Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

We need fast, frequent, electrified regional rail that competes with driving to meet our climate goals. Buses, light rail, and metros are great but they are the wrong tool for reducing the bulk of VMT.

This Ain’t The Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They’re Purges. A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

This Ain’t The Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They’re Purges. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

🇲🇽 Mexican president asks: WHAT is the underlying reason for the ongoing epidemic of drug addiction in the USA?

In case yall didn’t know — Claudia Sheinbaum, is highly educated woman. She holds an undergraduate degree in physics, a master's degree & a Ph.D. in energy engineering.

Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.

Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the FBI acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and clips celebrating him.

9. I understand from our Office Manager, however, that as of Sunday, February 2, no funds have been deposited to our bank account. We have checked our accounts multiple times a day since January 29, but no funds have been transmitted. We have received no information or explanation from the Administration for Community Living about the interruption in funds. 10. In short: we have received no federal funds since the OMB Freeze Memo was issued. Our Center had enough money to meet payroll on Friday, January 31, and to cover outstanding bills. But we did not have enough money on hand to cover another two-week pay period at full staffing. 11. Thus, on Friday, January 31, the Board of Directors voted to lay off three of our five employees and drastically reduce services to our customers. This presented a dire situation for our customers, who have immediate needs. 12. For example, on Monday, February 3, we are scheduled to take an 86-year-old woman to dialysis treatments (which we do for her every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Our agency is her only way to get to these life-sustaining appointments.

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Our priest today: In the days ahead, many people will show you hate. We cannot respond with hate but must show love & charity. As Mary, knowing what would happen, presented Christ in the temple, we, now more than ever, most be the light of Christ in the world. Because love is not weakness but power.

“Why do you stand so far off, O Lord, *
and hide yourself in time of trouble?
The wicked arrogantly persecute the poor, *
but they are trapped in the schemes they have devised.”

Wow, the psalter hits the nail on the head this morning! 📕

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

The White House says:
- 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada

What Americans feel:
- Fewer options at the store
- Higher prices for all of us, especially on food

He promised to cut costs. Now he's implementing a Trump Tax on our families.

The chaos continues.

Here’s an idea. If you’ve never served, how about you don’t have an opinion about who can and can’t?

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

The Black Hawk helicopter pilot killed in yesterday’s mid-air collision has been identified as Andrew Eaves.

Carrie Eaves, his wife, posted on Facebook to announce the news. ‘We ask that you pray for our family and friends and for all the other families that are suffering today,’🙏

RIP

Today, we commemorate the birthday of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American civil rights activist best known for resisting the internment of Japanese Americans.

In honor of Fred Korematsu, know your rights and those of your neighbors!

Have questions? See: ow.ly/r2cN50UQJcV

The White House has suddenly removed this page.

whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Tweet from MapQuest: fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it 3:01 PM • Jan 29, 2025

Heroes

Don’t let anyone tell you this guy is popular or that the country is trending his way. Just isn’t true. Never was.

Metrolink, Coaster, u next?

The oath I took as a federal employee never expires, and neither does my support for the federal workforce.

STATEMENT CLARIFYING FEDERAL FUNDING TO MEALS ON WHEELS

ATTN: Meals on Wheels is federally funded. Please donate, or better yet, check on your neighbors to see if they need food! www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/learn-more/n...

If you invest hundreds of billions in a technology and one news story can make it seem like none of that was necessary maybe this isn’t an industry where the market data and capital allocation thing is working right.

I'm not an AI expert. But IMO, the biggest take away is that our biggest AI companies tried to make competition about how much money they could spend. Locking out others.

Deepseek turned that upside down. Which could open the door to many smarter, more entrepreneurial competitors

A snowboarder and a skier land the first 2340s in competition Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli pulled off the six-and-a-half-rotation maneuver in competition for the first time in history.

Japanese snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara and Italian skier Miro Tabanelli pulled off the six-and-a-half-rotation maneuver in competition for the first time in history.

I think Colombia backs down. But kinda hope they don’t. Just gonna leave these here as a reference

Question for OPM: about 30% of federal workers at the VA are Veterans. They were given a preference for hiring because they're Veterans. Disabled Veterans got a higher preference.

They are DEIA hires.

Are you going to fire them all? Are you going to end Veterans preference?

Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II.

Course instruction about Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) − flying planes during WW2− was also pulled from basic training curriculum

Colombia Will Not Accept U.S. Deportation Flights, President Petro Says Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and needs to establish a dignified protocol before his country will allow their return.

Breaking News: Colombia’s president said the country wouldn’t allow deportation flights from the U.S. until President Trump provides a process that treats migrants with “dignity and respect.”