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"The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors...possibly as soon as November." - @jstein_sun and @kadiagoba for @washingtonsun
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Highly recommend this project from @politizane: To even get to the top of the chart — @elonmusk at $800 billion net worth — you scroll the equivalent of 160,000 pages.
Stacked in $100 bills, you're talking 543 miles' worth, or 99 Mount Everests.
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Proud to have become a Founding Subscriber to @WashingtonSun today. At $50 for the first year, how could I not?
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"James Talarico keeps raising too much money." Excellent team-up by AJI fellows @torriestorie and @byMarkAlfred for @washingtonsun.
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Today @AJIJournalism (new handle!) proudly announces an expanded class of 2026-28 Reporting Fellows, who will be learning from world-class faculty & reporting for @washingtonsun.
Please help us welcome these incredibly talented journalists: aji.org/news/allbritton-jour…
Yep, really. Bonus points for writing at your college or university's 24-hour computer lab.
"It’s harder to hack 50 election systems than it is to hack one ... So it, in my view, at least, that’s always a system that’s worked pretty well."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he was "not in favor" of federalizing elections a day after President Trump said that Republicans "ought to nationalize the voting.” nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
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"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen."
Breaking Axios:
Kristi Noem's language that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" federal agents was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller.
That's according to four sources who spoke to Axios. axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-s…
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Well.
Republicans say they’re confident that whatever happens next in Venezuela will work out in Americans’ favor.
“We’re smart enough to figure this out. This isn’t rocket science,” said Sen. Jim Justice.
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“After Charlie died, I realized that I’m part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ.”
After Marjorie Taylor Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to name abusers in the Epstein files, Trump called her.
Greene was in her Capitol Hill office. Everyone could hear him yelling at her.
According to Greene, Trump replied, "My friends will get hurt." nytimes.com/2025/12/29/magaz…
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014." (via @Gallup) news.gallup.com/poll/697382/…
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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigra… (via @Suntimes)
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"There isn’t just one U.S. economy anymore. There’s the economy most Americans live in, where a missed paycheck means that bills pile up, and then there’s the stock-market economy, where capital keeps flowing whether Washington’s lights are on or not."
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“Life is long, and the sword being wielded against the renewables industry right now will likely boomerang back in 3.5 years against traditional energy." politi.co/47UdqY1 via @politico
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Old school.
A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday.
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Astonishing, from @MargaretManto.
"A CDC employee sent @washingtonsun photographs of windows still pockmarked with bullet holes on Monday afternoon. Handwritten signs taped to chairs warned employees to avoid glass on the carpet."
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“We should let the humanitarian organizations that do this work and are specialists at it do it rather than have this jerry-rigged scheme.” -Sen. @TimKaine
Lawmakers Raise Alarms Over Starvation in Gaza
@byrdinator reports
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.@NOTUS reporter @reesejgorman with the question.
Reporter: You had to pull the rule because of fear of Epstein votes—
Johnson: No. We don’t have any fear. There is no fear here. I will not allow the house to be dragged into political gamesmanship
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"The site’s name also became official on Wednesday, when two workers slapped a large blue guidepost that said 'Alligator Alcatraz' over the old 'Dade-Collier Transitional Airport' road sign that led people to the airstrip for years."
First immigrant detainees arrive at Alligator Alcatraz | Miami Herald miamiherald.com/news/local/i…
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