In Maine News
Immigration
- Andy O’Brien: Mainers face down ICE thugs, surge ends (for now)
- AP: Sen. Susan Collins announces end to ICE large-scale operations in Maine after talks with Noem
- Beacon: Collins votes to advance ICE funding as Platner, Mills push back
- The Boston Globe: ‘We’re not safe right now.’ Woman’s dramatic ICE arrest ignites fear in Maine’s immigrant communities
- The Hill: Maine governor on ICE surge, ‘we will not be intimidated’
- The Maine Monitor: A pastor searched for a missing congregant. He found a car with the keys on the floor
- The Maine Soapbox: Maine DHS “worst of the worst,” when ICE allegations are published as fact
- New York Times: Maine’s immigrant students stay home as ICE operation ramps up
- Portland Press Herald: How Donald Trump handed Susan Collins a political win over ICE
- Portland Press Herald: ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
- Portland Press Herald: The Mainers detained by ICE
AP: Six people died when a business jet trying to take off in Maine crashed in a snowstorm
Bangor Daily News: Intern who died from gas exposure at Down East mill was UMaine student
Maine AFL-CIO: CSX to lay off most union rail employees at Waterville facility [Andy O’Brien]
Maine Public: Watchdog says Mainers overcharged $156 million by unregulated electric companies
In National News
Economy
Immigration
- AFGE: Local 3669 condemns killing of union member Alex Pretti
- AP: Jury finds Wisconsin man guilty of forging threat against Trump to get witness deported
- The Atlantic: Minnesota proved MAGA wrong. The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
- The Handbasket: Crackdown, writing through history and heartbreak
- Jacobin: Why labor unions can’t ignore ICE
- Labor Notes: In the Twin Cities, a massive strike against ICE
- Mother Jones: Alex Pretti was a hero. To these workers, he was a colleague, too
- The Verge: I grew up with Alex Pretti
- The Wall Street Journal: The un-American assault on Minnesota [Tim Walz, opinion]
- Wired: US judge rules ICE raids require judicial warrants, contradicting secret ICE memo
AP: Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating her
The Atlantic: MAGA’s war on empathy [Hillary Clinton]
The Baffler: The Department of Labor’s anti-immigrant turn betrays its history [Kim Kelly]
The Existentialist Republic: Why polls are real and why they really matter
The Guardian: Why Democrats are suddenly embracing universal childcare
NLRB Edge: The ACLU is attempting to limit the speech rights of all private sector workers
NPR: Senate fails to advance spending bills as Democrats push for DHS reforms
Wired: We are witnessing the self-immolation of a superpower
In International News
Al Jazeera: How India-EU trade deal creates $27 trillion market
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