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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Democrats should make Elon Musk the face of the GOP budget — 📊 🔥 📊 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.
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Politico:
Musk to meet with House Republicans — Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Thursday that he's trying to schedule a meeting of House Republicans with Elon Musk soon to discuss the work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Johnson, who met with Musk at the White House late Tuesday …
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
GOP Gambles on Budget Plan That Helps the Rich and Cuts Aid to the Poor — The House Republican budget plan would pair tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich with cuts to programs that help the poor. — The Republican Party won the last election in no small part because of its new appeal …
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Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump's Third-Term Talk Faces Pushback From a Democratic Congressman
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots — The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed. — A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains …
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Alexander Tin / CBS News:
FDA cancels meeting to update next season's flu vaccines
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New York Times:
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
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Associated Press:
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development's foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Midnight Global Health Massacre — Jam-packed one this morning. Let's get right into it, shall we? Happy Thursday. — Is W. Awake? — by Sam Stein — On Wednesday, reports began dribbling out that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had signed off on eliminating 92 percent of USAID grants …
CNN:
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight
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Robert Berkvist / New York Times:
Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95 — The winner of two Oscars, he was hailed for his nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.” — Gene Hackman, who never fit the mold of a Hollywood movie star …
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The Guardian:
Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted — Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023 — The self-styled “misogynist influencer” Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have left Romania …
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Associated Press:
Andrew Tate, who faces rape and trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the US — Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, left for the U.S. after authorities lifted travel restrictions imposed as part of the case, an official said Thursday.
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Washington Post:
FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink, sources say — Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk's company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting. — Just now — The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling …
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / The Daily Beast:
FAA Could Cancel $2.4B Verizon Air Traffic Control Contract and Give It to Elon Musk's Starlink
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Emily Davies / Washington Post:
She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this — Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE. — BALDWIN, Mich. — Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service …
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post's opinion section. That's a death knell — 'I couldn't be more sad and disgusted,' says former top editor Martin Baron — Owners and publishers of news organizations often exert their will on opinion sections. It would be naive to think otherwise.
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Cameron Barr / Cameron Barr on LinkedIn:
Today I am ending my professional association with The Washington Post. Since my decision to step down as senior managing editor in 2023 …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
How the Bezos-Trump alliance began
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The Era of Purges — Here is what happened. An intelligence employee at the National Security Agency leaked chats of fellow officers to a political activist. The chats included inappropriate messages, mostly around medical issues, plus mockery of political commenters.
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Erin In The Morning, PinkNews and New York Times
Washington Post:
Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. — USAID's initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said — Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” …
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Administration Escalates Layoffs of Federal Workers — Federal officials circulated a memo asking agency leaders to plan even more job reductions after thousands of federal workers were fired in recent weeks. — The Trump administration moved forward on Wednesday with plans …
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Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal agencies given deadline for plans to move offices out of D.C. area
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Marcia Brown / Politico:
Trump officials race to rehire bird flu employees as egg prices skyrocket — USDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven't gotten their laptops back. — The Trump administration touted a nearly $1 billion plan Wednesday to combat the spread of avian flu …
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New York Times:
Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government — The New York Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies. Few members have formal Washington experience.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Trump's Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold — A new administration's efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation's tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin's reign in Russia. — She asked too many questions that the president didn't like.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump's Tariffs and Spending Cuts — Consumer and business sentiment is wobbling as fiscal support fades and fears rise that tariffs will lead to higher prices. — The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump's abrupt moves …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
5th Circuit rebuffs ruling against Planned Parenthood — The unanimous ruling overturns a decision by Texas U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee. — A three-judge panel at the conservative-leaning 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed …
Kriston Capps / Washington Post:
Art Museum of Americas cancels shows of Black, LGBTQ artists following Trump orders — Participants said the museum, run by the Organization of American States, shut down two upcoming exhibitions featuring major American and international artists. — The Art Museum of the Americas …
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Associated Press:
VA pauses billions in cuts lauded by Musk as lawmakers and veterans decry loss of critical care — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans' health services …
Thalia Beaty / ABC News:
MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to ‘crisis’ — NEW YORK — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to what it calls a “crisis” prompted by the Trump administration's freeze on federal foreign aid …
The Guardian:
Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land — As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world's biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land
New York Times:
Austrian Parties Reach Deal to Form Government Without Far Right — The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down. — Three mainstream political parties in Austria said on Thursday that they had reached …
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Matt Burgess / Wired:
Elon Musk's Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online — A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. — The plea for help arrived last summer.
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Burt Neuborne / Just Security:
No, the Defense Department Did Not “Ignore” a Judicial Order in 1973 Cambodia Bombing Case — In an otherwise thoughtful article about many of the complex separation of powers issues raised by President Donald Trump's blitzkrieg against the structure and personnel of his own government …
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine — Government moves to review funding for mRNA vaccines — Biden administration had awarded contract in its final days — US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots …
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CNN and Megyn Kelly
GovExec.com:
Top Social Security deputies leave amid rumored staff cuts — Most of the Social Security Administration's regional commissioners have decided to retire at the end of this week, following mysterious meetings with agency leaders about plans to slash its workforce.
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New Republic and American Prospect
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
First case of measles reported in Kentucky as US battles spread of disease — Adult infected with highly contagious virus that claimed life of unvaccinated child earlier this week — A confirmed case of measles has been reported in Kentucky, health authorities have announced, opening a new front in the US spread of the disease.
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