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1:50 PM ET, March 1, 2025

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Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
Body-language experts break down the dramatic Trump-Zelensky meeting  —  The row between Trump and Zelensky was heightened by the lack of an interpreter, the power imbalance, and the men's TV backgrounds, body-language experts say.  —  The shocking Oval Office row between President Donald Trump …
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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.”
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 …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Break Between U.S. and Ukraine Reverberates  —  European leaders lined up to support Ukraine after the blowup between its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and President Trump.  Mr. Zelensky sought to appeal to the U.S. with expressions of gratitude.  —  Here is the latest.
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)
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Is Rootin' for Putin  —  It was a sickening spectacle: the man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy.  —  The air seemed to turn flame red as the TV stars-turned-pols sat side by side in elegant yellow armchairs and had the wildest dust-up ever televised from the Oval Office.
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.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal  —  The president's explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations.  —  After five weeks in which President Trump …
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Why the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting imploded
The Kyiv Independent:
A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn't Zelensky
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions
Discussion: Sheila Kennedy
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
New York Times:   10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump's First Full Month
Politico:
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
New York Times:
How Johnson, Who Put His Job at Risk to Save Ukraine Aid, Flipped for Trump
Discussion: Bloomberg
The Guardian:
‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting
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 …
New York Times:
Cuomo Enters N.Y.C. Mayor's Race, Upending Contest to Unseat Adams  —  The comeback attempt, three years after Andrew M. Cuomo resigned as governor in scandal, will test New Yorkers' appetite for second chances, and change.  —  Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Saturday that he would run …
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches NYC mayoral campaign  —  Cuomo has been teasing a campaign launch for weeks, jumping back into politics just four years after he resigned from his role as governor following allegations of sexual harassment.  —  Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo …
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Some government employees are instructed — again — to not respond to 5 things email as Musk doubles down  —  Agencies and departments dealing with national security had told employees to not directly respond to Musk's first request.  —  The State Department has again instructed its employees …
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Associated Press:
Federal workers start to get a new email demanding their accomplishments
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats  —  Democrats say the calls to remove judges who block Trump administration initiatives amount to intimidation.  Some senior Republicans were also skeptical of the effort.  —  Congressional Republicans …
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NBC News:
Trump administration accused of sidestepping court rulings amid spree of legal losses
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Nextgov/FCW and The Guardian
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and NPR
CNN:
FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’  —  Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested on his popular podcast in January that the agency he is now about to help lead was complicit in planting pipe bombs around Washington ahead …
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
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn  —  The federal weather and oceans agency touches people's daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America's economy, according to the people who ran it.
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New York Times:   Cuts to National Weather Service Leave Forecasters Reeling
 
 
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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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Ronald Bailey / Reason:
So Much For RFK, Jr.'s Promise of ‘Radical Transparency’ at HHS
Discussion: CBS News and STAT
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Trump promises to pardon Pete Rose
Paul Krugman:
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
The Democratic Party Reconsiders a Huge, Vulnerable Database of Voter Information
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted
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