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7:05 PM ET, April 1, 2025

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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 …
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.
Discussion: Vox, Washington Examiner and CBS News
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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.
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:   Happy April Fools Day! (No joke.)
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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Justine Calma / The Verge:
Hundreds of scientists accuse Donald Trump of censorship
Discussion: NPR, STAT and New York Times
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Professors Pushed Harvard to Resist Trump. Now Billions Are on the Line.
NOTUS:
House Republicans Lose a Floor Vote, End the Work Week on a Tuesday  —  House Republican leadership called it quits for the week after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna led a bipartisan effort to tank a vote that would have effectively killed her discharge petition to allow new parents to vote remotely.
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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.
HuffPost:
Republicans Turn On Each Other In Fight To Help New Moms In Congress
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 …
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.
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
Trump and Kennedy just put America at risk
Discussion: USA Today, Axios and Jeff Nesbit
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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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Trump D.C. U.S. attorney nominee Ed Martin to be blocked by Adam Schiff  —  President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Democrats Have Problems.  Turning Out for Special Elections Isn't One of Them.  —  They have come out in strong numbers in smaller races so far this year, and in the early voting for today's elections.  —  It can feel as if the Democratic Party has a lot of work to do before it is ready to win elections again.
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New York Times:
Turnout Strong as Wisconsin Decides Key Court Contest
Discussion: Urban Milwaukee and Twitchy
Rann Miller / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   For some Trump voters, a realization dawns: We've had our pockets picked
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 …
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Republicans Eye $25,000 SALT Cap as Trump's Tax Cuts Take Shape  —  Republicans are in the process of drafting a tax bill behind closed doors that includes an increase of the state and local tax deduction to as high as $25,000 for an individual, according to people familiar with the plan.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP embraces controversial tax cut strategy
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
Associated Press:
Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources  —  Musk seemed to boast of advance knowledge of the arrest during a tele-rally.  —  Elon Musk attends the Division 1 Men's Wrestling Championship in Philadelphia, Mar. 22, 2025.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: New York Post
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Democrats use FDA hearing to protest agency job cuts  —  Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee slammed Republicans for holding a routine hearing on the FDA's regulation of consumer products amid HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping layoffs of the agency's workers and his ousting of its top vaccine regulator.
Discussion: Endpoints News, STAT and USA Today
Rep. Jeffries / Rep. Jeffries on YouTube:
House Democratic Hearing on Social Security  —  Today, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on the Republican scheme to destroy Social Security, featuring testimony from e...
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Brian Barrett / Wired:
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building For Free  —  It's the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk's DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.  —  On Tuesday, US district judge Beryl Howell effectively allowed the transfer …
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
Discussion: Payday Report
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.
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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 …
Paul Kirby / BBC:
Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years  —  President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30, Russia's highest number of conscripts since 2011, as the country moves to expand the size of its military.  —  The spring call-up for a year's military service came several months …
Discussion: Fox News and Euromaidan Press
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?
Discussion: The Nation
 
 
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Bloomberg:
European Tourists Start Avoiding US as ‘Unknown Territory’
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Nicholas Fondacaro / Newsbusters:
The View Lauds Mystal, Claims All Laws Pre-1965 Are ‘Unconstitutional’
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Social Security Administration probes origin of website portal outage
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come
Discussion: Raw Story
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
 Earlier Items: 
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media
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Liz Hoffman / Semafor:
Rahm Emanuel is coming to Wall Street
Discussion: The Hill
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Alabama Can't Prosecute Those Who Help With Out-of-State Abortions, Judge Rules
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
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