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Washington Post:
Trump praises Bezos after Amazon denies plan to show tariffs' costs  —  Amazon said staff had considered listing tariff costs on its Temu competitor, Amazon Haul, but that it's “not going to happen.”  The Trump administration had condemned the idea.  —  White House: Reported Amazon tariff note would be ‘hostile’
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Punchbowl News:
Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
CNN:
A ‘p*ssed’ Trump called Jeff Bezos after learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge
Associated Press:
Trump to offer automakers some relief on his 25% tariffs, after worries they could hurt US factories
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Touts Tariffs in Michigan Rally as Voters' Economic Concerns Mount
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 121. 4/29/25
Discussion: NewsNation and Washington Times
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost
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Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan ‘temporarily relieved of her official duties’ by Wisconsin Supreme Court  —  Dugan accused of shielding illegal immigrant from ICE agents  —  The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an administrative order on Tuesday calling for Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan to be …
New York Times:
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit  —  Paramount's interest in settling has dismayed CBS's news division.  The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.  —  Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News …
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Judge Hannah Dugan has all-star legal team, including ‘LeBron James of lawyers’  — Former U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement lead Judge Hannah Dugan's defense team.  — The prosecution is led by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Keith Alexander and Kelly Brown Watkza.
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum  —  “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,” Mr. Emhoff said in reaction to the removal of him and senior Biden White House officials from the board that oversees the museum.
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements  —  New language in antisemitism bill clarifies First Amendment protections  —  Senate Republicans added an amendment to bipartisan legislation addressing rising antisemitism …
House Committee on Appropriations:
100 Days In, Trump Blocks At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People  —  Since taking office, President Trump has trampled on our nation's laws and choked off critical investments that families, businesses, and local governments in every zip code in America are counting on.
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Grace Yarrow / Politico:   Trump won't back sharing food-aid costs with states, House Ag chair says
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Trump: 'I'd like to be pope'  —  He was joking (we think) — but said the conclave should take a look at a cardinal from New York.  —  Donald Trump has jokingly said he would be his own “number one choice” to be the next leader of the Catholic Church.  —  “I'd like to be pope,” …
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Paul Krugman:
Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
Discussion: New York Magazine, Axios and Politico
Prime Minister of Canada:
Prime Minister Carney speaks with President of the United States Donald J. Trump
Knight First Amendment Institute:
Federal Court Says First Amendment Bars Government From Deporting Students and Faculty on Basis of Political Viewpoint, Says Challenge to Trump Policy Can Go Forward  —  Ruling is a victory for free speech and step towards ending unconstitutional policy across U.S. campuses, Knight Institute says
New York Times:
Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines  —  In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised parents …
Discussion: The Texas Tribune and STAT
New York Times:
A Mother and Father Were Deported.  What Happened to Their Toddler?  —  The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison.  Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.  —  A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old …
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Reuters:   Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Republicans Say Medicaid ‘Work Requirements’ Don't Count As Cuts  —  Medicaid coverage for unemployed adults is on the line to help pay for President Donald Trump's tax cut bill.  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans have a strategy for moving Medicaid cuts through Congress when many of their own members …
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months  —  Millions of people in France and Germany have left X, according to X itself.  —  X's user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.
Discussion: New York Daily News
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Marks 100 Days Of Trump By Reading Aloud 100 Reports Of His Corruption  —  The Massachusetts senator plans to read into the congressional record dozens of cases of Trump using the presidency to benefit himself personally.  —  WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is 100 days into his second presidency …
Discussion: Boston Herald
Washington Post:
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show  —  The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtained by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Hughlett / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company  —  President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota. … Target gave $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural fund.
Discussion: Business Insider and Skift
Ilana Arougheti / Kansas City Star:
Kansas woman went to KC for a green card interview.  Now, she faces deportation … When Rosmery Alvarado, 42, arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday with her husband and daughter to attend a spousal interview for her green card application, everyone had a bad feeling.
David Weigel / Semafor:
Native American woman gets a chance to topple Hogg at DNC  —  The Scoop  —  A candidate who failed to win a Democratic National Committee leadership role is challenging her defeat — the first threat to DNC Vice Chair David Hogg since he vowed to keep backing some primary challenges to incumbents.
Bloomberg:
A $6 Billion Shortfall Has US Mass Transit Facing a Death Spiral  —  The federal government stepped in with $70 billion to get commuter rail and bus service through the pandemic.  The funds are running out.  —  When Covid-19 broke the US economy, the trains and buses that carried millions of Americans to work every day emptied out.
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House Republican says no way to party's proposal to overhaul federal worker pension  —  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will mark up its portion of the GOP megabill Wednesday, and one Republican on the panel is already coming out against it.
Dame Magazine:
Why I Am Leaving the USA  —  The author, a trans woman and mother of neurodivergent kids, has been monitoring this nation's political climate since Trump's first term.  Now that her worst fears are fast becoming a reality, she's had to make the most difficult decision of her life.
The Harvard Crimson:
Across 500 Pages, Harvard Task Force Reports Detail Hostility on Campus and Urge Broad Policy Changes  —  Harvard's twin task forces on combating bias toward Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian affiliates released their long-awaited reports on Tuesday afternoon …
Associated Press:
Trump greets Whitmer with a hug and gives her a win — new jets for Michigan airbase  —  President Donald Trump announced a new fighter jet mission for an Air National Guard base in Michigan on Tuesday, allaying fears that the base could close and delivering a win for a longtime antagonist, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
David Goldman / CNN:
China sends a stern video message to Trump: We won't ‘kneel down’  —  In a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's trade war, China's Foreign Ministry posted to social media a striking video that calls on the international community to stand up to America's “bully” leader.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Fox News
Jake Pearson / ProPublica:
A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts  —  Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency …
Discussion: The Hill
New York Post:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused of being gang-banger in 2018 court docs — in latest claim of MS-13 affiliation  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in 2018 court papers, The Post can reveal — as the fight continues over whether the deported illegal immigrant dad was a part of MS-13.
Axios:
Trump's late push for huge new corporate tax cuts  —  The Trump administration is pressing Congress to dramatically expand the number of business-friendly tax cuts in a budget bill that's already complicated and costly.  —  Why it matters: New additions, such as full expensing to build …
Discussion: Breitbart and Townhall
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Help Us Break 100k  —  Hey guys, it's Sarah.  —  We've just crossed the 100-day mark of this administration.  It's been every bit as catastrophic as we all thought it would be—and even worse in a lot of ways.  —  Here at The Bulwark, we've been calling out Trump's lies the whole way.
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DOGE Cuts Off Funds to Congressionally Mandated National Security Centers  —  The Department of Homeland Security-affiliated centers were housed at universities and researched everything from domestic terrorism threats and border security to weather emergencies.  — Copy
Washington Post:
100 days of Trump down, 1,360 to go  —  On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Emily Davies to discuss President Trump's first 100 days back in office - from his campaign-trail promises to his shock-and-awe campaign …
Vox:
Trump boots climate scientists from climate science report  —  The attack on climate science continues. … The National Climate Assessment is a federal compendium of climate science focused on how climate change is affecting the US, zooming into different regions to assess what has changed …
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
How Trump chipped away at abortion access in his first 100 days
Discussion: HuffPost and HotAir
Lil Kalish / HuffPost:
Democrats Revive Decades-Long Effort To Protect LGBTQ+ Americans
Washington Post:
U.S. judge hands Radio Free Europe key court win, defends courts from attack
Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
Patriots Team Plane Makes Trip To Guantánamo Bay
Discussion: Vanity Fair and WBUR
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
Florida is poised to become 2nd state to ban fluoride from public water systems
 Earlier Items: 
Politico:
It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Billionaire Leads L.A. Times to Lose $50 Million
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Let A Million Anti-Trump Flowers Bloom
Politico:
Hegseth cancels Pentagon program. It was signed into law by Trump.
Axios:
Trump's team war-gaming for an impeachment fight
 

 
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