A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, upholding the Trump administration's exclusion of transgender individuals from military service, according to a report published by American Greatness and shared by Hegseth on X at 2:45 a.m. UTC December 10. The ruling supports the policy implemented during President Donald Trump's administration, as cited in the American Greatness article linked by Hegseth during the 29-minute reporting window from 2:16 a.m. to 2:45 a.m. UTC. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, incumbent Democratic Mayor Tim Keller leads Republican challenger Diane White 58.4% to 41.6% in absentee and early voting, according to PollTracker2024 on X posted within the period. The city backed Kamala Harris by 24 points in the presidential race. CNN's Jake Tapper questioned Rep. Jasmine Crockett about her 2024 Vanity Fair comment describing Trump-supporting Latino voters as having a 'slave mentality' on immigration, per AlexThomp on X during the window. A political account warned that repeating 2022 primary mistakes with candidates like Herschel Walker, J.R. Majewski, Blake Masters, and Kari Lake could lead to weak GOP results in 2026, as posted by nnjpolitics on X in the past 29 minutes.
