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THE BIG NEWS

The Fascist International Convenes at CPAC

As USA Today reports, former NFL punter Chris Kluwe has been drawing unsolicited praise from from supportive strangers on the street after he was arrested for protesting the planned installation of a MAGA plaque at a public library in Huntington Beach, California, on Tuesday. "MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement," Kluwe told his right-wing city council, in comments highlighted on yesterday's MR. "You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that's what it is."

The man has a point. The grotesque MAGA adviser Steve Bannon followed his bitter rival for Donald Trump's ear, the out-of-control oligarch Elon Musk, by throwing a straight-armed fascist salute during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. Bannon also called for Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term in 2028 and led the crowd in a chant of "We want Trump!"

Musk, who has been working to return fascism to Europe, also appeared at CPAC, wearing a ridiculous getup with a gold chain and sunglasses and waving a chainsaw around to celebrate his devastating, unlawful cuts to the federal workforce through his DOGE "employee kill squad." Meanwhile, one of the mothers of some of his 13-odd children pleaded for his attention on his propaganda platform, X, saying their child's safety was at imminent risk due to a "medical crisis." Yikes. Onstage, Musk, sounding paranoid, suggested rather that his own safety was at risk; incidentally, CNN reports that his private security force has been deputized as US Marshals. It may be too generous to say that Musk "spoke" at CPAC, because much of what he said amounted to incoherent gibberish. "My mind is a storm. It's a storm," he said. Dr. Feelgood, it's time to check on your patient.

In related news, CPAC chairman and Trump "confidant" Matt Schlapp, who is married to a woman who served in the first Trump White House, got caught publicly sexually assaulting another man again – this time, the New York Times reports, at a bar near a property he owns in Virginia. Carlton Huffman, a Republican operative who won a $480,000 settlement from Schlapp last year over a previous groping incident, calls it the "least surprising headline ever."

Other CPAC headliners this year included Vice President JD Vance, who ranted against immigrants and praised "masculine urge[s]"; former United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss, who called, confusingly, for a British MAGA movement; AnCap crackpot Argentine President Javier Milei; various fascists from other countries, including Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo; and Budding Theocrat House Speaker Mike Johnson, who seems content with his own irrelevance. Schlapp closed the session thanking God for Trump and vowing opposition to "the globalist cabal" funded by "leftist elites." Again, if Republicans don't like being called Nazis, they should stop talking and acting like Nazis.

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Trumpocalypse: Obama Judge Rules Against Unions, Says DOGE Purges Can Continue

• Trump Blows Off Judicial Order to Restore Some Foreign Aid A federal appeals court panel, meanwhile, rejected Trump's "blatantly unconstitutional" attempt to end birthright citizenship, setting the case up for Supreme Court review. via NBC News and the Washington Post.
• Nothing Sacred, Evereything for Sale: Trump Is Planning an Illegal Takeover and Privatization of the US Postal Service The independent, constitutionally mandated USPS "does not belong to the president or the White House," says James O'Rourke, an academic who studies the who studies the Postal Service. "It belongs to the American people." via the Washington Post.
• US Diplomats Cancel Appearance with Zelenskyy and Object to G7 Statement on 'Russian Aggression' White House national security adviser Mike Waltz told Fox News that Ukraine's "insults to president Trump were unacceptable" and that the country needs to take a "hard look" at US demands for $500 billion worth of natural resources. via the Financial Times, the Associated Press, and the Guardian.
• Senate Confirms Kash Patel to Lead FBI, 51-49 "We've got Kash Patel now, so they better look out," Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi said at CPAC yesterday, without saying who "they" was; the Justice Department, meanwhile, deleted the first nationwide database tracking police misconduct. via the AP and the Washington Post.
• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Says She Won't Remove Trump's Puppet Mayor Eric Adams 'at This Time' AG Bondi also discussed the DOJ's illegal quid pro quo with Adams at CPAC, calling the corruption case against NYC's Mayor-Cop "incredibly weak." via NBC News and the New York Times.
• 'We Do Not Negotiate Sovereignty': Mexico May Amend Constitution to Guard Against US Incursions Both countries have been massing troops on their shared border, and unmanned drones controlled by the CIA have been conducting surveillance over Mexican airspace. via the Guardian, the AP, and NBC News.
• Trump Flunkies Delayed Release of Another Important CDC Bird Flu Study Meanwhile, officials at RFK Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to "indefinitely postpone a public meeting of its vaccine advisory panel, a key forum for the nation's discussion of information about vaccine safety and effectiveness." via the New York Times and the Washington Post.
• Vulnerable Republicans Are Panicking as DOGE Purges Hit Farmers, Veterans, Seniors, and Other Constituents As Georgia GOP Rep. Rep. Rich McCormick "struggled to respond to the interruptions from the crowd" at a town hall in his district yesterday, "one person can be heard shouting, 'We want to work with someone better.'" via the Washington Post, NBC News, and Politico.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Israel Accuses Hamas of Violating Ceasefire Terms By Returning an 'Anonymous, Unidentified Body' Instead of Hostage Remains "It is now unclear whether the next scheduled swap, set for Saturday, will take place. It also is not clear whether the truce, which halted 15 months of fighting, will be extended." via the Associated Press.
• Free Speech Alert: Mississippi Judge Orders Local Paper to Delete Editorial Criticizing Open Meetings Law Violation Judge Crystal Wise Martin of the Chancery Court of Hinds County "shouldn't be adjudicating parking tickets, let alone First Amendment cases," Seth Stern of the Freedom of the Press Foundation says. via the Washington Post and the Jackson Clarion Ledger.
• Hong Kong's Democratic Party to Disband "Developing democracy in Hong Kong is always difficult, especially in the past few years," party chair Lo Kin-hei told reporters. via Agence France-Presse and Hong Kong Free Press.
• 'Remember Me?': Former Squad Reps. Cori Bush and Jamal Bowman Launch Monthly YouTube Show The lefty Democrats promise an inside look "at what's really going on in DC" – "the corruption, the lobbying, the big money, and how it could all be working better for you." via Zeteo and Politico.

SOME NUMBER

58 percent

That's the share of Americans who oppose Donald Trump and Elon Musk's mass firings of federal workers, according to a new Washington Post poll. The Post poll, and another new survey, also show Trump's approval rating underwater at approximately 45 percent.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

2/21: Happy Friday!

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

The Forceful History of Black Resistance

Sam and Emma speak to Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, about her recent book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.

Attention Federal Workers: DO NOT RESIGN

Some who took Elon Musk's "fork in the road" offer were then fired.

PARTING WORDS

"You can't take our country — and you can't take our game."

-- Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, responding to Team Canada's 3-2 overtime victory over Team USA last night at the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament in Boston. Donald Trump had predicted a US victory over Canada, which he repeated "will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State." Trump's imperialist rhetoric inspired booing during the national anthems throughout the tourney, and Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyrics to "O Canada" to protest the American annexation threats.

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