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Michael Jordan’s racing team was dealt a painful blow by a United States district judge who denied his team’s request for an injunction just before the culmination of the 2024 NASCAR season.

Jordan, who co-owns 23XI Racing with three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, was joined by Front Row Motorsports in a suit against NASCAR and its chairman. The lawsuit claimed NASCAR gave all Cup Series teams a last-minute offer in September; but both teams refused to sign the offer on antitrust grounds.

Judge Whitney summarized much of the claims by the racing teams as being speculative and not definitive.

As reported by the New York Post, the racing team owners claimed NASCAR’s charter system limits competition by binding teams to the series, its tracks, and suppliers in an unfair manner.

The lawsuit said Chairman Jim France and NASCAR are “monopolistic bullies.”

The teams wanted the court to grant an injunction that would release them from a clause in the NASCAR charter that prevents them from suing its sanctioning body. However, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney ruled mid-day Friday that the two racing teams did not meet the burden required to be granted the injunction.

The injunction would have allowed the teams to compete as usual (as chartered teams) while still suing NASCAR. Instead, they may now have to compete as “open” teams, which does not guarantee them a spot in NASCAR races and limits their revenue. This could cause drivers and sponsors to leave the teams because they are not privy to those guarantees.

As reported by NBC Sports, the judge decided that the plaintiffs did prove they would suffer “irreparable harm if the injunction is not granted.”

Judge Whitney summarized much of the claims by the racing teams as being speculative and not definitive.

“Although Plaintiffs have alleged that they will face a risk of irreparable harm, they have not sufficiently alleged present, immediate, urgent irreparable harm, but rather only speculative, possible harm,” the judge wrote.

The judge also noted that the teams “alleged a possibility” that they will lose sponsorship agreements, citing that this wording is “too speculative.”

The judge further wrote that the teams only “allege that their drivers may leave if Plaintiffs compete as open teams.”

“Presently, this harm is too speculative to merit a preliminary injunction.”

The judge went on, “Plaintiffs have not alleged that their business cannot survive without a preliminary injunction. Instead, they allege that their businesses may not survive without a preliminary injunction.”

The ruling went on similarly about “potential” losses and future business losses being “merely speculative.”

“As such, this speculative harm does not warrant the extraordinary relief of a preliminary injunction,” he concluded.

The ruling comes just two days before the NASCAR Cup Series Championship in Phoenix on Sunday.

Four drivers are headed into the final race in a tie for first place in the Cup Series standings; one of whom is the No. 45 car driven by Tyler Reddick for Jordan’s 23XI team.

23XI’s other driver, No. 23 Bubba Wallace, is in 18th place. Both drive Toyotas.

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Charlie Kirk, the founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck that he would seek to obtain a full pardon for Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker.

Kirk made the comments while calling in on Beck’s radio show Friday.

‘Every nonviolent Jan. 6 offender, I’m gonna push — and President Trump has pledged — to give them full and complete pardons.’

“The lawfare stuff is not completely over, and I will say this, as somebody who is helping out with transition, I’m doing everything we possibly can, that the most important appointment that is coming, is who [President-elect Donald Trump] will choose for attorney general of the United States. That right there will set the tone for the entire presidency from lawfare, from the investigations, from the weaponization of the FBI,” Kirk said.

“And also Glenn, I will push, with every fiber of my being, for your Blaze journalist to get a full pardon, and this entire show-trial of him to get dropped,” he added.

“Thank you,” Beck responded. “It is craziness. Thank you.”

“It is crazy. And I can’t remember his name, but he is phenomenal.”

“Steve Baker,” Beck said.

Baker has been hounded by the Department of Justice for trespassing and other charges related to his reporting of the rioting of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after the 2020 election. He has pleaded not guilty and argues that other journalists and photographers have not been prosecuted as he has.

Kirk went on to explain other steps Trump could take to undermine the deep state in the government.

“And by the way, every nonviolent Jan. 6 offender, I’m gonna push — and President Trump has pledged — to give them full and complete pardons and commute their sentences, on the nonviolent ones,” he said.

“I think that’s a huge statement and a demoralization event for the deep state that’s spent so much of their time and their careers going after everyday Americans who did absolutely nothing wrong,” Kirk continued. “And I think we have to lead with that. I think we have to push for hundreds of pardons. And I know that sounds extreme.”

He went on to opine that the founders would have been pleased at this use of the pardon power they wrote into the Constitution for the executive branch of the government.

In response to Kirk’s pledge, Baker told Blaze News: “I’m honored and grateful that Charlie remembers my case, and any help he can provide to myself and the other nonviolent J6 defendants in bringing this political lawfare to a final conclusion is greatly appreciated by all of us.”

Baker’s case is set to go to trial on Nov. 12.

Here’s more about the lawfare against Blaze Media journalist Steve Baker:

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Defeated and dejected Democrats continue to seek answers in the wake of their electoral implosion, and some even believe they need a feminist version of Joe Rogan.

‘When a man is just lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.’

Writer Anand Giridharadas made the case while a guest on MSNBC Friday, when he criticized the right-wing “media ecosystem” that had radicalized “lonely” males.

“It’s not a good one. It’s a negative one. It’s a — it’s a radicalization funnel,” he explained.

“But what they have done in their online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, literally the way militant groups do around the world, that takes people from relatively low-level annoyances with the world: ‘Why are eggs so expensive? Why is my kid learning this new thing in American history in school that I didn’t learn?’ And then moves them through YouTube videos, through podcasts, moves them from that annoyance all the way, slowly, slowly, slowly, to a full-blown fascist politics,” said Giridharadas.

“It’s an elaborate, multibillion-dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side,” he continued. “When a man is just lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.”

Video of the bizarre suggestion was widely circulated on social media.

President-elect Donald Trump went through a three-hour interview on the incredibly popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast just ahead of Election Day.

Rogan said that he extended the same invitation to appear on the podcast to Vice President Kamala Harris, but the issue became contentious after the Harris campaign said it was unwilling to fly her to Rogan’s studio. Rogan said the campaign told him she wanted a shorter time period and wanted him to come to her, which he refused to do.

Harris defenders were furious at Rogan for what they saw as a disrespectful attitude against the candidate.

Trump went on to soundly defeat Harris, and Democrats are furiously seeking answers.

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In the wake of Donald Trump’s historic victory over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the New York Times released an op-ed titled “‘Trump’s America’: His Comeback Victory Signals a Different Kind of Country.”

It’s one of many calumnious pieces the news outlet, and others like it, have published since Trump’s victory was solidified in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Despite its defamatory nature, the article captures what the left is genuinely feeling at this moment in time.

Glenn Beck reads the closing statements from author Peter Baker. Two things are abundantly clear: Liberals are genuinely terrified of Donald Trump, and their anti-Trump narrative will not die easily.

“The assumption that Mr. Trump represented an anomaly who would at last be consigned to the ash heap of history was washed away Tuesday night by a red current that swept through the battleground states and swept away the understanding of America long nurtured by its ruling elite of both parties. No longer can the political establishment write off Mr. Trump as a temporary break from the long march of progress,” Glenn reads from the op-ed.

The piece went on to belabor the left’s anti-Trump narrative, lamenting America’s decision to elect “a convicted criminal as president” and hand “power back to a leader who tried to overturn a previous election, called for the termination of the Constitution and aspired to be a dictator on day one, and vowed to exact retribution against his adversaries.”

Baker also demonized the millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump, claiming that they brushed aside Trump’s “lies” and “wild conspiracy theories” and embraced him as “a victim of persecution” instead of “[dismissing] him as a felon found by various courts to be a fraudster, cheater, sexual abuser, and defamer.”

Baker called the election “a CAT scan on the American people.”

“As difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption,” he wrote.

Perhaps most disturbing, however, was Baker’s claim that Trump conditioned “Americans throughout this campaign to see American democracy as a failed experiment.”

“A victory for Trump would mean that this vision of America, and the recourse to violence as a means of solving political problems, has triumphed,” Baker declared.

Baker’s article captures the way liberal voters are feeling about Donald Trump’s victory. They genuinely believe that he is an evil tyrant who will destroy this country, and they are sickened that this was America’s choice. They feel the same way Trump voters would feel if Harris had won the election — disheartened and scared.

But Glenn has a message for these people.

“I do believe it comes from a misunderstanding of what our country is,” he says. “They’re looking at our country the way Woodrow Wilson defined it, and that is an administrative state,” but “what is in the American soul is something entirely different.”

“Who are we? What is it that we fight for?” Glenn asks.

“We see America more in the tradition of the Founding Fathers,” and “we believe that the American spirit is a force that inspires dreams; it also has fueled revolutions; it’s also driven some of the greatest innovations and achievements the world has ever seen. … We believe in the American individual,” says Glenn.

And to the liberals who would argue that they also believe in these things, Glenn says, “I don’t think you do because you want somebody to tell all of the individuals exactly what they must believe, what they must live, what they must eat, what they must drive, what they must teach their children.”

“We don’t believe that,” he says.

Glenn then explains how the founding of our country was only possible because the American spirit that longed for true freedom was stronger than the will of tyrants.

“They don’t determine our destiny — we do!” he proclaims, defining the American spirit and calling it “something that transcends race and religion or class.”

“We are exceptional because the rest of the world has been told ‘shut up and sit down.’ … What makes us exceptional is that we say, ‘Who are you to tell me that? You don’t control my life; you don’t control my vision; you don’t control my every movement,”’ Glenn exclaims.

“Our founders knew that governments left unchecked would accumulate power at the expense of the individual. We have been on this road that you in the New York Times may say is traditional,” “accepted,” and just “the way we are,” but “that is a perversion,” he says, pointing to 1916 as the time when the train tracks switched and America adopted the idea that “man cannot rule himself.”

But to believe that is to admit that “you don’t understand who Americans are.”

To hear more of Glenn’s epic speech, check out the clip above.

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Philippe Reines, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, lamented how the Democratic Party is being held hostage by the radicals within it, costing the party in elections.

Reines claimed that many Democrats actually are concerned about the Biden-Harris border crisis and oppose men playing in women’s sports.

“I think Democrats believe in commonsense stuff more than you realize. I mean, it’s not like we sit at home and don‘t talk to anyone. Most Democrats I know think there is a huge problem at the border. Most Democrats I know think, frankly, that males at birth should not play women’s sports and vice versa,” Reines told CNN on Friday.

‘If you are going to ignore the political consequences of these kinds of things, then you’re asking to lose these elections in the manner that we did.’

“Either way, here‘s the problem: I am not concerned about what the right thinks about the Democratic Party. I am concerned about what I think about the Democratic Party. … I don‘t like the fact that a small portion of our party is pretty much dictating where we are. Pretty much, we are being branded as the most extreme of us,” he continued.

“Again, I’m afraid to say something wrong. The woke stuff, the PC-police stuff. You’ll see Republicans who say they’re afraid to say X. I’m afraid to say X. These congressmen are afraid to say X. Why?” Reines said.

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As if to prove Reines’ point, the Boston Globe reported Rep. Seth Moulton’s (D-Mass.) campaign manager and PAC director resigned after Moulton said he is against having men playing in women’s sports because he has concerns for his daughters.

The long-serving chairman of the Democratic Party in Texas also resigned this week in part because he said the Democrats’ embrace of transgenderism at the expense of women made them lose badly in the 2024 election.

“You could, for example, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support,” Gilberto Hinojosa remarked. “If you are going to ignore the political consequences of these kinds of things, then you’re asking to lose these elections in the manner that we did.”

Moulton’s and Hinojosa’s comments about transgenderism created a fierce backlash from progressives.

One of the reasons why President-elect Donald Trump won the election is because his campaign was able to successfully highlight the extreme positions Vice President Kamala Harris took on social issues, like wanting to provide taxpayer-funded surgeries to prison inmates and illegal immigrants in U.S. custody.

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Pat Stedman was released from federal prison on October 27, 2024, after serving a year behind bars for his presence in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Stedman was in Washington, D.C., that day to protest 2020 election fraud and to petition Congress to vote against certifying the election prematurely in order to give the various swing states the opportunity to investigate voting irregularities, as was requested by numerous members of their legislatures.

While Stedman followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted along with them, he did not engage in any violence.

Nonetheless, he was sentenced to 48 months for a felony offense, obstruction of an official proceeding — an Enron-era financial crimes law that theJustice Department weaponized against January 6 protesters.

Stedman was released early following the Supreme Court’s ruling that prosecutors had applied the obstruction law — originally meant to target the destruction of evidence — too broadly.

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Just under two weeks ago I was released from federal prison, one year to the day that I came in. Here are 10 things I learned in this crucible.

1. Your opinion doesn’t matter

In the civilian world, everyone feels entitled to say what they want, and most people take offense when others don’t agree with them. We live in an outrage culture that thrives on people spouting off on each other. This is basically X.

In prison, this kind of behavior isn’t wise. Unless asked, you keep quiet about your opinions and learn to tolerate others. You don’t provoke them. Arguments turn violent frequently. If you want to be right, prepare to fight.

And don’t get me started on the knives people make. The human mind placed under pressure is capable of incredible ingenuity.

2. Respect is paramount

Prison was one of the most respectful environments I’ve been in. More respectful than a country club.

Everyone says “excuse me” or “my bad” when passing by someone or interrupting a conversation. You hold doors for others. Entitled behavior is punished. The higher security the prison, the more dangerous it gets. Even moving someone’s chair without asking can lead to violence.

But it’s easy to avoid conflict. If you stay out of ego and treat people with respect, you will have few problems.

3. Necessity is truly the mother of invention

No lighter and want to smoke a cigarette? Two batteries and a wire will do the trick. Want to cook but no stove or microwave? You can boil water in a bucket with two cables wrapped around a metal slab plugged into an outlet.

I’ve even seen a convection oven built out of soda cans and loose wires. And don’t get me started on the knives people make. The human mind placed under pressure is capable of incredible ingenuity.

4. Prisons are mental institutions

After long stretches in prison, even strong men start to lose it. In some cases it’s obvious — people talking to themselves. But in most cases it’s more subtle. Looping conversations. Pacing the room back and forth constantly. Hoarding junk. Easily stressed by inconveniences. Paranoid.

Long lockdowns, boring routines, and constant assaults on humanity by guards can bring you down to an animal-like level. Some people come in like this. But most are made this way by the conditions. There’s a term for it: “institutionalized.”

5. Paperwork matters

The two classes of offenders at the bottom of the totem pole in prison are chomos (“child molesters,” used as a catch-all term for all sex offenders) and rats. It is very important that you have your prisoner “paperwork” to prove that you’re not one of them.

Fort Dix is a dumping ground for these types of prisoners, so they are allowed on the yard, unlike in higher-security prisons. But they are still the bottom of the totem pole and are disproportionately targeted for extortion and robbery.

Rats in particular are despised, which is understandable considering that most inmates are in prison because of them. Have your paperwork ready, or keep a low profile and stick to where you’re allowed.

6. Race is real and relevant

Prison is a tribal environment. You are categorized immediately based on your ethnicity and filtered accordingly into “cars.”

White guys have their table. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, etc. each have their own as well.

Black guys organize based on geography, i.e. New York, Pennsylvania, Carolina. You can join their car even if you aren’t black, but it only happens rarely, usually if the guy in question also came from “the hood.”

The separation creates stability; the differences are apparent and universally recognized.

But respect is color-blind. There are dirtbags in every race as well as honorable men. The good men are friendly with each other regardless of background. Conflict between cars is uncommon and avoided at all costs. It’s called “crashing out,” and gets ugly. To avoid this, troublemakers are policed by their own.

7. Everything is relative

Fort Dix was real prison to me. But to guys who came from the higher-security institutions, it wasn’t.

You could go outside regularly. There weren’t bars on your cell doors. Even during lockdowns, you could still move around the building, use phones and computers, sometimes even watch TV.

I came to appreciate little things a lot. Being able to go to the gym, a little extra food at the chow hall, getting your comissary early, an unlocked door so you could move around easier — these all felt like “freedom.”

The abundance we have on the outside is amazing. After this year, something as simple as bread with butter and jam tasted like heaven to me.

8. Our information overload is extreme

After two days back in the “real world,” I was absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of information we receive. In prison, I had no access to the internet and limited communication with the outside world.

I didn’t scroll through feeds or messages. I talked to people or read. I was focused and present, had real conversations, actually learned some things. I can already feel the siren song of distraction calling me since I’ve been back.

Honestly, I prefer the clarity I had in there to the deluge of nonsense out here. There is something wrong with the way we are living. It’s not healthy or natural, and that explains so much of our growing social dysfunction.

9. You really notice women

Being around high-testosterone men 24/7, you become very attuned to even the slightest amount of feminine energy in the environment. Everyone notices female guards, even if they don’t gawk at them.

Little flourishes of femininity go a long way. You can almost smell it before you see it. I remember staring at my wife during visits, intoxicated by her presence. This was about more than just sex. The way her hair fell on her shoulder, the way she moved. Everything about her was refreshing — I just wanted to take it all in.

10. You can adjust to anything

My first few weeks in prison were tough. There were a lot of rules I didn’t understand that I had to learn. And to put it lightly, it was a very different environment to get used to, with very different types of people.

But then all of a sudden, all this newness became normal. I was living in a ghetto behind barbed-wire fences, and there wasn’t anything weird about it. I’d fist-bump gangsters and sneak apples out of the chow hall in my socks, as if this was just a part of life.

It’s still surreal for me to look back on it. I just left this world. And it already feels like a dream.

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President-elect Donald Trump achieved a massive victory in Texas, beating Kamala Harris by over
1.56 million votes for a decisive 56.3% to 42.4% finish. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R) handily beat Colin Allred 50.4% to 42.2% while other Republicans secured 25 U.S. House seats and flipped two seats in the state House.

Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa faced enormous backlash this week for suggesting that a contributing factor to his party’s humiliating defeat was its obsession with gender ideology. Evidently unable to weather the storm, Hinojosa announced his resignation Friday.

Hinojosa, who has led the Texas Democratic Party for 12 years,
told the Texas Newsroom Wednesday that Trump’s promise to institute mass deportations and limit legal immigration resonated with voters across the beleaguered state, highlighting Trump’s successes in every single county in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere across South Texas.

“Why do you think that Trump did so well with Hispanics? Because Hispanics live on the border,” said Hinojosa. “We’re talking about thousands of people crossing into the United States, and the government [under Joe Biden] is perceived not to be able to do anything to solve it.”

‘You have a choice as a party.’

The
network exit poll conducted by Edison Research found that 14% of respondents said immigration was the most important issue motivating their vote. 90% of those who signaled as much voted for Trump. Of the 26% of respondents who identified as Hispanic, 55% said they voted for Trump.

While concerns over the border crisis certainly helped turn former blue areas on the map red, Hinojosa recognized that Democrats’ desperation to pander to transvestites and gender ideologues likely alienated some voters.

“You have a choice as a party,” said the former chairman. “You could, for example, you can support transgender rights up and down all the categories where the issue comes up, or you can understand that there’s certain things that we just go too far on, that a big bulk of our population does not support.”

The Texas Democratic Party’s losing 2024 platform
calls for:

“LGBTQIA+ inclusive” sex education programs;
sex-change “medical care” and other accommodations for transvestites in prison;
the immediate passage and enactment of the Equality Act by Congress, which would add “gender identity” to federal nondiscrimination law and enable men to compete in women’s sports;
the affirmation that male transvestites are women, that female transvestites are men, and “that there are more than two genders”;
protections for drag shows;
keeping parents in the dark about signs of kids’ gender dysphoria at school; and
keeping sex-change drugs and mutilations available for confused Texans.

It was no secret ahead of the election that Democrats’ LGBT activism and views on transvestism were outside the mainstream of public opinion.

According to a Manhattan Institute poll conducted in late June, 74% of all likely voters, 76% of independents, 95% of Republicans, and 37% of Democrats indicated that transvestic athletes should play on sports teams with other members of their sex.

‘It is time to do the right thing.’

When asked whether schools should be required to inform parents if their children use incorrect pronouns at school, 67% of likely voters said, “Yes.”

An overwhelming 69% of likely voters said that children who claim to be “transgender” should not be allowed to receive sex-change treatments before the age of 18. When asked about sterilizing puberty blockers, 76% of respondents said that minors under the age of 18 “are not old enough to consent to puberty blocking treatments.” 82% of respondents said minors are not old enough to consent to sex-change mutilations.

Hinojosa appears to have been right, which made him wrong for the Texas Democratic Party.

The Texas-based political action committee Mothers Against Greg Abbott was among the radical groups that demanded his immediate resignation.

Just prior to
attacking white women, claiming they “always disappoint,” the PAC tweeted, “Today we call on every single Texas County Democratic Chair, union and Grassroots organization to ask for the resignation of our Party Leadership. It is time to do the right thing.”

The Stonewall Democrats of Dallas said in a statement
obtained by WFAA-TV, “Blaming members of the LGBTQ+ community — particularly trans Texans who already face disproportionate discrimination and hostility — is deeply irresponsible and counterproductive.”

“The Texas Democratic Party should be a safe haven for all marginalized groups and should champion inclusion,” added the LGBT activist group.

The Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus
noted Thursday, “Hey @HinojosaTX, hate is not a Texas value, and it shouldn’t be a value of @texasdemocrats. Throwing blame on Trans people is disgustingly demonstrative at worst, and a disingenuous excuse at best.”

Hinojosa soon found himself in a struggle session on social media, backpedaling in vain.

“I extend my sincerest apologies to those I hurt with my comments today. I recognize the pain and frustration my words have caused,”
said Hinojosa. “In frustration over the GOP’s lies to incite hate for trans communities, I failed to communicate my thoughts with care and clarity.”

On Friday, Hinojosa
announced he was stepping down.

“In the days and weeks to come, it is imperative that our Democratic leaders across the country reevaluate what is best for our party and embrace the next generation of leaders to take us through the next four years of Trump and win back seats up and down the ballot,” wrote Hinojosa. “That is why today I’m announcing that I’ll be stepping aside in the new year at the Spring SDEC meeting in March 2025, and passing the torch to the next generation. While this was a hard decision, it is the best decision for our party.”

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Several professors at Ivy League schools canceled classes, excused absences, and allowed exams to be rescheduled because former President Donald Trump decidedly won the 2024 election.

The Harvard Crimson reported that the school’s dean, Rakesh Khurana, told students to “let yourself feel a bunch of emotions about how this is going to impact us in the future, and listen to other people and how they feel about it too.”

‘[If] you don’t feel up for class, absences today will be excused.’

The outlet noted that following Trump’s election victory, instructors for courses such as Statistics for Social Sciences, Solving and Optimizing, the Ancient Greek Hero, and Popular Culture and Modern China had canceled their Wednesday classes, made attendance optional, or extended assignment deadlines.

Economics lecturer Maxim Boycko allegedly sent an email to students in an Intermediate Microeconomics course that in-class quizzes would be optional.

“As we recover from the eventful election night and process the implications of Trump’s victory, please know that class will proceed as usual today, except that classroom quizzes will not be for credit,” Boycko reportedly wrote. “Feel free to take time off if needed.”

Physics professor Jennifer E. Hoffman purportedly wrote in an email to students and faculty that her office would be “a space to process the election.”

“Many in our community are sleep-deprived, again grieving for glass ceilings that weren’t shattered, fearful for the future, or embarrassed to face our international colleagues,” Hoffman reportedly wrote. “I stress-baked several pans of lemon bars to share.”

Citing internal emails, the Washington Free Beacon reported that a Columbia professor granted students permission to skip class.

“I hope you are hanging in there. I have been think of you over the last few days,” the Columbia professor reportedly wrote to her students. “[If] you don’t feel up for class, absences today will be excused.”

Meanwhile, because of the election results, a professor at Columbia University’s sister school, Barnard College, allegedly offered students a chance to “replace” an exam on which they performed poorly.

“In recognition of the increased stressed [sic] some of you might be feeling because of the election results, I will offer to replace your midterm Exam 2 grade with your Final Exam grade if better,” a Barnard professor reportedly wrote to students.

Campus Reform reported that Michigan State University Professor Shlagha Borah canceled classes because Trump won the election.

Borah, an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, allegedly told her students in a memo on Wednesday night, “I am cancelling class today to grieve the presidential election results. As a queer, immigrant woman of color, I cannot, in good conscience, go on about my day like everything is alright.”

”This is a major historical event that we are witnessing,” Borah added. “I hope you take this time to take care of yourself.”

Michigan State University spokesperson Mark Bullion told the College Fix on Thursday that campus leaders are “aware of the situation and are addressing it through the appropriate leadership channels.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that several professors at the University of Pennsylvania canceled classes in response to the election.

Economics professor Anne Duchene told the outlet she made attendance optional to her class in advance of the election results.

“I thought maybe, [having an optional lecture] can help everyone pretend it’s business as usual, instead of just looking at your screens constantly, trying to understand what [happened],” Duchene reportedly stated.

“I just wanted to acknowledge the wide variety of emotions that were in the classroom and also to respect these emotions,” Duchene allegedly said. “It’s really hard to know how the students are, what the students are really thinking, but my interpretation is that they wanted to have a normal class.”

Neuroscience professor Michael Kaplan also pre-emptively canceled his Wednesday classes, according to the report.

Anthropology professor Caroline Jones allegedly rescheduled an exam after “a slew of emails” from students expressed concern about preparing for an exam scheduled right after the election.

The Phoenix, a student-run newspaper at Swarthmore College, where annual tuition and room and board cost about $65,000, reported on the reaction to the election results:

As the Swarthmore community came to terms with the news, an outpouring of resources flooded their inboxes. Some professors canceled classes, the Office of Student Engagement encouraged students to use Sharples Commons as a “safe space to land,” and the department of political science promoted its pre-scheduled panel discussion set for Wednesday afternoon, “Election Night 2024: What Just Happened and What’s to Come.”

As Blaze News reported this week, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy established “self-care suites” following Trump’s decisive 2024 election victory. Georgetown University attempted to soothe liberal students by offering them milk and cookies, hot cocoa, Legos, and coloring books.

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Comedian Andrew Schulz says he thinks Donald Trump’s appearances on podcasts helped him build a connection with voters that drove them to the polling stations.

Schulz was speaking with co-host Akaash Singh on his podcast “Flagrant” when he began discussing the now-limited reach of mainstream media.

“Was Kamala [Harris] so bad that even with the influence of legacy media they couldn’t get [her] over the hump? For example, if Michelle [Obama] was running or if Barack was running with legacy media in its current state, I think they might be able to still get it over,” Schulz speculated.

Schulz then blamed legacy media for convincing Americans that “up until election night” the presidential election was a close race.

“[It’s] legacy media that is constantly pushing narratives that not only is it close, ‘she might be ahead! Iowa’s going to her; she’s going to flip all the [swing states]; it’s going to be an absolute mauling,’ right? That is legacy media pushing a narrative and people believing said narrative.”

‘It wasn’t exactly the free-form speech that we’re kind of used to.’

Schulz then went into detail on how Trump, much like popular comedians with podcasts, was able to create an emotional connection with audience members who were then inspired to go out and support him.

“If you look at the biggest touring stand-up comedians in the world, they all have podcasts where they’ve built this amazing community and connection, and we talk to people every single week,” Schulz outlined. “They know intimate details about our life. To me what that’s proven is that just because people are famous doesn’t mean you go out; connection is actually what makes people go out.”

It was that connection with Americans that Schulz explained he felt Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t have. She appeared on some podcasts that were more like “short, very contrived interviews.”

“It was very controlled. It was things edited out. It wasn’t exactly the free-form speech that we’re kind of used to,” the comedian claimed.

Trump appeared on the “Flagrant” podcast about a month before the election, along with other podcasts with Joe Rogan and Theo Von.

Harris’ biggest podcast appearance was on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which predominantly focuses on promiscuity and college life. She later appeared on “Club Shay Shay,” a podcast with former NFL player Shannon Sharpe. That appearance did not even crack the show’s top 50 most viewed episodes, however.

Schulz went on to point out that podcasts are about connecting people, while legacy media is about selling “depression pills” from sponsors.

The comedian added that voters came out to support Trump because of the “connection” and that people voted for President Biden in 2020 because they didn’t have to leave the house.

After Trump’s appearance on his podcast, Schulz had a large arena cancel his gig, claiming he was not “the right fit” for the venue.

At the same time, Trump’s podcast circuit likely bolstered his status with young men, who voted for Trump in larger numbers than in 2020. Trump garnered 56% of the 2024 vote with men ages 18-29.

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The leftist mayor of San Francisco who presided over a shocking rise in crime and homeless over the past six years will soon leave office, having lost her re-election bid to a businessman with no political experience.

London Breed, 50, became mayor of San Francisco after winning a special election in the wake of the passing of Mayor Ed Lee in late 2017. Since then, she has implemented a radical agenda.

‘Over the coming weeks, I plan to reflect on all the progress we’ve made.’

She was among the first mayors of a major city to strip law enforcement of funding in keeping with the BLM cry to “defund the police” following the death of George Floyd. In 2020, Breed announced that she would cut a whopping $120 million from the budgets of both San Francisco’s police and sheriff’s departments, the New York Post reported in December 2021.

Within a year, she had reversed course about funding law enforcement, but by then, homelessness and crime, particularly property-related crime, had soared. In March, residents from the Tenderloin district even sued the city for failing to address these problems.

“Every day, at all hours, people are dealing drugs and using drugs in front of [the plaintiffs’] apartment building. There are encampments. People are lighting bonfires. Their sidewalks are filthy with all kinds of problems from used syringes to human waste,” said Matthew Davis, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys.

Facing a tough re-election battle this year amid a slate of eager challengers and ranked-choice voting, Breed then tacked toward the center. At a debate in front of a crowd of unionized firefighters in July, Breed announced that she would crack down on homeless encampments following the Supreme Court ruling Grants Pass v. Johnson.

“We have had to move from a compassionate city to a city of accountability, and I have been leading the efforts to ensure that we are addressing this issue differently than we have before,” Breed said at the time.

“We will continue to lead with services, but we also can’t continue to allow people to do what they want on the streets of San Francisco, especially when we have a place for them to go.”

Such gestures were too little, too late, apparently.

On Tuesday, voters decided to go with Daniel Lurie, the 47-year-old heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and the current CEO of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point, KTVU reported.

Because of his wealth and quick rise from relative obscurity, critics accused him of trying to buy his way into office. Lurie dismissed those allegations.

“You can’t buy an election in San Francisco. You’ve got to go out and earn every vote,” he said.

Though voters often ranked both Breed and Lurie on their ballot, as of Thursday, Breed trailed Lurie considerably, 43.8% to 56.2%. Breed then called Lurie to concede.

She also posted a concession message to X, claiming to have done her best and made significant “progress” during her time in office.

“I answered the call and always gave San Francisco and its people my heart and soul.”

Breed also expressed optimism about the future.

“I am the Mayor – but you all are doing the hard work every day and the City is on the rise. Over the coming weeks, I plan to reflect on all the progress we’ve made. But today, I am proud that we have truly accomplished so much and my heart is filled with gratitude,” she wrote.

Lurie, a political neophyte, has already pledged to secure 1,500 more housing units for the homeless within six months of taking office. He also wants to hire 450 new police officers within three years, according to KTVU.

However, he also cautioned that the city will not turn the corner “overnight.”

“I’m deeply grateful to my incredible family, campaign team and every San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service and change. No matter who you supported in this election, we stand united in the fight for San Francisco’s future and a safer and more affordable city for all,” he said in a statement.

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A caller on a New York City radio station is making waves for his comments claiming Democrats do not fulfill their promises to black people in the United States,

During an episode of “The Breakfast Club,” the extremely popular hip-hop radio show in New York, a caller took his chance to convince black Americans to demand more from their politicians.

“Man, I just want to say, bro, that [we’re] not a monolith. Black people think by themselves,” the caller began.

“I feel like, at the end of the day, why we lost, I feel like it’s the Democratic Party is the reason why we lost, man,” he continued. “They promised us and promised us and promised us, but we never get nothing in return, man. And it’s a new day and a new age, and I feel like as black people, we should now demand everything we want before we give up our vote, man.”

‘Maybe we just need to switch parties now or maybe do something different.’

The caller then suggested during the “Get It Off Your Chest” segment that black Americans need to stop settling for “crumbs” from Democrats.

“We’ve been sitting around too long and just giving, getting the crumbs. But now we need everything we ask for,” the caller went on. “Maybe it’s a good thing that Trump did win, because we can see if he really piggybacked off of [Barack] Obama’s economy. Can he come bring us out of this economy?” he asked.

The caller added that if President Trump does spur an economic recovery, it’s time for black Americans to reconsider their votes.

“Maybe we just need to switch parties now or maybe do something different. That’s how I feel.”

According to Fox News, exit polling has shown that Trump performed better with black voters compared to previous elections with 16% support, a four-point gain over 2020. However, this included 24% support from black men, which is double the number who voted Republican when Trump was up against President Biden.

Power 105.1 radio host Charlamagne responded to the caller by saying those who voted for Trump need to “push him to do what he promised he was going to do.”

“If [the economy] doesn’t trickle down to the least of us, then it doesn’t matter,” the host continued.

In another clip of the show posted to X, the host rhetorically asked why so many commentators have seemingly stopped calling Trump and Republicans fascist since he was elected.

“Don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist? … It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics,” he theorized.

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On Thursday, a federal judge dealt a significant blow to the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to provide mass amnesty to at least 550,000 illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.

Earlier this year, a coalition of 16 Republican-led states, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and America First Legal, filed a lawsuit against the administration for its “Keeping Families Together” program. The program would have granted amnesty to illegal immigrant spouses and stepchildren of American citizens, Blaze News previously reported.

‘Once again, we have stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy America’s borders and undermine the rule of law.’

Additionally, the program would have permitted beneficiaries to parole in place, allowing them to remain in the country while their status is adjusted.

The lawsuit, filed by the 16 state attorneys general, argued that the administration’s claim that it would apply to roughly 550,000 illegal aliens was “likely a significant underestimate,” projecting that it could be closer to 1.3 million.

The complaint contended that the process was unconstitutional because it circumvented Congress and would “irreparably harm” the states’ communities.

U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker, a Trump-appointed judge, sided with the states’ lawsuit, striking down the program.

In his 74-page ruling, Barker stated that the administration’s program “focuses on the wrong thing in identifying ‘significant public benefits’ — the benefits of aliens’ new legal status, rather than their presence in this country.”

“The Rule exceeds statutory authority and is not in accordance with law for this reason as well,” he concluded, adding that the “defendants’ view stretches legal interpretation past its breaking point.”

“The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority … to grant parole ‘in place’ to aliens,” Barker wrote.

America First Legal Executive Director Gene Hamilton stated, “Since day one, the Biden-Harris administration has dedicated itself to the decimation of our immigration system and the erasure of our borders.”

“Time and again, the states stood up. And today, the great state of Texas and the courageous Ken Paxton, alongside a coalition of other brave attorneys general, succeeded in stopping an illegal program that would have provided amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and paved the path for the largest administrative amnesty in American history,” Hamilton added.

Paxton wrote in a post on X, “Once again, we have stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical attempts to destroy America’s borders and undermine the rule of law. This unlawful parole scheme would have rewarded more than 1 million illegal aliens with citizenship and incentivized millions more to break into our country. I look forward to the day when the federal government starts following the law again.”

The administration’s Department of Justice can decide to appeal Barker’s ruling.

Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security responded to CBS News’ requests for comment.

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While Donald Trump’s landslide victory has a large swath of the country in glorious celebration, liberal women have never been more distraught — to the point that they’ve adopted a new movement.

Specifically, the 4B movement, which is shorthand for four Korean words that start with “Bi,” or the Korean word for “no.”

“Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline:

No marriage
No childbirth
No dating men
No sex with men

We can’t let these men have the last laugh… we need to bite back,” one woman wrote in a now extremely viral post on X.

“I’m not really sure if that’s a major problem that some of these women are having, that men are just so all over them that they have be like, ‘No, Donald Trump won, don’t touch me,’” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments, amused.

Some women have begun filming themselves shaving their heads in retaliation on TikTok, with one user telling her audience, as she chops off all her hair, to “divorce your husbands” and “leave your boyfriends.”

Stuckey, while she disagrees with Trump’s plan to leave abortion up to the states, can’t see why these women don’t understand that nothing is going to happen to their “right” to an abortion.

“If it is so important to you women to live in a place where you can have an abortion, if that is really as important as you people think that is, which I think is sick and depraved, then you can move to a state that allows it,” Stuckey explains.

“There are eight states that tragically allow abortion through all nine months,” she continues. “If you think that this is the most fundamental issue, the greatest issue, then why don’t you flee like a refugee to California or to Washington or to Oregon or to Illinois or to New York if this is so important to you?”

“I don’t believe you when you say it’s that important if you’re not even willing to move within your own country for that so-called right to choose. And so, are you just being dramatic? Really think about that. And think about the fact that those babies that you are crying and dying to kill are human beings with rights,” she adds.

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The University of Oregon official who told voters of President-elect Donald Trump “go f*** yourself” and “go jump off of a f***ing bridge” has been placed on administrative leave, the New York Post reported.

“As a public university we take our duty seriously to provide an environment that welcomes diversity of thought and respect in alignment with our education mission,” a university spokesperson told the Post. “While we investigate, we are providing support for concerned students and employees, including resources for mental and emotional health.”

‘I don’t care if you are my family. I don’t care if you are my friend. I don’t care if we’ve been friends our entire lives.’

As Blaze News previously reported, student newspaper the Daily Emerald said assistant director of fraternity and sorority life Leonard Serrato posted an Instagram story after Trump handily beat Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

The paper said Serrato told his followers — some of whom are Oregon students — “You can literally go f*** yourself if you voted for Donald Trump. If you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better f***ing paying job. Do better in life. Get a f***ing education. Do something, ’cause you’re f***ing stupid.”

Before he made a sideways peace sign, the video rant ended with him saying, “And I hope you go jump off of a f***ing bridge.”

You can view video of the rant included in the Daily Emerald’s story here. A photo of Serrato was viewable Thursday on his bio page on the website of the university, which is a public college; however, access to that page was denied Friday morning.

A longer video of the rant begins with the following: “I’m done crying. My sadness is over. My anger has set in. I am a very petty person, and I am very proud of that. Love it about myself, actually. And so, I say this in the most disrespectful way possible: I don’t care if you are my family. I don’t care if you are my friend. I don’t care if we’ve been friends our entire lives.”

The Daily Emerald said Serrato soon made his Instagram account private and declined to comment to the paper.

Previous to Serrato being placed on leave, Oregon spokesperson Eric Howald told the Daily Emerald the “university is currently collecting more information about the situation” and that for now “it appears that the individual made the post on their own time, which is well within their rights.”

What else do we know about Serrato?

Serrato’s LinkedIn profile indicates he’s also a hazing prevention speaker. A month ago, Serrato reposted on his LinkedIn page a short item about himself from ForCollegeForLife — and the following excerpt appears to explain why he speaks against hazing:

Leo Serrato could have never imagined he’d be delivering this message.

Before August 31, 2012, his fraternity membership experience had been typical. That night, however, changed everything. One of the new members of his chapter died in an alcohol-related hazing incident. Due to his involvement, Leo was charged and sentenced to jail time, and, because of this, he made it a personal mission to work to end hazing.

He vowed to his brother he would not let his death be in vain.

A 2018 profile story in the Sonoma State Star student newspaper about Serrato — who had just become the new lead campus advisor for fraternity and sorority life at Sonoma State — noted that Serrato “was involved in a hazing related death while attending Fresno State in 2012, where one of his pledges died from excessive drinking caused by hazing.”

The Star added that Serrato pleaded “no contest to a misdemeanor charge of hazing and providing alcohol to a minor causing death in 2014. According to the Press Democrat, he was sentenced to 90 days in the Fresno County Jail, 90 days in the county’s adult offender work program, three years probation, and a $220 fine.”

Serrato was quoted in the story: “When I was new member educator, one of our new members passed away from a hazing related incident and it was that incident that truly inspired me and opened up my eyes to what my mission and purpose is in life and that is to educated [sic] students on hazing.”

Howald on Thursday afternoon didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment asking whether the University of Oregon knew about the charges against Serrato when the school hired him.

Serrato on Thursday afternoon didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment, specifically whether he had anything to say in the wake of his reported statements about Trump voters in light of his declared “mission and purpose” in regard to educating others about hazing.

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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina announced that he is running to chair the National Republican Senatorial Committee that serves as the Senate GOP’s campaign arm.

Scott, who has been a longtime ally to President-elect Donald Trump, was rumored to be eyeing the position last month, confirming his ambitions in a statement Friday. Scott’s announcement follows the GOP’s Senate sweep where Republicans flipped seats in Montana, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

“Let’s do this!” Scott said in a statement. “I’m running for NRSC Chair because two years of a Republican agenda is good, but four years of success under Donald J. Trump is even better.”

‘Tim’s inspiring message, record of fundraising and vision for the party makes him the perfect partner for President Trump.’

“That means the entire four years of his presidency will create low inflation, secure borders and safe streets, leading to a generation of American prosperity!” Scott continued. “With Donald J. Trump in the White House and Republicans leading the U.S. Senate, we will protect our majority in 2026 and create opportunities for all Americans.”

Scott, who had presidential ambitions this cycle, also received some high-profile endorsements alongside his announcement, including current NRSC chairman Sen. Steve Daines of Montana.

“We took back the U.S. Senate in 2024, and there is no one I trust more to protect the majority in 2026 than Tim Scott,” Daines said in a statement.

Scott was also backed by Republican colleagues like Senate GOP Conference Chairman John Barrasso and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“Tim’s inspiring message, record of fundraising and vision for the party makes him the perfect partner for President Trump,” Barasso said. “Together, they will protect and grow the Republican majority. There’s nobody better than Tim Scott.”

“Protecting the majority and growing the party starts with a vision and the resources to compete anywhere,” Rubio said. “That is why I’m confident in Tim leading the NRSC in 2026.”

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When American journalist Mark Halperin told Tucker Carlson what he thinks is destined to happen following a Trump victory, Tucker was so shocked, he legitimately thought Halperin was joking.

However, Halperin was being “100% serious.”

Although their conversation occurred three weeks prior to Election Day, Dave Rubin shares Halperin’s warning now that Trump has been declared the victor in his race against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

“Let’s say Trump wins three weeks from today. What happens? … A lot of Democrats, maybe the majority, believe that Trump becoming president again is the worst thing that ever could happen, so how do they respond to that?” Tucker asked.

“I think it will be the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings,” and “their vision of what their future for them and their children could be like,” Halperin predicted.

“I think that will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals; I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace. I think there’ll be some degree of …” he continued before Tucker cut him off.

“Are you being serious?” Tucker asked, visibly shocked.

“100% serious,” Halperin pledged, before finishing his thought that we’ll also see an uptick in “alcoholism” and “broken marriages.”

“What?!” Tucker exclaimed.

“Yeah, they think he’s the worst person possible to be president,” Halperin said, adding that many liberals will not be able to cope with “the fact that under a fair election, America chose … Donald Trump again.”

“I don’t think it will be kind of a passing thing that by the inauguration will be fine. I think it will be sustained and unprecedented and hideous, and I don’t think the country’s ready for it,” he added.

When Tucker brought up the fact that “mental health crises often manifest in violence,” Halperin agreed and predicted that there will indeed be “some violence,” from “workplace fights” and “fights at kids’ birthday parties” all the way to “protests that will turn violent.”

“I think that’s what’s going to happen for tens of millions of people because they think that their fellow citizens supporting Trump is a sign of fundamental evil at the heart of their fellow citizens and of the nation. That’s how they view it,” Halperin explained.

Dave agrees with Halperin’s prediction.

“Look what we have done to young people — ‘You live in a country that was founded on evil, on slavery and racism. Now a man who wants to bring all of that back using white supremacist magic, using evil language … now he’s back, and he’s taking away women’s rights, and he’s going after those people, and he’s gonna jail these people,”’ says Dave, regurgitating the left’s phony Trump narrative.

“They used all of the most evil tools, and not only did it not get them what they wanted — meaning the installation of Kamala Harris as president, who was just a cog in the machine — it now has broken the brains of millions and millions of Americans, and we better start thinking about this because we all know them,” Dave warns.

To hear more on Halperin’s warning and Dave’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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Employees at the Biden-Harris Department of Justice and their fellow travelers at the FBI are apparently “shell-shocked” and updating their resumes following President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide electoral victory.

Federal bureaucrats’ apparent fears of a thorough housecleaning are justified, as Trump has made no secret of his
plan to “shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the People.”

Background

In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020
executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats from an estimated pool of 50,000 eligible candidates.

“I will wield that power aggressively,” Trump vowed.

President Joe Biden revoked Trump’s Schedule F in January 2021 and
announced a rule earlier this year aimed at further shielding federal bureaucrats from accountability and from being ousted under a framework resembling Schedule F.

‘They’re getting the hell out of dodge.’

Reversing this rule might take months and involve legal challenges. Nevertheless, Trump appears committed to
ensuring that America’s democratically elected president will once again “have appropriate management oversight regarding this select cadre of professionals.”

Trump also vowed in his 10-point plan to “clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”

“The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute
conservatives, Christians, or the left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible,” said Trump.

Since detailing his cleanup program last year, Trump has
brought on Elon Musk to lead a federal efficiency initiative, which might reinforce the cleanup of deadwood at the Justice Department and its well-armed offshoot.

Reaping the whirlwind

Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker said that bureaucrats at the DOJ and the FBI are right to panic, not only because a “reshuffling of the deck is normal” but because Trump is poised to make good on his pledge to personify and deliver “retribution” for those Americans wronged by what has become an increasingly politicized justice system.

“We know that this panic is happening at the assistant U.S. attorney level and at the U.S. attorney level. These guys are already planning their exits,” said Baker. “They know that their days are numbered. They are looking for their golden parachutes into the big, high-power law firms. They’re getting the hell out of dodge.”

FBI employees are expecting a similar shake-up and pre-emptive exodus.

Several anonymous bureau sources recently
told the Washington Times that the top brass at the FBI were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Kamala Harris’ humiliating electoral defeat.

The insiders, convinced that the president-elect will “smash the place to pieces when he gets in,” suggested that no one at the supervisory special agent pay grade (GS-14) or higher is safe from losing their jobs, especially not Director Christopher Wray.

“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” said one FBI source. “Trump will say, ‘Yeah, fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home.'”

Trump appointed Wray in 2017. While the director’s term is not set to expire for another three years, the president-elect could put him out to pasture.

‘Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.’

FBI employees are apparently also wary about Musk’s efficiency commission.

One source told the Times, “When [Musk] tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people.”

“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” continued the source. “That may be the biggest problem there — that there’s no efficiency. So that’s actually the bigger threat. If you’re going to try to make the government efficient, you would start with the FBI, because if you do politics all the time, you’re probably bloated.”

Another source suggested to the Times that some FBI employees who have grown tired of the Jan. 6 witch hunt are amused over the prospect that Trump will liberally issue pardons, nullifying their efforts.

While the promise of pardons has apparently amused some bureaucrats, it hasn’t slowed down
Democratic elements of the judiciary.

Baker, whose pretrial hearing regarding his
Jan. 6 misdemeanor charges is scheduled for Tuesday, told Blaze News that despite the understanding that Trump will ultimately pardon nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters, D.C. courts are continuing to waste time and taxpayer funds pursuing his and similar cases.

“They are going forward with the process no matter what, when they should be hitting the pause button,” said Baker.

While the president-elect currently lacks authority, Baker suggested that “he should at least issue a public statement and say, ‘I’m telling you, DOJ, I’m telling you, FBI, I’m telling you, judges of the D.C. District Court: You’re wasting your time. You’re wasting the people’s time. And you’re wasting the people’s money going through this process because I’m going to put a stop to this on the day of or day following my inauguration.’ He could at least send a signal.”

Baker suggested that such a statement may not get through to those blinded by hatred and committed to crushing Jan. 6 protesters, but it might resonate with those persons in the District of Columbia still equipped with common sense.

In the meantime, it appears that FBI employees are getting ready for a change of employment.

“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” one FBI source told the Times, referencing the bureau’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”

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Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri announced his support for Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Friday in the race to replace Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. At this point, this is the first public endorsement for Cornyn.

Cornyn is running to succeed McConnell alongside Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and John Thune of South Dakota.

“I’m backing John Cornyn for majority leader,” Hawley said in a statement. “In the last two years, nobody has done more to win back the majority than he has.”

Hawley also said Cornyn would ‘work closely and effectively with President Trump to deliver on the promise of our new majority.’

“He tirelessly raised millions of dollars for competitive Senate races including mine,” Hawley added.

Fundraising has been a focal point for the respective senators vying for the leadership position, given McConnell’s extensive fundraising power.

On Friday, Cornyn announced that he raised nearly $33 million this election cycle in support of Republican candidates, bringing his fundraising total over the course of his career to nearly $415 million.

Hawley also cited policy alignment as a reason for supporting Cornyn.

“He has voiced his support for the RECA compromise that would fairly compensate hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned by their government, including so many in Missouri,” Hawley said.

Hawley also said Cornyn would “work closely and effectively with President Trump to deliver on the promise of our new majority.”

Republicans regained their Senate majority this cycle, flipping seats in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Montana. While the Nevada and Arizona Senate races are still being counted, Republicans hold 53 seats and Democrats hold 48.

Amid the newfound majority, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah will be moderating a forum for the Senate leadership hopefuls on Tuesday, the night before the conference will cast votes for McConnell’s successor.

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On Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced the press for the first time since the election results were announced. During the briefing, multiple reporters challenged her regarding President Joe Biden’s earlier comments about President-elect Donald Trump.

Before Trump’s victory on Tuesday, Biden frequently warned Americans that Trump posed a threat to democracy. With the election outcome, the Biden administration has now vowed a peaceful transfer of power to the incoming Trump administration.

‘I do not appreciate having my words twisted.’

Jean-Pierre was pressed about Biden’s role in the Democratic Party’s Tuesday defeat. Reporters asked the press secretary whether the president regretted stepping down in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris and whether he felt responsible for the loss.

Jean-Pierre placed a majority of the blame on “global headwinds.”

“Despite all of the accomplishments that we were able to get done, there were global headwinds because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” she claimed. “And it had a political toll on many incumbents, if you look at what happened in 2024 globally. And that’s part of what you saw.”

Reporters questioned Jean-Pierre about Biden’s views on Trump before and after the election.

“The president repeatedly referred to Donald Trump as a threat to democracy over and over again. And this morning, though, he said we’re all going to be okay. So was that just political rhetoric?” NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez asked.

Jean-Pierre replied, “If you know the president, you know that him saying we’re all going to be okay, he’s an optimist, right? He believes when you get knocked down, you get back up. We are — we, we, we lost. But we’re not defeated, right?”

“The president believes — uh, as, as you asked me about the threat to democracy — uh, believes in — being an obligation to be honest to the American people,” she continued.

Jean-Pierre claimed that Trump had “talked about an enemy within,” “mistreating Americans who disagree with him,” and “terminating the Constitution.” She brought up comments by Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

“To be clear, he still believes Donald Trump is a threat to democracy?” Gutierrez asked.

“I think that the president was very clear, what he stated, and was very honest,” she replied. “Right now, we want to move forward, and we want to make sure there’s a peaceful transfer of power. That’s what the American people deserve.”

Another reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether Biden still stands by his comments about Trump being “an existential threat to democracy.”

“I don’t have anything else to share beyond what I said,” she responded.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich said to the press secretary, “This administration’s message to millions of Americans that they’re going to wake up [the] day after the election, if Trump won, and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble. And the president said today we’re going to be okay. So how do you square that?”

“I can square that,” Jean-Pierre replied, stating that she had already answered the question multiple times. “The American people made the decision.”

Heinrich asked Jean-Pierre what the message is to “people who are fearful based on” Biden’s previous comments about Trump.

“Well, now you’re just twisting everything around, and that’s really unfair. No, it is, no, no, no, Jacqui, it’s unfair because I’ve been standing here trying to be very respectful to what happened the last two nights, two nights ago,” Jean-Pierre said.

She appeared frustrated by the line of questioning, adding, “I do not appreciate having my words twisted.”

Moments later, Jean-Pierre closed her binder and ended the presser.

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Lee Gelernt, the deputy director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, called for leftists to take to the streets in order to help block President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda because the judicial system will only be able to do so much.

Open-border advocates are worried Trump will follow through on his campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in recent history to address the Biden-Harris border crisis, which allowed millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country.

‘I do think that there is going to be a breaking point.’

“I think we’re going to do things different just because this is going to be a different playbook by them. I think they’re going be more prepared, and so we’re going to have to be much more strategic in how we go about it,” Gelernt told MSNBC.

“We’re going to have to coordinate among groups. … I think that we are going to try to be strategic, and we have to be clear-eyed about what we can win and what we can’t win. And I think that’s one of the reasons why I want to stress to people: We need you in the streets because the courts will not always do everything for us,” he continued.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle asked Gelernt if there’s more tolerance for Trump’s bold immigration policies because he won not just the Electoral College but also the popular vote, which would affect the number of people who would protest the measures.

“I do think that there is going to be a breaking point. I think that it is one thing during the election when everyone says that we want to do something about it. There hopefully are going to be really common-sense solutions that we can push back on, but I do think there are going to be lines,” Gelernt replied.

Gelernt admitted that “line” might have moved “a little bit,” and that’s one of the things that “keep us up at night.”

The Trump campaign has stated since election night that the new administration very much plans on following through with the deportation operation, starting on his first day in office. So far, the protests against Trump’s win have been muted compared to 2016, with a few cities, such as Seattle, Portland, and Chicago seeing some protests.

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