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Overnight News Digest January 21, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-01-21

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments.

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago spared immigration raids Tuesday, but Pritzker warns feds may target '2,000 people' by Tina Sfondeles

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday said he believes President Donald Trump’s administration is targeting “as many as 2,000 people” in Chicago in its mass deportation plan. Those numbers come from local law enforcement, according to sources with direct knowledge of the discussions. But the Chicago Police Department declined to comment on that total, as did other police sources. It’s unclear whether the number encompasses the people Trump “border czar” Tom Homan is targeting: criminals who lack legal status and immigrants with deportation orders. After weeks of preparation by Chicago’s immigrant communities, and a weekend full of fear amid multiple reports that the city would serve as the first major raid, there were no reports of immigration enforcement on Tuesday.

The New York Times: A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution by Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti

Since his election victory, President Trump has said he would not seek retribution against his perceived enemies. “I’m not looking to go into the past,” he said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Retribution will be through success.” But in an executive order he signed on Monday night, Mr. Trump made clear that he has every intention to seek out and possibly punish government officials in the Justice Department and America’s intelligence agencies as a way to “correct past misconduct” against him and his supporters. It would be justice, the order said, against officials from the Biden administration who carried out an “unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.” This is what retribution could look like during the second Trump presidency: payback dressed up in the language of victimhood.

ABC News: Historic snowstorm hitting the South from Texas to Florida by Kenton Gewecke, Emily Shapiro, and Melissa Griffin

Over 10 inches of snow has been reported in Louisiana as a historic, unprecedented snowstorm slams the South. The snow is falling across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, bringing many roads to a standstill. Authorities in Zavala County, Texas, said several people were killed in a major accident on slippery roads. The Louisiana State Police said it has responded to more than 50 crashes on Tuesday and is urging everyone to stay home. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge, which spans Lake Pontchartrain outside of New Orleans, has been closed. [...] Over 2,100 flights are canceled across the United States. Houston's airports are closed and the Tallahassee International Airport is canceling all flights starting Tuesday afternoon. Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport are expected to reopen late Wednesday morning. Port Houston said all of its facilities will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Christian Science Monitor: Up close with President Biden, then President Trump. What I saw on a historic day. By Linda Feldmann

It was an Inauguration Day like no other I’ve witnessed. By happenstance, the Monitor’s turn to serve in the White House press pool fell on Jan. 20. That meant I was part of a small group of reporters tasked with covering the president’s activities up close on behalf of the wider press corps. We traveled in the motorcade, at times careening down Washington streets at high speed. We were in the Oval Office Monday night as President Donald Trump signed executive orders and held a news-packed, 50-minute impromptu press conference. We dropped in at three inaugural balls and watched President Trump and Vice President JD Vance greet fans and dance with their wives. Oh, and I met Kid Rock. At our first inaugural ball – the Commander in Chief Ball – the pool reporters began to smell cigar smoke. Turning around, I saw Kid Rock, who had performed at the inauguration eve rally, standing behind us on the small press riser, cigar and beverage in hand.

Guardian: ‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute by Kate Connolly

There were angry reactions across Europe to Elon Musk’s apparent use of a salute banned for its Nazi links in Germany, where some condemned it as malicious provocation or an outreach of solidarity to far-right groups. Michel Friedman, a prominent German-French publicist and former deputy chair of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, described Musk’s actions – at an event after Donald Trump’s swearing in as US president – as a disgrace and said Musk had shown that a “dangerous point for the entire free world” had been reached. Friedman, who descends from a family of Polish Jews, hardly any of whom survived the Holocaust, told the daily Tagesspiegel he had been shocked when watching the inauguration live on television, adding that as far as he was concerned Musk had unambiguously performed the Nazi “Heil Hitler” salute, despite attempts to downplay it. “I thought to myself, the breaking of taboos is reaching a point that is dangerous for the entire free world. The brutalisation, the dehumanisation, Auschwitz, all of that is Hitler. A mass murderer, a warmonger, a person for whom people were nothing more than numbers – fair game, not worth mentioning,” Friedman said.

AlJazeera: Qatar PM hopes Palestinian Authority will return to Gaza when war ends

Qatar’s prime minister has said he hopes the Palestinian Authority (PA) will return to play a governing role in Gaza when Israel’s war ends. Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after Hamas led an attack on southern Israel that killed at least 1,139 people, mostly civilians, according to an Al Jazeera tally based on Israeli figures. srael’s ferocious 15-month assault on Gaza has killed more than 47,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, and destroyed much of the territory’s civilian infrastructure. Israel has severely restricted supplies of aid to the territory, leading to warnings of a humanitarian crisis. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani was speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, two days after the ceasefire that Qatar helped broker came into effect in Gaza. The prime minister cautioned that Palestinians in Gaza – and not any other country – should dictate the way the enclave will be governed.

BBC News: 'A long fight full of tears': Why Thailand became a haven for LGBT couples by Jonathan Head

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