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2:50 PM ET, February 2, 2026

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New York Times:
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search  —  The phone conversation was arranged by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who met with the agents a day after the search for reasons that remain unclear, The New York Times has learned.
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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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Brian Beutler / Off Message:   The Goal Must Be Removal
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Gabbard aides attack WSJ as ‘utter trash’ over whistleblower report
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller Paid Latino Thugs to Murder Alex Pretti  —  According to ProPublica, the CBP goons Stephen Miller paid to invade Minnesota, where they murdered Alex Pretti, are two Latinos from South Texas. … Jacqueline Sweet identified pictures of both men (Ochoa, Gutierrez).
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files  —  The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday's dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Discussion: Krassencast and CBS News
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Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump's one-time weaponization chief is expected to depart Justice Department in coming weeks  —  Ed Martin, who has been working inside the Trump Justice Department for over nine months after failing to secure a confirmation as US attorney in Washington, DC, is expected to leave …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority  —  Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump's foes.  —  Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of the bulk of his expansive responsibilities …
Discussion: NBC News
CNN:   Justice Department expected to ramp up efforts to deliver on Trump's ‘weaponization’ priorities
Sebastian Starcevic / Politico:
Trump vows to sue comic Trevor Noah after Epstein island jibe at Grammys  —  Donald Trump said he will launch legal action against comedian Trevor Noah after the comedian joked about the U.S. president visiting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island.
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Jeffrey Epstein's island
New Republic:
Trump Tirade Over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits … Donald Trump appears in deep denial about how widely hated his ICE raids have become.  He let out a strange, rambling tirade to reporters about how the “silent majority” is still behind what ICE is doing …
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Thor Benson / madness:
How ICE turned into what it is today
Discussion: Fox 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 …
Washington Post:
Inside Musk's bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator  —  Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk's xAI loosened its guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.  —  Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in government last spring …
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE  —  Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks’  —  A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump's immigration crackdown targeted only …
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
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 the head of someone bearing a physical resemblance to Alex Pretti, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” …
Politico:
Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities … The judge's action comes several weeks after three Democratic lawmakers were blocked from visiting the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis to survey conditions amid …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Greene: MAGA ‘was all a lie’  —  Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump's Make American Great Again slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year back in office was focused on obliging wealthy supporters.  —  “I think people are realizing it was all a lie.  It was a big lie for the people.
Discussion: WLT Report, Townhall, Mediaite and HuffPost
New York Times:
We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers.  You Can't Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant.  James Percival, the general counsel …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Stars slam ICE in speeches and on pins at Grammys … - Meanwhile, Justin and Hailey Bieber and Joni Mitchell joined Eilish and Kehlani and others in wearing pins protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement. … - “We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens.
Sydney Carruth / MS NOW:
School of Minneapolis 5-year-old detained by ICE closes due to bomb threat  —  The Minneapolis school district attended by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the Ecuadorian preschooler who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Jan. 20, shut down Monday after receiving a bomb threat.
New York Times:
What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump  —  A little more than a year into President Trump's second term, his executive power grabs have been arrestingly similar to ones pioneered by an iconic predecessor liberals revere: Franklin D. Roosevelt.  —  Yet this comparison …
Discussion: New York Sun
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects  —  The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of New York State.  The Trump administration had ordered work to stop in December.  —  A federal judge on Monday struck …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy  —  The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump is not given to regret, but he does get rueful when he thinks about how modest his corruption was in the first term.
Discussion: ABC News, New York Post and MS NOW
 
 
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says U.S. and India reached trade deal, will lower tariffs immediately
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Bondi quietly installs ex-White House legal aide Stuart McCommas as DOJ chief of staff
Discussion: MS NOW and NewsMax.com
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
How Jon Stewart created Tucker Carlson
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
 Earlier Items: 
Financial Times:
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like  —  Think you've lost your capacity to be shocked …
Mary Carolan / The Irish Times:
George Mitchell's name removed from US-Ireland scholarship after Epstein files release
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas Pepinsky / Vox:
Donald Trump's ego might just save democracy
Discussion: Silver Bulletin
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Elite Law Firm Boss Who Bent the Knee to Trump Sucked Up to ‘Amazing’ Epstein
 

 
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney's board is aligning on promoting theme park division chairman Josh D'Amaro to CEO; Disney says “the board has not yet selected the next CEO”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $26B, driven by Zootopia 2 and a record $10B revenue from Experiences; streaming operating income rose 72% YoY to $450M

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Amazon's Melania documentary opens with $7M at the North American box office, above pre-release estimates of $3M to $5M; Amazon spent $75M on the documentary

 
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