Cast Iron Love

RW 281

Apple

Spotify

Spreaker

Beers

Fitz

• Drekker Brewing Brains Citrus Twist

• Pfriem Abrikoos

McShane

• Smells Like Bean Spirit Mikerphone Brewing

• More Brewing Spice Caravan

Election Aftermath

• GOP Failure

  • Speaker Johnson vows to ‘double down’ and take back the House in 2028 — Eric Daugherty · Clip: Yes (~17s)

  • GOP had a trifecta and did nothing; blames John Thune and Mike Johnson — Joey Mannarino · Clip: No

  • Thune touts Senate GOP record and vows to fight Democrats’ attempts to unwind it in 2027 — Leader John Thune · Clip: No

  • DeSantis unleashes on Senate GOP for not shutting off H-1B visas or codifying Trump’s immigration orders — TheBlaze · Clip: Yes (~87s)

• Staff Gone Wild

  • Vance says Republicans lost because of the war, as 2024 Trump voters turned out but voted Democrat — JD Vance · Clip: No

  • Vance courts disgruntled Trump voters for a new right alliance after midterm losses,breaking with Trump on Israel — Fox News Politics · Clip: No

  • Conservative Supreme Court justices Thomas and Alito in the spotlight after Democratic landslide — Reuters · Clip: No

• Democrats and Socialists Big Talk

  • Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa could end state cooperation with ICE and Operation Lone Star on day one — Bill Melugin · Clip: No

  • Raskin says Democrats will not hesitate to go after private corporations collaborating with Trump — TheBlaze · Clip: Yes (~75s)

• Claims a uniform 85/15 shift of 2024 Trump voters to Democrats in every state proves the midterms were algorithmically rigged — Gunther Eagleman · Clip: No

• Maga Meter

World

• Paraguay

  • Ueno bank failure becomes a national crisis in Paraguay as funds freeze, retail stalls, executives face arrest, and protests spread — Bull Theory · Clip: No

  • Paraguayan police arrest former president Santiago Peña at home after the Senate removes him over the Ueno Bank scandal — EFE · Clip: No

• France

  • French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa says €100 million is missing after a cyberattack — Insider (World News) · Clip: No

• European Union

  • EU backs one-year delay to methane rules over Iran war disruption — Reuters · Clip: No

• Europe bomb hoaxes

  • Further bomb threats disrupt at least another 18 flights across Europe, and Irish and UK newsrooms are hit too — The Guardian · Clip: No

  • Bomb threats warning ‘the clock is ticking’ disrupt TV channels across Europe — Reuters · Clip: No

• Poland

  • Five people shot in a Krakow square near a protest against the EU and Donald Tusk — Mario ZNA · Clip: Yes (~100s)

  • Deaths and injuries reported after shots fired in a Krakow market square — The Associated Press · Clip: No

  • Five killed and more than a dozen wounded in suspected terror attack at Krakow’s Old Town Square — Visegrád 24 · Clip: No

• United Kingdom

  • Porn Ban

    • Strangulation, suffocation and incest-roleplay porn become illegal to possess or publish in England and Wales — Politics UK · Clip: No

    • Only the strangulation and suffocation porn offence applies in Scotland and Northern Ireland — Politics UK · Clip: No

    • Monty Python Sit on My Face and Tell me that You Love Me Song

• Israel

  • Is Netanyahu still in Israel’s government? — Grok Bot page · Clip: No

US Government

• Virginia man gets letter from Gov. Spanberger’s administration telling his dead dog her voting rights are restored — Richmond Times-Dispatch · Clip: No

• Massie says he’ll reintroduce impeachment articles against Pete Hegseth unless Hegseth resigns — Insider Paper · Clip: No

• Trump’s fierce anti-woke crusader set to leave the administration — zerohedge · Clip: No

• Susie Wiles

  • Trump announces Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff — BNO News · Clip: No

  • Calley Means rips Susie Wiles on Joe Rogan over her daughter’s lobbying and blocking MAHA — End Tribalism in Politics · Clip: Yes (~46s)

  • Calley Means says Susie Wiles pushed for glyphosate getting liability protection over RFK Jr.’s objections — Chief Nerd · Clip: Yes (~250s)

  • Trump offers White House press secretary role to UFC chief Dana White — Insider Paper · Clip: No

  • Dana White turns down Trump’s offer to become White House press secretary, source tells CNN — First Squawk · Clip: No

Military Moves

• Iran war

  • Tanker reports explosion at its waterline near Oman’s Khasab while transiting the Strait of Hormuz — Arab News · Clip: No

• Ukraine war

  • Ukraine’s Azov Brigade admits holding AWOL soldiers at a residential house amid torture allegations — zerohedge · Clip: No

Science and Weather

• Why does someone call right after you’ve been thinking about them?

• Sun Weather

  • Ben Davidson has some new grok bots… and the results are starting to be pretty incredible

Artificial Intelligence

• Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen — Husk · Clip: Yes (~174s)

• AI sharpens the cat-and-mouse hacking battle as companies strengthen defenses — Reuters · Clip: No

• Microsoft pulls the plug on Oracle AI rental as post-election data center fallout spreads — zerohedge · Clip: No

Technology

• Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales — Reuters · Clip: No

Economy and Stocks

• Stock Market Triggered

  • Gold and silver surge, adding a combined $1 trillion, after Democrats take control of the House and Senate — The Kobeissi Letter · Clip: No

  • S&P futures dipped then closed up 1.56%, adding over $1 trillion after Democrats won Congress — Bull Theory · Clip: No

  • Investors wipe $2.5 trillion off Nasdaq as blue tsunami prompts AI fears — Reuters · Clip: No

• Bank of England probes loans to UK data center projects that have no tenants — MacroEdge · Clip: No

Sports

• Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from international soccer — The Associated Press · Clip: No

Other

• Unlimited AI, unlimited comedy: AI-generated comedy clip — Linus Ekenstam · Clip: Yes (~95s)

• Josh O’Connor and Bella Ramsey reportedly cast as James Bond and the lead Bond girl in Denis Villeneuve’s 007 movie — Anarchy Crave · Clip: No

• Alanis Morissette comes out as pansexual — New York Post · Clip: No

WTF

• Kraft launches Cinnamon Roll mac and cheese, a limited-time Walmart exclusive — Dexerto · Clip: No

• Libya’s top religious authority bans buying, selling or wearing Nike over Greek goddess name and swoosh — BBC · Clip: No

• West Hollywood lets throuples and foursomes legally register as domestic partners — New York Post · Clip: No