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Jan. 18, 1925: Sol Yurick, the author of "The Warriors," a novel about warring gangs in New York that was developed into a cult 1979 movie, is born in Manhattan. His other books, including "Fertig" and "The Bag," similarly dealt with people on society's fringes.


January 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Raw Story - 'Trump's team is worried' Mitch McConnell will 'open floodgates' against nominee: report

David McAfee
January 18, 2025 5:36PM ET

Donald Trump's team is reportedly concerned about the recent actions of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who could tank a key Trump Cabinet nominee.

Stephen Neukam, Congressional Reporter for Axios, appeared on CNN on Saturday to discuss his reporting, which the host said suggests "Trump's team is worried" that former GOP leader McConnell's silence on Tulsi Gabbard "could spell trouble for her path" to confirmation as the Director of National Intelligence.

"What more can you tell us on that?" the host asked.

"Yeah, I think of all the nominees that Trump has sort of pending in the Senate, I think Democrats have sort of zeroed in on Gabbard as the most likely to be able to be sunk and while the odds may not be great, we know that the Trump transition team has been nervous, the Gabbard team has been nervous about the silence," Neukam said. "Leader McConnell, both publicly and privately, has been silent and has not tipped his hand either way. And the thinking is that if Mitch McConnell comes out and is a no vote on Tulsi Gabbard, that might open the floodgates for some more moderate Republicans to also buck the President-elect. So that is certainly a space to watch for, for Senate Republicans and for the President-elect."

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Steven Beschloss - What Will You Miss about the Last Four Years?

A Saturday prompt

Steven Beschloss
Jan 18, 2025



Whatever you think about the presidency of Joe Biden and his policy choices, accomplishments and failures, no one can deny that he is a real and empathic human being. He’s an emotional man, one who’s not afraid to express his tender feelings. That particularly includes his love for his wife, Jill, with whom he’s been married for 47 years. Just as he was departing Delaware in 2021 to head to the White House, the president-elect said, “She makes me strong, as Ernest Hemingway wrote, ‘in all the broken places.’”

We have regularly seen that expression of love not just in words, but in his deeds. The way he would hold her hand, touch her cheek and pause to look at her as if she were still his blushing young bride. In those early months, when they’d be on the White House lawn and playing with their dog, Champ, you could see the easy exchange between them. It was a welcome relief from the cold, frustrated and unhappy dynamic that we witnessed from Trump and his wife.

And when Champ passed away in June that first year, President Biden and the First Lady released a statement that you didn’t doubt was a genuine expression of their sorrow: “In our most joyful moments and in our most grief-stricken days, he was there with us, sensitive to our every unspoken feeling and emotion. We love our sweet, good boy and will miss him always."

In a couple of days, we will be careening into a second Trump regime. That means enduring an abundance of cruelty and hate, both in terms of policies and in the attitudes and expressions of the man who will occupy our White House. We already know that there’s little love to be found between the couple that the American electorate has chosen to reinstall. We already know that this man despises acts of kindness, doesn’t like dogs and prefers to surround himself with abusive predators. Love and decency—two ingredients in the package that defines authentic leadership and are sorely needed in powerful, high-visibility role models—will be absent for the next four years. That is just one of many tragedies that we will have to endure as we look forward toward better times.

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Kyle Cheney
‪@kyledcheney.bsky.social‬
Judge Chutkan clarifies that even though she has permitted a Jan. 6 defendant to visit DC for the inauguration, he is not permitted to go inside the Capitol or remain on Capitol grounds — relevant in light of the new indoor inauguration ceremony.

January 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Samuel Wynn Warde - Man Baby's Dance of Shame

A $170 Million Grift, Now With Central Heating

Samuel Wynn Warde
Jan 18, 2025

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The Hypocrisy of the "Manly Man" Myth
This is the same Donald Trump who mocked Amy Klobuchar for standing in a snowstorm, calling her a "Snowman(woman)."

The same man who has spent years cultivating an image of toughness, from his WWE appearances to his obsession with "dominating" political opponents.

Yet when faced with a bit of cold weather, he folds faster than one of his cheap MAGA hats. And let's not forget his infamous obsession with appearances.

Trump's decision to move the ceremony indoors isn't just about the weather—it's about avoiding the embarrassment of a sparse crowd.

After all, nothing terrifies him more than the visual of empty seats, as evidenced by his fury over the photos of the 2017 inauguration.

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Phil Williams - Videos, posts from neo-Nazi group's internal chats reveal suspect's motives in antisemitic stunt

Posted 6:43 PM, Jan 17, 2025 and last updated 24 minutes ago
By: Phil Williams



NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's an image that again shows hate rearing its ugly head in Middle Tennessee: a neo-Nazi standing in the lobby of Nashville’s Jewish Community Center while wearing a costume that mocks an Orthodox rabbi.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates first broke the story about the neo-Nazi arrested for harassing people at the Gordon Jewish Community Center Monday night. Travis Keith Garland, 31, of Blount County was charged with criminal trespassing and assault.

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According to online chatter reviewed by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, the Blount County man is affiliated with the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League, the group that spent a couple of weeks on Nashville streets last summer, pushing its crude antisemitic, racist and homophobic messages. One GDL member was arrested during back in July.

Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron said Garland entered the Jewish Community Center on Percy Warner Boulevard about 7:45 p.m. Monday, wearing a fake beard, fake curls and clothing to make him appear as an Orthodox Jew.

He had a cell phone in his hand as if he was recording or streaming the stunt.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
‪@newsjennifer.bsky.social‬
Huge challenge ahead for the news media here in Chicago and beyond: Covering the story WITHOUT becoming a part of Trump's propaganda. It will require leaning into the facts & the context (is this typical of an ICE operation or is it staged for right wing tv? etc)

‪Brendan Nyhan‬ ‪
@brendannyhan.bsky.social‬
12h
Literally planning reality show-style deportation raids in liberal cities so they can be covered by conservative media www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Immigration is a difficult, complex issue, but this makes a joke of any claim that what's being done here is principled or being driven by "the law."

January 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM

The Independent - Spain ski accident: At least 30 people injured as chair lift collapses in Astún resort

Around 80 people remain trapped on the chair lift

Holly Evans
Saturday 18 January 2025 15:05 GMT

At least 30 people have been injured in a ski lift accident in a resort in Spain.

The incident took place on a chair lift at the Astún ski resort, which is on the Spanish border with France, in the Pyrenees mountain range.

The regional government said that nine of the people involved have been very seriously injured and eight are seriously injured.

State TV channel TVE reported that around 80 people remain trapped on the chair lift.

https://x.com/Weathermonitors/status/1880615813482496282

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Raw Story - (archived: https://archive.ph/aw3s9 ) Inside the parade of right-wing world leaders flocking to D.C. for Trump's inauguration

Matt Laslo
Nicolae Viorel Butler
January 18, 2025 8:50AM ET



WASHINGTON—In a historic first, President-elect Donald Trump is bucking centuries of American tradition by welcoming an array of foreign leaders to his second inauguration.

The parade is about as far-right as they come, including many who — whether in policy or bombast — have been compared to Trump himself.

One of Trump’s guests is known for hoodwinking the English people into Brexiting the EU, but others aren’t household names. Still, they’re hailed as heroes in Trump’s Republican Party, where fealty, allegiance and unflinching — and unforgiving — conservative policy positions are prized more than the compassionate conservatism of a bygone era.

Below is a partial list of the Trump-like leaders coming to kiss the ring. They range from deportation advocates — one who even promised Morocco would pay for his wall — to those who deride migrants as "fortune seekers." One’s rhetoric has been dubbed Mussolini-like, while another has questioned why Germany is blamed for the atrocities of the Nazis during WW II. Still, another has derided the Pope as a “communist.”

With the far-right on the rise globally, Trump’s planning to be with his own as he celebrates his second inauguration.

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