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President Elon Musk is whining about MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos AGAIN. The richest man in the world is still big mad Scott has given away $19.25 billion since 2019. On Twitter, Musk agreed with one of his followers that Scott must be "funding the woke mind virus." Credit: Twitter The President-elect has been very busy this week!

Sessions was ostensibly talking about officials who allegedly “silenced” a report with "evidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a Chinese lab. Those alleged silencers were Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the Biden administration. Sessions accused them of “abuse of power.” Project much, Pete? Because no sooner were those three words out of Sessions’ mouth than he began talking about prosecuting them in show trials.

Good for the Costco board of directors for pushing back hard against this nonsense. From CNN: Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement: Costco is battling an anti-DEI wave with a stern rebuke to activist shareholders looking to end the warehouse retailer’s diversity ambitions. Walmart, John Deere, Tractor Supply and other companies are changing or walking away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

So much has happened this year, it's hard to believe it was just last March that NBC hired and fired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. NBC News has hired former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to serve as an on-air commentator, meaning that NBC News just hired a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, according to NBC News. McDaniel left the RNC after losing Trump’s favor, only to be welcomed into the warmer waters of television punditry.

For the second time this month, the unheralded Cleveland Cavaliers big-timed the Nuggets and left them wondering if the NBA’s most hotly debated trend is too overwhelming to ignore. Are too many 3s bad for the game of basketball? No NBA city is more insulated from the nationally relevant discussion than Denver, where the more appropriate question remains this: Are not enough 3s bad for the Nuggets? Tenth-year coach Michael Malone hasn’t wavered publicly in his stance that generating a few more attempts per game could benefit them, but that Denver’s defensive regression is the far more alarming problem. In both losses to Cleveland, the two topics were intrinsically related.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but stopped short of acknowledging that Moscow was responsible. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Putin’s apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya. An official Kremlin statement issued Saturday said that air defense systems were firing near Grozny airport as the airliner “repeatedly” attempted to land there on Wednesday.