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Daniel Dale goes hard www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/p...

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Could see this coming: Israel is blocking the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners “until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without the degrading ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza. apnews.com/article/isra...

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After she told Trump, “See you in court,” some things to know: Was Maine’s first female criminal prosecutor in the AG’s office. First woman in New England to win a DA seat. Maine’s first female attorney general. Refused to support Trump’s 2017 ban on immigrants from Muslim countries.

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Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

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All federal employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday. It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Hahaha. The Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its fired scientists if they will come back to their jobs, including some employees reviewing Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Doctors have warned that the main threat facing Pope Francis would be the onset of sepsis, a serious infection of the blood that can occur as a complication of pneumonia apnews.com/article/pope...

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A gunman was killed after shots were fired at UPMC Memorial in York, Pennsylvania. No patients were injured, a spokesman said. apnews.com/article/york...

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving technology, including whether it played a role in the death of a pedestrian. Now, the agency is firing some employees, a spokesman said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/b...

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Warren Buffett said in his letter that his company's record tax payment should be used to "take care of the many who ... get the short straws in life."

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The deal on the table: The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure, with no security guarantee in exchange. according to a draft obtained by the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades And things can still get worse. by Elizabeth Lopatto www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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CNN has obtained recordings of two cybersecurity executives in 2022 discussing whether to fire Edward Coristine, who leaked information to a competitor. Coristine, now 19, is one of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” workers with access to your private info in government databases. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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In a paternity petition, St. Clair claims she and Musk conceived the boy during a January 2024 trip to St. Barths. In a text exchange, St. Clair shares a photo of herself and her baby in a hospital bed. “All well?,” replies someone saved in her phone as “EM.” “He is perfect,” St. Clair responds.

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Musk’s DOGE team when Trump elevated the same employee this week to acting SS commissioner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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“Sheinbaum has kept a cool head, and the capacity to hold firm and react to Trump,” said a political scientist. “But Mexico is in a situation of emergency with the US. And it will have to play this game for four years straight.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Institute for the Study of War Ukraine Factsheet - Feb. 21, 2025: understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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'Worst hack in history' as $1.5bn in cryptocurrency stolen

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3. Trump said of JD Vance: “What the fuck is with that name-change stuff? How many name changes has he had? That’s shifty, that’s very shifty. That’s my staff fucking up. They know what I think about people changing their names. I think it’s shifty. And they didn’t tell me.”

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2. Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, refused to sign a statement saying Trump was not antisemitic.

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A new book by the Trump tell-all author Michael Wolff has some eye-popping claims: 1. Trump demanded to know “what the fuck is wrong with” Elon Musk. “And why doesn’t his shirt fit?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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DOGE is really bad at math. And accounting. And data. And dates. Some contracts were double- or triple-counted. Another contained an error that inflated the totals by billions of dollars. Contracts the group said it had closed were actually ended under the Biden administration.

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Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Musk's Starlink satellite internet system, Reuters says www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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After 3,800 Days in Captivity, Hamas’s Longest-Held Hostage Is Set for Release: Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-born Israeli, was detained in 2014 after crossing into Gaza on his own www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Cruel beyond belief: Hunter Schafer, the transgender star of HBO's "Euphoria," says her new US passport lists her as male despite her selecting female when filling out the paperwork. Trump signed an order recognizing two sexes only. The US now issues passports based on the sex recorded at birth.

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The 3-star general replacing the 4-star one made an impression on Trump in '18, when he said ISIS can be defeated in a week. Trump said when they met again, 3-star supposedly said: “‘I love you sir. I think you’re great sir. I’ll kill for you sir.’ Then he puts on a Make America Great Again hat.”

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To be clear: Trump is replacing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, with a retired three-star Air Force general.

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The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

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Besides the ousting of the Joint Chiefs chairman, Hegseth announces more job openings: Chief of Naval Operations and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. As for the incumbents in those roles, Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Gen. James Slife: "We thank them for their service and dedication to our country."

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AOC: And he is running around because he thinks he got a bank account with a lot of zeros in it that it makes him some kind of super citizen. I don't think so.

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The ouster of Brown, only the 2nd Black general to be chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Trump says he is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman.

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(AP) — Trump fires Gen. Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer.

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Judge temporarily blocks key portions of Trump's executive orders to end DEI in the federal government. A coalition of diversity officers and restaurant worker advocates that filed a lawsuit over Trump’s actions argued the president’s orders were too vague and chill free speech.

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Notorious B.I.G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace, dies at 78

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Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s new president, told a conservative gathering that the “big change” at the center would be a “huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas.” NB: The Kennedy Center has long held Christmas-themed events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/a...

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Who’s leading ICE now? Nobody knows. Caleb Vitello got the job in December. As of Friday evening, it was unclear who had been selected to replace him. The change comes as the agency tries to meet the promises of a mass deportation effort laid out by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word in the fight over Trump’s agenda. The court neither granted nor rejected the plea to immediately remove him. Instead it held the request in abeyance.

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