Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.
Updates:
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Congress:
The Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:
Union Workers Furious Trump is Opposing U.S. Steel Sale
Hopefully Trump has concepts of a plan to keep the steel industry alive in Pennsylvania
Union steel workers in Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley are outraged at Trump’s promise this week to block the $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Co. once he becomes president.
“I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night,” United Steelworkers Local 2227 Vice President Jason Zugai said during a panel discussion Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “I didn’t expect that to come out. So that was like a gut punch.”
Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks
Besides HUD secretary, the president-elect has picked no Blacks for his Cabinet.
As President-elect Donald Trump fills out his Cabinet and chooses his closet advisers ahead of Inauguration Day, many African American leaders are asking why more Black people haven’t been appointed to key positions.
ABC News spoke to more than a half dozen longtime and new African American conservatives and Republicans within Trumpworld, in and outside of Washington.
Last month, the president-elect appointed Scott Turner, who was executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s first term, to serve as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Social Media:
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly ‘toxic’
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
When Ashton Pittman, an award-winning news editor and reporter, first joined the app Bluesky, he said, he was the only Mississippi journalist he knew to be using it. Until about five weeks ago, he said, that was the case. But now, Pittman said, there are at least 15 Mississippi journalists on Bluesky as it becomes a preferred platform for reporters, writers, activists and other groups who have become increasingly alienated by X.
State News:
Texas is offering land for Trump mass deportation facilities
The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.
Trump transition officials are exploring the possibility of building immigrant detention facilities on a plot of land recently purchased by the state of Texas along the Rio Grande, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke to President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, last week about using military resources to help transport migrants to the location and about building facilities, according to the person with knowledge of the discussions.
