curated news excerpts & citations
Newsweek: Former Trump Administration DHS Lawyer Demands President’s Impeachment
John Mitnick, who served as general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the first Trump administration, called for Congress to impeach and remove President Donald Trump after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
“I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty,” Mitnick said in a post on X. “Impeach and remove Trump—now.”
(Newsweek more…)
Wired: Why Minnesota Can’t Do More to Stop ICE
Marcy Wheeler: By Lying about Alex Pretti’s Murder, Kristi Noem Makes Herself a Co-Conspirator In It
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Kristi Noem’s goons are responsible for two of three murders committed in the state of Minnesota this year, effectively tripling the murder rate with their reckless and cowardly actions.And Noem has made it clear she is a participant in the murders.
Jonathan M. Katz: When will he resign?
Lawrence Winnerman: Five Things We Must Demand Now—And the Seven Things We Must Do to Get Them
When Government Crosses the Line, Consent of the Governed Becomes Conditional
John Pavlovitz: ICE Destroyed Alex Pretti’s Body. The Trump Administration Assassinated His Character. Conservative Americans Are Fine With That.
Verge: It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Bellingcat: Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting
Christina Pagel: The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J. Trump spent last night at the White House at a black-tie private screening of a documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. …
Then, this morning, Trump’s social media account posted a 450-word social media screed complaining about the lawsuit against his addition of a massive ballroom to the White House. …
On CNN’s State of the Union this morning, U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino claimed the true victims of yesterday’s shooting were federal agents. …
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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CNN: New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms
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The Palisades nuclear plant, about a two-hour drive from Chicago, was decommissioned in 2022, judged to be uneconomical in a world of cheap American gas. But Florida-headquartered company Holtec is reviving it. It will mark not only the first ever restart of a shuttered US nuclear plant, but, if all goes to plan, Palisades will also be the birthplace of a nuclear breakthrough: America’s first commercial “small modular reactors.”These advanced nuclear reactors, known as SMRs, are like mini nuclear power plants but touted as cheaper, safer, faster to build and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts — and hype around them is rising fast.
…The reality, as ever, is likely to be messier and experts are sounding notes of caution. The total cost of SMRs may be lower than conventional plants, but they are still very expensive, meaning the price of electricity they produce will be far higher than wind, solar or gas, experts warn.
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Rebecca Solnit: This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
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Nate Silver: Trump is losing normies on immigration
Americans might want more border enforcement, but they don’t want ICE agents killing civilians.
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Guardian: Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
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Bulwark: This Is the Vaccine Story RFK Jr. Doesn’t Want You to Hear
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Allison Gill: A Leaked Internal CBP Memo Orders Mandatory Riot Control Training for All Officers
I was sent an internal CBP memo requiring riot and crowd control training, and less lethal chemical munitions certification for all officers just ten days before the murder of Alex Pretti.
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AlterNet: King Charles victorious after call to Trump
President Donald Trump appeared to be in retreat after insulting NATO last week when he claimed it never came to the aid of the United States.
…The Washington Post reported that King Charles III personally called Trump to school him on the only time Article V of NATO was invoked after the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.
(AlterNet more…)
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NY Post: Trump fumes it’s ‘too late to go back’ on $300M White House ballroom after org’s lawsuit
It’s a ballroom blitz.
President Trump unloaded on the National Trust for Historic Preservation for a “ridiculous lawsuit” looking to block further construction of a sprawling $300-$400 million White House ballroom.
(NY Post more…)USA Today: Trump says ‘Top Secret fact’ exposed due to White House ballroom lawsuit
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Thom Hartmann: Chapter 10: Autocrats United
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: “The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink”
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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