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David Nir / Public Notice:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Axios
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Matt Gaetz feels the heat  —  The would-be attorney general is facing new pressure this week from his accusers and from Senate Democrats.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general.  Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report …
Peter Stone / The Guardian:   Gaetz pick raises fears that Trump will seek ‘retribution’ on political foes
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Playbook: Heritage comes out of the bunker
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies
Discussion: New York Post and New York Times
NBC News:
Speaker Mike Johnson leaves the door open to recess appointments
Discussion: The Bulwark
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump confirms he will declare national emergency to carry out mass deportations … - A Truth Social post early Monday is the first time the president-elect has confirmed how his administration will execute the controversial plan. … - Trump reposted Fitton's comment Monday with the caption, “TRUE!!”
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
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Washington Post:
Live updates Trump confirms plans to use military for mass deportations  —  President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that his plan for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants will involve a national emergency declaration and the military.  Trump, in an early-morning post on social media …
Discussion: The Independent and CNN
Politico:
Trump's immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1  —  The president-elect is expected to take a series of actions aimed at restricting immigration and ramping up deportations.  —  In his first 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump plans to begin the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of people.
Discussion: Mercury News, Daily Mail and WPR
Washington Examiner:
Trump confirms plans to declare national emergency to implement mass deportation program  —  President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Truth Social early Monday morning that his incoming administration will declare a national emergency and use military resources to implement a mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
Discussion: CNN, IJR and Daily Mail
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Musk, top Trump adviser clash over Cabinet picks … - Musk — who fueled Trump's election effort by giving at least $119 million — has questioned whether Epshteyn has had too much influence in Trump's selections, especially his top Justice Department picks and the White House counsel …
Wall Street Journal:
A Wistful Biden Says Goodbye in a Closing Appearance on the World Stage  —  His valedictory visit to South America marks an end to an era as other leaders look ahead to a Trump presidency  —  RIO DE JANEIRO—After defeating Donald Trump four years ago, President Biden declared at his first summit “America is back.”
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Associated Press:
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied longer range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia
New York Times:
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
Reuters:
Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia
New York Times:
After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is eyeing a new candidate …
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Sam Sutton / Politico:
The mad scramble to be Trump's Treasury secretary  —  Donald Trump's political revival was fueled by a populist economic message that hit home with an electorate weary of Biden-era high prices and interest rates.  Now the president-elect is having a hard time picking a quarterback to run his economic game plan.
Matthew Loh / Business Insider:
Trump picked a Project 2025 coauthor to run the FCC.  Here's what it means for Big Tech.  — President-elect Donald Trump nominated Brendan Carr as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.  — Carr has been working for the FCC since 2012.
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Politico:   Republicans suddenly think the economy's great and the election wasn't rigged
Associated Press:
Trump names Brendan Carr, senior GOP leader at FCC, to lead the agency
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Dems who overcame GOP tide urge party to focus on ‘kitchen-table issues’
Discussion: Townhall
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers  —  “All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”  —  The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel is one of the most blunt voices in American media.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth  —  Secretary of Defense is one of the most complex and consequential positions on earth.  The person in that position is responsible for overseeing the world's largest bureaucracy, the Department of Defense, with over 2.6 million employees and a budget of over $840 billion.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff  —  The legendary pollster is ending her relationship with the Des Moines Register, which dates back to 1997.  —  Two weeks after her firm incorrectly found Vice President Kamala Harris surging in increasingly red Iowa …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Trump's Impossible Task: Delivering for the Working Class and Billionaires  —  He's attempting to pull off plutocratic populism, but the math doesn't square. … He improved on his 2020 vote share nearly everywhere on the map.  And he made significant gains with working-class Latino and Black voters …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
A common sense economic agenda
Francois Murphy / Reuters:
Austrian parties agree to launch full coalition talks
Discussion: Bloomberg
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A study found that X's algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Donald Trump Jr. says pushback against Cabinet picks proves they're the disrupters voters wanted
Discussion: Daily Kos
Adeola Adeosun / Newsweek:
AOC Blasts Rumored DNC Chair Contender: ‘Disease’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Cabinet of Wonders
Discussion: Breitbart
The Guardian:
In Donald Trump, the morality of civil society has been abandoned
Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Enough  —  For the past decade, as Donald Trump has risen in political stature …