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• @Business 

• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said South Korean memory chipmakers and Taiwanese companies that aren’t investing in the US may face up to 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased production on American soil.
• Justice Department opens criminal investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for potentially impeding federal immigration enforcement efforts.
• White House Weighs Executive Action to Cap Credit Card Rates.
• US lawmakers are preparing to advance a plan that promises to expand the market for corn-based ethanol while scaling back exemptions for oil refineries that don’t use enough of it.
• Edison International sued Los Angeles County and other public agencies for allegedly failing to ensure timely evacuation alerts that the company says could have saved most of the 19 people who died in a massive wildfire last year.
• AgomAb filed for a initial public offering in the US to help fund trials of its drugs to treat immune and inflammation diseases.
• Venezuela has signed its first contract to export liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Friday.
• America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens and early 20s could leave campuses empty. 
• SpyGlass Pharma filed for an initial public offering to help fund late-stage trials of its intraocular lens and drug delivery solutions to treat patients with chronic eye conditions such as glaucoma. 
• Energy infrastructure services firm Solv Energy filed for an initial public offering, becoming one of the latest companies to capitalize on data centers’ increasing power needs. 
• PJM Interconnection's board released a plan on Friday that includes an “immediate initiation” of plans to secure more power supplies after an auction last year failed to guarantee enough to meet demand requests.     

• @Zerohedge 

• How Expanded Obamacare Made Premiums Spiral, Americans Dependent. 
• *MINNESOTA JUDGE IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION AGENTS. *MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTERS WIN RULING CURBING ICE USE OF FORCE. 
• Time To DOGE Baltimore: Top City Leaders Admit They Can't Track Tax Dollars Flowing To Nonprofits.
• My sense is that, whatever their domestic politics, most Americans will not take kindly to Canada taking its place on the Chinese side of a new world order. It was craven absolutely un-Canadian and the kind of cringe-worthy play acting that we hated in PM Carney's predecessor. Wise words from Canada's former ambassador to China.
• "They've Totally Lost Control"; Trump Threatens 'Agitators' As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota.
• "Production coupon OAS has returned to levels seen during Fed MBS purchases despite key differences between QE and GSE buying."- GS. Claim it's not QE all you want. For the market it is. 
• I used @grok to file a lawsuit against San Luis Opibso for not providing voter data. 3 days after the lawsuit they gave me the records and appoligized lol. Grok changed the game. (pic)
• Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Denies DOJ Bid To Access California Voter Registration Rolls.
• Trump 'Convinced' Himself Not To Attack Iran, After Tehran Allegedly Canceled 800 Executions. 
• Brutal Start To The Year For Quants.
• Their "Democracy" Is Nothing More Than A Gigantic Engine Of Grift.
• Stocks Dip; Gold, Oil, & Crypto Rip As Trump Triggers Chaotic Week.

• @CNBC  

• Republicans want to end the ‘marriage penalty’ for this childcare tax credit.
• Education Department to delay collections on defaulted student loans.
• Big earnings reports and worries around the interest rate outlook could sway markets next week.
  

• @TheSCIF

• Caught in the act committing ELECTION FRAUD. The look on her face says it all, she knows she's cooked! This is the lower hanging fruit of the ELECTION FRAUD CARTEL. Imagine how many other people are doing this in other counties and in other states? Add fake ballots, fake IDs, rigged software, and voting machines manipulated over the internet, and all the people that work in the actual counting rooms being bought off. This entire operation and all the same methods of election fraud are happening not just in the U.S. but in 100+ other countries worldwide. (video)

• @GenFlynn

• SWAMP CREATURE OF THE WEEK ALERT! Career DOJ prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine - a familiar name in the most draconian MAGA political persecution cases - is BACK. SPOILER ALERT! BALLANTINE ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO FRAME PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR J6! …and MAGA is asking the question: WHY is this dirty deep stater still working at the DOJ? WTH is going on inside of the DOJ!? Are there any real reforms or not? (video)
• Everyone needs to pay attention. (video)  

• @RenzTom

• The primaries are everything. If we keep running RINOs, we'll continue getting leftist Democratic garbage passed. GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson was allegedly caught smurfing. Lindsey Graham is allegedly getting kickbacks from the Ukraine funding he constantly demands. This is just plain illegal, but no one cares. Until we clean our own house, we can't fix the country. Get active now and clean up the GOP.

• @elonmusk 

• Americans overwhelmingly support Voter ID Laws. Tell Congress to get it done. GET IT DONE TO SAVE AMERICA.
• 26 year fraud scam in Minnesota. (video) 

• @bennyjohnson

• There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in California. I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot. No homes. No mailboxes. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here. Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom. This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — NOW. (video)
• Remember the Santa Ynez Reservoir that just happened to be empty during the raging Palisades fire? Yes, the same one Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass claimed was full. A year later, it’s STILL empty. Not a single drop. They want this to happen again. Security’s been posted to keep the public from seeing the truth. Good thing we brought a drone. WATCH: (video)

• @TheMagaKing2

• The real insurrection isn’t happening in the streets of Minnesota, it’s happening in the halls of Congress, where Republican politicians are refusing to carry out the will of the people who elected them.

• @jasonjamesbnn

• I don't think Canadians understand how destructive this "new world order" with China is to their national sovereignty. The US reclaiming the Panama Canal was about sealing off that critical passage from China and Russia. The US removing Maduro from Venezuela was about cutting off China and Russia from vital resources. The US and Israel support for the citizen uprising in Iran is about cutting off China and Russia from vital resources and sealing off the Suez Canal. The US "purchase" of Greenland is about sealing off Arctic passages from China and Russia. The US is preparing for war—not necessarily with Russia, but a cold war with China turning hot. China is preparing to mobilize against Taiwan and then potentially Japan, The Philippines, etc. If they move to take Taiwan—which they have explicitly stated they plan to do before 2030—that will be the spark that sends the world back into global conflict.

• @WhiteCoatWaste

• SHOCKING: Wuhan-style bat lab is being built in Colorado. “The exact same people who were behind the gain-of-function disaster in Wuhan … are setting up a bat lab here on US soil with funding from Dr. Fauci.” White Coat Waste first exposed this “disaster right out of Dr. Fauci’s cookbook” in 2023. In 2024, Jay Bhattacharya called the project a “mistake” and said it had “no upside.” Then in 2025, as NIH Director, Bhattacharya handed out $2.1M more in NIH funds to complete the lab. Now, White Coat Waste’s Justin Goodman is sounding the alarm: Experimenters plan to “import bats from Asia and do coronavirus, Ebola, Nipah, and other experiments on those bats, breed them here, and ship them around the country.” “That’s where we got the name Wuhan West.” Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Paul Gosar just sent an urgent letter to Bhattacharya, demanding that he shut this project down “IMMEDIATELY.” (video)

• @EricLDaugh

• HOLY SMOKES. The Trump admin is creating a database of ALL leftist insurrectionists attacking ICE and will be broadcasting their name and face. They’re also gonna contact employers. TOM HOMAN: “We’re gonna MAKE ‘EM FAMOUS!” “We're going to let their employers and their neighborhoods and their schools know who these people are. I bet you a lot of their employers don’t know what they are doing!” I LOVE THIS IDEA! (video)

• @robbystarbuck

• Brutal honesty: This ICE situation in Minnesota may be a defining moment for how the next 10 years look. Any weakness means fueling the worst domestic extremists. Here’s what should be done: • Invoke the insurrection act • Military arrests rioters and politicians • ICE triples presence and deports maximum # of illegals while DHS denaturalizes anyone who committed immigration fraud and deports them too • Not one apology from the right for anything. This must be put down so thoroughly that the far left extremists can’t effectively recruit people in other left wing cities to replicate the chaos and criminal behavior. Draw a clear line. Now. One of two things is going to be normalized: 1. Rioting and criminality at the behest of the Democrats who run blue states/cities. Or 2. Law & order, compliance with ICE and clear lines we have in our country about crime.

• @ArthurMacwaters

• Let me get this straight: - NED funnels $300,000,000 of taxpayer dollars through NGOs. - it **literally** funds the censorship of American citizens and the entire "advertiser pressure" complex. - had payments frozen by DOGE. - and yet every single democrat + 81 republicans voted to fund it more than ever??! We're feeding the hand that bites us. In this case, our taxes are literally being used to fund our own censorship and subjugation. (graph)

• @StephenM

• They load illegal voters onto the rolls. Harvest their votes. And then they appoint judges who they know will cover up their crimes.

• @shipwreckshow

• The new deputy director of the fbi is the Biden era Fbi leader out of Houston that put that Catholic School Teacher on a terrorist watch list for j6. You can't make this up. (video)

• @KobeissiLetter

• BREAKING: President Trump announces his new "Board of Peace" which includes: 1. Marco Rubio: US Secretary of State. 2. Jared Kushner: Former Advisor to Trump. 3. Steve Witkoff: US Special Envoy. 4. Tony Blair: Former Prime Minister of the UK. 5. Marc Rowan: CEO of Apollo. 6. Ajay Banga: World Bank President. 7. Robert Gabriel: US National Security Advisor.

OpenVAERS:  

• VAERS US COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. 1,031,062 Reports(+4,118 from prior report) Through December 5th, 2025.

SKirsch.com:

• Using the MGH numbers with our own VAERS queries, we have 247 cases per million doses from the MGH study divided by 5.97 cases per million doses from VAERS. 247/5.97 = 41. This suggests that the VAERS under-reporting factor (URF) is 41X.