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12:45 PM ET, January 11, 2026

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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Why are federal agents gunning down Americans in the streets?  —  The shooting of Renee Good, like all of the ICE abuses, is symptomatic of a deeper mental illness.  —  Cross-posted by Noahpinion … - Brad DeLong  —  “What if you knew her and/ Found her dead on the ground/ How can you run …
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Thomas Zimmer / Steady:
When the State Terrorizes the People  —  The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism's violent, authoritarian essence.  MAGA is at war with the reality of American society. … Renee Nicole Good, mother of three children, died mere blocks away from where she lived with her wife and her youngest son, who is 6 years old.
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Barbie's Latest Stunt Sent Trump Insiders Into Panic  —  NOEM MAS!  —  “I don't know how we recover from this,” an administration official told Politico.  —  White House insiders are privately panicking that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials are digging ICE into an inescapable hole.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
David French / New York Times:
Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames.  Again.  —  President Trump is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States.  —  There are few things in American life more divisive than controversies over police violence.  The racial reckoning of 2020 and the protests and riots …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding …
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Day after Minneapolis shooting, Noem ordered new restriction on congressional oversight
Daily Mail:
Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’: US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation  —  Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
New year's blitz reveals Trump's limitless view of power  —  The first week of 2026 left little ambiguity about what President Trump thinks of power — or whether there are any limits on his.  Just listen to him and top aide Stephen Miller.  — Trump to The New York Times …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Sen. Chris Murphy says ‘it would be the end of NATO’ if the U.S. annexed Greenland
Discussion: The Guardian
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Branding Trump a neocon does a disservice to the label
New York Times:
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue  —  The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country.  —  President Trump has been briefed in recent days …
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran warns it will target US troops and Israel if America strikes over protests  —  Nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy saw protesters flood the streets in the country's capital and its second-largest city into Sunday, crossing the two-week mark as violence surrounding …
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Warns It Could Hit U.S. Bases as Trump Weighs Military Options
Discussion: NewsMax.com, UPI and The Gateway Pundit
Yeganeh Torbati / Washington Post:
‘Massacre’ feared as Iran tries to crush protests; U.S. weighs military options
Discussion: Axios and israelhayom.com
New York Times:   Death Toll Grows as Nationwide Protests Rock Iran for a Third Night
New York Times:
Trump's ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor  —  President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.”  They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges.  —  President Trump has found a powerful but obscure bulwark …
Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries  —  State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans  —  The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries …
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Jasmine Baehr / Fox News:
US warns Americans to leave Venezuela immediately as armed militias set up roadblocks  —  Armed militias known as colectivos reportedly setting up roadblocks to search vehicles for evidence of US citizenship  —  The U.S. government issued a new security alert Saturday urging Americans …
New York Times:
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78  —  His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band's sound as it became an American institution.  —  Bob Weir, a guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of the Grateful Dead …
New York Times:
Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments  —  When the National Portrait Gallery replaced a portrait of President Trump this week, it took down a biography of his first term.  —  The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery removed wall text that referred to President Trump's two impeachments …
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria  —  The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year.  —  The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday …
Politico:
States move to rein in ICE after fatal Minnesota shooting … Some policies were moving before an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother last week.  But her death has been cited by lawmakers as reason to squeeze ICE out of their states.
Discussion: Fox News
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump threatens Cuba: Negotiate “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE” … - But after backing off Colombia and facing allied pushback over Greenland, Havana has emerged as the hemispheric target du jour. … - The U.S. strike in Venezuela put allied Cuba, already strained by a sagging economy …
New York Times:
Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax  —  More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.  —  Some of Silicon Valley's ultrawealthy …
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Kristi Noem tells Walz and Frey to ‘grow up’ … She continued, “I would encourage them to grow up, get some maturity, act like people who are responsible, who want people to be safe and the right thing to be done.  When you use the kind of language that you use against law enforcement officers, they lose their credibility.”
Reuters:
Sweden to invest $1.6 billion in air defence systems  —  Sweden will spend 15 billion Swedish crowns ($1.6 billion) on air defence aimed at primarily protecting civilians and civilian infrastructure, the government said on Sunday.  —  Sweden has, like most European countries …
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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Discussion: NewsMax.com
Washington Post:
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
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