Gita Gopinath, Harvard economist, formerly #2 at IMF, on Section 122 tariffs.

DHS goes through extreme maneuvers to "disappear" a detainee who witnessed the murder of another detainee and loudly stated that ICE claims about what had transpired were a lie (which is also what the county coroner thinks). www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

The Trump administration is weighing an executive order or other action that would require banks to collect citizenship information from customers Discussions about the potential order have alarmed banks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

In a meeting today, Politico's leadership said the news organization has not seen federal government subscriptions return in a "meaningful way" after DOGE pressure forced many agencies to cancel their Politico Pro subscriptions (about 20% never left, the company said).

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

How Trump responded to the Supreme Court tariff ruling

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Trump from an attack on Iran, saying that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel.

NEW >> Longevity guru Peter Attia is stepping down as a CBS News contributor weeks after he got the job. The Justice Department recently released hundreds of previously undisclosed emails between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Breaking news: Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office following claims he leaked confidential UK government memos to Jeffrey Epstein ft.trib.al/cRr1m4T

So I have some news: In addition to ending my column at the Post, I just lost my day job. Time to road-test my own advice. medium.com/@karla.mille...

After The Washington Post’s retreat from local news and sports, rival outlets are racing to fill the void, scooping up displaced talent and capitalizing on the opportunity. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

SCOOP: Trump aides are struggling to spend an extra $500 billion on the military, delaying budget Trump agreed to Hegseth’s bid for *~50%~* military spending boost Vought & others objected internally It’s so much $ they can’t figure out how to spend it www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Trump said on Saturday he will increase his global tariff to 15%, up from the 10% he announced on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his signature tariff policy. The White House has not officially implemented the newly increased tariffs. www.politico.eu/article/trum...

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Lagarde discusses her decision to walk out of the Lutnick remarks at Davos … “just too much and just unnecessarily offensive. And the fact that the dinner was due to finish with his comments, I don’t think it was either polite nor appropriate. Full stop.” www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/...

The Supreme Court signed off on nearly every policy of President Trump, but in a sharp reversal, the justices struck down his sweeping tariffs. The rulings and argument could start a new and fraught era of relations between a president and justices.

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

America’s trade partners expressed quiet relief at the Supreme Court’s rebuke of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Friday. But they are already bracing for his next trade salvo. With ace colleagues from London, Paris, Ottawa, Washington and Berlin www.politico.eu/article/trad...

I don’t know if Trump is gonna bomb Iran again, but I do know this would be a war of choice, not of necessity. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

84 years ago #todayinhistory, an executive order mandated sending Japanese Americans to "relocation centers." Descendants of the prisoners have restored a baseball field on the Manzanar site as a way to both celebrate the resiliency of so many of their ancestors. theconversation.com/baseball-ret...

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Four journalists, including AP freelancers, were detained in Cameroon on Tuesday while reporting on migrants deported there by the Trump administration. They were released, but their devices were confiscated. w/ @maeganvaz.bsky.social + @liamjscott.bsky.social

“.. They committed trillions of dollars .. stacked their boards with MAGA friends, abandoned progressive causes .., brought gilded gifts to the White House .. “.. But political pendulums swing both ways ..” 👀 @semafor.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

The executive jet that DHS says it needs has a “bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Big scoop from @sasilink.bsky.social and @michaelstone.bsky.social: Germany is considering ordering more U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets - a move that would deepen Berlin's reliance on American military technology as its joint next-generation fighter program with France falters.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

🎉 Thrilled to share my next stop: I'm headed to @reuters.com to cover the White House and economic policy. I hope you'll follow me over there while you keep supporting my WaPo colleagues.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

The "bizarre incident" with Lindsey Graham at the Munich Security Conference confronting and insulting Danish leaders has caused enough disquiet that Berlingske newspaper has done two unusual things with the story: translated it into English, and unpaywalled it. www.berlingske.dk/internationa...

For more than a decade, Kevin Warsh has advocated reining in the Fed’s pivotal role in the nation’s financial markets. Now, he may finally get the chance to do it. And Wall Street is obsessed with finding out what comes next. w/ @samjsutton.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

PIMCO: “.. the fact that Congress is having a hard time doing the very bare minimum – i.e., funding the government successfully – speaks to the lack of functioning of the institution .. Indeed, this most recent full Congress (ended Jan 2025) passed the fewest bills into law since the civil war ..”

Stephen Colbert issued an on-air condemnation of his own network Monday night, claiming that CBS lawyers blocked an interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico over FCC concerns. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has forced the ouster of a senior military adviser to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, defense officials said, marking the Pentagon’s chief’s latest intervention into the service’s internal affairs. wapo.st/4kIMTkM

“All Washington Post staff reporters in the Middle East were laid off last week. Many of them were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize last year, for what the award committee called haunting accountability journalism that documented Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.” www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...

Just caught up with this brilliant, moving story. Based on amazing detective work that became about far more than solving a cold case. The detective's name is Zufall (chance or coincidence in German), which seems almost unbelievably perfect. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Jesse Jackson's was the first presidential campaign I had ever covered. One day stands out in my memory more than any other (giftlink): wapo.st/4aTlHMK

NEW: Returning to office, Trump sought massive budget cuts and the total elimination of some federal agencies and programs. In the end, Congress quietly rejected that vision over a series of deals in recent months, our analysis shows. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Scoop: Anderson Cooper had grown increasingly uneasy with the direction of CBS News under Bari Weiss, contributing to his decision to exit "60 Minutes." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anderson-c...

Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes after a two-decade run at the newsmagazine. Cooper decided not to renew his CBS contract amid broader upheaval at the network under David Ellison and Bari Weiss. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:

The Washington Post is down to *one* reporter covering all the local courthouses in the DMV. One. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials. With @texastribune.org

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Times columnist @polgreen.bsky.social poses a familiar question, and arrives at a... let's say an unusual answer. Why, she asks, has trust in the news media cratered? Because aggressive, probing journalism isn't really that popular. People resent it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o... [Gift link]

New: The Trump arrest of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social has backfired, giving biggest boost of his online career. In two weeks, he's gained 300k on Instagram, 140k on YouTube, 73% on Substack and started selling arrest-themed merch. "They elevated me," he said in interview wapo.st/3OfiGxz

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...