Quick Hits

Daniel Penny is riding the subway again,
and he's bringing hell with him

Supposedly, the rat-infested criminal organization the FBI shut its DEI office in December.

By which they mean: We shut down the office as an acknowledged node on our organizational chart, and reassigned all the DEI Monitors to places where they can really do damage, like in FBI field offices.

"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 DEI, saying that had overshadowed national security.

Earlier this month, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray claiming that "radical" DEI practices had "endangered" Americans following the New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans.

Just shut them down:

Ron "The Meatball" DeSantis (and I use "The Meatball" to mean "Awesome") has appointed Ashley Moody to take over for Marco Rubio.

Moody is DeSantis' AG and people who follow Florida politics say she's a rock.

From the gaywads at Axios:

Why it matters: Moody is a DeSantis and Donald Trump loyalist. Her appointment will set off a chain-reaction of office-seeking and Florida political drama heading into 2026.

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What they're saying: "I want somebody that's going to work with President Trump to deliver on the mandate he earned from the American people," DeSantis said.

That means cutting spending, stopping inflation, reining in the "federal bureaucracy," fighting against illegal immigration, and "putting Americans first" by not "bringing foreigners in to displace our own people in key positions," DeSantis said.

DeSantis also noted Moody, a fifth generation Floridian, was a corporate lawyer, judge and, as a teen, was even elected "queen of the famous Strawberry Festival" in her hometown of Plant City.

"I'm ready to show up and fight for this nation and fight for President Trump to deliver the American First agenda on day one," Moody said. "I've got the backs of the American people, DOGE and President Trump."

AG Ashley Moody @AGAshleyMoody

As a former judge, I will take my role confirming judges and justices seriously to ensure that, like Justices Thomas and Alito, they share the values and concepts of law as our Founding Fathers understood them. I will work through the Senate confirmation process to ensure those who get confirmed are strong nominees and know that it is their duty to interpret the Constitution as it is written.

Democrat Congressional staffers are crusading for what's really important -- a four-day workweek. Not for everyone, just for these best-of-the-DEI-brightest world-beaters.

The group asking for this perk is called the Congressional Progressive Staff Association (CPTA), and they sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Thursday pleading with them to "consider adopting a proposal that would improve worker satisfaction, increase staff retention in Congress, and model a more sustainable approach to work on a national level."

That proposal? A 32-hour workweek when Congress isn't in session.

The proposal actually goes further, giving district-based staffers at least a 20 percent reduction in their working hours when their House member is in D.C.

Under the proposal, congressional staffers would still work long hours when their boss is around. But when Congress is in session, district office staffers would be entitled to an abbreviated, 20-percent-lighter schedule, and when it is not, D.C.-based staff would have a lighter week.

LA's DEI Mayor wasn't just in Ghana during the wildfires, despite being warned beforehand that the Santa Ana winds would be particularly strong and the city was in "extreme" danger of fires.

She also attended a cocktail party, and posed for pictures, after she was told the city was in fact on fire.

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is once again at the center of controversy after social media photos showed that she was at a cocktail party in Ghana as the Palisades Fire exploded. Bass was in the African nation as part of a delegation sent by the Biden administration for the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.

Bass appeared to be posing for photos just before 8:00 p.m. local time, which was 12 p.m. in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times. Moments later, evacuation orders were issued due to the Palisades Fire.

"The presidential delegation was hosted by the United States ambassador to Ghana on the way to the plane," said Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl said, according to the LA Times. "For the majority of the time, the mayor was in a different room on calls from LA."

A spokesperson for the US ambassador to Ghana told the LA Times that Mahama held the reception for the American delegation before they were set to return to the United States on a military plane.

On Jan. 2, days before Bass left for Ghana, the National Weather Service warned of the potential for "extreme fire weather conditions" due to the Santa Ana winds. Just days later, the Palisades were burning, and residents were ordered to evacuate.

Karen Bass's staff responded by deleting pictures of the cocktail party.

"And so it begins," added Adam Carolla.

A shman with "they/them" pronouns who works at a "DEI-focused" company has been banned from life from Eagles games -- and boy, you have to do something special to get banned from Eagles games -- for repeatedly calling a woman "an ugly, dumb c*nt" at the game, apparently because she was wearing a Packers shirt.

posted by Ace at 06:33 PM

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