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“My children, the time has come. A time that you have been waiting for. A reinstatement. A shift of power. A new government in control. An overthrow, and a takeover in this nation from the hands of the wicked to the hands of the righteous. “The fall has come, the time is drawing near. A coup is about to disrupted …

Axios reports: Fidelity has again marked down the value of its shares in X Holdings, which the mutual fund giant helped Elon Musk buy for $44 billion when the company was known as Twitter. Fidelity believes that X is worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase, according to a new disclosure that runs through the end of November …

Reuters reports: Hershey has been sued by a Florida woman who said its holiday-themed Reese’s peanut butter candies lack the artistic details shown on the packaging that make them worth buying. In a proposed federal class action filed on Thursday and seeking at least $5 million, Cynthia Kelly accused Hershey of deceiving reasonable consumers by falsely promising that its candies …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is giving carnivores something to cheer about, as he promises to protect animal products from the left. “A lot of this ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) movement has agriculture in the crosshairs. They don’t want people eating meat,” DeSantis said at a “meet and greet” event in Clayton County, Iowa. The Governor promised …

The Hill reports: Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised …

The Daily Beast reports: During the network’s morning flagship show Fox & Friends, guest host Griff Jenkins wailed that he was “legitimately worried that they’re going to come for the gas stove” before getting even more conspiratorial. “See, once is maybe hypocrisy. Twice is intentional,” Jenkins insisted, adding that Harris posting an image of her stove is “not a coincidence.” …

Florida Politics reports: “You deserve better than stressing over what you can afford for your family at Christmas, at Hannukah (SIC), or in the middle of the summer. You should never be under this much strain because of the leaders you trusted to elect,” DeSantis promised Saturday. “We will take back control of our destiny, and enjoy the financial freedom …

Reuters reports: Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter’s senior director of compensation before leaving Elon Musk’s company in May, sued Twitter in June, claiming breach of contract. Schobinger’s suit alleged …

Florida Politics reports: Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson isn’t letting big government get in the way of jolly St. Nick. Simpson approved an emergency order waiving any and all state regulations through Dec. 25 that could delay Santa as he travels across the states delivering toys to children. The order states that the Free State of Florida, “hereby known as the …

Florida Politics reports: Two Republican lawmakers from Miami-Dade County want to give Florida voters a chance to ban red light cameras across the state for good. Miami Sen. Ileana Garcia and Sweetwater Rep. David Borrero filed related resolutions (SJR 1042, HJ 805) proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting any “traffic infraction detectors” from recording motorists who fail to stop at stop …

The Messenger reports: Joe Rogan was forced to wear some egg on his face during a recording of his very own podcast. During Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring an interview with UFC rising star Bo Nickal, Rogan brought up a recent soundbite from President Joe Biden that he couldn’t believe. “Did you hear what he said yesterday …

Gothamist reports: Authorities said a security checkpoint X-ray machine at LaGuardia Airport wiped an Arkansas man of his luggage after his bag triggered an alarm, prompting officers to unwrap 17 9mm bullets that had been “artfully concealed” inside of an otherwise clean disposable baby diaper, the TSA said. The man first told officials he didn’t know how the deadly diaper …

The Long Island Press reports: Suffolk County Police have arrested a 17-year-old for threatening to “shoot up” Sequoya High School in Holtsville, according to District Attorney Ray Tierney’s office. Tierney’s office said in a news release that police had been made aware of an email sent to school administrators threatening to “shoot up the school” and warning them to “be …

“We should get kids off social media and start teaching them the proper use of guns, how to defend themselves, their own self-defense, should we not? Make that an integrated part of the education so they’re not picked on or not threatened and certainly not scared, right?” – Steve Bannon, drawing cheers from the audience at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point …

The Sportster reports: In the UFC 296 main card, featherweight Josh Emmett unleashed a powerful strike that knocked out Bryce Mitchell, creating a disturbing scene after the match as Mitchell appeared to have a seizure. In the midst of the main card opener in Las Vegas on Saturday, Emmett delivered a devastating right punch that rendered Mitchell unconscious in the …

Christopher Kane reports at the Washington Blade: A gay staffer for U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate, his office told the Washington Blade in a statement on Saturday morning, which followed reports that he had filmed amateur pornography in the workplace. “We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” Cardin’s office …

Politico reports: Former first lady Melania Trump is slated to be the honored guest speaker today at a naturalization ceremony for new citizens in the rotunda of the Archives’ headquarters. It is, to put it mildly, an unusual billing. How did it happen that a resident of the same Mar-a-Lago estate whose bathrooms were used to store thousands of allegedly …

“So it potentially could be the whole thing to make these agencies more reflective of the people that they’re intended to serve is to take them out of Washington D.C. And so, instead of having the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department in D.C., you know, you can have it in Oklahoma. “Instead of having the Department of Agriculture …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis wants another $2.2 million for a controversial election police force. But there’s no guarantee the Legislature will provide the funding. This week, DeSantis released his “Focus on Florida’s Future” budget and requested funding for 16 full-time positions in the Office of Election Crimes and Security. The salaries for those positions make up more than …

Florida Politics reports: When Floridians ask themselves why their Governor promised $1 million from the new budget to sue the College Football Playoff potentially over the exclusion of the Florida State Seminoles, they can credit — or blame — a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, and a three-year-old in part. Ron DeSantis noted Friday he had “some disappointed kids saying ‘Daddy, you …