Trans individual apparently threatens to kill Nancy Mace over bill barring men from women’s restrooms
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina was apparently threatened by a man who identifies as transgender after the congresswoman proposed legislation that would require individuals to use the restroom that corresponds to their biological sex.
In a social media post, the transgender individual, who goes by Venus, apparently threatened to kill Mace as well as other activists who are outspoken against transgenderism.
“This video goes out to Congresswoman Nancy Mace,” Venus said in the video posted to Instagram. “Congresswoman Nancy Mace, I do hope that one day I do find you in that woman’s bathroom, and I grab your ratty looking f***ing hair and drag your face down to the floor while I repeatedly bash it in until the blood’s everywhere and you’re dead.”
Mace exposed Venus’ rant and responded to his apparent threats in a Tuesday post on X.
“This is the exact type of man I don’t want in the women’s restroom with me,” Mace said in the post.
“This is the exact type of man I don’t want in the women’s restroom with me,” Mace said in the post.
These alleged threats came after Mace introduced a bill that would bar men who claim to be women from using the women’s restroom. Mace proposed the legislation after Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware, a biological male, was elected to the House as the first openly transgender lawmaker.
Venus’ alleged threats, however, did not stop with Mace.
“Clarence Thomas, I have not forgotten about you,” he continued, according to the video. “Be on the lookout.”…
Second Baltic Sea Cable Cut, Germany Suspects Sabotage
Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea—one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germany— should be regarded as sabotage, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday.
“No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also don’t want to believe in versions that these were ship anchors that accidentally caused the damage,” German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said before meeting of European Union defense ministers.
“So we have to state — without knowing in concrete terms who it came from—that this is a hybrid action. And we also have to assume—without already knowing it, obviously—that this is sabotage.”
Lithuania’s Navy said on Tuesday it had subsequently increased the surveillance of its waters.
The foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a Nov. 18 joint statement that they were “deeply concerned about the severed undersea cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea.”
The ministers said that the fact “that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times. A thorough investigation is underway.”
USC estimates California fuel could rise by up to 90 cents per gallon next year
California gas prices could rise up to $1.15 per gallon next year thanks to the state’s new carbon credit system, taxes, refinery regulations, and refinery shutdown.
This would require the typical Californian to make up to $1,000 per year more in pre-tax income to “break even,” according to an analysis from a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business.
“The increase contributes to inflation, the high cost of living in California, and has a disproportionate and adverse impact on lower income Californians,” wrote Professor Michael A. Mische. “To compensate for the increases, the average Californian driving an internal combustion vehicle will have to earn an additional $600.00 to $1,000.00 a year in pre-tax income in order to “breakeven” with 2024 prices, depending on the grade of gas they purchase.”
Days after the November election, the California Air Resources Board — a regulatory commission almost entirely appointed by the governor — passed new updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, requiring producers of “dirty” transportation fuel to purchase more credits from producers of “clean” transportation fuel.
The new LCFS will provide an estimated $105 billion in EV charging credits and $8 billion of hydrogen credits largely paid for by fees on gasoline and diesel, which the state estimated would be passed on to drivers and consumers.
Mische first estimated that the state’s newly passed carbon credit requirement will increase retail prices for regular grade gasoline in 2025 somewhere between 40 and 65 cents per gallon — similar to that estimated by the University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
He then estimated that the governor’s new refinery regulations he passed during a special legislative session last month would increase prices between 5 and 27 cents per gallon, and that the shutdown of the Phillips 66 refinery announced after the new refinery regulations would add another 8 to 14 cents per gallon.
Republicans pointed out that the governor has now moved away from Sacramento, the state’s capital, and will now be chauffeured to work in a gasoline car.
“Newsom is completely out of touch, recently purchasing a $9.1 million mansion in Kentfield, a wealthy town that’s 90 miles away from his job in Sacramento,” said Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones, R-San Diego, in a statement. “While regular Californians face tough choices between putting food on the table or gas in their cars, Newsom will be chauffeured to work from his luxury home in a taxpayer-funded car, running on taxpayer-funded gas, on the rare occasions he decides to show up.”..
Israel to prevent Iran’s nuclear ambitions; US urges Turkey to extradite Hamas TV7 Israel News 19.11
1) Jerusalem asserts it will not agree to any deal vs Hezbollah that does not guarantee the IDF’s right to confront any breaches to an arrangement.
2) Qatar confirms that it has asked Hamas leadership in Doha to depart.
3) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterates Israel’s deremination to prevent Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Bragg suggests suspending Trump’s hush money sentencing, perhaps for 4 years
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Tuesday that his office will oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss his felony conviction in New York.
Bragg said that despite plans to oppose Trump’s motion, his office would agree to hit pause on the proceedings pending the judge’s decision on Trump’s motion to dismiss. Bragg also suggested the case could wait until Trump’s finishes his term in the White House.
“No current law establishes that a president’s temporary immunity from prosecution requires dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding that was initiated at a time when the defendant was not immune from criminal prosecution and that is based on unofficial conduct for which the defendant is also not immune,” Bragg wrote in a letter to Judge Juan Merchan. “Rather, existing law suggests that the Court must balance competing constitutional interests and proceed ‘in a manner that preserves both the independence of the Executive and the integrity of the criminal justice system.’ “
Trump and his attorneys want the judge to dismiss the case based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s immunity decision. In July, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents and former presidents have absolute immunity for actions related to core constitutional powers and presumptive immunity for official actions. The ruling said the president has no immunity for unofficial conduct.
Bragg said Tuesday that the case could remain on pause through the end of Trump’s second term. Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the two-way race for the White House. He will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025….
SpaceX will try some new tricks on Starship’s sixth test flight
On Tuesday’s test flight, Starship will follow the same suborbital trajectory as the rocket’s previous mission on October 13. This means Starship’s Raptor engines will accelerate the vehicle to a velocity just shy of the speed required to reach low-Earth orbit. Without any more maneuvers, gravity will naturally pull the rocket back into the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean for a controlled splashdown in the open sea.
This arcing suborbital trajectory provides a backstop of sorts to bring Starship to a remote location in the ocean, even if there’s a problem with reigniting the Raptor engine.
The second change SpaceX will introduce on this test flight involves the vehicle’s heat shield. These modifications will allow engineers to gather data before future attempts to return Starship to land at SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in South Texas.
Perhaps as soon as next year, SpaceX wants to bring Starship back to Starbase to be caught by mechanical arms on the launch tower, similar to the way the company recovered the rocket’s Super Heavy booster for the first time last month. Eventually, SpaceX aims to rapidly reuse Super Heavy boosters and Starships….
New York let a crazy career criminal roam the streets and now three people are dead
Ramon Rivera, despite glaring mental health issues and at least eight arrests in New York and a criminal history crossing multiple states, got sprung early from Rikers this year after doing time for multiple burglaries and assaults.
Then, the very day of his release, Rivera stole a $1,500 bowl from a fancy home goods store downtown; Manhattan prosecutors wanted bail, but a judge let him out on non-monetary conditions.
Failure No. 2. And the critical one.
How — how! — can it be than even after the massive screwup that saw Rivera walk from Rikers, even after his same-day arrest, that a man with a record like his and mental health problems can be let free?
He has arrests for domestic violence and other crimes in Florida going back to 2003. Assault in Cleveland in 2017. Burglary in New Jersey in January.
In May, Rivera spent time in the Bellevue psych ward, where he assaulted a correction officer.
How many red flags can one individual possibly wave?
City government can’t or won’t get people whose mental illness poses obvious dangers off the street.
Add in the perennial dysfunction at Rikers and the pro-crime bail policies put in place by progressives in 2019, and the bodies keep piling up….
Rep MTG: Rep Sarah McBride Is A Biological Man!
Rep MTG: “Sarah McBride, as he calls himself, formerly Tim McBride, is a biological man… They’re sick of the trans ideology being shoved down a throats. It’s an attack on women and children.”
18 migrants taken into custody after arriving in Pompano Beach
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said 18 migrants were taken into custody: five from China and 13 from Ecuador.
A group of migrants was dropped off in an canal and they later walked on foot to a nearby church, Pompano Beach Fire Rescue confirmed.
A neighbor in the area told CBS News Miami the boat was going fast in the canal and it hit a parked boat. She said there were a number of women and children.
Google to Host Party for Leftists Plotting to ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’
The Washington Free Beacon reports that tech giant Google is set to host a happy hour for Priorities USA, a leading Democratic super PAC, following Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election.
The event, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday afternoon, is the latest cause for concern about the relationship between Big Tech and the Democratic Party.
According to an invitation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Priorities USA will first hold a “digital retrospective” to discuss the role of online campaigning in the 2024 election cycle and strategize ways to “resist the Republican agenda.”
Following this meeting, Google will co-host a social hour for the attendees.
Priorities USA, which has received substantial funding from billionaire donors such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, reportedly spent $75 million on digital mobilization efforts to support Harris’s campaign.
The timing of the event is particularly notable, as President-elect Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of Google, accusing the company of rigging its search engine to promote negative stories about him.
While Trump has indicated that he may not pursue breaking up Google as a monopoly, he has vowed to take action to ensure that the search engine is “more fair.”
1 suspect in custody, 1 still sought after retired CPD sergeant critically injured in North Center shooting
As of Tuesday morning, one suspect was in custody, but another suspect was still on the run. Chicago police have not put out a description of the second suspect they’re looking for.
According to police, a 74-year-old man exited his vehicle when two unknown suspects fired in his direction.
Sources told WGN’s Julian Crews the victim is a retired Chicago police sergeant.
He sustained two gunshot wounds to the left arm and a graze wound to the neck and was transported to Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
A community ward meeting with police had already been scheduled for Tuesday night. There’s little doubt now that Monday’s shooting will be the main topic of discussion.
Anyone with information can leave an anonymous tip at cpdtip.com…
Bipartisan panel urges Congress to toss out decades of trade policy they say China has been exploiting
A federal China commission released its sprawling yearly report to Congress on Tuesday, for the first time recommending lawmakers end China’s favored trade status and the provision that allows goods under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, established by Congress as a bipartisan entity to investigate and provide policy recommendations on China, is now directly advocating for Congress to end the Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) China has enjoyed since 2004.
“For decades we have engaged in whack-a-mole policy working within international organizations and guidelines to address the increasing and ambitious efforts by China to skirt laws or take advantage of trade loopholes,” commission chair Robin Cleveland said.
“In our hearing on the threats to American consumers this year we heard from administration and expert witnesses who were starkly clear: U.S. agencies do not know if the majority of packages coming from China include a baby toy painted with a toxic chemical—a counterfeit piece of clothing made with slave labor—or a pin head amount of fentanyl which is enough to kill the average citizen.”
The commission also identified an urgent need for AI advancement in the U.S., calling on Congress to establish and fund a “Manhattan Project-like program” to acquire Artificial General Intelligence (AG) capability, defined as systems that would “surpass the sharpest human minds at every task.”
The prospect of eliminating PNTR, which allowed low-cost Chinese goods to flood U.S. markets throughout the 2000s by giving the CCP the same trade benefits as U.S. allies, faces increasingly likely odds with Republican control of the House and Senate…
Ukraine fires first barrage of US-made long-range missiles into Russia, Kremlin says
Moscow says Ukrainian forces have taken advantage of President Biden’s green light and launched 6 U.S.-made ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) into Russian territory Tuesday.
Russia says it shot down five of the missiles and damaged the sixth. It added that debris landed in the area of a Russian military facility, but that no casualties or damage beyond a small fire. A U.S. official confirmed the overnight strike to Fox News.
The attack came just two days after President Biden approved Ukraine to use American long-range missiles on Russian soil, an escalation that Russian President Putin previously indicated would be an act of war.
The announcement came after Great Britain and France authorized Ukraine to launch SCALP/Storm Shadow missile strikes, according to French outlet Le Figaro.
Putin has previously said that giving Ukraine the green light on missile use would effectively mean that the U.S. and NATO are “in the war.”…
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