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- Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries weakened their already tepid demands for ICE reforms in a press conference on Wednesday — before negotiations with Republicans even started. “Certainly I think there’s agreement that no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion,” said Jeffries.
- A majority of voters believe that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, new polling finds as backlash to her unconstitutional raids of U.S. communities grows.
- Although only one child, 11-year-old Aline Asfour, is known to have died from bacterial meningitis in Gaza, at least 15 cases of the disease have been recorded so far, with expectations that the outbreak will worsen given the dire living conditions faced by displaced civilians in the Strip.
- As a rare winter storm bore down on South Carolina, bringing conditions that historically paralyze the state for days, local officials in a rural county quietly pushed through a massive $2.4 billion data center without most residents knowing it was even on the table.
- The Washington Post, one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., has announced that it is laying off a third of all staff. If Bezos paid out $100 million to the paper today, his net worth would go from $248.7 billion to $248.6 billion.
- When current Post CEO Will Lewis took over operation of the paper in 2024, he told staff that the paper had lost $177 million over the past two years — however Bezos’s company, Amazon, just spent $75 million on a propagandistic movie about President Trump’s wife.
- Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands sheltering in place from ICE agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work and bills piling up, calls grow for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium.
- The DOJ filed a motion earlier this week to block any future order from a federal judge that could imperil Trump’s plan to build a massive ballroom on White House grounds, claiming that the construction of the ballroom is a matter of “national security.”
- New nationwide polling demonstrates a deep distrust of federal immigration agencies in the wake of their violent raid of Minnesota, with a majority of respondents indicating they would not want such agents coming to their own home states.
- Two Human Rights Watch employees — the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team — resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.
- Rather than retreat and wait for the administration to find a new scapegoat, the Somali community’s response has been to create an ecosystem of care that does more than proclaim to “love your neighbor” — members are building the means necessary to protect and defend each other.
