Nevada News & Views: January 4, 2025

Nevada Escapes DOJ’s $100 Million Ideological School Spending Spree
Nevada is notably absent from the DOJ’s spending spree. Republican Governor Joe Lombardo’s recent efforts to roll back restorative justice policies align with a conservative push to refocus schools on discipline and academics. (Nevada News & Views)

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s NCAA Lawsuit Amplifies UNR Volleyball Stand on Transgender Athletes
Filed under Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the suit claims the NCAA is misleading sports fans by allowing transgender women, whom Paxton refers to as “biological males,” to compete in women’s events. (Brittany Sheehan)

2025 Nevada Forecast: Power Shifts, Policy Debates, and Comic Relief
With the start of a new year – and Trump Era II about to begin – Nevada conservatives, some with tongues planted firmly in cheek, peered into the crystal ball and offered some predictions on what might lie in store for the next 12 months. (Nevada News & Views)

  • Trump’s First Blunder of His New Term (George Rasley)
  • What is Turo? Company Under Scrutiny After Vehicles Used in New Orleans and Las Vegas Attacks (Nevada News & Views)
  • Republicans Face Narrow Majority as 119th Congress Convenes (Nevada News & Views)
  • Mike Draper interviews Paul Hobson, President of the Sahara Hotel (Nevada Newsmakers)

X MARKS THE SPOT

  • The wife of accused Trump hotel truck bomber Matthew Livelsberger broke up with him last week. X
  • Family of accused Trump hotel truck bomber says he was a “big Trump supporter,” questions the incident. X
  • Prediction: @Allstate has a serious mess on their hands over this Sugar Bowl message. Tone deaf on an epic scale. They may get Bud Light’d. X
  • DEI chief for @Allstate boasted about using DEI in their hiring practices. X
  • The governor of Louisiana got blistered for this post. Come read the not-so-nice comments. X
  • Legacy Media: We had no idea Biden was cognitively impaired the last four years. Joe Biden the last four years: X
  • British police asked this young woman if she consented. She was five. Let me repeat that: SHE WAS FIVE. The police did nothing. X
  • British police capture and arrest an elderly man because some of his social media posts caused someone anxiety. X
  • New Jersey teachers will no longer be required to pass a basic skills test to become a teacher. X
  • Awesome: 23-year-old Californian may have broken the world record for largest wave ever surfed. X
  • You don’t need lots of friends, just the right ones. X
  • Rock Rules / Rap is Crap. X

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  • “The Democrats oppose voter ID so that they can commit voting fraud and not get caught. It’s that simple.” – @elonmusk
  • “The Biden Administration spent the last 4 years RENAMING our military bases while terror plots were being hatched inside of them. We’ve NEVER been led by a bigger group of idiots.” – Jimmy Failla
  • “Allstate CEO Tom Wilson says Americans need to overcome their ‘addiction of divisiveness’ and “accept people’s differences” following the terror attack in New Orleans. If only Shamsud Din Jabbar had heard this message two days ago!” – @CollinRugg
  • “If I were the board of @Allstate I’d fire this CEO for being dumb enough to read the presser written by the woke intern.” – @SteveAustinWI
  • “A jihadist killed and maimed dozens of innocent Americans in a hate-fueled rampage, and the CEO of Allstate thinks Americans watching the Sugar Bowl need a lecture from him on overcoming ‘an addiction to divisiveness and negativity?’ Absolutely not!!” – @charliekirk11
  • “Saying private schools should be held to the same standards as public schools suggests you don’t understand the point of choice: Being able to get education that is different.” – @NealMcCluskey

LAUGHTER IS STILL THE BEST MEDICINE

  • Kids getting thrown off right and left. Total carnage. Wails of anguish. Not one adult gave a single sh*t about it. X
  • Why does it get funnier the more you watch it? X
  • A Day Without Steve Inman is a Day Without Sunshine. X