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ATTENTION, LAST-MINUTE SHOPPERS: What’s open and closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2024?

IMAGINE IF JOURNALISM DIDN’T SUCK:

https://t.co/hsipfQMeTz pic.twitter.com/ZAHbtem5k9

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) December 24, 2024

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HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…

Wait, I just found some articles in the media about this.

They called it "far-right" 🙄

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) December 23, 2024

…it isn’t enough.

#JOURNALISM: LOL, John Harwood.

Harwood, who touted the laughable Steele dossier, now wonders why a lot of Republicans have no faith in the establishment media https://t.co/FVjwMh3YN0 pic.twitter.com/43d8JnRlbr

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 24, 2024

NYC’S CULTURE OF (MASSIVE) CORRUPTION:

As NYC subways continue to get taken over by the mentally ill, it’s important to remember that ⁦@BilldeBlasio⁩ & ⁦@Chirlane⁩ could not account for $850M in taxpayer money that was supposed to be used for a mental health initiative. pic.twitter.com/noiEO8gdkJ

— Al (@AlBeachGuy) December 23, 2024

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: STUDY: Santa movies promote “capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy:” Mr. Rosu’s essay on Santa’s whiteness was hand-picked out of 4,000 student essays to win.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Vaginas absolutely need sex or they’ll waste away: study. This isn’t a new study, but I’m sharing it anyway. You know, better safe than sorry.

WHOEVER LAYS OUT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’S FRONT PAGE HAD FUN TODAY:

8+ YEARS TOO LATE, BUT . . . NYT Never Trumper Repents. “Brett Stephens, one of the Never Trump Republicans at the New York Times, has had an epiphany: Donald Trump is a person, not a demon, and his supporters are Americans who are tired of the transnational elite’s destruction of America.”

Do tell. They really hire them for their perspicacity over there, don’t they?

THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY COULD USE A GOOD SHAKING UP: Palantir, Anduril In Talks With OpenAI, Elon Musk’s SpaceX To Take On Defense Giants.

The aim is to take on traditional defense giants such as Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Boeing (BA) and RTX (RTX), most likely with artificial intelligence-enabled autonomous technology.

Palantir and Anduril also reportedly are talking to Saronic and Scale AI. Palantir and Anduril aim to announce a series of alliances next month, the FT said.

Meanwhile, Trump on Sunday named Scale AI’s managing director, Michael Kratsios, as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He will advise artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency czar David Sacks. Kratsios also served in the first Trump administration.

Further, Scale AI holds a nearly $14 billion valuation.

Anduril has been developing pilotless fighter jets and other autonomous systems. It was founded by former Facebook executive Palmer Luckey and three Palantir executives.

In addition, Saronic is developing autonomous ships.

Faster, please.

THAT WOULD BE GOOD: Migraine relief: New drug may start working right away.

HUGH HEWITT: President Biden’s politburo strikes again.

We will remember “37 out of 40,” and biographers and presidential historians will long note and long record and elaborate on this abuse of power, along with the pardon of Hunter Biden, and all the other outrageous abuses of power. The people around our apparently incapacitated president don’t care at all what history will declare about Biden. Their indifference purposeful. It’s a display of shamelessness. Don’t look past it. They know what they are doing, it’s just the president who doesn’t.

After the Wall Street Journal’s detailed story on the president’s mental incapacity last week, the decision by the unnamed politburo actually running the country to issue these commutations is hard to understand as anything other than a giant [expletive deleted] to the rest of the country.

To be fair, much of the last four years felt like “a giant [expletive deleted] to the rest of the country.” The pardons were simply the equivalent of spiking the football as the clock mercifully winds down on this administration.

SCOTT PINSKER: Back Down, Double Down, or Down and Dirty: Weaponized PR and Matt Gaetz, Joe Biden, and Blake Lively.

WHEN YOUR LAWSUIT CRASHES AND BURNS: “Not Only Is [the Race Discrimination Plaintiff] a Perpetual Claimant, He Is a Holdup Artist:” A judge sanctions a self-represented litigant who threatened to contact defendant’s donors as a means of trying to pressure defendant into settling.

COLD WAR II: Philippines says it will acquire U.S. Typhon missile system, sparking warnings from China.

The U.S. Army deployed the mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines earlier this year for annual joint military exercises with its longtime ally and decided to leave it there despite criticism by Beijing that it was destabilizing to Asia.

Philippine Army Chief Lieutenant-General Roy Galido told a news conference on Monday that the missile system would be “acquired because we see its feasibility and its functionality in our concept of archipelagic defense implementation.”

“I’m happy to report to our fellow countrymen that your army is developing this capability for the interest of protecting our sovereignty,” he said, adding that the total cost of the acquisition would depend on “economics.”

The presence of the U.S. missile launcher had angered Beijing, whose navy and coast guard forces have engaged in escalating confrontations in recent months with the Philippines over disputed reefs and waters in the South China Sea.

Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, a key global shipping route, despite an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.

Beijing has been on a “might makes right” bender in the SCS. If Xi doesn’t like Manilla buying medium-range missiles, maybe he should try being less of a bully.

IS THAT A FEATURE OR A BUG? The Pernicious Effect of the Daniel Penny Prosecution on Subway Safety.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Jewish radio host fired for refusing to call Oct. 7 ‘resistance.’

Nicole, a Jewish volunteer radio host at a community station in Sydney, Australia, was terminated from her position after covering up a “Free Palestine” sticker and refusing to characterize Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023  massacre as an act of “resistance.”

The host, who shares Mexican and Israeli heritage, volunteered at a local radio station specializing in Latin music. In a tearful video posted after her dismissal, she described the confrontation that led to her termination: “I just came out of a meeting with radio Skid Row 88.9 FM…they basically just told me that if I cannot support the October 7 attacks as resistance or as something positive – saying it is not true that anybody got killed, or burned – and cannot support the hostages being kept, then I don’t align with their values.” She added that when she became emotional during the conversation, she was told, “We have no sympathy for white women’s tears.”

Why is the left such a cesspit of violence and bigotry?

CHANGE (IT BACK): Trump to rename Denali to Mount McKinley after Obama changed it. “It was known as Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015 and Trump vowed Sunday at the Turning Point USA AmFest conference in Phoenix that the mountain will once again honor America’s 25th president, a hugely popular Republican candidate who successfully won the office twice but was assassinated in 1901.”

MY NEW YORK POST CHRISTMAS COLUMN: In a Christmas season of renewal, Trump’s boldness is bringing hopeful change.

PETA’S AGITPROP NEEDS SOME WORK: PETA Goes for the Gross When It Comes to Santa Claus.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WOULD LIKE PEACE: You Want Peace? This Is How You Get Peace.

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