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11:35 AM ET, February 5, 2025

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Why Elon Will Be Trump's Undoing  —  Yes, yes, “the wheels of justice grind slowly” and all that.  But when do the courts get involved?  —  Happy Wednesday.  —  Never Musk  —  by William Kristol  —  It's grim out there.  Limiting the damage done by Donald Trump and the Trumpists …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
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New York Times:
Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says All Palestinians Should Leave  —  The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power.  — 1.9k  —  President Trump declared on Tuesday …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Gaza Plan, an Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Idea
NBC News:
‘Deranged’ and ‘problematic’: Bipartisan lawmakers bash Trump's Gaza proposal
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump Is Turning Out To Be a Very Pro-China President
Discussion: BBC
Associated Press:
Trump's suggestion the US ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip is rejected by allies and adversaries alike
Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Fetterman Supports US Occupation Of Gaza
Discussion: Grabien
Reuters:
Hamas official says Trump's remarks about taking over Gaza could ignite the region
Washington Post:
U.S. government officials privately warn Musk's blitz appears illegal  —  The billionaire's DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.  —  The chaotic blitz by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has triggered legal …
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NBC News:
Elon Musk gets quiet White House reminders his power isn't unchecked  —  Trump's aides have signaled behind the scenes that Musk still reports to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.  —  Tech billionaire and newly minted “special government employee” Elon Musk has received quiet White House reminders …
Discussion: HuffPost
New York Times:
A Legal Counteroffensive to Beat Back Trump's Government Purges  —  A raft of new lawsuits contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the F.B.I. and other federal agencies.  The courts will now decide.  —  Workers from across the federal government set off …
Tyler McBrien / New York Times:
Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government?
Discussion: Raw Story and Liberal Currents
The Atlantic:   Trump Advisers Stopped Musk From Hiring a Noncitizen at DOGE
Wall Street Journal:
Hurricane Musk and the USAID Panic
Discussion: Raw Story
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
There Is No Going Back  —  Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the last 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 …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab  —  In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law.  —  In his first term, President Trump seemed to relish ripping through …
Eric Levitz / Vox:
America's constitutional crisis could come to a head in four months
Discussion: The Hill, MPR News and HotAir
Wall Street Journal:
The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover  —  Spy agency's workforce receives buyout-style offer  —  WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump's priorities, including targeting drug cartels.
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
New Democratic bill targets Elon Musk  —  A veteran House Democrat is introducing new legislation to respond to billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk's overhaul of the federal government: Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Democrats Are Falling For Trump and Musk's Foreign Aid Trap  —  Three veteran strategists want their party to be more thoughtful about fighting Trump's anti-bureaucracy campaign.  —  After three months of soul-searching about how to revive their party, some Democrats this week believe …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Musk shocks lawmakers, setting himself on collision course
Discussion: IJR
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Why Washington is getting nervous about a shutdown
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats  —  Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’  —  Staffers with Elon Musk's “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered …
Ivana Saric / Axios:
America's adversaries cheer Trump admin's USAID teardown … - Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Elon Musk — Trump's righthand man who has led the charge against USAID — for “trying to plug USAID's Deep Throat.”  — Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin praised …
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Paul Sonne / New York Times:
Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
NBC News:
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’  —  The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives.  A majority are Black.  —  Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos …
Discussion: Pharyngula
Punchbowl News:
2/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Yet it's fair to say, at this moment, things aren't going well.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republican committee chairs initially proposed between $500 billion to $700 billion in spending cuts as part of a massive reconciliation package.
Discussion: masslive.com
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The Hill:
Shutdown fears grow as Trump battles multiply
Discussion: NBC News
Tobias Burns / The Hill:   Republicans stare down massive deficits to extend Trump tax cuts
CNN:
Pam Bondi expected to move quickly to assert control of Justice Department  —  Newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi will arrive for her first day at the Justice Department Wednesday amid a firestorm over firings of agents and prosecutors who have worked on cases related to Donald Trump and the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
Discussion: NBC News
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Roger Parloff / Default:   Trump's Petty Purge of 15 Young Jan. 6 Prosecutors
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump declares flawless victory in pointless trade war  —  Keep pulling the fire alarm, eventually no one will pay attention to the noise.  —  🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent media is more important than ever right now.
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘He Choked!’: Canadian Lawmaker Taunts Donald Trump, Then Issues Stern Warning
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid  —  You may have noticed that wealthy international businessmen—the jet set class with the means to be anywhere—do not typically choose to live and headquarter their businesses in Russia.  Nor do they choose to base themselves in Hungary, or El Salvador, or North Korea.
New York Times:
U.S. Postal Service Reverses Decision to Halt Parcel Service From China  —  The Postal Service will continue to accept parcels from Hong Kong and China despite a new executive order that will require greater inspection of packages.  —  The United States Postal Service on Wednesday …
Associated Press:
Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US  —  A movement to oppose the early actions of President Donald Trump's administration is taking off online, with plans to protest across the U.S. on Wednesday.  —  The movement has organized under the hashtags #buildtheresistance …
Discussion: USA Today and WTTG-TV
Washington Post:
Federal judge in Md. issues injunction on Trump's birthright citizenship order  —  U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at court hearing on a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups arguing that Trump's order is unconstitutional  —  A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely …
CNN:
Argentina says it will pull out of World Health Organization, mirroring Trump's move last month  —  Argentina has announced it will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), mirroring a similar move by US President Donald Trump last month.  —  “President (Javier) Milei instructed …
Discussion: STAT, Reuters, Bloomberg, Daily Mail and Forbes
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Trump administration may allow local police to arrest immigrants  —  The program has been dormant since the Obama administration scrapped it in 2012 following multiple federal investigations, lawsuits and complaints.  —  The Trump administration is considering deputizing state …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The “deferred resignation” scam  —  Last week, Popular Information broke down the “offer” that the Trump administration was making to millions of federal employees to induce them to resign voluntarily.  The Trump administration wanted federal employees to believe that if they agreed …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Watch The Credit-Ratings Agencies
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Trump announces withdrawal from UN human rights body and halt to funding for Palestinian refugees
Associated Press:
Trump says he's ‘left instructions’ for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Krugman:
Have We Been Partying Like It's 1999?  —  This bubble may end with a tech-bro bailout
Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
Pam Bondi to be sworn in as attorney general following Senate confirmation
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The mysterious statisticians shaping how we think about fertility
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Treasury says Musk's DOGE has not rejected payments in first attempt to clarify access granted to critical system
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump Gutted America's $40 Billion Aid Agency in Two Weeks
Discussion: New Republic
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

 
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