The cease fire between Israel and Hamas is already beginning to fall apart.
Elon Musk is being considered for a deal with TikTok. I’m not sure this is going to happen.
And Mr. Baseball has passed away.
RIP, Bob
Bob Uecker, who turned what was, by his own admission, a mediocre baseball career into a 54-year broadcasting gig with the Milwaukee Brewers that earned him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame and featured roles in commercials, a 1980s television series and in the popular “Major League” film trilogy, died Thursday. He was 90.
It Ain’t Gonna Happen
Here are the details of the cease fir between Israel and Hamas:
- Begins Sunday.
- It will last six weeks.
- There will be a gradual withdrawal from Gaza by the Israeli forces.
- Hamas frees 33 hostages.
- Israel releases 30 Palestinian prisoners for each civilian hostage.
- Israel releases 50 Palestinian prisoners for each Israeli female soldier Hamas releases.
- Israel will also allow wounded Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, and open the Rafah crossing with Egypt seven days after the start of the implementation of the first phase.
- This may exclude the Netzarim Corridor, the militarised belt bisecting the Strip and controlling movement along it – the withdrawal from Netzarim is expected instead to take place in stages.
- This is only the first phase. I won’t even bring up the second phase because I don’t think this deal is going through.
This is a shitty deal. It’s already going south.
- Israel was suppose to vote on the deal today, but there was some sort of “emergency” and the vote won’t happen today.
- The “emergency” might be that an Israeli female hostage may have been killed today.
- Netanyahu’s office accused Hamas, without elaborating, of trying to go back on part of the agreement in an attempt “to extort last minute concessions.”
- Hamas said she was killed during an Israeli bombing. Kind of doubt that’s true.
- Israel continues to bomb Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal
That Would Be Great
According to the New York Post:
Chinese officials are mulling a potential option that involves the sale of TikTok’s US operations to billionaire Elon Musk if the company fails to fend off a potential ban, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Chinese officials prefer that TikTok remain under the control of parent Bytedance, the report said, adding that the company is contesting the ban with an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
Under one scenario, Musk’s social media platform X would take control of TikTok US and run the business together, the report said, adding that the Chinese officials have yet to reach any firm consensus about how to proceed and their deliberations are still preliminary.
It won’t happen.
Just Another Executive Order
According to Fox News:
The Biden administration lifted Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday, reversing a move made by the Trump administration in 2021.
The decision, which is reportedly part of a Catholic Church-sponsored deal to free political prisoners in Cuba, was first reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday.
In a certification that Biden issued later Tuesday afternoon, he claimed that the Cuban government “has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period,” as well as “provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.”
“The United States maintains as the core objective of our policy the need for more freedom and democracy, improved respect for human rights, and increased free enterprise in Cuba.,” a national security memo issued by the White House read. “Achieving these goals will require practical engagement with Cuba and the Cuban people beyond what is outlined in NSPM-5 [National Security Presidential Memorandum 5], and that takes into account recent developments in Cuba and the changing regional and global context.”
“Accordingly, I hereby revoke NSPM-5.”
Cuba was given the designation in January 2021, shortly before Biden took office. At the time, the U.S. Embassy of Cuba accused the country of “repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.”
“The Trump Administration has been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home, and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere,” the statement read. “With this action, we will once again hold Cuba’s government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S. justice.”
The statement referenced Raul Castro, the then-first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and the brother of notorious dictator Fidel Castro. According to the State Department, Cuba was first named a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982, and the designation was rescinded in 2015.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-for-lifting-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-designation-on-cuba
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-removes-cubas-state-sponsor-terrorism-designation-reversing-trump-administration-move
Just Keeps Getting Better in Cali
Don’t Trust Him
According to Fox News:
Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have “gone too far.”
“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, joined Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning for an exclusive interview to discuss the changes.
“This is a great opportunity for us to reset the balance in favor of free expression. As Mark says in that video, what we’re doing is we’re getting back to our roots and free expression,” Kaplan told “Fox & Friends.”
Meta’s third-party fact-checking program was put in place after the 2016 election and had been used to “manage content” and misinformation on its platforms, largely due to “political pressure,” executives said, but admitted the system has “gone too far.”
Zuckerberg has something to say about it on Joe Rogan’s show:
I’m doubting this happened, but it just shows cowardice on his part. I don’t trust him.
Really?
According to the New York Post:
Feminist fashionistas are roaring for more untamed manes — no matter where they grow.
An online review for a bikini has single-strandedly sparked a body hair revolution. Social media was set ablaze after users caught wind of an NSFW review that included a photo of a woman with “a full bush in a bikini,” a phrase that has become the rallying cry for body hair proponents.
“I got radicalized by that Etsy review for real,” a content creator named Sujindah said in a now-viral TikTok clip. “Like, yeah, that’s how it should be.”
They are just one of the many users online who are declaring that the bush is best and that “fuzzy is beautiful.”
“Full bush in a bikini! The boots with the fur! An angel with wings!” rejoiced one person on TikTok who called the body hair a “great accessory.”
“It’s the most liberating feeling in the world. Changed my WHOLE LIFE,” another user wrote.
The article concludes:
While some people online claimed that pubic hair is a sensory nightmare, unhygienic or that they’re afraid what other people might think, one woman, who goes by Jessie, said her body hair — which provides health benefits such as protection from bacteria and friction — has “never been an issue” for any of her partners.
“It’s like my favorite thing about myself,” she said in a video.
I have a question: Why is this a story?
Was it a story when women trimmed their undercarriage? Was it a story when women got Brazilians? Was it a story when women completely cleared the field?
Why is this a story now? Why are these women talking about it? Is it advertising for Only Fans?
I don’t know and I don’t care.