Today's Top News For Monday, January 06, 2025

Randi Rhodes' Curated News Links for 01/06/25 - Broligarchy, Here We Come!

A Great Public Servant Rests

• What To Know About Fmr. Pres. Jimmy Carter's State Funeral In DC This Thursday, Jan. 9

• Trump Complains Flags Will Still Be At Half-Staff To Honor Pres. Jimmy Carter On Inauguration Day

January 6th

• Congress To Certify Trump’s Election Win Today As Shadow Of 2021 Insurrection Still Looms

• President Joe Biden: What Americans Should Remember About Jan. 6, 2021 [Gift Link]

What Good People Must Do Now

• Jared Yates Sexton: Preparing for the Storm - A Brief Guide to Getting Ready for What's Coming Under Trump & The MAGA Republicans

• Hayes Brown: Why Some States Are Afraid Trump Will Literally Rewrite The Constitution

New American Carnage

• Pres. Biden To Visit New Orleans Today To Comfort Victims Families After Mass Killing On Bourbon Street

• 15 Dead In New Years Eve Truck Attack In New Orleans; Terrorist Was An American Citizen, Born And Raised In Texas

• Leave No Crisis Unused: Republicans Try To Use New Orleans Attack To Boost Trump's Agenda: “We Are At War” (With Who – Other Americans?)

• Steve Benen: Trump Flunks 3 Key Tests Following Deadly New Orleans Attack

• Cybertruck Driver Who Blew Up His Truck At Trump Casino In Vegas Penned Anti-Government Manifesto, Was Trump Supporter, & Possibly Had PTSD

• FBI Arrests Man In Virginia With Largest Homemade Explosives Cache In Agency History

• Biden FBI Seizes Largest Cache Of Homemade Explosives In Its History From Virginia Home; Owner Had Been Using Biden Pics As Target Practice

• Flashback Feb 2023: Missouri Republicans Vote To Affirm Toddlers’ Rights To Carry Firearms In The Streets – Are We Somalia Yet?

• Mother And Son Given Lengthy Prison Terms For Their Roles In The Killings Of 8 Ohio Family Members

The New MAGA Civil War

• MAGA Civil War Brews As Musk & Ramaswamy Trash Trump's Base As "Contemptible Fools" With A Culture Of Mediocrity

• The MAGA Civil War Gets Ugly As Elon Tells Trump's MAGA Supporters To "Take A Step Back And F*** YOURSELF In The Face" Over Immigration Issues

• Trump Sides With Musk, Says H-1B Visa Program Is 'Great' Amid MAGA Feud Over Immigration & Tech Workers

• What To Know About The H-1B Visas Fueling Divide In MAGA World – Many Go To Highly Educated South Asian Indian Immigrants

• Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré; Elon Musk Is A National Security Risk

• In Pre-Christmas Speech, Trump - Clearly Rattled By "President Musk" Rhetoric - Nervously Jokes That Elon Can't Be President

• Sid Davidoff: I Was On Nixon’s ‘Enemies List’ In 1973. Trump’s Targets Won’t Be As Lucky As I Was.

• Related - Flashback Jan. 2022: Who Owns Steve Bannon? - Bannon Was Deplatformed. An Obscure Media Mogul Keeps Him On The Air.

• Tom Wheeler: Who Really Makes the Rules in the New Gilded Age?

Immigration Nation – Reality & The Future

• New Data Confirms Unlawful Border Crossings Dropped To Four-Year Low In November 2024 Under Biden-Harris Administration

• Trump Border Czar Tom Homan: Illegal Parents Will Be Forced To Make 'Sophie’s Choice' About Their U.S. Citizen Kids

• Tom Homan Is A Monster - Trump's New Border Czar Tom Homan: U.S.-Born Children Of Undocumented Immigrants Will “Be Put In A Halfway House"

Injustice In America

• United Healthcare's Latest Medicare Advantage Scam? Their Army of Doctors Helped Them Collect Billions More From Medicare For False Diagnoses

• Judge Juan Merchan Orders Trump To Be Sentenced For His Crimes Before Inauguration On Jan 10th, But Says Trump Will Get No Jail Time

• Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Revealing Investigative Report On Ethical Crisis At The Supreme Court - It's Ugly

• Emboldened By The Supreme Court Striking Down Chevron Deference, Right-Wing Sixth Circuit Strikes Down FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules

• Flashback Apr. 2023 - What Is Net Neutrality And Why Is It So Controversial?

The Biden Administration, Still Working For You

• Pres. Biden Signs Bill To Increase Social Security Benefits For Millions Of Public Workers Pushed By Democrats In Congress

• Catherine Rampell: Some Americans Are Finally Catching On The Trump's Economic Plans Will Worsen Inflation

• Biden Bans New Offshore Drilling In U.S. Coastal Waters Weeks Before Trump Handover

• Peter Baker: Trump Sees The U.S. That He's Inheriting As A ‘Disaster.’ The Facts Prove Pres. Biden Is Handing Trump A Nation In Great Shape. [Gift Link]

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