HAPPY 2025!

Gauging off of recent years, I think we’re in for a wild ride this year. 🎉💃 

Today, Congress will be in session at 1 pm to certify Trump as winner of the 2024 Presidential election presided over by Kamala Harris.

A look back at years past:

• Jan 6, 2021: 4 years ago the Capital riot occurred 😬 

• Jan 6, 1994: Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by Tonya Harding at a Detroit ice rink

• Jan 6, 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address, articulating the fundamental freedoms he believed everyone in the world ought to enjoy: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.

• Jan 6, 1929: Mother Theresa arrived in Calcutta, India to begin her work that led to her sainthood.

• Jan 6, 1912: New Mexico was named the 47th state of the United States.

• Jan 6, 1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrated their telegraph system for the first time using Morse code.

• Jan 6, 1412: Joan of Arc was born

Here’s to a fabulous 2025 and adding more fun facts to the history books (or LLMs). 👏🙌

Art

The Albuquerque house of Walter White in Breaking Bad is on the market for $4 million.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from The Washington Post after Jeff Bezos rejected one of her cartoons depicting Bezos, Zuckerberg bowing and offering money to Trump.

Tiny, cute robots: "Fufu" is a tiny cat that sits on your mug or bowl to cool it off and "Mirumu" is a tiny furball that mounts to your purse to surprise and delight bystanders and passersby.

Politics

Congress has been informed by the Biden administration of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel.

We're on day three of Jimmy Carter's six-day funeral: he rests at Carter Presidential Center in Georgia until he makes his way to Washington D.C. tomorrow for services before his final resting next to wife, Rosalynn in Georgia on Thursday.

President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson, Bill Nye amongst many others on Saturday afternoon.

Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation this week.

Biz/Tech

The .ai domain is owned by the Government of Anguilla and accounted for $32 million or 5% of their revenue in 2023 with 2024 final projections of around $39 million.

Meta is appointing Republican Joel Kaplan to lead Global Policy, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff under George W. Bush.

NYC has implemented a congestion relief toll to combat traffic issues costing anywhere from $9-$21.60 to drive in the city during peak hours.

Health + Science

A massive piece of space junk, a metallic ring, hit Kenya on Jan 1 weighing in at 500 kg and 2.5 meters wide.

Two U.S. companies plan to start human clinical trials in 2025 using pig organs in transplants.

New California law, SB 1120, prohibits AI being used as the basis to deny health insurance claims after a quarter of all claims were denied last year.

In case you still need some 2025 inspo, look no further than Equinox’s New Year’s campaigns:

(people tend to be 50/50 ish on loving/hating their social media on Jan 1st and it always gives me a good L O L)

COMMIT TO SOMETHING! And talk to someone about the world today. 💪 🌎️ 

XOXO,

Jackie

PS: It didn’t even occur to me to send a Modern Day Jackie O New Year’s update while I was writing this, so stay tuned for that tomorrow! 🫶