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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow  —  Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow  —  Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman's supposed ties to activist groups.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Blasted Federal Prosecutors at White House Event, Calling Them Weak  —  The president criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a photo shoot, a day before Federal Reserve subpoenas  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week …
Matt Sepic / MPR News:
Minn. fraud prosecutor quits over ICE shooting probe
TMZ.com:
President Trump Filmed Flipping Off Ford Worker Who Yells ‘Pedophile Protector’ at Him  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP HEY, F*** YOU, BUB, FOR THAT PEDO DISS!!! … Donald Trump turned into Donald Grump during a Tuesday appearance at a Ford plant ... launching into an F-bomb attack on a worker who appeared to yell …
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler  —  A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f— you” and raising his middle finger toward someone shouting at him inside the auto factory.  —  President Donald Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger …
Discussion: CBS News and Whiskey Riff
New York Times:
Blowback Builds Over Criminal Investigation of Powell  —  Trump allies fear that the inquiry into the Fed chair could complicate the process of replacing him this year.  —  The investigation of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, has prompted fierce blowback from Republicans …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Makes Obscene Gesture at Heckler in Ford Factory Tour
Discussion: New York Post
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:   Trump gives middle finger to worker shouting ‘pedophile protector’
Laura Jedeed / Slate:
You've Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting.  The Truth Is Far Worse.  I'm the Proof.  —  What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets?  We're all finding out.  —  The plan was never to become an ICE agent.
Discussion: Jacobin
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Angela Yang / NBC News:
Joe Rogan criticizes ICE tactics: ‘Are we really going to be the Gestapo?’  —  The influential podcaster, who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, has been increasingly critical of the president's mass deportation strategy.  —  Joe Rogan compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “the Gestapo” …
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:
Whistleblower drops ‘largest ever’ ICE leak to unmask agents: ‘The last straw’  —  A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach  —  INTERNAL REVOLT  —  A DHS whistleblower appears to have exposed data on federal immigration workers after the shooting of Renee Good.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE …
Discussion: RedState and The Independent
ProPublica:
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Discussion: WBUR
Tucker Reals / CBS News:
Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue  —  Information trickling out of Iran on Tuesday suggests that a crackdown by authorities to end more than two weeks of widespread anti-government protests has likely been far more deadly than activists outside the country have reported.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Death toll from Iranian protests surpasses 2,000, activists say, as chaos recalls 1979 revolution
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Supports the Protesters, Except Those Protesting Him
Discussion: UPI
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump litters Detroit economic speech with numerous false claims about economy  —  Donald Trump Fighting disinformation Inflation Economy  —  Inflation hasn't “stopped.”  Consumer prices are up during this presidential term, not “down.”  Grocery prices are rising, not starting to fall “rapidly.”
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Wall Street Journal:   The Affordability Problem in One Chart
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Food Prices Were Stubbornly High Last Year
Discussion: Breitbart
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Grocery prices see biggest spike since 2022 in December
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry  —  The couple escalated their battle with Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, who said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress.  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday …
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New York Times:
Read the Clintons' Legal Letter to Comer
New York Times:
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump's Stolen Election Claims  —  The testimony, part of the derailed Georgia election interference case, makes clear how dismissive some senior Republicans were of claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.  —  Senator Lindsey Graham …
The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This  —  If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.  —  Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot?  —  For more than a week, beginning late last month, anyone could go online and use …
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Raphael Satter / Reuters:
US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children
Discussion: RTÉ
Los Angeles Times:
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says  — 7 min Click here to listen to this article  —  A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE  —  Thin blue line  —  During the last battle over government funding, which resulted in a record 43-day shutdown, Democrats showed that they had it in them to hold firm—at least for a long while—in an effort to push their policy priorities to the forefront of political debate.
Discussion: New York Times and NewsMax.com
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Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Virginia Democrats look to decimate GOP seats in redistricting effort … “[Democrats] basically have voting rights act seats in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana,” he said.  “They could all be gone, right?  So that's a great concern.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
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New York Times:
The House Republican Majority Is Down to Almost Nothing
Discussion: Roll Call
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Memo Said Trump Could Send Troops Into Venezuela Unilaterally  —  The memo offers a detailed look into the administration's legal justification for the military incursion into Venezuelan territory in early January.  —  A Justice Department memo made public Tuesday concluded …
Discussion: The Contrarian and Lawfare
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CNN:
Classified legal memo argues Trump wasn't constrained by US or international law for Maduro capture operation
Discussion: Washington Post
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Terrorist Designations of Muslim Brotherhood Chapters  —  Today, as a first step in support of President Trump's commitment to eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that pose a threat to the United States as described in Executive Order 14362 …
Alice Speri / The Guardian:
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration's demand for ‘lists of Jews’  —  Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights  —  Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration's efforts to obtain information …
New York Times:
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss's Bumpy Revamp at CBS  —  Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes.  —  Bari Weiss's message to the “CBS Evening News” team was blunt.
Axios:
Scoop: Trump has been texting with Mamdani  —  President Trump has a surprising phone pal: He and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have texted back and forth recently, two sources familiar with their conversations tell Axios. … - It also suggests that the good vibes …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error  —  A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large number of active police investigations around the country because they have failed …
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams  —  In 2025, the DOJ struggled with everything from purges to incompetence to weaponization.  In 2026, its collapse seems to be accelerating.  —  As Attorney General Pam Bondi's tenure approaches the one-year mark …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
‘When did I do that?’  Trump says about $2,000 tariff dividend checks  —  Those $2,000 dividend checks President Donald Trump has been talking about for months seemed to have slipped his mind during a recent interview with The New York Times.  And the payment date appears to have shifted, too.
Discussion: HuffPost and New York Magazine
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Over 50 House Dems sign onto Kristi Noem impeachment articles  —  Over 50 House Democrats have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios has learned. … - Reps. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), Al Green (D-Texas) and Haley Stevens …
Discussion: MS NOW
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Nazi Slogans Are Not an Accident  —  How many Americans actually want a race war?  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Numbers  —  During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport every illegal immigrant who was a rapist, murderer, or thief.  He also promised to deport 20 million immigrants.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Resistance Libs Were Right  —  For the last decade there's been a debate, among people who don't like Donald Trump, about whether he's a fascist.  —  The argument that he isn't often hinges on two things.  First, when Trump first came to power, he lacked a street-fighting force …
 
 
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
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