This BOMBSHELL was reported in Politico a little while ago and will filter to the right wing sites pretty soon, where it will be an earth-shattering scandal, that Kamala Harris’s younger sister Maya West pushed for her husband Tony to be considered by the Biden Administration for the role of Attorney General of The United States.

Pay close attention to the part where the right wing sites either only mention it in passing or don’t mention at all that Tony West was nominated by President Obama and then confirmed by the Senate 98 to 1 as US Associate Attorney General in 2012, a role he served in for two years.

Just a reminder that 2020 is over quite yet:  the former head of Israel’s space security agency has said in a newspaper interview that the United States and Israel have been in contact with a “Galactic Federation” for years, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Eighty-seven year old Haim Eshed told the Yediot Aharonot newspaper that the two nations have known about the stellar alliance for years, but has hid the contact because “humanity is not ready” for the revelation yet.

Eshed claims that lame duck US president Donald Trump is aware of the Galactic Federation and was going to make its existence public, but the Federation persuaded him to keep the secret under wraps because it feared mass hysteria.

Judge Sullivan on #Flynn's case just granted a lineup of requests to file friend-of-the-court briefs in the wake of Trump granting a pardon to the former national security adviser. pic.twitter.com/16BipvH8ZZ

— Megan Mineiro (@meganmineiro) December 7, 2020

Reported by Brad Heath of Reuters.

Rashida Jones, a senior vice president of NBC News and MSNBC, will become president of the cable news network on February 1, 2021, upon the retirement of long-time network president Phil Griffin, NBC News reports.

Jones is currently responsible for the news side of MSNBC, overseeing daytime and weekend programming as well as breaking news coverage.  She’ll take over responsibility for the entire network, which has seen a recent surge in viewership which has seen it frequently topping rival Fox News in ratings in recent weeks.

“Shortly after this election, I told Cesar and [NBCUniversal CEO] Jeff Shell that the time felt right to hang up my cleats,” Griffin wrote. “They were both so gracious and supportive.  We’ve been blessed with spectacular talent at every level.  I admire the commitment, the camaraderie, the scrappiness, the pure love everyone has for this place. MSNBC is about humanity. The creativity, the compassion, the fact you all care so much. And that is what I will miss the most.”

Law enforcement officers from the state of Florida this morning raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former Florida state data scientist who blew the whistle on a scheme by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to skew coronavirus data to support reopening businesses around the state.

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At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.

They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.

They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids.. pic.twitter.com/DE2QfOmtPU

— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020

CBS News: “Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump’s decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October, has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s schedule starting in January, according to sources familiar with the situation.”

“Phillips is chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University and works as an attending physician on a contract basis for Walter Reed, which is located in Bethesda, Maryland. On October 4, after the president rode in his motorcade around the hospital, Phillips tweeted, ‘Every single person…in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.’ The tweet has since been deleted. Walter Reed officials deny they made the decision to remove him, telling CBS News the hospital ‘provides requirements for contract positions. Schedules are determined by the contractor. There was no decision made by anyone at WRNMMC to remove Dr. Phillips from the schedule.'”

In late summer, Pfizer gave the Trump Administration an opportunity to purchase and prioritize the distribution of a promising vaccine, but now-lame duck president Donald Trump turned down the offer, a move that will delay the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine in the United States by months, the New York Times reports.

While Trump was boasting that vaccines might be distributed by Election Day in a transparent ploy to win a second term, he and his administration had made the decision to decline Pfizer’s offer.  The drug maker took orders from other countries in the meantime, putting them ahead of the fulfillment list.

Trump is now scrambling to essentially confiscate any doses of the vaccine Pfizer may manufacturer in the United States by using an executive order that would mandate any US manufacturer fill American needs before they ship vaccines overseas.  Such an executive order would likely be struck down in court, experts believe.

Jenna Ellis, the claimed Constitutional lawyer who coined the moniker “Elite Special Force Team” for the lawyers working to disenfranchise voters in a delusional effort to ensconce Donald Trump in the White House, may have violated ethical standards and endangered the tax status of the religious liberty organization that employs her, the Washington Post reports.

Ellis is listed as “special counsel” on the website of the conservative Thomas More Society.  Until recently, she was also listed as member of the “Leadership and Advisory Board” for the Amistad Project, a group affiliated with the Thomas More Society but which is reportedly acting independently in bringing lawsuits on behalf of the failed Trump campaign.  Ellis claims the Project used her name without her permission.

If #SCOTUS grants cert in the PA election case, I have told the petitioners I will stand ready to present the oral argument.

Full statement below… pic.twitter.com/EnHxjqGR5K

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 7, 2020

The Office of Special Counsel has determined that White House economic advisor Peter Navarro knowingly violated the Hatch Act and should face discipline, CBS News reports.

Navarro made repeated disparaging and politically motivated comments about then-candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in an attempt to promote the ultimately-failed reelection campaign of Donald Trump.  The make the case more egregious, Navarro continued to go on new networks and on Twitter to make similar comments after he learned of the OSC investigation.

“Dr. Navarro’s violations of the Hatch Act were knowing and willful,” OSC wrote. “The White House Counsel’s Office attorney explained that all White House employees receive mandatory ethics training, which includes training on the Hatch Act. And five of the interviews discussed above occurred after OSC sent its July 21, 2020 letter to Dr. Navarro, putting him on notice of the allegations OSC was investigating. Yet Dr. Navarro continued to violate the Hatch Act by attacking presidential candidate Joe Biden during official interviews despite knowing that OSC was investigating him for engaging in that very activity.”

Fox News: “Republican Rep. Ken Buck on Monday urged Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s business dealings and a laptop purportedly belonging to him in order to ensure an investigation ‘free from political interference.’ In a letter sent to Barr, obtained by Fox News, Buck, R-Colo., urged him to ‘appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Mr. Hunter Biden’s conduct and the contents of his laptop that is currently in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s possession.'”

“‘This investigation is critical to defending the integrity of our republic and ensuring a potential Biden Administration will not be the subject of undue foreign interference,’ Buck wrote. ‘Americans have the right to know whether Mr. Biden’s reported ties to foreign governments will make him the subject of blackmail attempts or other nefarious efforts to undermine U.S. national security or otherwise improperly influence American foreign policy.’ Buck noted that the attorney general has the ability to appoint a special counsel to ‘investigate and prosecute any matter that would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances.’ ‘Similar to when the DOJ appointed Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, it is critical that this investigation continue free from political interference, no matter who is in the White House,’ Buck wrote. ‘We must guarantee the integrity of our government and the security of our republic.'”

As Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was decorating her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son on Saturday night, she looked outside to see dozens of armed protestors stalking her house, the BBC reports.  The protestors shouted threats and chanted “Stop the Steal,” a catchphrase for people who refuse to accept the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

On her Twitter account, Benson described trying to sit in her living room to watch “The Grinch” with her son while hearing obscenities and threats broadcast through bullhorns into the normally-quiet neighborhood.

“The demands made outside my home were unambiguous, loud, and frightening,” Benson said in a statement.  “They targeted me in my role as Michigan’s Chief Election Officer.  But the threats of those gathered weren’t actually aimed at me–or any other elected officials in the state.  They were aimed at the voters.”

A Fulton County (Georgia) Superior Court judge rejected a lawsuit filing by the Elite Special Force Team of lawyers representing lame duck president Donald Trump because the ESFT failed to pay a filing fee and neglected to file proper paperwork, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

This comes the same day when a federal court in Georgia dismissed a case filed by ex-ESFT member Sidney Powell and another Powell suit in Michigan was rejected.  Also, a case filed by L. Lin Wood was rejected by a Georgia court on Saturday.

Giuliani had announced this latest lawsuit in a meeting with Georgia Republicans last week, before he was hospitalized with coronavirus.  Trump himself applied pressure to Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, to call for a special session of the state legislature to overturn the popular vote.

The US Supreme Court rejected an opportunity to hear a case regarding an Oregon’s school district’s decision to allow a transgender student’s ability to choose to use a bathroom matching his gender identity, CBS News reports.

The SCOTUS decision effectively upholds the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision in favor of the school district, Dallas School District No. 2.  A group of parents from the school, supported by conservative organizations, wanted to appeal the Circuit Court’s decision to the nation’s highest Court.

The case revolved around a transgender boy who wanted to use the boys’ lavatory at his high school.  The school board created a policy to allow the boy to use the bathroom and gym locker room matching his gender identity.  The school argued that the objections of the parents were “misconceived” and that the case is moot given that the student has since graduated.

After 70 years, Swedish furniture maker IKEA will no longer publish its iconic catalogue, one of the most-circulated publications in the world, next year, Reuters reports.

The catalogue inspired generations of people around the world to visit IKEA stores to pick up their Poäng armchair or redecorate their kids’ bedroom around a new Vitval bunk bed.  Maybe you just need a new Nävlinge lamp for your home office.  And while you’re there, you’ll be enticed by the store’s Swedish meatballs.

“The number of copies has gone down, but we have also seen that people have much more used our website, apps and social media. The catalogue became less and less important,” said Konrad Gruss, Managing Director at franchisor Inter IKEA Systems – a division of brand owner Inter IKEA Group.

The Michigan state house has canceled all votes scheduled for Tuesday after member of lame duck president Donald Trump’s Elite Special Force Team and Nosferatu cosplayer Rudy Giuliani announced his positive coronavirus diagnosis less than a week after hosting an indoor, in-person meeting with state Republicans, the Detroit News announced.

The legislature will also not take roll during the session either, allowing members to isolate and quarantine if they were exposed to Giuliani during the hearing.  Few participants at the meeting wore masks; Giuliani and his fellow ESFT member Jenna Ellis did not wear masks.

“Multiple representatives have requested time to receive results from recent COVID-19 tests before returning to session, out of an abundance of caution,” Republican House Speaker Lee Chatfield said in a statement.

Washington Post: “Of all the vile ways that Republicans have sought to justify President Trump’s effort to overturn his election loss, one of the worst is the ubiquitous claim that Trump is merely pursuing his legal right to contest the results. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is campaigning in one of the two Georgia runoffs, repeated this assertion at a debate on Sunday night.”

“But the circumstances under which Loeffler said this reveal what’s really at the core of this notion in all its corrupt and anti-democratic glory. What Loeffler really demonstrated is that many elected Republicans are absolutely fine with Trump’s ongoing effort to steal the election through extralegal means. Republicans aren’t merely refusing to bow to reality, or humoring Trump’s refusal to come to terms with a loss, or any number of euphemisms we keep hearing. Let’s not sugarcoat this: Republicans such as Loeffler tacitly support Trump’s efforts to steal the election outright.”

Ever matching the tenor of the American experience, the Third First Lady Melania Trump announced the completion of the new tennis pavilion at the White House, a project she will never utilize given that the Trumps will move out of the White House in 44 days.

Project planning began in June 2018, with construction starting October 2019.  On March 5, 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was exploding around the country, Melania posted a tone-deaf tweet showing her in a hard hat looking at construction plans.  In March, 1.4 million Americans lost their jobs due to the coronavirus.

“I am pleased to announce the completion of the Tennis Pavilion on the White House grounds. Thank you to all of the talented craftsmen who made this project possible and to the generous supporters of the White House,” said First Lady Melania Trump Monday. “It is my hope that this private space will function as both a place of leisure and gathering for future First Families.”

Stephanie Ruhle returned to her MSNBC show this morning at 9 a.m. ET Monday, disclosing that she, her husband and her three children have all tested positive for the coronavirus, but all are recovering well.

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For the second time today, a federal judge dismissed an election lawsuit in Georgia led by erstwhile member of the Elite Special Force Team of lawyers assembled by lame duck president Donald Trump. Brad Heath of Reuters tweeted, “For the record, that’s two Krakens slain in a single day, in utterly predictable fashion.” In this case, attorney Sidney Powell stated that her team has evidence from “military intelligence” relating to election fraud, but followed that up with a debunked video of claimed fraudulent ballots being mysteriously brought out from under tables.

As the judge dismissed the lawsuit, Heath tweeted, “The judge rules Kraken plaintiffs don’t have standing and their claims can’t be adjudicated in federal court. They also waited too long to sue – ‘this suit could have been filed months ago.'” Heath noted that lawyers could be heard laughing on the court’s livestream at the end of the hearing.