After last-minute meeting with Trump, Schumer reports “no deal” as GOP hypocrites dangle CHIP extension and try to blame Democrats….--both sides posture and bluff, but Dems hold firm on DACA—whoever picked January 19 deadline has deflated Trump’s one-year celebration at Mar-a-Lago
--poll shows public blames Republicans for impending shutdown by 20 points
--Supreme Court takes up Trump Travel Ban 3.0 and blocks lower court ruling that ordered new Congressional district lines in North Carolina
--fresh data confirm that 2016 and 2017 were hottest years on record
--Amazon’s “race to the bottom” contest identifies 20 cities as finalists
--both the Trump and Clinton camps are telling supporters that the Russiagate scandal is about to break their way, bigly:
--House Intel Republicans talk up secret 4-page memo detailing “FISA court abuse”
--both sides cherry-pick transcript of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson
--pro-Trump outlet The Epoch Times publishes graphic chart outlining the Trump version of collusion: by Clinton campaign, FBI, and Obama appointees
--the same source reports that pop star Moby was recruited by CIA friends to post anti-Trump talking points
--at The Nation, James Carden asks why the media is blacking out Simpson’s testimony about billionaire Bill Browder, father of the Magnistsky Act
--Russiagate promoter Seth Abramson cherry-picks from Simpson’s testimony to House Intel, focusing on Trump’s corrupt deals with Russians
--Vice cherry-picks its favorite parts of the House transcript
--Rachel Maddow went deep on McClatchy’s thin report on NRA ties to Russian banker, and suggest that rubles were snuck into Trump campaign, with no proof
--Robert Parry of Consortium News, one of the most important observers of Trump/Russia, is hospitalized following December stroke
--pro-Israel and anti-BDS, Kenneth Marcus glides to confirmation at Education Dept. civil rights post
--listener Ian Berman comments on Rexxon Tillerson’s shifting policies on Syria
--ACLU wins suit demanding disclosure of Stingray and other surveillance toys
--in long report based on Snowden archives, The Intercept warns that NSA has very sophisticated voice print technology
--the only decent coverage of Chelsea Manning’s Senate bid is in The Guardian
--report says Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock acted alone, ignoring real-time evidence of multiple shooters
--TSA in Newark actually intercepted fake bomb in test by unnamed media group
--LA Times votes to unionize the newsroom
--in Hawaii, porn viewing surged after missile attack false alarm
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