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#1 ICE Agent’s Killing of Woman in Minneapolis Deepens Tension Over Immigration Crackdown - CNN, Lauren Chen, Call to Activism, Pop Base, Homeland Security, Andy Ngo, and ChrisUniverse on X
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended an ICE agent after he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, saying she had tried to run over the officer. State and local officials disputed claims that the shooting was done in self-defense. Three videos of the shooting reviewed by CNN show nuance, and exactly what took place before the shooting remains unclear. The woman was identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a US citizen and mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota. Before living in the Twin Cities, she had lived most of her life in Colorado. Gov. Tim Walz said he had been “warning for weeks” that ICE operations in his state were a threat to public safety. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey disputed the DHS account and told agents to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
#2 AOC Slams ‘Pervert’ Jesse Watters After Telling off Fox News Host’s Producer - Michael Luciano for Mediaite/Yahoo News, James Woods/I Meme Therefore I Am/Robertus, Miss Mary, Yashar Ali, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Acyn/Russell Drew, and Pauline on X
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told off a Jesse Watters Primetime producer who invited the congresswoman to go on the Fox News program. Shortly after, she called the host “a pervert.” Outside the Capitol on Wednesday, Johnny Belisario approached Ocasio-Cortez to extend an invitation from Jesse Watters. It went as well as one would expect. The video was captured by Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider and posted by Acyn Torabi of MeidasTouch...
#3 RFK Jr. Unveils New ‘Upside Down’ Food Pyramid - Joseph Choi for The Hill, JOSH DUNLAP, MAGA Voice, The Australian, Kasey Lynae/Ken D Berry MD, DoctorTed/Nina Teicholz, PhD, Calley Means, and The HighWire on X
The White House unveiled new dietary guidelines Wednesday, with officials calling it the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history,” though many core recommendations stayed the same. The guidelines are represented by an upside-down pyramid, placing vegetables, fruits, proteins, dairy, and healthy fats at the top and whole grains at the bottom. “The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a White House press briefing...
#4 Trump Announces Ban on Institutional Investors Buying Single-Family Homes - Megan Cerullo for CBS News, The White House, The Kobeissi Letter, Eric Daugherty, Tiffany Fong, and zerohedge on X
President Trump said on Wednesday that he will take steps to prevent institutional investors from buying single-family homes, claiming the move would help make housing more affordable for Americans. In a social media post, Mr. Trump stated that the dream of homeownership has become increasingly out of reach for many Americans, and that action is needed to enable more people to achieve the milestone of owning a residence. "I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it," Mr. Trump wrote. "People live in homes, not corporations." He added that he will provide more details about the proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month...
#5 Trump Orders Defense Companies to Stop Stock Buybacks, Dividends - Declan Harty and Jack Detsch for Politico, General Mike Flynn/Rapid Response 47, Palmer Luckey/Anduril Appreciator, Don James Trades, and Renard on X
President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027, a massive $500 billion increase from this year’s Pentagon budget. The huge boost likely reflects how expensive some of Trump’s military ambitions are, from the Golden Dome air defense effort to his call for a new battleship design. Neither of those programs could be fully funded under current spending levels. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not allow defense companies to buy back their own stocks, offer executives large salaries and issue dividends to shareholders, singling out one of America’s largest missile manufacturers as his biggest target...
#6 Defense Stocks Surge After Trump Calls for $1.5 Trillion Military Budget in 2027 - Tasmin Lockwood for CNBC, Bob Peters, Investing.com, Mark Alan Pearce, Amandasatiro, and Naeem Aslam on X
Global defense stocks rallied on Thursday, extending gains after U.S. President Donald Trump called for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027. “After the long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars,” he wrote in a TruthSocial post late Wednesday. “This will allow us to build the “Dream Military” that we have long been entitled to, and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe.”
#7 Outrage as Trump Withdraws From Key UN Climate Treaty Along With Dozens of International Organizations - Oliver Milman for The Guardian, Peter Hoodmoed, LaurelMd, Patrice Couture, The Whistler Newspaper, and ZEN MACHINE on X
Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures. In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other organizations, agencies, and commissions, calling them “contrary to the interests of the United States”. The UNFCCC treaty forms the bedrock of international cooperation to deal with the climate crisis and has been agreed to by every country in the world since its inception 34 years ago. The US Senate ratified the treaty in October 1992...
#8 House to Vote on Renewing ACA Subsidies as a Potential Deal Takes Shape in the Senate -Sam Gringlas for npr, United Front International, Patrick Whittle, DOGEai TX,/The Hill, Maine, and Tom on X
Against the wishes of House Speaker Mike Johnson, the House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on a measure that would renew enhanced health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of last year. The three-year extension is expected to pass the House, but it may not go far in the Senate, where a similar measure failed in December. A bipartisan group of senators, however, say they are close to a deal on a compromise bill for the Affordable Care Act subsidies...
