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1:05 PM ET, March 17, 2025

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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans  —  Many Democratic activists, desperate for their leaders to stand up to President Trump, have been staging protests outside of Senator Chuck Schumer's home and calling for his resignation.
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Justin Green / Axios:
Resistance backlash upends Chuck Schumer's book tour  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) book tour announced Monday it will postpone multiple events, citing security concerns, after he helped prevent a government shutdown last week.  —  Why it matters: Democrats are badly divided …
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Jeffries: Schumer and I agree on ‘overwhelming majority of issues’
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
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Tom Mooney / The Providence Journal:
Documents shed light on why RI doctor was detained, deported.  What we know.  —  A federal judge has postponed a hearing to allow U.S. Customs and Border officials to respond to allegations they “willfully” disobeyed his order not to deport a Rhode Island doctor until he could review her case.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …
Ted Hesson / Reuters:
Civil rights groups seek answers on deportation of Venezuelans despite court order  —  A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend and potentially set …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Why trying to understand what the Trump admin did in response to the TRO matters
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed  —  The president sent a chilling warning to people pardoned by former President Joe Biden.  —  Donald Trump claimed late Sunday — in a middle-of-the-night rant on his Truth Social platform …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Tries to Undo Biden Pardons Via Social Media Proclamation
Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Trump says Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 committee are ‘void’ because he used an autopen
Discussion: New York Daily News and Axios
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy.  But he's not explaining it very well.  —  President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”  But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
Discussion: Raw Story
Arthur Allen / KFF Health News:
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants  —  National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand  —  Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister.  And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while.  Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Cate Latimer / The Brown Daily Herald:
Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel  —  The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh.  —  One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …
Discussion: The Guardian
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door  —  Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
Christopher Jasper / Telegraph:
Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off  —  Latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the electric pickup  —  Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles.
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
The Competition to Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year  —  Applications are surging as students seek stability in a difficult job market  —  A weakening white-collar job market and a contentious political climate are fueling interest in law school, leading to one of the most competitive years …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
There Was Never Any “Fascism Debate”  —  They Refused to Engage  —  A number of my interlocutors in the fascism debate have reversed their positions since witnessing the full extent of the Trump regime's willingness and ability to employ political repression against its enemies.
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE  —  Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency's ability to serve the public.  —  When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration …
Discussion: Forbes, Kiplinger, Raw Story and Fortune
Phoebe Petrovic / ProPublica:
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power  —  A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt.  But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789.
Discussion: LifeSite
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA figures start chatter over Derek Chauvin pardon  —  Prominent supporters of President Trump — led by podcaster Ben Shapiro — are fueling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020.
Discussion: The Hill
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett warns of more uncertainty over tariffs … WATCH NOW  —  President Donald Trump's top economic aide on Monday warned of more economic uncertainty stemming from the United States' evolving tariff agenda.  —  “Absolutely, between now and April 2 …
Discussion: Business Insider
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento / NPR:
Trump will attend today's Kennedy Center board meeting as its new chair  —  President Trump is expected to tour the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today, where he will also preside over a board meeting as the Center's new chair.  —  Last month, Trump led an overhaul …
ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup.  That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.  —  In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Gloats About Dubious Golf Title as Americans Die in Severe Storms  —  The president has a history of making outlandish claims about his golf game  —  The stock market is down, a measles outbreak is spreading, and tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired …
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
Most Men Don't Want to Be Heroes (and That's Okay)  —  We are continually being asked to feel sorry for men, to understand that there is some significant sense in which we men are being poorly served by a liberal society.  Exactly how is usually left undefined.
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants
Bryan Mena / CNN:
Retail sales came in weaker than expected, another bad sign for the US economy
Discussion: CBS News, Raw Story and Semafor
NBC News:
The Trump administration axed Voice of America, and China's state media are delighted
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
We Are Living Through Moral Collapse. How Democrats Can Strike Back
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Battle for the Bros  —  Young men have gone maga.  Can the left win them back?
 Earlier Items: 
Ray Zaccaro / Rolling Stone:
As Trump Remakes America, the Political Class Is Dumbstruck
Washington Post:
After CDC pick is abruptly yanked, worry over U.S. measles messaging remains
Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Schumer's Specter of a Shutdown
Discussion: Althouse
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Has Trump already killed NATO?
Discussion: Breaking Defense
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
 

 
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Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press:
The National Association of Theatre Owners changes name to Cinema United, saying it is “complicated having the same name as a multinational military alliance”

David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
Around 20% of Chicago Sun-Times staff, or 30 employees, took buyouts and have resigned, including most of the editorial board; 5 WBEZ workers also took buyouts

Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times:
The California Film Commission chooses a record 51 films to receive incentives in the state's film and TV tax credit program, including 46 indie films

 
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