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4:15 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
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 …
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 …
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.”
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance  —  Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich  —  JD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
President Trump Embarrassed Himself, the Nation, and Every Thinking Human on Earth  —  In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and JD Vance behaved like angry children.  Volodymyr Zelenskyy acted like a man.  —  (Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Zelenskyy Forgot the First Rule of Dealing With Trump  —  Flattery will get you everywhere.  Insults will get you kicked to the curb.  —  When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was first elected in 2019, he proved to be a quick study on how to try to win over his American counterpart.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Is Rootin' for Putin
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Break Between U.S. and Ukraine Reverberates
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
This Never Happened With an American President Before
New York Times:   10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump's First Full Month
The Guardian:
Starmer welcomes Zelenskyy to Downing Street ahead of tomorrow's defence summit with European leaders - live
Nandika Chatterjee / The Daily Beast:
MTG's Boyfriend Dresses Up as Reporter to Confront Zelensky
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions
Discussion: Sheila Kennedy
Edward Szekeres / CNN:
Western allies rally around Zelensky after Trump spat deepens rift with Europe
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 …
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches political comeback with a run for New York City mayor  —  Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that he is running for mayor of New York City, relaunching his political career following a yearslong exile over a barrage of sexual harassment accusations.
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New York Times:
Cuomo Enters N.Y.C. Mayor's Race, Upending Contest to Unseat Adams
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump says he'll posthumously pardon baseball legend Pete Rose  —  President Trump said that he will posthumously pardon baseball legend Pete Rose and hammered Major League Baseball (MLB) for preventing the all-time hits leader from being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame over betting on games.
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
Trump promises to pardon Pete Rose
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.
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: Al Jazeera and The Guardian
Bob Herman / STAT:
Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump's firings  —  A top CMS official retires and lambastes the way dismissals have been carried out  —  The federal agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and other major health care programs is facing employee firings …
Discussion: The Floridian
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
Rebecca Solnit / Meditations in an Emergency:
Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup  —  They used to say war is how Americans learn geography.  This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.  Specifically what it did for us …
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
New York Times:
Trump Relaxes Limits on Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Conventional War Zones  —  The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids, reverting to a more permissive system.  —  President Trump has rescinded Biden-era limits …
 
 
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