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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

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The disappearing art gallery in your post office The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?

What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?

What if I told you that I found them?

A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

The Latest Government Shutdown Will Delay the January Jobs Report The widely anticipated January jobs report had been scheduled for Friday.

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics won’t release the January jobs report on Friday because of the partial government shutdown.

While the previous shutdown halted operations across the entire federal government, the one that started Sat is only a partial funding lapse…

Gold, Silver Prices Dropped. Why Analysts Aren’t Panicking. Silver Trust’s price on Friday dropped by the largest percentage decline on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

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Friday’s unexpectedly massive drop in silver and gold prices may have alarmed investors, but analysts say they aren’t panicking.

Yardeni Research analysts say that although the iShares Silver Trust dropped 28.5% and SPDR Gold Shares dropped 10.3, …

How Fed Pick Warsh Survived Trump’s Ultimate Reality Show It came down to the “two Kevins,” but a Wall Street whisper campaign helped kill rival Hassett’s chances.

In 2017, Trump passed over Kevin Warsh for Fed chair. Too hawkish. Warsh said later: “I did not put my ambitions ahead of my principles.”

Eight years later, he got the job. This time, when Trump asked if he could trust Warsh to cut rates, Warsh told him what he wanted www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Climbing into the car felt too personal. Like walking into a person’s bedroom, Shoreline resident Chris Megargee said. The detritus of fatherhood was everywhere: scattered toys and a neatly packed bag of apple slices, crackers and a juice box on the passenger seat. On the floor was a bag of tamales Ivan Guzman, a local cook, had just bought for that day’s lunch, still warm. “I’m a dad. It was the stuff of family life. Of a dad,” Megargee, a local activist, said. “He should still be in the car.” Megargee was tasked with driving Guzman’s car to his workplace after federal agents detained him about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Guzman was driving his son to day care before work when four unmarked vehicles surrounded his car, blocking two lanes of Aurora Avenue near North 163rd Street. Masked and armed federal agents emerged and arrested Guzman. They left his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said. The arrest quickly drew concern from community members and passersby. Five days before, ICE agents detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota. A photo of him went viral, showing his scared eyes staring out under the brim of a blue, bunny-ear hat while an agent held onto the back of his Spiderman backpack.

Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw:

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'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.

On cusp of widespread layoffs, 'Washington Post' staffers to Bezos: don't gut our newsroom

My story for NPR

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Southwest Airlines Beats Expectations and Sees 2026 Profit Surging on New Policies Southwest said its fourth-quarter performance benefited from revenue initiatives, including charging for seat assignments and extra-legroom seats.

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Southwest Airlines reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings that beat Wall Street projections, but what caught investors’ eyes was the news that the carrier projects a big bump in 2026 earnings. … $LUV

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Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

Amazon Shutters Fresh and Go Stores. It’s Not Giving Up on Groceries. Amazon.com is closing dozens of Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores to focus on expanding same-day delivery of groceries and adding to its Whole Foods operations.

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Amazon.com is closing dozens of Amazon Fresh physical stores and automated Amazon Go outlets to focus on expanding its same-day grocery deliveries to more locations.

Amazon will convert some of the locations to Whole Foods stores, …

The Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute estimate that net migration into to U.S. saw an outright decline of between 10,000 and 295,000 last year. That is the first time in at least half a century where more people living in the U.S. have left than have arrived. …

ICE Arrest Tactics Lead to Surge of Deportations. What It Could Mean for the Economy. The immigration crackdown is already affecting the U.S. economy, according to recent research. New arrest tactics from ICE are driving up the rate of deportations, a new analysis says.

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The number of deportations has swelled more than fourfold over the past year as the Trump administration has aggressively cracked down on immigrants residing in the U.S., a trend that could pose challenges for the U.S. economy. ... @barrons.com

How to file your taxes for free in 2026 Despite the demise of Direct File, taxpayers still have plenty of no-cost options for filing their returns this tax season.

Tax filing season opens today. The Trump administration may have closed Direct File, the free tax prep service, but there are other no-cost options for filing. (gift link)
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I woke up at 4 am on a Sunday to take photos of today’s snowstorm in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got

Flights Cancellations Soar as Winter Storm Cripples Travel; Power Outages Widespread Snow and ice have spread across two-thirds of the U.S. this weekend.

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Airlines canceled more than 11,000 flights at U.S. airports by 5 pm, and nearly 1 million homes and businesses were without power on Sunday as a winter storm barreled across a wide swath of the U.S.

More than 1,000 inbound and outbound flights were canceled at …

Will “American Hagwon” be translated into Korean as well? 🤞🏼

Airlines Brace for Weekend of Travel Chaos as Winter Storm Fern Barrels Across U.S. Airlines have already canceled nearly 70 flights, but that number is likely to increase. Weathertrends360 says the storm is likely to hurt retail store traffic on the last weekend of their fiscal four...

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The National Weather Service has forecasted heavy snow, freezing rain, and frigid temperatures that will spread from the Southern Rockies and Plains states to the mid-South starting on Friday, and move north to Mid-Atlantic and New England states this weekend. …

At Yosemite, Rangers Are Scarce and Visitors Have Gone Wild

At Yosemite, Rangers Are Scarce and Visitors Have Gone Wild www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u... This is not good

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.

"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Trump Wears Thin on Some Millionaires. A Third Are Ready to Leave U.S. The military incursion in Venezuela and prospects for the U.S. economy are prompting some wealthy individuals to consider living in another country

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Some U.S. millionaires are looking for an escape hatch a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, citing the incursion into Venezuela and worries about the economy.

A survey [asked] 1,000 Americans w/ @ least $1 million…if they were “more or less likely to leave the USA…

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Exclusive | It’s Trump’s Economy, and Voters Are Unhappy With It, WSJ Poll Finds The poll offers warning signs for the president and Republicans as they prepare for a pivotal midterm election.

More Americans say the economy is weak, according to a new WSJ poll, with 54% disapproving of Trump's job handling. And 58% blame Trump's policies for the current economy vs 31% who blame Biden. (gift link)
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"The Guild is not publicly identifying the member out of concern for his family’s safety, but he is a father, a husband, and a staff member at a Minneapolis non-profit organization. He is a steward in our union and an advocate for all workers."