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11:45 AM ET, March 24, 2025

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Media Matters for America:
Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people”  —  Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country.  We should revisit that.”
Paul Krugman:
Social Security: A Time for Outrage  —  Trump's policies attack his own base — but who will tell them?  —  Donald Trump is often described as a “populist.”  Yet his administration is stuffed with wealthy men who are clueless about how the other 99.99 percent lives, while his policies involve undermining …
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Washington Post:
Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security  —  Claims of massive problems by Elon Musk and President Trump are at odds with the agency's audits and reports.  —  Just now  —  Elon Musk put a big target on the Social Security Administration in the first weeks of the Trump administration …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
U.S. Could Run Out of Cash by July, Analysis Finds  —  The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation's debt limit.  —  The United States could run out of cash to continue paying …
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Politico:
‘Not how this works’: The GOP agenda is stuck amid House vs. Senate infighting
Discussion: Raw Story, Roll Call and NOTUS
Punchbowl News:
3/24/25 ☀️ AM:  —  The reconciliation meeting that will dominate this week
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Four hurdles facing Republicans as they shift focus to a bill to pass Trump's agenda
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is  —  Who is President Donald Trump's most dangerous enabler?  As his second term got underway, it initially appeared that this coveted title might fall to FBI Director Kash Patel, who'd vowed to investigate Trump's enemies.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela - US politics live  —  President announces ‘secondary tariff’ amid baseless claim that Venezuela is sending criminals to the US  —  Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil or gas from Venezuela
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mia Love, Utah's history-making former congresswoman, dies at 49  —  A former City Council member, mayor and two-term member of Congress, she died after a three-year battle with brain cancer  —  Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants who went on to become a City Council member …
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Jack Blanchard / Politico:   Judge dread  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Monday morning.
Reuters:
Trump administration live updates: Trump to hold Cabinet meeting with Elon Musk; Ukraine-Russia talks continue
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Anger in Greenland over Usha Vance and Mike Waltz's planned visit this week  —  Greenland's prime minister says move is ‘demonstration of power’ and accuses US of interfering in its political affairs  —  Greenland's prime minister, Múte B Egede, has called for the international community …
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NBC News:
Second lady Usha Vance to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for ownership of the Danish territory
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Greenland rebukes Trump officials' upcoming trip as “aggressive”
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Law firm targeted by Trump could have been ‘destroyed,’ chairman says in explaining deal with Trump  —  The chairman of a prominent law firm who cut a deal with President Donald Trump last week to avert the consequences of a White House executive order told colleagues in an email Sunday …
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Matt Stoller / BIG:
Monopoly Round-Up: The Democrats' Corporate Lawyers Get the Humiliation They Deserve
John Kruzel / USA Today:
Supreme Court turns away casino mogul Steve Wynn's challenge to defamation law  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by casino mogul Steve Wynn to roll back defamation protections established in the case New York Times v. Sullivan.
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April Rubin / Axios:   Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Gulf of Fear  —  When news anchors tiptoe around the name Gulf of Mexico, it's not just semantics—it's a glimpse at how the press starts to flinch under political pressure.  —  In China, Taiwan doesn't exist—at least not as a country.  On official maps, it's a province.
NBC News:
Man charged with assault at Tesla dealership after driving car at protesters  —  The protest was one of several across the country in opposition to Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been slashing government costs and firing thousands of federal workers.  —  A man was arrested and charged …
Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:
The Abundance Agenda  —  I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly to make of it all.
Discussion: Political Wire
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's new religion case could devastate American workers  —  Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin risks giving employers a sweeping new power to ignore laws protecting their workers. … The Court's Republican majority almost always rules in favor of Christian litigants who seek …
Discussion: The Post Millennial
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Trump demands Colorado take down ‘purposefully distorted’ painting  —  President Trump is demanding that Colorado take down it's “purposefully distorted” painting of him hanging in the State Capitol.  —  “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole  —  Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:  — The party has its lowest favorability ever.  — No popular national leader to help improve it.
FIRE:
VICTORY: Federal court blocks Texas A&M's unconstitutional drag ban  —  A federal judge today upheld the First Amendment rights of a Texas A&M student group by blocking an attempt by officials to prohibit the group's upcoming drag show on the College Station campus.
Chris Prentice / Reuters:
Exclusive: Interim SEC chief cast sole vote against suing Musk  —  Days before Republicans took the helm of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January, the agency's five commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue Elon Musk.  —  Since 2022, the agency …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The frog of democracy is nearly boiled.  We can still jump out of the pot  —  I still remember, from when I was a politically precocious teen in the 1970s, my dog-eared paperback copy of one of that fraught decade's defining books: The Gulag Archipelago by the Soviet Nobel laureate, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science  —  Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump's policies.  —  A week after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated …
Discussion: Raw Story and STAT
Benjamin Oreskes / New York Times:
Democrat Who Is an Army Veteran Enters Key N.Y. House Race  —  Cait Conley, a former National Security Council official, will run for the seat held by Mike Lawler, a second-term Republican.  —  Seven years ago, Democrats seized on a growing backlash against President Trump to flip the House …
The Economist:
Musk Inc is under serious threat  —  The world's richest man has lost focus.  His competitors are taking advantage  —  san francisco  —  Until recently Elon Musk had little need to look over his shoulder.  He once described competition for Tesla, his electric-vehicle (ev) company, as …
Washington Post:
Youngkin wants controversial U-Va. board member to resign, people familiar say  —  Bert Ellis, appointed by the governor in 2022, has so far refused to step down, the people said.  —  Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) wants to remove one of his appointees on the governing board of the University of Virginia …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Bondi says Supreme Court ‘will get involved’ in migrant deportation flights case  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Supreme Court “will get involved” in the case about the deportation of nearly 300 Venezuelan migrants.  —  “Oh, the Supreme Court will get involved,” Bondi said on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
The Bulwark:
Stop Making Excuses for Not Fighting Trump  —  The capitulations and acquiescence we've seen so far will only make opposition more difficult down the road.  —  Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is quietly narrowing the scope of the tariffs it plans to roll out on April 2 …
Discussion: Just The News
 
 
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Mother Jones:
Ed Martin Is Trampling the Rule of Law. And He Won't Shut Up About It.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model
Discussion: American Prospect
New York Times:
‘Buckle Up’: In Montana, Republican Lawmakers Target the Judiciary
Discussion: Washington Times
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump pumps eponymous meme coin
David Bauder / Associated Press:
2 months into Trump's second administration, the news industry faces challenges from all directions
Discussion: Associated Press
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
There's a pattern in Trump's power grabs
Associated Press:
Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers
Discussion: Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan R. Cole / New York Times:
Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We're Tossing That Away.
Discussion: Pharyngula and The Guardian
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Putin's Aims in Trump Talks on Ukraine
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Liberal group warns Democratic leaders over their strategy against Trump
Discussion: The Nation and Chicago Tribune
Serge Schmemann / New York Times:
The Voice of America Falls Silent
Brittney Melton / NPR:
Israel's classified military plans for Gaza. And, defining “buy-now, pay-later” loans
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Law in Mahmoud Khalil's Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump's Sister
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Rothpletz / New York Times:
How Hooters Became a Refuge for Young Gay Men
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk
 

 
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
BBC correspondent Mark Lowen was arrested on Wednesday and deported from Turkey today after reporting on anti-government protests

Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
VOA Director Michael Abramowitz sues Kari Lake, Victor Morales, and USAGM, alleging dismantling VOA violates federal law and separation of powers

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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