👨‍⚖️ The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her refusal to grant a white reporter an interview.

According to the lawsuit, Lightfoot’s refusal to give an interview to Thomas Catenacci violates the reporter and the news organization’s First Amendment rights as well as his right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment

❓ How does the “Biden economic plan” work? Almost the same way he counts …

💯 The president tried to add 56 + 38 + 8 and said it equaled 100 (it doesn't)

📍 The country’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corporation, required white male executives last year to attend a diversity program that slammed them for their race, according to documents obtained by Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo.

Owing to stereotypical attitudes about characteristics, the consulting firm listed several statements that purportedly indicate white privilege if supported. The advisory group also argued that white men are naturally "a bit harshly individualistic" and materialistic.

👨 If this trend continues, white men will become the biggest targets of discrimination in the 21st century

💸 To pay for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, the Pentagon is reportedly seeking to divest some of its older equipment with higher maintenance costs.

Joe Biden's $715 billion Department of Defense budget will transfer money earmarked for aging systems toward modernizing the US' nuclear weapons stockpile in order to deter China, while also expanding future military capabilities.

🤔 Who needs a 'rules-based international order' when you got nukes that need updating?

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors announced that she is stepping down from her role as executive director in order to focus on other projects, including the upcoming release of her second book and a multi-year TV development deal with Warner Bros.

🗣 “I’ve created the infrastructure and the support, and the necessary bones and foundation, so that I can leave,” Cullors told

🤔 On to the next grift?

❗️China slams Biden's bid to publish report on COVID-19 origins: 'Political game'

Catch up on our latest updates:

▪️Texas Governor Greg Abbott has cited Biden’s border policies as one of the main reasons for the spike in fentanyl trafficking in the state.

▪️The FBI has launched a probe into the Ryanair incident in Belarus, according to the chief of Lithuania's criminal police.

▪️The US Coast Guard says it is searching for 10 people missing after a boat overturned near the island of Key West in southern Florida.

▪️A San Jose gunman, who killed at least eight people before taking his own life this week, talked about “how he hates” his workplace back in 2016.

▪️A woman was detained after trespassing the monkey cage at the El Paso Zoo and feeding the animals hot snacks.

🤔Don’t you want to ask Joe Biden about acute problems?

Or is the US President’s ice cream flavor more important?

❗️BREAKING: Senate Republicans filibuster bill on creating commission to investigate 6 January Capitol riot

US Senators have blocked consideration of a bill designed to create a bipartisan 10-member commission to investigate the events that took place in Washington on 6 January.

Only 54 Senators supported the motion, with 35 objecting to it. However, it needs to gather the support of at least 60 members of the upper chamber of Congress to be passed.

❗️US State Department seeks $1.9bln in 2022 budget to counter Iranian, Chinese clout in Middle East

The US Department of State is seeking to obtain some $1.9 billion for fiscal year 2022 to combat both Iranian and Chinese influence across the Middle East.

"Funding will support programs focused on defending democracy, rule of law, advancing human rights and gender equality, fighting corruption, and countering authoritarianism," the document adds.

▶️ John Feehery, US columnist and political consultant, weighs in on the “Defund the Police” movement and explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected African Americans' fight for equality.

🇺🇸❗️⚡️The US State Department 2022 congressional budget request includes billions of dollars aimed at countering Russia, China and Iran, among other priorities. Key line items include:

🔻$255 million to boost Ukraine anticorruption reforms, trade capacity, and energy security.

🔻$1.9 billion for strengthening allies to counter Iranian and Chinese influence in the Middle East.

🔻$665 million toward Euro-Atlantic integration programs to enhance democracy and fight authoritarianism.

🔻$750 million to support US government agencies impacted by the SolarWinds attack.

🔻$1.4 billion to combat infectious diseases.

🏃 The governors of several Republican states have noticed a surge in political migration, but there are concerns that they may bring their liberal policies with them.

🗣 "So, it's interesting with Florida. Like the media at the beginning of the pandemic said Florida's bad. And I think it's because they want to damage former President Donald Trump in Florida. They want to damage me. So, they just kept saying it was bad. And even though the facts didn't say it, like literally last April, they're saying Florida is doing worse than New York. New York was like 10 times worse." said @RonDeSantisChannel

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 It seems not even cartoons can be spared... Betty DeVille, the mother of twins Phil and Lil in the 1990s kids hit animated show “Rugrats”, is now deprived of a husband and father for her kids, as she has been rewritten as an open and nonbinary lesbian in the upcoming Paramount + revamp.

Betty had a husband in the original show - even if he was a weakling who would let her wear the pants in the relationship. But Howard Deville appears to have been written off, and Betty will now be dating other women instead

✍️ Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill banning educators from teaching critical race theory in state schools.

🗣 “We need to make sure that our kids recognize that this country is moving toward a more perfect union, that we should teach the exceptionalism of our nation and how people can live together and work together to make a greater nation, and to not teach things that inherently divide or pit either Americans against Americans or people groups against people groups,” the Republican governor said.

Trump's former lawyer's apartment was raided at the end of April by federal investigators, which seized his electronic devices and a cell phone. According to media reports, the investigators were interested in his ties to influential Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash.

👨‍⚖️ US District Judge Paul Oetken has ruled that a "special master" must be appointed to review the evidence seized from the home and office of @RGiuliani former attorney to Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇳US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Washington where they discussed COVID-19 relief and strengthening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, the State Department said.

#URGENT | US working with allies to introduce sanctions against key Belarusian officials, Psaki says