Current Events

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

ICE arrests California father and leaves his children behind in car: witness Advocates say seven people were arrested over the last week, with operations centered around farmworker neighborhood

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Video Pope Leo XIV meets the world press The new pope talked about the importance of freedom of speech and renewed calls for peace during a meeting with journalists on Monday.

Pope Leo comes out for press freedom and the release of imprisoned journalists

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Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects James Antaki has worked for over 30 years on a device to help infants with holes in their hearts and other defects. Now it’s all at risk.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Only important news. (Rat)

Trump Republicanism at its finest.

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UPDATE: More TikTok Moderation from TikTok users #TikTok #Censorship #TikTokModeration

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We're all trans now. Sorry I don't make the rules.

BREAKING: Free Palenstine is now auto-flagged as hate speech on tiktok comments. You get a community violation strike for it. #Palenstine #FreePalenstine #Tiktok #Trump

In honor of republican policy, I will refuse to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by her new gender. I think once a gulf is named, it’s a denial of reality to change that name.

UPDATE: It's no longer a video (on my end anyway) and this is the screen: #trump

lol Netflix is raising their prices again despite just reporting record numbers

I’m sure they’re really just strugglin

Trump’s Gender Order Won't Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed “They can still apply to renew their passport — they just have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth,” the White House press secretary told NOTUS.

Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban:

It will not be retroactive.

Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration.

Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court.

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Downloaded a video from tiktok just now and for this “recommendation”

HMMMMM 🤔 #TikTok #Meta

Just got a Facebook ad. #tiktok #facebook #Meta

Aaaaaaand Instagram #meta #tiktok #instagram

The US military’s long history with drag During World War II, cross dress events were not only sanctioned by the Army, but celebrated as a boon for morale.

Hey did you know soldiers and the US army actually have a long history of doing drag? #LGBTQ #Drag #DragQueens #Queer

www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

Gotta take his little human shield with him anytime he makes a public appearance.

TIKTOK CONTENT MODERATION UPDATE (tested by me) #tiktok #trump

Things you can’t search for:
- stolen election
- rigged election
- trump rigged election

Things you CAN search
- Biden stole election

cmon man

The White House President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...

When you go to the main whitehouse.gov website, it's currently a propaganda video in semi-full screen for Trump.

BREAKING: The constitution page on the whitehouse.gov website isn't working, and you get a 404 error.

Source: www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Jan 12
- Death toll rises to 24 confirmed from LA fires
- Gov. Newsom says the LA fires could become the worst natural disaster in US history “in terms of scope and scale”. Current damages est. over $135 billion

Jan 10
- Trump sentenced to “unconditional discharge” of 34 counts of falsifying business records
- Evacuation expanded from the Palisades Fire.
- Health emergency declared in LA, poor air quality from wildfires
- Supreme Court heard arguments on TikTok Ban

Jan 09
- Jimmy Carter funeral in Washington D.C.
- Supreme Court rules that Trump can be sentenced

Fire hydrants ran dry in Pacific Palisades as a major wildfire raged Janisse Quiñones, CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the fight to contain the flames has put immense strain on the system.

Water is becoming a major issue in the Southern California fires.

As crews battled the wildfire in Pacific Palisades, they put so much strain on the water system that the fire hydrants ran dry.

The fires have also fed ash into the water supply, leading to a boil order notice.

It’s why I’m mostly here now, in The Good Place.

2025 NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS - a list

I plan to keep this updated as much as I can through this year. If you think something is missing, DM me with what you think should be added with a reputable source for further reading.

Jan 08
- Mexico’s president, joked US should be called “Mexican America” after Trump said that the Gulf of Mexico should be Gulf of America.
- Wildfires still in LA w/ mandatory evacuations. 5 people reported dead, numbers expected to rise.
- Conservatives blame DEI for fires in LA.

A list of events that happened on 01/07/25. Wildfires in the Greater Los Angeles area. Per Associated Press, Trump said he would not rule out the use of military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland, claiming vital to US National security to gain control of these. Scoop from Arno Rosenfeld (@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social) “...major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism”. Meta Policy Changes: will remove fact-checkers and replace with community-orientated system, similar to Community Notes. Meta Policy Changes: new hate speech guidelines now allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill, claiming reasoning as [the] political and religious discourse about “transgenderism” and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird”. Meta Policy Changes: removes rules that forbid insults about a person’s appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta Policy Changes: scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as “it.”

Jan 07
(too many - see screenshot)

Meta Policy Changes Source: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Arno Rosenfeld skeet: bsky.app/profile/arno...