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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 🪖 Pete Hegseth was sworn in as defense secretary. Pete Hegseth was sworn in as the Secretary of Defense after months of the media attempting to take him down, vowing to rebuild the military and restore its "warrior ethos." The Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News host thanked God, the "warfighters," President Trump, and Vice President JD Vance, whose tie-breaking vote secured his confirmation. | 🇨🇴 Trump hit Colombia with sanctions over refusing to take back migrants. President Trump ordered an emergency 25 percent tariff and severe sanctions on Colombia after its socialist President Gustavo Petro refused two deportation flights carrying 160 migrants. President Petro then lashed out at Trump, calling him a "white enslaver," though he quickly backed down and accepted Trump's terms to accept the deported migrants. | 🦠 CIA now supports the lab leak theory on COVID-19. The CIA acknowledged that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, now aligning with the FBI, Energy Department, and nearly every American conservative for the last four years. New CIA Director John Ratcliffe prioritized the investigation and declassified the agency's judgment, while the Chinese government dismissed the finding as political manipulation. | 🏥 DOJ dropped charges against the doctor who exposed child sex change procedures. President Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, a whistleblower accused of leaking records showing Texas Children's Hospital was performing sex change procedures on minors despite claims to the contrary. Haim faced prosecution under Biden's DOJ for alleged privacy violations but maintained he was exposing corruption to protect children. |
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| | | WHAT POWER PLAYERS ARE SAYING | 🔒 This section is for members only | See important takes and insights from the voices influencing our politics. | | Mentioned behind the paywall: JD Vance, Margaret Brennan, JB Pritzker, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephan A. Smith. |
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| | | THE LATEST MEDIA SPINS | 🔒 This section is for members only | See the media's latest spins and political half-truths. | | Mentioned behind the paywall: Politico's big admission on Trump, The New Yorker's 'what-could-have-been' Kamala Harris cover, and The Bulwark's Trump criticism. |
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| *Indicates content from our sponsors | | | MY THOUGHTS | Two-Hour Diplomacy | Good morning. Mass deportations are underway — and on Sunday, the Trump administration tried flying Colombian illegal immigrants back to Colombia. The Colombian government turned the plane away. Typically, this kind of standoff leads to formal, drawn-out diplomacy — slow enough that nothing really gets resolved. | Not with Trump. He picked up his phone and sent out a Truth Social post announcing immediate retaliatory measures: a 25 percent emergency tariff on all imported Colombian goods, set to increase to 50 percent in one week, along with financial and visa sanctions and travel bans on Colombian government officials, their families, and supporters. | The President of Colombia responded with incoherent rambling, referencing Paul Simon, Noam Chomsky, black neighborhoods in Washington, and white slave owners. It was weird. Then, he agreed to all terms. Trump is playing fast and loose and from a position of power that wasn't exercised under Biden. World leaders aren't prepared for it. | |
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| | | TODAY'S FEATURED STORY | Here's everything President Trump accomplished in week one | | What's happening: President Donald Trump returned to the White House one week ago today. After four years of planning by him and his allies, he came with a laundry list of executive orders and memorandums, taking hundreds of actions in an incredibly busy first seven days. | Mass deportations: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) massively stepped up operations, arresting over 1,300 individuals thus far, including suspected terrorists, gang members, and individuals convicted of sex crimes against minors. | | Revocation of birthright citizenship: President Trump signed an executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants, challenging long-standing interpretations of the 14th Amendment. This order will face legal hurdles, possibly to be struck down in court. | Leaving global organizations and agreements: Trump began the process of withdrawing America from both the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization; withdrawal will be final after a year. | Pardons galore: He granted pardons to approximately 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol event and pardoned 23 pro-life activists imprisoned under the Biden administration. | Reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy: President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, prohibiting federal funding for international organizations that perform or promote abortions. | Rescinding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): He also issued an executive order dismantling DEI initiatives within federal agencies and federally-funded schools and universities, advocating for merit-based practices. On a similar note, Trump signed an order declaring that there are only two genders, male and female. | National emergency declaration at the border: President Trump declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border, enabling the allocation of additional resources to enhance border security. He also signed an order declaring cartels are terrorists and resumed construction of the border wall. | National emergency declaration on energy: Trump declared a national energy emergency, prioritized domestic energy production with deregulation efforts in Alaska, paused new federal leasing for wind farms, eliminated Biden's electric vehicle mandate, and announced plans to roll back regulations on water heaters, lightbulbs, and washing machines. | Tariff policies: Trump announced a February 1 date for the placement of tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and used tariff threats to force the president of Colombia to agree to take deported migrants. | Declassifying documents: President Trump took unilateral action to declassify files related to the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. | Revoking security clearances: Another of Trump's orders rescinded the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as a Russian hoax. | Why it matters: Trump's blitz of executive actions differs dramatically from the start of his first term eight years ago. The wide variety of actions indicates that he and his administration are planning to move significantly faster than previously and will attempt to make every day of the remaining four years of his term count. | | 360 Media View | | From the left: President Trump's first week was described as a "jarring shift" by The Washington Post, noting that Trump is spending far more time speaking with reporters than former President Biden… | | | 🔒 360 Media View: Members-Only | See how different media outlets across the spectrum are framing this story. | |
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| | | THE DAILY DEBATE | 📊 Which of the newly declassified docs do you think will be the most revealing?Results will be in tomorrow's newsletter | | | POLL RESULTS FROM THURSDAY | Have you been impacted by DEI policies at your workplace or school? | 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 👍 Yes (397)
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 No (247)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙅 Not Applicable To Me (473)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Other (Comment) (35) | 👍 Yes: "Only hours of unnecessary training, a waste of company resources and my time" — Danna 👍 Yes: "As a public school teacher I had to walk on egg shells when speaking with others about administrative policies and programs. " — J.R. 👎 No: "Engineering firms seem to be a bit more intelligent than other industries." — B.J. 🙅 Not Applicable: "It's good to be retired!" — N.T. 🤔 Other: "It is difficult to answer this question truthfully, at least in my case. When passed over for a promotion, I might jump to the conclusion that it is because I am a white male, but maybe the people selected are better for the job." — Roddi | | | | 1,152 votes |
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