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Politico:
Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says  —  Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.  —  A Georgetown University researcher …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus.  Now, Not So Much.  —  President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.  —  As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment.
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump moves to destroy Columbia University  —  🎒 👨‍🎓 📖 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Alan Blinder / New York Times:   Trump's Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
John Halas / Carscoops:
Tesla Recalls Every Single Cybertruck Over Stainless Steel Trims Falling Off  — Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks due to roof panels potentially detaching during driving.  — Issue stems from cant rail panel using a faulty structural adhesive prone to embrittlement.
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Craig Trudell / Bloomberg:
Tesla Recalls Cybertrucks After Steel Trim Pieces Come Loose … Tesla Inc. recalled all the Cybertrucks it produced and sold in the first 15 months it's been on the US market over a safety issue it's having trouble resolving.  —  The carmaker estimates that 1% of the 46,096 pickups it's calling …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Back on the road, Tim Walz tries to find his voice and fill ‘the void’  —  Eau Claire, Wisconsin CNN —  Backstage in a dressing room drinking a can of diet Mountain Dew as 900 people filled a theater in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn't be there if not for “the void.”
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The Race for Second-Worst Party
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Tim Walz Attacks Musk With Language From the Trump Playbook
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock  —  Tesla shares fell early Thursday after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in Elon Musk's car company.  —  Why it matters: Cabinet secretaries don't typically recommend individual stocks …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Tesla Recalls Nearly All Cybertrucks Day After Trump Official Begs People to Buy Stock
Discussion: The Wrap, The Hill and New Republic
Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
U.S. Turned Away French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says  —  The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.  —  A French scientist was prevented …
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Le Monde:   French researcher denied entry to US for ‘expressing personal opinion’ on Trump policies
Teen Vogue:
Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online  —  In Teen Vogue's special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
Nelli Bird / BBC:
Tourist in US chained ‘like Hannibal Lecter’  —  A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter, according to her parents.  —  Becky Burke, 28, arrived home in Wales on Tuesday from her ordeal which began half way through a backpacking trip across North America.
Discussion: The Standard
NBC News:
Republican lawmaker booed during rowdy town hall after complaining crowd is ‘obsessed’ with the government  —  Hundreds of people attended the town hall, jeering Hageman throughout her comments on issues including Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency
Discussion: MeidasTouch News and Fox News
Jacqueline Sweet / The Nation:
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán's Strongman Rule How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán's Strongman Rule  —  Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people  —  On Wednesday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) enacted a new policy that could impose massive demands on the agency's overburdened network of field offices, according to an internal SSA message obtained by Popular Information.
Discussion: Marketplace and Social Security
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Taliban frees an American man who was abducted while traveling in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago  —  An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration …
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Edward Wong / New York Times:   Taliban Frees American Held in Afghanistan Since 2022
Washington Post:
Social Security numbers and other private information unmasked in JFK files  —  The data belongs to more than 200 former congressional staffers and others with connections to decades-old investigations.  —  The Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 200 former …
The New York Review of Books:
A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia  —  We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the federal government's recent treatment of Columbia University.
Discussion: Dorf on Law
Stephen Engelberg / ProPublica:
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy  —  Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead.  That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story turns out to be.
Paul Krugman:
The Emperor's New Philosophy  —  Of drunkards, lampposts and economic doctrines  —  Today's post will be short, because I'm on the road — actually at a conference in Belgium — with very little free time.  But I thought I might weigh in to support and enlarge upon an exceptionally clear post …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death  —  Anti-vaccine influencers see the child's death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.  —  In February, a 6-year-old Texan was the first child in the United States to die of measles in two decades.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 19, 2025  —  On the Fox News Channel's The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrants based on the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.  That act permits the president …
Marjan Keypour / The Hill:
If Voice of America is silenced, who will tell our story?  —  In an era of global instability when fake news is the norm, America needs a reliable platform to control its own narrative internationally.  In light of this reality, the Trump administration's decision to end funding for the Voice …
Discussion: The Contrarian and MSNBC
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing  —  Tesla's (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion is missing.  —  Many Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla's accounting for years …
Discussion: Financial Times, Futurism and InsideEVs
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
A Crack in Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire  —  Turmoil in the House of Shapiro  —  CONSERVATIVE MEGA-COMMENTATOR Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire media empire announced a big shakeup on Tuesday: co-CEO Jeremy Boreing was abruptly stepping down.  —  A contentious and outspoken executive …
Associated Press:
Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world.  The US falls to its lowest-ever position  —  HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
New York Times:
How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More  —  President Trump's expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.  —  President Trump called for one federal judge seeking basic information about his deportation efforts …
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
New York Times:
On Its Website, DOGE Deletes More Than 100 Government Leases It Said Were Canceled  —  Elon Musk's cost-cutting group dropped its total purported savings from eliminating federal office space after losing some battles within the Trump administration.  —  Elon Musk's Department …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Seethes at Canada With “the Eyes of a Predator”  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 20 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Bloomberg:
South Africa Urges Rethink on Naming US Office Road for Hijacker  —  South Africa's presidency asked Johannesburg to exercise restraint on plans to rename the street where the US consulate is located after a Palestinian woman who hijacked an American airliner as it seeks to mend frayed ties with Washington.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts's Approach to Donald Trump  —  Roberts wasn't “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges.  He was bending the knee.  —  Bluesky  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump, his chief of ghouls Stephen Miller …
Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
Trump Is Breaking Things.  They Can't All Be Fixed by the Courts.  —  The second Trump administration appears to have learned some lessons from the first.  For instance, even when courts eventually strike down the administration's policies, there are tactics that can keep those policies …
Discussion: Adventus, Just Security and Al Jazeera
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
New York state's top court blocks New York City law to allow noncitizen voting  —  Most of the court's progressive judges sided with Republicans who sought to nix the law.  —  ALBANY, New York — New York's top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in New York City elections …
 
 
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will call a snap election on Sunday with vote expected April 28
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
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Hannah Allam / ProPublica:
Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump's Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention
Washington Post:
Elon Musk, once a tacit backer of DEI, now focuses on anti-White bias
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Has an Idea for the Left: Don't Run as Democrats
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Pamela Herd / Can We Still Govern?:
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump's mind control
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More than a dozen judges have said Trump and Co. probably broke the law
Discussion: Daily Kos, CNN and Raw Story
USA Today:
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Reuters:
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