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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump has pulled Fauci's security detail, source says  —  President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN.  It was pulled on Thursday night.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignorance  —  If you feel off-kilter, you're in good company.  The president seems downright bewildered.  —  “I think we're going to do things that people would be shocked at,” President Donald Trump declared on his second day in office.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Crush the Academic Left  —  Last year, Chris Rufo, the influential right-wing strategist who spearheaded the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., initiatives, told me about his ambitions for a second Trump presidency.  He hoped, he said …
Reuters:
Trump says he ended security for former top COVID official Anthony Fauci
Vi Nguyen / NBC Chicago:
ICE agents ‘showed up’ at Chicago school amid heightened concerns of raids  —  Schools across the Chicago area have released guidance about potential situations after the Trump Administration revoked previous guidance prohibiting immigration arrests at schools, churches and hospitals
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WLS / ABC7:
ICE agents denied entry to South Side elementary school, Chicago Public Schools claims  —  CPS and CTU officials claim ICE agents were denied entry to a school Friday.  —  CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago Public Schools officials claim U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were denied entry …
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times and Wirepoints
Financial Times:
Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark's prime minister over Greenland  —  US president insisted he wants to take over Arctic island  —  Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark's prime minister, according to senior European officials.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis.  RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.  —  New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump's pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Trump Says States Should Manage Disasters.  Former FEMA Leaders Agree.  —  “I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said.  Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.  —  President Trump plans to tour damage on Friday …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom plans to crash Trump's LA wildfire visit
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump recommends ending FEMA ahead of California fire site visit
Associated Press:
Trump Proposes ‘Getting Rid Of FEMA’ While Visiting North Carolina
Charles Kaiser / Columbia Journalism Review:
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times  —  The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.  —  For two and a half decades, Paul Krugman's columns in the New York Times were beacons of intelligence and common sense.
Politico:
State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid  —  The “stop-work orders” appear to apply to US aid for all countries except Israel and Egypt.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday issued new guidance halting spending on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days.
Discussion: Reuters and DNyuz
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Elon Musk doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt  —  Since Donald Trump's rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right.  —  Be it Laura Ingraham allegedly sieg-heiling at the 2016 Republican National Convention …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Musk Tells a ‘Joke’  —  The board and shareholders of Costco overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for the big-box giant to revise its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.  You might call it the first act of wholesale resistance.  —  Happy Friday.  —  Stick to Rockets  —  by William Kristol
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive  —  Locked out of power in Washington, the party is struggling to agree on a unified message of opposition.  Some of its lawmakers are even telling Republicans they want to work together.  —  As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr  —  Wanted to share some information on the RFK Jr. nomination before the Senate.  —  It probably won't surprise you that RFK Jr., along with Tulsi Gabbard, are among the few Trump nominees who might actually not get confirmed.
Discussion: New Republic
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration  —  President has thrown weight of justice department behind two politically charged reviews into his personal grievances  —  Donald Trump has tasked the attorney general in two executive orders to conduct far-reaching investigations …
Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Newark mayor: ICE raided business without a warrant, detained U.S. citizens  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, according to Mayor Ras J. Baraka.  —  The incident, which could not immediately …
Rolling Stone:
Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do  —  Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion.  “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen” … The Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder reportedly promised the administration …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP measure would let Trump seek third term
New York Times:
Sensing Political Support, Abortion Opponents Raise Ambitions  —  The March for Life on Friday will bring together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.  —  Anti-abortion activists are charging ahead with their ultimate mission to end all abortions nationwide …
Jessica Blake / Inside Higher Ed:
Rutgers Center Cancels Conference in Response to Trump DEI Orders  —  The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President Trump's executive …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Two Words and a World of Trouble  —  Let me tell you a story about clowns evolving into velociraptors.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Bill Kristol sat in for Sarah on the Secret Pod today and it was dark.  Just a warning.  If you're not in good head-space to begin with today, maybe skip this episode?
Punchbowl News:
Inside the room: Where House Republicans are looking to slash … We got our hands on the presentations that House committee chairs made during a closed-door Republican conference meeting this week.  —  They lay out a road map of where the GOP's hunt for spending cuts is heading right now.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and DNyuz
NBC News:
Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once  —  The new feature, announced by the Office of Personnel Management, aligns with the goals of DOGE.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration is testing a new capability that would allow officials …
Discussion: The Root
Associated Press:
Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking reproductive health care facilities  —  President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking reproductive rights facilities, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.
Discussion: CBS News and The Daily Caller
John Cole / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Fetterman touts new federal rule boosting wages for thousands of federal workers in Pa.  —  Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is hailing a new rule that ends a longstanding pay disparity between hourly and salaried federal workers.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
New York Times:
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers' Posts  —  Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.  —  Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred …
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside  —  A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.”  It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.
Gersh Kuntzman / Streetsblog New York City:
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data  —  Manhattanites have one more reason to appreciate congestion pricing: early statistics show that roadways inside the congestion relief zone below 60th Street are experiencing fewer crashes resulting in fewer injuries.
 
 
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Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Far-right pundit Matt Walsh rails against women in law enforcement: 'It's an absurdity!'
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
Park Service yanks job offers after Trump hiring freeze
Discussion: USA Today
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Trump Tells BofA's Moynihan to Stop Blocking Conservatives
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
LA Times owner on spiking Harris endorsement: 'I knew I'd get pushback'
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Lutnick Lists 800 Firms in Complex Billionaire Ethics Filing
Discussion: New York Times
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Hegseth Told Senator He Paid $50,000 to Woman Who Accused Him of Rape
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Politico:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
The Hill:
White House says migrant deportation flights with military aircraft have begun
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
There Is No Resistance  —  To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald …
Discussion: NewsBreak
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast
David Brooks / New York Times:
How Trump Will Fail  —  After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking …
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
“A pact with the devil”  —  Donald Trump now has many of the country's richest …
 

 
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen and Fox: Super Bowl 2025 averaged a record 126M viewers, up 2% YoY, across Fox, Fox Deportes, Telemundo, Tubi, and NFL platforms; Tubi had 13.6M alone

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
PBS closes its DEI office to comply with President Trump's EO and says affected staff are leaving, as it faces an FCC investigation and threats to its funding

Max Tani / Semafor:
Mark Halperin's media startup 2WAY, which hosts panel videos and does live events built around political pundits like Sean Spicer, raised a $4M seed in December

 
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