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11:15 AM ET, March 1, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle  —  Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia's dictator.  —  Toward the end of his on-camera, Oval Office brawl with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Trump quipped that it was “great television.”
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Why the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting imploded  —  The News  —  President Donald Trump's perception that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was overtaking the day's planned emphasis on a US-Ukraine minerals deal partly set off Friday's Oval Office blowup, according to a White House official.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Day of American Infamy  —  In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world's leading democratic powers on …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky  —  Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today's Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What …
The Kyiv Independent:
A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office.  It wasn't Zelensky  —  It's time to say it plainly.  America's leadership has switched sides in the war.  The American people have not, and they should speak up.  —  In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal  —  The president's explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations.  —  After five weeks in which President Trump …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
At Least Now We Know the Truth  —  Sign up for Trump's Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency.  —  At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was held in front of the cameras.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
President Trump Embarrassed Himself, the Nation, and Every Thinking Human on Earth  —  In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and JD Vance behaved like angry children.  Volodymyr Zelenskyy acted like a man.  —  (Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)
Zachary Basu / Axios:
“The free world needs a new leader”: Allies defend Zelensky after Trump debacle … - “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. … - The verbal clash was triggered when Zelensky asked Vice President Vance “what kind of diplomacy” he envisioned with Vladimir Putin …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Is Rootin' for Putin  —  It was a sickening spectacle: the man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy.  —  The air seemed to turn flame red as the TV stars-turned-pols sat side by side in elegant yellow armchairs and had the wildest dust-up ever televised from the Oval Office.
Politico:
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
The Guardian:
‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:   How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
‘This Is Going to Be Great Television’: Trump Sums Up His Zelensky Showdown
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
Nandika Chatterjee / The Daily Beast:
MTG's Boyfriend Dresses Up as Reporter to Confront Zelensky
New York Times:
How Johnson, Who Put His Job at Risk to Save Ukraine Aid, Flipped for Trump
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ross Douthat / New York Times:   Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
It Was an Ambush  —  Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
Voice of America:
European leaders stand by Ukraine after heated exchange between Trump, Zelenskyy
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Russian state media briefly enters Oval Office during Zelenskyy meeting
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Musk's Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie  —  It has a dry, bureaucratic name, but Ready to Use Therapeutic Food has functioned for over a decade as a lifeline for countless starving children around the globe.  Manufactured in the United States and distributed …
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
Discussion: CNN and Saywhat Politics
Martin Matishak / The Record:
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter.
New York Times:
Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Trump Comments  —  The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.  —  Voice of America, the federally funded broadcaster to the world, has long prided itself on serving …
NBC News:
Trump administration accused of sidestepping court rulings amid spree of legal losses  —  Trump's efforts to drastically shrink the size of the federal government are running into legal roadblocks.  —  The Trump administration continued to face setbacks in court this week over its efforts …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Politico:   What 130-day cap? Musk is ‘here to stay’ in the Trump admin, adviser says
The Guardian:
Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department  —  Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response  —  Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn  —  The federal weather and oceans agency touches people's daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America's economy, according to the people who ran it.
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New York Times:   Cuts to National Weather Service Leave Forecasters Reeling
CNN:
FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’  —  Dan Bongino, the incoming deputy director of the FBI, suggested on his popular podcast in January that the agency he is now about to help lead was complicit in planting pipe bombs around Washington ahead …
Washington Post:
Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE's secret plan  —  Legal experts said that unwinding a civil-rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees' rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.  —  Agencies across the federal government …
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
FBI returns materials seized at Mar-a-Lago to Trump, White House says  —  The search was part of the federal investigation into Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of attempts to retrieve them.  —  Just now  —  The FBI on Friday returned at least …
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Daily Mail:
Left-wing theatre managers who invited 200 migrants to a free show will abandon the building and face bankruptcy as refugees still refuse to leave …
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