Week of 2025-0223

Sunday 2025 February 23

• Joe George at Reactor: “We Need Corny Star Trek Now More Than Ever“

Tuesday 2025 February 25

• Deon Osborne at The Black Wall Street Times: “Oklahoma enters the FAFO stage of Trump’s authoritarian agenda“

Wednesday 2025 February 26

• NY Times: “DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week“
• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “DOGE Cites ‘DEI,’ LinkedIn Profiles It Doesn’t Like In Killing Off HUD Contracts“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “BIG: Federal Board Agrees With OSC Order to Halt Firings“
• Emily Davies and Hannah Natanson at The Washington Post: “Under pressure, VA halts contract cancellations in major reversal“
• Jerry Cayford on 3 Quarks Daily: “And When He Got to Moving“
• Michael Levenson, Teddy Rosenbluth, and Apoorva Mandavilli in the NY Times: “Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas Outbreak“

Thursday 2025 February 27

• Emine Yücel at Talking Points Memo: “Congress Turns To Stopgap As GOP Tries To Spin Dems’ Separation Of Powers Request As ‘Unreasonable’“
• Berkeley Lovelace Jr. at MSNBC: “FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season’s shots“
• Paul Krugman: “Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid“
• Matt McCabe at KOTV-6 News on 6: “Federal offices closing across Oklahoma under Trump cost-cutting plan“

Saturday 2025 March 1

• David Folkenflik at NPR: “Bezos’ changes at ‘Washington Post’ lead to mass subscription cancellations — again“
• Stephen Fowler at NPR: “DOGE’s savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “How Things Stand” (as of 2025 Feb 24)
• Carl Weisbrod at Vital City: “Congestion Pricing to the Rescue“
• Eric A. Goldstein at Vital City: “Why Trump’s Attempt to Kill Congestion Pricing Must Fail“
• Liz Dye at Above the Law: “DC Prosecutor Ed Martin Keeps Inventing New Ways To Disgrace His Office“