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12:20 AM ET, February 8, 2026

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Cate Brown / The Guardian:
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump  —  Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff  —  Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence …
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, moved to lock down an intelligence intercept that referred to someone close to President Trump, the report said.  —  Members of Congress were briefed this week …
Discussion: The Guardian and The Independent
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Foreign Call About Person Close to Trump  —  Call intercepted by U.S. formed a key part of a complaint filed last year against the director of national intelligence  —  A whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Reaction to Trump's Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics  —  With the midterm elections nearing, President Trump has found himself in the uncomfortable position of backtracking, even if only by degrees, at key moments.  —  President Trump has seemed immune to the usual rules of politics.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
This Is Just Who Trump Is  —  What motivates President Trump?  —  Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is.  Not what motivates his MAGA supporters.  Not what motivates the infrequent and marginal voters who delivered him his victories in 2016 and 2024.  —  No. What specifically motivates Donald J. Trump?
Joseph Ramos / The Bulwark:
Trump 2.0's Most Racist Moments, Ranked
Discussion: New York Times
Associated Press:
Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a ‘bigoted and racist regime’
New York Times:
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure  —  Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D'Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.  —  Will Lewis, the embattled chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday.
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Jon Passantino / Status:
Conflict of Disinterest … Last month, just ahead of the devastating layoffs at The Washington Post, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis with a proposal: Would the Jeff Bezos-owned paper consider spinning off its local and sports sections and selling to them?
Financial Times:
Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts  —  British journalist's tenure was controversial after Jeff Bezos appointed him to turn around the newspaper  —  Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles, Daniel Thomas in London and Anna Nicolaou in New York
Miami Herald:
Who were the other men in the Epstein files?  This is the FBI's own list  —  After the Justice Department shut the door on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files in July 2025, FBI agents worked on drafts of a 21-page presentation of all the evidence the FBI had gathered in the case, including a summary of allegations against 11 men.
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Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein's sordid men's club
Discussion: Plain Dealer
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says  —  The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
Rylee Kirk / New York Times:
Ohio Man Is Charged With Threatening to Kill JD Vance  —  During the investigation, the man was found to have child sex abuse materials on his phone, federal prosecutors said.  —  An Ohio man was charged with threatening to shoot and kill Vice President JD Vance, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Discussion: Fox News
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US Department of Justice:
Ohio Man Charged for Threatening to Kill the Vice President of the United States
Washington Post:
Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S.  —  The Ukrainian president said the Trump administration was pushing for a June deadline to end Russia's war.  —  KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia's war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi …
David Nir / The Downballot:
Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup  —  Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle by a dominant 62-38 margin—a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result.
Discussion: The Advocate
Joe Charpentier / The Portland Press Herald:
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.  —  Communities:  —  9 min readFont size +
New York Times:
Top ICE Lawyer in Minnesota Departs as Immigration Lawsuits Overwhelm Courts  —  Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.  —  The top lawyer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Discussion: MS NOW
Rachel Wolf / Fox News:
Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz's criticism of the state's redistricting push  —  ‘You all started it and we f—ing finished it,’ Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas said  —  Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas delivered …
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe  —  “They're bewildered we've allowed this to happen.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Last month's Davos World Economic Forum …
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good's Killing.  Washington Told Them to Stop.  —  Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good's vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it.  About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney's office in turmoil.
Colleen DeGuzman / The Texas Tribune:
Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility  —  Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified.  U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many “chronic issues.”  —  TAKE OUR CONTENT — PLEASE!
Discussion: El Paso Times
Associated Press:
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked  —  Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles …
Discussion: Scripps News
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’  —  Green Day's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong on Friday called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to “quit that s-tty job you have” during a pre-Super Bowl LX party in San Francisco ahead of their performance before Sunday's game.
Geraldine McKelvie / The Guardian:
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters  —  Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism  —  The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters …
Philip Bump / How To Read This Chart:
Let's consider some disasters.  —  It has been quite a week in quite a month in quite a year in quite a decade, has it not?  A lot of things have gone sideways, often driven into ditches by distracted drivers.  Happily for us, some interesting data visualizations have emerged as a result.
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Trump administration equity stakes pose risks to U.S. companies and markets … The Trump administration's portfolio of equity stakes in U.S. companies has reached a scale that is unprecedented outside economic crisis or wartime.  —  The administration has taken stakes or has agreements …
Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress  —  The former speaker, a prodigious fund-raiser and shrewd campaign strategist, seldom intervenes in primaries but has made an exception for a Kennedy before.  —  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is planning to endorse Jack Schlossberg …
Dina Doll / Legal AF's Substack:
Ghislaine Maxwell's Bombshell Filing Raises Questions About Epstein's Hidden Network … Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell's court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein.
 
 
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Sam McKeith / Reuters:
Australia's opposition coalition reunites after split over hate laws
Discussion: Bloomberg
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu to hold urgent meeting with Trump Wednesday amid Iran negotiations
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing:
Pat McAfee blown away to learn San Francisco is not what conservative media makes it out to be
Discussion: New York Times
Samuel Benson / Politico:
A MAGA push to erase a Dem House seat is triggering accusations of fraud and violence in Utah
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Adam Wren / Politico:
Exclusive: Democrats reckon with ICE contractor donations
Discussion: IJR
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NBC News:
What X's $1 million creator contest revealed about Musk's platform
NPR:
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
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