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“I threw a potato. Mum brandished a knife … would whole-family therapy save our Christmas?”
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Evangelical preacher Franklin Graham told participants at the Pentagon ‘s “Christmas Worship Service” that the “God of love” they’re familiar with “also hates.”
Graham addressed troops and Pentagon employees Thursday at the event hosted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer Hegseth.
“You know, we think about, God is a God of love,” Graham said before reciting Bible verse John 3:16, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that he whoever believeth in him shouldn’t perish, but have everlasting life.”
GRAHAM CONTINUED, “WE KNOW THAT GOD LOVES, BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD ALSO HATES? DO YOU KNOW THAT GOD ALSO IS A GOD OF WAR? AND MANY PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT, OR FORGET THAT.”
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J. D. Vance about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer:
“He rejected the conservatism and the spirituality, the values of a small-town family. He moved into a small apartment . . .”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/vance-rebrands-maga-revenge-as-a-christian-crusade.html
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Lawyer Isaac Mills at the 1925 trial Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander:
“There isn’t a father among you who would not rather see his son in his casket than to see him wedded to a mulatto woman.”
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[Alan] Dershowitz argued a different interpretation when presenting Trump with a copy of his book, entitled Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term? – due to be published next year – in a meeting in the Oval Office.
“I said ‘it’s not clear if a president can become a third term president and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,’” Dershowitz told the Journal.
He said Trump “found it interesting as an intellectual issue” and said he planned to read the book.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/trump-third-term-alan-dershowitz
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When President Donald Trump visited George Washington’s Mount Vernon in 2018, he reportedly showed little interest in the estate or in the first president. But Trump did have a critique of his predecessor. “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” he reportedly said. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/12/donald-trump-naming-american-institutions/685362/
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"We’re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon," [Governor Gavin Newsom’s] press office wrote on X, a platform that Musk owns.
The SpaceX CEO came back with a blistering response, doubling down on his refusal to call Wilson his daughter.
"I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier, who has a tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on vulnerable children.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musk-blasts-newsom-office-173114117.html
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[Katie]Britt [Republican senator from Alabama] tells [Katie] Miller [Stephen Miller’s wife] that her decision to run for Senate was a religious calling, and that when her son was 10 years old, he came to her and asked to speak privately. He then presented her with a list of reasons for why she needed to run. “I want people to know how much you love Jesus,” he told her. “I want them to know what a good mom you are.” Then he added: “Mom, I definitely think they need to know about your passion for small business.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/donald-trump-stephen-miller-wife-katie-news.html
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South Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness has become a “matter of survival” rather than a cosmetic concern for young people.
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Citing things that work against the “social reinforcement” of fertility that “fertility cults” provide, [Scott Yenor, appointed as Heritage’s new director of the B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies], said the “most pernicious of these things” are “young women who want to be known for their minds”, adding: “I’m glad that you have a good mind, but if that’s what you want to be known for, like, you’re not going to have kids.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/heritage-foundation-thinktank-scott-yenor
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has publicly distanced himself from his own conspiracy rhetoric, offering a striking walk-back of claims he made before joining the agency’s leadership. . . .
“I was paid in the past for my opinions, that’s clear, and one day I’ll be back in that space,” Bongino declared. “But that’s not what I’m paid for now. I’m paid to be your deputy director, and we base investigations on facts.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bongino-makes-jaw-dropping-admission-101852136.html
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During a marathon Tuesday Cabinet meeting filled with the president’s secretaries lauding him with praise, [Kristi] Noem thanked Trump for keeping hurricanes at bay.
“You made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane—you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that,” she said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/newsom-trolls-ice-barbie-she-215030034.html
