SeekingAlpha: “Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) shares plunged 20% premarket on Monday after the biotech firm cut its revenue guidance for 2025 on slow demand for its Covid and RSV vaccines.”
“The company projects revenue in the range of $1.5B to $2.5B for this year, mostly in the second half, which is below its previous estimate of $2.5B to $3.5B.”
The Hill: “Elon has been very clear that he’s doing this for the public interest and not for his personal gain. And I take him at face value” adding later he is “very optimistic” about President-elect Trump’s space policy.
Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin, an aerospace company competing directly with Musk’s SpaceX.
National Review: Former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis said Sunday he doesn’t think President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland is “crazy.”
“It’s not a crazy idea.… We could do an awful lot in terms of business, investment, box out the Russians, box out the Chinese, and work very closely with Greenland”
“strategic goldmine for the United States.”
“It sits at the very top of the North Atlantic. It protects approaches to our own country … It’s geographically very important. It’s full of strategic minerals, rare earth, probably a lot of gold. It’s got a lot of natural resources,
“It doesn’t have to become the 51st state, but it can certainly be an economic objective for us”
Daily Caller: “President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted over 1,200 individuals from nearly all 50 states in connection with the attack on the Capitol.”
“I think it’s very simple. Look, if you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned”
“If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned. There’s a little bit of a gray area there, but we’re very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law”.
“There are a lot of people we think, in the wake of January the 6th who were prosecuted unfairly. We need to rectify that.”
The Hill: “Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) said he believes Congress should withhold disaster relief funds from California in the wake of Los Angeles wildfires until environmental policy changes are made by the state government.”
“If they want the money, then there should be consequences where they have to change their policies.”
Opinion: Withholding aid is a terrible idea. Many very innocent people need help right now, and this shouldn’t be turned into politics. It will be important to determine where mistakes were made, bring those to the public’s attention, and allow the public to vote.
Washington Times: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza.
Politico: The special counsel’s departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
Blaze: “A federal judge has denied the United States Department of Education rewrite of Title IX that would have given men access to women’s spaces.”
“it would have compelled speech, violated the Constitution, and simply did not make sense”
The ruling applies to all states
Whitehouse: With today’s report of 256,000 new jobs in December, we have created over 16.6 million jobs over the course of my administration and this is the only administration in history to have created jobs every single month.“
Fuzzy math
Blaze: Trump received an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he will not face jail time, fines, or probation supervision. While the sentencing will not interfere with Trump’s ability to return to the White House, it officially solidifies his felony convictions.
Trump responded on Truth Social – “After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State…I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE. That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE”
“The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE”
Breitbart: Trump’s inaugural committee raised over $170 million thus far, a record amount of money for any previous inaugural committee
The $170 million mark, which could reportedly reach $200 million, outpaces Trump’s reported 2017 inauguration committee raise of $107 million.
The inaugural committee plans and finances all inaugural events, it will be one heck of a day on January 20th!
Musk: “I think we’ll try for $2 trillion, I think that’s like the best-case outcome”….“If you try for $2 trillion you have a good shot at getting $1″
“If we can drop the budget deficit from $2 trillion to $1 trillion and free up the economy to have additional growth, such that the output of goods and services keeps pace with the increase in the money supply, then there will be no inflation”
“So that, I think, would be an epic outcome.”
SecDef Lloyd Austin announced the additional support when meeting with the President of Ukraine in Germany. Stating, “if Putin swallows Ukraine, his appetite will only grow”.
DoD: This includes the approval of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $500 million, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; air-to-ground munitions; and equipment to support Ukraine’s use of F-16s.
Since February 2022, the Biden-Harris admin has given $65B in aid to Ukraine
Fox News: “During President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in 2017, he signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which required the government to allow for at least two oil and gas drilling lease sales in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) by December 2024.”
“With the deadline quickly approaching, the Biden administration announced in December plans to move forward with an oil and gas lease sale of 400,000 acres within the northwest portion of the program area. But the lease, which was the smallest amount required under the Trump-era law, contained some restrictions.”
Trump: “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning”
“The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country. In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe.”
“NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!”
Fox News: President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court Wednesday morning in an effort to block his sentencing in New York v. Trump.
