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One of Vice President Kamala Harris' final acts in office will be to swear in multiple Republican senators who refuse to pronounce her first name correctly, reported Time Magazine on Thursday.

This comes after many of them stumped for President-elect Donald Trump and did their utmost to make sure she would lose the 2024 election.

A Kentucky Republican made an extreme vow Thursday night during an appearance with disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Gaetz's debut show on a far-right news network.

Gaetz interviewed outspoken Rep. Thomas Massie, who has clashed with his MAGA colleagues in the past.

Authorities are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas as a terrorist attack, believed to have been triggered by explosive materials stashed in the vehicle and not due to any malfunction of the vehicle itself. But tech billionaire Elon Musk is so adamant reporters communicate this fact, he is threatening to sue anyone who implies otherwise, Politico reported Thursday.

According to the report, Musk was responding to a right-wing influencer on his X platform, Robby Starbuck, who wrote, “These headlines are sabotaging @Tesla’s brand by making people think it caught on fire. There’s about 1 Tesla fire for every 130 million miles traveled. Other cars have 1 every 18 million miles.”

Former Florida Gov. Buddy MacKay, whose brief stint in office lasted just 23 days after the sudden passing of Gov. Lawton Chiles, died on New Year’s Eve. He was 91.

MacKay’s family confirmed the death of the longtime public servant to The Associated Press on Thursday. MacKay, whose political career spanned decades and included roles as a state legislator, congressman and diplomat, took a nap at his Florida home on Tuesday and didn't wake up, the publication said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces a massive difficulty in tomorrow's vote to keep him in the gavel. And according to Axios, the more moderate faction of House Republicans warned him not to repeat the folly of his predecessor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Specifically, they told him not to give the far-right flank rule changes that benefit them at the expense of the rest of the caucus, simply as a condition of getting their votes — something that ultimately destroyed McCarthy's speakership as he gave a renegade band of lawmakers, led by former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the ability to vote to remove him the second he made compromises on spending they hated.

MAGA allies melted down Thursday after former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney received the Presidential Citizens Medal.

President Joe Biden awarded Cheney the honor, along with Rep. Bennie Thompson and 18 others, who received the accolade during a ceremony at the White House. Cheney received a standing ovation as she received the award, which is the second-highest civilian honor in the country.

Members of Congress are long overdue for a pay raise – and lawmakers should do just that for themselves when they reconvene Friday, according to the editorial board of the Washington Post.

And that includes even the members you don’t like, the editorial board wrote Thursday in an opinion piece that makes the case in favor of a pay boost, which the publication noted hasn’t happened since 2009.

As more details have leaked about the man believed to have set off the Cybertruck explosion just outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) seems to be impressed by him, despite the suspect having committed what may be an act of terrorism.

"The Vegas dude seems like a real CHAD??" said Gaetz, using common internet slang for a person admirable for their traditional masculinity. "So bizarre."

Vice President-elect JD Vance, the Republican Senator from Ohio, is facing criticism both domestically and internationally for endorsing and seemingly defending an op-ed by Elon Musk that is supportive of a far-right German political party reportedly linked to neo-Nazis.

The New York Times late last month described the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, as “a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as ‘confirmed extremist’ by German domestic intelligence.” The paper of record also noted that AfD has been “called a threat to German democracy” by Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and others.

Alina Habba, President-elect Donald Trump's nomination to serve as counselor to the president, took issue Monday with the current president's gripe that he made a mistake choosing Merrick Garland for attorney general.

President Joe Biden reportedly regrets pulling out of the presidential race and nominating Garland for the nation's top law enforcement official, complaining that Garland didn't move fast enough to prosecute Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and aggressively prosecuting Hunter Biden.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suggested a new baseless theory about what he believes led up to a man ramming a pickup truck through a crowd in New Orleans in an attack that killed at least 14 people and injured dozens more.

The moment came Thursday during Johnson’s interview with Fox Business when the Louisiana congressman – who received a classified briefing from intelligence agencies and the FBI – was asked to weigh in on the New Year’s Day attack.

Far-right Oklahoma state superintendent Ryan Walters appeared to suggest in a video posted to X on Thursday that the "radical left" is using schools to create more terrorists like the perpetrators of the horrific attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas this week.

"What a terrible day when we see terrorist attacks on American soil," said Walters, in a video shot from the interior of his car. "It's absolutely tragic and we've got to look as a country on how these things happen. We absolutely have to shut down the border, we can't allow terrorists to come across the border."

Donald Trump will conduct four types of activities when he reenters the White House that Americans should watch for, legal analyst Benjamin Wittes wrote in a column Thursday.

Writing for Lawfare, Wittes said those baskets are the Midnight Judges Basket, the Nominations Basket, the Day One Basket, and the Longer Term Basket.