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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump freed a Jan. 6 defendant charged with assaulting police.  DOJ had him arrested again on a gun charge.  —  The charges against Daniel Ball, unrelated to Jan. 6, had been pending since 2023.  —  A Jan. 6 defendant whose felony assault charges were dismissed a day earlier was arrested Wednesday …
Discussion: New York Post and The Independent
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Already Rearrested on Gun Charges  —  Trump granted clemency to hundreds of alleged or convicted violent criminals.  One is back behind bars … In May 2023, Daniel Ball of Homosassa, Florida, was indicted on 12 counts related to his participation in the attack on the Capitol.
Thomas Joscelyn / The Bulwark:
What Kash Patel Doesn't Want the Senate to Know About the ‘J6 Prison Choir’
Discussion: RNS, Mediaite and The Hill
Associated Press:
Trump's Jan. 6 pardons won't change the ‘truth’, judge says
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments.  How would that work?  —  President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies, enabling them to begin running the largest federal departments.
Discussion: Townhall
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The Hill:
House passes Laken Riley Act, sending it to Trump for first legislative win
Jordain Carney / Politico:   No recess till Trump gets his Cabinet, top GOP senators say
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Bishop who made plea to Trump says she won't apologize  —  The reverend who called on President Trump to have mercy on transgender children and immigrants during a prayer service for his inauguration said in a new interview she would not apologize for her remarks.
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David Strom / HotAir:
Bishop At National Prayer Service Attacks Trump's Character and Policy
Discussion: Townhall
Alana Wise / NPR:
Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division  —  The memo doesn't state how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the civil rights division for at least the first weeks of the Trump administration.  —  The Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division …
Journal Sentinel:
CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture  —  Daniel Bice Mary SpicuzzaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster has been dropped by her station one day after she criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture that many have likened to a Nazi salute.
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump suggests Biden and those he pardoned should be investigated  —  “I did it the hard way,” the president said, referring to his legal challenges.  “It's really hard to say they shouldn't have to go through it also.”  —  President Donald Trump appeared to suggest Wednesday …
Discussion: Reason
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Fox News:
Biden's letter to Trump revealed: ‘May God bless you and guide you’
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
Discussion: Breitbart and The Independent
Washington Post:
Trump targeted federal workers in his opening act, starting with DEI employees
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump's Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry  —  Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation's agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies.
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CNN:
US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border  —  Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border with Mexico, just two days after President Donald Trump mandated that the US military step up its presence there, according to officials familiar with the matter.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say … Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees Thursday as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience, according to people familiar with the matter.
NPR:
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications  —  Employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told to halt all public communications Tuesday.  —  NPR obtained a memo issued by the acting head of HHS, Dr. Dorothy Fink, to the heads …
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Science:
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and STAT
Donald Trump / STAT:
Trump administration freezes many health agency reports and posts
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gives Gun, Drug Agents Deportation Power  —  The directive is the latest in a flurry of moves the new administration has taken on immigration  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is attempting to amass a larger force of law-enforcement officials to help carry out deportations …
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Associated Press:
Justice Department orders investigation of local compliance with Trump immigration crackdown
Politico:
Trump DOJ gears up for immigration enforcement
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Former Navy SEAL Said to Be Interim Head of FEMA  —  Cameron Hamilton does not appear to have experience coordinating responses to large-scale disasters, like the wildfires in California.  —  The Trump administration has made a former member of the Navy SEALs who has spoken about the importance …
Discussion: The Intercept
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump says FEMA is “getting in the way” … - Trump and others in the GOP have in recent months complained that FEMA's disaster response has been biased against Republicans. … - “FEMA is a whole ‘nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in the prerecorded interview.
WLBT-TV:
Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’  —  JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”  —  As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person …
Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Trump pardons police officers convicted of murder, obstruction in man's death  —  President Donald Trump pardoned two Washington, D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, who was riding a moped on a sidewalk without a helmet when he ignored instructions to stop.
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Washington Post:
Trump pardons two D.C. officers convicted in fatal chase
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Politico:
GOP leaders mull a big debt-and-funding deal with Democrats  —  The option would include an agreement that ties together government funding, border money, disaster aid and a debt-limit hike.  —  House and Senate GOP leaders are internally debating a possible deal with Democrats …
The Contrarian:
Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money  —  One of the nearly 200 executive orders that newly inaugurated President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday reversed several critical policies that President Biden had put in place.  Among those was lowering drug costs for Americans.
Discussion: KOLO-TV and WisPolitics
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Politico:
Trump pulls back Biden drug pricing action
Discussion: WVEC
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog  —  The Trump White House has told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired, which would stop the independent agency from functioning.
Discussion: Axios, Just Security, Defense One and Reason
The White House:
Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
How to Stop Trump in One Stupid Chart  —  For reasons I can't explain, this entire newsletter feels like it was written in ALL CAPS.  So maybe you'll imagine me shouting it at you, like a crazy person.  —  Because basically, that's how I feel right now: Like a crazy person.  Maybe you do, too?
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X.com in response to Elon Musk's salute at a Donald Trump inauguration rally that was celebrated by Nazis as being a Nazi salute.  The moderators of dozens of those subreddits have said that they have decided they will ban all links to X.
 
 
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Trump threatens to withhold aid for California wildfires in first TV interview since inauguration
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp’
Discussion: USA Today, The Hill and Reason
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
House Republicans create new panel aimed at undermining Jan. 6 committee
WTVF-TV:
Antioch High School on lockdown: Two people are dead, one stable
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says Trump's tariff policy is positive for national security so people should ‘get over it’
Robert Plummer / BBC:
Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon
 

 
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