UPI: Defense secretary nominee Hegseth clears last hurdle before confirmation vote
Hegseth’s opponents have called him unqualified and unfit for the top defense job, citing his lack of management experience and various and wide-ranging allegations of misconduct including sexual misconduct and excessive drinking. Hegseth has denied all of them.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and the Democratic leader called Hegseth one of Trump’s “very worst nominees,” and said he is “utterly unqualified” for the job. Hegseth retired from the Army as a major and is a former Fox News host.
CBC: Ford says he’ll trigger an election and wants ‘largest mandate in Ontario’s history’
- Ford confirms he’ll trigger 28-day election campaign next Wednesday
- Premier says vote needed in face of U.S. tariff threat
- “Right now we don’t have a stable federal government,” Ford says
So we want a matching unstable provincial government, I guess?
Ford hasn’t delivered on his mandate to end hallway medicine or build affordable homes. No wonder he’s trying to switch the channel.
Guardian: Proud Boys leader thanks Trump for January 6 pardon and vows revenge
In his first interview after his release from prison, Enrique Tarrio thanked Donald Trump for pardoning him for his role in planning the January 6 riot, saying he “literally gave me my life back”.
Now that he is out, the Proud Boys leader wants revenge, he told Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist host of Info Wars.
“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted,” Tarrio said.
“Success is going to be retribution,” he added. “We gotta do everything in our power to make sure that the next four years sets us up for the next 100 years.”
Daring Fireball: ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War
The raids are taking place in deep blue cities in blue states. These are places that voted heavily against Trump. People in Newark didn’t vote for this. People in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston didn’t vote for this. If this was really about following through on the popular demand of the voters who elected Trump, who see undocumented immigrants as a scourge on their communities, wouldn’t these raids focus on the states that voted for Trump — like, say, Texas and Arizona, which actually border on Mexico?
Last Updated: 24.Jan.2025 17:57 EST
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