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Wall Street Journal:
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency — Congress hasn't seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community's watchdog office — WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director …
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Off Message, The Independent and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
J. David McSwane / ProPublica:
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting — The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Meidas+, The Post Millennial, The Independent, Townhall, LARRY VIP, The Guardian, emptywheel, Mediaite, The Parnas Perspective, NewsMax.com and Krassencast
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Scott MacFarlane / CBS News:
Former Capitol riot prosecutors draft strategy for Congress to probe killings, federal agent conduct in Minneapolis
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Accountability for ICE and CBP
New York Times:
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files — The photos, which showed young women or possibly teenagers with their faces visible, were largely removed after The New York Times began notifying the Justice Department. — The Justice Department published dozens …
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Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
Epstein Files Release Exposes Names of at Least 43 Victims, WSJ Review Finds — Justice Department failed to redact dozens of Epstein victims' names, including more than two dozen who were minors — The Justice Department exposed the names of dozens of Jeffrey Epstein's victims …
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Associated Press, Straight Arrow News, The Hill and CNN
New York Times:
How Trump Appears in the Epstein Files — The New York Times found more than 5,300 files with references to Mr. Trump and related terms. They include salacious and unverified claims, as well as documents that had already been made public. — The Justice Department looked …
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Mediaite, The Guardian and NOTUS
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE halts “all movement” at Texas detention facility due to measles infections — Add CBS News on Google — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted “all movement” at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had …
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The Independent, Mediaite, Fox News and PBS NewsHour
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Stephanie Koithan / San Antonio Current:
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility — After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center's treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee.
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The Moderate Voice and CBS News
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dem divisions over DHS funding spill out in private call — House Democrats splintered on a private call Sunday over whether to vote for legislation that would keep the Department of Homeland Security funded for two more weeks, a half dozen sources on the call told Axios.
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The Hill, Fox News, Reason, Wall Street Journal and Washington Examiner
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Kennedy Center will close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after performers backlash — President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington's Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction. Trump's announcement …
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New York Times:
Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for 2-Year Reconstruction Project
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Straight Arrow News, Billboard, IJR, Los Angeles Times, El País and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July
Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July
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HuffPost, UPI, WLT Report, Axios, The Guardian, WAGA-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, Washington Examiner, The Hill, NOTUS, The Independent and Mediaite
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for Two Years for Renovations
Trump Says Kennedy Center Will Close for Two Years for Renovations
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times, Fox News, CBS News and Political Wire
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive — Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court's inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees. — In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump …
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Raw Story
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again) — The denouement of DOJ's misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg provides useful lessons relating to both the Department's continuing misbehavior and the emptiness of calls for impeachment. — Welcome back to “One First,” …
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Fox News, MS NOW, New York Times, Washington Post and Reuters
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to ‘Amazing’ Epstein — FANBOY — The embattled chairman of Paul Weiss has now had his embarrassing emails to Jeffrey Epstein exposed. — The chairman of a major law firm that sparked backlash by caving to President Donald Trump …
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Bloomberg Law
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Financial Times:
Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: 'You're amazing' — Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender — Just three months before he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges in 2019 …
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New York Post
Aidan Sadovi / The Daily Illini:
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid Minnesota killings — In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
The regime moves to make journalism a crime — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🌅 Subscribe to PN 🌅 — Early in his first term, President Trump said that because he thought CNN and MSNBC were too critical of him, that meant “they're illegal, what they do is illegal.”
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Arrests of Independent Journalists Reveal New Media Challenges to Autocrats
Arrests of Independent Journalists Reveal New Media Challenges to Autocrats
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How Things Work and NPR, more at Mediagazer »
Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release — Scholarship was set up in name of former US senator who brokered Belfast Agreement — The release of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has prompted the removal …
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The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News
Jake Lahut / New York Magazine:
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay — “Something's broken. The motherboard's fried. We're short-circuiting somewhere.” — Right up until she lit the fire, some of Representative Nancy Mace's own staff and advisers didn't know what she was going to say on the House floor in February 2025 …
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HuffPost
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
The Tightrope for Defense Contractors: Satisfying Investors and President Trump — Major weapons makers defend dividends as Pentagon pressures them to invest more in factories — U.S. weapons makers are fighting a battle on two fronts: ensuring strong returns for investors and trying to satisfy their biggest customer—the Pentagon.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South — More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week's storm, and thousands remain without power. — The flurries, for a brief time, fell again on Sunday.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations — A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution. — The key to holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable …
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
How to trade the market spiral as investors dump gold, silver and oil … Precious metals and oil prices extended losses on Monday, with analysts and strategists flagging U.S. President Donald Trump's choice of Kevin Warsh as successor to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as a key trigger to the latest downturn.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner and The Guardian
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
February 1, 2026 — On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States troops would soon be fighting. “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” it began.
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
From Powerlessness to Power — We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance. — In 1853, agents of the federal government arrested Anthony Burns in Boston.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
‘Melania’ serves as a dainty middle finger to Trump's media tormenters — who were wrong about everything — In a big blow to the Trump-deranged community, Melania Trump's eponymous movie knocked the lights out on its opening weekend. It came in at No. 3 overall, and its $7 million box office takings …
Gretchen Whitmer / Gretchen Whitmer's Substack:
The Way Forward in 2026 — I know everything feels heavy right now. We're witnessing abuses of power, people getting hurt and even killed, communities becoming less safe, and politicians choosing to enflame tensions. We should not accept any of this. — I thought about waiting a few weeks …
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