Leftists Should Feel Free To Shun Pro-Trump Family Over Holidays for ‘Mental Health,’ Yale Psychiatry Resident Says

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Leftists this holiday season should feel free to stay away from family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump in order to take care of their “mental health,” a Yale psychiatry resident told MSNBC host Joy Reid on Friday.

Reid asked Dr. Amanda Calhoun, “How do you interact with people who you know voted for this? If you are an LGBTQ person and know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing this man was calling people the B-word. [Vice President-elect] JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris ‘the trash’ and said we’re going to take out ‘the trash.’ I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.”

Reid continued, “And if you then meet somebody, and you know they voted for the people who called you trash, or if you’re Puerto Rican … and you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them? We got the holidays coming up.”

Calhoun replied that there is a “societal” expectation that “if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time. And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you — like what you said, against your livelihood — and it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. You know, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not gonna be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'”

Calhoun added that she doesn’t believe anyone should be forced “to be around people just because they’re your family. … And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they’re your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so. And I think it may be essential for your mental health.”

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‘Blatant Weaponization’: FEMA Facing Investigations for Targeting Suffering Trump Supporters

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Republicans are calling for investigations, or are already launching their own, into charges that the federal government deliberately and willfully discriminated against supporters of President-elect Donald Trump following a hurricane disaster in Florida.

It was the Daily Wire that initially documented how Marn’I Washington, a Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor, instructed employees under her authority to deprive homeowners who expressed support for Trump’s campaign of federal help following the 2024 hurricane season.

According to a report from the Washington Stand, “At least 20 houses with Trump signs or Trump flags displayed were skipped over by FEMA with employees designating the houses with variations of ‘Trump sign no entry per leadership.'” . . .

Gov. Ron DeSantis, of Florida, said, “At my direction, the [Florida] Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.”

He explained, “The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days. … New leadership is on the way in DC, and I’m optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.” (Read more from “‘Blatant Weaponization’: FEMA Facing Investigations for Targeting Suffering Trump Supporters” HERE)

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WATCH: Major Ruling in CNN Defamation Fight With James O’Keefe

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A federal appeals court has ruled against CNN in its attempt to have dismissed a defamation complaint from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

O’Keefe launched Project Veritas and worked years with the organization, doing undercover interviews to uncover political scandals. . .

A report from the Post Millennial said it was the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that said CNN’s statements about O’Keefe “were not substantially true” and found that, “Veritas plausibly alleged that Cabrera’s statements were published with actual malice under the First Amendment.”

The report explained, “Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch wrote in an opinion for the court that on February 11, 2021, the Project Veritas account on then-Twitter was suspended. CNN’s Ana Cabrera claimed on February 15 that the account had been banned for ‘promoting misinformation,’ while Project Veritas said that it was because it had violated Twitter’s ‘publication of private information,’ or ‘doxxing’ policy.”

The judge wrote, “When CNN refused to issue a retraction, Veritas sued for defamation. The district court granted CNN’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, finding that Cabrera’s statements were substantially true and thus not actionable under applicable New York defamation law. Veritas appealed.” (Read more from “WATCH: Major Ruling in CNN Defamation Fight With James O’Keefe” HERE)

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Fauci Received 15 Million Dollars In Taxpayer Funds For Private Security Detail, Report Says

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Dr. Anthony Fauci was granted $15 million in taxpayer-funded security as a private citizen, according to a new report.

An agreement between the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided Fauci protection from Jan. 4, 2023 to Sept. 20, 2024, according to FOIA documents obtained by independent journalist Jordan Schachtel and Open The Books.

The costs covered a chauffeur and a USMS security detail, the report notes.

The USMS, which operates under the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), told the Daily Caller they “provided a protective detail for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci from January 2023 to August 2024,” a month less than indicated by Schachtel’s report.

(Read more from “Fauci Received 15 Million Dollars In Taxpayer Funds For Private Security Detail, Report Says” HERE)

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After Multiple Failed Assassination Attempts, Iran Reportedly Considers New Approach to Trump — Diplomacy

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Officials in Iran are considering negotiating and reconciling with incoming President Donald Trump instead of acting adversarially as they have previously been, according to The New York Times.

Iran has long held disdain for Trump, having conducted cyberwarfare operations against his presidential campaign and working through various individuals to try to assassinate him in recent years. Now that Trump has locked in a second term, some Iranian officials are questioning whether it is now the best way forward to deal with Trump diplomatically, according to five officials who spoke to NYT. That sentiment is being shared in Iranian media and among former officials.

“Do not lose this historic opportunity for change in Iran-U.S. relations,” Hamid Aboutalebi, former political adviser to Iran’s government and established politician, wrote in an op-ed, urging Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to congratulate Trump on his presidential win, according to NYT.

To search for diplomatic solutions with Trump would represent a major shift in Tehran’s thinking. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran in 2018, reimposed strict sanctions and assassinated its top general, Qasem Soleimani, in 2020.

In response, Iran has been targeting Trump and openly calling for violence against him. Even as recently as Friday, U.S. officials said that three individuals had been charged with attempting to assassinate Trump, one of many such ploys that have been orchestrated or linked to Iran. (Read more from “After Multiple Failed Assassination Attempts, Iran Reportedly Considers New Approach to Trump — Diplomacy” HERE)

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Melania Trump Declines To Meet With Jill Biden at White House, Citing Mar-a-Lago Raid: Source

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Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s past raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents.

“She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said.

“Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet,” the source added.

Melania’s husband, President-elect Donald Trump, will sit with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office Wednesday for a traditional postelection meeting.

Typically, the first lady hosts their replacement for tea in the White House. (Read more from “Melania Trump Declines To Meet With Jill Biden at White House, Citing Mar-a-Lago Raid: Source” HERE)

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Housed in Low-Security Jail Dorm Alongside Sam Bankman-Fried — Where Inmates Can Spy on Female Convicts: Sources

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. . .Sean “Diddy” Combs may be behind bars, but sources who have done time in his unit say it won’t necessarily curb his alleged pervy ways.

The Bad Boy Entertainment boss is in the 4 North unit of Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, a dorm facility which has around 20 inmates, looser rules than general population and diversions for prisoners including air hockey.

One unintended feature also provides a thrill for inmates interested in female attention.

“There are grates in one of the rooms of 4 North,” Gene Borrello, a former mob enforcer who spent time in the unit, told The Post. “They have little holes. If you lay down, you can look through the holes and talk to the women one floor down and see them.”

Considering prosecutors claim Diddy held so-called Freak Offs – orgies in which sex workers engaged in all manner of carnal activities for the enjoyment of the rap mogul and his cohorts – it begs the question as to whether or not he could put together a clandestine big-house version. (Read more from “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Housed in Low-Security Jail Dorm Alongside Sam Bankman-Fried — Where Inmates Can Spy on Female Convicts: Sources” HERE)

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Trump Set To Select Sen. Marco Rubio To Serve as Secretary of State in Historic Appointment: Report

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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to pick Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as his secretary of state – a decision that would make the Cuban American senator the first Latino to serve as the nation’s top diplomat.

Rubio’s expected appointment was first-reported in the New York Times on Monday.

Trump, 78, could still change his mind on his pick to lead the State Department, the outlet noted, but “appeared to have settled” on Rubio.

“Nothing has been confirmed,” a source familiar told The Post.

Rubio – the son of Cuban exiles – has represented Florida in the US Senate since 2011. He serves as the vice chairman on the Senate Intelligence Committee and is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Read more from “Trump Set To Select Sen. Marco Rubio To Serve as Secretary of State in Historic Appointment: Report” HERE)

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Judge Forces Feds To Reveal More Evidence Of Social Media Censorship

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More internal government communications will soon be revealed in a high-profile censorship case that already hit the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to a Friday court ruling in Missouri v. Biden. The historic free speech case uncovered that federal officials, all the way up to President Joe Biden, pressured social media companies to remove specific posts and discussion terms, systemically slanting society in favor of Democrats by controlling public discussions.

After the Supreme Court ruled in June that the plaintiffs didn’t meet the higher legal standard for a preliminary injunction against government officials, as the case moved forward, the case went back to a Louisiana district court, where it originated. The judge in that case, Terry Doughty, on Friday allowed the plaintiffs to obtain more public records, which they say will help establish that federal officials specifically targeted their speech on social media monopolies such as Facebook, Google, and X.

“Because we find that Plaintiffs have demonstrated the necessity of jurisdictional discovery, and because their proposed discovery does not appear to be a jurisdictional fishing expedition—Plaintiffs shall have the opportunity to conduct such discovery,” Doughty wrote in his Nov. 8 ruling.

The plaintiffs include the states of Missouri and Louisiana; prominent doctors Jayanta Bhattacharya, Aaron Kheriaty, and Martin Kulldorff; and citizens Jill Hines and Jim Hoft. They are suing numerous federal agencies and officials, including Biden, national security bureaucracies such as the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, and health bureaucracies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The case filed in August 2022 initially focused on censorship of accurate information that challenged Covid-19 policies such as mass lockdowns. But subsequent discovery, investigative reporting, and congressional investigations have revealed social media censorship of numerous topics that include sexual politics, environmental alarmism, and other disagreement with far-left orthodoxy.

(Read more from “Judge Forces Feds To Reveal More Evidence Of Social Media Censorship” HERE)

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The Lesson Some Leftists Have Learned From Trump’s Win Should Terrify Americans

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Since Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris last Tuesday, the legacy press has been hosting a public inquest into her demise. Three competing theories soon dominated the discussions — only one of which accepted the reality that Americans rejected the far-left policies and candidate on the merits.

While some Democrats and media outlets took this somber approach to the post-mortem, a second and more vocal segment of the press and Harris voting bloc instead declared that Trump’s election proves a majority of Americans are racist, sexist autocrats. The election of Barack Obama, Harris’ previous victories as a senator and a vice-presidential candidate, coupled with the increase in support Donald Trump garnered from minorities and women, quickly disprove this theory.

After an intense and nerve-wracking election season, these delusional tirades provided the still-sane populace some much needed levity. But Republicans should also note that at least a small segment of the left plans to double down on identity politics and prepare to counter these messages — not merely to protect their electoral victory, but more importantly to return to the pre-DEI unity that reigned supreme in our country until Barack Obama somehow converted his election as the first African-American president into a launchpad for racial divisiveness.

But it is a third theory for Trump’s resounding victory, posited by many on the left, that should cause grave concern to liberty lovers because it forewarns of an acceleration of efforts to control the marketplace of ideas. Here, Harris’ loss was blamed not on the far-left policies and candidate voters rejected or on the supposed racist and sexist beliefs of the electorate, but on voters purportedly being “misinformed” by the right-wing controlled media.

By the end of last week, this theme had flooded the airways and social media. But it was the New Republic’s article, “Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?,” that best capsulated this spin. (Read more from “The Lesson Some Leftists Have Learned From Trump’s Win Should Terrify Americans” HERE)

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