GOP lawmaker pushes to impeach judge over order to halt deportations  —  Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (Texas) said he would be pushing to impeach the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend.

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order  —  Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.”  —  Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …

‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed  —  The president sent a chilling warning to people pardoned by former President Joe Biden.  —  Donald Trump claimed late Sunday — in a middle-of-the-night rant on his Truth Social platform …

Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.

Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans  —  Many Democratic activists, desperate for their leaders to stand up to President Trump, have been staging protests outside of Senator Chuck Schumer's home and calling for his resignation.

French politician demands US return the Statue of Liberty  —  A Member of the European Parliament thinks the U.S. should return the Statue of Liberty to France.  —  Raphael Glucksmann, a socialist and member of France's left-wing Place Publique party, made the demand while delivering …

Trump has a plan to remake the economy.  But he's not explaining it very well.  —  President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”  But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.

Destroying America's Brand  —  Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister.  And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while.  Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:

Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel  —  The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh.  —  One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press

Trump's Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What's to Come  —  President Trump's approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool.  As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.  —  The line fell silent.

Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding  —  The government has demanded drastic changes to the university before it will consider reinstating $400 million.  Lee C. Bollinger, the school's former president calls it an “existential threat.”

Contempt, Equity, and the Boundaries of the United States  —  According to reporting by Josh Gerstein and Myah Ward at Politico, executive officers just defied the court order prohibiting the shipment of prisoners to El Salvador.  The official explanation given for that defiance …

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants  —  National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE  —  Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency's ability to serve the public.  —  When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration …

There Was Never Any “Fascism Debate”  —  They Refused to Engage  —  A number of my interlocutors in the fascism debate have reversed their positions since witnessing the full extent of the Trump regime's willingness and ability to employ political repression against its enemies.

Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off  —  Latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the electric pickup  —  Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles.

The Competition to Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year  —  Applications are surging as students seek stability in a difficult job market  —  A weakening white-collar job market and a contentious political climate are fueling interest in law school, leading to one of the most competitive years …

Trump weighs recognizing Crimea as Russian territory in bid to end war  —  The Scoop  —  The Trump administration is considering recognizing Ukraine's Crimea region as Russian territory as part of any future agreement to end Moscow's war on Kyiv, according to two people familiar with the matter.

We're Well Past Alarm Bells  —  The wannabe autocrats don't take a weekend off, huh?  Let's get into it.  Happy Monday.  —  The Slippery Slope of Lawlessness  —  by William Kristol  —  This past Saturday afternoon I should have been outside enjoying a nice spring day here in the D.C area.