"The incoming Trump administration scored an early but possibly illusory victory last month in its effort to reform government overreach when it successfully pressured Congress to eliminate what it termed 'sweetheart provisions for government censors' from a measure to stave off a government shutdown.

Funding for the State Department's Global Engagement Center -- which Republicans had attacked as a tool of domestic censorship -- was stripped from the final bill, and the center announced that it was closed for good on Dec. 23. Days later, however, reporting emerged that the State Department had devised plans to shift the center's 51 employees and millions of dollars of funding to a separate hub purportedly to counter foreign 'information manipulation and interference.'

President-elect Donald Trump has not said how he will respond to this maneuver. But in extensive public comments he has said that targeting what critics have called the Censorship Industrial Complex will be a high priority in his new administration."

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"Years before wildfires reduced Los Angeles' most famous neighborhoods to charred rubble and forced thousands to flee, audits and reports repeatedly raised concerns that California's water management and fire prevention policies would one day lead to a catastrophic inferno.

"The concerns ranged from failed regulatory efforts to make utility transmission wires more fire safe to the management of vegetation and brush clearing and water supplies in an oft drought-stricken state, according to documents reviewed by Just the News."

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"The Democrat-run Senate Judiciary Committee's two-year partisan assault on conservative Supreme Court justices, especially Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, on baseless 'ethics' allegations ended with a pathetic 93-page Democrat staff report replete with dishonest and false information. It was so bad it was issued the day after Congress left town for the year and right before the Christmas recess.

"This entire investigation was never about 'ethics' but about trying to undermine the Supreme Court because it is no longer acting like a left-wing super legislature handing down opinions implementing the Democrats' political agenda.

"The Democrats falsely accused Justices Thomas and Alito of violating ethics laws by not disclosing vacations with friends and not recusing from cases because of their spouses' activities. They are wrong on both counts."

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"Breaking News Alert: Joe Biden to resign so Kamala Harris can become first female president.

"OK, it hasn't happened yet, but don't be shocked if the president makes the dramatic move to improve his awful legacy.

"He's already using every trick in the book to try to wipe away the Big Stink from his tenure, but nothing is working.

"Following the election, Biden has spent two months trying to get people to forget the last four years."

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"Today's decision is a good win for the country. Over the past four years, the Biden Administration has worked to expand the governmen't control over every feature of the Internet ecosystem. You can see it in the Biden Administration's efforts to pressure social media companies into censoring the free speech rights of everyday Americans. You can see it in the Biden Administration's demand that the FCC adopt 'digital equity' rules for the Internet -- sweeping regulations that give the Commission nearly limitless powers over the Internet. And you can see it in the Biden Administration's decision to impose so-called 'net neutrality' rules by applying Title II or utility-style regulations to the Internet.

"President Biden's decision to impose these Title II regulations represented a break from the bipartisan consensus established by a Republican Congress and a Democrat President and enshrined in law nearly thirty years ago -- a consensus that provided a stable regulatory framework that allowed the Internet in America to flourish. And President Biden's entire plan rested on the Chicken Little tactic of persuading Americans that the Internet would break in the absence of these so-called 'net neutrality' regulations. he American people have now seen through that ruse. ...

"I am pleased that the appellate court invalidated President Biden's Internet power grab by striking down these unlawful Title II regulations. But the work to unwind the Biden Administration's regulatory overreach will continue. I welcome the chance to advance a policy agenda that will deliver great results for the American people."

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"They say the U.S. presidency is the loneliest job in the world. Maybe the second-loneliest gig is that of Cabinet secretary in President Joe Biden's administration.

A piece published Thursday in the Wall Street Journal pulls from dozens of sources who say Biden's inner circle of trusted aides increasingly kept contact with the president at a minimum, including the people he should have depended on most to consult and advise for the good of the nation.

The president who has spent a good chunk of his term out of the office apparently was not all that keen on meetings with his Cabinet secretaries. In fact, Biden may have met more often with his criminal son's sketchy clients than he has with his administration's top managers."

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"A lot can change in 24 hours.

"That was Wednesday's lesson for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who had on Tuesday night unveiled a sprawling, 1,500-page stopgap bill to fund the government ahead of a Friday deadline.

"Barely 24 hours later, Johnson is pivoting to plan B, axing his original plan in favor of a slimmed-down, 'clean' funding patch.

"House conservatives had always taken issue with Johnson's original measure, which included more than $100 billion in additional funding for, among other things, disaster aid and the farm bill reauthorization. The spending hawks balked at what they considered an overstuffed package. But with Democratic and moderate Republican support, Johnson and his leadership team saw a shot at bringing the legislation up for an immediate floor vote on Wednesday, bypassing the Rules Committee with a two-thirds majority in the lower chamber.

"Then Elon Musk chimed in. The tech billionaire Trump loyalist, who's leading a cost-cutting project under the incoming president, came out against the stopgap on social media, writing on social platform X that any lawmaker 'who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!'"

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"House Republicans recommended disgraced ex-Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney face a criminal investigation related to 'withness tampering' as vice chair of the illegally established and since disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6.

"Previous documents released by congressional investigators reviewing the Jan. 6 panel's work revealed Cheney coordinated with the Select Committee's star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, using the encrypted Signal app. The pair communicated to circumvent Hutchinson's own attorney, Stefan Passantino, whom the Jan. 6 Committee ultimately targeted with an operation intended to strip him of his law license. Passantino was cleared of any misconduct following multiple investigations from ethics watchdogs.

"In the House interim report released on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers led by Barry Loudermilk of Georgia cited Cheney's communication with Hutchinson as a basis for referring the former congresswoman for a criminal investigation run by the Justice Department."

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"Mainstream media enjoyed a subscription boon from what an analyst called their 'oppositional' coverage of Donald Trump's early first presidential term. The 45th president was especially lucrative for The Washington Post, which has lost a whopping half of its audience since 2020 and $77 million just in 2023.

"But the sustained sloppiness of the media in opposition coverage of Trump's second campaign and others -- what might be called slopposition -- is threatening their bottom lines on the eve of Trump's second term.

"ABC News paid off Trump on the eve of This Week host George Stephanopoulos's deposition in the President-elect's federal defamation lawsuit, shortly before Trump threatened to sue the Des Moines Register for 'fraud' and 'election interference' by publishing a spectacularly bad election poll right before his decisive victory."

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"Vice President Kamala Harris reversed her position on fracking when she became her party's presidential candidate this summer, and it is not just because the energy industry employs so many people in Pennsylvania, although that was an additional incentive. It is because voters simply no longer buy the Democratic Party's climate fearmongering. They do not reject the truth of manmade warming, but they rightly reject the Left's constant and constantly eroding climate alarmism, and they believe other matters are far more important. They voted accordingly, and now President-elect Donald Trump's presumptive energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, is set to bring much-needed perspective to the matter.

"According to Gallup, of the 22 matters offered to voters as being the most important in influencing their vote, climate change came second to last, followed only by transgender rights. Similarly, of the 10 matters tracked by the Pew Research Center, climate change came dead last. Whatever else voters are upset about, warmer winters and other climate phenomena are not bothering them.

"Democrats are trying to undermine Wright's nomination by portraying his stance on climate change as dangerously false. The opposite is true. Wright's views are not only supported by the scientific record but also represent a welcome change of perspective from Washington's discredited orthodoxy."

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