WHAT'S BREWING
NYPD OFFICERS 'DECLARING WAR' ON MAYOR DE BLASIO A police union made a threatening statement on Twitter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying that members of the New York Police Department are “declaring war” on the mayor after two officers were separately attacked in a span of 12 hours. [HuffPost]
MAN CARRYING KNIFE OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE ARRESTED A man carrying a knife was arrested outside the White House after he told a U.S. Secret Service officer that he was there to kill the president. Roger Hedgpeth, 25, was charged with making threats to do bodily harm. [AP]
BILL WELD HUNTS FOR ELUSIVE PRE-TRUMP REPUBLICANS At stops up and down New Hampshire over the weekend, GOP presidential candidate Bill Weld warned Republicans that if they believed in what the party stood for in the decades before Trump won the nomination and then the presidency, they needed to mobilize now to stop him. [HuffPost]
WOMEN WHO FARM ARE FINALLY GETTING COUNTED Assumptions about who works on America's farms are built into farming equipment itself -- from more expensive, less functional boots for women, to tractors too tall for women, and tools too large for women's hands. And for over a century, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Census of Agriculture failed to count women accurately. [HuffPost]
TRUMP'S ACQUITTAL SHOWS GOP SENATE ACTS LIKE A CULT Psychologists and professors say the extreme measures Republicans took to defend Trump resemble the mentality of cult members. “They’ve just refused to entertain any ideas that go against their leader,” said Janja Lalich, a sociology professor at California State University, Chico, who studies cults and extremist groups. [HuffPost]
HOW IOWA BECAME AN EPIC FIASCO FOR DEMOCRATS The problems that beset the first state caucus in the Democratic presidential race went far deeper than one faulty app. The total system breakdown casts doubt on how a critical political contest has been managed for years. [New York Times] | 
