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German conservatives and far-right AfD lead in polls — far-right culture and politics certainly appear to be winning worldwide www.nbcnews.com/news/world/g...

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NBC News reporting: FBI director Kash Patel tells employees to pause responses to Musk email about accomplishments — says FBI will review the work of its own employees…

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A major way Musk is benefiting already from his govt position and personal investments in the far-right — advertisers have climbed back on board X as its culture has been normalized, and X has become essential for news related to DOGE and the Trump admin, like it or not www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/t...

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Something that wasn't brought to my attention until after publication is that GlomarResponder also made a lot of posts that appear to praise and defend Adolf Hitler.

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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is free and back at CPAC after being arrested earlier today on assault charges. He said he was at the conference in good standing and that the Proud Boys would keep fighting.

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CPAC crowd just cheered for Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, referenced by Slovakia’s anti-LGBT Prime Minister

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Megyn Kelly has spent the first 15 minutes of her CPAC speech ranting against Blake Lively and defending Justin Baldoni… she was represented by the same lawyer as Baldoni in her contract dispute against NBC

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It’s worth noting CPAC’s silence on Bannon’s “salute.” Last year, when I reported on the presence of neo-Nazis doing the salute at CPAC Matt Schlapp and CPAC made numerous public statements attempting to attack me and the reporting.

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I talked to Steve Bannon at CPAC about the gesture during his speech many said was "Nazi salute" He denied it, saying he was just waving to the crowd, and called France's far-right leader who withdrew from CPAC over it a "pussy"

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Elon Musk becomes a new power center at CPAC www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The artist who made the painting that Musk grabbed at the end of his CPAC speech wants it back. Seth Leibowitz told me it was confiscated by security during the speech, and that Musk summoned security over to give it to him. But Leibowitz says he was still working on it.

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Mike Johnson at CPAC seemingly alluding to the use of AI by DOGE -- "what Elon and the team are doing is what congress has not had the ability to do, they’ve cracked the code of the federal bureaucracy and the algorithms are crawling through”

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They’re ready for Elon at CPAC

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Elon Musk will appear at CPAC

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Our government is increasingly accepting to the idea of employing open white nationalists. This is someone who is paid to argue on behalf of the United States: “America is a White nation, founded by Whites. … Our country should favor us” www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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It’s day 0 of CPAC and there’s already drama… pardoned J6er Jake Lang is getting booted after he said he paid $10,000+ for a J6er booth.

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Big swings, big misses: DOGE struggles to back up its outsized claims www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Anyone else going to CPAC? Will be there shortly :)

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41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by NBC News, despite Trump promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump's mass layoffs continue www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Trump’s Department of Homeland Security preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

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Mapping Musk’s far-right influence across the world — we counted 18 countries where Musk has amplified right-wing political causes or candidates www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

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The richest man in the world is boosting right wing politicians and policies all around the world: www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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NEW: DOGE-affiliated employee has accessed IRS system with sensitive taxpayer information www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The DOGE employee is referencing an essay that is part of a series that Unz has done for years. In the series, he wrote a piece that was thousands of words long about holocaust denial, clearly supportive of it. This is a small portion.

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Hundreds were fired at the EPA today via an email at 5pm… it asked them to immediately turn in their company belongings, even though most people were at home. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Was trying to think of a nice way to celebrate V-day in my groupchats... Google suggested sending these romantic messages. Who wants to try?

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Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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When SDNY refused to drop the Eric Adams case, it was moved to the Public Integrity Section. The acting leader of the Public Integrity Section also refused to drop the case and resigned.

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NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE received approval last week at the Labor Department to use file-transfer software, fueling alarm among department employees about data security. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

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