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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
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Joe Rennison / New York Times:
Stocks Tumble as Trump Pauses Mexico and Canada Tariffs Again
Politico:
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk  —  The president convened his secretaries, with Musk, to clarify power.  —  President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You're in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.  —  According to two administration officials …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump's Shockingly Lawless Second Term
Discussion: Balls and Strikes
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
Discussion: Associated Press
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’
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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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.
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
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 …
Discussion: Politico, IJR, The Hill and New York Times
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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
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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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: 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
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:
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 …
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett ignites anger on the right after ruling against Trump  —  Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett “evil,” a “closet Democrat” and a “DEI hire.”  —  Just now  —  The Supreme Court's closely divided decision …
Discussion: USA Today, Newsweek and Human Events
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
Republican Voters Support Medicaid but Want Work Requirements, Poll Finds  —  More than 60 percent of all voters — and 47 percent of Democrats — supported a work requirement for Medicaid, the country's largest health insurance program.  —  As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear “pro-Hamas”  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios.
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Second death reported in growing measles outbreak  —  The death of a New Mexico adult comes eight days after a 6-year-old child succumbed to the disease in Texas last week.  —  just now  —  An unvaccinated New Mexico adult who tested positive for measles has died, the second death …
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:
IKEA beds?  Dressers?  Inside the ‘exceedingly odd’ DOGE office setup  —  Details of the arrangements at GSA offer a window into the lifestyle of DOGE workers.  —  As DOGE staffers dismantle the federal workforce, they're following Elon Musk's ethos of moving fast and breaking things.
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.
Discussion: New Jersey Online and UnHerd
Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in February.  —  It could be the calm before a storm, or it may be business as usual.  —  U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in February, the first full month under the new Trump administration, extending a streak of job growth to 50 months.
Amy Furr / Breitbart:
‘She Needs to Shut Her Mouth’: Dad of Teen Cancer Survivor Whom Trump Honored Blasts Rachel Maddow  —  The father of DJ Daniel, the teenage cancer survivor whom President Trump honored on Tuesday, had harsh words for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow after she deemed the president “disgusting” for spotlighting the boy's fight with cancer.
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
The Miraculous Life of Shane DiGiovanna  —  SHANE DIGIOVANNA IS WORRIED.  Like so many other Americans, the 27-year-old relatively recent college graduate is concerned about what Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and RFK Jr. are doing to the government.  For him, it's not just a matter of effective government …
 
 
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Daniel Engber / The Atlantic:
At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated
Discussion: The Daily Wire
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Why the Maga mindset is different
David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Mark Carney, crisis-fighting central banker, hopes to lead Canada through trade war
Militarnyi:
Maxar Cuts Off Ukraine's Access To Satellite Imagery
Discussion: Politico and Euromaidan Press
Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
Private lunar lander may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education
The Atlantic:
Trump's Own Declaration of Independence
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Judge Reinstates Fired NLRB Member, Rejecting ‘A Presidency That Is Untouchable By The Law’
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler's Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
Discussion: Breitbart
Wired:
A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Discussion: Raw Story