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2:50 PM ET, March 6, 2025

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New Republic:
Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam  —  In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and suggesting the trade wars will only get worse.
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Trump administration floats more exemptions from tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday he expects Trump to make an announcement exempting goods compliant with the USMCA trade agreement.  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested …
Matt K. Lewis / The Hill:
Trump may have already planted the seeds of his political collapse  —  Over the last six weeks, President Trump has been spending political capital like a drunk at a casino who insists he's got “a system.”  If history is any predictor, his second term trajectory may already be set — right off a cliff, pedal to the floor.
Discussion: Newsweek and New York Magazine
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Bessent defends Trump tariffs: ‘Access to cheap goods’ is not the ‘American Dream’
Discussion: The Guardian
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
The world is beginning to tire of Trump's whiplash leadership
Discussion: Charlie Angus
Washington Post:
Trump grants month-long tariff reprieve to Mexico
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Will Delay Mexico Tariffs on Goods Under USMCA
Washington Post:   We texted 1,000 Americans about Trump's tariffs. This is how they responded.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say  —  U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar …
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Meduza:   Trump administration to revoke legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian refugees — Reuters
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:   Playing the Victimhood Long Game
David Gilbert / Wired:
Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story  —  New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.  —  Employees at the Social Security Administration (SSA) …
Discussion: Business Insider and Nextgov/FCW
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Social Security Administration bars employees from reading the news at work
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk  —  The president convened his secretaries, with Musk, to clarify power.  —  President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You're in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.  —  According to two administration officials …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Washington Post:
DOGE targets child support database full of income data  —  Associates of Elon Musk's group provoked yet another clash with career civil servants over sensitive government records  —  Just now  —  Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have sought access to a powerful database of nearly …
Discussion: UPI
CNN:
Republicans push Musk to let Congress vote on DOGE cuts  —  Republicans pushed Elon Musk on Wednesday in a pair of private meetings to move his efforts to slash federal spending and the federal workforce through Congress, as lawmakers vie for a seat at the table in the sweeping effort to overhaul government.
Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
We Found Elon Musk's DOGE Email Address and We're Fighting to Reveal His Messages  —  The Freedom of Information Act is a vital tool to expose how the U.S. government operates, and it's especially critical when it comes to Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
Discussion: New Republic and NBC News
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports  —  The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party …
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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn't Take  —  Right around the time that Donald Trump was arriving at the U.S. Capitol to address a joint session of Congress—the longest such speech, it would turn out, in the history of the presidency—Elissa Slotkin, the newly elected Michigan senator tasked …
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Fox News:
Dems throw House into chaos after 10 moderates join GOP to punish Al Green
Wall Street Journal:
Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department  —  Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to ‘take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure’  —  President Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at abolishing the Education Department …
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Brian Barrett / Wired:
DOGE Is the Deep State
Discussion: Fortune and Politico
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Playbook: School's out forever
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Daily Mail
Associated Press:
Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. Here's what it does
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Layoff announcements soar to the highest since 2020 as DOGE slashes federal staff … President Donald Trump's efforts to pare down the federal government workforce left a mark in the labor market in February, with announced job cuts at their highest level in nearly five years …
Discussion: Challenger … and Raw Story
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Small World … The White House is, at least according to Bloomberg, well on its way to creating a sovereign wealth fund, despite having no authority to create one and no legal source of money to fund it.  But now they've hired a guy to run it, Michael Grimes.  And small world, he's Elon's banker.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Act Now … I may do a longer, maybe several longer versions of this post.
NBC News:
As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S.  —  Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.  —  Some U.S. allies are considering scaling …
NBC News:
Trump considering major NATO policy shift  —  The president has discussed possibly favoring members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their GDP on defense, sources told NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering a major change to the U.S.' participation …
Washington Post:
Inside the Trump White House's relentless strategy to dominate the news  —  The Trump administration has transformed its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation, and “they're all offense, all the time.”  —  When actress Selena Gomez posted an Instagram video …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves … More than six weeks into the second Trump administration, there is a chill spreading over political debate in Washington and beyond.By Kenny Holston/The New York Times  —  The silence grows louder every day.
Joe Hernandez / NPR:
As Canadians cancel trips due to Trump, the U.S. tourism industry could lose billions  —  Leena Yousefi and her family typically visit Hawaii four or five times a year.  The Vancouver attorney used to live in Maui and had booked another trip for this year.  —  But that was before President Trump …
Discussion: Canadian Press and Blaze Media
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   ‘We had to cancel’: Tourism industry at risk as largest visitor group boycotts Trump plans
Politico:
Trump's US destroying world order, says Ukraine's UK ambassador  —  LONDON — Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom on Thursday accused the United States under Donald Trump of “destroying” the world order, as he attacked U.S. handling of the war in Ukraine.
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Jamie Dettmer / Politico:
Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy's Ukrainian opponents
Radley Balko / MSNBC:
Why Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro want Trump to pardon George Floyd's murderer  —  The video depicting Floyd's murder hasn't changed in five years.  But the Republican Party has.  —  Shortly after the video of George Floyd's death went viral in May 2020, a popular conservative pundit released …
Washington Post:
D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won't hire from any school with ‘DEI’  —  Trump appointee Ed Martin made the claim in a letter to the Georgetown University law school dean.  Martin has called the school a “locus” of anti-Trump activity.  —  Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin demanded …
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
He's About to Co-Lead the FBI—But First, a Word From His MAGA Show Sponsors  —  Dan Bongino is hawking prepper products and paranoia en route to the FBI.  —  On Tuesday, Dan Bongino, the newly named deputy director of the FBI continued to hold forth on his eponymous daily podcast …
 
 
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jim Jordan continues subpoena spree of social media platforms
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
David Pepper / Pepperspectives:
A Plea from a Veteran...  A memo circulated within the Trump administration that lays …
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How Social Security Administration Cuts Affect You
Discussion: The Hill
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Frank S. Zhou / The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Must Take a Stand for Democracy
Washington Post:
GOP-led House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Facing Trump's threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel
Discussion: New York Times and New York Post
 

 
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