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“President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone over the Thanksgiving holiday last week,“ NBC News reports.
“The previously unreported phone call marks the only known time Biden and Trump have spoken since the president-elect visited the White House for a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov.
“The damage that the 2024 campaign has done — the damage that this decade has done to a Democratic brand — is almost unfathomable.”
— James Carville, quoted by USA Today.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Donald Trump had a very clear message for his team: don’t spike the football after Joe Biden had a disastrous debate showing in June. Things were going well for Trump’s attempted return to political office, Biden was wounded and seen as off his game, and the electorate was just starting to tune in.
Little incel Nick Fuentes took his 'Your body, my choice' post on the Bad App too far after he opened his door at his Illinois home and immediately maced a woman and knocked her down. Now, he was charged with battery last Wednesday at police headquarters in Berwyn, the Chicago suburb where he lives.
The Smoking Gun reports:
Marla Rose, a 57-year-old Berwyn resident, told cops that after seeing an online Fuentes post “in regards to women’s rights” that declared, “Your body my choice,” she decided to “record a video” of Fuentes’s Berwyn property.
Trump literally has an enemies list, but do go on, Jim Jordan. Jordan should never be allowed to sit for an interview anywhere without the words Ohio State, sexual abuse, and coverup hung around his neck like an anchor, but I digress.
Jordan made an appearance on Fox Business Network this Thursday, and was asked by host Larry Kudlow about the Biden administration considering preemptive pardons for the public figures that Trump has openly threatened to go after.
Rather than acknowledge the fact that one of the few things Trump does actually care about is settling grievances and going after political opponents or anyone else that has offended him, Jordan made the ridiculous assertion that Trump "isn't interested in vengeance or retribution."read more
A single mutation could make bird flu much worse, study finds SalonWhat to Know About the Bird Flu amid the Current Outbreak PEOPLEBird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Binding More Efficiently to Human Cells Scientific AmericanSingle mutation in H5N1 influenza surface protein could enable easier human infection National Institutes of HealthWhy hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?