Elon Musk has further stoked the flames of the MAGA H1-B civil war after he agreed with a post that called Americans too “retarded” to exclusively fill the U.S. tech workforce. The eye-popping endorsement came after a pro-Musk account on X summed up the right-wing divide on visas to skilled workers as such: “So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like ‘hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,’ and the right right was like ‘no you need to hire Americans,’ and the tech right is like “but you guys are retarded,” and the right right is like ‘well you don’t train us,’ and the tech right is like ‘you can’t outtrain being retarded,’ and while all this was going on we learned some people *really* don’t like Indians.” Musk, a 53-year-old South African who’s recently enjoyed a spot inside the “America First” Trump’s inner circle, apparently thought that assessment was a fair one. He responded, “That pretty much sums it up. This was eye-opening.” Trump is yet to weigh in on the latest right-wing divide that pits his longtime loyalists against his new tech bro faction.

The 92-year-old mother of a murder victim whose death spurred the conviction—later overturned—of a member of the Kennedy family, died Tuesday of complications from the flu, her son said. Dorthy Moxley fought nearly 50 years for justice after her teenage daughter, Martha, was found dead across the street from the family home of Michael Skakel, a cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Skakel was convicted of Martha’s murder in 2002 and freed in 2013 after a judge said he hadn’t received adequate representation. The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated the conviction in 2016, only to order him freed two years later. A second trial never occurred, in part because some witnesses had died. “It was just incredible how much support we got from people that we knew and people that we didn’t know,” Moxley’s son, John, told the Associated Press. “My mother was always grateful and chose to focus on the communal spirit, if you will, rather than the law. My mother always said she believed in angels and the angels really came out to support her, to support us.” John added: “She was able to take that spirit of support and knowing how important it was to share that with others. And that gave her a lot of joy, knowing that she could help somebody else.”

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Kim Kardashian, who parlayed nepo-baby roots, a viral sex tape, and reality stardom into billionaire status has come close to admitting that rarest of things: failure. The 43-year-old mother of four is no longer helping manage SKKY Partners, the private equity firm she founded with a dealmaking hotshot in 2022. Instead, Axios reports, she will be a “senior operating adviser,” according to new documents filed with the Securities Exchange Commission. When she and Jay Sammons, who had worked for the Carlyle Group set up the fund, they said they wanted to raise $1 billion for investments. But Axios' analysis showed that its latest total raised is a fraction of that, at $121 million, and that so far it has done just one deal, for a hot sauce maker called Truff. Kardashian has not commented publicly on her loss of private equity executive status, while her mother, momager Kris Jenner, has been dropped from the filing documents entirely. Few celebrities have cracked private equity investing status; among those who have are Ryan Reynolds and Ashton Kutcher. Kardashian can console herself that the success of her Skims brand means her billionaire status is secure; earlier this month she opened a “flagship” store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, replacing a Versace store.

Every president makes their mark on the White House in some way. They extend, rebuild or renew. First Ladies order new China sets or redesign the grounds. And when Joe Biden checks out on Jan. 20, the staff have to begin a rapid makeover. Unusually, however, the new White House residents have been there before–and the staff will be bringing back their creature comforts. Which is why, the Daily Mail reports, President-elect Donald Trump’s Resolute Desk will have a vital feature re-installed: the Diet Coke button. The small red button, mounted in a wooden box with the presidential seal, sits in front of the Resolute Desk’s array of phones and was a frequent power flex for the 45th president when he conducted interviews in the Oval Office. One press and a butler brings in a chilled glass of his favorite drink. The White House staff will also rearrange furniture and the Oval Office’s collection of art, particularly presidential portraits. Biden removed Trump’s portrait of the populist Andrew Jackson and replaced it with Benjamin Franklin and also added a bust of the labor organizer César Chávez.

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The director of the first Ryan Reynolds ‘Deadpool’ movie has revealed that he made just $225,000 for his work on the 2016 blockbuster, which grossed $782 million worldwide on a $58 million budget. “I know it sounds like a lot of money, but for two years of work, that’s not a ton of money,” Tim Miller told an audience at a recent entertainment conference, according to Collider. Miller, 60, who did not direct either of the two subsequent films in the franchise, added that he wished his deal for the flick had included part of the merchandising, so that he could have profited from of its massive success. “Not that I’m not grateful,” Miller said. “I’m f---ing grateful. That’s the way it is... when you’re a first-time director. My agent said: ‘Dude, you make more on an episode of The Walking Dead!’" Reynolds, who plays the titular wise-cracking super-antihero, previously told People that he “let go of getting paid” by accepting a $2 million salary for the film. His share of the merchandising, though, ended up being worth $22 million—and he is believed to have earned as much as $40 million from the sequel, Cosmopolitan reported.

Talk about a whirlwind of a year. The one-time journeyman NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was announced Thursday as a late-season signing for the Detroit Lions, setting him up to launch a Super Bowl run mere weeks after winning a state championship in Florida as a high school coach. Bridgewater, 32, retired from the NFL at the end of the 2023 season after 10 years in the league where he was largely a fan-favorite backup. He told reporters in January he was moving to Miami to return his alma mater to glory and did just that, delivering Northwestern Senior High School a state championship on Dec. 14. Now Bridgewater is headed to Detroit to serve as star QB Jared Goff’s backup as the 13-2 Lions push to win their first Super Bowl—something they’re the odds-on second favorite to do, trailing only Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Bridgewater said his surprise return was months in the making and that he will return to coaching high school afterwards. “My team knows that’s the plan,” he told NFL Network. “We wanted to win a state championship and then coach goes back to the league, see what happens, and then come back February.”

An Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed into a fireball in Kazakhastan was “likely shot down by a Russian military air defense system,” an aviation security firm has said. The plane was en route to Grozny, in Chechnya, when it was diverted almost 300 miles to the east after the pilot declared an emergency. Instead of landing at Aktau in Kazakhstan, it came down almost two miles short of the runway and exploded in flames, killing 38 passengers and crew. Twenty-nine people survived. Although the airline said it was diverted because of fog, UK-based Osprey, said there appeared to have been Ukrainian drones attacking Grozny at the time. A second security firm boss, Justin Crump of UK-based Sibylline, told the BBC that the damage to the plane was consistent with an air defense missile strike. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are both allies of Putin, while Chechnya is a Russian autonomous republic run by a bloodthirsty warlord who is one of Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin’s closest associates. The Kremlin has declined to speculate on the cause of the crash.

The up-and-coming actor Hudson Meeks has died aged 16, days after falling from a moving vehicle in his Alabama hometown, according to his official Instagram page. The teenager, famous for his Baby Driver role as the child version of the hit film’s title character, was first injured on Dec. 19 in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills. He was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead two days later from “blunt force injuries.” News of the accident didn’t emerge until Wednesday after a since-edited statement was posted to his Instagram page. “His 16 years on this earth were far too short, but he accomplished so much and significantly impacted everyone he met,” the statement read, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It remains unclear how Meeks fell from the vehicle, but the case is being probed by police. In addition to his 2017 role on Baby Driver, Meeks also notched credits on the network series MacGyver and Found, and also featured in the 2024 film The School Duel. An obituary said he was a sophomore member of his high school football team and was a superfan of The Simpsons, having binged all 36 seasons.

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Chinese students in the United States are being advised not to return home for the holidays amid uncertainty over whether it could become more difficult for them to get back into the country once Donald Trump moves into the White House. China’s Consulate General in Chicago wrote on its website that students should “try to reduce unnecessary cross-border travel.” The Chinese Embassy in Washington is also reminding students about security concerns coming into the U.S. During the president-elect’s first term, Chinese students faced tougher restrictions with 1,000 having visas revoked in 2020 over concerns that their scientific study posed security risks, according to the Wall Street Journal. Several colleges, including UPenn and Cornell University, have also highlighted the issue of holiday travel with their foreign students. Meanwhile, the number of Americans studying in China has dropped dramatically since the pandemic, from 11,000 pre-COVID to just 469 in academic-credit courses in China in the 2022-23 year, wrote the Journal.

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Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk showed off a slimmer build in a Christmas day tweet in which he declared himself, “Ozempic Santa.” In the photo shared with the tweet, Musk strikes a modelesque pose in front of a Christmas tree while dressed as Santa Claus. In follow up tweets, Musk suggested that his smaller frame was the result of a weight loss drug. Musk added, “Like Cocaine Bear, but Santa and Ozempic!” In another tweet, he added, “Technically, Mounjaro, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.” His post was quickly retweeted and co-signed in the dark corners of #DarkMAGA, with unhinged MAGA politico wannabe Valentina Gomez commenting, “African Santa*” under his post. Musk is only the latest political player who has been pawing for the public’s attention during the holidays. Musk’s bff President-elect Donald Trump also posted his way through the afternoon with troll worthy claims against China, Canada, and “the Radical Left Lunatics.”