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Andrea González-Ramírez / The Cut:
Democrats Plan to Protest Trump's Speech by Wearing Pink — Pink for the rights of women and families, black to meet the somberness of the political moment, yellow and blue in support of Ukraine: Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during …
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CBS News:
Poll on Trump's 2025 joint address to Congress finds large majority of viewers approve
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, RedState, Blaze Media, Twitchy and Daily Mail
New York Magazine:
D.C. Braces for Trump's Address to Congress: Live Updates
D.C. Braces for Trump's Address to Congress: Live Updates
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New York Post, Associated Press, Raw Story, USA Today, Politico, CBS News and Crooked Media
Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Al Green Removed From House Chamber for Heckling Trump During Address
Al Green Removed From House Chamber for Heckling Trump During Address
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
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Vox, ABC News, Raw Story and Washington Times
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Dem Lawmaker Gets Kicked Out of Trump's Address After Protesting
Dem Lawmaker Gets Kicked Out of Trump's Address After Protesting
Gabriella Borter / Reuters:
Democratic Senator Slotkin reaches for the political center in rebuttal to Trump
Democratic Senator Slotkin reaches for the political center in rebuttal to Trump
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Somebody Slap Me And Wake Me The F**k Up’: Jasmine Crockett Pans ‘Nightmare’ Trump Speech
‘Somebody Slap Me And Wake Me The F**k Up’: Jasmine Crockett Pans ‘Nightmare’ Trump Speech
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The Guardian and New Jersey Online
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
In photos: Women Democrats wear pink to protest Trump's speech
In photos: Women Democrats wear pink to protest Trump's speech
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New Jersey Online, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Independent, Fox News, NPR, CBS News and Twitchy
The Hill:
Live updates: Trump delivers remarks to sharply divided Congress
Live updates: Trump delivers remarks to sharply divided Congress
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Trump Uses Old Tricks to Sell a New Agenda
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
What Trump Knows Instinctively About Speeches
What Trump Knows Instinctively About Speeches
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill and Roll Call
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Trump to the people of Greenland: ‘We will make you rich’
Trump to the people of Greenland: ‘We will make you rich’
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Scripps News, CNBC, RTÉ, The Independent, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, USA Today, Politico and The Hill
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Congressional Speech Highlights: Trump Asserts Term Is Off to a ‘Swift and Unrelenting’ Start
Congressional Speech Highlights: Trump Asserts Term Is Off to a ‘Swift and Unrelenting’ Start
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say — The IRS is drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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The Guardian, New York Post, Raw Story and The Post Millennial
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Andy Kroll / ProPublica:
How DOGE's Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Dave Nershi was finalizing a report he'd worked on for months when an ominous email appeared in his inbox.
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Administration Pushes to Slash I.R.S. Work Force in Half
Trump Administration Pushes to Slash I.R.S. Work Force in Half
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking 26 suspect claims in Trump's address to Congress — President makes false claims about border crossings, regulations, the economy, inflation and many other issues — President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was vintage Trump: long …
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
The American Century is Over — Making China and Russia Great Again — President in Name Only Donald Trump delivered remarks to a joint session of Congress typical of him—overstuffed, narcissistic, mean-spirited, and deeply dishonest. And boring—not to mention interminable.
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New York Times
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Two hugely important questions about Trump's trade war — Donald Trump's long-threatened trade war has finally begun. — The Trump administration slapped big new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China on Tuesday, spurring retaliation from other countries, a market sell-off, and new fears about the future of the US economy.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump could scale back Canada, Mexico tariffs Wednesday, Lutnick says
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Axios, Bloomberg, Vox, Associated Press, New York Times, RedState, Global News, Reuters, Washington Examiner, CoinDesk, The Daily Wire and Politico
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Trump doesn't seem to know why he launched a giant trade war
Trump doesn't seem to know why he launched a giant trade war
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Bloomberg, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, ABC News, YouGov, Global News, Boston Herald, The Hill, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Washington Times and Deseret News
Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
American Farmers Brace for Harm From Retaliatory Tariffs
American Farmers Brace for Harm From Retaliatory Tariffs
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Raw Story, NBC News, Global News, Associated Press, Axios, Breitbart, MPR News, Vox, WPR, The Hill, Reason and WisPolitics
Financial Times:
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine — Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict — The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military's ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Euromaidan Press, The Kyiv Independent, Politico, New York Post and Semafor
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Newspaper Owner's AI Bot Defends KKK — An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
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Techdirt and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings — U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Rage Over “Low” Deportations Suddenly Gets More Unnerving — For weeks now, President Donald Trump's propagandists have relentlessly glorified his mass-deportations, even posting images of defeated-looking migrants getting frog-marched onto shiny military planes.
William R. Cotter Fb / U.S. General Services …:
Non-core property list — We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces. Disposing of these assets helps …
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New York Times:
Tesla Sales Plunge in Germany, Reflecting Broader Slump in Europe — February numbers show the U.S. electric car maker is struggling to attract buyers in the region, as anger at Elon Musk's politics intensifies. — Tesla's sales in Germany plunged in February, part of a wider slump across Europe …
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Reuters, Al Jazeera and Crikey
Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil — In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination. — As a measles outbreak expands in West Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
CDC says it is on the ground in Texas to aid in measles outbreak response
CDC says it is on the ground in Texas to aid in measles outbreak response
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Fox News, Axios, Ars Technica and The Guardian
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court won't lift lower court order unfreezing foreign aid funds — Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money to flow …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Post's Beacon of Inspiration — As Jeff Bezos pushes The Washington Post to the right, publisher Will Lewis quietly met with a conservative editor last month, Status has learned. — Last month, Will Lewis, the embattled publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, sat down for a curious off-the-record meeting.
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries — Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting. — Some staffers at Elon Musk's so-called Department …
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New Republic and Fortune
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Bowser signals D.C. will paint over BLM Plaza after GOP threatens funding — The mayor's announcement represents a remarkable retreat from her defiant posture toward President Donald Trump during his first term. — D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) signaled Tuesday that the city would paint …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) — While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we're all too familiar with.
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The Guardian and kottke.org
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Trump, Ukraine, and the Meme-ing of Marco Rubio — Why the Secretary of State's stone-like posture during the Zelenskyy meltdown might have been exactly as telling as observed. — Even as it was happening on Friday, the Oval Office blowup between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance …
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Slate, The Hill, Raw Story, The Bulwark, Mediaite, Associated Press and The Dispatch
New York Times:
U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad — Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information. — What's the air quality in New Delhi, Jakarta or Buenos Aires?
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Washington Post, Heatmap News and The Independent

