News and notes from around the interweb:
- Trump administration instituting gold and platinum status for employees:
SCOOP: The incoming Trump White House is planning on changing the colors of White House badges for employees when it comes back Monday to make them platinum and gold, instead of the traditional blue and green, two people familiar with the change told me. https://t.co/aYe7vJYFKU pic.twitter.com/cGuhQ5qDLd
— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) January 18, 2025
- When your American Airlines AAdvantage miles are stolen, the airline will generally work with you to restore them. They usually make you file a police report. The process isn’t hassle-free. However, if your trip credits are stolen you’re just out of luck.
- New United Airlines inflight entertainment ‘control tower mode’
— JonNYC (@xJonNYC) January 17, 2025
- Brightline files lawsuit challenging onboard attendants’ unionizing effort in Florida
- Kind sympathies from an American Airlines flight attendant.
The color of WH has a dramatic effect on travel? Please “stay in your lane”.
New badges are a good way to start with cost cutting ..
If the badge color was implemented during the Clinton years which one would Monica be wearing?
UNITED rising
I suspect the badge colors are an offshoot of T-rump handing out gold star stickers to whoever appeases or fawns over him at the moment.
Trump needs to pardon ALL the jan6th patriots.
@AndyS what makes them patriots? Trump lost in 2020, fair and square. It’s a fact. Saying otherwise is a lie.
Like most dictators, Trump loves gold everything. Have you ever seen pictures of his residences? Gaudy gold toilets. Maybe he will give the January 6 rioters faux gold medals when he pardons them, especially the rioters who beat up the capitol cops. “Law and order,” ha ha.
The color of the passes for those with different access designations for the White House proper and/or OEOB and/or NEOB have changed repeatedly over the decades. Gold has been used before. About “platinum” before, it depends on what you decide to call some color. Blue, green, white, pink and other colored have been used for the passes in use for one or more of these buildings used by WH staffers, other federal employees, interns, volunteers, visitors and such. There have also been both hard pass badges, daily pass badges and so on.
As a liberal, I feel so ‘owned’ by all this. Everything is ‘great’ again. The ‘price of eggs’ is so cheap now. All wars are over, ‘on day one,’ so promises made, promises kept. Gas is so cheap, it’s basically free because now all we do is ‘drill, baby, drill.’ And I can’t even ‘flee to Canada’ anymore, seeing as it’s now our 51st state! Dear Leader was ‘right about everything’ wasn’t he? Praise be!
God, the felon-in-chief is so strange.