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7:00 PM ET, February 16, 2025

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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Zelenskyy: ‘The Risk That Russia Will Occupy Europe Is 100 Percent’ If U.S. Pulls Out of NATO  —  Donald Trump has said he may withdraw from NATO if allies don't keep “paying their bills”  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that if the U.S. decides to leave NATO, “The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100 percent.”
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ukraine Won't Accept a Deal It Didn't Help Negotiate, Zelensky Says  —  Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told NBC News that he'd warned President Trump that Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is a “liar.”  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated in an interview …
Discussion: Human Events, Semafor and Grabien
Politico:
The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.
New York Times:
Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources
Discussion: Atlantic Council and Breitbart
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority  —  Amid Democrats' shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rely on the same institutional …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington  —  The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”  —  The Department of Government Efficiency created its own account on X last November …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Democrats play blame game with GOP on looming government shutdown
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Breitbart and Daily Kos
New York Times:   Venting at Democrats and Fearing Trump, Liberal Donors Pull Back Cash
Bloomberg:
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire US Agency Head  — Justices asked to step in on emergency basis, person says  — Trump seeking to remove head of US whistleblower agency  —  President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency …
Discussion: Politico and CBS News
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
DOGE Mismanagement Principles  —  Sam Rayburn, the Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying: … Rayburn was talking about policymaking, but the point extends to more broadly to governing.  Trashing government agencies is easy.  Making them work is hard.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:   Transportation Department workers with ‘exceptional’ reviews told they're fired for ‘performance’ issues
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Boycotting President Elon  —  Protests have been gathering around Tesla dealerships: … Elon has also been an increasing focus of protests of other venues, which makes sense — a white nationalist plutocrat being given unaccountable power helps cut through the “populist” …
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Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:   ‘A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk has sparked protests across US
Rachel Cohrs Zhang / Bloomberg:
US Health Department Layoffs Expand to Medicare, FDA  — Employees at CMS, FDA, CDC received notices in weekend cuts  —  The Department of Health and Human Services laid off employees Saturday evening across some of its biggest agencies — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
'I think that's ridiculous': Tom Homan on quid pro quo speculation over Eric Adams  —  “It was cop to cop, not border czar to mayor, cop to cop.  And we talked about the public safety threats and how they should be removed from our communities,” Homan said on CNN.
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The real victims of Eric Adams' NYC corrupt bargain might go to Gitmo
Discussion: Raw Story and washingtonpost.com
Maia Coleman / New York Times:
Adams to Sue Trump Administration Over Clawback of Migrant Shelter Funds
Discussion: Associated Press
Representative Claudia Tenney:
Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump's Birthday a Federal Holiday  —  Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump's Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate President Donald J. Trump's Birthday and Flag Day.
Discussion: WUSA and WKRN News 2
Marcia Brown / Politico:
Trump administration firings hit key office handling bird flu response  —  The layoffs in USDA's National Animal Health Laboratory Network program office come as egg prices reach record high amid worsening outbreak.  —  Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread …
Discussion: UPI and Breitbart
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Firings Impact ‘Front Line of Surveillance’ for Bird Flu Outbreak
Discussion: Reuters and NBC News
A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
The Worst and the Dimmest  —  Hey cousins.  The world's richest man held court in the Oval Office this week while his pet president watched from the resolute desk wearing his trademark pants-shitting scowl.  The world's richest man was telling the press lies to repeat while holding his hands …
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to greenlight whistleblower office firing  —  The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight President Trump's firing of the head of a federal whistleblower protection office, marking the new Trump administration's first appeal to the high court.
CBS News:
Transcript: Rep. Dan Crenshaw on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb. 16, 2025  —  The following is the transcript of an interview with GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 16, 2025.  —  MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’  —  Details on some of the migrants sent to Guantánamo Bay have begun to emerge.  They are young Venezuelan men, and relatives say they have been falsely branded Tren de Aragua gang members.
New York Post:
Ashley St. Clair, influencer who claims to have had Musk's 13th child, reveals life of secrecy after whirlwind romance with ‘down to earth’ billionaire  —  The conservative influencer who claims to have given birth to Elon Musk's 13th child revealed to The Post how she was driven to lead …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
‘Border Czar’ Doubles Down on Asking if DOJ Should Prosecute AOC for Informing Immigrants of Their Rights  —  “I'm asking the Department of Justice, who are the prosecutors and decide who they prosecute and what the standards of that prosecution is,” Tom Homan said after suggesting “AOC's gonna be in trouble now”
 
 
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Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia PM Albanese's approval hits lowest as voters eye change, survey shows
Discussion: Bloomberg
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump's plan for Gaza
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Weaponized transparency at DOGE makes a mockery of good governance
ABC News:
DOGE data release criticized by intel community; Trump admin says it's public data
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Mother Jones:
DOGE Worker Says He Was Radicalized by Reading Writer Who Later Denied Holocaust
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Jeffries says Trump, GOP show ‘no interest’ in lowering costs of living
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Auchincloss: Trump ‘replacing the rule of law with the law of the ruler’
 Earlier Items: 
Marvin Kalb / CBS News:
Marvin Kalb on how a Trump-Putin summit could lead to disaster
Discussion: Mediaite and CNN
Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times:
Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Steve Bannon, US Hospitals Join GOP Rebellion Over Medicaid Cuts
Discussion: Salon, The Hill and HuffPost
Washington Post:
Trump's global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo
Nick Cohen / Writing from London:
Trump's true enemy isn't China or Russia but liberal democracy
Discussion: The Guardian and Breaking Defense
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Courts Aren't The Cavalry; We Are  —  Lots of people are talking about early wins in court.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Liam Knox / Inside Higher Ed:
Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 

 
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