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The Trump administration's unprecedented attacks on the Federal Reserve risk U.S. economic stability, and have yielded strong responses from Chair Powell, key Republican senators, and a distinguished group of top U.S. economists. https://t.co/bWJbhBZEuo

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sued Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Monday for directing the U.S. Navy to "reconsider" his rank and pay grade. https://t.co/dJ2YhEWATJ

ICE and CBP are costumed as soldiers and acting like soldiers, @joshtpm writes. They’re being sent into blue cities to menace and overawe civilian spaces as though they are enemy territory, conquered rather than governed.

By going public, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell put financial markets and central bankers around world on notice about President Trump’s most extreme move yet to bring the Fed under his thumb by using his weaponized Justice Department. https://t.co/LBVB3kksrG

Christian Reconstructionism’s following has been typically very small — never more than a few thousand committed adherents at its peak. But since the 1980s, its ideas have spread far beyond its limited numbers through books, churches and broader conservative Christian networks.

The Department of Homeland Security is one of those changes of government, a reaction to 9/11 interwoven with the militarization of American society caused by the Iraq War, that got us to this bad point. We should undo it, @joshtpm writes. https://t.co/Ud2JCGWOjz

Over the past two days, protesters urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol to leave their cities took to the streets from Minneapolis and Chicago to Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; New York; Oakland and San Diego, California.

Shared decision-making sounds straightforward. But when applied to routine childhood vaccines, the concept shifts the burden of deliberation onto already-stretched clinicians and parents. https://t.co/C6NXAgCssU

While it may seem from the outside that state investigators could proceed on their own, legal experts say being shut out of the federal investigation creates nearly insurmountable obstacles to winning a conviction on state charges:

Join TPM for our first-ever Morning Memo event on Jan. 29! Hear from @TPM_dk, Stacey Young of @Justice_CXN, ex-assistant US attorney Aaron Zelinsky + @AnnaBower on Trump's assault on the rule of law and politicization of the DOJ. Get tix here: https://t.co/ENLYnFCm8F

What's unfolding in Minnesota started as legitimate local and federal fraud investigations and has devolved into violent ICE operations, the pausing of federal funds to blue states, and the end of Walz’s gubernatorial tenure. https://t.co/74DURRB8wr

X users are asking the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to create sexualized images before new legal protections take effect. https://t.co/1Lx67LuxLF

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, @Kate_Riga24 and @joshtpm discuss Venezuela and Tim Walz dropping his reelection bid. Head to TPM to listen now! https://t.co/y885YfvqUu

The ICE shooting in Minneapolis highlights the dire situation of the Justice Department – including the FBI – being run out of the Trump White House. Nothing is stopping Trump from kneecapping the FBI investigation or ordering any putative prosecution ended:

Minneapolis mayor called killing "reckless" and said he believes it could not have been self-defense.

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It’s a broad assault on the reordering of the relationship among nations that emerged following World War I, when war-shattered countries moved toward replacing brute force and Darwinian principles with a rules-based approach to foreign relations.

The chief justice’s year-end report is all about preserving a status quo that makes him one of this country’s most powerful politicians. https://t.co/ZVgmFvWhMo

In short, if Dems flip enough seats & offset the damage of Trump’s attempts to rig the midterms, they’ll again have investigative & subpoena power in the House, as well as the majority to impeach him for a third time. This is what is on Trump’s mind.