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11:55 AM ET, February 21, 2017

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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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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
USA Today:
Could Milo Yiannopoulos now lose his lucrative book deal?
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitism, calling recent threats against Jewish community centers “horrible” and a “reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”
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Washington Post:
Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
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.
Discussion: The Resurgent
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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 …
Discussion: Towleroad
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 …
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.
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 …
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb  —  Riots broke out on Monday night in the suburb of Rinkeby, where a majority of residents were born overseas, just hours after the country's Prime Minister attacked U.S President Donald J. Trump for linking mass migration …
Discussion: Geller Report and Washington Post
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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.
Discussion: Axios and US Macmillan
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.
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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New York Times:
What to Watch: Republicans Return to Town Halls, and Protesters Follow
Discussion: Axios and Tampa Bay Times
New York Daily News:
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened  —  No lines.  No waiting.  And no TSA screeners.  —  Eleven passengers strolled through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday after Transportation Security …
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New York Post:
Eleven travelers breeze through JFK Airport in security lapse
Discussion: TheBlaze and New York Magazine
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.
Discussion: 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
Discussion: alan.com
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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.
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 …
CNN:
Mar-a-Lago: Trump's Winter White House takes over Palm Beach  —  Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, a newcomer to the White House, is still developing his relationship with the people of Washington.  But that's far from the case with the people of Palm Beach …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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.
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Counselor To The President Kellyanne Conway On The Stand-up Of The Administration  —  Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway joined me this morning to talk about the first month of the presidency of Donald Trump and the road ahead:  —  Audio:  —  02-21hhs-conway  —  Transcript:
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency exists in a bubble  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  President Trump's speech over the weekend along Florida's Space Coast — effectively a campaign rally staged just one month into his term — served, more than anything else, as an illustration …
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Top lawmaker: Pushing ‘inner city’ kids to college is a waste  —  Suddenly in the winter of 2017, politician town halls are a thing.  The simmering anger from the divisive 2016 election now has hundreds of people crowding meeting rooms for the handful of Congress members …
Discussion: Eschaton
 
 
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
A Surprising Salve for New York's Beleaguered Cities: Refugees
Jodi Enda / CNN:
These Republicans didn't like Trump at first. They do now.
Clarisse Loughrey / The Independent:
Independent cinemas in the US to show 1984 as Trump protest
Discussion: The Guardian and Instapundit
Amy Graff / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. rainfall has now exceeded normal for a full season: Here are the numbers
Discussion: Instapundit
Ashley Lisenby / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Up to 200 headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery, director says
Discussion: FOX2now.com
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Trump's first month of travel expenses cost taxpayers just less than what Obama spent in a year
Discussion: Vox and The Guardian
Brandon Morse / TheBlaze:
New study shows 75 percent of Venezuelans losing dangerous amounts of weight due to starvation
RealClearWorld:
Venezuela Is a Ticking Time Bomb
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The Trump White House is already cooking the books
Discussion: Common Dreams
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Contradicting Trump on Russia: Russian Officials
Discussion: Daily Kos
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Seven Days in February
Discussion: Power Line and Taylor Marsh
Austin Wright / Politico:
Lawmakers to Trump: End unchecked war powers
Discussion: RedState
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to roll back Obama's climate, water rules through executive action
Steven Morris / The Guardian:
British Muslim teacher denied entry to US on school trip
Discussion: Raw Story
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Pope says texting at the dinner table could lead to war
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump admin to rescind trans student protections: source
Discussion: Towleroad and Advocate