January 27, 2025 Education, Immigration
Fort Worth’s NBC affiliate reports: Fort Worth Independent School District said it’s investigating a social media post allegedly made by a substitute teacher that encouraged Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, to come to North Side High School. The alleged post by the substitute stated: “Y’all should come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School. I have many students who …
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January 27, 2025 Idiocracy, Trump cultists
CBS News reports: A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a video shared on social media. Laura Smith resigned from the Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors after a video in which she mimicked a gesture made by Elon Musk. In a statement announcing her resignation, she said the video she posted “has …
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January 27, 2025 Medicine, News
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports: An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States. “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history,” Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee on Tuesday. As of Jan. 17, …
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January 27, 2025 Employment, Trump Administration
Via press release from the Labor Department: Acting Secretary of Labor Vince Micone today transmitted Secretary’s Order 03-2025 to all department employees, directing them to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under the rescinded Executive Order 11246 and the regulations promulgated under it. The order applies to all department employees, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, …
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January 27, 2025 Covidiots, Military
Fox News reports: President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House. Those reinstated will be returned to their prior rank, and be provided back pay and benefits. The White House fact sheet indicates that just 43 of the over 8,000 …
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January 27, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The New York Post reports: A Republican congresswoman is calling for the new commander in chief to be carved into the historic Mount Rushmore alongside fellow presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. Florida Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna echoed calls from conservatives and claims she will be introducing legislation to set it in stone. The patriotic …
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January 26, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best of times. But to do it right as unpredictable and dangerous weather disasters tear across the country this month — from wildfires in California to a historic freeze in the south — was particularly tone deaf. And yet, …
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January 26, 2025 News, Politics
Nexstar reports: From daylight saving time to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, there are various aspects of the federal government that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its head, Elon Musk, have targeted in order to cut spending. Now, it seems to have a new prey: the penny. The latest report from the U.S. Mint shows that pennies accounted …
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January 26, 2025 Canada, United States
CTV News reports: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would retaliate against U.S. tariffs if he were elected prime minister, potentially matching them dollar for dollar. In an interview with CTV News Atlantic’s Todd Battis, Poilievre, providing details of his plan for the first time, said he would target American products and services Canada doesn’t need or can make in-house …
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January 26, 2025 Fake News, Fox News
Law & Crime reports: Fox News sued Los Angeles County this week in an effort to pry away documents related to the municipality’s relationship with voting software and hardware company Smartmatic Corp. Attorneys filed the public records lawsuit days after a New York-based court of appeals declined to dismiss Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit over false “conspiracy theories” about rigging …
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