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6:30 PM ET, January 9, 2025

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CBS News:
Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
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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.
Ursula Perano / Politico:   The Senate says it'll work on Fridays. But not this Friday.
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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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area
William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Soon, The Buck Stops With Him
New York Times:
Mayor's Absence Is Considered a Sign L.A. Underestimated Fire Risks
Kanishka Singh / USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases  —  Alito said he set up the Tuesday call to recommend a former law clerk for a federal appointment.  —  WASHINGTON − Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke to Donald Trump by phone …
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Associated Press:
New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in his hush money case
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Scott Jennings Makes L.A. Fire Hell All About DEI  —  Scott Jennings felt the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who took a blowtorch to him after he appeared to suggest on CNN NewsNight that the southern California wildfires are worse because there are not enough white men working …
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Rejects Biden's Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students  —  The decision threw out the administration's proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity.  —  A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden's effort …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Court blocks Biden Title IX rule that would have allowed males in women's sports
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
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data …
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in Palisades firestorm, LAFD estimates  —  Los Angeles fire officials said Thursday that thousands of homes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the firestorm in Pacific Palisades, an estimate that would significantly heighten the scale of the disaster.
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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
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump's advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to justify …
Discussion: CNN and Townhall
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 …
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.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Reality bites Trump … - “I do think that you kind of have to have some overage,” Musk, co-head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE), told former Clinton pollster Mark Penn on X.  — “I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting $1 trillion,” he added …
Discussion: Financial Times
Chris Koseluk / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84  —  She has hits with songs like “Paper Roses” and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.  —  Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a …
Discussion: Variety
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
'It's Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now': Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes  —  Meta employees are furious with the company's newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to internal conversations obtained …
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: Raw Story
The White House:
Readout of President Joe Biden's Call with President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon  —  President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon to congratulate him on his election victory.  The Presidents agreed that the time is now to fully implement the cessation …
Discussion: Middle East Monitor
Slow Boring:
The '90s weren't that great  —  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.  —  Subscribe to Cartoons Hate Her
The Hill:
Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Meuser considering run for governor  —  Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) signaled he is seriously considering challenging Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) for his post in 2026.  —  “I'm considering it,” Meuser told The Hill on Thursday.  “I mean if I get in it's …
 
 
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USA Today:
Elon Musk doubles down on endorsement of far-right German party in conversation on X
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Vance will resign his Senate seat Thursday as inauguration with Trump approaches
Discussion: CBS News
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The ‘Ice Maiden’ Cometh: Can Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, Survive?
Discussion: Florida Politics
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Surprise! The media just discovered Bidenomics works.
Discussion: Newsbusters
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Munich Re:
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Associated Press:
Venezuelan opposition leader is arrested after a protest against Maduro
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Democrats and the Ruthless Aggression Era
Discussion: CT Mirror and Raw Story
Tamara Qiblawi / CNN:
US-backed army chief elected Lebanon's president, ending years-long stalemate
Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic:
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
 

 
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