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5:00 PM ET, March 1, 2025

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Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
The Trump-Zelensky blowup, broken down by body-language analysts  —  The decision not to use an interpreter, the power imbalance, Trump's misstatements and Zelensky's “warrior energy” helped fuel the unusual public flap.  —  just now  —  President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance …
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Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter  —  JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT, a 15-minute drive from where I live.
Discussion: The Boston Globe
Alex Evans / Daily Express:
Norway fuel giant ‘refuses to fill US submarines’ after Trump-Zelensky clash  —  Norwegian petroleum giant Haltbakk Bunkers has declared it will no longer help the US Navy.  —  A petrol giant in Norway has announced a ban on fuel sales to all US forces following Donald Trump's treatment …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Day of American Infamy  —  In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world's leading democratic powers on …
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The War Trump Chooses  —  That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi.  It was Americans against reason  —  The Americans claim that their attempt to humiliate the Ukrainian president in the White House yesterday was about peace.  On that premise, nothing they said makes any sense.
Discussion: prima donna …
Wall Street Journal:
Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle  —  Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia's dictator.  —  Toward the end of his on-camera, Oval Office brawl with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Trump quipped that it was “great television.”
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Zelenskyy Forgot the First Rule of Dealing With Trump
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Is Rootin' for Putin
Axios:
“Three strikes”: Inside the Trump-Vance fury with Zelensky
The Guardian:
Starmer welcomes Zelenskyy to Downing Street ahead of tomorrow's defence summit with European leaders - live
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Break Between U.S. and Ukraine Reverberates
CBS News:
Most European leaders back Zelenskyy as he joins crisis talks in London
New York Times:   10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump's First Full Month
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
This Never Happened With an American President Before
Lindsey Boylan / Vanity Fair:
Andrew Cuomo for Mayor?  His “First Accuser” Says New York City Deserves Better  —  Taxpayers have paid millions defending the former governor and top aides against accusers' allegations.  —  New York City deserves better than Andrew Cuomo.  As frustrated as city residents rightfully …
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches political comeback with a run for New York City mayor
New York Times:
Cuomo Enters N.Y.C. Mayor's Race, Upending Contest to Unseat Adams
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops and Stryker combat vehicles to border  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved orders on Friday to further militarize the U.S. southern border with Mexico, officials said.  —  Just now  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 …
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Pentagon to send 3,000 more troops to the US-Mexico border
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:   Pentagon Sending Combat Forces to Border in Line With Trump Directive
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Musk's Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie  —  It has a dry, bureaucratic name, but Ready to Use Therapeutic Food has functioned for over a decade as a lifeline for countless starving children around the globe.  Manufactured in the United States and distributed …
ProPublica:
The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives.  It Canceled Them Anyway.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  After the Trump administration moved to freeze nearly $60 billion …
Discussion: New York Times
STAT:
We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts.  The results startled even us  —  These policy decisions put lives at risk  —  In May 2023, about a year before the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was up for congressional renewal, a  —  alleged that PEPFAR funding …
Discussion: Reuters, Al Jazeera and The Guardian
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Francis Collins Retires From N.I.H., Saying Colleagues ‘Deserve the Utmost Respect’  —  Dr. Collins, a renowned geneticist, ran the National Institutes of Health for 12 years.  His parting statement offered a pointed, if veiled, message to the Trump administration.
Danny Nguyen / Politico:
General Services Administration cuts tech unit  —  18F employed researchers, website designers and product managers.  —  The General Services Administration cleaved one of its technology units Saturday morning as part of a Trump administration directive to cull the federal workforce and reduce government spending.
Gabriel Hays / Fox News:
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education  —  'I don't want to hear another word about the bathroom.  You better start focusing on the classroom,' Rahm Emanuel told Bill Maher on Friday  —  Former Democratic Chicago Mayor …
Discussion: Breitbart and Newsbusters
CNN:
Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One  —  President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.  —  “The Department of Justice …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
‘Let him stew in his own juice,’ Pelosi advises ahead of Trump's speech  —  The ex-speaker tore apart a copy of Trump's 2020 address to Congress.  This time, she says Democrats need to coalesce on one, short message.  —  Just now  —  Nancy Pelosi still recalls the precise nature …
Discussion: NPR and USA Today
Associated Press:
US auto industry could be collateral damage in Trump's trade wars  —  President Donald Trump's trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry.  If the president goes ahead with 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday …
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
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Andrew Gray / Reuters:
Hungary's Orban pushes direct Russia talks, opposes EU summit declaration
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
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Discussion: The Record
New York Times:
Trump Relaxes Limits on Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Conventional War Zones
Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
Gustavo Solis / KPBS Public Media:
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
Bob Herman / STAT:
Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump's firings
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Rebecca Solnit / Meditations in an Emergency:
Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup
 Earlier Items: 
Adrienne Matei / The Guardian:
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
David Smith / The Guardian:
‘I was in shock’: DC gallery pulls exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump DEI crackdown
Discussion: PinkNews
Nicholas Creel / The Hill:
Pax Americana is over. What comes next will be worse.
The Hill:
Frustrations mount as Stefanik stuck in limbo — even after House clears hurdle
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
What 130-day cap? Musk is ‘here to stay’ in the Trump admin, adviser says
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