⚡🇮🇷 NEW - Reza Pahlavi, a figure of the Iranian opposition in exile and son of the last Shah of Iran, addresses the armed and security forces directly. He calls on them to stop serving the Islamic Republic and to side with “the people.”

⚡🇻🇪 NEW - Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: We lost Commander Hugo Chávez, we do not have the physical capacity to bring him back, because they killed him. But Nicolás, we are going to bring him back.

⚡💉 NEW - KATIE MILLER: “My oldest child is fully vaccinated. My youngest child is not vaccinated at all. My oldest child had a milk soy protein allergy … My third child … never ever gets sick.” JENNY MCCARTHY: “This is what I've heard … over the country over the past 15 years.”

⚡🇷🇺 NEW - Russian President Putin celebrates Orthodox Christmas at a Moscow church.

⚡🐴 NEW - Man rides his horse through a Target store, horse poops all over the floor. "What are you doing? Get out of the store with a horse," one Target worker said as the horse walked by. After taking a lap around the store, the horse and riders were escorted out by security.

⚡🇹🇷 SUCCES - These ladies in Turkey who run this dress store for 16 years went online and opened an online shop … now they received the first online order. Look how happy they are!

⚡💬 NEW - Elon Musk on China: “It seems like China listens to everything I say, and does it basically— or they’re just doing it independently. I don’t know, but they certainly have a massive battery pack output, they’re making a vast number of electric cars, and vast amount of solar. These are all the things I said we should do here.”

⚡👀 NEW - CNBC says XRP is the "hottest" crypto trade of this year. "It is not Bitcoin, it is not Ether."

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Massie on Epstein Files: If this were a private law firm with 5% of the resources of the DOJ, this would have been done by the deadline. They just missed another deadline to report all of the politicians in their files, and they’re supposed to justify all of their redactions. The biggest problem isn’t that they’re missing deadlines—it’s what they’re redacting. They’re trying to pretend the Privacy Act overrides a law that explicitly says you can’t withhold records to prevent embarrassment. They’re also citing FOIA standards, which don’t apply to our law. They’re trying to say they don’t have to release internal decisions, but our bill specifically says they must release internal decisions.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - $12 trillion BlackRock’s Jay Jacobs said live on CNBC that “it's still early days for Bitcoin”