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Trump keeps giving Musk directives in public for DOGE and Musk keeps issuing orders through DOGE, despite the White House's legal filing that Musk is not in charge of DOGE

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Garlic toast with bruschetta, lemon ricotta ravioli with pesto, butter and lemon poached salmon sprinkled with sugar snap peas, roasted cannellini and black olives:

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Canadian premiers Doug Ford and Tim Houston are in DC meeting with governors, with Ford saying of Trump + tariffs, “No one knows what he wants.” “Americans love Canadians & Canadians love Americans. It’s not the Americans. It’s not even the elected officials. It’s one person.”

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Bernie Sanders on Tulsi Gabbard, who became much more prominent while backing his 2016 run, and is now in Trump’s Cabinet: “I’m not going to speculate what happened to Tulsi. I have not actually chatted with Tulsi in many years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Sage roasted whole chicken, Israeli couscous with green olives, pan roasted parsnips and red turnips with carrots:

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The term that the Senate just confirmed Kash Patel to as the FBI director will extend through the entirety of the next president’s term, and two years into the term after that, no matter who the winners of the 2028 and 2032 elections are.

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new CNN poll: Numbers tilt negative but above any point he hit in his first term. “55% say that Trump has not paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems and 62% feel he has not gone far enough in trying to reduce the price of everyday goods.”

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Eric Adams, inside the courtroom:

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Sean Spicer is now doing discount car insurance commercials:

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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In one post on social media today, Trump referred to Zelensky as a dictator. In another, he referred to himself as a king.

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Pritzker: “It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the 5-alarm fire starts...every good person better be ready to man a post w/a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control"

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JB Pritzker in today's state of the state very explicitly compared what's happening with Trump to the rise of Nazis: "We don’t have kings in America—and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions—but in deference to my obligations."

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the moment in The Sopranos finale when AJ says his dream is to join the military so he can eventually be Donald Trump’s helicopter pilot (a dream he gives up on when Tony then gets him a movie gopher job):

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Dean of the NY House delegation Rep. Jerry Nadler, who called for Eric Adams to resign after the indictments in the fall, in new statement: "Mayor Adams has lost his ability to lead the City of New York effectively. I reiterate my call for Mayor Adams to resign or be removed from office.”

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One of the House Democrats who last year massively outperformed Harris in his key swing district to Musk: “about to get in my car and drive wherever the hell you are” in response to some of the cuts now hitting his constituents:

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Trump last week: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf.” Trump today: on day 4 of 5 working from home, day 4 straight of golfing for part of the day. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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New York City comptroller (and candidate for mayor himself) gives Eric Adams a three day ultimatum before he starts a separate process from what Hochul is considering to remove the mayor from office:

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New spelling just dropped:

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Today marks 500 days since Oct. 7, hostages are still being held and suffering in Gaza continues, but it's been months since there were any significant protests at college campuses/Israeli diplomatic buildings/Democratic events from participants who said they would never give up.

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remember re the potential of Hochul’s removing Adams if she decides to try: 1) the process could take months; 2) it’s been nearly 100 years since the last time this was considered; 3) if Adams were removed, there’d be a snap election 90 days later on top of the scheduled one

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new statement from Gov. Kathy Hochul on Eric Adams: "the alleged conduct at City Hall that has been reported over the past two weeks is troubling and cannot be ignored. Tomorrow, I have asked key leaders to meet me at my Manhattan office for a conversation about the path forward"

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“This is a modern day Mein Kampf.” - Eric Adams, on calls for him to resign (This is not the kind of struggle Hitler was referring to in the title of that book.) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/17/a...

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One person standing by Adams: former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Asked whether Adams should continue as mayor and whether he has a future in the Democratic Party, de Blasio wrote in a text to CNN, “Yes and yes.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/p...

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NEW, from me & @GloriaPazmino: Eric Adams has little chance of winning the primary in June, many NYC Dems say, and he shouldn’t even try. @ritchietorres.bsky.social: “a Vichy Dem allowing one of the bluest cities in America to be occupied by a far-right administration” www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/p...

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Meanwhile:

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“My impression is that nothing is more miserable right now than being a Republican member of Congress,” said Rep. Haley Stevens, a Michigan congresswoman. “They’re neutering their own leadership.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Did you know: Saturday Night Live is marking its 50th anniversary this year

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New bill introduced by New York Rep. Claudia Tenney: “Just as George Washington’s Birthday is codified as a federal holiday, this bill will add Trump’s Birthday to this list, recognizing him as the founder of America’s Golden Age.” tenney.house.gov/media/press-...

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for inspiration, new House Progressive Caucus chair @gregcasae.bsky.social opened a meeting by reading FDR's 1936 Dem convention speech warning, “privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Kwame Anthony Appiah is a New York Times columnist and professor of philosophy at NYU who has a PhD from Cambridge and he had to use Google to help to figure out what this person was writing about: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...

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I asked @hakeemjeffries what he’d say to Democrats who’ve given up hope: “Keep hope alive. The Trump admin is losing in court, not winning. …And they have not achieved a single legislative victory. And his approval ratings aren’t going up—they’re going down.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Among what’s in here: some Dem activist leaders and members of Congress are wary of scheduling protests b/c of safety worries after Trump’s Jan. 6 rioter pardons. Others worry Trump could use protests as predicate for declaring martial law or Insurrection Act. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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“Part of our job right now as Democrats in Washington inside of this is to be Churchillian, very clear-eyed about what the stakes of this moment are, what the parallels in history are,“ said @seancasten.bsky.social.

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NEW from me: Dems divide over how much to use the same maneuvers from the first Trump term vs. responding by wielding their own wrecking balls. Even before next month's budget/shutdown showdown, a fundamental question is splitting leaders. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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Taco bar: Black beans, chili turkey meat and corn, beef birria, fresh guacamole

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Here is the clip from ‘Waterloo’ which ends with the same line Trump used this morning - it is speech in which Napoleon asserts, “I did not usurp the crown,” because he picked it out of the gutter and the people put it on his head:

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Rod Steiger as Napoleon, in ‘Waterloo,’ 1970: “He who saves a nation violates no law.” Donald Trump, on Truth Social, 2025:

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A theory of the law which goes beyond last year’s expansive Supreme Court ruling on presidential power:

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Garlic bread, white wine sautéed spinach with roasted tomato and balsamic reduction, fettuccine with garlic white beans/eggplant/mushrooms/peas, lemon basil turkey meatballs:

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Thursday: Trump officials fire hundreds at the National Nuclear Security Administration Friday: moved to hire them back “Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Both a comment on the current state of the Republican Party and of some political coverage that a few no votes on nominees whom other Republicans have opposed in the past gets Mitch McConnell some lionizing coverage and vilified again by Trump

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from Danielle Sassoon's resignation letter to Pam Bondi: "Such an exchange with Adams violates commonsense beliefs in the equal administration of justice, the Justice Manual&the Rules of Professional Conduct." "Adams’s attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo"

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BIll de Blasio is now dating Nomiki Konst, and he decided to announce it to the New York Post via a text with a red heart emoji: nypost.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Lieutenant Gov. Peggy Flanagan in for the Minnesota Senate that Tina Smith just announced she’s vacating:

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One of the many notable things about Kennedy being confirmed: how quiet most of the Kennedy family (w/a few clear exceptions) was about his becoming health secretary, even though many of them will say privately they think he has psychological problems and harms the family legacy

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Tim Walz isn’t ruling out a Senate run for the seat Tina Smith is vacating, a person familiar with his thinking tells me — though the 2024 VP candidate is also mulling a run for a third term as governor next year. But he may opt against both, the person said.

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