Background Briefing (5am)

01.28.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry, Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress
China’s DeepSeek AI Model Threatens U.S. Dominance, as Tech Stocks Tumble
Will Trump Fall For Putin’s Flattery?

01.24.25 - 5:00am

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A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives
Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia to End Its War On Ukraine
The Tech-Industrial Complex’s Plans to Capture the Defense Budget

01.23.25 - 5:00am

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A Real Christian Confronts Trump, Unlike the Christo-Fascists and Evangelical Hucksters Who Worship the False Idol
Trump’s Choices to Head American Intelligence Might As Well Have Been Chosen By Putin
The Treason That Helped Elect Nixon, Reagan, and Trump

01.22.25 - 5:00am

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How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy
Trump’s Plans From 1798 Law to Use the U.S. Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels
In Releasing Jailed Militia Leaders, Is Trump Following Mussolini and Hitler’s Playbook of a “Blackshirt” and “Brownshirt” Assault on Democracy?

01.21.25 - 5:00am

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Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren
The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises
The Crypto Grift of $Trump, Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief

01.17.25 - 5:00am

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An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal
Biden’s Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex

01.16.25 - 5:00am

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What Latitude Will “Little Marco” Have As Secretary of State?
The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General
Trump’s Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the People

01.15.25 - 5:00am

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Determined to Do Trump’s Bidding, Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense
A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth’s Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice
Jack Smith’s January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial
Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas

01.14.25 - 5:00am

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Hearings Begin on Tuesday For Trump’s Disastrously Unqualified Nominees
How Pete Hegseth Compares to Former Heads of the Pentagon
The Laken Riley Act Will Empower Anti-Immigrant Zealots like Texas Attorney General Paxton

01.10.25 - 5:00am

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Today’s Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter at His State Funeral
How Climate Change Supercharged the Wildfires That Swept Through LA
A Former LAFD Battalion Chief on What it is Like to Confront a Wall of Flame Driven by 80 MPH Winds