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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is.  It's Everywhere.  —  It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Manhattan on Saturday seemed to capture the mood of this weekend's …
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ protests erupt against Trump and Musk  —  Demonstrators gathered across the country on Saturday, many animated by differing issues, but united in opposition to the Trump administration with the single message: “Hands off!”  —  Organizers said more than 1,300 “Hands Off! …
Mandy Taheri / Newsweek:
Trump-Stronghold The Villages in Florida Holds Large ‘Hands Off!’ Rally
Discussion: Twitchy and WAGA-TV
CBS News:
“Hands Off!” demonstrations protest Trump, Musk across U.S.
Rolling Stone:
Anti-Trump Protesters Assemble in Every State and Cities Worldwide
Discussion: Raw Story, The Verge and USA Today
Washington Post:
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad  —  Since Trump took office, the park service — an agency charged with preserving American history — has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
Associated Press:
DOJ places attorney on leave after struggling in Maryland migrant case  —  Pam Bondi said DOJ lawyers must “zealously advocate” for the administration.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders  —  Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Second measles death reported in Texas  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to attend the child's funeral, which is scheduled for Sunday.  —  Another child with measles in Texas has died, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed late Saturday night, though the exact cause of death is under investigation.
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Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas  —  It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade.  If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.  —  2 MIN READ  —  How Measles Attacks an Unvaccinated Child  —  ADVERTISEMENT  —  Got a Tip?
Discussion: UPI, CNN and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Pamela Herd / Can We Still Govern?:
As Savings Disappear, Social Security is Also Under Threat  —  Many Americans are watching their retirement savings melt away because of President Trump's disastrous trade policies.  In normal downturns, they could at least reassure themselves that Social Security would always be there.
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Doge's attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says  —  Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse  —  Office closures, staffing and service cuts, and policy changes at the Social Security Administration …
Discussion: Raw Story
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Exclusive: how the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat  —  Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making  —  Donald Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz included a journalist …
Faisal Ali / The Guardian:
Washington revokes all South Sudanese visas in repatriation row  —  State department accuses east African country of ‘taking advantage of the United States’  —  The US is revoking the visas of all South Sudanese passport-holders and will stop any more of its citizens entering the country.
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Robert Ilich / CNN:
Elon Musk hopes for ‘zero-tariff situation’ between US and EU  —  Elon Musk, the world's richest man and the face of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, said Saturday that he hopes for a “zero-tariff situation” between Europe and the United States.
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New York Times:
A Playbook for Standing Up to President Trump  —  In his attacks on law firms, universities and other American institutions, President Trump is relying on an illusion.  The illusion is that the institutions are powerless to fight back and that they face a choice between principle and survival.
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:   It Is Happening Here  —  Trump is following the playbook of autocrats around the world — and it could change America forever.
Pieter Haeck / Politico:
Starmer vows to ‘shelter British business from the storm’ of US tariffs  —  British prime minister promises to “turbocharge” plans to improve the U.K.'s competitiveness this week.  —  U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government is ready to use industrial policy to mitigate the impact …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says  —  The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans looking to retire aren't concerned about day-to-day markets, dismisses concerns about a potential recession  —  Bessent's comments come after President Donald Trump warned that the “economic revolution” won't “be easy” in a social media post.
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and New York Post
Valerie Gonzalez / Associated Press:
Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted  —  Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel's bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
David French / New York Times:
Don't Roll Your Eyes at Due Process  —  Last month a federal court of appeals judge made a startling assertion.  “Nazis,” she said, “got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act” than people suspected of being members of a Venezuelan gang.  —  You might think those words …
Angie Orellana Hernandez / Washington Post:
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging  —  An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.  —  The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering …
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
Trump's Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids  —  Head Start and other early-childhood programs are among those affected by massive cuts to HHS.  —  AS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has hacked away at the Department of Health and Human Services these past few weeks, most of the attention has focused …
Didi Tang / Associated Press:
Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump's cuts  —  After hiding in Thailand for seven years, two Cambodian journalists arrived in the United States last year on work visas, aiming to keep providing people in their Southeast Asian homeland with objective …
 
 
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Pieter Haeck / Politico:
France suggests targeting Big Tech's data use in response to US tariffs
Discussion: Bloomberg
Erin Mansfield / USA Today:
How some of Trump's firings could upend legal precedent and expand presidential power
CNN:
White House advisers have kept Laura Loomer at bay for months. Then, Trump invited her in
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Mother Jones:
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Doug Emhoff publicly criticizes his law firm for coming to agreement with Trump administration
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
As Trump tariffs sink in, conservatives challenge whether they're legal
Discussion: USA Today
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Al Green says he'll present articles of impeachment against Trump in next 30 days
Discussion: USA Today and RedState
New York Times:
Trump Family's Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out
Discussion: Raw Story and Sun-Sentinel