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Well, it was bound to happen. Caitlin Clark is Time Magazine's Athlete of the Year. I was unaware that Time Magazine was still around; I'm usually only reminded in December because they have a Person of the Year Award. That hasn't been announced yet, although the shortlist includes Donald Trump,...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was trolled on social media for covering his ears like a toddler throwing a tantrum after being criticized for mismanaging the U.S. Postal Service. The cringeworthy incident occurred Tuesday while Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia torched DeJoy during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said she was “physically accosted” on Capitol grounds. “I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him,” Mace said. “All the violence and threats keep proving our point. Women deserve to be safe. Your threats will not stop my fight for women!” she added. I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him. All the violence and threats keep proving our point. Women deserve to be safe. Your threats will not stop my fight for women!#HoldTheLine — Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) December 11, 2024 From the New York Post: Capitol Police said James McIntyre, 33, was arrested inside the Rayburn House Office Building in connection with the incident. McIntyre, who is from Illinois, is facing a charge for assaulting a government official. “Just before 6:00 p.m., the Member of Congress’ office reported an incident in the Rayburn House Office Building,” Capitol Police said in a statement. “House Division officers, and agents with the Threat Assessment Section, tracked down the suspect.” “After an investigative interview, officers arrested the suspect.” Capitol Police noted that the Rayburn building was open to the public at the time of the incident and that McIntyre “went through security screening prior to entering the Congressional buildings.” “I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man. One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine. The Capitol police arrested the guy,” Mace said. “Your tr*ns violence and threats on my life will only make me double down. FAFO,” she added. I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man. One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine. The Capitol police arrested the guy. Your tr*ns violence and threats on my life will only make me double down. FAFO. #HoldTheLine — Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) December 11, 2024 Per Fox News: Mace has been vocal about her opposition to transgender individuals using bathrooms not assigned to their biological gender. She led the charge against allowing Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, to use the women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill. McBride is a biological man who identifies and presents as a woman. Mace said last month she was receiving death threats, adding that she was being “unfairly targeted.” Mace also drafted resolution H.R. 1579, which would prohibit members, officers and employees of the House from using facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.

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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has ordered staff to work overtime so they can spend cash as quickly as possible before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, which a Republican senator called “extremely concerning.” “I’d like to have really almost all of the money obligated by the time we leave,” Raimondo told POLITICO, in reference to the $53 billion microchip program, which Congress passed as a part of the CHIPS Act. Raimondo set a “clear deadline” and asked her staff to work weekends to accomplish it, she said. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, criticized Raimondo in a Wednesday letter. “Shoveling out heaps of taxpayer dollars as fast as possible, with little to no oversight, is part of the reason the United States government is nearly $36 trillion in debt today,” she wrote, saying $280 billion in COVID money may have gone to fraudsters under similar spend-it-as-fast-as-you-can circumstances. Ernst said the department had spent as much CHIPS money in the last month as it had since the beginning of the program, and asked Raimondo to “immediately suspend the shopping spree and discontinue awarding new grants until a new secretary is confirmed.” She asked if the department is cutting corners by doing away with typical contracting rules to get money out the door, and inquired about how it is communicating with the Trump transition team about the work. Raimondo’s goal would require doing multi-billion dollar deals with Intel, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, according to POLITICO. So far, only two deals have been done, and there have been delays and culture clashes. The deals have been bogged down in part due to Democrats pushing diversity and union policies. An April column in the Hill said it is not normally hard to convince companies to take “multi-billion dollar subsidies,” but blame lies in large part with  “frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act… The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation.” It contains “requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as ‘justice-involved individuals,’ more commonly known as ex-cons.” Republicans have fought to remove provisions that aren’t focused on helping the U.S. build chips as efficiently as possible so the country is not dependent on imports for a key resource. Raimondo isn’t the only Biden administration official attempting to tie Trump’s hands. On his way out the door, recently departed Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley signed a deal with his agency’s union giving employees telework through 2029, The Daily Wire reported. Raimondo has fashioned herself the “Sec of Tech” and said that Commerce’s work will be key on issues like artificial intelligence. But she has also raised eyebrows as a Cabinet secretary more willing than most to play politics — sometimes, seemingly, at the expense of a focus on her job. After Trump narrowly avoided assassination, she said, “Let’s extinguish him for good.” When the Department of Labor revised its job creation estimates and acknowledged that the numbers were 800,000 jobs worse than they had previously stated, Raimondo said “I don’t believe it because I have never heard Donald Trump saying anything truthful.” When her interviewer pointed out that they were official statistics from the Biden administration, the Commerce Secretary said “I don’t, I don’t, I’m not familiar with that.” Raimondo was a surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris during the latter’s presidential campaign. As the International Longshoreman’s Union threatened to shut down the U.S. economy if their demands for a massive pay raise were not met — a massive commercial crisis — Raimondo said she had “not been very focused on that,” and instead launched into a critique of Trump.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who has broken with the Left’s orthodoxy numerous times, did it again, ripping into leftists on social media who celebrated the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thompson was shot to death on December 4 outside an entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan. A suspect has been arrested for his murder, and many leftists cheered the killing. “He’s the a**hole that’s going to die in prison,” Fetterman stated. “Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. That’s what social media is about. And I don’t know why the media wants to turn that into a story, just with these trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously like that. I don’t know why that’s news. Remember, he has two children that are going to grow up without their father… It’s vile. And if you’ve gunned someone down that you don’t happen to agree with their views or the business that they’re in, hey, you know, I’m next, they’re next, he’s next, she’s next.” .@JohnFetterman on Luigi Mangione and the online reaction: “He’s the asshole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. That’s what social media is about this. And I don’t know why the media wants to turn that into a… — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 10, 2024 Other examples of Fetterman breaking with the Left: Last May, Fetterman ripped off his Harvard University collar during a commencement speech at Yeshiva University in New York. Fetterman, an alumnus of Harvard and a vocal supporter of Israel since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, said, “I have been profoundly disappointed in the way — Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community after October 7. And for me personally, I do not fundamentally believe that it is right for me to wear this today.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Prior to that, in April, Fetterman expressed his support for law enforcement, saying to the New York Post, “Squatters have no rights. How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law? … I am not woke. … It’s wild that if you go away on a long trip, for 30 days, and someone breaks into your home and suddenly they have rights. This is crazy. Like if somebody stole your car, and then they held it for 30 days, then somehow you now have some rights?” There have been other times when Fetterman has aligned himself with the Left’s movements; only days before the November election, he said that those who do not believe in supporting the Democrats’ radical transgender agenda are “a**hole[s].” Speaking with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” about political ads from the Trump campaign about the issue, he said, “If your political capital comes from picking on trans kids or gay kids or anything like that, that’s — you’re just bankrupt throughout all of this. … My version of being a being a man is, it’s like, hey, I like ribeyes, I like Motorhead, and I’m never going to pick on trans kids and gay kids or things. And it’s just sad that the other side chooses to kind of pick on members of those communities. And, again, it’s just — it’s just a warped version of — it doesn’t make you tough. It doesn’t make you a man to pick on trans or gay kids. … It just makes you an a**hole.” Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article. RELATED: Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassin Fights Extradition To New York