memeorandum: Donald Trump Would Reconsider Bannon's Role on National Security Council If Asked, White House Says (Wall Street Journal)

8:15 PM ET, February 21, 2017

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Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos resigns following outrage over his past comments about pedophilia — Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer and commentator who helped make Breitbart News a leading organ of the “alt-right,” resigned from the news organization Tuesday after a video …

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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:

Why Conservatives Fell for Milo Yiannopoulos — A few years ago, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly sat alone at a booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) exhibition area. — Hundreds and probably thousands of peoplemost of them youngstampeded past her, not giving her so much as a glance or even recognizing her.

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David Weigel / Washington Post:

Trump's America will be on vivid display at annual conservative gathering — The conservative movement in America now belongs to President Trump. — Thousands of activists will arrive in Washington this week for an annual gathering that will vividly display how Trump has pushed …

Discussion: Right Wing Watch

Ben Howe / The Atlantic:
Milo Yiannopoulos and the Church of Winning

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Breitbart:
Milo Yiannopoulos announced at a Tuesday New York City press conference his decision to resign as Breitbart Tech editor.

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Sophie Gilbert / The Atlantic:
Simon & Schuster's Completely Avoidable Milo Yiannopoulos Disaster

Discussion: Salon, Washington Post, The Verge and Eschaton

Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
CPAC Organizer Tries To Pawn Off Milo Yiannopoulos as “Libertarian”

Discussion: Mediaite, alicublog and TheBlaze

Alan Gomez / USA Today:

Homeland Security unveils sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants — The Department of Homeland Security issued a sweeping set of orders Tuesday that implement President Trump's plan to increase immigration enforcement, placing the vast majority of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.

Discussion: Fox News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, neo-neocon and The Resurgent

New York Times:

New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions — WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday released a set of documents translating President Trump's executive orders on immigration and border security into policy, bringing a major shift in the way the agency enforces the nation's immigration laws.

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ProPublica:
Trump Plan: Deport to Mexico Immigrants Crossing Border Illegally, Regardless of Nationality

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Dara Lind / Vox:
The government just put out the blueprint for President Trump's immigration crackdown

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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration issues new immigration enforcement policies, says goal is not ‘mass deportations’

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Wall Street Journal:

Donald Trump Would Reconsider Bannon's Role on National Security Council If Asked, White House Says — Press secretary Sean Spicer says president would consider removing strategist if new national security adviser asked — WASHINGTON—White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday …

Discussion: Political Wire, Bloomberg and Hot Air

Luis Martinez / ABC News:
How H.R. McMaster's military rank could affect his role as national security adviser

Discussion: Politico

Bryan Bender / Politico:
McMaster's takeaways: Don't lie, don't blame the media, don't rely on an inner circle

Discussion: ABC News, Axios and The American Conservative

Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:

Tucker Carlson Couldn't Debate the Anti-Trump Organizer He Wanted, So This Actor Stepped In — Fox News' Tucker Carlson had a hard time booking Olga Lexell, the creator and co-organizer of the nationwide Not My President's Day protests on Monday. — So, after repeated refusals …

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Washington Free Beacon and Raw Story

Max Bearak / Washington Post:

Riots erupt in Sweden's capital just days after Trump comments — Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood …

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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:

A lone GOP Georgia congressman holds a rocky town hall meeting — Dozens of Republican members of Congress are holding tumultuous town hall meetings across the nation this week as lawmakers return home for a legislative recess many surely dreaded. But in Georgia, only one GOP legislator hosted an event: Rep. Buddy Carter.

Discussion: twitchy.com

David Montgomery / Twin Cities:
MN Rep. Tom Emmer to cancel town hall if protests get disruptive

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:

The arrogant thinking of liberal sports writers — “Today, sports writing is basically a liberal profession, practiced by liberals who enforce an unapologetically liberal code,” writes Bryan Curtis at The Ringer. He's right. — You can see it in the way sportswriters police a consensus …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:

Trump's lawyer has told 4 different stories about the Russia-Ukraine ‘peace plan’ debacle — President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was at the center of a bombshell New York Times report published Sunday that said he hand-delivered a “peace plan for Russia and Ukraine” …

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

McConnell: ‘Winners make policy, losers go home’ — (R-Ky.) on Tuesday pushed back on protesters at a speech in Kentucky, declaring that “winners make policy and losers go home.” — Speaking in Lawrenceburg, Ky., McConnell was met by nearly 1,000 protesters, some of whom chanted “No ban …

Discussion: RedState, Shakesville and Political Wire

Art Swift / Gallup:

Putin's Image Rises in US, Mostly Among Republicans — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans see Russian President Vladimir Putin in a better light than two years ago. Twenty-two percent now say they have a favorable opinion of Putin, up from 13% in 2015 and the highest percentage with a favorable view of the Russian leader since 2003.

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post and TheBlaze

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Donald Trump's unbroken streak of falsehoods now stands at 33 days — Donald Trump has been president for all or part of 33 days. He has averaged four falsehoods or misleading statements a day(!) in that time. There hasn't been a single day of Trump's presidency in which he has said nothing false or misleading.

Discussion: Liberal Values and The Daily Caller

Brad Reed / Raw Story:

WATCH: GOP senator jeered after ducking travel ban question from Afghan man who served with US troops — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — An Afghan man who served alongside American troops in Afghanistan tried confronting Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - IA) during a town hall meeting …

Discussion: KCCI-TV, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo

Tod Leonard / sandiegouniontribune.com:

Wiggins: WNBA's ‘harmful’ culture of bullying, jealousy — Candice Wiggins, La Jolla Country Day alumni and WNBA Woman of the Year recently described the WNBA as a “very very harmful” culture where she was bullied throughout her 8-year career. — Candice Wiggins had what many would consider a dream career in the WNBA.

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Associated Press:

NYC medical examiner says more study needed in death of Russian diplomat — NEW YORK - The cause and manner of death of Russia's ambassador to the United Nations needs to be studied further, the city medical examiner said Tuesday, a day after the diplomat fell ill at his office at Russia's U.N. mission and died at a hospital.

Discussion: Political Wire

David Brooks / New York Times:

This Century Is Broken — Most of us came of age in the last half of the 20th century and had our perceptions of “normal” formed in that era. It was, all things considered, an unusually happy period. No world wars, no Great Depressions, fewer civil wars, fewer plagues.

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To see more from Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect on Facebook, log in or create an account. … Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect — Statement of Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, on President Trump's acknowledgment of Antisemitism today:

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Liam Dillon / Los Angeles Times:

Storm brings record rainfall, gusts up to 199 mph and flooding to Northern California — A man walks through floodwaters Monday in Salinas. Forecasters issued flash flood warnings throughout the Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California. (Nic Coury / Monterey County Weekly)

Discussion: The Verge and KTLA

CNN:

Marine Le Pen in Lebanon row after refusing to wear headscarf — Le Pen refuses headscarf, cancels meeting — Beirut (CNN)France's Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti Tuesday after refusing to wear a headscarf. — The far-right presidential candidate …

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CNN:

Trump's brilliant choice of McMaster — Peter Bergen: In his selection of H.R. McMaster for national security adviser, Donald Trump made a brilliant choice — He says McMaster will need to draw on his vast capabilities as Pentagon mulls options on fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Heavy.com, IJR and BizPac Review

Christina Dugan / People.com:

David Cassidy Reveals He Is Battling Dementia: ‘A Part of Me Always Knew This Was Coming’ — David Cassidy is battling dementia. — The 66-year-old actor, widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge on the 1970s series The Partridge Family, reveals to PEOPLE that he is fighting the memory loss disease.

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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:

California Secession Advocate Faces Scrutiny Over Where He's Based: Russia — YEKATERINBURG, Russia — This provincial Russian city, about 1,000 miles east of Moscow, is about as unlikely a place as any to find the leader of one of the more unlikely political causes to arise in opposition to President Trump.

Discussion: Daily Wire

Wall Street Journal:

A Trump Statistical Trade Trick — Officials borrow phony deficit math from liberal protectionists. — The Trump Administration's trade policy still isn't clear, but one worrying sign is an effort to recalculate U.S. trade flows to show larger deficits. This trick, which is borrowed …

Discussion: Cafe Hayek

James Fallows / The Atlantic:

‘With Such a People You Can Then Do What You Please’ — Are Donald Trump's latest attacks on the press really that bad? Are they that out-of-the-ordinary, given the famous record of complaints nearly all his predecessors have lodged? (Even George Washington had a hostile-press problem.)

Discussion: RedState

Dustin Volz / Reuters:

U.S. Homeland Security employees locked out of computer networks: sources — Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN and Engadget