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11:20 AM ET, March 10, 2017

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

A Bill So Bad It's Awesome — It has long been obvious to anyone following health policy that Republicans would never devise a workable replacement for Obamacare. But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Washington Post

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Why Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose With the G.O.P. Repeal Bill — The people who stand to lose the most in tax credits under the House Republican health plan tended to support Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, according to a new Upshot analysis.

Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:

Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare — House Republican leaders narrowly tailored their Obamacare repeal bill to avoid violating Senate rules, but conservatives are pushing back with advice of their own: tear up the rulebook. — A growing number of conservative lawmakers …

Discussion: The Hill and The Week

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Health care disconnect

Discussion: Washington Post

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chris Hayes to GOP Rep.: ‘Why Are You Rushing So Fast’ on Obamacare Replacement?

Discussion: CNN and Raw Story

Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Paul Ryan PowerPoint Presentation: “This Is The Closest We Will Ever Get” To Obamacare Repeal

Discussion: Breitbart and MARK-CM

John Kasich / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: John Kasich: End the Partisan Warfare on Health Care

Discussion: Politico and Political Insider blog

Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Inside the Senate GOP resistance to Trumpcare

Discussion: Politico, Washington Free Beacon, TheBlaze and Breitbart

Jason Squitieri / CNN:
Rep. Jordan criticizes GOP Obamacare plan after meeting with Trump

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Signal

Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:

Mexican foreign secretary goes straight to the White House, skips usual channels — Mexico's top diplomat came to Washington Thursday for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House. — Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met …

Discussion: Political Wire, Taylor Marsh and Axios

Mark C. Toner / US Department of State:

Department Press Briefing - March 9, 2017 — Acting Spokesperson — Department Press Briefing — Washington, DC — TRANSCRIPT: — Today's briefing was held off-camera, so no video is available. — MR TONER: Thank you so much. And welcome, everybody, to this …

Carol Giacomo / New York Times:
Why Is Mr. Tillerson in a Perpetual State of Duck and Cover?

Discussion: Bloomberg, Poynter, New York Magazine and Just Security, more at Mediagazer »

David Ignatius / Washington Post: Rex Tillerson is off to an agonizingly slow start

Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:

Strong U.S. job growth, rising wages set stage for Fed rate hike — U.S. employers hired workers at a robust pace in February, beating expectations, and wages grinded higher, which could give the Federal Reserve the green light to raise interest rates next week despite slowing economic growth.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine

Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, ThinkProgress, CNBC, The Guardian, Daily Kos and Scared Monkeys

Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Steady U.S. Job Growth Sets Stage for Fed to Raise Interest Rates

Discussion: USA Today, Forbes, Political Wire, NPR and twitchy.com

Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs in Trump's first full month

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 235,000 jobs in Feb, vs 190,000 expected

Discussion: Politico and Daily Wire

Sharon Begley / STAT:

House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results — little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble — This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media. — Last summer, the United Kingdom voted to leave …

Discussion: The Week and Mediaite

Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/PhoneBook:

South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests — As discussed last night, in a historic ruling, the South Korean Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment decision against President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office on Friday …

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, Refinery29, The Diplomat, The Week and Political Wire

Alexandra Rosenmann / Raw Story:

Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Jeremy Diamond / CNN:

In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion — Such a move, however, could blow up the already fragile efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act — Washington (CNN)The White House is privately lining up behind conservative calls to roll …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Politico and Daily Kos

CNN:

Sources: FBI investigation continues into ‘odd’ computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization — (CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, Political Wire, Axios and Hot Air

Courtney Reagan / CNBC:

Ivanka Trump's brand saw HUGE online surge in February — Ivanka Trump stepped down from her eponymous brand as her father moved into the Oval Office, but sales of the first daughter's apparel, accessories and fragrance brand still took a hit from a social media-spurred shopping boycott in January.

Delia Gallagher / CNN:

Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests — Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy. — In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an …

Discussion: Raw Story

Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:

Credit Suisse Says Plan to Hire 10,000 Muslim Refugees Is Hurting Starbucks' Brand and Sales — Swiss financial services company Credit Suisse is warning that coffee giant Starbucks' announcement of a plan to hire 10,000 Muslim refugees has clearly hurt the company by negatively impacting sales and damaging the company's brand.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Fox News Insider and The Last Refuge

Russell Berman / The Atlantic:

Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer — Donald Trump won Kansas last November by just over 20 points, and in the coming days he's expected to give the Jayhawk State's voters their reward: a new governor. — The president reportedly will name Governor Sam Brownback …

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Hannity: Trump should ‘purge’ holdovers from Obama era — Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday called for President Trump to “purge” the executive branch of Obama-era bureaucrats and appointees. — In the wake of a series of damaging leaks that have marred Trump's first weeks in office …

Discussion: RedState

Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:

The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache — On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.” Immediately afterward, it posted two startling tweets asserting that “C.I.A. hacker malware” posed a threat to journalists …

Discussion: claytoonz, more at Mediagazer »

Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:

U.S. Spies Live in Fear of Trump's Next Tweet — As Friday evening draws to a close around Washington, D.C., the city's tight-knit and secretive national security clan goes to sleep with a new unease. It's not Syria or Iran or even North Korea they're most worried about.

Discussion: The Guardian

Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:

Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers — Readers of The Right Stuff long knew that founder “Mike Enoch” had two main interests: technology and white supremacy. Posts on the neo-Nazi site have included discussion of “a new blogging platform built on node.js,” …

Discussion: Raw Story

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery — The TBS comedy program “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” apologized on Thursday for broadcasting a segment in which a writer who has talked about his cancer diagnosis was mocked for having what the program called “Nazi hair.”

Discussion: CNN, OUTSET, Breitbart, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News Insider, BizPac Review, Washington Post, The Week, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and RedState

Letitia Stein / Reuters:

Americans oppose bathroom laws limiting transgender rights: poll — The majority of respondents to a new U.S. poll opposed laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identities and indicated growing acceptance for gay rights, a nonpartisan research group said on Friday.

Discussion: Political Wire and Axios

MSNBC:

Sen. Murphy: Wikileaks release is ‘suspiciously timed’ — Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, says the WikiLeaks release seems to be timed purposefully for a moment of weakness for President Trump. ... more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Lisa Baertlein / Yahoo:

Starbucks CEO's refugee comments sour customer views of chain - survey — Starbucks Corp's vow to hire thousands of refugees after President Donald Trump's first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations appears to be hurting customer sentiment of the coffee chain.