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Politico:
Trump's a T-Rex and ‘pathetic’ leaders need to confront him, rages California's Newsom  —  Leading Democrat launches broadside at politicians who bow to Trump: “You mate with him or he devours you, one or the other, and you need to stand up to it.”  —  DAVOS, Switzerland …
Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariffs on French Wine  —  France has said it will not join President Trump's “Board for Peace.”  France's agriculture minister described the tariff threat as “blackmail.”  —  President Trump threatened on Monday to impose 200 percent tariffs on French wine …
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
Trump threatens 200% tariff on French wines as Macron reportedly snubs ‘Board of Peace’ seat
Sarah Davis / The Hill:
Macron: Trump wants to ‘weaken and subordinate’ Europe
Paul Krugman:
It's Sundowning in America  —  A short post.  Today doesn't seem like a day for charts and number-crunching.  —  I had never heard the term “sundowning” before it happened to my own father, yet it's a fairly common syndrome.  In his last few months my father remained lucid and rational — remained himself — during daylight hours.
Discussion: The Independent, Raw Story and Reason
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment  —  ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months  —  During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
Discussion: NBC News
Degenerate Art:
Into the abyss  —  The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.  —  Events are moving so quickly that it's worth stopping to assess where we are.  The U.S. government is currently building massive detention facilities, already detaining tens of thousands of people …
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
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Maria Cardona / Reuters:
ICE broke into Minnesota home, dragged barely clothed man into snow
Discussion: NBC News
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion  —  The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill.  —  WASHINGTON ― Democrats touted modest constraints on President Donald …
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Jack Brook / Associated Press:
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search  —  Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Blanchfield / Politico:
Canada's Mark Carney calls on world to adapt to ‘rupture’ caused by ‘great powers’ … Carney was walking a political high-wire — balancing the need to stand with European allies facing an unprecedented attack on their sovereignty from Trump's Greenland annexation threats …
Discussion: Bloomberg, NOTUS and Mediaite
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Canada's Prime Minister Says There Has Been a ‘Rupture’ in the World Order
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
“ICE 101” — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police  —  ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America. … It's sometimes hard to capture just how far the looking glass …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Guardian
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Feds Create Drone No Fly Zone That Would Stop People Filming ICE  —  The FAA has altered a no fly zone designation that was originally created for US military bases to apply to DHS units.  —  The Federal Aviation Administration put a drone no fly zone within 3,000 feet of …
Melissa Heikkilä / The Irish Times:
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns  —  Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth  —  Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that artificial intelligence …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Supreme Court weighs Trump's firing of the Fed's Lisa Cook by social media  —  In the battle over President Donald Trump's effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook that is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices may focus on the president's use of social media to carry out this unprecedented action.
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Holly Duchmann / Baton Rouge Business Report:
Julia Letlow announces US Senate run  —  U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., is running for the U.S. Senate, challenging Republican incumbent Bill Cassidy.  —  Letlow announced her candidacy at Business Report's Power Breakfast on Tuesday morning.  Her announcement comes after President Donald Trump encouraged …
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NBC News:
Judge posts job opening for top prosecutor spot that DOJ claims Lindsey Halligan occupies  —  Though a judge disqualified Halligan from her position, the Justice Department as recently as last week referred to her as the interim U.S. attorney.  —  WASHINGTON — A top federal judge …
Discussion: Democracy Docket
Siarhei Besarab / steanlab.medium.com:
MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs  —  Behind the absurdity of charging Baofeng users with ‘High Treason’ lies a terrifying intellectual genocide and an urgent call for international solidarity  —  In 1956, the legendary French film If All the Guys …
Politico:
Congress clinches bipartisan health deal  —  Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan, bicameral health care deal early Tuesday morning they hope lawmakers will pass later this week as part of a four-bill government spending package.  Alongside funding for the departments of Defense …
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Foot the Bill for Tariffs, Study Finds  —  Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of U.S. tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by President Trump and suggests he might have a weaker hand in a reemerging trade war with Europe.  —  4%
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
Trump's Attack on Democracy Is Faltering  —  One year into Trump's second term, the country's institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian impulses.  —  The past year has been an annus horribilis for American democracy.  Donald Trump launched an assault on any source …
John F. Harris / Politico:
President Trump Will Get a Third Term Even Without Defying the Constitution … One year after Donald Trump began his second term with an inaugural address assertion that he was “saved by God to make America great again,” one way to measure his influence is to cast the mind forward two years from now.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Christian Wienberg / Bloomberg:
Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion  —  Greenland's prime minister said the Arctic island's population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory.
Globe and Mail:
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion  —  Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say.  But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual  —  GAVIN JOHN  —  OTTAWA AND CALGARY
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Morgan Wolfe / KARE-TV:
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney  —  A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — A combat-wounded Army veteran …
Punchbowl News:
Tillis eyes new blockade over Greenland, tariffs … The North Carolina Republican is the deciding vote on all four of his committees, having exercised that leverage a few times already since announcing last year that he won't seek reelection, including most recently with Federal Reserve nominees.
Discussion: The Guardian
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump's talk of canceling elections is a sign of desperation  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🗳️ Subscribe to PN 🗳️  —  Donald Trump hates voting.  He has cast doubt on election results virtually every time he's run.
Discussion: The Independent
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50%  —  New research concludes the Trump administration's policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.  Restricting Americans' ability to sponsor their closest family members …
 
 
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
This Is the End  —  Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home.  And we chose this path.
Patrick Van Oosterom / Bloomberg:
Dutch Far-Right Party Loses Leading Opposition Role After Split
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
emptywheel:
Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
26 Villains For '26  —  To honor the nation's looming Semiquincentennial, here are some of …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Davos Won't Save Us
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, MS NOW and New York Post
Yun Li / CNBC:
Ray Dalio warns that ‘capital wars’ could follow Trump's actions, with countries dumping U.S. assets
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry
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Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic:
What Happened to Pam Bondi?
Discussion: Raw Story and Blaze Media
Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest
Eric Levitz / Vox:
A very simple explanation for why politics is broken
Discussion: Axios
Will McCarthy / Politico:
Kamala in La La Land
Noah Keate / Politico:
Trump brands UK's Chagos Islands deal act of ‘great stupidity’
New York Times:
Falsehoods Fueled Trump's First Year Back in Office
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