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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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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:   Playing the Victimhood Long Game
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Social Security Administration bars employees from reading the news at work  —  In a Thursday morning email, the Social Security Administration said it was “implementing additional restrictions” on web-browsing.  —  The Social Security Administration wrote in a Thursday morning email …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
How Social Security Administration Cuts Affect You
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Will Delay Mexico Tariffs on Goods Under USMCA
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
The world is beginning to tire of Trump's whiplash leadership
Discussion: Associated Press and Charlie Angus
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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Washington Post:
GOP-led House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech
NBC News:
House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech to Congress
Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn't Take  —  The Michigan senator wants to set a new tone for the Democratic resistance.  —  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 …
Discussion: Eschaton, RedState and Deseret News
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Fox News:
Dems throw House into chaos after 10 moderates join GOP to punish Al Green
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 …
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 …
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Alicia Wallace / CNN:
US employers cut more jobs last month than any February since 2009  —  The Trump administration's massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoffs last month, new data showed Thursday.  —  US-based employers last month announced plans …
Discussion: New Republic, The Hill, UPI, CBS News and Forbes
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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 …, Reuters and Raw Story
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.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘We had to cancel’: Tourism industry at risk as largest visitor group boycotts Trump plans  —  Canadians are scrapping plans to visit the U.S. to protest Donald Trump's economic and geopolitical attacks on their nation.  —  The president has slapped 25-percent tariffs on many Canadian goods …
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Joe Hernandez / NPR:
As Canadians cancel trips due to Trump, the U.S. tourism industry could lose billions
Discussion: Canadian Press and Blaze Media
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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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.
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.
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
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:
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Pepper / Pepperspectives:
A Plea from a Veteran...  A memo circulated within the Trump administration that lays out the DOGE/Department of Veterans Affairs plan to terminate 80,000 employees from the VA—about 16% of the total workforce.  About 25% of all VA employees are veterans themselves.  —  Share  —  Subscribe now
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and MPR News
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Trump's overhauled Kennedy Center loses upcoming run of ‘Hamilton’  —  The cancellation of the popular musical drew a sharp rebuke from Richard Grenell, the new interim director.  —  The producers of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” are canceling an upcoming run at the Kennedy Center …
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump's Takeover
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
CIA starts firing recently hired officers  —  A federal judge ruled last week the CIA director can fire any employee if it is deemed to be in the “national interest.”  —  The CIA has started to fire some recently hired officers, as the Trump administration's effort to quickly slash …
Discussion: New York Times, Reuters and Daily Mail
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Facing Trump's threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel  —  Columbia University senior Maryam Alwan was visiting family in Jordan over winter break when she received an email from the school accusing her of harassment.  Her supposed top offense: writing an op-ed …
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump's Funding Freeze, Saying White House Put Itself ‘Above Congress’  —  The judge had ruled that the administration was not complying with his previous order requiring the government to keep disbursing money to states.  —  A federal judge on Thursday extended an order barring …
 
 
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Frank S. Zhou / The Harvard Crimson:
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Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
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