🇺🇸⚡️- House Speaker Johnson will be cracking down on the use of Discharge Petitions in the House after the method was used successfully multiple times this year to push through legislation without the consent of the Speaker, including the Epstein Files bill passed this week.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡️- The US Marine Corps temporarily sent MQ-9A Reaper drones to the Philippines for surveillance and to generally support maritime security in the South China Sea. The Philippines is increasingly becoming a focus for Washington as the First Island Chain, especially the Luzon Strait, needs hardening.

🇻🇪⚡- Venezuelan opposition figure Roberto Vernet has been detained by the Venezuelan authorities. Vernet was out exercising in Caracas when he was detained.

🇺🇸⚡- "We've [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani] just had a great meeting. We have one thing in common, we want New York City that we love to do very well.

I want to congratulate the Mayor, he really ran an incredible race against a lot of smart people. He beat them, and beat them easily.

I think you're going to have a really great Mayor. The better he does, the happier I am. There's no difference in our parties," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- "He's [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani] got political views out there. Who knows, we'll see what works.

He's going to change, we all change. I changed a lot from when I first came to office.

I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. He's going to surprise some conservative people," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- Journalist: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mayor-elect Mamdani: "I've spoken about..."

President Trump: "That's ok, you can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind."

Mayor-elect Mamdani: "Yes."

🇺🇸⚡- "The press have eaten this [meeting with NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani] thing up. You know I've had a lot of meetings with the heads of major countries, nobody cared. But this meeting, you people have gone crazy. Outside you have hundreds of people [journalists] waiting.

For some reason the press has found this to be a very interesting meeting. The biggest people in the world, they come over from countries, nobody cared. But they did care about this meeting. It was a great meeting," - President Trump.

🇬🇧⚡️- The Telegraph have obtained internal Conservative Party polling that shows the party is close to extinction and would win only 14 seats if an election took place soon.

Tucker Carlson confirms Nick Fuentes is right

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇿🇦⚡- UK's Prime Minister Starmer says Ukraine's allies will jointly meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in South Africa to discuss Trump's 28-point peace deal.

‼️ MAJOR: A group of American Generals is likely to fly to Moscow at the end of next week to discuss the US peace plan for Ukraine — The Guardian

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "If we do not stop the Jewish rioters [attacking Palestinian communities] in the West Bank, this will change the stability of our operations in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria," - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of Staff.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "If the violence of the Israelis [settlers] in the West Bank does not stop, the entire region will ignite," - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of Staff.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Large scale Israeli military incursion into the West Bank, State of Palestine.

IDF troops have begun storming Qabatiya in the Jenin direction, Beit Ummar and Idhna in the Hebron direction, Abu Shukheidim, Kufr and Na'lin in the Ramallah direction, Za'tara in the Bethlehem direction.

Israeli forces are raiding an unprecedented seven towns at once in the West Bank.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- IDF convoys have also begun entering the city of Ramallah, West Bank.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Additional IDF reinforcements arrive in Qabatiya in the Jenin direction, West Bank. Israeli forces are carrying out home-to-home searches.

🇺🇸⚡️- MTG will qualify for a Federal Pension on January 3rd 2026, 2 days before her official resignation.