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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.
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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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Daily Kos
Dara Lind / Vox:
The government just put out the blueprint for President Trump's immigration crackdown — Almost everyone in the US without papers is now a priority for deportation. — The Department of Homeland Security is officially putting the sweeping executive orders that President Donald Trump signed …
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Towleroad
CNN:
New Trump travel ban order nearing completion
New Trump travel ban order nearing completion
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Daily Wire, Daily Kos, IJR, Politico and Hot Air
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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Marginal REVOLUTION, CityLab, Mashable, AOL, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Althouse, PolitiFact, The Guardian, Snopes.com, DN.SE and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
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New York Times and Geller Report
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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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Anti-Semitism ‘has to stop’
Trump: Anti-Semitism ‘has to stop’
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump finally confronts anti-Semitism head-on
Trump finally confronts anti-Semitism head-on
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New York Times, The Week, BizPac Review, twitchy.com, Hit & Run and Hot Air
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 …
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Washington Monthly
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One “N”:
All I really need to say: — In canceling Milo's book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized …
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
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The Guardian, The Resurgent, American Power, The Hill, Washingtonian and Milo Yiannopoulos
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
CPAC's Organizer Explains Why He Invited (and Disinvited) Milo Yiannopoulos
CPAC's Organizer Explains Why He Invited (and Disinvited) Milo Yiannopoulos
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Right Wing Watch, Geller Report, Washington Post, Mediaite and Politico
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Milo Yiannopoulos's Pedophilia Comments Cost Him CPAC Role and Book Deal
Milo Yiannopoulos's Pedophilia Comments Cost Him CPAC Role and Book Deal
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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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US Macmillan and Axios
Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources — In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America's “steadfast and enduring” commitment to the European Union, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with a German diplomat …
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The Hill, New York Post and Political Wire
Simon Carraud / Reuters:
France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf — French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
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The Daily Caller, Infowars and The Gateway Pundit
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Iowa Republican wants to require ‘partisan balance’ at universities — A senior Iowa state senator wants to require state universities and colleges to consider a job candidate's political affiliation during the hiring process, in order to create more partisan balance among faculty.
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RedState, Des Moines Register and Political Wire
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities
Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities
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Shakesville
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 Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's nominees gripe the White House isn't protecting them — Candidates for top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration are getting spooked after Andrew Puzder's nomination was scuttled, and they fear the White House isn't doing enough to protect them from grueling confirmations …
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Daily Kos and Political Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Trump spent his first month in office, by the numbers — From the moment Donald Trump was sworn in as president on the steps of the Capitol until noon Monday, precisely one month had passed. A total of 744 hours. — Here's how he spent each one. — Let's start at the top.
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Hamilton Nolan / The Concourse:
Chill With the “Journalists Are Heroes” Thing — Whoa now. Everyone take a deep breath. — Yes, it is true that we live in dangerous and uncertain times. It is true that our dear president hates the press—not a unique sentiment among presidents, certainly, but unique in its venomous stupidity.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power — Sebastian Gorka at the International Special Training Center's Military Assistance Course in Germany. For him, the terror threat is rooted in Islam and “martial” parts of the Koran that he says predispose some Muslims to acts of terror.
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Mother Jones
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0. With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed? — THURMONT, Md. — Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week …
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Michael Moore launches ‘Resistance Calendar’ to track anti-Trump events — Michael Moore, the liberal filmmaker and vocal opponent of President Trump, has launched an online calendar to track anti-Trump events around the world. — The “Resistance Calendar” allows anyone to add an event happening at any location to the calendar.
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MichelleMalkin.com, Breitbart, AOL and Need To Know Network
New York Daily News:
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened — No lines. No waiting. And no TSA screeners. — Eleven passengers strolled through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday after Transportation Security …
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New York Post, Gothamist, TheBlaze, The Week, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Counselor To The President Kellyanne Conway On The Stand-up Of The Administration — Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway joined me this morning to talk about the first month of the presidency of Donald Trump and the road ahead: — Audio: — 02-21hhs-conway — Transcript:
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-Swedish PM: Trump needs sources ‘beyond Fox News’ — A former prime minister of Sweden is hitting back at President Trump for referencing a nonexistent incident of terrorism in Sweden and then citing a Fox News story to explain the claim. — “That he blames it on Fox News, well …
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