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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship  —  And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯  —  Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.
Discussion: Reuters and The Contrarian
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Robert Reich:
The end of law?  —  He is the most lawless president in American history.  —  He's allowed Musk's rats unfettered access to the Treasury's payments system.  Banned birthright citizenship.  Refused to spend money appropriated by Congress.  Closed U.S. AID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
New York Times:
Vance Says 'Judges Aren't Allowed to Control' Trump's ‘Legitimate Power’
Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet  —  Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say  —  In another weekend takeover of a federal agency's operations …
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Caleb Ecarma / Musk Watch:
Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors  —  With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors …
Discussion: Forbes and Townhall
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Washington Post:
Trump says Palestinians displaced under U.S. proposal would not return
Discussion: The Independent and NPR
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The NSA's “Big Delete”  —  Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.”  The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.  —  When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
STAT:
22 states sue to block Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments  —  Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs  —  Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block …
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Washington Post:
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds  —  The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals.  —  Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast  —  Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks  —  It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.
New Republic:
Musk's Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury  —  Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump's allies over the losses that Trump's agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him.  It's gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet …
Discussion: New York Times
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New Republic:
Transcript: Musk's Threats Darken as MAGA Rages at Fresh Legal Losses
Discussion: The Status Kuo
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy  —  George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.  —  Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts …
Reuters:
Trump says US may have less debt than thought because of fraud  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States may carry less debt than thought and said it could be because of fraud related to debt payments.  —  Trump made his comments to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Discussion: Fox Business and Mediaite
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Punchbowl News:
2/10/25 ☀️ AM:  —  Gabbard, Kennedy set for confirmation votes this week
Discussion: Raw Story and E&E News
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women  —  Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away  —  In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …
emptywheel:
Rule of Law: Don't Obey in Advance, But Also Don't Give Up in Advance  —  For some time, we've all been assuming that Trump will defy court orders reining in his assault on the government.  And then, in the wake of Judge Paul Engelmayer's order enjoining Scott Bessent from altering Treasury's payment system …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Twitchy
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Jack Detsch / Politico:
Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies  —  The president said that schools like West Point had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology.  —  President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military's service academies …
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Democracy is Crumbling.  Is Anybody Doing Anything?  —  This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Trump attends Super Bowl with a complicated NFL relationship  —  Greeted with a mix of cheers and boos, U.S. President Donald Trump attended the Super Bowl on Sunday, the first sitting president to do so in person, despite a complicated relationship with the National Football League …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Trump Mocks Taylor Swift for Super Bowl Boos, Can't Help But Lie
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's power to fire executive branch officials will be tested in another lawsuit  —  Hampton Dellinger, who led an ethics enforcement office, said his firing is illegal.  —  A federal ethics enforcer swept up in a spree of firings President Donald Trump carried out Friday night is suing to get his job back.
Discussion: Associated Press and NPR
Wall Street Journal:
DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort  —  Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division  —  WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers …
Jon Queally / Common Dreams:
'He's Building a Concentration Camp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo  —  Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are an ominous sign of what President Donald Trump has in store as he further disregards the rule …
Discussion: The Independent
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Blocks U.S. From Sending 3 Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo
Paul Krugman:
Sabotaging the Pax Americana  —  Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak  —  Elon Musk — with Donald Trump's acquiescence, but clearly Musk was calling the shots — has effectively destroyed USAID, the aid agency that was, aside from its humanitarian role, a major pillar of US foreign policy.
Discussion: Hackwhackers and Raw Story
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Mediocre questions, rambling answers, no follow-ups: Fox News' Super Bowl interview with Donald Trump  —  Bret Baier misses an opportunity during the first presidential pre-game interview since 2022 … The presidential interview during the Super Bowl pregame returned on Sunday as President Donald …
Maurício Alencar / The Daily Beast:
Kanye West Shutters X Account After Elon Musk Clamps Down on His Posts  —  Kanye West deactivated his Twitter account after days of posting antisemitic, misogynist and racist content which even forced so-called free speech advocate Elon Musk to take action.The X owner revealed that the rapper's account …
 
 
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vatican's Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
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Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Wall Street Journal:
Fact vs. Trump Fiction in Panama
Discussion: Newsroom Panama and Cafe Hayek
The Hill:
Third judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship executive order
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
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Hannah Allam / ProPublica:
Trump's Pardons and Purges Revive Old Question: Who Counts as a Terrorist?
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power
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