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Citizen Frank
January 16, 2025
Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 16.
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President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday that anyone who’s worked for former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley or any other of his Republican critics need not apply for open jobs in his new administration.
Trump, 78, touted in a Truth Social post that he’s already hired “over 1,000 people” for roles in his incoming administration that are “outstanding in every way” before shedding light on the sort of individuals he doesn’t plan on extending job offers to.
“In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), ‘Dumb as a Rock’ John Bolton, ‘Birdbrain’ Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS,” the president-elect wrote.
The FBI has closed its DEI office.
“In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024,” the agency told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
The agency didn’t specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans have been critical of it prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that had overshadowed national security.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.
Moody, 49, elected as the state’s top law enforcement officer in 2018, campaigned on a pledge to voters that she’d be a prosecutor, not a politician.
Along with DeSantis, Moody boosted her political profile during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling on the federal government to “hold China responsible” for the outbreak.
Rudy Giuliani reached a deal Thursday with two Georgia women who won a $148 million defamation verdict against him that allows him to keep all of his property in exchange for a payment of unknown size — plus a promise to never again defame them.
The settlement saves Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, from the brink of losing both of his homes, as well as countless other pieces of valuable property.
The women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, have spent months in court seeking to force Giuliani to turn over his possessions to them to help satisfy the massive judgment.
Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore (R) was arrested and transported to the Fulton County Jail on Thursday for attempting to enter the House Chamber to hear Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) state address after being banned from the area last year.
“It has gone too far. I have an obligation to be in that room,” Moore told a group of law enforcement officers preventing him from entering.
“I represent 200,000 people in northwest Georgia who duly elected me to be here today,” he said after being thrown to the ground.
Police are on a manhunt for a serial arsonist who started a fire next to a sleeping subway passenger in New York City.
This comes after an illegal immigrant burned a woman alive just weeks ago on the New York subway.
According to the New York Post, a masked suspect was first seen on video lighting a cop car on fire at approximately 2:20 am right in front of 254 Broadway on January 10. Only minutes afterward, the suspect was seen again on more surveillance footage lighting a car on fire near 14 Murray St.
A Democrat operative who worked for the Biden White House personnel office, as a political appointee to the Department of Labor, and for the Kamala Harris transition team, has been hired by the Department of Labor in a role that will continue in the Trump administration using a loophole, The Daily Wire has reported.
Elizabeth Peña was a Biden political appointee to the Labor Department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, where she worked from October 2021 to October 2024, first as a Special Assistant and then as Policy Advisor, according to her LinkedIn.
From October to December 2024, she served as senior manager of vetting for the Harris transition team. Then in January, she returned to the Labor Department — this time as International Relations Officer, not a political appointee.
The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship had some serious highs and lows.
The company launched its Starship megarocket for the seventh time ever today (Jan. 16), sending the 403.5-foot-tall (123 meters) reusable vehicle aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 5:37 p.m. EST (2237 GMT; 4:37 p.m. local time).
One of the goals of this ambitious test flight was to catch Starship’s giant first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, back at Starbase’s launch tower, using the structure’s “chopstick” arms. SpaceX pulled this off for the first time on Starship Flight 5 in October — and did so again today.
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