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President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” claimed that he will throw the mayor of Denver, Colorado in prison if his city resists Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States, the Daily Beast reports.
Said Tom Homan: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing: he’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.”

“Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators,” the Washington Post reports.
“While there have been no reported illnesses in this most recent case, it comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.”

“The bottom line is this: Republicans are very motivated by Donald Trump’s win and, compared to eight years ago, Democrats are just really, really, tired. They have just given up.”
— Polling analyst Harry Enten, on CNN.

“The pro-Putin, far-right politician who surprisingly won the first round of Romania’s presidential elections on Sunday had recently gone viral on social media without pollsters registering his surge,” the Financial Times reports.

Top campaign aides to Kamala Harris — Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter — went on Pod Save America to talk about their mistakes.

Stephen Collinson: “Special counsel Jack Smith set out to prove in the United States of America v. Donald Trump that even presidents are not above the law.”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Thus the Harris/Biden Administration ends, not with a bang but with the whir of a shredder.

Obviously, actual vigilantism can’t be allowed, but refusal to do the duties the public expects can only lead to the public taking back their loaned power. 

On Meet the Press, Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt threw up a plethora of juvenile defenses to defend Trump's Secretary of Defense nominee after rape allegations surfaced after a police report was released.
Host Kristen Welker read some of the police report before asking the Senator his thoughts and prayers about Hegseth's nomination. She reminded him of the sexual assault problems within the military.