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Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U.S. citizens  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka.  —  The incident, which could not immediately …
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Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
The Border Debate Is Over.  Dems Lost.  —  ONE OF MY FAVORITE nuggets about immigration (yes, I have favorite immigration trivia) is about the timeline for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
City of Newark:
MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA'S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Trump empowers deportation agents to target migrants Biden administration allowed into the U.S. legally
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump has pulled Fauci's security detail, source says  —  President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN.  It was pulled on Thursday night.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignorance  —  If you feel off-kilter, you're in good company.  The president seems downright bewildered.  —  “I think we're going to do things that people would be shocked at,” President Donald Trump declared on his second day in office.
Discussion: New Jersey Online and NOTUS
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Stripped of Government Security Protection  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who was one of the nation's top health officials for decades, had received death threats during the coronavirus pandemic.  He has hired his own security detail.  —  President Trump canceled Dr. Anthony S. Fauci's …
Reuters:
Trump says he ended security for former top COVID official Anthony Fauci
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis.  RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.  —  New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump's pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
RFK Jr.'s allies have a plan to upend childhood vaccination  —  Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. advisers are sparring over how far he should go on vaccines as health secretary.  —  Top advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are battling over how aggressively to target vaccines during his first days …
Discussion: Raw Story
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Musk Tells a ‘Joke’  —  The board and shareholders of Costco overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for the big-box giant to revise its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.  You might call it the first act of wholesale resistance.  —  Happy Friday.  —  Stick to Rockets  —  by William Kristol
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Elon Musk doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt  —  Since Donald Trump's rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right.  —  Be it Laura Ingraham allegedly sieg-heiling at the 2016 Republican National Convention …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Crush the Academic Left  —  Last year, Chris Rufo, the influential right-wing strategist who spearheaded the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., initiatives, told me about his ambitions for a second Trump presidency.  He hoped, he said …
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Jessica Blake / Inside Higher Ed:   Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders
Emily Peck / Axios:
Trump's DEI orders may halt progress for disabled workers
Discussion: Reuters, CNN and Business Insider
Charles Kaiser / Columbia Journalism Review:
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times  —  The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.  —  For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense.
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Trump Says States Should Manage Disasters.  Former FEMA Leaders Agree.  —  “I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said.  Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.  —  President Trump plans to tour damage on Friday …
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Associated Press:
Trump Proposes ‘Getting Rid Of FEMA’ While Visiting North Carolina
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP measure would let Trump seek third term
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr  —  Wanted to share some information on the RFK Jr. nomination before the Senate.  —  It probably won't surprise you that RFK Jr., along with Tulsi Gabbard, are among the few Trump nominees who might actually not get confirmed.
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
There Is No Resistance  —  To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald Trump freed the January 6ers, briefly return to the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign.  At the time, a hot issue was whether Trump harbored fascist tendencies, as some of his former aides alleged.
Discussion: NewsBreak
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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
How Republicans Learned to Excuse Political Violence
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Financial Times:
Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland  —  US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island  —  Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark's prime minister, according to senior European officials.
Discussion: Politico, RTÉ, Semafor and Alternet.org
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Judge bars Rhodes, other Oath Keepers from entering DC without court permission  —  A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the right-wing extremist group from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's permission …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Two Words and a World of Trouble  —  Let me tell you a story about clowns evolving into velociraptors.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Bill Kristol sat in for Sarah on the Secret Pod today and it was dark.  Just a warning.  If you're not in good head-space to begin with today, maybe skip this episode?
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration  —  President has thrown weight of justice department behind two politically charged reviews into his personal grievances  —  Donald Trump has tasked the attorney general in two executive orders to conduct far-reaching investigations …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Former Secret Service agent: Trump put Bolton, Pompeo ‘at significant risk’  —  A former Secret Service agent said President Trump's decision to terminate protection for former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will put them at “significant risk.”
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom plans to crash Trump's LA wildfire visit  —  The Democratic governor and the Republican president have not spoken since Trump left office in 2020.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had yet to hear from Donald Trump on the eve of the president's planned tour …
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New York Times:
In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree.
Washington Post:
Trump's budget pick, Russ Vought, is starting to upend Washington  —  The president's nominee for the Office of Management and Budget aims to slash spending and regulation — and push the limits of presidential power to achieve Trump's agenda.  —  Even before he takes the reins …
Bloomberg:
Lutnick Lists 800 Firms in Complex Billionaire Ethics Filing  — Cantor CEO says he'll divest a swath of business stakes  — He faces a US Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 29  —  Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Commerce Department …
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
LA Times owner on spiking Harris endorsement: 'I knew I'd get pushback'
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
JFK's grandson scorns Trump's move to declassify assassination files as ‘political prop’
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Nearly 150 congressional Democrats sign on to resolution condemning Paris withdrawal
Discussion: E&E News and Just Security
Politico:
Kathy versus crime
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Sensing Political Support, Abortion Opponents Raise Ambitions
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast
Jos Joseph / The Hill:
Women, gays, transgender and queer Americans serve in the military because men won't
David Brooks / New York Times:
How Trump Will Fail  —  After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking …
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
GOP leaders in debt limit quandary between Trump, fiscal hawks
Discussion: NBC News and UnHerd
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
“A pact with the devil”  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest …
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