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2:35 PM ET, January 9, 2025

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Politico:
Wildfire response threatens to end Karen Bass' extended honeymoon  —  The Los Angeles mayor returned home from Ghana on Wednesday and said she was in “constant contact” while abroad.  —  LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass probably has second thoughts about that trip to Ghana.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Soon, The Buck Stops With Him  —  Out in southern California, things just keep looking worse.  The winds keep blowing, the fires keep spreading, and the death and devastation keeps growing: Five people have been confirmed dead, roads are snarled by people attempting to flee …
New York Times:
Mayor's Absence Is Considered a Sign L.A. Underestimated Fire Risks  —  Some residents said Mayor Karen Bass should have canceled her trip to Ghana when weather warnings in Los Angeles grew increasingly dire.  —  When a series of dangerous, wind-driven fires broke out on Tuesday in the Los Angeles area …
Alex Nieves / Politico:
With Bass abroad, even Democrats are slamming LA mayor over wildfires
ABC News:
New York appeals court denies Trump's bid to halt Friday's hush money sentencing  —  Trump has also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing.  —  President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 7, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.
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ABC News:
Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:   Trump and Alito, two men who disdain ethical constraints, chatted on Tuesday
Public Notice:
Taking Trump's imperialist trolling seriously (for a moment)  —  We've come a long way from bringing down egg prices.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Speaking as someone who's been covering Trump for nine years now, paying attention to what he's doing instead of obsessing over what he's saying is generally a good rule of thumb.
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Canadian leaders say Trump's talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn't funny anymore
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts  —  Musk previously said his Department of Government Efficiency would be able to recommend cuts to the federal budget of “at least $2 trillion.”  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort …
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
'Can't Even Respond': Gavin Newsom Reacts To Trump's Los Angeles Wildfires Attack  —  The California governor wasn't having it with the president-elect blaming him for the devastating fires.  —  LOADING  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) swiftly dismissed Donald Trump's efforts to …
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New Republic:
Trump's Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story  —  With wildfires raging in Los Angeles, Donald Trump unleashed some ugly and hateful tirades on Truth Social.  He attacked California Governor Gavin Newsom with a vile slur, blamed the fires on him and President Biden …
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and New York Times
Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral  —  This was the first time Mike Pence and Donald Trump have been together publicly since the insurrection.  —  LOADING  —  Former second lady Karen Pence appeared to snub President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.
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Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Watch Barack Obama Laugh At Something Donald Trump Says At Jimmy Carter's Funeral
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump talks with Barack Obama, shakes hands with Mike Pence during Carter funeral
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way  —  By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants who have committed nonviolent crimes, all but ensuring that it will move forward.
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Politico:
Donald Trump Jr.'s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker  —  A senior Greenlandic politician slammed Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to the island as “staged,” and warned the United States not to “invade us” given its historical treatment of Alaska's indigenous people.
Slow Boring:
The '90s weren't that great  —  Nostalgia isn't what it used to be  —  Today's guest post is from the author of Cartoons Hate Her, a Substack about social dynamics (including parenting, marriage, sex and friendship) from the hybrid mind of a terminally online sicko and a normie liberal mom.
Discussion: Cartoons Hate Her
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary  —  Their letter calls the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for promoting false medical claims, “a slap in the face” to health care professionals.  —  More than 15,000 doctors have signed …
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Politico:   RFK Jr. is seeing how far the Kennedy name will take him
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's 100 executive orders … - Senators were given previews of some of what they were told would be 100 executive orders, two sources who were in the room told Axios.  — Stephen Miller, Trump's longtime immigration adviser, dove into how they intend to use executive power …
Jack Detsch / Politico:
Can Trump buy Greenland?  Technically, yes.  Here are his options.  —  Here is what the president-elect can do with the autonomous territory.  —  Donald Trump's gambit to buy Greenland may sound ridiculous, but it's not impossible.  —  If the president-elect is really determined to control …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right  —  Anything to keep the realities of climate change from spreading.  —  There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, with two exceptions.
Duane Patterson / HotAir:
Lessons, Painful At Times, Are Only Lessons If They're Eventually Learned  —  The devastation in Southern California is almost beyond measure.  A little over half of Pacific Palisades is gone.  Most of the seaside parts of Malibu are in ruins.  There are now seven active fires in Los Angeles …
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
FBI informant who made up Biden bribe story gets 6 years in prison  —  Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the Bidens accepting $10M in bribes from Ukrainian gas company Burisma  —  A former FBI informant who prosecutors say fabricated a phony story of President Biden …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Ex-FBI informant behind fake Biden-Ukraine bribery allegations sentenced to 6 years in prison
Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic:
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows … on the thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election, an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Kevin Drum:
Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation  —  Here's the latest from Elon Musk about the LA wildfires:  —  Every single thing on this list is either badly misleading or flat-out wrong:  — Reservoirs and emergency water tanks were all full before the fires started.
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Ursula Perano / Politico:
The Senate says it'll work on Fridays.  But not this Friday.  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune sparked commotion around the Hill with his ambitious 2025 calendar, which included regular Friday votes, something of a rarity in the chamber.  Now it's the first full session week under the new GOP majority …
 
 
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