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Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday, the first Friday in the second administration of Donald Trump.

And good God, what a week.

So much happened.

A lot of it was what we expected, what Trump had promised or threatened to do.

But there was a lot of stuff that went way beyond that.

We're going to talk about some of that now.

There's going to be a lot of this.

I mean, the next four years are going to be very different from the last four years. We're going to talk about some of that now. There's going to be a lot of this. I mean, the next four years are going to be very different from the last four years. We're going to

see, to use the expression, people use a lot of fire hose. It's just going to be all day,

every day of actions that are going to be pushing the outer boundaries of the law. And so I'm here

to help you try to understand it, put it in perspective,

help myself work through what it all means. As always, I'm truly grateful that you're all with us

here at Cafe and grateful to have this chance to chat with you for a few minutes every Friday

morning. All right, here we go with this week's piece. As always, send us your thoughts, questions,

comments to letters at cafe.com.

We have gotten some. I'm going to do another one of those mailbag episodes sometime soon.

Here we go.

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