Salon.com Contributing Editor Heather Digby Parton: Trump’s Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Spineless GOP Senators

America's leading public interest lawyer & consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats’ Multiple Failures

Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher: Human Rights, Religious Groups Urge Biden to Commute Federal Death Sentences Before Trump Takes Office

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Bhopal's disaster still lingers, 40 years later
• Trump's plans "impoundment" to freeze appropriated funds
• Judge's decision a major win for labor in Wisconsin

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Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Unanswered Questions Persist After the Sudden Overthrow of Syria’s al-Assad Regime

Ploughshares Fund's Dr. John Carl Baker: Courageous South Koreans Rise Up to Block a Right-Wing Coup

National Immigration Law Center's Kica Matos: National Immigrant Advocacy Groups Prepared to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Starvation threatens an estimated 500,000 in North Darfur
• Municipal water systems need help to replace lead pipes
• Trump 2.0 to weaken EPA environmental regulation and health laws

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Former chairman of Ohio's Democratic party and author David Pepper: Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years

Author and Left Hook Substack columnist Wajahat Ali: Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President

Third Act climate activist Sheldon Pollock: Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Costs

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Rohingya refugees recruited from Bangladesh to fight in Myanmar
• Thousands march in New Zealand to protest bill's interpretation of founding treaty
• Trump administration may privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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The Nation's abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield: How To Explain Voters’ Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?

Women March Managing Director Tamika Middleton: Women’s March Organizing 1st Major Protest Jan. 18 to Challenge Trump Regime 2.0

Climate activists Teagan Blackburn and Teya Blackburn-Baker: Protesters Disrupt FERC Hearing Highlighting the Climate Crisis Before Trump Dismantles Climate Regulations

Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary
• COP29 climate talks in trouble
• Corporate landlords enable a mold epidemic
• Trump and Congressional GOP begin talks on Medicaid cuts

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Political strategist and author Rachel Bitecofer: How Democrats’ Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More Years

Author and commentator Sarah Kendzior: Merrick Garland’s Delay in Prosecuting Trump Paved the Way to Establish His Mafia Regime

Co-chair New York Labor fo Palestine and Amazon Union Recording Secretary Sultana Hossain: As Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Continues, US Labor Movement Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Insurance companies dropping Medicare Advantage plans due to unprofitability
• TD Bank to pay $3 billion in money laundering settlement
• Global warming opening up Antarctica oil, minerals access & international conflict

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Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic: Kamala Harris’ Defeat Linked to Neglecting Working Class Economic Discontent

University of Pennsylvania professor Victor Pickard: Assessing Corporate Media’s Failures Covering 2024 Election Campaign

Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability Director Mazin Qumsiyeh: As Israel’s War Kills 43,000 in Gaza, Jewish Settlers Carry Out Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Democrat party lost swing states and rural America again
• New generation in Africa campaigning to expel old-guard governments
• "Ghost" U.S. mental health networks amount to fraud

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The Nation magazine's National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols: After Trump’s Election Victory, Progressive Activists Ponder What Went Wrong for Democrats

Yale philosophy professor and author of "Erasing History" Jason Stanley: Whether Trump Wins or Loses MAGA State Governments will Continue their Repression

Free Press senior counsel Nora Benavidez: Disinformation Floods U.S. Election Campaign Fueling Anger and Distrust of Electoral Outcome

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Women are dying because of restrictive abortion bans
• Ginni Thomas fights efforts to reform the nation’s highest court
• Avian flu may pose pandemic threat to humans

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The Nation's D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann: Media’s Sanitizing of Trump’s Candidacy is Journalistic Malpractice

Rutgers University law professor and author David Noll: New Book, ‘Vigilante Nation,’ Describes MAGA’s State-Based Attack on Democracy

National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: As Trump Demonizes and Scapegoats Immigrants, Democrats Adopt Some Trump Policies

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Russia's war in Ukraine has upset balance of power in Turkic region
• New voting laws could tip November election outcome
• New York congressional races could tip House control

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