⚡️ - US formally launches organized campaign against Houthis - CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Texas GOP has officially enshrined the right to secession in its party platform.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 - Now that the war in Gaza has simmered down, It would be timely to discuss how America’s commitments to Israel and larger intervention into the Middle East have begun to strain Ukraine’s war effort.

America is having to use more of its shrinking stockpile of weapons on Yemen or give them to Israel, which is starting to display how overextended the United States is. Patriot missile system interceptors, for example, are a crucial weapon in America’s, Ukraine’s, and Israel’s air defense. However, because of stockpile issues, someone will get their supply cut off.

Beginning on the night of December 28th, Russia launched one of the biggest and most prolonged missile strikes on Ukraine at a scale not seen since the beginning of the war. They started with Geran FPV drones to exhaust Ukrainian air defenses, followed by Iskanders, “Daggers,” Kh-22s, and many more types of Russian missiles of both super and hypersonic qualities, totaling over 160 projectiles in a single night. Again, on January 1st, over 100 missiles were launched. On the 7th and 13th, there were more similarly sized strikes. Besides the large strikes, there was a notable increase in the number of missiles Russia fires daily on average, rising from 5 to 10-20. The Ukrainians, who are always delighted to post any missile interception they get, were quiet, despite making up 95% of interception numbers as usual. Furthermore, the size of the strikes was so large that despite laws in place banning the recording of Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, dozens of videos were posted during the following days of large strikes. There was a noticeable lack of large missile attacks in the months before this strike as Russia spent time stockpiling months in advance. Because of the stockpiling, as mentioned earlier, it displays that these strikes were planned months in advance, hinting that these could be preludes to a sizeable Russian ground offensive in early 2024, likely towards Kharkov in the spring.

These attacks will not be the end of missile strikes over Ukraine, but they display the cracks in Ukraine’s war machine as their last remaining AD stockpiles have dried up. Ukraine already has problems replacing other critical war equipment from ongoing fighting and failed offensives across the frontlines. These airstrikes are far from the decisive blow needed to end the war; however, they highlight that as the United States becomes more distracted, the outlook for the future of Ukraine becomes dimmer.

I think it’s safe to say at this point that Elon and X are completely compromised.

The standard we were sold on in 2022 when this conversation began was that all lawful speech would be protected.

As time has gone on we have seen that this has clearly not been the case in effect, and with this update they have amended the standard to “information independence, excluding antisemitism.”

This is just ridiculous. It seems the only lasting solution to censorship is a legal remedy from the federal government.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Massive missile and air campaign taking place against Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Smoke rising from Kiev. Detonations have been reported in Kharkov as well.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A coalition warplane bombed an Iranian ammunition vehicle traveling through Abu Kamal, Syria. The ammunition in the vehicle is cooking off in this video.

🇮🇱🇮🇶⚡️- Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched drones against Ashdod, Israel.

⚛️⚡️- The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has unveiled the 2024 "Doomsday Clock," remaining unchanged from 2023 at 90 seconds until midnight.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- North Korea has demolished a monument in Pyongyang symbolizing unification with South Korea.

🇹🇷🇸🇪⚡️- Turkish parliament approves Sweden's NATO ascension.

🇺🇸 - Texas continues building wire fence along its border with Mexico, despite an unfavorable Supreme Court judgment.

🇺🇸⚡️- The 2024 New Hampshire primary is taking place today. Results are expected by no later than 8PM EST.

🇻🇦🇺🇸 - A Latin Mass was said earlier today at the Capitol on a temporary altar with the permission of House Speaker Johnson, exactly one year after an FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics was leaked.

🇺🇸 - Greg Abbott earlier today.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump won the New Hampshire primary, with over 54% of the vote and winning 11 delegates from the state.