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@@ -17,37 +17,37 @@ Story by Daniel Hampton. December 31, 2024
 
 In 2020, Trump signed an executive order banning [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) if it wasn't sold within 45 day.
 
-In the intervening four years with Trump sulking like a spoiled brat at his [Mar-a-Lago golf resort](https://www.maralagoclub.com/) in hoity-toity Palm Beach, Florida, Congress passed a law banning [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) in the US and President Biden signed it into law.
+In the intervening four years with Trump sulking like a spoiled brat at his [Mar-a-Lago golf resort](https://www.maralagoclub.com/) in hoity-toity Palm Beach, Florida, Congress passed a law banning [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) in the US and [President Biden](https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) signed it into law.
 
-[TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) challenged the law and now the Supreme Court will decide on the validity. 
+[TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) challenged the law and now the [Supreme Court](https://supremecourt.gov/) will decide on the validity. 
 
 Now, in 2024, Trump wants to keep [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/), before the law takes effect on January 19, 2025 if it can't be sold to a US company. How ironic! Trump ain't President until he takes the oath of office and sworn in as President the day after [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) is shut down in the United States. 
 
 The U.S. only has one president at a single moment in time.
 
 But that's debatable with Trump’s second term as president, with Elon Musk as the puppeteer controllingTrump’s strings. This time he will be a lame-duck president. 
 
-The [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/) editorial board weighed in on Trump’s last minute appeal to Save [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/), calling his last ditch effort , "extraordinary in several ways, none of them good."
+The [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/) editorial board weighed in on Trump’s last minute appeal to [Save TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/), calling his last ditch effort , "extraordinary in several ways, none of them good."
 
-Trump — who once signed an executive order four years ago threatening to ban the popular social media app — this month asked the Supreme Court to let him "save" [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) ahead of a looming nationwide ban set to take effect Jan. 19 if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it to a U.S. company.
+Trump — who once signed an executive order four years ago threatening to ban the popular social media app — this month asked the [Supreme Court](https://supremecourt.gov/) to let him "save" [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) ahead of a looming nationwide ban set to take effect Jan. 19 if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it to a U.S. company.
 
-Trump asked the high court to delay the deadline until after he returns to the Oval Office so his administration can "seek a negotiated resolution." Doing so would allow the case to be resolved without the Supreme Court interfering.
+Trump asked the high court to delay the deadline until after he returns to the [Oval Office](https://www.whitehouse.gov/)so his administration can "seek a negotiated resolution." Doing so would allow the case to be resolved without the [Supreme Court](https://supremecourt.gov/) interfering.
 
-The Journal's editorial board on Tuesday afternoon noted his amicus brief, which the high court will hear on Jan. 10, "implores the Justices to give him a chance to apply his 'dealmaking' skills to rescue [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) from the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that passed Congress in April."
+The [Journal's editorial board](https://www.wsj.com/) on Tuesday afternoon noted his amicus brief, which the high court will hear on Jan. 10, "implores the [Justices](https://www.supremecoyrt.gov/) to give him a chance to apply his 'dealmaking' skills to rescue [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) from the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that passed Congress in April."
 
-The board was no fan of Trump's argument, which it said essentially "wants the Supreme Court to treat him like a second President with Joe Biden so he can save [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/). The brief is extraordinary in several ways, none of them good. Mr. Trump wants the Court to treat him as if he’s already President before he’s inaugurated. Trump for all intents and purposes is a "private citizen" until he's inaugurated, the board countered. He is also in essence "asking the Justices to let him rewrite a law he doesn’t like."
+The board was no fan of Trump's argument, which it said essentially "wants the [Supreme Court](https://supremecourt.gov/) to treat him like a second President with Joe Biden so he can save [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/). The brief is extraordinary in several ways, none of them good. Mr. Trump wants the Court to treat him as if he’s already President before he’s inaugurated. Trump for all intents and purposes is a "private citizen" until he's inaugurated, the [board](https://www.wsj.com/) countered. He is also in essence "asking the Justices to let him rewrite a law he doesn’t like."
 
-Trump, the board said, "instructs the Court that he deserves this power because he won the election and is a wizard on social media. Really, that’s his claim. We trust the Justices will ignore this amicus sophistry," the Journal's board concluded.
+Trump, the [board](https://www.wsj.com/) said, "instructs the [Court](https://supremecourt.gov/) that he deserves this power because he won the election and is a wizard on social media. Really, that’s his claim. We trust the [Justices](https://www.supremecoyrt.gov/) will ignore this amicus sophistry," the [Journal's board](https://www.wsj.https://www.wsj.com/) concluded.
 
-The board urged the justices to rebuff the MAGA leader and his argument that he has a special standing to represent U.S. [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) users.
+The [board](https://www.wsj.com/) urged the justices to rebuff the MAGA leader and his argument that he has a special standing to represent U.S. [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) users.
 
 After touting himself as “one of the most powerful, prolific, and influential users of social media in history,” Trump argued that his “14.7 million followers on [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/) with whom he actively communicates,” allow him to “evaluate [TikTok's](https://www.tiktok.com/) importance as a unique medium for freedom of expression, including core political speech.”
 
-In Trump’s amicus brief, which was submitted by D. John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, the president-elect said he takes “no position on the merits of the dispute.” Instead, he argued that a negotiated resolution by his administration could “prevent a nationwide shutdown of [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/), thus preserving the First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans, while also addressing the government’s national security concerns.”
+In Trump’s amicus brief, which was submitted by D. John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, the president-elect said he takes “no position on the merits of the dispute.” Instead, he argued that a negotiated resolution by his administration could “prevent a nationwide shutdown of [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/), thus preserving the [First Amendment](https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/) rights of tens of millions of Americans, while also addressing the government’s national security concerns.”
 
 Trump’s calls to preserve free speech via the means of [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/).
 
-@RalphHightower: **Hang on one second!** Trump is an advocate of the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press and freedom of speech? Then why has he sued [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/) and the [Des Moines Register](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/)  I don't understand it!
+@RalphHightower: **Hang on one second!** Trump is an advocate of the [First Amendment](https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/) guaranteeing freedom of the press and freedom of speech? Then why has he sued [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/) and the [Des Moines Register](https://www.desmoinesregister.com/)  I don't understand it!
 
 The brief continued to make the case for the former reality star and billionaire, stating, “President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged.”
 

diff --git a/_posts/2025/01/2025-01-22-FCTrumpCaliforniaWater.md b/_posts/2025/01/2025-01-22-FCTrumpCaliforniaWater.md
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Jan 20, 2025
 
 LOS ANGELES – Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement after President Trump took a slew of executive actions aimed at reversing America’s progress on climate, including withdrawing from the Paris Agreement – the international treaty for combating climate change.
 
-![Helicopter dropping water onto fire](https://ralphhightower.github.io/blog/img/calfire_GhwRk5xXoAE_e1I.jpg)
+![Helicopter dropping water onto fire](https://ralphhightower.github.io/blog//img/calfire_GhwRk5xXoAE_e1I.jpg)
 
 ![CALFIRE Firefighters along a fire line](https://ralphhightower.github.io/blog/img/calfire_GhwRY0pXUAAN7Dt-980x735.jpg)
 
@@ -67,15 +67,12 @@ Governor Gavin Newsom
 
 ### [Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California – The White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-people-over-fish-stopping-radical-environmentalism-to-provide-water-to-southern-california/)
 
-<p style="text-align: center">Presidential Actions
+<p style="text-align: center">Presidential Actions</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">California</p>
+<p style="text-align: center">January 20, 2025</p>
 
-Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical
-
-Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern
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-California
-
-January 20, 2025</p>
 
 MEMORANDUM FOR THE [SECRETARY OF COMMERCE](https://www.commerce.gov/)