Liveblog - ICYMI: December 04, 2024

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Updates:

2024 Election:

U.S. House breakdown, July 2024🟥 221 R🟦 214 DU.S. House breakdown, January 2025*🟥 220 R🟦 215 D*After what media and MAGAs have called a huge, historic, mandate-establishing Trump victory in November 2024.🤔 Explain it like I'm 7

Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2024-12-04T07:57:36.880Z

Johnson: The House would have a larger majority but redistricting and gerrymandering in the blue states made that almost impossible but we do have a majority and we know how govern with that small majority. We’ve been doing it for a year

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2024-12-04T20:24:20.835Z

Congress:

BREAKING: Rep. Jerry Nadler will not seek to remain as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee and is endorsing Rep. Jamie Raskin to succeed him.

Axios (@axios.com) 2024-12-04T20:39:19.859Z

The Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:

Fetterman: I'm considering voting yes on DeSantis if he finally admits that he has lifts in his boots. I'm sure he does. You know, maybe three inches. Four inches at least.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2024-12-04T19:09:31.112Z

Union Workers Furious Trump is Opposing U.S. Steel Sale

Hopefully Trump has concepts of a plan to keep the steel industry alive in Pennsylvania

Union steel workers in Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley are outraged at Trump’s promise this week to block the $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Co. once he becomes president.

“I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night,” United Steelworkers Local 2227 Vice President Jason Zugai said during a panel discussion Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “I didn’t expect that to come out. So that was like a gut punch.”

In an attempt to intimidate Canada, Trump posted an ai image of illegally crossing into Switzerland.

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2024-12-04T09:15:34.747Z

Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks

Besides HUD secretary, the president-elect has picked no Blacks for his Cabinet.

As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and chooses his closet advisers ahead of Inauguration Day, many African American leaders are asking why more Black people haven’t been appointed to key positions.

ABC News spoke to more than a half dozen longtime and new African American conservatives and Republicans within Trumpworld, in and outside of Washington.

Last month, the president-elect appointed Scott Turner, who was executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term, to serve as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Peter Navarro, recently released from prison, is back in another non-Senate-confirmed role www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2024-12-04T16:31:26.009Z

Social Media:

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly ‘toxic’

Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

When Ashton Pittman, an award-winning news editor and reporter, first joined the app Bluesky, he said, he was the only Mississippi journalist he knew to be using it. Until about five weeks ago, he said, that was the case. But now, Pittman said, there are at least 15 Mississippi journalists on Bluesky as it becomes a preferred platform for reporters, writers, activists and other groups who have become increasingly alienated by X.

State News:

Texas is offering land for Trump mass deportation facilities

The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.

Trump transition officials are exploring the possibility of building immigrant detention facilities on a plot of land recently purchased by the state of Texas along the Rio Grande, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke to President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, last week about using military resources to help transport migrants to the location and about building facilities, according to the person with knowledge of the discussions.

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