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4:40 PM ET, March 7, 2025

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New York Times:
Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk  —  Simmering anger at the billionaire's unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting.  The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.  —  Marco Rubio was incensed.
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants for Columbia University  —  The move comes shortly after the administration notified Columbia University that it was conducting a “comprehensive review” of its federal grants and contracts.  —  The Trump administration on Friday announced …
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New York Times:
White House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia
Discussion: New York Daily News
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
A $400 million punishment for Columbia University from the Trump administration
Discussion: UPI and The Independent
U.S. General Services Administration:
DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million
Washington Post:
Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows  —  The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump's direction knew it wouldn't reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.  —  Just now
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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: The Independent and Al Jazeera
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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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
We Live in the Dumbest Times  —  In an increasingly hostile world of great power competition, it's nice to know that in Pete Hegseth we finally have a secretary of defense focused on the important things: purging military web databases of thousands of images featuring women, minorities …
Discussion: NBC News
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say  —  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research …
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Put Two Prosecutors in Adams Case on Leave  —  The prosecutors, Celia Cohen and Andrew Rohrbach, had held high-ranking positions in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.  —  Two Manhattan prosecutors who worked on the corruption case …
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ABC News:
Federal prosecutors who investigated Eric Adams put on leave by Justice Department: Sources  —  Two of three put on leave worked on the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams.  —  Outside the U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York, Feb. 20, 2024, in New York.
Discussion: NBC News
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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emptywheel:
Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There's Stuff Happening Where You're Not Looking
Discussion: Associated Press and WTOP News
Jesse Pound / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Bessent says economy could be ‘starting to roll a little bit’  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday acknowledged some signs of weakness in the U.S. economy.  —  “Could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit?  Sure.
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Diana Falzone / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run For President in 2028  —  When President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Fox News last month, anchor Bret Baier asked what should have been a softball question: “Do you view Vice President JD Vance as your successor, the Republican nominee in 2028?”
Discussion: Raw Story and The Post Millennial
Jacqueline Sweet / Rolling Stone:
New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch  —  Sam Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk's DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud  —  There is a new staffer from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeking access …
Discussion: Krebs on Security
David Goldman / CNN:
Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy  —  A day after offering Canada a one-month reprieve on punishing nearly across-the-board 25% tariffs, President Donald Trump has threatened new tariffs as soon as Friday on Canadian lumber and dairy products.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
LIVE March 7, 2025, 12:36 p.m. ET Trump Talks About Tariffs, Ukraine and Student Loans From the Oval Office  —  Where Things Stand  — Russia sanctions: President Trump said Friday that he was “strongly considering” imposing new sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a cease-fire …
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 …
Jackie Bensen / NBC4 Washington:
‘Just following Hispanic people’: Citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump  —  Manassas man says he was pulled over on his way to work by agents looking for another man  —  A naturalized Hispanic man says he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were looking …
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
New Jersey Globe:
Monmouth University will shutter its gold-standard polling institute  —  Patrick Murray, institute's director since 2005, will depart  —  Monmouth University is planning to imminently shutter its lauded polling institute, sources with direct knowledge of the matter have told the New Jersey Globe …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump's “Crypto Reserve” is a world historical grift  —  🚀 💰 📊 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Fox Business host on ‘shocking decline’ in consumer spending: ‘The boom times are over’  —  Fox Business Network host Charles Payne said the apparent decline in consumer spending was “shocking” on Friday, and said a return to “boom times” was not on the horizon.
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
Trump Plans to Restrict Loan Forgiveness for Non-Profit Workers  —  President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that will restrict eligibility for a government-run student loan forgiveness program, targeting individuals whose work for non-profits clashes with the administration's immigration policies.
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.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
RFK Jr. Is About to Ax Some of the World's Best Scientists at NIH  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS is refusing to renew contracts for some of the nation's brightest science minds … The NIH is best known for funding a broad spectrum of research science at universities with approximately $40 billion in annual grants.
Politico:
Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like  —  We interviewed Democrats and Republicans — on the record and anonymously — about life on Capitol Hill, what broke Congress and a whole lot more. … It's hard to find an institution the public loathes more than Congress.
Discussion: Twitchy
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.
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Trans women transferred to men's prisons despite rulings against Trump's order  —  Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: 'I'm punished for existing'  —  Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred …
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.
 
 
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Simon Shuster / Time:
“Hundreds of Dead”: Inside the Fallout from Trump's Ukraine Intel Pause
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Department of Homeland Security:
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
No. 2 at DOJ directs fed'l prosecutors to focus on Trump immigration enforcement policies
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Yuki Noguchi / NPR:
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Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Esha Dey / Bloomberg:
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CNN:
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning:
Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Discussion: The Guardian
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration …
Discussion: New York Times