Wake Up Right - August 8, 2025

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Happy Friday, Wake Up Right fam! Today wraps up our run of abbreviated newsletters – thanks for sticking with me while I recharged the batteries. Hope these quick hits kept you in the loop.

We’re back to full speed on Monday… And we have a lot to catch up on!

  • 🔞 56% of D.C. carjacking suspects are minors

  • 🇮🇱 32% of U.S. supports Israel's action in Gaza

  • ✌️ On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon announces resignation

  • 📉 Trump approval avg: 45.9% approve, 51.4% disapprove

  • 🍩 55% of U.S. daily calories are ultra-processed foods

🧮 President Trump has ordered his administration to create a new census, in which illegal migrants will not be counted. Read more. YES. Democrats have extra House seats and electoral votes because the last census counted illegals.

🚖 Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the U.S. almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022. Read more. 

💾 President Trump called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign because of his past ties to China. Read more.

🤝 President Trump and Vladimir Putin will reportedly meet next week to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Read more.

🇮🇱 The Israeli government approved a plan to expand the war by taking control of Gaza City. Read more.

❤️‍🩹 Three additional victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have been identified through advanced DNA analysis. Read more.

🤬 Patrick Brice, who brutally beat two elderly pro-life advocates, escaped jail time after Baltimore City Circuit Judge Yvette Bryant sentenced him to just one year of home detention. Read more.

🇻🇪 The US is now offering $50 million for information that leads to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Read more.

🏈 Dolphins star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa says it's "an honor" to be named to President Trump's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Read more.

🚇️ A 29-year-old woman was slashed multiple times by an unidentified Black man in his 20s on a New York City subway after she refused to hand over her bag. Read more.

Stephen Miran, who currently serves as head of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors, has been tapped to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Read more.

🥇 President Trump will serve as the chairman of a new task force to oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in LA. Read more.

💉 U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high 3.6%. Read more.

🎥 Greg Gutfeld appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Watch.

🎥 OFFENSE: Chalie Kirk explains how Trump plans to strip Democrats of 20 electoral votes. Watch.

🎥 Stephen Moore brings receipts to explain how Biden was faking the jobs numbers. Watch.

📰 Steve Bannon responds to the Daily Mail story claiming he's planning a 2028 presidential run. Read.

🎥 Nancy Pelosi emerges from her lair to pledge support for genital mutilation for kids. Watch.

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📰 H-1B visas take American jobs. EB-5 visas create them. Here's how. *

🎥 Charlie Kirk reacts to South Park parodying him. Watch.

🎥 Scott Jennings cracks up over CNN panelists’ outrageous claim. Watch.

🎥 If you don't believe the left pays people to protest, watch this. Watch.

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