Weekly Perspective

 As we went to Press, the US Senate was busy finalizing President Biden's nominees as the President was busy with numerous Executive Actions to advance his agenda.   This is as the trial of Former President Trump looms with 45 Senators already on board voting against accepting the charges. The challenge faced by President Biden was depicted earlier by the Economist of London This Week as @KalToons released a sense of the MAGA Movement as a contribution to Counterpoint as the Republicans continued their internal civil war:

Please be advised of this Public Service Advisory: Date Issued:   Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:00 am ET View as PDF:    National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - January 27, 2021  (pdf, 1 page, 292.01KB) Summary The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration.  Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence. Duration Issued:   January 27, 2021 11:00 am Expires:   April 30, 2021 01:00 pm Details Throughout 2020, Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) targeted individuals with opposing views engaged in First Amendment-protected, non-vi

Please enjoy our curation of the latest on the Transition, #BernieMemes &  Dr Fauci: BY  ALEX THOMPSON  AND  THEODORIC MEYER Presented by With help from Allie Bice Welcome to POLITICO’s 2021 Transition Playbook,  your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration. The most important meeting in  JOE BIDEN’s  White House each day doesn’t even happen in person. The senior staff meeting each morning around 7:30 or 8 a.m. happens on video call, according to people familiar with the meeting. (It’s unclear if the call is actually being conducted via Zoom or another video service.) And being invited onto it has become an early status symbol  in the Biden administration, according to Biden allies. Some of the invitees are unsurprising, like chief of staff  RON KLAIN  or other senior aides from the campaign such as  MIKE DONILON, STEVE RICCHETTI, ANITA DUNN, BRUCE REED ,  CEDRIC RICHMOND  and  KATE BEDINGFIELD . But the list of regular participants gives us a glimpse at who has jui

  We Present a discourse of the First 100 Hours of the Presidency of Joe Biden in America courtesy the Washington Examiner, Fortune and Jacobin:  Biden moves quickly to erase traces of Trump President Biden was only in office for a few hours before he struck down one of former President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies: the travel ban affecting seven majority-Muslim countries labeled as terror risks by the previous administration. Read the full story here. With bipartisan deal, Trump’s second impeachment trial temporarily put on backburner Confirmation votes for Biden administration nominees and wrangling over COVID-19 aid legislation will occupy senators' time over the next two weeks rather than the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Read the full story here. Proud Boys and QAnon followers face identity crisis and turn on Trump It's been a rough week for the Proud Boys and followers of QAnon, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists who had anticipated

 President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken office.  We present a sampling of #InaugurationDay2021 as we look forward to featuring the daily White House Press Briefing which was launched on January 20 by the White House Press Secretary: