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The Easter Madness Of Donald J. Trump — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — Trump's Messianic Complex — I trust that most of you were offline celebrating the holiday, warming to the Spring, welcoming baseball back, or watching college basketball.
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Politico, Yahoo News and Washington Post
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The Church of Trump: How He's Infusing Christianity Into His Movement — Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans.
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Vanity Fair, Sun-Sentinel, Mediaite and Althouse
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Trump Media plunges more than 25% after company reports net loss of $58 million in 2023 … This photo illustration shows an image of former President Donald Trump reflected in a phone screen that is displaying the Truth Social app, in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022.
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The Hill, NBC News, Reuters, Business Insider, Washington Post, Forbes, UPI, The Daily Beast, PoliticusUSA and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
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Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips — The ranks of would-be Tesla buyers in the United States are shrinking, according to a survey by market intelligence firm Caliber, which attributed the drop in part to CEO Elon Musk's polarizing persona.
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Exclusive: Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white people … Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
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New Republic, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors and RedState
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First human case of avian flu in Texas raises alarm — Potential cow-to-cow avian flu transmission in Idaho is worrying pandemic experts. — A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened …
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US judge receptive to Trump documents claims in warning sign for prosecutors — A federal judge overseeing the criminal case that accuses Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents has signaled an openness to the former U.S. president's defense claims, in a sign that prosecutors might face a difficult road ahead.
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A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing — (AP Video by Tassanee Vejpongsa; Production by Shelby Lum) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news …
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How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem — Small-dollar donations to Trump and the GOP are way down since 2019 and 2020. But the former president's team says they see a turnaround. — In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden …
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Raw Story, The Hill, Washington Examiner and PJ Media
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Israel's government passes law to temporarily shut down Al Jazeera — Israel's legislature passed a law Monday paving the way to shut down the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network, under legislation allowing for the temporary ban of foreign news networks that the government deems a threat to national security.
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The GOP's extremism problem predates Trump — This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren't one already, please click the button below to support our independent journalism. — 🐘 Subscribe to Public Notice 🐘 — There's an old adage that politics has no tolerance for losers.
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Ex-Trump aide Hope Hicks expected to testify in former president's New York criminal trial — The former White House communications director met with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office last year. — Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is expected …
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Washington Examiner, MSNBC, Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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“Trending: Easter Controversy,” or: How little lies pave the way for the next big lie — No-News Weekend Internet is stupid-dangerous in the Trump era — as this weekend's attack on the Transgender Day of Visibility shows. — This weekend's gaslighting from the right around Easter falling …
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More than half of voters support slapping 10 percent tariffs on all imports, in boost for Trump's populist, protectionists policy — Former President Trump is proposing to put a 10 percent tariff on all imports — A Daily Mail poll found that 54 percent of likely voters support the idea
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Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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Exclusive: Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny — Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny's death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. — Using their access to a computer network …
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Reuters, Business Insider, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Mediaite
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Maine's trail system makes the state an outdoor destination. $30M in improvements could come soon — Maine's beloved outdoor trail network could receive millions of dollars of improvements under a proposal conservationists have asked lawmakers to put before voters.
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Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says — In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn't comply. — The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday …
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Migrants in Iowa wonder whether to leave over a bill that could see some arrested and deported — A bill in Iowa that would allow the state to arrest and deport some migrants is stoking anxiety among immigrant communities, leaving some to wonder: “Should I leave Iowa?”
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China's Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms — China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say. — Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters …
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Raw Story and Business Insider
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Frost endorses Alsobrooks in Maryland Senate race — Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) on Monday endorsed Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks over fellow Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) in the closely watched Democratic Senate primary in Maryland. — Frost adds to the growing divide …
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Biden Says His Next SCOTUS Nominee ‘Will Be An Illegal Immigrant, I Mean Undocumented’ — President Joe Biden on Monday reiterated his commitment to increasing the diversity of the United States Supreme Court. — “If given the opportunity to nominate another justice to our nation's highest court …
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