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A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

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Trump picks Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director.

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“Everyone is very well-aware they’re repeating the wrong numbers,” said one manager at a company on DOGE’s list of cuts. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Trump said that Caine then donned a MAGA cap, and said: “‘I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.’” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Admiral Franchetti became the 33rd Chief of Naval Operations on Nov. 2, 2023, making her the first woman to have a permanent seat as a member of the Joint Chiefs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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In which Paolo Zampolli refers to Theodore Roosevelt Island, a well-loved piece of local parkland that’s currently crisscrossed by walking trails, as “a cemetery for trees.”

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I'm aware this is likely a minority opinion, but it's absurd to the point of idiotic that ESPN is playing the locker-room speech from "Miracle," as if Canada is America's foe, like the USSR was

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This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

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Heartbreaking.

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Establishing a monarchy to own the libs

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"As Musk works directly with the Trump administration, Rogan now runs the risk of sounding like a standard political podcaster defending his team."

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Pope Francis is suffering from pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican disclosed late Tuesday, as concerns grew over a “complex” infection plaguing the 88-year-old pontiff.

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NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Posobiec got kicked out of Comet Ping Pong at the height of the Pizzagate hysteria, but he made it into the negotiations with a U.S. Cabinet member and Ukraine's wartime president.

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SCOOP: Far-right activist Jack Posobiec traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and was in the room when the secretary greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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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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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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I’m charlton heston about my ssris

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"For whatever reason, this wasn't deemed an emergency," Duggan said.

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Later that year, Darren Beattie responded to a video of people in an Atlanta neighborhood by calling for a sterilization program. “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control,” he wrote. “Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”

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An estimated 1,000 migrant families remain separated from the first Trump administration. Hours after President Trump returned to power on Jan. 20, one of his first moves was to rescind the task force working to reunite them.

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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Also, not for nothing, but laws very much do constrain how general conduct military operations — and literally any general will be the first to tell you that!

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"The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis about identity politics," writes @ShaneGoldmacher.bsky.social. Democrats are debating whether to push back strongly against Trump's assault on DEI or pick their battles. "The party is flailing," says one. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

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“George W. Bush called for the funding of religious groups that fed the hungry and housed the homeless …the Trump administration and allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, who do the same work” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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“It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals,” said U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee. “The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore.”

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EXCLUSIVE: USAID was always going to be a target for Trump/Musk. But a seemingly routine $153M payment made it enemy No. 1. My colleague Robbie Gramer & I with the backstory: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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“It’s the richest person in the world taking away from the poorest people in the world,” one USAID official told Playbook. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order shuttering Department of Education, according to two people familiar with the plans and granted anonymity to discuss them.

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"The meaning behind his words was clear, that diversity equals incompetence."

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NEW: A statement from Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: “Global Refuge condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the false accusations being lodged against our humanitarian work.”

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1/My colleagues & I have been covering Trump & Musk’s targeting of USAID from the start. We’ve heard rumblings of an executive order shifting a much-shrunken version of USAID under State. Dem lawmakers are furious, saying such a move is illegal w/out Congress’ consent. My guess is Trump team is …

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Clearly, @wired.com is a must-follow for DOGE coverage.

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"Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border, compared with almost 9,600 kilograms at the border with Mexico"

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On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children.

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"The situation is rich with irony. After all, it was OpenAI that made huge leaps with its GPT model by sucking down the entirety of the written web without consent."

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Didn't realize this: Seven companies — Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta and Alphabet — "constitute more than 30 percent of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 (up from just under 10 percent a decade ago)."

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To play this out, there will be literally dozens of lawsuits challenging what OMB is doing on the ground that it violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Trump’s DOJ will argue that the Act is unconstitutional. And this will quickly get to #SCOTUS, where it will be the biggest case of the term.

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"Speaker Mike Johnson … is conducting himself less like the autonomous head of a coequal branch of government and more like a junior partner to President Trump."

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Rep. Pat Ryan to @adamwren.bsky.social, offering an example of the messaging you may be hearing a lot more of from Dems: “In his first week, Trump did absolutely fucking nothing to lower costs for anybody, and he gave a tremendous amount of love to his billionaire cronies.”

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"Just 8 percent of congressional races (36 of 435) and 7 percent of state legislative races (400 of 5,465) were decided by fewer than five percentage points, according to The Times’s analysis."

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Federal government websites devoted to diversity, inclusion and equity went offline Wednesday as the White House threatened “adverse consequences” for agencies that fail to report DEI-related information within 10 days www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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“This is a horrible look for the industry already trying to make the case that we’re not a bunch of hucksters, scammers and fraudsters.”

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"Flattery and obeisance are how powerful people keep themselves in favor with strongman regimes. Cash works, too."

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“He probably could have gotten up and walked away, but he’s not gonna leave my brother,” Mitchell said. “My father would never leave any of his kids. His children were his legacy.”

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Actually, Sarah McBride does have an agenda. I spent part of her first week — a week of many firsts — trying to figure out what it is. Don’t miss the insane takeout order that got her to Congress. washingtonpost.com/style/power/20… @mcbride.house.gov @washingtonpost.com

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"Some training materials that Meta created for the new policies …. said saying that 'white people have mental illness' would be prohibited on Facebook, but saying that 'gay people have mental illness' was allowed"

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BREAKING: AG Merrick Garland plans to release the part of special counsel Jack Smith's report that discusses Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election, while withholding a volume on the classified documents case. Via @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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