Trump cultists

The Wall Street Journal reports: The door to the plant’s giant casting furnace, which melts metal to be molded into the Model Y’s parts, wouldn’t shut, spewing toxins into the air and raising temperatures for workers on the floor to as high as 100 degrees. Hazardous wastewater from production—containing paint, oil and other chemicals—was also flowing untreated into the city’s …

Axios reports: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin made a pitch to incoming staffers for Trump’s administration: Move to Virginia, just across the Potomac from D.C. The Republican governor wants the blue suburbs of Northern Virginia to welcome MAGA world. “We offer a great quality of life,” Youngkin says in a video posted on X on Tuesday, touting “award-winning schools, where parents …

“Listen, I’ve known Boris for years, and I’ve never known him to be anything but a good human being. So that said, I will tell you, my father has been incredibly clear: You do not, you do not do that under any circumstance. “And believe me, there will be repercussions if somebody was. So, I’ve never seen that side of …

Yahoo News reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) became the first sitting member of Congress on Cameo over the weekend, following former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) onto the video-for-hire platform. But it didn’t last. By Monday evening, the Beetlejuice fan deactivated her account, which had been offering short video greetings for $250 a pop. Members of Congress are allowed to earn …

Mediaite reports: Kari Lake is in “active negotiations” to join Newsmax after losing her bid for the Senate in Arizona, Mediaite has learned. Lake, a local news broadcaster turned fierce Trump loyalist, is in talks with the conservative network for an on-camera position, sources said. Before emerging as a far-right political candidate, Lake spent more than two decades as an …

The Washington Post reports: A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump, a written review by Trump’s legal team concluded. The scathing review of Boris Epshteyn, a top lawyer to Trump who has extensive sway in the transition, was prepared by Trump’s attorneys …

The Hill reports: Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) will resign from the House on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Trump takes office, to become the national security adviser for Trump’s second term, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. His upcoming resignation means that House Republicans, who were already slated to have a razor-tight majority, will be at …

The Daily Beast reports: Dr. Mehmet Oz could hold millions of dollars in investments in companies regulated by the federal agency Donald Trump has tapped him to lead. During his failed Senate run in 2022, the former talk show host reported tens of millions of dollars in investments in health care, medical technology and food companies, according to the Los …

First, a bit of Kennedy’s drug addiction backstory: Passengers on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s flight to Rapid City saw that he was high. The flight crew radioed ahead to authorities, who let Kennedy go but obtained a search warrant and found heroin in his luggage. Kennedy was charged with felony drug possession, and the story made national news. In the …

CNN reports: Attorneys for Donald Trump conducted an internal investigation into allegations that one of his top aides, Boris Epshteyn, has sought to gain financially from his influence with Trump and others in the president-elect’s orbit, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The internal investigation, which was confirmed by half a dozen sources and is not criminal in …

The Washington Examiner reports: Trump ally and Fox News contributor Caitlyn Jenner dropped hints on what could be in store for the former Olympian, noting on X that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) cannot seek reelection in 2026. The hint comes after Newsom survived a recall effort against him in 2021, when Jenner was one of the candidates to run as …

From Lauren Boebert’s just-launched Cameo account: Whether it’s a milestone birthday, an anniversary, or a long-awaited reunion, make it unforgettable with a one-of-a-kind Cameo video from Lauren Boebert. You’ll have the chance to customize your request for Lauren Boebert, like asking them to mention inside jokes, share words of wisdom, or work in their signature catchphrases. Don’t be afraid to …

“Part of faith in God is you start to understand that our words are not just words and they don’t just express scientific materialist details, that’s a mistake that you get when you take God out of the schools and when you take God out of the public arena, you make the mistake of thinking our words are simply descriptions …

“This is an issue of first impression for the Congress. We’ve never had to face this before in all of our history. But not we do. And so, we had to come out and speak with moral clarity about the issue. I mean, it’s sad that we have to articulate this, but that’s the truth. “And then I came out …

NBC News reports: Bird flu has been detected in a batch of raw milk sold in California stores and the state’s department of public health said Sunday that the public should not drink it. The virus was found during testing of a batch of cream top, whole raw milk from Raw Farm, LLC. The company has issued a voluntary recall …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information. User Paul Graham, who has nearly two million followers, blasted “Twitter’s biggest flaw” was the “deprioritization of tweets with links in them” …

“If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate’ – then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party. “And that is going to happen. I guarantee President Trump will do that. This administration has turned this world …

“Northwest Florida deserves another fighter in Congress. After three deployments to Afghanistan, I know what it takes to fight for America and our Christian values. Serving as Congressman Gaetz’s Director of Military Affairs was an honor. I’ll help President Trump finish the wall, get our Veterans the care and resources they deserve, and put an end to the deep state …

Salon reports: When she’s not claiming that her opposition controls the weather or accusing her own party of covering up sexual assault, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is gearing up to work in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, and she has some novel ideas about bringing down the deficit. Greene has been tapped by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to …

NBC News reports: Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sunday suggested that one of President-elect Donald Trump’s first priorities of his new term should be to fire any staff in the Justice Department who worked on cases that involved charges against Trump. “First and foremost, the people involved with this should be fired immediately,” Schmitt said during an interview on NBC …