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10:10 PM ET, February 5, 2025

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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.
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
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 …
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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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 …
Associated Press:
Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan
Discussion: Fox News and Washington Post
CNN:
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Wire and New Republic
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
There Is No Going Back  —  Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history.  —  Musk has seized hold of critical levers of power and authority within the federal government …
Laura Italiano / Business Insider:
Judge weighs interim ban on Elon Musk's DOGE accessing the financial data of millions of Americans
Discussion: Reuters and Ars Technica
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
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Bondi's DOJ Day 1 directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift death penalty ban
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Collins: Trump has empowered Musk ‘far beyond’ what is appropriate
Emma Dumain / Politico:
Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far
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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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 …
Discussion: HotAir
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 …
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 …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA  —  Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject …
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
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: CNN and CBS News
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Mark Walker / New York Times:   Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology
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.
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 …
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 …
Associated Press:
The House speaker defends Trump's Gaza plan, while other Republicans express doubts.  —  Amid global alarm, top administration officials sought to soften elements of President Trump's proposal to force Palestinians out of the territory and take it over.  Experts said the plan would violate international law.
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
ABC News:
Judge issues nationwide injunction blocking Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship  —  The judge heard arguments from lawyers for five pregnant undocumented women.  —  President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order to create a US sovereign wealth fund …
Jael Holzman / Heatmap News:
Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals  —  Chaos within the Trump administration has all but paralyzed environmental permitting decisions on solar and wind projects in crucial government offices, including sign-offs needed for projects on private lands.
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled … - States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris.  — “That dependence is, in large part …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
‘60 Minutes’ publicly releases transcripts of interview at heart of its dispute with Trump  —  CBS' “60 Minutes” posted online Wednesday the unedited transcripts of its October interview with Kamala Harris that sparked a lawsuit by Donald Trump, saying that they proved its broadcast was not “doctored or deceitful.”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell slips and falls outside Senate Chamber  —  Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) slipped and fell on the stairs leaving the Senate Chamber on Wednesday afternoon, prompting concerned aides to rush to help the 82-year-old lawmaker.  —  McConnell appeared to slip …
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Head Start childcare programs are still unable to access federal money after Trump's funding freeze  —  Programs serving 20,000 children have faced funding delays since Trump's administration announced (and then announced rescinding) a temporary freeze on federal aid last week.
 
 
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Discussion: The Verge and 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”
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