LEADS

How Trump’s Shutdown Forks Over Everyone Who Eats Food
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/01/how-trumps-shutdown-forks-over-everyone-who-eats-food/

'It's a nightmare': Americans' health at risk as shutdown slashes EPA
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/09/epa-government-shutdown-environmental-protection-agency-nightmare

Washington’s Strong Economy, Financed by Taxpayers, Takes a Hit From Shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/us/government-shutdown-washington-dc-effect.html

Shutdown Shutters Many D.C. Tourist Attractions — But Not The One In Trump's Hotel
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683638056/shutdown-shutters-many-d-c-tourist-attractions-but-not-the-one-in-trumps-hotel

Trump heads to the US-Mexico border to argue for his wall, despite reportedly saying the trip is just a photo op that won't change 'a damn thing'
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-goes-to-us-mexico-border-after-reportedly-dismissing-as-photo-op-2019-1

Trump told graduating students in 2004 to ‘go over’ any ‘concrete wall in front of you'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/424671-trump-told-graduating-students-in-2004-to-go-over-any-concrete-wall

Test of steel prototype for border wall showed it could be sawed through
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856

How heroin and fentanyl get into Philadelphia — and why a border wall likely wouldn’t stop them
http://www.philly.com/health/how-do-illegal-drugs-enter-us-heroin-fentanyl-trump-border-wall-mexico-china-20190109.html

The White House says the border wall would keep opioids out of the U.S. It wouldn’t.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/08/white-house-says-border-wall-would-keep-opioids-out-us-it-wouldnt/

Ex-pharma CEO pleads guilty to kickbacks to doctors for opioid prescriptions
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/09/ex-pharma-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-kickbacks-to-doctors-for-opioid-prescriptions/

Connecticut Doctors Continue To Take Home Millions From Big Pharma
http://www.wnpr.org/post/connecticut-doctors-continue-take-home-millions-big-pharma

Health Care Industry Spends $30B A Year Pushing Its Wares, From Drugs To Stem Cell Treatment
https://khn.org/news/health-care-industry-spends-30b-a-year-pushing-its-wares-from-drugs-to-stem-cell-treatment/

Pharma Making $$ Hand Over Fist on Oncology Drugs
https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/77294

Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-08/cancer-in-america-is-way-down-for-the-wealthy-anyway

The Best Skin-Care Trick Is Being Rich
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/skin-care-secret-wealth/579337/

These Five Brands Of Dental Floss May Expose People To Harmful Chemicals, Study Finds
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhisubbaraman/oral-b-pfas-dental-floss

Lead in School Water: Less Than Half the States Test for It, and Fewer Require It
http://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-lead-water-schools-testing-flint.html

Research Details How Junk Food Companies Influence China’s Nutrition Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/health/obesity-china-coke.html

Steve Bannon Angled for a Job Lobbying on Behalf of E-Cigarette Giant Juul
https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-angled-for-a-job-lobbying-on-behalf-of-e-cigarette-giant-juul

New Pentagon chief under scrutiny over perceived Boeing bias
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/defense-patrick-shanahan-boeing-pentagon-1064203

Pentagon Accepts Flawed Boeing Tankers for Air Force, Sources Say
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-10/pentagon-is-said-to-accept-flawed-boeing-tankers-for-air-force

The U.S. Spent $8 Billion on Afghanistan’s Air Force. It’s Still Struggling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/world/asia/afghanistan-air-force.html

POLITICS and FLEAS

A beefed-up White House legal team prepares aggressive defense of Trump’s executive privilege as investigations loom large
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-beefed-up-white-house-legal-team-prepares-aggressive-defense-of-trumps-executive-privilege-as-investigations-loom-large/2019/01/09/066b8618-1045-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html

Andrew Napolitano: Mueller can show Trump campaign 'had a connection to Russian intelligence'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-napolitano-mueller-can-show-trump-campaign-had-a-connection-to-russian-intelligence

Trump's team had over 100 contacts with Russian-linked officials, report shows
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/09/donald-trump-team-contact-russian-officials/2530829002/

Kristol a Kremlin agent? Shady outfit claims term ‘neocon’ is Russian propaganda
https://www.rt.com/usa/448424-propornot-neocon-russian-propaganda/

Curious picture emerges of American arrested on espionage charges in Russia
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/424648-curious-picture-emerges-of-american-arrested-on-espionage-charges-in

Paul Whelan Isn’t a Spy, and Putin Knows It
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/putin-knows-paul-whelan-isnt-us-spy/579895/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

The grim list of problems Venezuela faces in Maduro's 2nd term
https://www.axios.com/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-second-term-economy-8c79060b-c373-456d-b4fe-27aeecbe4e4f.html

Guatemala Is on the Brink. Washington Should Take a Stand.
https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/guatemala-brink-washington-should-take-stand

Bolsonaro and the Israeli-Iranian rivalry in South America
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bolsonaro-israeli-iranian-rivalry-south-america-190109180655291.html

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

Court Strikes Down Iowa's 'Ag-Gag' Law That Blocked Undercover Investigations
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683847157/court-strikes-down-iowas-ag-gag-law-that-blocked-undercover-investigations

Criminals who devastate world's wildlife face light penalties in U.S. courts
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/6/wildlife-crime-pays-for-poachers-traffickers/

The term ‘eco-terrorist’ is back and it’s killing climate activists
https://grist.org/article/the-term-eco-terrorist-is-back-and-its-killing-climate-activists/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Judge Throws Out Ashely Judd’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Harvey Weinstein — For Good This Time
https://lawandcrime.com/celebrity/judge-throws-out-ashely-judds-sexual-harassment-claim-against-harvey-weinstein-for-good-this-time/

Skydance Hires Alleged Sexual Harasser John Lasseter, Apparently Doesn't Care About the Women Who Work There
https://io9.gizmodo.com/skydance-hires-alleged-sexual-harasser-john-lasseter-a-1831617182

Man who claims his adult daughter is held against her will by R. Kelly alleges he was threatened
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-who-claims-his-adult-daughter-held-against-her-will-n956941

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks The Daily Caller for publishing 'a fake nude photo of me'
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-attacks-daily-caller-over-fake-nude-photo-2019-1

Who spreads fake news? Overwhelmingly, old white men
https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/who-spreads-fake-news-overwhelmingly-old-white-men

ODDS, ENDS

Alien signals? More bizarre 'fast radio bursts' detected from outer space
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/09/fast-radio-bursts-more-bizarre-signals-detected-outer-space/2526767002/

Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2019/01/10/rotating_black_holes_may_serve_as_gentle_portals.html

The Fading Stars: A Constellation
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/night/fading-stars-constellation

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