President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, former president Bill Clinton, former secretary of state (also first lady) Hillary Clinton, former president George W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush, former president Barack Obama, former president Donald J. Trump (current president-elect), former first lady Melania Trump, former vice president Al Gore, former vice president Mike Pence and former second lady Karen Pence.
As former president Jimmy Carter is being celebrated for his life and service, the outgoing president and incoming president had a moment of zen.
President Joe Biden along with former presidents Donald J. Trump (president-elect), Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton greeted one another as they mourn the 39th President of the United States.
Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden despise Trump with a passion.
So do former Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. But they all had to keep their composure and held honor out of the respect for Carter's family.
Harris along with former vice presidents Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Mike Pence and Dan Quayle were there. Ohio senator JD Vance (vice president-elect) was there too.
I was joking about your birth certificate. That I can tell you.
Trump along with former first lady Melania, sat next to Obama, Bush and his wife Laura. The Bushes and Obama felt awkward next to a man who demonized them online and in public. Michelle Obama didn't want to be next to Trump or Melania. She did not attend.
George W. Bush is ranked 27 out of 46 rose. He rose from 42 to 27.
Joe Biden is ranked 26 out of 46. He dropped from 15 to 26.
Barack Obama continues to be a president with high marks. He is ranked 12 while Bill Clinton is ranked 15.
Donald J. Trump is ranked 44 out of 46. He will have to redeem himself this second term. Although, I expect him to fail again as well as the Republican Party in general.
All the former presidents and Biden bow to the Israeli lobby. It continues to be an ugly stain on America. Trump will continue the status quo politics when it comes to Israel.
A homeless drunk man set a homeless woman on fire while she was sleeping in a New York City subway. The suspect was an immigrant from Guatemala and was in the United States since 2018. He faces LIFE in the iron college if convicted.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The far right, Republican lawmakers, President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance exploited this tragedy for their endless culture wars. Once they found out she was a transient not a upper class white woman, they move on to the next outrage.
The victim was officially identified.
What angered many was the fact that no one including the MTA or NYPD aided in saving the victim. To some it was a chance to make money off the misery of others.
There were filming the woman on fire.
Debrina Kawam, 57 was a homeless woman from New Jersey.
She attended Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, New Jersey graduating in 1985. In an autopsy carried out on the victim, a medical examiner determined that the victim's cause of death was heat-related burns as well as smoke inhalation. She fell on some hard times after losing her job and fell into medical debt. She was a victim of an unprovoked attack.
Zapeta was deported in 2018. He had no serious criminal history before this.
Within a day of the attack, false stories circulated on social media using an invented name and AI-generated images. These posts were debunked immediately.
Sebastian Zapeta, 33, admitted to heavy drinking and expressed remorse, but claimed not to remember the attack. As he appeared in court, Zapeta with a translator tearfully admitted he "blacked out" and didn’t remember what he done.
It took nearly two weeks for police to identify her following the incident. The Coalition for the Homeless had initially identified her as possibly homeless, but confirmation was pending verification from her family.
Nonetheless a vigil was held for Kawam last month, where the community came together to honor her life despite not knowing exactly who she was.
BREAKING: The woman who was set on fire, killed on NYC Subway has been Identified as a 61-year-old Debrina Kawam, of New Jersey, who briefly spent stayed in homeless shelters. pic.twitter.com/OecgNiq3pF
🚨 #BREAKING : A woman named Debrina Kawam from Toms River, New Jersey, was fatally set on fire on a New York City subway train by Sebastian Zapeta, who has been charged with murder and arson
"Ms. Kawam and her loved ones deserve a measure of justice and New Yorkers deserve to feel safe in the subways," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.
Prosecutors say he set Kawam aboard an F train that was stopped in the early morning hours of Dec. 22,he then fanned the flames with a shirt and watched the woman burn from a subway bench.
The people who filmed this were villains too.
Authorities described Zapeta as reacting with "disgust" and "strangeness" to the video, wiping his eyes and exclaiming in Spanish, "Oh, my goodness," according to the transcript.
"I am very sorry. I didn’t mean to," he then told detectives. "I don’t know what happened, but I’m very sorry for that woman."
As we enter the weeks of 2025, America is already deeply polarized. Trump's return already ensures more chaos. Mind you, Trump isn't in office yet and he already angered Denmark, Greenland, Panama, Mexico, Canada, China, Iran, Jordan, Yemen, Ukraine and Great Britain.
Trump has proven to be a great asset [useful idiot] for Russia and Israel.
Events like this only seek to cast blame on immigrants, Black men, the LGBTQ community and Muslims. If this was a white man doing this, the far right would quickly dismiss the suspect as a mental case or a Democrat.
Can we please get President Donald J. Trump in office so we can finally put to an end of all this noise this old man vomits on social media.
Already two weeks into 2025, we have a devastating wildfire in Los Angeles.
California contributes to 30% of the nation's economic growth.
Drought has been a huge issue.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Gavin Newsom, mayor Karen Bass, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the House members of California were notified. Yes, President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance were informed.
But guess what Trump and Vance do?
Complain and gaslight.
While people are losing their homes to three massive wildfires in the Los Angeles metro area, the far right are blaming Biden, his administration and woke.
Climate change is real. The gaslighting of Biden, Harris, Greta Thunberg, Duchess Meghan or the left is typical of people who spend their entire lives worried about these individuals instead of doing all they can to saves lives.
They blame Bass, the first Black woman to become mayor. Like she was magically starting fires while on vacation in Ghana.
It is almost like the far right raging over Republican Louisiana governor Jeff Landry having celebrate New Year’s Eve festivities unaware of the vehicle attack in New Orleans.
Actor and Trump supporting entertainer James Woods confirms that his home is gone after the wildfire got into his Palisades neighborhood.
The January 2025 Southern California wildfires are an ongoing series of wildfires affecting the Los Angeles metropolitan area and surrounding regions starting January 7, 2025, which were associated with meteorological conditions including hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, very low humidity, and prolonged drought conditions that led to extreme fire danger. Weather officials designated the associated windstorm as potentially the most severe to affect the region since the 2011 Davis County windstorm, prompting several rare particularly dangerous situation warnings. The conditions led to several power outages and caused multiple wildfire outbreaks, such as the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, Hurst Fire, and the Sunset Fire.
Local residents gave large amounts of harsh criticism on social media to Los Angeles city officials and the Department of Water and Power (DWP) for their lack of preparation in maintaining adequate water supplies and flow across the city. Real estate developer and runner up in the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election Rick Caruso strongly criticized Karen Bass and Los Angeles' inadequate firefighting infrastructure, noting how several firefighters were unable to do anything about residences and businesses burning around them.
Bass' continued absence during Biden's visit to Santa Monica to assess fire damage drew particular criticism, including from former Obama administration spokesperson Tommy Vietor. Los Angeles Times Patrick Soon-Shiong strongly condemned Bass's significant $17.6 million budget cuts to the fire department, specifically drawing attention to the severe fire hazard conditions known well in advance, and the lack of pressure in fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades.
On Jan. 20, 12:00pm, he will take responsibility for everything. So when inflation rises, don't blame President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, blame that motherfucker Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Famed folk singer Peter Yarrow passed away from cancer.
If you're a child, you may remember the song. If you're a stoner, you know the song.
Peter Yarrow, the lead singer of Peter, Paul and Mary has passed away at the age of 86. He was one of the co-writers of "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
It was a song about a dragon who traveled through the sea. If you were a supporter of legalizing marijuana, it was advocating for decriminalizing it.
He also had a reputation that was criminal. He was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. He was pardoned by Jimmy Carter.
Yarrow died Tuesday morning at his home in New York City “with his family by his side,” a rep confirms to Variety. Yarrow had been battling cancer for four years.
Peter, Paul and Mary were a leading light of the booming folk-music scene of the early 1960s, which famously centered around the nightclubs and cafes of New York’s Greenwich Village. Yarrow had begun singing while a student at Cornell University and performed in New York and at the Newport Folk Festival, where he was spotted by manager Albert Grossman, who had a vision of “an updated version of the Weavers,” the legendary folk group featuring Pete Seeger. Singers Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers were soon recruited and, using Stookey’s middle name, Peter, Paul and Mary were born.
Yarrow helped popularize Bob Dylan as the voice of a generation — co-writer of the song “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and was a prominent social activist.
The trio signed with Warner Bros. Records and achieved success quickly with their first singles, “The Lemon Tree” and “If I Had a Hammer,” and won two Grammy Awards in 1962. But it was their cover of Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” released in June of 1963, which they performed while standing beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the historic March on Washington that August, that truly made them into a cultural force, not to mention superstars.
(Not coincidentally, Dylan was also managed by Grossman, Although the new Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” does not dramatize how much the trio popularized his music in the early ’60s, Yarrow’s character appears in the film, played by Nick Pupo, seen engaged in debate as a founding member of the board of directors of the Newport Folk Festival.)
The trio would score many hits over the following years — including with the Yarrow-co-written “Puff the Magic Dragon” — yet would remain indelibly associated with those early years. Later in his life Yarrow would focus intensively on social activism and spoke often against the war in Vietnam and on other subjects.
The group’s initial run came to an end in 1970 when they broke up and pursued solo careers. Beyond his own albums, Yarrow had a No. 1 hit as a songwriter with “Torn Between Two Lovers,” recorded by Mary MacGregor, which topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in 1976.
Peter, Paul and Mary first reunited in 1972 to perform at a benefit for George McGovern’s presidential campaign. They came together again in 1978 at an anti-nukes concert. Thereafter, they resumed regular touring and often played dozens of shows a year, which continued until Travers died in 2009.
In an interview for the podcast “The American Radio Show,” Yarrow looked back on the trio’s early success. “The first album that we did had songs on it such as ‘If I Had a Hammer,’ ‘Lemon Tree,’ ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ And that album had quite a lot of success and was up near the top of the charts. The second album had ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ on it. The music had shifted from popular music to music that had become the soundtrack of the consciousness of the change that was going on in America, and our music was a bridge for many people to the music of Bob Dylan, for example.
“‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ was just a kids’ song. But I had no idea it would become so successful. When we sang ‘Blowin’ in the Wind,’ Bob Dylan was unheard of. He’d recorded a demo of that song, but that was it. The same for ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ by John Denver and ‘In the Early Morning Rain’ by Gordon Lightfoot. We recorded songs based on a different process from that used in commercial music. We recorded songs that really got to us, that moved us, that reached our hearts. The success was a result of that. You can’t reduce the success of the music of the ’60s to a formula involving arrangements and musical presentation. It was a matter of finding the songs, and going to the heart of the songs, and then creating something that we really wanted to share.”
The folk group Peter, Paul and Mary were iconic in the 1960s and 1970s.
Yarrow was memorialized Tuesday by family and cohorts. His daughter Bethany said: “Our fearless dragon is tired and has entered the last chapter of his magnificent life. The world knows Peter Yarrow the iconic folk activist, but the human being behind the legend is every bit as generous, creative, passionate, playful, and wise as his lyrics suggest. Driven by a deep belief that a more compassionate and respectful world is possible, my father has lived a cause driven life full of love and purpose. He always believed, with his whole heart, that singing together could change the world. Please don’t stop believing in magic dragons. Hope dies when we stop believing, stop caring, and stop singing. He may have been a dyed-in-the-wool progressive, but his passion and music touched people of all ages and political stripes around the world. “
His longtime bandmate, Noel Paul Stookey (“Paul” of Peter, Paul and Mary), stated: “Being an only child, growing up without siblings, may have afforded me the full attention of my parents, but with the formation of Peter, Paul and Mary, I suddenly had a brother named Peter Yarrow. He was best man at my wedding and I at his. He was a loving ‘uncle’ to my three daughters. And, while his comfort in the city and my love of the country tended to keep us apart geographically, our different perspectives were celebrated often in our friendship and our music. I was five months older than Peter — who became my creative, irrepressible, spontaneous and musical younger brother — yet at the same time, I grew to be grateful for, and to love, the mature-beyond-his-years wisdom and inspiring guidance he shared with me like an older brother. Politically astute and emotionally vulnerable, perhaps Peter was both of the brothers I never had… and I shall deeply miss both of him.”
Yarrow’s legacy was stained by a conviction for taking indecent liberties with a child — a 14-year-old girl — in the late 1970s. The incident reemerged when reporters brought to light that President Jimmy Carter had pardoned Yarrow on the day before Ronald Reagan assumed the office. Wrote the Washington Post in a 2021 article investigating the aftermath, the newspaper wrote that “this pardon by Carter — perhaps the only one in U.S. history wiping away a conviction for a sexual offense against a child — escaped scrutiny when it happened. It was granted just hours before the American hostages in Iran were freed, which captured headlines for weeks. … Yarrow’s crime was mostly forgotten after he served less than three months in jail,” with the rest of his one-to-three-year sentence suspended.
Another woman filed suit in 2021, claiming she had been raped by Yarrow in 1969, when she was a minor. The Post reported that she settled with Yarrow soon thereafter.
Stookey and Yarrow performed shows together as a duo in the late 2010s, up through as recently as last summer. A review of a joint appearance in Minneapolis in 2017 said, “Any concern that I had that the duo would be incomplete without Mary disappeared soon after these two near-octogenarians took the stage. Their two guitars and still near-perfect vocals made for an incredible and passionate evening of music… Those attending expecting only a night of nostalgia with these 1960s protest singers received much more: it was a night of night of reinvigoration for the causes of peace and a better world.” Included in the Peter-and-Paul reunion shows was a new song of Stookey’s called “Work Together,” described as “reject(ing) calls to put the election behind us and work together on the Trump agenda… Always the rebel, Peter Yarrow insisted on taking a knee in protest at the concert – even though pulling it off had the expected level of difficult for a man his age.”
In an April 2024 interview with the Duluth Reader prior to a tour stop there, Yarrow talked about music and its relation to social movements, past and present.
Folk music “still exists, it still has a place,” he said last year, “but it’s a very minor place compared to pop music. And pop music is, to a large degree, a wasteland. It’s not so with certain artists. I mean Lady Gaga has a hell of a conscience; Alicia Keys sings about it and she walks the walk, and so does Taylor Swift, who is a beacon of feminism for teenage girls: Don’t allow the repression that you feel from young men your age to become a reflection of your self-confidence, your essence or self-esteem. Because you are powerful, you are the voice and you can meet them in mutual terrain rather than simply be reactive to the male-dominant culture that we’ve inherited.” Yarrow even likened Swift’s lyrics to “Peter Paul and Mary! Except she isn’t singing to peaceniks, she’s singing to young women who are hopefully not going to allow themselves to be repressed by a male culture of dominance that has brought us to where we are today.”
He continued, “I mean, it is the oppressed people of the world — you know the biblical invocation, ‘the meek shall inherit the earth.’ Look who’s strengthening now — the women. Can you imagine what’s has happened with women with the ‘Pussy March,’ etc. etc. I mean, my God, women are showing up and saying ‘I will not!’ And the oppressed! The LGBTQ showed up and the Black community with Black Lives Matter — the first national gathering of a movement that completely blanketed America where the people, instead of saying ‘where are the people in the streets now that these terrible atrocities have occurred?’ The people were in the streets. And also the students! The students who have been organized…
“We are talking about marginalized people coming into their own. Now, while the Trump reality is growing in its metastatic way, we also have the coalescence of those who have been oppressed to feel their strength. And alas, we don’t have music to accompany that the way we did in the Civil Rights and Vietnam War movements. But nevertheless those movements are in progress.”
Of his recent shows, Yarrow said, “It’s really a remarkable phenomenon because the kind of warmth and enthusiasm and caring, that was once just expected and taken for granted, is reignited amongst people when they sing together, songs like ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ or ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.’ It’s phenomenally moving because it kind of asserts the spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago and still is in our in our culture and in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative to people, so confirmational. No, we’re not gone, no, we still believe in something together. Yes, we still have positive advocacy. Truth, fact, is not a moving target. There are real facts that exist. We have to understand that the dangerous slide of the culture and politics into this polarized, hate-filled perspective is not something that necessarily has to subdue us.”
After Yarrow’s death was announced, his daughter Bethany encouraged donations to her father’s cause: “To honor my father and his legacy In lieu of flowers or any other kind of gift, please consider making a contribution to his not-for-profit, Operation Respect, an anti-bullying program that has been implemented in over 22,000 schools internationally, helping to create the next generation of empathetic, caring, respectful citizens. It would bring him great joy and peace to know that his life’s work of will continue on.”
He is survived by his wife Marybeth, son Christopher, Bethany and granddaughter Valentina.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
President (in waiting) Donald J. Trump held a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago Resort and right off the bat, the old man made threats to Palestinians, Iranians, Greenlanders, Canadians, Panamanians and Mexicans.
He is already content in trying to seize Canada and Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and go nuclear on Hamas and Iran.
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump would not rule out using military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, citing national security interests. Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO. Washington relinquished control of the canal to Panama, another ally, in 1999.
Trump also criticized the late President Jimmy Carter just as his remains were being transported from the Carter Presidential Center in Georgia to Washington for three days of state funeral rites in the capital.
And he escalated his threats against Hamas, warning anew that, “All hell will break out in the Middle East” if the Israeli soliders/settlers still being held in Gaza are not returned before he takes office.
Some of the highlights from the press conference:
The new Trump imperialism
Trump ran on an isolationist “America First” agenda, promising to spend more time worrying about America’s problems than the world’s. But since his win, Trump has been increasingly preoccupied with a new imperialist agenda, threatening to seize control of the Panama Canal, Greenland and even Canada, a top U.S. ally and trading partner.
The billionaire Elon Musk, a frequent presence at Mar-a-Lago, even suggested in a survey posted on X that the U.S. “should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government.”
Asked Tuesday whether he would rule out using the military in Panama and Greenland, Trump refused to do so.
“I’m not going to commit to that. It might be that you’ll have to do something,” he said. “The Panama Canal is vital to our country.”
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is currently in Greenland, increasing speculation about his father’s intentions.
“We need Greenland for national security purposes,” the president-elect said. He also threatened to impose high tariffs on Denmark, while predicting the people of Greenland would welcome his plan.
“The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States,” he said.
Trump has also repeatedly talked about Canada joining the U.S. as its 51st state — rhetoric that at first sounded like trolling of outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but that has become increasingly serious.
Trump told reporters he would not use military force to annex the country of more than 40 million people that is a founding NATO partner. Instead, he threatened “economic force,” as he cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a nation rich in natural resources that provides the U.S. with crude oil, cars and petroleum — as a subsidy.
“Why are we supporting a country $200 billion plus a year,” he asked, insisting the U.S. doesn’t need Canadian cars, lumber or milk.
Trump also renewed talk of steep tariffs on both Canada and Mexico in response to their handling of the northern and southern borders.
And, adding something new to the mix, he said he’d move to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Mixed transition messages
Trump repeatedly complained that President Joe Biden has been undermining his transition to power, even as other members of his team have offered praise for the current administration’s cooperation.
Trump railed against Biden’s move this week to ban offshore energy drilling on about 625 million acres of federal water, including along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea.
Biden’s actions on offshore drilling “will not stand,″ Trump said. ”I will reverse it immediately. And we will drill, baby, drill.” He pledged to take the dispute to the courts “if we need to.”
Trump cast Biden’s effort — one in a series of final actions before the Democrat leaves office — as part of an effort to undermine him.
“You know, they told me that, ‘We’re going to do everything possible to make this transition to the new administration very smooth,’” Trump said. “It’s not smooth.”
Other members of Trump’s team have repeatedly cast the outgoing and incoming administration as working closely together, particularly on foreign policy matters. The Biden administration has also provided access and courtesies to the incoming team that Trump initially denied Biden after the 2020 election.
Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, told Axios in an interview published Monday that Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients had been “very helpful,” introducing her to former chiefs of staff and hosting her for a dinner at his home.
Trump believes he is now driving force in Gaza hostage talks
Trump set a clear expectation at his press conference: A deal to release the 100 hostages that remain captive in Gaza must be completed by the time he takes office in less than two weeks.
“If this deal’s not done for the people representing our nation by the time I get to office all hell is going to break out,” said Trump, hammering home a threat he’s been making since last month without detailing what those ramifications could mean.
Trump is dispatching his incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, to Qatar this week for additional talks. Witkoff said real progress has been made on the talks, which are centered on a 42-day ceasefire deal in exchange for the release of hostages.
“The red lines he’s put out there — that’s driving this negotiation,” Witkoff told reporters standing next to Trump.
One sticking point in landing a deal has been Hamas’ call for a permanent cessation in fighting to be agreed to at the outset. Witkoff in an exchange with reporters following the press conference said that Hamas’ negotiating position has been weakened.
“I’m not sure they have the leverage to,” Witkoff said. “I mean, they can say what they want.”
Witkoff said he’s been having near daily conversations with Biden’s Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, who has served as the outgoing administration’s chief interlocutor in the talks. McGurk has also been in Qatar this week for talks.
Witkoff offered praise for the “solid” Biden team’s coordination on the talks. But he also made clear that the specter of Trump’s return to office is changing the dynamic on the efforts to release the hostages that have languished for months. Israeli officials believe at least one-third of those still being held are dead.
“I just think that President Trump’s persona is such that he’s driving the narrative on this negotiation — that it is that relevant that he is coming in,” Witkoff said.
Trump criticizes Carter as the former president’s body lays in state
Carter’s body was transported to Washington from his native Georgia on Tuesday to lay in state at the U.S. Capitol –- but that didn’t stop Trump from making digs at the former president.
Trump said it’s “a disgrace what took place at the Panama Canal. Jimmy Carter gave it to them for one dollar.”
Trump has spent weeks decrying Carter for signing a 1977 treaty that transferred control of the Panama Canal back to its home country in 1999. He argues that Panama is overcharging U.S. ships to use the waterway and has allowed China to increase its influence there.
Trump has long been critical of Carter, making his administration a punchline on the campaign trail as part of a larger dig at Biden for today’s high inflation rates, although he offered some gracious statements upon his death, saying the country owed the former president “a debt of gratitude.”
Current presidents traditionally refrain from sharply criticizing former presidents, offering deference to fellow members of the informal president’s club. But, like so many Washington traditions, Trump hasn’t been afraid to flout that.
“I liked him as a man. I disagreed with his policies,” Trump said when pressed about whether it was appropriate to criticize Carter as his body was on its final trip to Washington.
“This was a question that was asked of me. I didn’t bring it up. I didn’t want to bring up the Panama Canal because of Jimmy Carter’s death,” Trump added. But he had mentioned the canal earlier unprompted.
Itchy heating
As he vowed to expand offshore drilling and energy exploration, Trump also pledged to roll back limits on gas heaters.
Biden, Trump claimed, “wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments.” It was an apparent reference to an Energy Department rule published last month that would require so-called tankless water heaters to improve their efficiency by about 13% by 2029.
The updated standards would require products to use condensing technology that wastes less heat, officials said. About 60% of new units now sold meet the new standards, and all major water heater manufacturers sell the more efficient models, according to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, an advocacy group that promotes energy efficiency.
“I don’t know what it is with electric. This guy loves electric,″ Trump said, referring to Biden.
Gas heat is less expensive than electric heat, Trump said, adding that gas heat “is much better. It’s a much better heat. As the expression goes, you don’t itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you scratch an itch? That’s what they want you to have.”
Your family and friends who voted for President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are getting "cancelled." Not really, but they are being shunned. Not invited to the cookout.
Fuck around and find out.
Y'all voted for this.
Trump supporter crashes his car while speeding in the snow, screaming about Trump, and blasting "maga music". He was livestreaming WHILE DRIVING 💀 pic.twitter.com/uOinMINwa2
It is official, on Jan. 6, 2025, the U.S. Congress certified the electoral college which officially declares Trump and Vance, the official president and vice president. They will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
Terry Bollea got a nasty welcoming at the season premiere of WWE Raw on Netflix. The entertainer known as Hulk Hogan was trying to promote his piss water, Real American Beer. When came out with Jimmy Hart, Hogan was soundly booed.
Hogan, infamous for his racially inflammatory statements was once looked upon as an iconic figure in wrestling. He was idol back when I was a kid.
His ordeals kind of got me thinking that Hogan is not who he is.
1. His nightclubs and restaurants were engaging in discrimination of Black and Latino patrons.
2. His son was involved in a near fatal car accident. Nick Hogan was driving reckless in Clearwater, Florida. He crashed into a tree and paralyzed his former friend John Graziano. Hogan was arrested and was expected to serve 10 years in the iron college. Hulk Hogan managed to convince the Republican prosecutors to let his son off. He said Nigga while in a recorded jailhouse conversation with Nick.
3. Hulk Hogan insults Brooke Hogan's previous boyfriend. He called him a Nigger in a taped phone call that Gawker got a hold of.
4. Hulk Hogan called Booker T a black beast.
5. Hulk Hogan had numerous affairs on his then wives and current wife. He cheated on Linda Hogan. He cheated on Jennifer McDaniel. He is married to a woman (Sky Daily) over 20 years younger than him. He allegedly slept with underage girls.
6. Hulk Hogan made a sex tape which leaked to Gawker. The sex tape led to his divorce. Hogan sued and with the help of Peter Thiel, managed to bankrupt Gawker. Hogan was drunk and pressured by Bubba The Love Sponge's wife to have sex. She filmed the encounter and told him about the affair. Bubba was going to exploit the affair and force Hogan to pay to keep quiet from Linda.
7. Hogan threatened to body slam Vice President Kamala Harris.
8. Hogan fired two Black women who were modeling for Real American Beer.
9. Trump is going to appoint him for the U.S. Presidential Fitness program.
Hogan is a hasbeen. He ruined his career thanks to racism, steroids, cocaine and Viagara.
Today, the surviving presidents will come together for the final tribute to the 39th President of the United States.
President Joe Biden, President (in wait) Donald J. Trump, former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush will shake hands and greet family members of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter pass away in December 2024. His state funeral started in Plains, Georgia his birthplace, then to Atlanta and finally in Washington, DC.
Vice President Kamala Harris, Vice President (in wait) JD Vance, former vice presidents Mike Pence, Dick Cheney, Al Gore and Dan Quayle will be in attendance as well.
Carter passed away at the age of 100.
He was a one term president who fought thought Republican obstruction, hyperpartisan gridlock, inflation, Israel, the Iranian hostage crisis and Christian nationalism. White supremacists were on the rise during his term.
All of it led to Ronald Reagan getting in.
Similarities.
Tuesday, Jan. 7
6 a.m.: Lying in repose ends at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
11:30 a.m.: President Carter leaves the Carter Presidential Center for the final time with a departure ceremony. The family then accompanies the remains to Dobbins Air Reserve Base outside Atlanta.
12:10 p.m.: Late president and family members arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and board Special Air Mission 39.
12:45 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 departs for Washington, D.C.
2:15 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and Carter’s remains are transferred to the hearse.
2:45 p.m.: Motorcade departs for the U.S. Navy Memorial.
3:30 p.m.: Carter's remains are transferred from the hearse to a horse-drawn caisson for a procession to the U.S. Capitol. Military body bearers will carry the casket into the Capitol Rotunda.
4:30 p.m.: Members of Congress will pay their respects during a service in the Rotunda.
7 p.m. to midnight: Lying in state opens to the public.
Wednesday, Jan. 8
The late president will continue to lie in state and the public is invited to pay respects from 7 a.m. on Jan. 8 until 7 a.m. on Jan. 9.
Thursday, Jan. 9
7 a.m.: Lying in state ends.
8:45 a.m.: Carter Family departs from Blair House via motorcade.
9 a.m.: Departure ceremony from the U.S. Capitol.
9:15 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for Washington National Cathedral.
9:30 a.m.: Carter's remains and family members arrive at the Washington National Cathedral.
9:55 a.m.: Carter’s remains are brought into the cathedral during a brief arrival ceremony.
10 a.m.: National funeral service.
11 a.m.: Departure from the Washington National Cathedral.
11:15 a.m.: Motorcade leaves for Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
11:45 a.m.: Late president and family members arrive at Joint Base Andrews and board Special Air Mission 39.
12:15 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 leaves for Lawson Army Airfield in Fort Moore, Georgia.
2 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Lawson Army Airfield and Carter’s remains are transferred to the hearse.
2:30 p.m.: Motorcade departs for Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
3:30 p.m.: Arrival ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church.
3:45 p.m.: Private funeral service.
4:30 p.m.: Departure from Maranatha Baptist Church.
4:45 p.m.: Late president and family members travel by motorcade through downtown Plains. The public is invited to line the motorcade route as Carter's remains are brought through his hometown.
5:20 p.m.: Motorcade arrives at Carter's residence for a private interment, before which the U.S. Navy will conduct a missing man formation flyover in honor of former President Carter’s naval service and time as commander-in-chief.
Biden, Obama, Clinton and Bush are expected to address the mourners at Carter's funeral. No mentions of Trump speaking or possible digs at the first felon and sexual predator president.
The media mogul, rapper and actor was pulled over in New Jersey. He had an encounter with a police officer and the legendary rapper where both parties elevated way more than expected.
Many are calling out the entertainer for promoting Car Shield while having no valid license or registration on his vehicle.
Ice-T, perhaps best known for his role on Law & Order: SVU and the movie New Jack City is also the rapper who led the rock group Body Count. The group was best known for "Cop Killa" which led to Joe Lieberman, Tipper Gore and C. Delores Tucker to protest rap music. It also led to Al Gore losing his 2020 election also.
Ice-T was issued four tickets after he was pulled over in New Jersey.
Born Tracy Morrow, 66, Ice-T is active in both hip hop and heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays.
The cop pulled him over for not having a front plate.
The following year, he founded the record label Rhyme $yndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "Rhyme $yndicate") and released another album, Power (1988), which would go platinum. He also released several other albums that went gold, including The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say! (1989), O.G. Original Gangster (1991) and Home Invasion (1993).
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Ice-T is married to model/media personality Coco Austin.
The cop was a dickhead and I got to agree with with Ice-T on that one.
It was elevated the moment the rapper questioned why he was pulled over as he was heading to the Department of Motor Vehicles registration to fix an issue with his license and vehicle registration.
Bodycam footage of the 2024 traffic stop has made its way online, and it proves that Ice is not afraid to speak his mind to the police. In the video, which you can see below, the Law & Order: SVU actor is initially pulled over in one of his vehicles because he does not have a front license plate.
Getting pulled over is frustrating. Especially when you try to reason with a dickhead cop.
In New Jersey, a vehicle must have two license plates. Most states have abandoned the two plates on vehicle rule. If you have been pulled over in New Jersey for that and you're from another state, it could be a warning.
But if you're Black, it may result in the New Jersey police officer wanting to conduct a search or a potential confrontation which results in arrest.
Ice-T asked for a supervisor and it led to the cop threatening to tow the vehicle. The supervisor managed to deescalate the situation. The cop issued the tickets and allowed Ice to park.
The video went viral and many sided with the cop.
I side with Ice on this. The situation was escalated when the cop demanded to search his vehicle which Ice declined. The cop did have an ego and lied about why the rapper got confrontational.
It only took less than 45 minutes for the U.S. Congress to certify the electoral count to officially declare the titles of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) was sworn in and her husband refused to shake Vice President Kamala Harris' hand.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially resigns as Canada moves to replace him. His official withdrawal from the Liberal Party and the coalition that kept him in power for 10 years ends.
The Midwest and Atlantic Coast have deadly weather events.
I live in Ohio and it was hit with its first monster storm where a huge snow belt dumped over one foot of snow from Kansas to Washington, DC.
WWE Raw officially on Netflix for a 10 year deal which allows the sporting events to be presented live on the paid streaming platform. For most of its time it was on USA Network. Comcast has a share in the WWE and its major events. They still obtain the rights to Smackdown on USA Network and WWE NXT will be on The CW.
Spotted for its official WWE Netflix debut, Danielle Fishel Karp and Will Friedle.
They host a series called Post Meets World. Fishel played Topanga Lawrence-Matthews, Friedle played Eric Matthews on Boy Meets World. Friedle is also the voice of Terry McGinnis/Batman Beyond.
Today is the four year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. One of the worst events in American history and it led to former president Donald J. Trump's second impeachment. Now he is returning to the White House.
The American people rewarded a white man with so much privilege and lack of compassion for human life. A man who is a convicted felon and sexual predator. A man who played the victim ever since he came down that gold escalator in Trump Tower in 2015.
The white man thy name Trump.
He is the definition of white privilege, ignorance and the uneducated.
A senile semi autistic 78 year old man who is in rapid cognitive decline with his vice president, James David Vance. The two are the emboldenment of white supremacy and status quo politics.
I said I want them to fail. I meant it.
Jan. 6, 2021.
I was working at my previous job. They eliminated full time work during the pandemic. They ordered workers to work during the afternoon and be out of the building at 12am. It was a 24/7 operation before the pandemic. It has since returned to the format.
I was nursing my wounds from a lye incident on Dec. 31, 2020. I poured lye into the drain of my kitchen sink and the shit blew up in my face. I have first and second degree burns on my face. I now have psoriasis thanks to this. But I at least healed where the scars are not visible to most.
Nonetheless I was scheduled off on Wednesday. I had to watch the results of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock winning their senate elections in Georgia. They ended up flipping the senate with Kamala Harris being the tie breaker.
Big-O might be getting out soon.
It was a great day for democracy. Now four years later, I am sick of Joe Biden and definitely sick of Donald J. Trump.
Anyway, I watched the electoral college count on NBC News Live and started to notice some commotion in the House and their abrupted departure. I also saw the Trump rally at the Eclipse.
Trump made his infamous speech where he told his followers to "fight like hell" and demanded that then vice president Mike Pence stop the counting of electoral votes. He also called out then speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney. It lead to a violent insurrection where thousands of his supporters marched to the Capitol.
They broke windows, violently attacked police officers, defaced, vandalized and stole property.
They even defacated in Nancy Pelosi's office. Some came away with property. They threatened to sell it to foreign actors. It cost over $2.4 million dollars in damages. Four people died in the mob. Five police officers had died through violent acts or suicide. The injuries on many were great.
Encouraged by Trump, on January 5 and 6, thousands of his supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to support his false claims that the 2020 election had been "stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats", and to demand that then-vice president Mike Pence and Congress reject Biden's victory. Starting at noon on January 6 at a "Save America" rally on the Ellipse, Trump gave a speech in which he repeated false claims of election irregularities and said, "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore". As Congress began the electoral vote count, thousands of attendees, some armed, walked to the Capitol, and hundreds breached police perimeters. Among the rioters were leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia groups.
The FBI estimates that between 2,000 and 2,500 people entered the Capitol Building during the attack, some of whom participated in vandalism and looting, including in the offices of then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Congress members. Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and journalists. With building security breached, Capitol Police evacuated and locked down both chambers of Congress and several buildings in the Complex. Rioters occupied the empty Senate chamber while federal law enforcement officers defended the evacuated House floor. Pipe bombs were found at both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters, and Molotov cocktails were discovered in a vehicle near the Capitol. Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob. Later that afternoon in a Twitter video, he restated false claims about the election and told his supporters to "go home in peace". The Capitol was cleared of rioters by mid-evening, and the electoral vote count was resumed and completed by the early morning of January 7, concluding with Pence declaring the final electoral vote count in favor of president-elect Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris. Pressured by his cabinet, the threat of removal, and many resignations, Trump later conceded to an orderly transition of power in a televised statement.
We rewarded an unapologetic white supremacist back in power.
A week after the attack, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection, making him the only U.S. president to be impeached twice. In February, after Trump had left office, the Senate voted 57–43 in favor of conviction, but fell short of the required two-thirds, resulting in his acquittal. Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the attack, so the House instead approved a select investigation committee. They held nine televised public hearings on the attack, voted to subpoena Trump, and recommended that the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecute him. Following a special counsel investigation, Trump was in August 2023 indicted on four charges, which were all dismissed in November 2024, following his reelection to the presidency. As of May 2024, of the 1,424 people then charged with federal crimes relating to the event 1,010 pled guilty, and 1,060 have been sentenced, 64% of whom received a jail sentence. Some participants in the attack were linked to far-right extremist groups or conspiratorial movements, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters, some of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Enrique Tarrio, then the chairman of the Proud Boys, received the longest sentence, a 22-year prison term. Trump and elected Republican officials have since promoted a revisionist history of the event by downplaying the severity of the violence, spreading conspiracy theories, and portraying those charged with crimes as hostages and martyrs.
Of the mob.
94% white.
3% Black
1% Asian
1% Latino
1% other
To this day, there are over 5,000 suspects involved and they haven't been arrested yet.
Trump promised that he will pardon or commute the participants of this. This will be one of the most dumbest and yes, facsist moves yet. If he does this, it assures that violent acts upon the government will be justified if one carries it out in the name of opposition. It will also set the U.S. back further in leadership, morality and diplomacy.
It's bad already thanks to Biden's willingness to back Israel and threaten attacks on Iran for defending itself from Israeli attacks.
Trump and Republicans are rewarded with this moment of shame. It makes me more likely to root for America's downfall than successes.
Vice President Kamala Harris will certify the electoral college and make it official for Trump and Vance. It will be one of her final duties as the vice president.
Weather will be an issue. The Washington, DC metro area is expecting up to a foot of snow and several lawmakers aren't available.
America is on the decline and we can thank Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Donald J. Trump.
Pressure to resign. Justin Trudeau is expected to be out soon.
Like President Joe Biden, Canada's prime minister faced intense backlash for his backing of Israel.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation to Parliment this week.
Winners and losers of 2025.
At least, Canada will abide to the International Criminal Court's warrant. If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Issac Herzog and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant step foot in Canadian territory, they could be arrested.
Netanyahu is pretty much isolated to Israel and the United States. He is not safe anywhere else from prosecution. The member nations will abide by the rule expect the U.S. which Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump vocally oppose the indictments and threatened sanctions.
Biden leaves as an unpopular president.
Trump enters in again as an unpopular president.
Status quo politics and MAGAland mixed into a combination of chaos and frustration.
Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will face more threats thanks to their rhetoric on the campaign trail. They will have more threats on their lives and those who associate with them. Not all of them will come from the left, a foreign actor or someone from the right. It will be within their own creations.
Elon Musk as well faces more death threats. His X Corp. has moved to Texas and it has stepped up security after the mogul got verifiable threats on his life. He and his family are no longer in the bubble.
Trudeau, a longtime ally to Biden, Trump and former president Barack Obama is expected to leave after pressure.
There are no signals of Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland of running for prime minister. She quit the Trudeau administration last year after Trudeau tried to demote her. She wanted him to answer to the threats from Trump about tariffs on Canadian exports.
She also stated that Trudeau's sudden rekindling friendship with Trump, a known sexual predator and felon kind of impedes on the values of Canadians.
Trudeau lost support of former Deputy Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Trudeau is increasingly likely to announce he intends to step down, though he has not made a final decision, a source familiar with Trudeau's thinking said on Sunday.
The source spoke to Reuters after the Globe and Mail reported that Trudeau was expected to announce as early as Monday that he would quit as leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party after nine years in office.
The source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Trudeau's departure would leave the party without a permanent head at a time when polls show the Liberals will badly lose to the official opposition Conservatives in an election that must be held by late October.
Sources told the Globe and Mail that they did not know definitely when Trudeau would announce his plans to leave but said they expect it would happen before a emergency meeting of Liberal legislators on Wednesday.
An increasing number of Liberal parliamentarians, alarmed by a series of gloomy polls, have publicly urged Trudeau to quit.
The prime minister's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours. The prime minister's regularly published schedule for Monday said he would participate virtually in a cabinet committee meeting on Canada-U.S. relations.
It remains unclear whether Trudeau will leave immediately or stay on as prime minister until a new Liberal leader is selected, the Globe and Mail report added.
CALLS TO RESIGN GROW
Trudeau took over as Liberal leader in 2013 when the party was in deep trouble and had been reduced to third place in the House of Commons for the first time.
If he does resign, it would likely spur fresh calls for a quick election to put in place a stable government able to deal with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump for the next four years.
The prime minister has discussed with Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc whether he would be willing to step in as interim leader and prime minister, one source told the newspaper, adding that this would be unworkable if LeBlanc plans to run for the leadership.
Bad optics.
Trudeau, 53, had been able to fend off Liberal legislators worried about the polls and the loss of safe seats in two special elections.
But calls for him to step aside have grown since December, when Trudeau tried to demote Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, one of his closest cabinet allies, after she pushed back against his proposals for more spending.
Freeland quit instead and penned a letter accusing Trudeau of "political gimmicks" rather than focusing on what was best for the country.
Trudeau propelled the Liberals to power in 2015 promising "sunny ways" and a progressive agenda that promoted the rights of women and a promise to fight climate change.
But the everyday realities of governing gradually wore him down and like many Western leaders, the need to deal with the effects of the pandemic ate up much of his time.
Although Ottawa spent heavily to protect consumers and businesses, racking up record budget deficits, this provided little protection from public anger as prices soared.
A botched immigration policy led to hundreds of thousands of arrivals, straining an already overheated housing market.
Noah Hackey had his leg broken by a Virginia nurse in a malicious act.
Y'all voted for this.
A Virginia nurse is accused of going into the maturity ward intentionally breaking the bones of premature Black babies.
The suspect is a white woman.
Erin Strotman is the first loser of 2025. She will be criminally charged with child abuse, attempted murder and possibly hate crime charges if its determined that her actions were based on bigotry.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Henrico police have arrested a Henrico Doctors’ Hospital NICU nurse, charging the woman with felony counts of malicious wounding and child abuse.
This comes one week after the hospital announced it was temporarily stopping admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit after three babies were found to have unexplained fractures in late November and December.
Strotman was taken into custody Thursday and booked at Henrico Jail West early Friday morning.
The circumstances of the recent fractures are similar to incidents involving four different babies at the hospital in the summer of 2023, according to a statement from HCA, which runs Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
Virginia nurse intentionally harmed babies in the ICU.
Among those babies was Noah Hackey, whose tibia was fractured while in the NICU at the hospital in September of 2023.
We shared the Hackey family’s story last week, including a letter from a Child Protective Services Supervisor, that says CPS "founded level 1 for physical abuse of Noah by an employee by the Henrico Doctor’s Hospital NICU.”
“They failed strictly on multiple levels with multiple different families, and they need to be held accountable as well because that shouldn’t have happened. If they were suspicious of some person enough to let them go they shouldn’t have brought them back. They failed simple as that,” Dominique Hackey said.
However, CPS was not able to identify that employee.
“I want to give you the opportunity to respond a family member of a victim spoke to us earlier and described what happened in 2023 as a failure on the part of Henrico County as well as the hospital. Do you feel like the county failed future babies that were in the NICU at the hospital?” CBS6 investigative reporter Melissa Hipolit asked Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor.
Tori Hackey with Noah. Virginia mother shocked a nurse hurt her baby.
“When we look at what happened back in 2023, we can look at it from the standpoint of not just the individual culpability, but if there was a systems failure,” Taylor responded. “I think we would be remiss if we did not look at all aspects of how the system is working and how these families were impacted.”
“So potentially there could be criminal charges beyond the person that committed the acts?” Hipolit asked.
“Like any investigation we are going to make sure that we look at all facets of the investigation, and if there are individuals that need to be held accountable, and if we have the evidence to sustain that then we will pursue it,” Taylor replied.
Taylor confirmed her office re-opened Noah’s case and others earlier this week.
Dominique Hackey, his wife Tori with Noah and his twin brother Micah.
Strotman was placed on paid administrative leave in 2023 after the hospital conducted an internal investigation, according to Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS) records obtained exclusively by CBS 6.
She was determined to be one of two staff persons “found to have had contact with all of the infants in the timeframe identified,” and unlike the other employee, Strotman was “new to the unit and had more direct care responsibilities with the NICU infants.”
However, CPS and police said they could not determine who the abuser was at the time.
CBS 6 asked HCA when Strotman's paid administrative leave ended, when she returned to work, and if she is still an employee of the hospital system.
Strotman is a "former" employee of the hospital, according to a statement provided to CBS 6 by HCA.
"There has been an ongoing investigation into fractures sustained by patients in our NICU, and this morning, the Henrico County Police Department arrested a former employee of the hospital in connection with that investigation. We have been assisting law enforcement in their ongoing investigation and will continue to do so. Any media questions or inquiries about that investigation should be directed to law enforcement.
"We are both shocked and saddened by this development in the investigation and are focused on continuing to care for our patients and providing support to our colleagues who have been deeply and personally impacted by this investigation. We are grateful to those colleagues, who have dedicated their professional lives to the care and safety of our patients, as well as to law enforcement and the other agencies who have worked aggressively and tirelessly with us on this investigation.
"For more than 30 years, the NICU at Henrico Doctors' Hospital has provided necessary and life-saving care to babies in central Virginia and we remain focused on ensuring the availability of that care in our community."
