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Here is what @axtremus wrote in the Tips and Tricks thread about posting pics. Includes some info about storage considerations on the forum:
https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/154
In order to save on storage that the forum uses, I don't upload directly here. I use postimages.org as a host just like I used to do on the old forum. I don't even have an account at postimages. I just upload my photo to their site, copy their link, and paste it here.
I got this text from a neighbor last night. She's a middle school teacher in another school district; she and her husband have two kids, one of whom attends the school in question.
Hi wtg, a (name of school) parent was taken bv ICE this week when bringing his son home from after school program. A parent has organized a walking school bus to help get kids to school safely. I can't help since I'm teaching every day, but I thought you or other retired neighbors might be interested.
(link to sign-up site)
(photo of sign in front of apartment building where many Hispanic families reside and that is two blocks from the school)This sign is the meeting spot. Feel free to share the signup with others you think might like to help out.
They're scheduling a month's worth of volunteers and then will re-visit whether the service needs to continue.
All the slots are filled already.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the UK will not yet be signing up to US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace over concerns about Russian leader Vladimir Putin's possible participation.
Cooper told the BBC the UK had been invited to join the board but "won't be one of the signatories today" at a ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The board, which gives Trump wide decision-making powers as chairman, is being billed by the US as a new international organisation for resolving conflicts.
Cooper described the board as a "legal treaty that raises much broader issues" than the initiative's initial focus on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
The charter proposed by the White House does not mention the Palestinian territory and critics say the board appears to be designed to replace some functions of the United Nations.
Some of the US's traditional allies have not agreed to join the board and notably, none of the other permanent members of the UN Security Council - China, France, Russia, and the UK - have committed to participation so far.
The UN Security Council has been the main international platform for global diplomacy and conflict resolution since the end of World War Two.
But launching the board at a signing ceremony alongside world leaders in Davos, Trump said he did not intend it as a replacement for the UN and expressed his belief that it would help forge an "everlasting" peace in the Middle East.
Trump said the board had the chance to be "one of the most consequential bodies ever created".
"We're committed to ensuring Gaza is demilitarised, properly governed and beautifully rebuilt," Trump said. "It's going to be a great plan and this is where the board of peace started."
Trump said once the board had been completely formed, "we can do pretty much whatever we want to do".
"But we'll do it in conjunction with the United Nations," he added.
I don’t know if this is over yet. A Danish MP said there can’t be a deal without the Greenlanders, and they weren’t part of these discussions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/trump-greenland-framework-future-deal-reactions
Trump keeps doing irrational things and gets snatched from the brink by people with brains. They let him announce a deal and let him take credit and then actually work the deal behind the scenes.
I think Trump is losing his marbles and is growing increasingly nutty. I hope things don’t get to a point where something he does triggers a total disaster. We’ve already had some close calls.
Now, where are those Epstein files?
If member states choose to contribute money, the Board of Peace will "implement the highest financial controls and oversight mechanisms," the official said.
"Funds will sit only in approved accounts at reputable banks (with CFO due diligence; Executive Board approval), and payments will require the right multi-signatory approval threshold, KYC/AML and sanctions screening, and supporting documentation. Oversight is enforced through an Audit & Risk subcommittee and an independent annual external audit with published financials," the official added.
And the orange man has just the guy for the CFO job.
DOGE back in the news.
Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.
Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245
Holy cow, the world is full of board gamers!
https://www.meeplemountain.com/articles/the-board-gamers-guide-to-board-game-conventions
He wants to be king of the world.
President Donald Trump’s suggestion Tuesday that his Board of Peace “might” replace the United Nations is likely to compound concerns that the body meant to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza – and that he will indefinitely chair – will instead become a vehicle for him to attempt to supersede the body established 80 years ago to maintain global peace.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/trump-gaza-board-of-peace-united-nations
Donald Trump waged a teeny, tiny battle with a binder clip Tuesday morning during a live TV press conference.
While speaking to reporters at the White House during a briefing televised by CNN, the president again hit out at Joe Biden's administration, repeating to attendees once again a false claim that Biden actually lost the 2020 presidential election.
Then, as he held up a "book on accomplishments" his team has allegedly achieved during the first year of his second term in office, Trump nearly shut his finger in a large binder clip holding the thick stack of documents together.
The 79-year-old slightly recoiled as a loud snapping noise was heard after he removed the clip from the papers, while he exclaimed, "Ooh, I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've done some damage."
Still, he assured reporters, "You know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain."
He lingered on the topic for the next few seconds, asking the room, "Did you hear that?" before calling the snap "nasty" in the moment.
"But, I would not have shown the pain," he reiterated. "I would've acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was nasty. I think somebody did that."
He then looked around the room and pointed toward a member of the press, smiling as he said, "It was him. It was my man. How are you?"
Trump then threw the clip off to the side of the podium, and it could be heard clanging around on the floor beside him. He then shifted his attention to the contents of the stack of papers behind the podium, lifting it up as he rifled through the pages.
"Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. It's big stuff, too," Trump said, calling the United States "the hottest country in the world" before tossing the papers to the ground as reporters in the room laughed at the gesture.
https://ew.com/donald-trump-nearly-shuts-finger-binder-clip-live-tv-11888923
