Thank you for a fresh Monday migraine, Time Magazine:
Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today:
- ICE arrested 170 undocumented immigrants who came forward to sponsor children currently being held in detention. A bill to stop this insanely fucked up practice was introduced in the House back in October. [San Francisco Chronicle]
- CNN has released new, disturbing details about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, including his last words. [CNN]
- Trump’s payment to his former lawyer Michael Cohen was not a violation of campaign finance law, the president says, merely a “simple private transaction.” There’s no “smocking gun” here, folks. [Politico]
- France wants Donald Trump to shut the fuck up. [CBS News]
- Women in Mexico who experience unexpected births or miscarriages might be charged with homicide. [BuzzFeed]
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had Jewish ancestors who fled to Puerto Rico. [Washington Post]
- How Jared Kushner became such great buds with Saudi Arabia’s crowned prince. [The New York Times]
- The Trump administration removed a Latino outreach guide from the Affordable Care Act website. [Washington Post]
- Elizabeth Warren sure seems to be shaping up for a 2020 run. [Politico]
- Same with Beto. [BuzzFeed]
- Teachers at a charter school in Chicago have struck a deal days after going on strike. [ThinkProgress]
- James Comey… thanks. [CBS News]
- The Trump administration’s tariffs have increased the cost of steel, driving up costs for construction projects and public infrastructure. [Bloomberg]
- Alleged pro-NRA Russian spy Maria Butina will reportedly plead guilty. [Washington Post]
- Legal weed is probably coming to New York, but who knows what that will look like? [Gothamist]
- Two House Republicans are calling for an “autopsy” on what went wrong in the 2018 election, calling for “an honest, transparent assessment of the structural operations and decision-making process that led to our party losing an historic number of seats.” Hmm, I wonder! [The Hill]
Here are some tweets the president was allowed to publish:
This has been Barf Bag.
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