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CBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media — The administration's story about the Renee Good shooting was falling apart. CBS gave them the credibility to put it back together.
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Hachette and Cengage file to join an existing copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in which authors say Google used their books to train its Gemini LLM — Publishers Hachette Book Group and Cengage Group (CNGO.PK) asked a California federal court on Thursday for permission to intervene …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150+ AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 — The companies experimented with the idea during the 2024 Paris games, and are now expanding on the idea.
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Business Insider:
TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now — - TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama. — The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's …
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Hi, all, and happy Friday.
Welp. We made it through another week. Things remain extraordinarily difficult, but I feel more convinced than ever that we’re going to win.
Axios reported this morning that “Trump advisers quietly are talking about ‘recalibrating’ the White House's approach” to immigration enforcement.”
From the article:
President Trump’s team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public surveys, bolstered internal concern about the administration’s confrontational enforcement tactics.
Now, as the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock on TV and social media, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about “recalibrating” the White House’s approach — though it’s unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
Why it matters: The worries in part of Trump’s brain trust are the first signs of internal second-guessing of his controversial ICE enforcement tactics.
The private polling suggested a rupturing of the coalition of independent, moderate and minority voters who were key parts of Trump’s victory in 2024. Such voters will play a big role in determining whether Republicans keep their slim House majority in November’s midterms.
If Republicans lose the House, Trump will head into his final two years in office as a lame duck who, he acknowledges, could face a third impeachment.
Again, we need to stop saying there aren’t going to be midterms. There are, and Republicans are deeply worried about them. Cook shifted eighteen Congressional races towards Democrats yesterday. ICE’s support is plummeting. Trump is wildly underwater, even on immigration.
These people aren’t fools. They know ICE’s behavior is a losing issue for them. I’m not saying they’ll definitely recalibrate, but if they know what’s good for them electorally—and that matters to them a lot—they will. At the very least they may think twice about doubling down any further.
Of course whether or not they do that is also largely up to us. And I have absolutely no doubt that we are up to this challenge. Let’s keep our calls loud, keep organizing and/or attending peaceful protests, keep sharing stories of both ICE’s abuses and the brilliant ways Americans are resisting (this, as always, is a great place to find such material), and keep staying in the day.
One last thing—if you’re attending a local protest this weekend will you drop it in the comments? I’m going to one in Northeast LA and as soon as I can find the info again—I swear I’ve got it here somewhere—I’ll add it to the comments.
What are you up to this weekend? Let us know so we can come join you!
OK, all. Sorry for the short opening but I’ve got a lot going on today.
So proud of every single one of you, and so honored to be in this fight with you.
Let’s get to work.
Hi, I’m a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______.
I’m calling to urge the Senator to filibuster the upcoming Homeland Security appropriations bill unless [choose one or more from the following]
There are significant changes to how ICE operates, so they aren’t behaving like lawless thugs
ICE’s funding bump from the One Big Beautiful Bill is erased and returned to last year’s levels of $10B annually (down from the larger $37.5B)
ICE is completely defunded and operations are paused until the agency can be vetted/reformed
ICE is shut down entirely
I’m sick of watching lawful citizens and noncitizens being arrested at their jobs, assaulted at peaceful protests, pulled out of their vehicles, blinded by munitions, and getting shot and killed. It’s un-American. We need qualified, well-trained officers to enforce only immigration law — not rogue, unidentified agents detaining, assaulting, shooting, and murdering people. Congress needs to step up and use its power in the Constitution to rein in ICE.
Thanks for listening and please do the right thing. Your voters are watching, I promise.
[H/T Ben Sheehan—read his post about the strategy behind this massively important ask here.]
Hi, I’m a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is _______.
First, I understand that Rep. Robin Kelly filed articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem. I want the Congressmember to sign on. Noem’s DHS is completely out of control, lawless, and dangerous. They are killing and maiming people, poisoning babies, terrorizing communities, and lying about what they’re doing. Noem needs to go and ICE needs to be abolished or dramatically reformed.
Speaking of which, I understand that Representative Seth Moulton just introduced a bill that would reallocate funding for ICE to fund ACA premium tax credits instead. This is a no-brainer. I expect the Congressmember to co-sponsor this legislation. Thanks.
Sunrise Movement is doing great work recruiting folks to book up hotel rooms at Hilton Hotels in Minneapolis and then canceling last minute so a) ICE can’t get the rooms and b) Hilton is punished for its complicity. I love it!
You can participate in this campaign by going here—and I hope you do!
Join the Progressive Caucus Action Fund for Voting Rights on the Verge: What Weakened Federal Protections Mean for You, a briefing on the state of the Voting Rights Act on Thursday, January 22 at 3PM ET.
They will bring together community advocates, legal experts, and policy leaders to discuss recent developments impacting voting rights, including the implications of the Louisiana v. Callais case before the Supreme Court. In the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they will reflect on the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act and what recent attacks mean for the future of federal voting rights protections.
Social Storm RIGHT NOW!
DemCast has a bunch of GREAT videos in a new social media toolkit about both the efficacy of peaceful protest and the Americans participating in it right now. It’s really important to share this kind of content. With Minneapolis’s Mayor asking us to amplify the PEACEFUL nature of the protests in MN, and with the Trump admin desperate to depict us as “violent terrorists,” it’s more important than ever to show the reality of our movement.
Toolkit is here. Please use it!
As you may know, we are having terrible ICE raids here in LA as well. This week a local dad (among others) was taken. He leaves behind a wife and 4 young kids—my friend’s child goes to school with one of them.
The family is utterly devastated and scrambling. Both the man and his wife were carnitas vendors and now she is providing for her traumatized kids alone. The oldest son is in high school, the 2nd child is a 6th grader, there is a kindergartner at my friend’s school, and there is a baby about 8/9 months old.
There is also a GoFund me. Please help if you can.
A cross-denominational group of clergy are organizing a two-day “Minnesota March” On January 22 and 23. If you know members of the clergy who might want to travel to MN in a “march on Selma” sort of event, please send them this link.
TUESDAY: FREE AMERICA WALKOUTS AT 2PM LOCAL!
To mark one year since the beginning of Trump 2.0, folks across the country - everyone from middle schoolers to retirees to dogs - will be walking out of school, work, and commerce at 2:00PM. Learn more here, find more than 600 events nationwide to unite with fellow participants at here, and use this social media toolkit here to promote.
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[To: all 3 reps] [H/T ] [Text SIGN PQPGDI to 50409, or to @Resistbot on Apple Messages, Messenger, Instagram, or Telegram]
(Note that for the most effective RESISTBOT it’s best to personalize this text. More about how to do this here. But if you’re short on time just send it as is using the above code.)
The President of the United States is once again threatening to deploy our troops against American citizens.
Trump has publicly warned that he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to stop protests against state violence in Minnesota. Unlike the ICE and CBP agents Trump has sent in, who have already killed a legal observer and brutalized their targets and protesters alike, the folks exercising their First Amendment rights have been overwhelmingly peaceful. These are people who believe in our Constitution, and simply want our government to be held to it, too.
What Trump is threatening is the stuff of tinpot dictatorships. One of the crucial protections that has kept America free and democratic has been our insistence that the military never be used as a political weapon against our own. That safeguard is being destroyed. It’s an affront to our most sacred values, and it’s dangerous as hell.
If the President chooses to pull the trigger, you need to treat it as the dire emergency for our nation that it is. Have a strategy ready and be prepared to use whatever legislative or political tools you have available to take concrete and meaningful action. Strongly-worded letters and angry videos on social media won’t cut it. If you accept this as business as usual, that’s what it will become.
Talk soon.
Jess
hamsterwomanfandomtrees still has 3 trees below the minimum number of 2 gifts, and is thus at risk of delaying reveals again (currently scheduled for Jan 17 reveals), with the decision on delaying to be made the morning of 1/17. Needy trees are mastershield's Tree (f:astro boy, f:balan wonderland, f:kingdom hearts); kalloway's Tree (f:brave nine, f:crossovers, f:fire emblem, f:granblue fantasy, f:gundam, f:kingdom of heroes, f:super robot heroes) whoremoantreatments' Tree (f:advance wars, f:bleach, f:hypnosis mic, f:kuroko no basket, f:pokemon, f:tales of berseria, f:the world ends with you). (List kept updated here.) All of these are open to fic, and the minimum fill for fic is only 100 words, if anyone knows these fandoms and can help out. lunasariel is hosting a sync read of To Shape a Dragon’s Breath in her DW here. Currently it’s her, me, and cyanmnemosyne reading along, but contrary to the name, we don’t actually have to be all synched up to participate, so if (like me) you’ve been meaning to read this book for a while, or if you’ve read it already and want to follow our impressions as we make progress through it, come join! I am currently just past halfway, lunasariel is 10-20 chapters ahead of me, and Cyan has just recently started. (And yes, my thoughts on this book are ~50% on the chemistry. Actual Periodic Table of Elements chemistry, I mean, not chemistry between characters, although I’m enjoying that too.) 
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