https://nypost.com/2025/01/03/us-news/house-erupts-in-applause-after-matt-gaetz-doesnt-assume-florida-seat/

The House erupted into applause when a clerk in the chamber announced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would officially be stepping down from his Florida seat and would no longer be a member of the 119th Congress.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c4gln8nlmz4o

Nigerian atheist wey dem just free afta serving more dan four years in prison for blasphemy, dey live for one safe house as im legal team dey fear say im life fit dey in danger.

Dem convict 40-year-old, Mubarak Bala for one court in di northern city of Kano afta, e plead guilty to 18 charges relating to one Facebook post wey cause gbas-gbos in 2020.

"Di concern about my safety dey always dey dia," e tell di BBC for exclusive interview as e dey chop im first meal as free man.

Nigeria na deeply religious society and pipo wey insult religion - weda Islam or Christianity – dey face discrimination.

Blasphemy na offence under Islamic law – Sharia - wey dey operate alongside secular law for 12 states in di north. Na also offence under Nigeria criminal law.

Bala, wey renounce Islam in 2014, say e get times during im imprisonment wey im feel say "e fit no come out alive".

E fear say guards or fellow inmates fit dey target am for di first prison e dey for Kano, mainly Muslim city.

"Freedom dey hia, but some kain threat still dey wey I dey face," e tok. "All dis years, di threats, e fit dey out dia."

E fit dey inside prison for much longer if no be appeal court judgement wey reduce di initial 24-year sentence last year, describing di sentence as "excessive".

Bala look tired as e waka comot from prison for di capital city Abuja, but e dey cheerful as e wear white T-shirt, khaki shorts and slippers. E come out wit im lawyer by im side.

"Evri tin dey new to me. Evri tin dey new," E tok as im embrace im freedom.

Bala, na bold religious critic, wey dem arrest afta one group of lawyers file complaint wit di police about di social media post.

E den spend two years for prison awaiting trial bifor dem convict am in 2022.

At di time Bala guilty plea shock many, even im legal team, but e stand by im decision, saying e go relieve di pressure on di pipo wey stand for im side, including im lawyers, friends and family.

House Ethics report says Matt Gaetz paid for sex, including with an underage girl

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/23/matt-gaetz-ethics-report/

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/05/nyc-metro-north-rider-stabs-stranger-in-clash-over-loud-music-at-grand-central-terminal/
dems just put in congestion pricing in nyc because they want more American murdered on the shitty subway.
>Abdul Malik Little, 46 played loud shitty rap music on phone
>passenger told him to turn that gay shit off
>Abdul Malik Little, 46 stabbed the passenger who told him to turn his ass music off

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyjmy7vl64t?

about time if you ask me personally

https://ktla.com/news/theme-parks/disneyland/disney-agrees-to-pay-233m-to-settle-wage-theft-class-action-lawsuit/
let's hear the wokefags defend disney this time

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5064132-sanders-criticizes-musk-h1b-visa/

Meta removes so-called fact checking from their platform because it was proven to be politically biased and abused to erode trust and silence dissenting opinions.
Meta will democratize fact checking by using a "community notes" style feature, and all of their DNC think tank fact checkers are now out of a job.
Sorry, fake checkers. It's tent life for you now.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/meta-axes-third-party-fact-checkers-in-time-for-second-trump-term/
Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term
Zuckerberg says Meta will "work with President Trump" to fight censorship.

Instagram announced the changes in a blog post and a video message recorded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political," Zuckerberg said. He said the recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech."

"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, similar to X, starting in the US," Zuckerberg said. "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US."

Meta says the soon-to-be-discontinued fact-checking program includes over 90 third-party organizations that evaluate posts in over 60 languages. The US-based fact-checkers are AFP USA, Check Your Fact, Factcheck.org, Lead Stories, PolitiFact, Science Feedback, Reuters Fact Check, TelevisaUnivision, The Dispatch, and USA Today.

Trump appears to side with Musk, tech allies in debate over foreign workers roiling his supporters

https://apnews.com/article/trump-maga-immigration-visas-musk-91ab17e141cc9764fb18b8bc862c84dc

You heard the man, fall in line republitards. (Side note for you idiot republicans, click the link above in order to view the article)

After the supreme Court has ruled affirmatively that racist policies are racist, even when racist against white people, McDonalds has decided to roll back many of its racist policies
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/business/mcdonalds-dei/index.html
McDonald’s is ending some of its DEI practices

McDonald’s is the latest US corporation — and among the largest — to back off some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, as a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and conservative backlash to those programs continues to lead businesses to reevaluate their diversity pledges.

The company in a statement Monday said it is sunsetting its specific diversity goals, including requiring its suppliers to commit to certain DEI targets. And it will stop participating in external surveys that measure corporate diversity.

McDonald’s is also changing the name of its diversity team to the Global Inclusion Team — a common practice for many other companies that have rolled back diversity pledges.

“This name change is more fitting for McDonald’s in light of our inclusion value and better aligns with this team’s work,” McDonald’s said in the statement.

But the company said it has not abandoned its mission to maintain a diverse workforce. Instead, McDonald said that it will continue to support practices that foster inclusion in the workplace and across its operations, and it will work with its suppliers and vendors to discuss diversity and inclusion practices.
The company said its new position was driven by a recent Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and other corporations reevaluating their diversity initiatives. Online pressure, legal threats and customer opposition have led many companies, including Walmart, Ford, Harley-Davidson, John Deere and others to make changes to their DEI initiatives.