First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 24, 2026 · 55 min · 41 segments
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Joe ThomasHost
Mac McDonald
Bob GoodGuest
Our first things this morning, of which Joel is speaking of, Senate pro tempore President Luis Lucas of Virginia is in jail along with six co-conspirators for money laundering and marijuana sales and racketeering.

She has been in office for 34 years using her political power to insulate her operation and in many cases prop it up, creating a political machine in the area that she represents there.

Governments and companies around the world shut down websites Thursday as they race to protect themselves from hacks.

You're probably going to be impacted by something or another running slow this morning as the Internet continues to operate while a hack into the language called PHP, that is the undergirding language of more than 70% of all the world's websites.

certificates and the hacks actually went as far as creating spoof websites to steal your information and money and hack into your computers.

Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs for voting.

During the midterm election, Khatunji Brown, the only justice in dissent, Russia continues to hit the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with ballistic missiles while the American envoy, Steve Witkoff, tries to get Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy together for three-party discussions.

Latest shutter of stocks in the AI world, probably driven by the hack that hit it, knocked the Wall Street folks down a little bit.

Airbnb guests can say goodbye to the requirement that they do chores like washing dishes and stripping beds and taking out the trash as new policies were instituted by the short-term home rental business there.

You can find us online and download podcasts of the program at JoeThomasInTheMorning.com. You can also enter to win our Trans-Siberian Orchestra contest.

Our first things this morning, of which Joel is speaking of, Senate pro tempore President Luis Lucas of Virginia is in jail along with six co-conspirators for money laundering and marijuana sales and racketeering.

She has been in office for 34 years using her political power to insulate her operation and in many cases prop it up, creating a political machine in the area that she represents there.

Governments and companies around the world shut down websites Thursday as they race to protect themselves from hacks.

You're probably going to be impacted by something or another running slow this morning as the Internet continues to operate while a hack into the language called PHP, that is the undergirding language of more than 70% of all the world's websites.

certificates and the hacks actually went as far as creating spoof websites to steal your information and money and hack into your computers.

Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs for voting.

During the midterm election, Khatunji Brown, the only justice in dissent, Russia continues to hit the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with ballistic missiles while the American envoy, Steve Witkoff, tries to get Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy together for three-party discussions.

Latest shutter of stocks in the AI world, probably driven by the hack that hit it, knocked the Wall Street folks down a little bit.

Airbnb guests can say goodbye to the requirement that they do chores like washing dishes and stripping beds and taking out the trash as new policies were instituted by the short-term home rental business there.

You can find us online and download podcasts of the program at JoeThomasInTheMorning.com. You can also enter to win our Trans-Siberian Orchestra contest.
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