The House passed this year’s final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers,
still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown,
worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.
The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in spending
and now move to the Senate,
with final passage needed next week before a Jan. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.
Three of the bills had broad, bipartisan support.
Jag gästade TV4 imorse på temat hur demokratiska samtal allt oftare förs i digitala miljöer som premierar affekt, konflikt och förenkling. Vad gör det med demokratin när samtalet äger rum på digitala tivolin? Jag försöker reda ut det här:
https://carlheath.se/maste-vara-demokr…
19 Democratic-led states and DC sue over Trump gender-affirming care crackdown (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5662431-lawsuit-challenges-trump-transgender-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p50#a251224p50
"'A dangerous trend': Olympic skiers voice concern over receding glaciers"
#Olympics #Glaciers #Environment
Why the Trump administration’s demand for a list of Jews at Penn is so dangerous | Sigal Ben-Porath, Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/20/trump-list-jews-u-penn-dangerous
House Democrat sues to stop "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/23/trump-kennedy-center-renaming-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p132#a251222p132
As Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called
"Board of Peace" at the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, on Thursday,
his son-in-law Jared Kushner
presented his vision of
turning the Gaza Strip into
an upscale seaside resort
with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities.
The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion,
and Kushner’s presentation showed a map of the besieged territor…
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"Ryan Schwank, who resigned from his job at an ICE academy in GA last week, told congressional Democrats at a hearing that the agency eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants."
Former ICE instructor says agency slashed training for new officers - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4aS06mU