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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit  —  As Trump administration officials seek to defend their refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after deporting him in “error,” one of the government's chief justifications has been that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Deported ‘Father of the Year’  —  LEAVITT ALONE  —  Trump's press secretary mocked the Maryland father who the administration mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison.  —  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at reporters Tuesday …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is halfway to making America a police state  —  The president's refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point  —  At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government.  Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.
Washington Post:
Judge says Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return wrongly deported man  —  The order for records and, potentially, depositions of Trump administration officials further a legal standoff in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  just now
Roger Parloff / Default:
Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?  —  The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.  —  Meet The Authors … In multiple filings, the government has conceded that it wrongfully removed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia …
Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data  —  In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
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Reuters:
Whistleblower org says DOGE may have caused ‘significant cyber breach’ at US labor watchdog
Discussion: NPR and Eschaton
Donald Moynihan / The Atlantic:
DOGE Is Making the IRS a Tip Jar for Public Services  —  Sabotaging the agency's work amounts to an inducement for the ultra-rich to treat taxes as a voluntary contribution.  —  The Internal Revenue Service may be America's least-loved government agency, but it is one of the most important.
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Aaron Navarro / CBS News:
IRS could cut up to 40% of workforce, memo indicates
Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power  —  Greetings and welcome to this week's midair performance of the Carnival of Fools!  Like a prestige subscription-service drama, our story resumes from a potent cliff-hanger: Last week, Donald Trump had invoked the laws of cartoon physics …
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here
Discussion: Vox, New Jersey Online and Politico
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Top Hegseth adviser Dan Caldwell put on leave in Pentagon leak probe  —  One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
State Terror  —  Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.  —  This is the beginning …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bring.  Him.  Home.  —  Reminder: I'll be talking with Paul Krugman on Substack today, live at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.  —  1. Five Questions  —  We're going to give elected leaders in the Democratic party a charge and then talk about how the public can rally.  But first, I have some questions to consider.
Discussion: Reason and OutsideTheBeltway
Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
Trump's Policy of Shipping Innocents to the Salvadoran Gulag Shows Utter Contempt for Not Just the Constitution but Law Itself
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target
Discussion: The City and Documented
Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg:
US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away … The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Guardian
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:   Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion
Mohar Chatterjee / Politico:
Pentagon's ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse  —  Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE.  “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.  —  Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff …
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New York Times:
U.S. Cites Mideast Peace Process to Justify Move to Deport Student  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, who led Columbia protests, engaged in activities that could threaten attempts to end the war in Gaza, a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.  —  The Trump administration is seeking to deport …
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War  —  The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend.  The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications.
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Autism rate increased, CDC says in report that contradicts RFK Jr. on cause  —  In a sample of communities, the biennial autism surveillance report found that 1 in 31 8-year-olds had the condition.  The CDC attributed the increase to better screening.  —  One in 31 8-year-olds had autism …
Sohrab Ahmari / UnHerd:
JD Vance: My message to Europe America doesn't want a vassal continent  —  “It's not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.”  So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Vibe Shifts Against the Right  —  Alex Kaschuta's podcast, “Subversive,” used to be a node in the network between weird right-wing internet subcultures and mainstream conservatism.  She hosted men's rights activists and purveyors of “scientific” racism, neo-reactionary online personalities …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Rachel Schilke / Washington Examiner:
Mayra Flores hospitalized hours after launching comeback House bid  —  Former Republican Rep. Mayra Flores was hospitalized hours after she announced a run for embattled Rep. Henry Cuellar's (D-TX) House seat in Texas, her campaign said in a Tuesday statement.
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case  —  The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case.  Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.  —  Mark Zuckerberg called the head of the Federal Trade Commission in late March with an offer …
Axios:
Scoop: Top House Dems trying to send delegation to El Salvador  —  Two members of House Democratic leadership are trying to send an official congressional delegation to the El Salvadorian prison where the Trump administration is sending deportees, Axios has learned.
G. Allen Johnson / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Home Alone 2’ director says Donald Trump cameo has ‘become this curse’  —  San Francisco filmmaker Chris Columbus said Donald Trump's cameo in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” more than 30 years ago has been “an albatross for me” and “wishes it was gone.”  —  “I can't cut it,” …
 
 
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These Sick Criminals Are Who Democrats and the Legacy Media Are Defending
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Student protesters being deported are not ‘martyrs and heroes,’ says former antisemitism envoy
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Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
Government's case against Mahmoud Khalil is shaky and reliant on tabloid accounts, review of evidence shows
Discussion: Fox News and Truthout
Shia Kapos / Politico:
DOGE targets Brookfield Zoo
Washington Post:
DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs
Bloomberg:
US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
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