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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox. — Just now — Members of President Donald …
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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison — Sign up for Trump's Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. — The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites — The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
The Lawlessness Is the Point — If JD Vance were capable of shame, he'd be embarrassed by what just happened. After the news broke that President Trump's administration admitted to deporting a Maryland man in “error,” Vance lashed out at podcaster Jon Favreau, who had asked him to comment on what had transpired.
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Louder With Crowder
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Innocent (in a Brutal Prison) Abroad
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Washington Examiner and Instapundit
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Happy April Fools Day! (No joke.)
New York Times:
U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’
U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador
Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Admits Deporting the Wrong Guy to El Salvador Mega Prison. They Still Won't Bring Him Home
Trump Admin Admits Deporting the Wrong Guy to El Salvador Mega Prison. They Still Won't Bring Him Home
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Washington Post and Mediaite
Wired:
The CDC Has Been Gutted — Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. — Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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STAT, The Verge, Mother Jones and Politico
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Trump Pauses Dozens of Federal Grants to Princeton — The Trump administration has sought to punish universities financially, saying they have not done enough to combat antisemitism or comply with other administration priorities. — The Trump administration moved this week to suspend dozens …
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Business Insider, Associated Press, One America News Network and Bloomberg
Justine Calma / The Verge:
Hundreds of scientists accuse Donald Trump of censorship
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Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Professors Pushed Harvard to Resist Trump. Now Billions Are on the Line.
Professors Pushed Harvard to Resist Trump. Now Billions Are on the Line.
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The Guardian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
Princeton Says Trump Administration Is Halting Research Grant Funding
Princeton Says Trump Administration Is Halting Research Grant Funding
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The Hill, Axios, The Daily Wire, KTVZ-TV and The Post Millennial
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents — The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.
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Politico:
Anna Paulina Luna leaves House Freedom Caucus amid split with colleagues over proxy voting for new parents — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has left the House Freedom Caucus, the Florida Republican said in a letter Monday withdrawing her membership. The decision comes amid a break with her colleagues …
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The Hill and Washington Examiner
NOTUS:
House Republicans Lose a Floor Vote, End the Work Week on a Tuesday
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House votes to defy Mike Johnson in painful blow
House votes to defy Mike Johnson in painful blow
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, NOTUS, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and ABC News
Associated Press:
Republicans reject Speaker Johnson's effort to block moms and dads in House from proxy voting
Republicans reject Speaker Johnson's effort to block moms and dads in House from proxy voting
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The Hill, Plain Dealer, Roll Call, American Greatness and The Colorado Sun
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Johnson ignites GOP fury with hardball tactics
Mike Johnson ignites GOP fury with hardball tactics
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Associated Press:
New Jersey Sen. Booker presses his marathon speech against Trump's agenda past 21 hours and counting — Watch live as U.S. Senator Cory Booker addresses the Senate floor. Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak “as long” as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night …
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NOTUS:
A Cory Booker Staffer Was Arrested for Carrying a Gun on Capitol Grounds, Police Said — The arrest comes the same day the New Jersey senator began a protest of President Donald Trump's agenda. — Copy — A staffer for Sen. Cory Booker was arrested Monday by U.S. Capitol Police …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Cory Booker Has Been Bashing Trump on Senate Floor for 17 Straight Hours
Cory Booker Has Been Bashing Trump on Senate Floor for 17 Straight Hours
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Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press:
Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food — Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
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CNN:
'It's a bloodbath': Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies — A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when they arrived at work.
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Ayelet Sheffey / Business Insider:
The same badge-scan strategy used in Tesla layoffs has hit federal workers
The same badge-scan strategy used in Tesla layoffs has hit federal workers
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GovExec.com, Federal News Network, ABC News, IJR, UPI and One America News Network
Dasha Burns / Politico:
'I don't know anyone that isn't pissed off at him': Trump world turns on Lutnick — As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration. — Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of …
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Camille Gijs / Politico:
EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump's mega tariffs — Brussels sees America's transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles' heel. — BRUSSELS — It's one thing to hit Harley-Davidson motorbikes and bourbon whiskey. It's another to go after Silicon Valley or Wall Street.
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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Trump's Tariffs to Take Immediate Effect, White House Says
Trump's Tariffs to Take Immediate Effect, White House Says
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Jacqueline Sweet / Rolling Stone:
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks — Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth … Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what's left of USAID …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
D-Day for Musk: Democrats in Special Elections Target Trump's DOGE Chief — Special Elections Reveal Trump's Weak Spot: Elon Musk — DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trumpeting new tariffs he hopes will return industry to America, President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day.”
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Trump to consider final TikTok proposal Wednesday, sources say — President Trump will consider a final proposal for TikTok on Wednesday, sources familiar with the planning tell CBS News. — The administration is finalizing plans for potential investors that could include Blackstone and Oracle …
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US Department of Justice:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione — For Immediate Release — Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement: — “Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says
Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says
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McKenzie Funk / ProPublica:
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” — Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
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New York Post
Washington Post:
Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies — The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services. — April 1, 2025 — The Fix — Analysis — Aaron Blake
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Endpoints News and New York Times
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Elon Musk's $1 million handout winners are connected to Republican causes — Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler were presented with giant checks, but they're not exactly random voters. … On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak …
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Wall Street Journal:
A $6 Trillion Trump Tax Increase? — Navarro says tariffs will raise $600 billion a year for the government, but he says this is a tax cut. — Click for Sound — Financial markets have the shakes as President Trump prepares to launch his next big tariff salvo on Wednesday.
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New Republic:
Trump Hit by Brutal New Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear — President Donald Trump is set to announce that he'll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly to try to shield their states and districts from the fallout.
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Punchbowl News and National Review
Ian Dunt / Striking 13:
Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen — The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law — The truth of the Marine Le Pen story is simple. She fucked around. She got found out. — What did she actually do?
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The Nation
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media — The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel's war in Gaza. — Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
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Racket News
Fortune:
Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week — Target saw foot traffic fall for the eighth consecutive week, extending a losing streak that began just a few days …
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Forbes
In These Times:
Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents — While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.
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The Hill and LewRockwell
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Ten weeks that shook the world — On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power — Civilisations are not murdered, said the historian Arnold Toynbee. They die from suicide. Though military clout and geographic fortune will sustain America, its republic is flirting with Toynbee's script.
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Raw Story
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Exorbitant Price of Trump's Tariffs — On the one hand, there will be economic pain. On the other hand, there will also be geopolitical pain. — This week the Trump administration is scheduled to announce yet more tariffs. The president has characterized this as “Liberation Day” …
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Axios, The Status Kuo, Washington Post, 1819 News, New Republic and American Greatness

