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Peter Sullivan / Axios:
GOP weighs health care moves to pay for Iran war  —  Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. … - “There's other items we're looking at right now …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War
Discussion: CBS News
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Trump's Iran war is holding him hostage  —  If there is any consistency to Trump's policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences  —  Donald Trump has lost his Iran war.  He is the Iranian hostage.
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David Smith / The Guardian:
‘Battle of the titans’: Trump's distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
Discussion: Raw Story
Nathan Taylor Pemberton / New York Times:
‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC  —  At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.  —  As the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference wound to a close …
Discussion: MS NOW
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage  —  When Pete Hegseth talks to God, he asks the Almighty to help him kill people—as violently and ruthlessly as possible.  —  In a potential violation of the separation of church and state, Hegseth has ordered monthly prayer meetings …
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
U.S. Army opens investigation into attack helicopter activities at Kid Rock's home, No Kings protest  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — U.S. Army officials have ordered an investigation into the activities of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that flew over Saturday's “No Kings” …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Army investigates helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's Nashville home … The U.S. Army is investigating the apparent flyby of that military branch's Apache helicopters over the weekend at the Nashville home of singer Kid Rock, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, an Army spokesman said Monday.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and New York Post
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Army investigating video of Apache helicopter at Kid Rock's Nashville home … “The Army is aware of a video circulating online that appears to show AH-64 Apache helicopters operating in the vicinity of a private residence in the Nashville area,” Russell said.
Noa Shpigel / Haaretz:
Israel Passes Bill Mandating Death Penalty for Palestinians Convicted of Lethal Acts of Terrorism  —  The bill's wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror difficult to impossible
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship  —  The administration builds its arguments on an 1800s campaign, led in part by a Confederate officer, that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.  —  Alexander Porter Morse …
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars
Agence France-Presse:
US military building ‘massive complex’ beneath White House ballroom project: Trump  —  Washington (United States) (AFP) - President Donald Trump said Sunday the US military was planning to construct a large complex beneath the new ballroom he is building at the White House.
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13  —  CONNECTING THE DOTS  —  More information given by the woman has been backed up.  —  A new investigation has backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13, according to a report.
Jared Sharpe / UMass Amherst:
President Trump's Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll  —  Amidst war with Iran and deepening disapproval over his handling of inflation, immigration, jobs and tariffs, 17% of 2024 Trump voters now express reservations about their vote choice  —  A new national University …
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Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
First Draft: Are These Trump's Worst Poll Numbers... Ever?
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack … Fischer and the Sullivans are looking to represent a class of plaintiffs that includes dozens of others present that day on the Capitol's West Front, the scene of the most violent confrontations between rioters and police.
David Gilbert / Wired:
This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms  —  WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year's midterm elections.  —  President Donald Trump's rhetorical war on elections has seemed to only get more serious with time.
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Eric Columbus / Lawfare:   The Trump Administration Comes for State Voter Rolls
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat  —  Congressional news Donald Trump Primary elections Senate election  —  In Nebraska's Senate race, a Trump-supporting, anti-abortion pastor is running as a Democrat.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump says it's ‘possible’ Means will be withdrawn as surgeon general nominee  —  President Trump on Sunday indicated he was open to withdrawing his nomination of Casey Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, to be U.S. surgeon general, as reports indicate she does not have the necessary Republican support.
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Administration Sues Minnesota Over Transgender Student Athletes  —  Last year, the state said it would not follow President Trump's directive on transgender athlete participation in girls' sports.  —  The Trump administration sued the Minnesota Education Department and the state group …
James Whitbrook / Gizmodo:
Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’  —  Given the ‘Project Hail Mary’ writer's past comments about his ‘Star Trek’ hopes, it's perhaps not hard to imagine why they were turned down.  —  Andy Weir is perhaps one of the biggest names in Hollywood right now …
Discussion: Fox News, twitchy.com and Deadline
José Olivares / The Guardian:
Texas house speaker directs committee to study annexing parts of New Mexico  —  New Mexico governor calls order ‘not serious’ as south-eastern counties note divisions with Democratic Santa Fe  —  The speaker of Texas's house of representatives says he is entertaining the idea of expanding …
Discussion: Newsweek
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
DHS shutdown set to stretch on with Congress on 2-week break  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, now the longest in history at 45 days, is set to stretch on after House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed solution to the standoff late last week.
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Nation
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Mark Sanford files to run for his old congressional seat by sounding alarm on national debt  —  [+] Add Post and Courier News on Google  —  CHARLESTON — Former South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford has filed to run for his old U.S. House seat, reentering electoral politics years …
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Emma Janssen / American Prospect:
When ICE Blows Through Rural America  —  This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine.  Read more from the issue.  —  ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA - It's afternoon and I'm riding shotgun in Theron Gjersvik's pickup, patrolling the town to look for any sign of ICE.
David W. Chen / New York Times:
A Democratic Electrician Nabs a State Senate Seat in Republican Florida  —  With Brian Nathan's victory certified, Democrats won two of three state legislative races in this month's special elections, all in Republican-leaning districts.  —  Democrats on Monday officially claimed a second upset …
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Watchdog Has Gone Silent, Lawyers for Whistle-Blower Say  —  Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency's inspector general appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize misconduct.  —  The Justice Department's internal watchdog …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge appears skeptical of Pentagon's latest press restrictions: ‘Is this a Catch-22?’ … “How weird is that?” the judge said.  “Is this a Catch-22?  Is this Kafka?”  —  Justice Department attorney Sarah Welch told Friedman that the information given to the Times may have preceded …
Discussion: CBS News and NewsMax.com
 
 
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
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Svante Myrick / The Hill:
MAGA's latest campaign of cruelty targets immigrant kids' education
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Americans Have Never Been All That Excited About Going to the Moon
Alana Goodman / The Washington Free Beacon:
‘There Are a Lot of People in Dearborn Who Are Sad’: Democratic Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Said He Needed To Stay Silent on Khamenei Killing …
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Lindsey Graham Lives It Up at Disney World During Partial Government Shutdown
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New York Times:
A Border Wall Plan Unites Republicans and Democrats in Texas: ‘This Is Insane’
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Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy
Discussion: Raw Story
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