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11:25 AM ET, March 7, 2025

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Associated Press:
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge  —  References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens …
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The Bulwark:
We Live in the Dumbest Times
Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill and HotAir
New York Times:
Trump's Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook  —  Economic forecasts have deteriorated in recent weeks, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups.  —  President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Jeffries calls Ogles ‘complete and total fraud’ over move to remove Al Green from committees  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), accusing him of being a “complete and total fraud” over his vow to remove Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and others from committee assignments.
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Axios:
Scoop: Dems privately confront Trump speech disruptors
Rolling Stone:
Trump's Shockingly Lawless Second Term  —  Donald Trump and Elon Musk are blindly purging the government to make it more MAGA and cruel, ignoring the law, and cashing in like America has never seen  —  T  —  here were less than four days to go until Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second time.
Discussion: Balls and Strikes
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration …
Politico:
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk
New York Times:
State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
Discussion: Reuters and Stimson Center
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariffs Are No ‘Emergency’  —  The President invokes a law that doesn't give him power to impose sweeping tariffs.  Someone should sue.  —  Tap For Sound  —  President Trump delayed his Mexico-Canada tariffs again on Thursday—this time for another month.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Joe Rennison / New York Times:
Stocks Tumble as Trump Pauses Mexico and Canada Tariffs Again
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’
Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
How Trump's ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious  —  President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn't like their shared water agreements.  —  After President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada on Tuesday …
Discussion: Daily Mail, Daily Kos and New Republic
Tom Malinowski / The Bulwark:
How Democrats Can Win This Shutdown Fight  —  WITH NO CONSTITUTIONAL POLICE TO ENFORCE our nation's basic laws, the most practical check on a tyrannical president is Congress's power of the purse.  And for the last couple of weeks, as the March 14 deadline for passing a government funding bill approaches …
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The White House:
Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  The dishonest and dangerous activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP ("Perkins Coie") has affected this country for decades.
Erwin Chemerinsky / New York Times:
The One Question That Really Matters: If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What?  —  It is not hyperbole to say that the future of American constitutional democracy now rests on a single question: Will President Trump and his administration defy court orders?  —  Federal judges have issued …
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Breakup of SpaceX's Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports  —  Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.
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Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Inside Trump and DOGE's chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California's water  —  Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency repeatedly pressured the head of a United States water management agency to open a major California pump system in late January …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Marshals Escort DOGE Team Into African Aid Agency  —  A day earlier, U.S. African Development Foundation workers had refused entry to Department of Government Efficiency workers and the State Department official in charge of foreign aid.  —  Federal marshals on Thursday escorted officials …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
DOGE Is Trying to Shutter Crucial Volcano Observatory Facilities  —  The Trump administration plans to terminate leases for buildings that are used to monitor active volcanoes close to population centers.  Reductions in force could make relocating these facilities even harder.  — Copy
KFF:
KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2025: The Public's Views on Potential Changes to Medicaid  —  Share this page on Facebook (opens in a new tab) Share this page on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) Share this page via Email Print this page  —  Key Takeaways  — As Congress considers changes …
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Washington Post:
Trump expands retribution campaign against law firms that aided his foes  —  Trump hit another major law firm that worked for his political rivals with an executive order seeking to limit its ability to work for the U.S. government.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday targeted another elite law firm …
Politico:
Kamala Harris sets a deadline for her next move  —  “I am staying in this fight,” she's told allies in phone calls and at private gatherings.  —  Former Vice President Kamala Harris is seriously considering a run for governor of California — and has given herself a deadline to decide.
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Why the Maga mindset is different  —  US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west  —  The recurring question in liberal circles during Donald Trump's first term as US president was whether to take him seriously or literally.
Bertrand Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons  —  The travails of the Western alliance have injected urgency into a debate about homegrown alternatives to the U.S. nuclear umbrella  —  BERLIN—President Trump's embrace of Russia is causing Europeans to rethink their security …
New York Times:
As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear  —  Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.  —  The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has worsened significantly, and the country's ability …
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Antisemitism in the Oval Office  —  A confrontation seen with a historian's eye  —  The attempt to humiliate Volodymyr Zelens'kyi in the Oval Office a week ago was an American strategic collapse.  It heralded a new constellation of disorderly powers, obsessed with resources, seizing what they can.
Daniel Engber / The Atlantic:
At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated  —  Jay Bhattacharya has spent years railing against the National Institutes of Health.  What happens when he runs it?  —  In October 2020, Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, sent an email that maligned a colleague.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
 
 
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