Liveblog - ICYMI: January 31, 2025

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:

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Our beloved Canada is under threat.The threat comes from the president of the US—a convicted felon and known predator. But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of oligarchs like Elon Musk….

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T19:35:54.636Z

Trump announces massive tariffs at 1:00 today.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T18:40:20.131Z

The Trump Trade War begins.I see Elon Musk negotiated China’s tariffs down. Already coming through for his largest business partner. bsky.app/profile/acyn…

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T18:30:53.985Z

CONFIRMED:Trump’s tariffs—10% on China, 25% on Mexico and Canada—start Saturday. U.S. consumers will pay more for imported goods and products made here using them.Top imports:📌 China: Electronics, clothing, appliances📌 Mexico: Vehicles, machinery, agriculture📌 Canada: Oil, machinery, wood

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-01-31T19:29:52.932Z

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

Trump’s FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS

President Trump’s new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.

“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Chairman Brendan Carr wrote on Wednesday to the presidents and chief executives of NPR and PBS, Katherine Maher and Paula A. Kerger, respectively. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”

The FCC does not directly regulate the two networks. Instead, it evaluates the actions of roughly 1,500 public broadcasting stations across the country, which hold licenses granted by the FCC for use of public airwaves for radio and television, even in the digital age.

Trump's New Transportation Secretary Voted Against FAA Funding in 2019During his last term in Congress, Sean Duffy voted to defund the agency that provides air safety

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T23:34:58.315Z

People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs — but they don’t direct air traffic

No, the Federal Aviation Administration did not recruit people with intellectual disabilities to work as air traffic controllers.

Despite what President Trump said at a press conference Thursday — “They can be air traffic controllers” — that’s not how disability hiring works, says Chai Feldblum, a disability lawyer and former commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Disability employment law, she says, requires “that the person with a disability must be able to perform the essential functions of the job.”

Trump is now firing FBI agents who worked on J6 cases for doing their jobs. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p…

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T20:11:46.114Z

It seems like an unelected, non-Senate-confirmed billionaire who recently gave a Nazi salute onstage is directing private citizens in a takeover of U.S. federal workers' personal information? Is this okay with everyone? What am I missing

Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T20:14:40.759Z

Media:

Indy journalists who built big followings with no producers, no sponsors, no budget, no help, no built-in audience, no advertising, no famous name or family connections, owe it all to our Founding Father – Chuck Todd.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T15:35:59.821Z

Craven Assholes:

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