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2:10 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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New York Times:
New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday released a set of documents translating President Trump's executive orders on immigration and border security into policy, bringing a major shift in the way the agency enforces the nation's immigration laws.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
ProPublica:
Trump Plan: Deport to Mexico Immigrants Crossing Border Illegally, Regardless of Nationality
Discussion: New York Times and Gothamist
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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Associated Press:
RIOT IN STOCKHOLM SUBURB AFTER DRUG SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
Discussion: IJR
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
Discussion: New York Times and Geller Report
Facebook:
To see more from Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect on Facebook, log in or create an account. … Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect  —  Statement of Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, on President Trump's acknowledgment of Antisemitism today:
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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
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Why Conservatives Fell for Milo Yiannopoulos  —  A few years ago, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly sat alone at a booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) exhibition area.  —  Hundreds and probably thousands of peoplemost of them youngstampeded past her, not giving her so much as a glance or even recognizing her.
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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: Washington Monthly
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
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.
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.
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Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities
Discussion: Shakesville
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.
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
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
Steve Phillips / New York Times:
Move Left, Democrats  —  The Democratic National Committee will choose its next leader on Saturday, and when it does it should choose a leader who will resist the pressure to pursue the wrong white people.  Hundreds of articles have been written about the imperative of attracting more support …
Discussion: Rush
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.
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.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Clinton campaign chairman: ‘Forces within the FBI’ may have tried to help Trump win  —  The Clinton campaign has made no secret of its displeasure over FBI Director James Comey disclosing, just 11 days before Election Day, that the bureau was looking into more Hillary Clinton emails.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
 
 
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Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Protesters Ready for Trump's First Visit to New York as President
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brendan J. Doherty / Washington Post:
Trump isn't really campaigning earlier than other recent presidents.  He's just more upfront about it.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Trump's SCOTUS strategy
Discussion: RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-Swedish PM: Trump needs sources ‘beyond Fox News’
Discussion: RedState
Jodi Enda / CNN:
These Republicans didn't like Trump at first. They do now.
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
David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Ohio's Trump country, a House conservative gets an earful
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Seven Days in February
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0. With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed?
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas
 

 
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