“Pursuant to its authority under 5 USC § 1103(a)(1) and (a)(5), the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing the following initial guidance to agencies regarding the President’s Executive Order entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Defending Women). Steps to End Federal Funding of Gender Ideology: In light of Defending Women, each agency should take prompt actions to end all agency programs that use taxpayer money to promote or reflect gender ideology as defined in Section 2(f) of Defending Women. Specifically, agency heads should take the following steps: 1. No later than 5:00 pm EST on Friday, January 31, 2025 [blah blah blah] Review agency email systems such as Outlook and turn off features that prompt users for their pronouns,” says a memo from the Office of Personnel Management. Only a few hours left until the pronounpocalypse.

When does Trump issue the executive order capping credit card rates at 10 percent?

Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing on Thursday told reporters that programs designed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are an “integral” part of the Russian money laundering operation’s strategy going forward and they don’t plan on caving to right wing activists constantly freaking the fuck out over it like so many other companies have, Bloomberg reports.

“We are now firmly behind this program,” Sewing said in Frankfurt, adding he and his team “can see how Deutsche Bank has benefited from it. I know what diversity has brought us on the management board at the top reporting level. That’s why we are strong supporters of these programs.”

It’s not clear if convicted felon President Trump will boycott Deutsche Bank now or just stop making payments on his loans to protest Sewing’s enthusiastic embrace of woke DEI madness.

Cops in the Brittany region of Western France on Friday said they were investigating an act of vandalism on the tomb of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front, just weeks after he died at the age of 96, the AP reports. The specifics of the vandalism were not made public.

Rodent-faced disarray-monger Chuck Todd has officially left NBC, Axios reports on the end of everything being devastating for Democrats. Can’t wait to not listen to his podcast.

“Transport Workers United Local 100 Interim President John V Chiarello announced today that TWU Local 100 would match the reward offered by NYPD Crime Stoppers for information leading to the apprehension of the six unidentified men who took a R Train on a joyride last weekend. The Union will pay up to $3,500 for the information, matching the Crime Stoppers reward. Images of the six men on platforms and entering the transit system were released today by Crime Stoppers.”

“The NYPD announcement noted that the six individuals ’caused damage to glass panels on the train,’ but this was the least of it, Mr Chiarello said. ‘A bunch of reckless teens took a $20 million piece of equipment out of a secure transit layup area, endangering themselves, transit property, and transit workers who may well have been working on the tracks,'” says a statement from TWU Local 100 chief John Chiarello on the hunt for the mischievous punks who broke into and stole not one but two R trains that had been parked overnight on tracks usually reserved for the N express train along 4th Ave in Brooklyn. Not for nothing but it seems like the $3,500 is the price TWU is willing to pay to avenge being made to look foolish and incompetent enough to allow a $20 million piece of equipment to be stolen by teenagers. Don’t these things have key ignitions in the operator cab?

Per the New York Daily News, the suspects posted video of the joyride on Instagram in which they can be seen passing at least one station and another train in service, with one saying “Check [the] radio now,” to see if they’d been noticed by the other train’s TWU member crew. They weren’t.

“Still photos released by police show at least one suspect jumping a turnstile” as they made their way to the parked trains, the News writes as if they expected the kids to use their MetroCards.

“This reminds me of all the places that named themselves after Biden and Kamala because they were so proud of their candidates” – Top comment on the Fox Business article “Trump Burger chain expanding in Texas, owner praises president as ‘gentleman that makes peace’,” posted Thursday.

BURN! Wow! What a freaking nuclear shade bomb that was! He’s so right that Democrat entrepreneur ever opened up a “Kamala Cafe” or “Biden Ice Creamery” out of “pride” for the former president and vice president. Could’ve even gone further with the absolute slam by positing that they would’ve closed down because of poor business but brevity is the soul of wit, you know.

Ughhhhhh, man, these freaking clowns. First off this jackass completely glossed over “Obama Fried Chicken,” although that was a more cynical and not a small amount racist “tribute” by its Bangladeshi immigrant proprietor. But to his larger “point,” the commenter might as well be saying “This reminds me of all the Harris voters that got killed attacking the US Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying her defeat” or “This reminds me of all the $99 NFTs of Biden dressed like a cowboy that sold out in under 12 hours.” There are only so many goddamned ways to say that that their slavish, suicidal, often homoerotic devotion to Trump is not actually a flex and yet here it is once again.

“The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday morning, apparently forgetting the disaster of the Potomac on Wednesday night was supposed to be the tragic consequences of the Biden and Obama Administration’s DEI policies and now simply focusing on the more widely accepted theory of pilot error on the part of the Army Blackhawk crew.

We *really* need to know who that helicopter pilot was and what they were saying in their social media posts https://t.co/PTIr2AM1JF

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 31, 2025

Some of his fanboys were working hard to overlap the two and make it possible some Facebook post could trickle up to make the Orange God Emperor right all along about “DEI” being a factor.

“AMERICA FIRST DRUG PRICES!!!” the fat fuck also posted, apparently forgetting that on day one last week he repealed a Biden executive order lowering prescription drug prices.

Flying deportees on military planes from El Paso, Texas to Guatemala costs the Trump Regime more than five times what a comparable first class seat on a commercial airliner does, Reuters reports.

According to data provided to Reuters by American and Guatemalan officials, the flights cost $4,675 per migrant, more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso. Even an ICE charter flight would be cheaper, but because the Orange God Emperor wants to make it sound more ominous and scary by using the words “military planes” to describe his still-not-really-that-impressive effort, American taxpayers are getting hosed badly.

Summarizing the state of play on the field in Washington, super “plugged-in” Politico whiz Zach Stanton writes in the Friday morning edition of the “Playbook” newsletter titled “Trump’s narrative shift” that “After week one, the Trump administration seemed a bit like a Colossus astride the world.”

“After week two, it seems altogether more fallible and subject to the same laws of gravity that apply to every government and political leader. Whether that sense lasts is anyone’s guess – so much can happen so quickly in politics, and it’s entirely possible that in a month’s time, we’ll look back on this week as an anomalous moment in what is otherwise a series of political victories for Trump…”

“But I’d be remiss if I didn’t share that I’ve seen a noticeable shift in my conversations with Democrats over the last couple days. Suddenly, there’s some faint whiff of the old Trump 1.0-era resistance magic in the air, and some (but definitely not all) [emphasis Santon’s] of the intraparty quarreling that has raged since the November election has been supplanted by a new determination to paper over those differences and take on Trump. And yet…” Stanton continued, using the ellipses to lead into a section about the “neck-and-neck race” for the Democratic National Committee chair.

Holy shit this goddamned newsletter is so monstrously aggravating. This son of a bitch just fucking outright admitted he was getting excited that the “resistance magic” was back, that the conflicts that fueled so many clicks for Politico and other MSM sites from 2017 to 2021 are firing on all cylinders once again, that these “Beltway pro” cocksuckers got what they wanted out of the 2024 election. That, rather than a relatively placid and boring Harris administration where Republicans would act even more unhinged than they were 2021 to 2025 but since that didn’t drive traffic for Politico like the anarchy of the first Trump Regime did, it’s “magic.” Un-fucking-believable.

A bill, making it a felony for an elected member of a city or other municipality council to vote in favor of any local measure to implement “sanctuary city” policies as well as empowering the state attorney general to remove that member from office – among other over-the-top MAGA bullshit – passed both the state House and Senate on Thursday, headed for the desk of Gov Billy Lee, WTVF reports.

Sanctuary cities are already banned under Tennessee state law, so if the city council of Memphis were to pass such a measure, it would be toothless. Yet, for whatever demented reason, the ULTRAMAGA Republicans in the state legislature want to criminalize even a “symbolic,” dead-end vote to codify refusing to lend local law enforcement assistance to federal immigration authorities.

That’s, uh, pretty undemocratic, fascistic, and unconstitutional on top of unnecessary. Also extremely unlikely to fly with the Supreme Court, even given the MAGAfied 6-3 bench we’re stuck with now. They might be Nazis but they aren’t stupid either. Allowing criminalization of the basest of democratic functions to stand would open the door to California or New York criminalizing Republican members of Congress from their states for voting against a national right to abortion.

Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil might be the most known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new study is throwing shade on how much his predictions should be trusted. Phil did so poorly that taxidermied critters are better at forecasting an early spring. https://t.co/ipDZs5ngme

— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) January 31, 2025

“Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater that could have served as the ‘broth’ for these compounds to interact and combine. The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system, increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons,” says a Wednesday NASA update . Happier asteroid news than earlier too.

“In research papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, scientists from NASA and other institutions shared results of the first in-depth analyses of the minerals and molecules in the Bennu samples, which OSIRIS-REx delivered to Earth in 2023. Detailed in the Nature Astronomy paper, among the most compelling detections were amino acids – 14 of the 20 that life on Earth uses to make proteins – and all five nucleobases that life on Earth uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in more complex terrestrial biomolecules, such as DNA and RNA, including how to arrange amino acids into proteins. Scientists also described exceptionally high abundances of ammonia in the Bennu samples. Ammonia is important to biology because it can react with formaldehyde, which also was detected in the samples, to form complex molecules, such as amino acids – given the right conditions. When amino acids link up into long chains, they make proteins, which go on to power nearly every biological function,” continued the update.

“On January 29, 2025, a commercial aircraft and a military helicopter horrifically collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. American families today woke up without their loved ones after what should have been a routine trip, and the entire Nation mourns the loss of the victims. This shocking event follows problematic and likely illegal decisions during the Obama and Biden Administrations that minimized merit and competence in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Obama Administration implemented a biographical questionnaire at the FAA to shift the hiring focus away from objective aptitude. During my first term, my Administration raised standards to achieve the highest standards of safety and excellence. But the Biden Administration egregiously rejected merit-based hiring, requiring all executive departments and agencies to implement dangerous ‘diversity equity and inclusion’ tactics, and specifically recruiting individuals with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities in the FAA,” says a new executive memo from convicted felon President Trump commanding the US government to conform to his version of reality. It also points out the continued existence of an Obama policy Trump did not repeal during his first failed term.

“On my second day in office, I ordered an immediate return to merit-based recruitment, hiring, and promotion, elevating safety and ability as the paramount standard. Yesterday’s devastating accident tragically underscores the need to elevate safety and competence as the priority of the FAA.”

There’s a version of the next few days where it turns out that Thursday’s midair collision between a US Army Blackhawk and a commercial flight by an American Airlines subsidiary and taking 67 souls with it was partially or even directly attributable to convicted felon President Trump’s purge of the federal civil service corps, that there would have been more air traffic controllers on duty at Reagan National Airport if Kamala Harris was president. Not terribly likely, but within the realm of possibility.

Then there’s another, that isn’t mutually exclusive, where the air traffic controller(s) on duty had to undergo some diversity training last month and the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex will run with that to portray them as being rusty or distracted. If they find an opening like that or that the controller(s) are Black, female, LGBTQ+, or whatever then be damn sure they’re going to take it.

Convicted felon President Trump on Thursday told reporters in the Oval Office he’ll be proceeding with the 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, adding that they may or may not apply to oil, which he will decide that maybe Thursday night, lol. Good luck figuring that one out.

The 25 percent tariff on each “may or may not rise with time,” Trump said, adding “Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade. They’ve treated us very unfairly on trade and we’ll be able to make that up very quickly because we don’t need the products they have.”

The mommy and daddy of imprisoned crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried have been attempting to get an audience with convicted felon President Trump to secure a pardon or a commutation from the 25 year federal sentence for their neuroatypical bundle of joy, Bloomberg reports.

BREAKING: Initial FAA report indicates staffing at air control tower was “not normal.” pic.twitter.com/nq8j38D9SL

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 30, 2025

“I am writing to inform you that I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation regarding the airing of NPR and PBS programming across your broadcast member stations. As you know, NPR and PBS distribute their programming through a network of approximately 1,500 NPR and PBS member broadcast stations. The relevant broadcast stations, which are licensed to operate by the FCC, are limited by the terms of their federal authorizations to operating as noncommercial educational broadcast stations- or NCES. Federal law prohibits any NCE station from running commercial advertisements. More specifically, Sec 399B of the Communications Act prohibits an NCE station from airing commercials or promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities.”

“For-profit entities that contribute funds to NCE stations may receive on-air acknowledgements, but the FCC has long held that underwriting announcements are for identification purposes only. These announcements should not promote the contributor’s products, services, or businesses, and they may not contain comparative or qualitative descriptions, price information, calls to action, or inducements to buy, sell, rent, or lease. I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials. In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements. It is important to me, as Chairman of the FCC, that NCE broadcast stations stay true to their important missions and refrain from operating as noncommercial in name only,” writes FCC chief Brendan Carr to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger.

So this, rather than defunding the tiny fractions of their operating budgets coming from taxpayer budgets, is the new angle of attack on public broadcasting, which for how many fucking decades has aired brief promos identifying their sponsors without anyone complaining. Rich too that a concern over private interests intruding on a public institution coming from the regime whose Commander-in-Chief not three hours ago posted a link to buy a copy of his picture book that costs like $60, among a great deal of other scams large and small that he’s been at the center of.

Panama President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday told reporters there will be no negotiation with the US over ownership of the Panama Canal, and he hopes Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Sunday visit will be more about shared interests than relinquishing the waterway, the AP reports.

“It’s impossible, I can’t negotiate,” Mulino said when asked about returning the Canal Zone to the US, adding “That is done. The canal belongs to Panama. “The only thing that I want is to clear all the garbage from the path, clean the table and be able to speak with the US and very frankly” about issues such as immigration, security, and fighting against drug trafficking.

The meeting will be Rubio’s first foreign trip as the United States’s top diplomat. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing as far as Mulino and the canal’s status are concerned.

In a Thursday story headlined “Suicide deaths by Kansas sex offenders leaves survivors without trials or justice, advocates say,” the Kansas Reflector writes that “A child sex abuse survivor and advocate thinks it’s ‘more than a coincidence’ that three men accused of child sex crimes died by suicide in December. Survivors of the three men are now left without the possibility of seeing their alleged abusers held accountable for their crimes, said Kim Bergman, a survivor of child sex abuse who has advocated for changes in state policy at the Statehouse in Topeka.”

“Survivors are coming forward sooner. Perpetrators are actually having to deal with the ramifications of what they do,” said Bergman. “Child sex crimes are all about power. When they’ve been arrested, they’ve lost the power, and I think sometimes their way of taking that back is putting their destiny in their own hands,” all of which rings sincere irrespective of the black comedy of it.

Only one of the three scumbags was in a county jail when he committed suicide, the other two self-canceled in their homes while out on bond, so where this might’ve been about a call to legislate stricter procedures for sex offender suspects in custody it’s just Bergman complaining that they avoided the justice by killing themselves before trial. Not sure what anyone was supposed to have done about that for the two who offed themselves at home before they could be tried. Bergman did not go any further than saying law enforcement should “be aware of this trend and be looking for signs” that a sex offender is eyeing that exit. Now, nobody should ever have any reason to question the feelings of victims of sexual abuse, and yet this is just a pretty unique absurdity, like she’s worried that her work advocating for fellow survivors is going too well because these fucking animals were pretty obviously guilty if they self-corrected their vile sicknesses.