Marco Rubio Is Walking into a Trap
Plus: Seven Myths Shattered by Trump 2.0 (and One True Thing)
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MARK HERTLING: Marco Rubio Is Walking into a Trap
IāM AN ETERNAL OPTIMIST. But my gut, informed by a career spent studying and implementing American foreign policy, tells me this week will not go well. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rubioās diplomatic experience is limited to his time in the Senate, during which he served on the Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees. He has primarily focused on Latin American policy. Lavrov, on the other hand, has been Russiaās foreign minister since 2004, which makes him the longest-serving foreign minister in modern history. Before that he was a career diplomat. He is known for both his diplomatic savvy and his mastery of deception.
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JILL LAWRENCE: Seven Myths Shattered by Trump 2.0 (and One True Thing)
THE PAST FEW WEEKS have been a master class in myth-busting, starting with the fantasy that the government should be run like a business and the corollary delusion that winning candidates donāt follow through on their campaign agendas.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are running government right now just like they run their own businesses. Itās all about them and their profits, from Trumpās possibly criminal idea to forcibly remove all Palestinians from Gaza and build a resort there (āI would own this,ā he told Bret Baier) to Muskās so far doomed attempt to get a judge to approve his possibly shady $56 billion Tesla payout.
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Happy Tuesday! Baseball is back! Kinda. Spring training doesnāt count, and is for sickos, but if youāre not a sports person: at least Spring is around the corner.
My favorite shortā¦ From #SNL50? Has to be āAnxiety.ā
Sheriff working to trace neo-Nazi groupā¦ calls on legislature for tools to tackle hate groups (WLWT)
Checking in on the Party of the Working Classā¦ How are the Republicans helping workers so far? (Hamilton Nolan)
USDA says it accidentally fired officialsā¦ working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them (NBC)
I am the lawā¦ Some new hot garbage from the bad orange man about who can āspeak forā what the law is.
Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine scheduleā¦after promising not to change it (AP)
Zelensky Lashes Out at Trumpā¦ for Excluding Ukrainians From Peace Talks (NYT)
The Unicorns Are Zombiesā¦ Also Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI voting rights, the egg spot market, Libra and the Meet Kevin ETF. (Matt Levine, Bloomberg)
Zachary Levi Begs Elon Musk Not To Fire The āGoodā Federal Workersā¦ Who Voted For Trump. If he only had a magic purple crayon, Zachary. If only. (HuffPo)
Elon Muskās āDepartment of Government Efficiencyā and Congressā¦ Hypocrites Cutting Others But Not Themselves (Adam Kinzinger)
U.S. weighs destroying $500 millionā¦ in stockpiled covid tests (WaPo)
Senior U.S. prosecutor resignsā¦ citing demands to open probe into Biden-era contract (Reuters)
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