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Israel delays the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners it had pledged to free in an exchange for six Israeli hostages, demanding that Hamas first release more captives from Gaza. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Why did Trump fire CQ Brown? According to advisers, it was because of a four-minute video Brown taped after the George Floyd murder talking about his experiences as a Black pilot in the Air Force, Helene Cooper reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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"Hard to imagine a more unconstitutional order": Mississippi judge orders newspaper to take down editorial criticizing local mayor and city council. @AnneBranigin.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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The Supreme Court, in its first decision on Trump’s use of executive power in his second term, rules that he cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers. @adamliptak.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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In the latest Friday night sacking, Trump fires CQ Brown and replaces him with John Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq six years ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Stocks slump with the S&P 500 wiping out almost all of its gains since Trump took office last month, after a widely watched measure of how consumers feel about the economy showed mounting fears over stubborn inflation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

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The @AP sues over White House punishment for not using Trump's preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico: "This targeted attack on the AP’s editorial independence and ability to gather and report the news strikes at the very core of the First Amendment." apnews.com/article/ap-l...

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At that rate, the Trump administration would detain about 1 million people over his four-year term, even though he promised to deport all of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally.

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Between Jan. 21 and Feb. 13, authorities arrested just under 700 people a day, more than double the typical daily rate in recent years, including under Biden, but far short of what White House officials want.

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Trump team moves to develop detention facilities on military sites across the country — from Utah to Niagara Falls — to hold potentially thousands of immigrants and make up for a shortfall of space at ICE facilities. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Pierre Poilievre, seen as Canada's version of Trump, was believed to be a shoo-in to be the next prime minister -- until Trump complicated everything by threatening to take over Canada. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

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In one of those stories, Naftali Bendavid writes: "To a degree possibly unprecedented in the country’s nearly 250 years, Trump is barreling through the executive branch with the conviction that it is his to rule alone, no matter the laws Congress has enacted."

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Headlines on today's @washingtonpost front page: "Trump Suggests Taking Over the District" "President is Expected to Wrest Control of USPS" "One Month In, a Tireless Pursuit of More Power"

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JFK Library reopens with the director and deputy working the front desk after Musk's team laid off the ticket takers. The "efficiency" effort effectively replaced workers making less than $50,000 with executives making a combined $323,000. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

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Trump's DC reminds @sbg1.bsky.social of Putin's Moscow 25 years ago -- "the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the president’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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"The embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war": Keith Kellogg doesn't seem to think Zelensky is a dictator.

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In negotiating a G7 statement on the Ukraine war, Trump administration objects to calling Russia the "aggressor," trying to reverse the group's position over the past three years. @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @matinastevis.bsky.social David Sanger www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

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As McConnell signals the end of his long and consequential time in the Senate, check out the new biography, "The Price of Power" by Michael Tackett. Reading it now and it opens windows into one of Washington's most inscrutable figures. politics-prose.com/book/9781668... x.com/peterbakerny...

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Senate confirms Patel as FBI director 51-49 with just two Republicans opposing him. Patel listed people he considered "deep state" figures in a book called "Government Gangsters," but now promises "no retributive actions." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Senate leader, who made shrewd use of the rules to thwart opponents and empower allies, announces on his 83rd birthday that he will step down after this term. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Trump official says corruption case against Adams is being dropped so he can aid Trump's immigration crackdown. The import of this argument is profound: A president can decide to prosecute alleged crooks or not based on whether they do his policy bidding. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

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“Trump’s name will be remembered in history as a surrender artist just like Neville Chamberlain,” says Charles Kupperman, Trump's own former deputy national security adviser. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Top federal prosecutor in DC, appointed by Trump, who vowed "retribution" against his foes, targets Democrats for remarks he deems threatening. "Free speech has limits and threatening government workers crosses the line." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion: Ukraine is not a victim but a villain and Zelensky not a latter-day Churchill but a “dictator without elections” who started the war. He seems to be laying a predicate for abandoning an ally under attack www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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A day after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine "started" the war that Russia launched against it, Zelensky says the U.S. president is “living in a disinformation space” and in a “circle of disinformation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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In Trump’s telling, Ukraine, not Russia, is to blame for being invaded because it didn't surrender territory on the front end to Moscow. “You should have never started it,” Trump said, referring to Ukrainian leaders who, in fact, did not start it.

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We stand with the @apnews.com which is resisting government pressure attempting to dictate how it writes about the news. This is exactly what the founders had in mind when they crafted the First Amendment.

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For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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A weekslong Israeli military operation has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from West Bank homes in what researchers say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

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They arrived seeking asylum. Instead they were shackled, flown to Panama, stripped of passports and phones, locked in a hotel, barred from lawyers and soon will be sent to a camp near the jungle. Julie Turkewitz @haleaziz.bsky.social Farnaz Fassihi Annie Correal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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Musk, Sunday, 3:31 p.m.: “One of the first things Hitler did upon gaining power was apply aggressive censorship.” Musk, Sunday, 9:15 p.m.: “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence.”

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Maryland National Guard declined to participate in a parade to honor the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, citing recent Trump administration guidance barring Black History Month events. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Trump team seeking a grand bargain in which Lukashenko's Belarus would release a slew of political prisoners and the US would ease sanctions on Belarusian banks and exports of potash. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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Melania Trump personally pitched her self-produced documentary about herself to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos's Amazon then bought it for $40 million, with 70% going into her pocket. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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Border crossings had already fallen dramatically under Biden and much further now under Trump. Bored troops stand watch, shelters have emptied and border patrols speed through the frontier, finding no one. Jack Healy @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social Edgar Sandoval www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Only a “fool” or a “coward” would obey, says lead prosecutor. @Jonesieman.bsky.social Ben Weiser William Rashbaum www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

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Those diversity initiatives targeted by Trump 2.0? Some of them were promoted by Trump 1.0. “Diversity and inclusion are the cornerstones of high organizational performance,” Trump's education secretary wrote in 2020 memo to staff. Erica Green @ZJMontague.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

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When even the people you put in charge resign rather than follow orders they believe are politicizing the justice system, it underscores how extreme the crisis that Trump's team has triggered at the Justice Department has become. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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The government may try to dictate what White House reporters write but it will not stop an independent press from doing its job.

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Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

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Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One

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"Has Vladimir Putin ever had a better few days in Washington?" writes @sbg1.bsky.social. "Donald Trump, just four weeks into his second term, has executed a breathtaking pivot toward Moscow." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Registered Republican, anti-crime crusader, Scalia clerk, Federalist Society member, but this conservative resigned as acting US attorney rather than carry out Trump's order to drop bribery case against Adams. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

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"The Boss of Everyone and Everything": No paper straws or local bike lanes. Trump is increasingly trying to enforce his will on areas like the arts, sports, news, private companies and college campuses. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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Trump is presenting himself as a born-again corruption fighter rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from all corners of the federal government — even as he is dismantling the government’s mechanisms for fighting corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Go read a book.

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Trump speaks separately with Putin and Zelensky to push for peace as Hegseth makes a concession even before negotiations begin by saying that a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is "an unrealistic objective" and an "illusionary goal." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...

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Trump aides bar @APnews.bsky.social reporter from the Oval Office because the wire service still refers to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. Limiting access "based on the content of AP’s speech ... plainly violates the First Amendment," says Julie Pace. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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Bannon pleads guilty to defrauding donors who sought to help build a wall at the southern border in a plea deal giving him a three-year conditional discharge, meaning he will receive no prison time if he does not reoffend. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/n...

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