California and three other states sued the Trump administration Wednesday over its plans to slash $600 million from programs designed to prevent and track the spread of HIV, including in the LGBTQ+ community arguing the move is based on “political animus and disagreements about unrelated topics such as federal immigration enforcement, political protest, and clean energy.”.
Secretary Noem says body cameras are being deployed to field officers in Minneapolis
Democratic lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are looking to review the more than 6 million documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. So far, the Justice Department has only released about half of those documents. CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman has more.
The Miami New Times reports Miami venue moguls gave MAGA influencer Clavicular [Braden Peters] a dressing down after he and far-right “manosphere” influencers Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, Myron Gaines, and Sneako celebrated and sang Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” at a Miami Beach club.“They’re not really going for subtlety here,” said Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller while reviewing the widely spread video of the event. “You can see, I think that’s Gaines . just doing the full Nazi salute over and over again while they’re videoing themselves [in a van]. Nick Fuentes is in the back looking a little uncomfortable and chuckling.”Later the group took a table at a club, Vendôme, where they prodded the DJ to play more Kanye so they could do more Nazi salutes, sing and party. After the video went live, Vendôme released a statement calling the video content and imagery “deeply offensive and unacceptable” and claiming “Vendôme and our hospitality group do not condone anti-Semitism, hate speech, or prejudice of any kind.”“In the days following the incident, the 20-year-old ‘looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular, who frequently uses the N-word and wears a hat with the N-word written on it, said that he would not apologize for what he did,” reports the Times. “He maintained that ‘it’s just a song.’ A week ago, he streamed himself in his Sprinter van dancing to ‘Heil Hitler.’”“You can ban me from clubs, you can s talk me on Instagram, but I’m not sorry about any of it,” the Times reports Clavicular saying on a livestream. “Not at all. Not even a little bit. F–the clubs. I would rather have free speech and the ability to make jokes and do content a thousand times over rather than being a little b– who you know has to censor himself and do all that sh– because if that’s what’s required to go into these dogs hit Miami clubs, keep me the f– out.”“However, it appears the ongoing bans hit a breaking point for the 20-year-old influencer,” the Times reported. “As he continued having difficulty partying in Miami, Clavicular sat down with Grutman and Papi Steak owner David Einhorn earlier this week.”On his Kick livestream on Tuesday, the Times reports Clavicular says he’s no longer doing politics.“I just said, ‘Look, I’m not trying to do politics anymore, and I would never want to be associated with politics,” said Clavicular, recounting his conversation with Grutman. “. I was like, ‘ Yeah, bro, of course. I’m here to mog. I’m here to lookmaxx. I’m not political whatsoever.’”He later posted a photo of himself sitting at a table with the club owners on Instagram with the caption: “No more politics, just mogging #kingsofmiami @davidgrutman @davideinhorn.” There’s no telling whether the tension is gone, however, report the Times. “He has yet to publicly apologize, only claiming that he is not political. Meanwhile, he continues to say the N-word,” the Times said. Read the Miami New Times report at this link.
Following Trump’s trip to Davos, many European leaders appeared to flip out over the president’s designs on Greenland.
The massive number of pardons and clemencies President Donald Trump has issued during his second term has cost the federal government at least $1. 5 billion in penalty payments, according to one expert. Liz Oyer, a former pardon attorney at the Department of Justice, estimated in a new Substack essay on Tuesday that the more than 1, 600 pardons and clemencies Trump has granted have caused the government to forfeit more than $1. 56 billion in fines, restitution, and forfeitures. That included the more than 1, 500 pardons he issued to people for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and the dozens of people involved in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. For comparison, Oyer noted that the 80 people former President Joe Biden pardoned or commuted during his term cost the government less than $1 million in total penalty payments. “I also note that, most of the convictions of Biden’s pardon recipients were quite dated compared to the convictions pardoned by Trump,” she wrote. “It is therefore much more likely that their financial obligations had been paid prior to the pardon and that the sums will not be returned.”Read Oyer’s entire analysis by clicking here.
Denmark deploys additional troops to Greenland after President Donald Trump claims the island is not secure from Russia or China.
California governor hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell vowed to strip Immigration Customs Enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses in a candidates forum — even though the state grants licenses to illegal immigrants.
The California governor compared Leavitt’s camel blazer to Obama’s infamous tan suit, asking ‘Who wore it better’ in a snarky post.
Fiery protests in Iran are stretching into a third week, with President Trump threatening U. S. military action if Iran’s leaders continue their bloody crackdown on demonstrators. Holly Williams reports.
