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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump admin eyes arrests for House Dems over ICE incident  —  Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
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Greg Norman / Fox News:
Chaotic video shows Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by ‘unruly’ crowd, leading to 2 arrests  —  Mayor of Worcester says the ‘fear of ICE tearing a family apart is the worst nightmare’  —  A tense video emerged of a Massachusetts ICE arrest being disrupted by a crowd of about 25 people …
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility  —  Tricia McLaughlin accused members of Congress of assaulting and even body-slamming ICE officers.  A congresswoman who was present denied the allegation.  —  A spokesperson for the Department …
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 127. 5/9/25
Sena Chang / The Princetonian:
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth '03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say.  But how serious is it?  —  “After Card's whisper, Bush looked distracted and somber but continued to listen to the second-graders, joking that they ‘read like sixth-graders,’” …
Andrew Pridgen / SFGATE:
ICE raids have ‘overwhelmed’ coastal California communities ‘We continue to allow double punishment for noncitizens’  —  After a lull in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity on California's Central Coast, a rash of raids has reportedly swept through San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties over the past week.
Discussion: The Independent
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on Diversity Policies With Fresh Order for Review of Library Books  —  The move is the latest denunciation by the Trump administration against anything related to diversity, equity and inclusion.  —  The Pentagon continued its purge of anything related to diversity …
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say  —  The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.  —  The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter …
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NBC News:
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine  —  Using the Kremlin's interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.  —  MOSCOW — President Donald Trump's …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms  —  Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP's majorities in Congress.  —  Early in Donald Trump's first term, the president received what he now views as bad advice: Don't worry about the midterms, some advisers whispered back then.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts  —  The order, which would use state and local officers, among others, would represent an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement.  But it is unclear how it would be paid for.  —  President Trump ordered the Department …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Announces Truce Between India and Pakistan  —  Officials in both countries acknowledged a halt after several days of their most expansive fighting in decades.  —  Here's the latest.  —  President Trump announced Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a cease-fire …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Does Trump Have the Power to Install Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney?  —  By using another interim appointment to fill a vacancy for the top prosecutor in Washington, the White House is bypassing Senate confirmation and potentially claiming expansive authority.
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Vanessa Yurkevich / CNN:
Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports.  Officials haven't seen that since the pandemic  —  On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying  —  You should know that the question to Stephen Miller about habeas corpus was a set up.  —  The male “journalist” who asked it after Miller called on him for the first question at a staged press event posed it in terms of …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
Discussion: Adam Kinzinger
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse?  —  CRAZY TALK  —  It takes a degree of insanity to think sharing a picture of yourself as Pope or as Luke Skywalker is somehow helping raise your plummeting poll numbers.  —  OPINION  —  It was the cringiest of times.  It was the craziest of times.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
There are big, ugly problems at the center of the House budget bill  —  Republicans have created impossible restraints on their tax-and-budget package.  —  You might have heard the riddle about the man who must row a fox, a chicken and a sack of corn across a river one at a time.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democratic senator says GOP is trying to woo Fetterman  —  Ruben Gallego said Democrats should keep Fetterman in their tent.  —  BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego said Republicans are trying to pull John Fetterman to the right and argued Democrats should keep …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters  —  The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title.  Naturally, this caught his attention.
 
 
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Ben Jacobs / Politico:
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
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Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects
Discussion: The Independent
Frank Figliuzzi / MSNBC:
Kash Patel doesn't seem to be taking his FBI director role seriously
Discussion: NBC News
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 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
The Military's K-12 Schools Are Banning Award-Winning Kids' Books To Appease Trump
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
How MAGA centrists blamed a viral racist rant on the ‘woke’
Christl Dabu / CTV News:
‘Canadian Snowbird Act’ proposed in U.S. Congress
Discussion: Canadian Press
Reuters:
World reacts after India, Pakistan agree to stop firing
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Media Warns Of ‘Material Weakness’ In Financial Controls
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Abigail Spanberger Says She Can Take on Trump Without Bashing Him
Discussion: Blue Virginia