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Bloomberg just reported that the Trump administration has been canceling grants that would have been used to make streets safer, add pedestrian trail and implement bike lanes across the country. All because cars are their top priority. One project in San Diego was canceled because it "appears to reduce lane capacity and a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles," while a Fairfield, Alabama project was also called "hostile" to cars and "counter to DOT's priority of preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles." Meanwhile, a project in Boston got canceled because improving safety might "impede vehicle capacity and speed."


These aren't new grants, either. The Trump administration is going after money that was awarded years ago — one Albuquerque grant was awarded back in 2022 — all with the goal of making sure no driver is ever slightly inconvenienced by local governments trying to keep them from killing people. Wonderful.


Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1975826/feds-back-off-on-pedestrian-safety-requirements/
 
The Kirk memorial thing was last Sunday. The news showed the beauty of it all. The huge lines of trash just thrown down. The litter scattered throughout the parking lot. The streets lined with trash. Even Cardinals games aren't this bad. Then again, someone would have to go to a Cardinals game.
 
& on a lighter note - sarcasm


According to a new study published on Monday, there is a strong link between Donald Trump being president and increased use of Tylenol.

The study, which was published by the University of Minnesota Medical School, reports that consumption of the pain reliever has increased by nine thousand percent since Trump’s Inauguration in January.

Professor Davis Logsdon, who supervised the study, called the data “surprising,” adding, “We expected the increase to be much greater.”

Logsdon said that the medical school would soon release additional findings linking Trump’s presidency to an increased use of alcohol, marijuana, and crack.
 
Planit said:
Bloomberg just reported that the Trump administration has been canceling grants that would have been used to make streets safer, add pedestrian trail and implement bike lanes across the country. All because cars are their top priority. One project in San Diego was canceled because it "appears to reduce lane capacity and a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles," while a Fairfield, Alabama project was also called "hostile" to cars and "counter to DOT's priority of preserving or increasing roadway capacity for motor vehicles." Meanwhile, a project in Boston got canceled because improving safety might "impede vehicle capacity and speed."


These aren't new grants, either. The Trump administration is going after money that was awarded years ago — one Albuquerque grant was awarded back in 2022 — all with the goal of making sure no driver is ever slightly inconvenienced by local governments trying to keep them from killing people. Wonderful.


Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1975826/feds-back-off-on-pedestrian-safety-requirements/
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President who famously doesn't drive pushes car rights.
 
Transcript Highlights of DJT speech to the Generals & Admirals

And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room.

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, okay, because we’re all on the same team. And I was told that, sir, you won’t hear a murmur in the room.

And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but military — because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor.
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President Trump Address to Pentagon Leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico – Full Transcript

(0:00 - 0:19) Ladies and gentlemen, the Secretary of War. Well, you've heard from me. So now it's the main
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JNA said:
Marine Amy McGrath -


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-speech-military/ (Female fighter pilot buries Trump speech as 'bonkers': 'Everybody in that room knows it')
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I listen to NPR's Up First podcast every morning and they were discussing Kegseth's emphasis on physical standards and combat abilities and his calling out of the Special Forces and the Marine Corps they had a nice little subtle jab at him by pointing out that he does not have a "V" for valor device nor a Ranger Tab.
 
I was genuinely impressed with how the generals and flag officers were able to sit in stony silence for that long without ever once busting out in laughter or otherwise breaking character. I make this judgment from the position of being one who has had to stand at parade rest for many hours forced to appear respectful while listening to old windbags bloviate.

Philips Obrien, made this apt observation about the speech:
“If you listened closely to Hegseth and Trump, they were basically saying the US military should be more like the Russian military – unaccountable for its actions, using lethality in favor of intelligence, and where training can be used to abuse recruits. And if they do that, I can guarantee you it will be as effective as the Russian military.”
 
In the first 72 hours of the National Gard being in Memphis, they report 93 arrests and 28 illegal guns seized.

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93 arrests made in 72 hours by Memphis Safe Task Force, attorney general says

Attorney General Pam Bondi says that, in just 72 hours, the Memphis Safe Task Force has made 40 arrests in the City of Memphis.
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I will be interested to see what they were arrested for, how many get prosecuted, and what is the lasting impact on the area.
 
michaelskis said:
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Lol!

I'm enjoying your inadvertent spelling malaprops! Actually, come to think of it, since this is the Failing Forty-Seven, a National Gard is not a mal-aprop; it is but a a tres-aprop! (That's a frenchified "very appropriate".)

Bigly thumbs up to you! Thanks for the laugh ~ tresaprop
 
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