⚡️ END OF DAY 357 - Manual labor has a value and charm that automation can never replace.

⚡️🏁 WATCH - A company hoping to turn live sperm into a full-fledged racing sport and maybe even the next Olympic-style competition has raised $10 million in new funding. The startup plans to host microscopic races where sperm compete on custom-designed tracks, complete with live streams, statistics, and betting-style engagement, and stream it live

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - John Cena with one final message as he has officially retired “It’s been a pleasure serving you all these years, thank you”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Erika Kirk rejects claims that Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk and rejects accusations that she is a Mossad agent or that she served as his handler. Kirk agrees with Bari Weiss that the case is open and shut, saying she has seen the autopsy results and has been in contact with the prosecuting team. "I've seen it all"

⚡️🎁 WATCH - We’ve been wrapping gifts wrong our entire life. In Japan, they only need one piece of tape.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bari Weiss elevates Erika Kirk to a religious figure, calling her a deeply religious Christian with sincere, deeply held faith. She says she personally witnessed Erika Kirk’s powerful presence and claims the audience was struck by it. Bari Weiss adds that she still can’t fully understand what she witnessed.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza honors his mother during his speech after winning the Heisman Trophy. Mendoza’s mother suffers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). “Mom, this is your trophy as much as it is mine. You've always been my biggest fan … Your sacrifices, courage, love...” “Those have been my first playbook and the playbook that I'm gonna carry by my side, through my entire life...”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Protesters led by pardoned J6 rioter Jake Lang, carried out a blatantly Islamophobic stunt outside the Epic Mosque in Plano, Texas, using a Quran and a pig’s head.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Kamala Harris tells the DNC, “We must have a clear vision for what comes after the midterms and then after Trump … America is facing an affordability crisis.”

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Los Angeles Police Department scandal “The cops are hiding in parking lots and hiring people to illegally walk across the street” As soon as a car passes the pedestrian they hired, you see them go pull the car over and give them a ticket

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Saylor says, “The Bitcoin hoarding will continue until the complaining stops,” as MSTR marks one year in the Nasdaq 100 and remains in the index following this year’s rebalancing.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Steak 'n Shake: ”If you work at Steak n Shake we’ll pay you in Bitcoin”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - U.S President Trump addresses the ISIS attack on U.S. forces in Syria: “We mourn the loss of 3 great patriots in Syria... we pray for them, and their parents, and their loved ones... and we WILL retaliate.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bari Weiss says something needs to be done about social media in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, claiming widespread distrust of the government’s shooter narrative is causing what she calls “brain rot.” She points to online theories claiming Erika Kirk was Charlie Kirk’s Mossad handler, that he was killed by a foreign government, or that her rings signal the Illuminati. She says social media is allowing these ideas to spread which is dangerous to her democracy.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Los Angeles man known as the 'Cone King' says he has removed 5000 illegal cones from the streets that residents use to reserve parking. Joey Morales says he has been working to get illegal cones off the streets since 2023. The vigilante parking enforcement officer now receives requests from people to have parking cones removed that people use to reserve parking. "A lot of people would say it's a Karen move. It is, but at the end of the day, you can't pick up a public parking spot and assume that because it's in front of your house, it belongs to you."

⚡️👀 WATCH - Another example of fake gold sold from China. Meanwhile, the entire Bitcoin blockchain is audited in full every 10 minutes.

⚡️🇮🇳 NEW - A fan of star footballer Lionel Messi says, "Only leaders and actors were surrounding Messi...Why did they call us then... We have got a ticket for 12 thousand, but we were not even able to see his face..."

⚡️🇮🇳 NEW - Police detained the chief organiser of Lionel Messi’s India tour after fans ripped up seats, threw objects and invaded the pitch at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium when the football star made only a brief appearance at a ticketed event. Messi stayed about 20 minutes instead of the planned 45, prompting angry scenes from disappointed fans.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - German Chancellor Merz: The decades of Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe — and for us in Germany as well. It no longer exists in the way we once knew it. The Americans are now firmly pursuing their own interests.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Epic Games Christmas free game giveaways leaked, including RDR2 ➥ Hogwarts Legacy - December 11 ➥ Jurassic World: Evolution 2 - December 18 ➥ Desperados 3 - December 19 ➥ Total War: Warhammer - December 20 ➥ Tropico 5 - December 21 ➥ Chicken Police - Paint it Red! - December 22 ➥ Loop Hero - December 23 ➥ Lego Batman - December 24 ➥ Commander Keane - December 25 ➥ Farming Simulator 2022 - December 26 ➥ Slime Rancher 2 - December 27 ➥ Terraria - December 28 ➥ Detroit: Become Human - December 29 ➥ Mortal Kombat 11 - December 30 ➥ Red Dead Redemption 2 - December 31