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Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested.  Now He's a Senator.  —  Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found.  Some had bank accounts garnished.  —  It was Easter weekend in 2007 when a police car pulled up to Joe Vasquez's home in rural Kansas.
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Probing the polling problem
Discussion: Washington Post
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Karl Rove Says He's ‘Nervous’ About Republicans' Midterm Convention  —  Republican strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday he is “a little bit nervous” about the GOP's unprecedented midterm convention, warning that Republicans are making a late and risky bet on President Donald Trump with control of Congress on the line.
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New Republic:
Trump Tailspins as Leaks About GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn  —  Donald Trump's tailspinning continues.  A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium.  That's worse than Joe Biden in 2022 …
Discussion: VINnews
Politico:
Republicans are hoping ‘Trump-a-palooza’ isn't only about Trump
Discussion: New Republic, MPR News and Robert Reich
New York Times:
Smithsonian's Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution  —  In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.  —  After a seven-year run marked most recently by attacks …
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Kelsey Ables / The Atlantic:
Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian  —  After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.  —  Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator defends Bombardier after Trump threat  —  Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is defending private jet maker Bombardier from growing pressure from President Trump, who on Monday declared the Canadian aerospace company would no longer be able to sell planes in the United States.
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
What to know about Canada's escalating trade war with the US as Carney retaliates with tariffs
Stine Jacobsen / Reuters:
Iceland summons US ambassador after Trump posts map showing island under American flag  —  Iceland summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday after President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RUV said.
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TheJournal.ie:
Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump map portraying it as part of America  —  On Monday, Trump posted an image to social media with a map of North America in which Iceland was among countries coloured in with the US flag.  —  7.7k  —  Trump posted the image with no explanation.  Truth Social
Haaretz:
Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7.  He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs  —  Article printing is available to subscribers only  —  Zen reading is available to subscribers only  —  Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format
New York Times:
After 9/11, Documents Suggest, New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality  —  The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.  —  In the harrowing months …
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Paul Waldman / MS NOW:
Trump won the battle over his awful arch.  The next Democratic president can win the war.  —  Donald Trump is in a hurry.  He cannot wait for cumbersome bureaucratic processes, slow-moving courts or even the law itself.  —  He must have his arch, and he must have it now.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Veterans and Democrats intensify fight against Trump's planned arch  —  Opponents of the 250-foot triumphal arch project say it could disrupt military burials at Arlington, during construction and after its completion.  —  Summary  —  Veterans and Democrats are escalating efforts …
Discussion: NPR and The Hill
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
DOJ asks Supreme Court to let it use immigration database to purge state voter rolls  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use a flawed federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges.
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Mary Ellen Klas / Bloomberg:
Trump's Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos  —  Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting method used by one-third of all Americans.
Discussion: New York Times, MS NOW and Daily Mail
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Kevin Frey / MS NOW:
Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump's mail-in voting crackdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God. and KQED
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over  —  Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that analyze Americans' financial activity and other data, then feed that intelligence to local police who pull people …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Appeals court upholds ruling barring IRS from sharing data with ICE  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling blocking information sharing between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the immigration agency requested the last known address of millions of people.
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:   IRS's Data Sharing With ICE Violated Law, Appeals Court Rules
NOTUS:
Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run  —  The Trump administration is planning to significantly reorganize the National Park Service and other bureaus of the Interior Department, the second major shake-up of the nation's public lands infrastructure in less than two years.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Shia Kapos / Politico:
Pritzker launches $20M pre-midterms PAC  —  CHICAGO — A new political action committee chaired by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to invest at least $20 million aimed at boosting Democratic House candidates for the midterms while also expanding his national political footprint ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run.
Discussion: New York Times
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Jenna Monnin / NOTUS:
Pritzker Jumps Into Midterms Money Battle With New $20M PAC
Wall Street Journal:
Yemen's Houthi Militants Attack Saudi Energy Infrastructure  —  Attacks come as U.S.-Iran war continues to disrupt energy flows through Strait of Hormuz  —  Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen fired drones and missiles at a number of Saudi Arabia's southern energy facilities Tuesday morning …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🫡 Subscribe to PN 🫡  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suffered a significant defeat last week as one of his signature policy initiatives was quietly shelved.
Beth Reinhard / New York Times:
Paxton Aide Turned Whistle-Blower Appears in Ad Endorsing His Rival, Talarico  —  David Maxwell was among the staffers in the Texas attorney general's office who accused Ken Paxton of abusing the power of his office, allegations that led to his impeachment.  Mr. Paxton was acquitted.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The hidden dangers of Musk's votesafe.org  —  The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.  —  With the midterm elections approaching, it's a good idea to make sure you are registered.
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Exclusive poll: GOP's gains among Latinos fade in House battlegrounds  —  Democrats have gained sharply with Latino voters in some of the country's most competitive House districts since 2024, a new Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision poll shared exclusively with Axios shows.
Discussion: The Hill and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
Most states prompt schools to teach about 9/11, but the details differ, AP finds
Discussion: American Thinker
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian:
US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Discussion: Gizmodo
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team's Handling of Anniversary Data
Discussion: The Hill
Tim Balk / New York Times:
‘Democrats Are Behind’: PAC Wants Party to Catch Up on A.I.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Politico:
Newsom's Buttigieg walkback and Villegas' Valley test
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
Zina Rakhamilova / Washington Examiner:
Osama bin Laden is winning from the grave
Matt Margolis / PJ Media:
Amy Acton's ‘Assassination Attempt’ Narrative Is Falling Apart
Paul Krugman:
Where's the Beef (Coming From)?
Discussion: New York Times
Emily Peck / Axios:
An exercise in thinking about the unthinkable: a U.S. debt default
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ben Rhodes / New York Times:
Voters Have Spoken. Why Aren't Democrats Listening?
Discussion: NBC News and Fox News