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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.
Reuters:
Trump says he ended security for former top COVID official Anthony Fauci
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Former Secret Service agent: Trump put Bolton, Pompeo ‘at significant risk’
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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The Hill:
White House says migrant deportation flights with military aircraft have begun
City of Newark:
MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA'S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
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
Discussion: 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.
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  —  The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President Trump's executive …
Emily Peck / Axios:
Trump's DEI orders may halt progress for disabled workers
Discussion: Reuters, CNN and Business Insider
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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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom plans to crash Trump's LA wildfire visit
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump recommends ending FEMA ahead of California fire site visit
Associated Press:
Trump Proposes ‘Getting Rid Of FEMA’ While Visiting North Carolina
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 …
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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
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.
Politico:
State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid  —  The “stop-work orders” appear to apply to US aid for all countries except Israel and Egypt.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days.
Discussion: Reuters and DNyuz
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Wall Street Journal:
Freed Jan. 6 Convicts Are Back on the Street and Ready to Help Trump
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Post
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.
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do  —  Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion.  “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen” … The Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder reportedly promised the administration …
Vi Nguyen / NBC Chicago:
ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school amid heightened concerns of raids  —  Schools across the Chicago area have released guidance about potential situations after the Trump Administration revoked previous guidance prohibiting immigration arrests at schools, churches and hospitals
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP measure would let Trump seek third term
New York Times:
Sensing Political Support, Abortion Opponents Raise Ambitions  —  The March for Life on Friday will bring together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.  —  Anti-abortion activists are charging ahead with their ultimate mission to end all abortions nationwide …
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?
Associated Press:
Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking reproductive health care facilities  —  President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
NBC News:
Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once  —  The new feature, announced by the Office of Personnel Management, aligns with the goals of DOGE.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials …
Discussion: The Root
 
 
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Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He's Set to Run the Agency.
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“A pact with the devil”  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest …
 

 
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