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11:35 AM ET, January 19, 2025

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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China  —  Not too long ago, Donald Trump was a big fan of banning TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app that went offline in the U.S. early Sunday under a controversial ban.  On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the law …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
TikTok goes dark for US users; Trump signals intervention  —  TikTok app with the message “Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now” are seen in this illustration taken, January 19, 2025.  REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights  —  President-elect Donald Trump …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Apple, Google remove TikTok from stores as app halts service in US … Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.
New York Times:
TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S.
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic:
America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet
Discussion: New York Post and The Intercept
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump begins selling a new crypto token, in a move assailed as an ethical breach.
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Trump launches crypto meme coin, ballooning net worth ahead of inauguration
Politico:
A president's final days  —  As Biden leaves office, his term is ending where it began: Trump.  —  On a recent Tuesday morning, in a dim underground parking garage in west Los Angeles, President Joe Biden sat idly in his car, seemingly paralyzed by events.
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:   Biden's Legacy: Rescuing America From COVID, Then Getting Replaced By A Criminal
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Returns to White House With More Deferential Allies and Foes
Discussion: Election Law Blog
David Strom / HotAir:
Democrats Now Threatening People Who Donated to Trump's Inauguration
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Townhall
Politico:
National Guard troops worry Trump will deploy them for mass deportations  —  “I don't want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said.  —  National Guard members fear landing in the center of a political tussle between red state governors and blue state attorneys general …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows  —  Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies …
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Clemency Actions  —  America is a country built on the promise of second chances.  As President, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality by issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Prepares to Cover a Government Filled With Fox News Alumni  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has leaned heavily on familiar faces from the cable network as he fills out his second-term cast.  —  Nineteen ... and counting.  —  That's the number of former Fox News hosts …
Discussion: Raw Story
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses  —  Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.  —  President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation …
Discussion: The Guardian
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Bannon: Billionaire CEOs have surrendered to Trump  —  Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon said he sees the presence of billionaire CEOs and tech moguls at President-elect Trump's inaugural events as a white flag of surrender from “the oligarchs.” … - “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day …
David French / New York Times:
Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom  —  The Supreme Court of Texas just heard oral argument in a case challenging a remarkably punitive and malicious attack on religious liberty by the state of Texas.  That attack isn't just dangerous on its own terms, it's also a potential preview …
New York Times:
'We'd Have Been Better Off if Trump Won in 2020': Three Columnists Brace for the First 100 Days  —  Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg about Donald Trump's presidential inauguration …
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy  —  Money, Lies, and God exposes a Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others  —  There is a “real and very, very present” threat to the US …
CBS News:
Trump's return to office greeted with optimism, high expectations — CBS News poll  —  A majority of Americans are optimistic about the next four years with Donald Trump, even more so than they were in 2017 before his first term.  And most are hopeful about the coming year.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe  —  What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally  —  What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday?  I don't know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact.
 
 
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Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Lee Enterprises says a “cybersecurity event” has disrupted operations at its newspapers since at least February 3, forcing some to not print at all

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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Washington Post:
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