The Doomsday Clock – which calculates how near we are to mutual destruction – has been moved closer to mutual destruction by “scientists” who cite these reasons: nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence and climate change. They’re an activist group and I’m not in the mood for this nonsense, this week of all weeks.
Photo credit: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS)
In Case You Missed It.
🐍 Today is the Chinese Lunar New Year and it begins the Year of the Snake.
🤝 X has partnered with Visa to launch X Money, which will be a debit card and allow P2P payments.
👀 Nicole Shanahan issued this warning to Senators: “If you vote against RFK Jr.’s confirmation, I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me.” She says that Bobby may be willing to play nice but she won’t.
🏋️♂️ CrossFit will now require athletes to compete in divisions matching their birth sex for the CrossFit Games, a reversal of their 2019 policies.
💼 The White House has offered to pay out federal workers who want to quit with a Deferred Resignation offer. It clarified that workers can “choose to resign and will no longer be required to work. Whether you travel, relax at home, or explore new opportunities, you’ll continue receiving your full government pay and benefits.”
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Lead: American Military Drones
President Trump’s new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt started her first press briefing by telling Americans what that whole drone swarm thing was about last year.
“I do have news directly from the president of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office, from President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones,” she said. “After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying drones. In time, it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.”
Wait what? If the FAA knew what this was, why in the WORLD wouldn’t they have told us so under President Biden?? Why did they keep this from us? Why were we told it was from an Iranian mothership by Congressional members!?
On Inauguration Day, President Trump promised to look into the drones and eight days later he delivered an answer.
Queue an online media freak out about how kids won’t get school lunches or homeless shelters won’t have food. That’s not true.
The president ordered a review of funding to non-government organizations (NGOs), foreign governments and large discretionary contracts. The order excludes direct aid and benefit programs like SNAP and it also makes it clear that this will not affect Medicaid or Social Security. The new White House launched an X account to handle all of this misreporting and clarification on what is and is not supposed to be paused can be found here.
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller calls the media fear about the pause the “first dumb media hoax of 2025.” It doesn’t help that the Medicaid website portal had an outage in the same day that this pause was announced. People justifiably freaked out that they would lose this benefit as a part of the spending pause. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged the outage and “confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent.”
The federal judge’s pause only applies to existing programs, meaning they will still be funded. No new programs can be put into place, as directed by that pause.
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Sex Changes for Minors
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The Trump administration has ordered a full review of sex change procedures for minors. The press calls this a “ban on gender affirming care.” It’s not that. It is a review of the procedures that are currently being done to minors and a removal of federal funding for it.
Oddly, it defines minors as anyone under the age of 19.
The order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review the current literature “on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.” HHS is then directed to share that data far and wide – something trans advocates do not want because the data on gender transition for minors is damning.
Rapid-onset gender dysphoria is a term trans advocates REALLY object to. It refers to young girls who suddenly say that they are trans in their early teens after copious exposure to social media. Advocates say that is not a thing, these kids have always known since birth. That is nonsense. Rapid-onset gender dysphoria is a well-documented phenomenon.
The order says that the federal government should not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
To this end, he has ordered the Attorney General to enforce laws against female mutilation and pursue the legality of certain state’s sanctuary laws.
The order does not say a person cannot have a sex change operation on their own private dime after they turn 19. They could but the doctors who perform these procedures on minors could be under a lot of scrutiny and risk now. Banana Bubblegum
News By The Numbers
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7. That is how many people were injured when a plane burst into flames before takeoff in South Korea. The 176 passengers were evacuated on emergency slides.
440. That is how many press passes the Trump administration has re-instated for journalists whose passes were revoked by the Biden administration.
294,612. That is how many vehicles that Honda has recalled due to an issue that can cause the engines to stall or suffer a loss of power.
What’s Trending?
Popeyes is trending because the restaurant announced the new Popeyes x Tequila Don Julio Reposado Flavored Concha Chicken Sandwich. It will only be available on Friday in select cities.
Garmin Watches are trending because users reported outages. Garmin says that they are working on a fix.
Caroline Kennedy is trending because she has spoken out about against her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his nomination to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. She says that he is unqualified and dangerous and calls him a predator. Is it coincidental that her own financial disclosures show that she is an investor in Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Co, and Johnson & Johnson?
Medicaid Work Requirement
Photo credit: Governor Huckabee Sanders
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has proposed a way to keep Medicaid from freeloaders. She has asked the Federal Government to approve a Medicaid work requirement.
She explains it thus: “The requirement is simple: If you want to receive free health care, paid for by your fellow taxpayer, able-bodied, working age adults have to work, go to school, volunteer, or be home to take care of their kids. 220,000 able-bodied, working age adults in Arkansas receive free health care courtesy of the Arkansas taxpayer. It costs us more than $2.2 billion each year and growing. Of those recipients, estimates show that nearly 90,000 have no job. Most Arkansas work hard to pay for their health insurance but many of these healthy adults don’t work at all and receive it for free. That’s not how the system should work.”
She says that Arkansas businesses have a worker shortage and that the state should no longer “pay people to sit on the sidelines.”
Arkansas tried this during the first Trump administration but it was held up in court so Huckabee Sanders is trying again.
Could this actually work to encourage a strong workforce in Arkansas? And would it lower tax rates for the working people of the state? It’s a great idea, we will watch it with keen interest!
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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
