023
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New York Post: The World Boxing Council (WBC) is starting separate categories dedicated to transgender fighters to ensure competitors’ “safety,” officials announced Thursday. WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman told The Telegraph in an interview published Thursday that the new divisions next year are to ensure that “the dangers of a man fighting a woman will never happen.” “We will not allow — ever — a transgender born a man to fight a woman, who was born a woman,” he stated firmly. Instead, transgender fighters will be organized by an “at birth” rule, meaning a trans female fighter born a man can only box against a fellow trans fighter born a man, and the same for those born a woman ( New York Post). Daily Mail: The concept of transgender athletes competing in sport has been thrown into the spotlight in recent years, with swimming, weightlifting, cycling and rugby union among the sports affected by the debate. As boxing is a contact sport, the WBC were keen to get on top of the issue and propose an appropriate plan of action to ensure that all health and safety concerns were considered ( Daily Mail).
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Americans’ Work Ethic Destroyed by Socialism, Says Home Depot Co-founder
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New York Post: The 93-year-old billionaire co-founder of Home Depot blamed “socialism” for Americans lacking the motivation to work and warned that the future of capitalism is in danger. Bernie Marcus told Financial Times on Thursday, “Nobody works.” “Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work — I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid,” Marcus said about what he perceived as the attitude permeating the country. “Nobody gives a damn.” The longtime Republican backer ticked down a list of people he blamed for standing in the way of private enterprise, including President Biden, “the woke people,” the news media, Harvard graduates, MBAs, lawyers and accountants ( New York Post). Daily Caller: Marcus previously spoke out against socialism in 2019 when asked about Bernie Sanders and his left-wing proposals, such as socialized medicine. “He is the enemy of every entrepreneur that’s ever going to be born in this country and has been born in the past,” he said of Sanders and his propositions. Marcus’ business partner Ken Langone seconded his stance, stating, “[Socialism] doesn’t work. It never works” ( Daily Caller).
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LA’s Elite Intimidated by Skid Row Homeless When Charging EVs
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Daily Mail: A conservative commentator has warned electric vehicle drivers in LA the charging stations for their $60,000 cars are littered with homeless encampments. Alexandra Datig shared a video of her driving in downtown on Wednesday, with one of the local Blink EV charging stations surrounded by trash and tents. ‘When you live in Los Angeles, it’s better to have a charging station at home for that $60,000 EV,’ Datig wrote. The closer you get to downtown, the charging stations have homeless ‘attendants’ who live on the same sidewalk as the stations.’ California as a whole had 563,070 registered EVs in 2021, more than 100,000 more compared to the year before. But the work in LA could be undermined by the ongoing homeless crisis affecting the public charging stations ( Daily Mail). Alexandra Datig: I’m just now driving down the street passing the charging station that is five minutes from my house on the outskirts of downtown LA. Would you be comfortable charging your $60,000 EV here? ( Twitter).
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‘White Supremacy’ Runs Deep When It Comes to Physical Fitness, Professor Says
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The Blaze: Time.com published a bizarre Q&A recently, exploring an author’s unorthodox attacks on the origins of physical fitness and exercise. The article, titled “The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness,” provides an uncited attempt to describe sinister origins behind everything from President Kennedy’s fitness campaign to simple running. Author Natalia Mehlman Petrzela wrote, “Fit Nation,” a book that states in its synopsis that “fitness is a social justice issue” ( The Blaze). TIME: The “running is for everybody” discourse still quite often leaves out the fact that depending on where you live and the body that you live in, it can be a very different kind of experience ( TIME). Outkick: The outlet contends the activity is deeply rooted in white supremacy. The Babylon Bee did not produce an article examining the white supremacist origins of exercising. Rather, the article is the product of one of the longest-standing magazines in the country ( Outkick). Hodgetwins: Paging. @TheBabylonBee, they are stealing your content ( Twitter).
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More Than 1,000 Show Up for Kirk Cameron’s Book Reading at Library That Initially Refused to Host Event
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Story with a happy ending. Post Millennial : Kirk Cameron held a reading of his new Children’s book As You Grow at the Indianapolis Public Library, and the small room allotted to him by the library was packed to overflowing with parents and kids. Cameron’s reading drew the biggest crowds to the library in 137 years, a spokesman for Cameron said. This after the library had initially refused to host Cameron and Brave books, claiming that the message of the book did not align with their values ( Post Millennial).
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Julie Hartman sounds the alarm on U.S. readiness to address China’s ambitions in Taiwan
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Julie Hartman: For our first news story of the day: 71 warplanes were detected flying in or near Taiwan’s airspace Sunday, which included 60 fighter jets, according to the Taiwan Defense Ministry.
The People’s Liberation Army of China says that they were conducting a strike drill in response to...
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Charlie Kirk talks with Matt Walsh about how the left is pushing the falsehood of gender ideology into our workplaces, our schools and ourselves
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Charlie Kirk: Everybody, welcome to this episode. Matt Walsh is with us. So Matt, why should we push back against using people’s preferred pronouns?
Matt Walsh: Well, because it is the left is trying to force us to participate in a lie. And that’s really what it comes down to. The pronoun thing...
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Dennis Prager rants about how the medical establishment lied about the vaccine, lockdowns and masks, and how society has paid the price
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Dennis Prager: On the issue of the vaccine, they need to study all health outcomes over the long term, vaxed versus unvaxed. And that was a law but they have ignored it for three and a half decades, and they have not been held accountable.
I have lost all faith in the medical profession and in the...
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Hugh Hewitt explains how and when private enterprises like Twitter cross the line into being government actors
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Hugh Hewitt: I want to lay out for my audience so that you understand. There are two kinds of private companies: private-private companies, and publicly traded private companies. Neither of them are the government, all right? Neither of them are the government. The First Amendment does not apply to...
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Brandon Tatum sees the left’s obsession with Trump’s tax returns as an attempt to shame and humiliate
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Officer Tatum: Now let’s talk about Donald Trump’s tax returns. Now, I was expecting for Donald Trump to have strip clubs and all kinds of stuff on his tax returns, foreign trips to see prostitutes or something on his tax returns, given the way that the left has been begging and pleading for...
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Sebastian Gorka talks with Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn about what’s behind the J6 referrals and ahead for President Trump
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka: Senator Blackburn, I have to ask you: Yesterday, Congress forwarded multiple criminal referrals to the DOJ for the 45th president of the United States, that if they went through and he were convicted, would lead to 40 years in prison for President Trump. Your reaction to the...
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Dinesh D’Souza digs into the Twitter files to expose just how deep the corruption goes
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Dinesh D’Souza: Now, it’s become clear from the January 6th cases and also from other cases that the FBI functions kind of like a criminal gang. It’s more dangerous than a normal gang for the simple reason that these are thugs with badges. They have the authority to get subpoenas. They can...
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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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