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2:45 PM ET, March 17, 2025

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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
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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 …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen  —  The use of the autopen, a device that reproduces signatures and is ubiquitous in government and business, is ordinarily uncontroversial.  There is no power to undo a pardon in the Constitution or case law.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Tries to Undo Biden Pardons Via Social Media Proclamation
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 …
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
Discussion: Bloomberg, Political Wire and NBC News
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns
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.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump's border czar: “I don't care what the judges think”  —  President Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Monday doubled down on the decision to defy a court order that barred the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.  —  Why it matters: The White House's decision to disregard …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Plans to Press White House Over Deportation Flights
Discussion: The Status Kuo
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
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.
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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
Erin Alberty / Axios:
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order  —  Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.”  —  Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …
Discussion: Townhall
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
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: Reuters and The Guardian
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.
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding  —  The government has demanded drastic changes to the university before it will consider reinstating $400 million.  Lee C. Bollinger, the school's former president calls it an “existential threat.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:   It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment
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 …
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread  —  Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants  —  Elon Musk said he found evidence that Democrats spent up to $200 billion on government contracts to “buy” the votes of illegal immigrants to create “one socialist state.”  —  While speaking with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
D.C. drops lawsuit against Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack  —  The District's suit marked the first effort by a government agency to hold individuals and organizations civilly liable for the violence at the U.S. Capitol that day.  —  The D.C. attorney general's office has dropped …
Discussion: The Hill and The Independent
Shawn Pogatchnik / Politico:
Trump to meet controversial Irish fighter Conor McGregor for St. Patrick's Day  —  DUBLIN — Conor McGregor, the mixed martial arts fighter recently found civilly liable for rape back in his native Ireland, is a St. Patrick's Day guest of honor at the White House.
 
 
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
What to know about Yemen's Houthi rebels as the US steps up attacks on Iran-backed group
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Climate, energy agencies hire back probationary employees
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home
Bryan Mena / CNN:
Retail sales came in weaker than expected, another bad sign for the US economy
Discussion: Raw Story, DNyuz and Semafor
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
We Are Living Through Moral Collapse. How Democrats Can Strike Back
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Gloats About Dubious Golf Title as Americans Die in Severe Storms
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Battle for the Bros  —  Young men have gone maga.  Can the left win them back?
Discussion: The Contrarian
Ray Zaccaro / Rolling Stone:
As Trump Remakes America, the Political Class Is Dumbstruck
Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Schumer's Specter of a Shutdown
Discussion: Althouse
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption
Discussion: Vanity Fair
ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
 

 
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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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