Panama Canal Officials Respond to Trump’s Threats to Retake It On CNN: ‘We Get To Keep Everything’

Panama Canal Officials Respond to Trump’s Threats to Retake It On CNN: ‘We Get To Keep Everything’

Officials in charge of managing the Panama Canal rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to retake control of the vital waterway.

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad? - jack-e-smith.bsky.social

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Burning Teslas, fried battery storage systems in Los Angeles add to toxic mix hindering wildfire cleanup
• Kevin O'Leary Reveals That He's Offering Chinese Company $20 Billion in Cash for TikTok
• With Trump returning to the White House, Brazil displays a judicial path not taken by the US
• Israeli security cabinet approves ceasefire and hostage deal
• Indians lured to Russia are dying on the front lines in Ukraine

Four years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right. That’s what Joe Biden did.

 

At a time when our economy was reeling, he drove what would become the world’s strongest recovery – with 17 million new jobs, historic wage gains, and lower health care costs. He passed landmark legislation to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and address the threat of climate change. 

 

I’m grateful to Joe for his leadership, his friendship, and his lifetime of service to this country we love. - Barack Obama

Sounds As Though Greenland Plans To Fight Trump
President-elect Trump’s talk of taking over or acquiring Greenland is highlighting bipartisan talks about the need to increase security around the Arctic island and boost defenses in the region. 

They are literally trying to confirm someone with NAZI TATTOOS as the Secretary of Defense for Trump’s cabinet.  Are people even sane? - Kyla Lacey

Republican Shenanigans

• Peter Doocy Breaks Down White House 'Stagecraft' Designed to 'Minimize' Biden's Mistakes: 'They Would Just Blast Music'
• 'CORRUPTION!' Trump Signals Criminal Investigation With Demand FBI 'Preserve and Retain All Records' of Closed DEI Office
• House Republican Tells Fox News Ousted Intel Chair Is So Angry He's Not Going to Vote For 'Another F*cking Thing'
• 'Can We Not?' Kaitlan Collins Accuses Scott Jennings of Whitewashing Trump's Boycott of Biden Inauguration
• Trump wants one of the agents who covered him after he was shot to lead the Secret Service
• Rumors Swirl About Who Bailed Rudy Giuliani Out at the 11th Hour
• Melania Trump takes a swipe at Obamas over ‘challenging’ transition as Michelle skips inauguration
• Biden Insider Punctures Breezy CNN Morning Crew Chat On Trump ‘Ambassador’ Mel Gibson: ‘He’s Used The N-Word’
• South Dakota tribe lifts Noem banishment from lands

We have 8,400 firefighters working the lines; 16,000 personnel; 2,500 National Guard trying to address the issue of looting; 750 CHP as we speak; we have the EPA starting to do phase 1 of the debris removal... All of that [rightwing disinformation] is a deep distraction. - Gov. Gavin Newsom

You've been carefully trained to overreact to Biden and underreeact to Trump. That kind of thing doesn't happen on accident. - Yurock

Vivek Ramaswamy To Run For Governor of Ohio. LOL.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of President-elect Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), plans to run for governor of Ohio, two sources confirmed to The Hill on Friday.

The Ohio governor’s mansion will be up for grabs in 2026, as sitting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is term-limited.  

Vivek Ramaswamy is as FAKE as the FAKE Dementia drug that he made his billions of US dollars from.  Ohio Voters will not elect him as Governor of Ohio.   The voters in Ohio are very conservative and only vote for white men. - D Patriot

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden sets record by commuting sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges
• Biden affirms Equal Rights Amendment is part of Constitution
• Fetterman was elected to challenge convention. Now, he’s challenging his fellow Democrats
• Democrats look to inject fresh energy into the LGBTQ+ movement

Putin said to me he wanted to see the Finlandization of Europe. I said I'll tell you what you're going to get, the NATO-ization of Finland. - Joe Biden

Aw, It's Too Cold For Trump On Inauguration Day
The cold weather has thrown President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration into chaos, as it could be moved inside Monday due to temperatures forecast to be below-freezing, according to a report.

I'm writing a piece on Trumpite intellectuals making the "spiritual case" for the conquest of Greenland, that it will spur a rebirth of the "pioneering frontier spirit" in America lost in the 1890s. And seeing now they're moving Inaugural inside because it's too cold. So yeah, not so sure abt this. - Josh Marshall

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Business/Tech News

• Trump tasks congressman with writing executive order he could issue to halt offshore wind
• Elon Musk Says SpaceX Starship Rocket Explosion Was Entertaining
• Jury finds CNN defamed Navy veteran with segment on Afghan refugees
• Jared Kushner gets the green light on his $1.4 billion luxury hotel project in Albania
• Apple Suspends AI News Alerts After False BBC Story Claimed Luigi Mangione ‘Shot Himself’
• CNN’s Jim Acosta Rebukes Trump in Defense of Free Press: ‘Not the Enemy of the People — We Are Defenders of the People’

While I agree w/Jim Acosta, the truth is the free press has let the American people down. If the free press had done their job there's no f--king way in hell Trump would be president and America would be days away from becoming a facsimile of 1934 Germany. - Bill Madden

The Demoting Of Decent Journalists Has Begun At CNN

CNN is considering a substantial demotion for one of its highest-rating stars—who also happens to be a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump.

CNN chief Mark Thompson called Jim Acosta on Wednesday to propose that his show, CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, be moved from its 10 a.m. ET time slot to midnight, according to the newsletter Status News.

Live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up. - Jeff Tiedrich

Just a thought: Instead of TikTok, how about we ban assault weapons first? - Andrea Junker

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Odd News

• Polar vortex to hit U.S. with life-threatening cold next week: 'No escaping this'
• Parade of planets to feature celestial bodies in alignment
• A Diet Discovery Reveals That Our Ancestors Were Once Vegetarian
• A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
• Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.

Time To Deflate Photo

"Migrant Mother" is a defining photo from the Great Depression, taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936. It portrays Florence Owens Thompson and her kids, capturing the harsh realities faced by migrant workers. Snapped in Nipomo, California, its publication spurred relief efforts. Today, it's a timeless emblem of struggle and endurance. 

Peace.