Weekend Wrap Up: January 19, 2025

Today’s blog will consist of both news and a free chat of sorts. As usual, post the headlines we may have missed and feel free to chit and chat and enjoy one another’s company! 

Enjoy your last full day of freedom. Tomorrow bring forth a lot of changes to our way of life as we know it. Embrace the suck because it will truly suck!

This is heartening to see! The resistance is beginning.I know we are tired. I know we are fearful. But we will make ourselves heard and reclaim this country from the grip of MAGA fascism. I’ve seen the inside of barbed wire prison camps in America. We came back from that and shall overcome this.

George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T21:39:59.856Z

Updates:

Biden: "After so much pain, destruction, and loss of life, today the guns in Gaza have gone silent."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T15:58:42.302Z

REPORTER: Any concerns about Hamas regrouping?BIDEN: No

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T16:02:26.514Z

California:


Fuck Off! Signed, California:

The Felon Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:

Eggs are about to get even more expensive, expert says. Here’s how much

Eggs are nearly 40% more expensive now than they were a year ago, the Labor Department said this week. It’s about to get even worse, one expert says.

Patrick Penfield, a professor and supply chain expert at Syracuse University’s School of Management, expects egg prices could climb as much as 20% more in 2025 as the avian flu epidemic shows no signs of slowing down.

The massive bird flu outbreak has already led to the death of more than 100 million egg-laying hens. Anytime the virus is detected, every bird on the farm has to be killed to limit the spread of the disease.

incoming NSA Mike Waltz on TikTok: "We also want an app that 170 million Americans really enjoy and that we were able to get our message out during the Trump campaign in a very powerful way."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T15:49:12.713Z

Unhinged posting from the incoming VP

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T04:17:06.799Z

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T15:14:35.706Z

The Worst People in the World:

Steve Bannon on Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos attending Trump's inauguration: "They are there are supplicants … President Trump broke the oligarchs and they surrendered. They said, 'we'll take off any constraints' … I view this as September 1945."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T15:22:52.528Z

Craven Assholes:

WALKER: Is there one piece of legislation targeted at bringing down grocery prices?MIKE JOHNSON: Well, it's a complex collection of legislation because we have to unwind and fix everything.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-19T15:17:34.078Z
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