Supreme Court allows Trump's sentencing in New York hush money case  —  The decision means that a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday can go ahead as planned.  The president-elect had asked the high court to intervene.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President …

Donald Trump Jr.'s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn  —  A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro-Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up.  —  The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr., far-right political pundit Charlie Kirk, and Trump administration …

Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.

Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump's advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to justify …

Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area … As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies.  In a series of posts on Truth Social …

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”  —  Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules  —  A federal judge in Kentucky struck down changes made to Title IX by the Biden administration Thursday, ruling that the new regulations, which had sought to expand nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students, violate the Constitution.

'It's Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now': Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes  —  Meta employees are furious with the company's newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to internal conversations obtained …

Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84  —  She has hits with songs like “Paper Roses” and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.  —  Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a …

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data …

CNN's Scott Jennings Makes L.A. Fire Hell All About DEI  —  Scott Jennings felt the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who took a blowtorch to him after he appeared to suggest on CNN NewsNight that the southern California wildfires are worse because there are not enough white men working …

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims  —  Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.

Elizabeth May proposes California, Oregon, Washington join Canada after Trump's 51st state threat  —  The basic idea of ‘Cascadia’ is to calve off B.C., Washington and Oregon to form a super-rich hyper-progressive enviro-state  —  Amid repeated pledges by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to annex Canada …

Remembering Carter, Biden's truth deficit, and Zuckerberg's choice to raise the risk of genocide  —  Good evening from Washington, where I am still learning and relearning the lesson not to compose newsletters in the content management system.  If you're reading this, you're subscribed to the first edition of Civic Texts in the year.

Thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in Palisades firestorm, LAFD estimates  —  Los Angeles fire officials said Thursday that thousands of homes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the firestorm in Pacific Palisades, an estimate that would significantly heighten the scale of the disaster.

Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right  —  Anything to keep the realities of climate change from spreading.  —  There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, with two exceptions.

Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral  —  This was the first time Mike Pence and Donald Trump have been together publicly since the insurrection.  —  LOADING  —  Former second lady Karen Pence appeared to snub President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.