On Thursday, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the back of a small business in Newark, NJ, without a warrant and arrested three undocumented workers. They also detained and questioned employees who are U.S. citizens, one of them a military veteran.
Paul Krugman, Substack

Some thoughts about the first week of Trump II: The New York Times describes Trump as leading “a global wave of hard-line conservative populism.” Rubbish.
Robert Reich, Substack

I would have thought it would be a cold day in hell when I would have anything good to say about Senator McConnell, who is arguably the reason the Trump circus got to DC in 2016.
Martin Edic, The Witness Chronicles

He sees himself as a wartime president.
Jonathan Last, The Bulwark

President Donald Trump was in office for only 24 hours before the state of Washington sued his administration.
David Gutman, The Seattle Times

When Donald Trump assumes office Monday, as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with an inaugural address.
David Adler, The Alturas Institute

President Joe Biden sat down with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell for an unedited conversation that lasted almost the entire length of O’Donnell’s show.
Sarah Jones & Jason Easley, TCinLA

Our topic for this evening is how we keep rural health care viable. How we keep rural hospitals alive.
Don Schwerin, Ag & Rural Caucus

Bob Ferguson will be sworn in later today as Washington’s 24th Governor. He’ll take over the helm from one of the longest-serving governors in the state’s history, at a time when Washingtonians are voicing concern about the future of the state.
Paris Jackson, Cascade PBS

Special counsel Jack Smith’s final report, released shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, offers a robust defense of his two-year, ultimately stymied effort to prosecute Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck, The Washinton Post

Imagine a Congress where politicians of different ideologies work together to pass legislation reflecting what most Americans want. This isn’t hypothetical; it’s how Congress worked for much of the 20th century.
Jess Wegman and Lee Drutman, The New York Times

We’ve just been through another Republican-engineered government shutdown threat. It looks like in the next few weeks, there will be another “debt ceiling” crisis, also courtesy of Republican machinations.
Jerry LeClaire, Indivisible - Keep to the High Ground

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the United States is 'subsidizing' Canada 'to the tune of $100B.' Where does that number come from? And is Canada really getting a free ride from the U.S.? Andrew Chang dives into the math, the money and the politics of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship to uncover how much — if any — of what Trump says is actually true.
Andrew Chan, CBC News

On a recent tour of the Capitol office he’ll soon depart, Gov. Jay Inslee pointed to an old nautical instrument he keeps on the wall. Inslee mused that it’s a reminder of how he guided the state for the past 12 years.
Jim Brunner, The Seattle Times

In the game of chess, some players are known for being aggressive, others defensive, others for waging chaos all over the board. Then there’s some who use a “gambit,” famed because the goal is to win by first doing some losing.
Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times

In early December 2019, I called Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, the health minister of Samoa. The measles outbreak that began earlier that fall on her small Pacific island nation had spread out of control and become an epidemic that threatened to overwhelm the country.
Dr. Josh Green, Governor of Hawaii, in The New York Times

Chad Magendanz is a computer science teacher who was noodling around with some numbers the other day, and he could scarcely believe what the screen was telling him.
Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times

Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed her cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump.
Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report