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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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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
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Tightens Deportation, Detention Rules
Trump Administration Tightens Deportation, Detention Rules
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New York Times
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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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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Geller Report
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency exists in a bubble
The Trump presidency exists in a bubble
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Breitbart, Washington Monthly, Baltimore Sun, IJR, TheBlaze, New York Times and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Anti-Semitism ‘has to stop’ — President Trump denounced anti-Semitism Tuesday after coming under pressure to address an uptick in incidents targeting Jewish institutions across the U.S. — “Anti-Semitism is horrible and it's going to stop and it has to stop,” …
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BuzzFeed, Hot Air and Business Insider
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’
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New York Times, The Week, twitchy.com, Hit & Run and Hot Air
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
White House denounces threats to Jewish centers
White House denounces threats to Jewish centers
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RedState, Talking Points Memo and ABC News
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 and Political Wire
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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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BBC, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Al Jazeera English and Shakesville
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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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ThinkProgress, The Guardian, The Resurgent, The Hill, American Power, Washingtonian and Milo Yiannopoulos, more at Mediagazer »
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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Geller Report, Right Wing Watch, Washington Post, Mediaite and Politico
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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Booman Tribune
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, Political Wire and New York Post
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
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 Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Infowars
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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Edward Price / Washington Post:
I didn't think I'd ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. — Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this month, most recently as the spokesman for the National Security Council. — Nearly 15 years ago, I informed my skeptical father that I was pursuing a job with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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NBC News, Politicus USA, Business Insider and TalkLeft
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
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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
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
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
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.
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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RedState
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 …
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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Politicus USA, Post On Politics, Mother Jones, The Week, CNN, The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo, Associated Press, USA Today and Mediaite
David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Ohio's Trump country, a House conservative gets an earful — MARION, Ohio — It was Rep. Jim Jordan's second Presidents' Day visit to the home of Warren G. Harding, but it was the first to be surrounded by protesters. Nearly 200 people had swarmed the building, their signs accusing …
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Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Toledo Blade and CNN
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas — AUSTIN — The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature.