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12:45 PM ET, February 21, 2017

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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
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Tightens Deportation, Detention Rules
Discussion: New York Times
Max Bearak / Washington Post:
Riots erupt in Sweden's capital just days after Trump comments  —  Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood …
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Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
Discussion: Geller Report
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Anti-Semitism ‘has to stop’  —  President Trump denounced anti-Semitism Tuesday after coming under pressure to address an uptick in incidents targeting Jewish institutions across the U.S.  —  “Anti-Semitism is horrible and it's going to stop and it has to stop,” …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Hot Air and Business Insider
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Samantha Kupferman / JCC Association:
JCCs Respond to New Wave of Bomb Threats Quickly, Effectively With Practiced Security Protocols to Keep Communities Safe
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Iowa Republican wants to require ‘partisan balance’ at universities  —  A senior Iowa state senator wants to require state universities and colleges to consider a job candidate's political affiliation during the hiring process, in order to create more partisan balance among faculty.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:   Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:   Iowa senator wants political balance among university professors
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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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 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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 …
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: US Macmillan and Axios
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Hamilton Nolan / The Concourse:
Chill With the “Journalists Are Heroes” Thing  —  Whoa now.  Everyone take a deep breath.  —  Yes, it is true that we live in dangerous and uncertain times.  It is true that our dear president hates the press—not a unique sentiment among presidents, certainly, but unique in its venomous stupidity.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-Swedish PM: Trump needs sources ‘beyond Fox News’  —  A former prime minister of Sweden is hitting back at President Trump for referencing a nonexistent incident of terrorism in Sweden and then citing a Fox News story to explain the claim.  —  “That he blames it on Fox News, well …
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How Trump spent his first month in office, by the numbers  —  From the moment Donald Trump was sworn in as president on the steps of the Capitol until noon Monday, precisely one month had passed.  A total of 744 hours.  —  Here's how he spent each one.  —  Let's start at the top.
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 …
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.
 
 
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Trump's SCOTUS strategy
Discussion: RedState
Steve Phillips / New York Times:
Move Left, Democrats
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Counselor To The President Kellyanne Conway On The Stand-up Of The Administration
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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: The Daily Beast and 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, CNN and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Top lawmaker: Pushing ‘inner city’ kids to college is a waste
Discussion: Eschaton
RealClearWorld:
Venezuela Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The Trump White House is already cooking the books
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