Politics and views in the United States.

Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, flyers begin to feel the government shutdown, anti-ICE organizers encourage lawful resistance and postal workers aim to rally local governments in support of the USPS.

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Welcome to 2025 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

Nancy Delisandre Pelosi will go down in history as the greatest speaker of all time.

Her tenure has been iconic, legendary, historic, and transformational.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is praising Nancy Pelosi, who won't seek re-election to her San Francisco district.

Pelosi was the first ever woman speaker and was key to passing the Affordable Care Act.

She tapped Jeffries to replace her at the top of House Democrats as the party's base pressed for younger leadership.

Pelosi is 85.

Centrist Maine Democratic Congressman Jared Golden says he's also retiring.

President Donald Trump won his district, so it could become a target for the GOP.

And close Trump ally Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik says she will run for governor of New York.

The FAA is allowing 10 percent fewer flights at major airports as unpaid air traffic controllers call in sick to already understaffed towers.

Majority Leader John Thune blames Democrats for impacts from the shutdown.

That means widespread flight cancellations, supply chain issues, hundreds of thousands of passengers dealing with disruptions to travel every day.

The impact this will have will be immense.

A D.C. jury has acquitted a man charged with throwing a sub sandwich at a federal immigration officer.

The White House says harsh enforcement against protests is justified to maintain order.

But Ido Osigbovo with the Chicago Black Voter Project says everyone in that city, no matter their ethnicity should see the need for solidarity and lawful resistance to ICE.

It's common to assume that only folks of a certain demographic are impacted, but Chicago's always been an interconnected city.

So we're talking about people who share space, whether that's living space or their kids go to school together.

Postal workers across the country are encouraging municipal and county governments to come out against privatizing the USPS, something the administration may be considering.

Angela with the American Postal Workers Union says privatization could mean the end of universal service, which would be terrible for seniors and rural residents.

Everybody should care.

You know, it goes from the customers to the employees, even out of our country, because right now we are regulated.

If it's privatized, they can pretty much do what they want to do.

The American Postal Workers Union says the Postal Service doesn't get tax money and provides about 7 million jobs nationwide.

Clean energy advocates are celebrating the election of Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey, saying the new governors will be good news for consumers and the environment.

David Kiva with the Environmental Defense Action Fund says they can counterbalance efforts by Trump to scale back renewable projects and encourage fossil fuels.

He's been working as hard as he possibly can to snuff out investments in clean energy just because he doesn't like windmills or solar panels and that's hurting the American people and causing all of our bills to go up.

I'm Zamone Perez for Pacifica Network and Public News Service.

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