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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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Breaking: The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from some of President Trump's events, the Oval Office, and Air Force One. Here's my full story: www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/m...

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👀 on this new @washingtonpost.com reporting: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Congrats to @wsj.com for breaking this news yesterday. In a word: egregious. @brianstelter.bsky.social pushes this quid pro quo story forward.

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At least the last name of the woman who has the James Bond rights is Broccoli. The news of the day by @brianstelter.bsky.social view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/174...

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someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

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Only one person understands the attention war better than President Trump, and that's Elon Musk. But is the attention good or bad? Does it redound to his benefit or hurt his reputation? Does it embolden or embarrass him? Yes, yes and yes. My latest >> cnn.it/3ERK6F5

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

State social media used to delegitimize journalists is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime, not good governance. A PressSec & White House should seek to inform, engage, & be accountable to the public & press, never to abuse official accounts to direct hatred towards any American or amplify lies.

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WSJ: "Staci White said she voted for President Trump because she wanted lower prices and to stop fentanyl from coming into the U.S. Now, with widespread federal layoffs and expected cuts, she worries her family will lose their house if her partner is laid off from his government-adjacent job."

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For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Remember back in November when a group of Trump campaign officials issued an out-of-nowhere statement blasting "disgraced author Michael Wolff" and his "bad faith inquiries?" Well now that statement has some context...

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Trump's presidency is a mess of contradictions www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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This is trivial in the scheme of things, but just shows how little time Elon Musk spends actually reading the claims from which he draws sweeping conclusions. An anonymous X influencer posted an unsourced claim about Sen. Cornyn--and Musk shared it as proof that "legacy media lies relentlessly."

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Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

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This morning's Reliable Sources lead: cnn.it/436AYGC

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For the past week The AP has been trying to engage the Trump WH re: the "Gulf" ban. Today, I'm told, AP exec editor Julie Pace sat down with WH chief of staff Susie Wiles. AP is not wavering re: its editorial independence, so it seems unlikely anything was achieved in the meeting

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Puck and Echelon's latest polling finds that "news fatigue" is dissipating on the left: "A huge majority of Democrats (83 percent) said they are either 'very' or 'somewhat closely' following political news" right now. puck.news/democrats-po...

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"In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions," @gabrielsherman.bsky.social writes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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President Trump = Word Police

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Counting down the days until the white house conditions access on how trans people are referred to or how democrats are referred to. This fight isn't really about the name of a coastal sea.

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Read Quinta Jurecic on "the politics of forgetting" as it relates to the Justice Department deleting a January 6 rioters database from its website. Now news outlets are playing a key role in saving evidence of the crimes... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

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Pew finds that "Americans' views of two prominent tech execs – Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – tilt more negative than positive." With Musk, "attitudes are deeply divided along party lines." With Zuck, majorities in both parties hold an unfavorable view. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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Has "privately signaled" ever worked with this bunch at the White House?

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Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn't like. It's that simple. So why aren't more reporters and media outlets speaking out more vehemently to help The AP? In part, I'm told, it's because the WH Correspondents' Association is trying to work out a solution behind the scenes.

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Feel like it's hard for you to keep up with all the Trump admin news? Imagine what it's like for the assignment editors. Here's a sampling of the past 24 hours...

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What @brianstelter.bsky.social writes in today’s newsletter is exactly what @jelaniya.bsky.social was talking about in this interview with @eduardosuarez.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/columbi...

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What's going on between The Associated Press, the Trump White House and the WHCA? This morning's Reliable Sources is full of my new reporting about the stalemate: cnn.it/4150YQf

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Repeat after me: Singling out and punishing journalists for not amplifying government propaganda IS censorship.

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New AP statement responding to Trump's comment that "we are going to keep them out:" "This is about the government telling the public and press what words to use and retaliating if they do not follow government orders." (1/2)

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For MAGA media, it's a fact that DOGE has uncovered "fraud," because Trump says so

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