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NBC News:
Trump stands by national security adviser despite leaked military plans, saying mishap had ‘no impact’ on Yemen strikes  —  “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,” President Donald Trump said of his national security adviser in a Tuesday phone interview with NBC News.
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time  —  Trump's “Team of Amateurs” Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way  —  This afternoon, just before 1 pm ET, The Atlantic posted what is, hands down, the wildest and most insane story I have ever read about US national security …
emptywheel:
Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace  —  The White House, with the help of Politico, is trying to make National Security Adviser Mike Waltz the fall guy for adding Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg to the Signal thread on which they planned war strikes against Yemen.
Joanne Stocker / CBS News:
As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia  —  President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
White House defiant after messaging fiasco with The Atlantic  —  Trump administration true believers are closing ranks to try to protect top national security officials from being pushed out over Monday's Signal scandal, insiders tell Axios.  — Why it matters: Democrats and critics …
Politico:
Waltz's future in doubt following accidental war plan leak  —  “You can't have recklessness as the national security adviser,” one official said.  —  The stunning revelation that top administration officials accidentally included a reporter in a group chat discussing war plans …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Top Intel Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign  —  Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration for using a Signal chat to discuss plans for carrying out bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop  —  How The Atlantic's editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen  —  The Trump administration has provided many jaw-dropping moments …
Politico:
'It's so unbelievable': Cyber world stunned over war planners using Signal  —  Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability.  —  Lawmakers and experts are sounding the alarm …
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Watch: Intelligence leaders testify before Congress, fresh off the group chat fiasco  —  As fallout from the Signal scandal continues, the leaders of several intelligence agencies — some of whom were part of the group chat that inadvertently shared war plans with a journalist — are set to testify before Congress this week.
David French / New York Times:
If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 24, 2025  —  Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg …
Wired:
Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Hegseth lashes out at The Atlantic: “Nobody was texting war plans”
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia:   Kaine & Colleagues Demand Answers about Trump Cabinet Officials' Use of Unsecured Group Chat for Military Planning
CNN:
‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton's emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans
James Liddell / The Independent:
CNN airs brutal montage of Trump officials who were in Signal chat condemning Hillary Clinton's email server
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
House Republican on war plans chat: 'There's no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff'
Discussion: Salon and New Jersey Online
The Hill:
Watch live: Gabbard, Patel, Ratcliffe testify at global threats hearing
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Justin Glawe / Rolling Stone:
Former Social Security Chief Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk's Cuts
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks  —  The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and legal representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump's actions in court than during his first term.  —  Just now
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn't Even the Worst Part Of It … I haven't had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app.  So a few brief thoughts.  —  To state the obvious, in any normal administration Hegseth and Waltz …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
MAGA Influencers May Have Been Paid to Break With RFK  —  Secret cash flies in the MAGA soda wars  —  IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN READING YOUR social media feed and suddenly noticed that conservative personalities have latched on to some obscure issue they've never cared about before …
Jakub Krupa / The Guardian:
Russia and Ukraine agree to Black Sea ceasefire, US says - Europe live  —  White House says both sides agree to ‘ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes’  —  Movement of Russian military vessels beyond Eastern Black Sea would violate sea agreement, Ukraine says
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The White House:
Outcomes of the United States and Ukraine Expert Groups On the Black Sea
A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows  —  A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
FBI launches Tesla vandalism task force  —  The FBI confirmed Monday it has established a task force to investigate the wave of vandalism and arson incidents targeting Tesla in recent weeks.  —  “Director [Kash] Patel has been unequivocally clear: The FBI will be relentless in its mission …
Adam Wren / Politico:
A Rising Democratic Star Is Ready for New Leadership — Without Chuck Schumer  —  Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow says it's time for a new generation to take on Trump.  —  Mallory McMorrow doesn't claim to have all the answers for the Democratic Party.  But as the 38-year-old Michigan Democrat gears …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Worst and the Dimmest  —  The Atlantic Debacle  —  Most relatively informed citizens will be aware by now of the biggest news story that has come out of this administration: national security officials accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat …
Punchbowl News:
Are Republicans blowing a Florida special election?  —  House Republicans shouldn't have to worry about Florida's 6th District special election on April 1.  It's a deep-red seat that former Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) won by 33 points five months ago before decamping for the Trump administration.
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Clock ticks on Trump and GOP's ‘big, beautiful’ bill on taxes  —  Economic turmoil from tariffs could push Republicans to move faster on budget legislation.  —  Just now  —  As President Donald Trump's tariffs roil the U.S. and global economies, lawmakers returned to Washington late Monday under …
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Emily Peck / Axios:   More than 300 rich people ask Congress to reject tax breaks for rich people
Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg:
US Nominates Leo Brent Bozell III as Ambassador to S. Africa  —  US President Donald Trump's administration has nominated Leo Brent Bozell III, a conservative activist and writer, to be the country's ambassador to South Africa.  —  The nomination, published on the US Congress' website, comes amid strained ties between the two nations.
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and Townhall
Bryan McMahon / American Prospect:
Bubble Trouble  —  An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. … The week of Donald Trump's inauguration, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stood tall next to the president as he made a dramatic announcement: the launch of Project Stargate, a $500 billion supercluster in the rolling plains …
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants  —  New York CNN —  Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants.  But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate …
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
 
 
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Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants
Csongor Körömi / Politico:
Netherlands tightens US travel advice for LGBTQ+ people
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Scholten won't run for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat
Discussion: The Hill
Bryan Mena / CNN:
Consumer confidence plummets to lowest level since January 2021
Discussion: CNBC and ABC17NEWS
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Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
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Trump Is Dismantling the Education Department—With or Without Congress
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Reuters:
Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans
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Vernal Coleman / ProPublica:
Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A Supreme Court case about abortion could destroy Medicaid
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Formula, Fries and Froot Loops: Washington Bends to Kennedy's ‘MAHA’ Agenda
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USPS chief Louis DeJoy resigns as Trump eyes overhauling mail agency
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