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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments  —  A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Associated Press:
Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan  —  Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East.  But after President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Madness of Donald Trump  —  To Benjamin Netanyahu's delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.”  —  More than five hundred years ago, Machiavelli, the philosopher of political practice and modern republicanism, suggested, in …
Washington Post:
White House tries to soften Trump's mass displacement proposal for Gaza
NBC News:
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice  —  Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office.  A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems  —  The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge weighs short-term block on Musk allies' ability to share Treasury records outside the department  —  A lawsuit alleges that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is compromising Treasury's payment system.  —  A federal judge on Wednesday declined to immediately block …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
There Is No Going Back  —  Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything …
Discussion: Marketplace and DNyuz
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest  —  The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
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Mike Brock / Techdirt:
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk's Impossible Power Grab And America's Crisis  —  There are twenty-four hours in a day.  This isn't a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it's as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four.  No amount of genius, innovation …
Slate:
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI  —  On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …
Discussion: NPR, CNN and CBS News
Politico:
Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general  —  Trump's newly sworn in AG released a series of directives.  —  Pam Bondi is officially in control of the Justice Department — and she's gone right to work.  —  President Donald Trump's attorney general issued …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk
Discussion: Lifeway Research
Wall Street Journal:   How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos
New York Times:
C.I.A. Sends White House an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees  —  The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.  —  The C.I.A. sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Story That Perfectly Encapsulates Trump 2.0's Foreign Policy Carnage
Discussion: Axios
Dell Cameron / Wired:
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’  —  An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”  —  A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Deepens Pressure on Federal Workers to Resign
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us  —  ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol.  Very, very mad.  And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.  —  Let me explain.  This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Republicans Lose Their Minds After Democrats Try to Subpoena Elon Musk … The Democrats on the House Oversight Committee attempted to subpoena Elon Musk on Wednesday, only for Republicans to block the move, refusing to even entertain debate on having the tech mogul testify before Congress.
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Emma Dumain / Politico:
Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Collins: Trump has empowered Musk ‘far beyond’ what is appropriate
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee  —  “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.  —  LOADING
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Wall Street Journal:
DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud  —  Elon Musk's allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week  —  Representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …
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Mark Walker / New York Times:   Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology
New York Times:
List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits  —  Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws.  But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders  —  The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.  —  Google tried for years to diversify its work force …
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story, DNyuz and WTOP News
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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk  —  Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson's office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.  —  Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate HELP Committee hearing for his pending confirmation …
Discussion: New Republic
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo:
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine  —  The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's equipment at the time of Musk's assault. … Since coming into power, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID …
Politico:
The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz  —  Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency.  —  The German chancellor candidate told …
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Tesla's European Sales Drop in January After Musk Disrupts Politics There  —  The U.S. electric car company's sales are sliding across Europe, amid what many see as interference in local affairs by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk.  —  Tesla's sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January …
Washington Post:
Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico  —  Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.  Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children  —  The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”
 
 
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Erik De La Garza / Raw Story:
‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities
Discussion: NPR
Wall Street Journal:
More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Resigned So Far, Short of Target
Discussion: Bloomberg, ZeroHedge News and WUSA
Jael Holzman / Heatmap News:
Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals
Zeyi Yang / Wired:
US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Trump takes action to ban transgender women from women's sports
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats' phones bombarded with calls to “fight harder”
 Earlier Items: 
David Bauder / Associated Press:
‘60 Minutes’ publicly releases transcripts of interview at heart of its dispute with Trump
ABC News:
Judge issues nationwide injunction blocking Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Elon Musk's Takeover Is Causing Rifts in Donald Trump's Inner Circle
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell slips and falls outside Senate Chamber
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
 

 
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market”

Reuters:
Paris AI summit: US VP JD Vance warns the EU that excessive AI regulation could strangle the tech and rejects content moderation as “authoritarian censorship”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”
 
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