https://fortune.com/2025/01/29/top-hires-donald-trump-office-of-personnel-management-high-school-graduate-gen-z-elon-musk/

While all new presidential administrations bring a swath of fresh faces to government offices, President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management will reportedly have a handful of wide-eyed Gen Zers taking top spots within the agency.

Among the new hires for the body overseeing federal hiring and firing is a 21-year-old and a 2024 high school graduate, Wired reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources within the federal government. The 21-year-old will serve as a senior advisor to Scott Kupor, Trump’s pick for the director of OPM, and the newly graduated high schooler will directly report to the agency’s chief of staff Amanda Scales, according to the outlet. Wired did not name the two individuals out of sensitivity to their ages.

The incoming Trump administration is evidently not opposed to hiring young people. Karoline Leavitt, who made her debut as White House press secretary Tuesday, is the youngest person to hold the position, at 27.

The onslaught of unconventional new hires reflects Trump’s sweeping approach to hirings, firings, and freezes that has so far shuffled at least 240 government employees. These changes are complementary to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Services, which replaced the Obama-era U.S. Digital Services. DOGE’s goal is to overhaul federal bureaucracy through cost-cutting, and eliminating what the administration sees as unnecessary roles.

New hires with ties to Musk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjvyyn7k99o

US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a "very good job thus far" and that the pair have a "very good relationship".

Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call "over the next 24 hours".

Trump and the Labour leader have met on a number of occasions, including a visit by Sir Keir to Trump Tower in New York during the presidential campaign.

Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, however, has been strongly critical of Sir Keir and has repeatedly called for his removal from office.

"I get along with him well. I like him a lot," Trump said of Sir Keir.

"He's liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he's a very good person and I think he's done a very good job thus far.

https://www.newsweek.com/dc-plane-crash-reporter-blasted-asking-man-show-victim-wifes-texts-2023393
https://files.catbox.moe/iafw5c.mp4

In a scene straight out of Nightcrawler, CBS WUSA9 Anchor pressures man seeking information about his (assumed-dead) wife to show his wife's last text to the camera. The woman (assumedly) died yesterday when her flight, Flight 5342, collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter.

The insensitive thug-shaker's faux pas has thus sparked quite the outrage online, with the video having been deleted from WUSA9's website & YouTube channel.

Legacy of Failure continues, unmarred

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/29/white-house-rescinds-federal-funds-freeze-memo.html

The White House on Wednesday formally rescinded a controversial memo that had ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans to give agencies time to review programs for their compliance with President Donald Trump's agenda, NBC News reported.

The freeze, which had been set to take effect late Tuesday afternoon, was paused by a federal judge until Monday to give her time to consider arguments by nonprofit groups challenging its legality.

The memo ordering the freeze had been issued by the Office of Management and Budget. It immediately sparked confusion about which programs would be affected and was suspected of causing Medicaid reimbursement portals to go offline for all 50 states on Tuesday.

Acting OMB Director Matthew Vaeth, in a new memo issued Wednesday, wrote, "OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have any questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters Wednesday, "As you know, Donald Trump just rescinded his horrible OMB freeze," and called on Trump to "rescind Russell Vought's nomination" for director of OMB.

"Russell Vought is the chief cook and bottle washer," Schumer said. "We believe they'll come back and try to do this in other ways. Russell Vought sat in my office and said he was going to do it."

"We don't believe they'll stop," Schumer said. "This has been their goal, to hurt what they're basically doing is being lawless, to hurt families, to help their billionaire friends. And so they're going to keep at it. We're going to keep at it. I don't think this would have happened except for the outcry throughout America."

Isreal has been caught red-handed violating the ceasefire agreement with Syria

"Under the terms of Israel's ceasefire agreement with Syria in 1974, the IDF is prohibited from crossing the so-called Alpha Line on the western edge of the AoS."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmn3jmm1yo

Fact: President Donald J. Trump Protects Civil Rights and Merit-Based Opportunity by Ending Illegal DEI
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-orders-federal-diversity-equity-inclusion-employees-placed-paid-rcna188679
Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
The Trump administration also directed government agencies to draw up plans for firing workers in DEI roles.

The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles placed on paid leave by Wednesday evening, according to a new memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

The memo, issued Tuesday to heads of departments and agencies, sets a deadline of no later than 5 p.m. ET Wednesday to inform the employees that they will be put on paid administrative leave as the agencies prepare to close all DEI-related offices and programs and to remove all websites and social media accounts for such offices.

It also asks federal agencies to submit a written plan by Jan. 31 for dismissing the employees.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal agencies, with DEI offices and programs being ordered to shut down.

“President Trump campaigned on ending the scourge of DEI from our federal government and returning America to a merit based society where people are hired based on their skills, not for the color of their skin,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Tuesday night. “This is another win for Americans of all races, religions, and creeds. Promises made, promises kept.”

It was not clear how many employees would be affected. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/

Elon has violent fit of epilepsy on stage. Everyone point and laugh at Leon Muskrat
https://www.thedailybeast.com/watch-elon-musk-unleashes-bizarre-victory-dance-at-post-inauguration-rally/
WATCH: Elon Musk Unleashes Bizarre Victory Dance at Post-Inauguration Rally
BEYOND CRINGE

Elon Musk unleashed a bizarre celebratory dance as he took the stage for Donald Trump’s post-inauguration rally.

The world’s richest man pumped his fists and bobbed up and down simultaneously as he took a lap on stage to raucous cheers. Once he reached the podium, he outstretched his arms and screamed, “yesss!”

Musk, 53, has become one of MAGA’s most important figures, evidenced by his slot to speak to thousands at Capital One Arena mere hours after Trump was sworn in as president.

The Tesla chief executive celebrated that the U.S. was apparently returning to doing “basic stuff” correctly and shared his joy that the it would work toward putting a man on Mars.

“Can you imagine how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time,” he said, contorting his voice and mimicking a pair of flags being planted in the ground. “Bam, bam, yeah!”

Grabbing as much attention as Musk’s remarks was a gesture he made was a Nazi salute—a pledge of loyalty to Adolf Hitler. He did the Nazi salute twice, violently raising his arm after menacingly pounding his chest and primal grunting into the microphone.

Many noted his Nazi salute. CNN’s broadcast of the rally pointed out that the gesture was “fascist and racist.” Others online took it a step further.

“Our new co-president Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute on day one of Trump presidency,” wrote one user.

Another added: “Elon Musk casually doing a Hitler salute in front of millions. Alright.”