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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Trump is planning 100 executive orders starting Day 1 on border, deportations and other priorities — President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White House, in what amounts to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a rush of other policy priorities.
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Axios:
Trump's Hill weapon … - Miller has become instrumental as Senate GOP leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) haggle over how to pass MAGA priorities, fast. — Miller also gets Congress: While he initially called for a two-bill approach to immigration and tax reform …
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Border Crossings Continue to Drop Before Trump's Second Term
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rudy Giuliani held in contempt for second time this week — Federal judge rips into Guiliani over “fabricated lies.” — A federal judge has held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continuing to falsely accuse two Georgia women of election fraud in 2020, breaching a court order against further attacking …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Federal judge slams Rudy Giuliani as ‘outrageous and shameful’ as she holds him in contempt in 2020 election defamation case — Rudy Giuliani has been held in contempt of court for the second time in a week, as the former New York mayor and top Donald Trump lawyer's fall from grace continues …
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Rudy Giuliani Found In Contempt Of Court For Second Time This Week
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Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo
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Bloomberg, Fox Business, HotAir, Al Jazeera, The Verge and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
David Zahniser / Los Angeles Times:
Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky — When Mayor Karen Bass unveiled her budget plan for 2024-25, she called for a 2.7% reduction in spending at the Los Angeles Fire Department. — Her proposal, unveiled in April, sought $23 million in cuts …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Despite Trump's Attacks, Republicans Made Big Gains in Mail Voting — As Republican voters embraced a practice that Donald J. Trump railed against for years, softening his tone only slightly in 2024, the party eroded a key Democratic advantage across the country.
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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
State to probe why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline, empty when firestorm exploded — A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby, the Los Angeles Times found.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes — Meta deleted nonbinary and trans themes for its Messenger app this week, around the same time that the company announced it would change its rules to allow users to declare that LGBTQ+ people are “mentally ill,” 404 Media has learned.
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan's face … I'll spare you the experience of listening to one of the richest men in the world whine and just tell you straight out: Mark Zuckerberg's interview on The Joe Rogan Experience is full of lies.
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Adria R Walker / The Guardian:
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review — DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’ — On Friday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) released its report on the Tulsa race massacre after announcing the review last September.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Justice Department finds Tulsa Race Massacre was ‘systemic’ and ‘coordinated’
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New York Times:
As L.A. Fires Rage, Trump and Newsom's Hostilities Resurface — California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and President-elect Donald J. Trump have long feuded. Can the rancor be set aside to help a devastated city recover? — As fires raged around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Will Trump Just Let California Burn?
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The Hill, Noahpinion, The Independent, New Republic, USA Today, The Japan Times, Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Axios:
ICE warns Laken Riley Act could force it to release detained migrants … - ICE warned that without emergency funding, they could be forced to release tens of thousands of immigrants — including potentially some deemed to be public safety threats. … - ICE currently only has funding for 42,000 detention beds.
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Semafor and Kevin Drum
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Calls Meta's Ending of Fact-Checking Program ‘Shameful’ — Responding to a question from a reporter, the president said he believed Americans “want to tell the truth.” — President Biden criticized Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, on Friday for deciding to abandon …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
As a Felon, Trump Upends How Americans View the Presidency — President-elect Donald J. Trump has worked for years to discredit any and all criminal and civil cases against him as nothing more than politically motivated witch hunts. — A big economic package, mass deportations, maybe even some invasions of other countries.
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Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Republicans Can Slow but Not Stop Electric Vehicles, Experts Say — More car buyers are expected to eventually pick battery-powered cars and trucks as prices fall and technology improves, even if Biden-era incentives disappear. — To a large extent, the electric vehicle market in the United States runs on Democratic policies.
NBC News:
Key senators receive Pete Hegseth's FBI background check days out from confirmation hearing — Democrats have expressed concern over the delay and how thorough the report on Trump's embattled defense secretary pick will be. — WASHINGTON — An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth …
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Politico:
House GOP puts Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on chopping block — The menu of potential spending offsets has been circulated by House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington. — House Republicans are passing around a “menu” of more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect …
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Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to weigh reinstating Obamacare care requirements struck down by lower court — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reinstating some preventative care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act that were struck down by a lower court.
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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
The 119th Congress opens to AI, SCOTUS dances around TikTok, and a celebration of the OGFAC — Good evening from Washington, where more snow is inbound later tonight. If you're receiving this newsletter, it's because you subscribed to Civic Texts: so glad to see more of you in this new year!
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Katya Schwenk / The Lever:
The Architects Of L.A.'s Wildfire Devastation — Back in 2019, a California state climate task force issued a stark warning: Endless development in the state's high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying wildfires and putting more people in their path. — It was a call that has echoed …
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