THIS WILL END WELL: Why Piers Morgan can be Britain’s answer to Tucker Carlson.

On Wednesday, it was announced that Wake Up Productions Ltd, Morgan’s own production company, is buying out Piers Morgan Uncensored from News UK, almost a year after it moved online following the scrapping of Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV channel. Owning the brand, Morgan said in a statement, “allows my team and I the freedom to focus exclusively on building Uncensored into a standalone business, editorially and commercially, and in time, widening it from just me and my content.”

In effect, a few months before his 60th birthday, 40 years after he entered journalism and long after he became bigger than any British TV channel that could employ him, Morgan is finally setting up his own shop. In doing so, he follows the likes of Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, two Fox News stars who broke away to earn even more money, and arguably more viewers, on the internet.

I eagerly await Morgan’s invertible hot take on why Winston Churchill was — even more so than Jimmy Carter — history’s greatest monster.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden uses awkward expression as he gets LA wildfire update.

President Joe Biden kept telling officials to ‘fire away’ as he was briefed Thursday on the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Biden assembled Vice President Kamala Harris and other federal officials to give him an update on where things stood on the wildfires – as three large fires continued to burn through homes and businesses in Southern California.

The president spoke first and then turned the conversation to Harris – a California native and whose Brentwood home has been threatened by the blazes.

‘I know you’re directly affected, so you fire away,’ Biden said causing Harris to make a face. ‘No pun intended,’ the president added.

As he had other officials take their turns he used the phrase three more times, prompting an online outcry once the initial exchange with Harris started going viral.

‘People have lost their homes and some have even lost their lives and this guy has jokes,’ on X user commented. ‘Guy sure knows when to make a one liner,’ another offered.

Biden also used the meeting to subtly call out President-elect Donald Trump for politicizing the fires – and tried to tamp down some of the disinformation being spread around about water shortages.

‘You all do a hell of a job,’ he told his team*. ‘And we’ve learned, unfortunately so much. And there is, in case you haven’t noticed, there is global warming – it does change weather patterns,’ he said.

* Heckuva job, Brownie.

DEI IN A FIRE: LA’s Obese Female Assistant Fire Chief Says, No, I’m Not Able to Carry Your Husband Out of a Fire, But If You Think About It, Isn’t That His Fault?

This is the ultimate in DEI: A morbidly-obese entitled woke woman telling you that if she’s not able to perform the tasks required by her job, that’s your fault, not hers.

You’re the one who got yourself into a burning building, after all. Don’t blame her if she’s too weak and out-of-shape to carry your husband out of the blaze.

But up the food chain in L.A. things get even worse:

The mayor’s Website lists, as of March of 2023, six deputy mayors and an “Acting Deputy Mayor of Communications.” Here are the details of the deputy mayor mentioned in the above tweet: FBI agents search home of Los Angeles deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat.

FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor this week as part of an investigation into whether he made a bomb threat against City Hall, officials said.

A statement from the office of Mayor Karen Bass said she was notified of Tuesday’s search at the residence of Brian K. Williams, her deputy mayor for public safety, as part of an probe into an alleged threat.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that officers responded “earlier this year” to a bomb threat against City Hall.

“Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. “Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency.”

So the “Deputy Mayor for Public Safety” is accused of making “a bomb threat against City Hall?” This is satire that even the Babylon Bee couldn’t come up with.

Related: Timeline: Bass Knew of Fire Risk Before Abandoning L.A. for Ghana Trip.

More: L.A. County ‘Accidentally’ Sent Out Terrifying Warning On Thursday.

As if Los Angeles County residents didn’t have enough to worry about right now, the county’s official alert system appears to have sent out a terrifying warning by accident.

Much of Southern California has been forced to evacuate their homes due to the ongoing wildfires. The wildfires started in Pacific Palisades but due to strong winds, they’ve spread to several other parts of Southern California. So far, though, much of downtown Los Angeles and the valley appears to still be in OK shape.

However, on Thursday afternoon, millions of Los Angeles County residents received a terrifying warning.

“Emergency Alert. NEW: This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area. Remain vigilant of any threats and be ready to evacuate. Gather loved ones, pets, and supplies. Continue to monitor local weather, news and the webpage alertla.org for more information,” the alert reads.

Los Angeles residents who thought they were in a safe area were understandably terrified.

“Every person in LA County got it,” one fan wrote.

“Got it in Long Beach,” one fan added.

The false alert was also heard live on at least one local news show, amplifying its coverage and further rattling LA residents, already on edge:

The county’s in the best of hands, to Insta-paraphrase.

GOOD LORD: Oregon sending crews to help battle Los Angeles-area wildfires.

That sounds great until you know… the rest of the story:

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” —Thomas Sowell.

AI IS GETTING TO BE PRETTY FUN, ACTUALLY:

Sometimes even a deep fake comedy clip can reveal a deeper truth.

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Waltz to Clean Out Deep Staters from National Security Council: ‘We’re Taking Resignations at 12:01’ on January 20.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again.

Waltz, in a phone interview earlier this week, told Breitbart News that he is making sure everyone understands that it’s “crystal clear what the agenda is.”

“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”

Much more at the link, all of it good.

CALIFORNIANS ARE FED UP:

It’s impossible to tell whether Newsom was actually trying to reach Biden or whether he had cell service… but I wouldn’t bet on either.

STRATEGERY:

Britain is a madhouse.

PRIORITIES:

Not even a peek at rebuilding some of the state’s water infrastructure?

HMM: Why Is Diet Root Beer Up 131% Even Though Aluminum Is Down? “This may count as an ‘old man yells at cloud’ moment, but before the Flu Manchu lockdowns and the resultant supply chain breakage, HEB’s house brand of Diet Root Beer went for $2.25 a 12-pack. Now, here in early 2025, it’s going for $5.20. I calculate that as a 131% inflation rate over five years, considerably above the official 21.9% phony baloney ‘let’s lie for Biden’ rate. So what gives?”

ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE LONG A CHANCE:

Well played.

JONATHAN TURLEY: RIP, Snail Darter: The Species that Shut Down the Tellico Dam May Not Actually Exist.

In the annals of environmental law, no creature is more famous than the Snail Darter, the endangered species that shut down completion of the Tellico Dam in the 1970s. It required congressional legislation to allow the dam to be finished after years in the courts where judges maintained that the species had to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. According to the New York Times., the species may turn out to be as mythical as a unicorn.

The controversy began in 1967 when the Tennessee Valley Authority started constructing a dam on the Little Tennessee River, roughly 20 miles outside Knoxville. Environmentalists and locals opposed the project and, in 1973, a zoologist at the University of Tennessee named David Etnier went snorkeling with his students and found a possible solution. He spotted a small fish and called it a “snail darter” because of its movements and eating habits. He reportedly announced “Here’s a little fish that might save your farm.”

Dr. Zygmunt Plater, an environmental law professor at Boston College,  represented the snail darter before the Supreme Court. He did an excellent job and, in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that “the Endangered Species Act prohibits impoundment of the Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam” to protect the endangered snail darters.

That was then.

The Times now quotes Thomas Near, the curator of ichthyology at the Yale Peabody Museum who leads a fish biology lab at the university, that “there is, technically, no snail darter.” Worse yet, it was actually just another member of the eastern population of Percina uranidea, or stargazing darters, which is not considered endangered.

Near and his colleagues have published the results in Current Biology.

In other words, years of litigation and millions of dollars were spent on what was a false claim, and the courts accepted the claims hook, line, and sinker.

As David Frum began the chapter titled “Dam Yankees” of his 2000 book, How We Got Here: The 70’s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse), “An early flag of the American Revolution displayed a coiled rattlesnake (and the fierce motto ‘Don’t Tread on Me’) to symbolize the country’s fierce determination to rule itself. Two hundred years later, the animal with the best claim to represent the American character was not the rattler but a small freshwater fish: the snail darter…The fish might not have been much to look at, but it had a sure sense of timing.”