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2:30 AM ET, March 13, 2025

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NBC News:
Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near  —  After meeting with his conference, the Senate minority leader said “Republicans do not have the votes” to advance the House-approved measure, which requires 60 to pass.
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Axios:
Senate Democrats embrace hardball on government shutdown  —  Senate Democrats left a private meeting Wednesday saying there aren't enough votes to advance the short-term funding bill that passed the House on Tuesday.  —  Why it matters: This raises the chances of a government shutdown this weekend.
Sue Halpern / New Yorker:   Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections
HuffPost:
Senate Democrats Balk At GOP Funding Bill As Government Shutdown Nears
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups  —  The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.  —  Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told …
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Calder McHugh / Politico:
The arrest that's prompting a campus free speech reckoning
Washington Post:
Social Security scraps far-reaching cuts to phone services after Post report  —  The agency will move ahead with a much narrower change eliminating direct deposit changes by phone amid DOGE fraud concerns.  —  just now  —  The Social Security Administration late Wednesday abandoned plans …
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Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune:
Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges  — The White House could bring the full force of the U.S. government to bear on anti-Elon Musk protestors found to have destroyed his carmaker's assets, following a spate of attacks large and small targeting Tesla.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Looks Desperate
Jeremy White / Wired:
Donald Trump Bought a $90,000 Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It
Discussion: Daily Mail, CNN and Washington Examiner
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts  —  Tim Walz is headed back out on the road - this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Twitchy
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Democrats are heading to GOP districts for town halls: 'We're filling a void'
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents  —  The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.  —  A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find …
Washington Post:
Trump vowed to fix the economy.  His voters are still waiting.  —  While many of his supporters continue to put their faith in the president, Trump's political capital could be tested if the economy suffers in the coming months.  —  Surrounded by boxes of Wheaties and Froot Loops …
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Politico:
Trump calls Schumer a ‘Palestinian’ while defending GOP spending bill, egg prices and tariff policy
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Judge says Trump penalties on law firm send ‘chills down my spine’  —  The Trump administration was ordered to halt, at least temporarily, parts of its executive order punishing the law firm Perkins Coie.  —  A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration …
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Evan Bush / NBC News:
EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations  —  Lee Zeldin said he will reconsider a list of core EPA policies, including emissions standards for vehicles and the finding that serves as the basis for addressing climate change.  —  Promising to drive …
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US EPA:
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
Max Tani / Semafor:
In reversal, NPR permits anchor to attend Pride event  —  The Scoop  —  National Public Radio dissuaded one of its most visible gay employees from attending a corporate LGBTQ Pride event, as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans put pressure on the public broadcaster.
Politico:
Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions  —  The demands for information are designed to clarify the “parameters of DOGE's and Musk's authority.”  —  A federal judge has ordered that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency turn …
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Politico:
Who's in Elon's ear — and DMs  —  Musk's most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.  —  Unlike traditional Washington power players, Elon Musk doesn't have a deep bench of policy wonks …
New York Times:
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities  —  A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.  —  The Trump administration has abruptly cleared out a second group …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR … Federal workers obviously don't like government shutdowns.  Most of them are furloughed.  Others are forced to continue working without pay.  But in a letter addressed to members of the Senate, which I obtained …
Joe Kukura / SFist:
Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three  —  The Highway Patrol's investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors would not open.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link  —  The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
Discussion: HotAir and Gizmodo
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Putin orders swift expulsion of Ukrainian forces before peace talks  —  The Russian leader promised to treat captured forces as “terrorists.”  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to defeat Ukrainian forces occupying its Kursk border region as soon as possible …
Wall Street Journal:
CEOs Don't Plan to Openly Question Trump.  Ask Again If the Market Crashes 20%.  —  Behind closed doors, business leaders air plenty of concerns about the administration and its policies  —  WASHINGTON—How business leaders talk about the Trump administration in private has been markedly different …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fortune
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying  —  EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.
St. John Barned-Smith / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. Tesla showroom has been operating without proper permits for nearly a decade  —  The San Francisco Tesla showroom on Van Ness Avenue has been operating without a proper permit for nearly a decade after city building inspectors failed to sign off on a $2.3 million renovation back in 2016.
Discussion: SFist
Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Antisemitic and racist shock jock is back on the radio, 11 years after being fired for tirade  —  A conservative radio host who was fired a decade ago for calling a Black woman an “animal” and has since shared a host of racist and antisemitic content on social media has a new show on New York's WABC …
Andrea Castillo / Los Angeles Times:
Venezuelan couple arrested and charged with illegal entry — two years after crossing into the U.S.  — The timing of the arrests and charges is unusual and reflects the Trump administration's increasingly aggressive tactics on immigration.  — The couple had been granted protected status …
 
 
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Michael Ian Black / The Daily Beast:
The Viral ‘Debate’ Video That Proves Most MAGA Voters Are a Lost Cause
Discussion: The Forward
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans “law and order” speech at DOJ
Discussion: Townhall
IJR:
'Really Don't Care': Sebastian Gorka Halts Tapper For Citing ‘Fake News’ WaPo On Frozen Foreign Aid Concerns
Discussion: Raw Story
Mother Jones:
Goodbye, Kevin Drum
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Rolling Stone:
Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn't Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
Discussion: New York Times
The Hill:
Judge finds Trump unlawfully fired head of federal employee labor board
 Earlier Items: 
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Republicans turn on DeSantis administration in DOGE-like quest to cut spending
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump's ‘Direction’
Discussion: Washington Post
Politico:
'I think he's serious': Bannon won't rule out presidential run in 2028
Discussion: Daily Mail
Ilya Somin / Reason:
District Court Rules Trump Violated Constitution by Usurping Congress's Spending Power
Discussion: E&E News and The Independent
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
White House reporter asks Irish PM why he ‘let’ Rosie O'Donnell move to his country
Jon Sindreu / Wall Street Journal:
Is Trump Taking a ‘Liquidationist’ Approach to the Economy?
Discussion: Bloomberg
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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