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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans  —  The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.  —  I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming.
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time  —  Trump's “Team of Amateurs” Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way  —  This afternoon, just before 1 pm ET, The Atlantic posted what is, hands down, the wildest and most insane story I have ever read about US national security …
David French / New York Times:
If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign  —  I don't know how Pete Hegseth can look service members in the eye.  He's just blown his credibility as a military leader.  —  On Monday, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg published one of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read.
Axios:
“Heads should roll”: Congress erupts over stunning Trump admin leak  —  Members of Congress in both parties exploded in anger Monday after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a highly-sensitive Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.
Amy Mackinnon / Politico:
‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration's war plan group chat  —  One Democratic lawmaker also called for immediate hearings on the incident.  —  Members of Congress and national security staffers were stunned Monday by a bombshell report that top Trump administration officials …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop  —  How The Atlantic's editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen  —  The Trump administration has provided many jaw-dropping moments …
Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Former defense secretary says somebody ‘needs to get fired’ over Trump admin's shocking war plans leak to journalist  —  ‘This is just a serious blunder,’ Leon Panetta stated, adding that it ‘could violate espionage laws’ and ‘undermine our national security’
Wired:
Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing  —  Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat.  Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.
Discussion: Politico
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson: Waltz, Hegseth shouldn't be disciplined over war plans Signal chat
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Colby Hall / Mediaite:   ‘National Security Was Compromised’: Fox News Anchor John Roberts Calls Leaked War Plans to The Atlantic a ‘BFD’
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:   Josh Hawley Shrugs off Major National Security Leak: Democrats Are 'Griping About Who's on a Text Message'
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Trump's NSA Who Leaked War Plans to Reporter in a Group Chat Previously Shredded His Predecessor Over Leaked Intel
Discussion: The Hill
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jordan briefs Trump on plans to rein in federal judges  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said he briefed President Donald Trump over the weekend about his panel's plans to examine how the federal judiciary is working to block key parts of the administration's agenda.
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Brendan Ruberry / Semafor:
DHS Sec. Noem says will move to ‘eliminate’ FEMA, a long-time Trump target  —  The News  —  US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the department would move to “eliminate” the government's disaster relief agency, days after President Donald Trump signed …
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump's Elon Musk Obsession Is About to Cost Him Big Time
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Ben Leonard / Politico:
GOP senator: Trump ‘interested in’ seeing Congress codify DOGE cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos
Emily Peck / Axios:
Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say  —  The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios.
Discussion: Saywhat Politics and Raw Story
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns  —  Louis DeJoy has resigned as postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) amid uncertainty about the agency's future under President Trump.  —  DeJoy had notified the USPS board of directors in February that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.”
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New York Times:
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation  —  Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.  Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.  —  A 21-year-old Columbia University student …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance's Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price  —  A government contractor and lobbyist who served in President Donald Trump's first administration bought Vice President JD Vance's Virginia home in an above-market deal, a sale his spokesperson says was based on the market.
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Greenland to Trump: No, we didn't invite you  —  A delegation that includes second lady Usha Vance is slated to arrive on the island on Thursday.  —  Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling island's government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump's Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring
Julia Frankel / Associated Press:
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army  —  Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military …
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Trump nominates Susan Monarez for CDC director, elevating from acting role  —  President Trump has decided to pick Susan Monarez to be the new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making permanent the acting role she has served at the public health agency in recent months.
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New York Times:   Trump Nominates Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.
Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Trump's portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’  —  A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that his was “purposefully distorted,” according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
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Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Trump portrait to be removed at Colorado Capitol after president's criticism
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
23andMe files for bankruptcy, Anne Wojcicki steps down as CEO … Embattled genetic testing company 23andMe, once valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Missouri federal court on Sunday night.  —  The company's CEO, Anne Wojcicki, has resigned from her role …
Matt Cohen / Democracy Docket:
SCOTUS Hears Latest Conservative Assault on the Voting Rights Act  —  The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in two Louisiana redistricting cases consolidated into one — Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais — centered on the state's newly minted second majority-Black congressional district.
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Trump cuts $3B from congressional deal he hated  —  The Scoop  —  President Donald Trump is cutting nearly $3 billion in spending, much of it reserved for foreign aid, by unwinding part of a 2023 fiscal deal loathed by conservatives, three senior White House officials told Semafor.
Wendy Siegelman / NewsTRACS:
Russian-American businessman who loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 sent $10.8M to firm that may link to Don Jr. and Eric Trump's new business partners  —  Last year The Guardian reported that Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, the nephew of an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin …
New York Times:
Teachers Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Push to Shut Education Dept.  —  The lawsuits accuse the government of dismantling the department without the required approval of Congress.  —  The Trump administration's campaign to dismantle the Education Department drew a pair of court challenges on Monday …
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.”
ProPublica:
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work …
Discussion: ABC News and Roll Call
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Thune plans April vote on new budget blueprint  —  Senate Republicans want to adopt a budget blueprint by April 11 to move forward on President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.  “I want to get it done this work period,” Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Monday.
Discussion: IJR and Axios
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement  —  We had a good show in Phoenix and during our conversation something clicked for me that I want to unpack today.  —  I'm leaving this edition unlocked.  I hope you'll share it.  And if you're not a member of Bulwark+ yet, I hope you'll consider joining today.
Discussion: emptywheel and Mock Paper Scissors
 
 
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Columbia's Capitulation, and Wesleyan's Pushback
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
In His Second Term, Trump Fuels a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation
Politico:
Long Covid office ‘will be closing,’ Trump administration announces
Discussion: Inside Medicine
Alan Wong / Bloomberg:
China Frees Mintz Employees as It Woos Top Global Companies
Discussion: Reuters
Washington Post:
Appeals judge on Venezuelan deportations: ‘Nazis got better treatment’
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Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Mahmoud Khalil hid ties to UNRWA on green card application, feds say as they hit anti-Israel agitator with new accusations
Economic Policy Institute:
Strong wage growth for low-wage workers bucks the historic trend
Discussion: Tax Foundation
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia is planning one of the largest cancellations of voter registrations in U.S. history
Paul M. Krawzak / Roll Call:
White House scraps public spending database
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump senior adviser files defamation suit against The Daily Beast
Discussion: Associated Press and IJR
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
‘We Are in an Emergency’: Progressive TikTok Star Launches Bid to Unseat Old-Guard Dem
Discussion: HuffPost, Politico and The Hill
 

 
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Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
NPR and PBS heads testified in a heated DOGE subcommittee hearing amid a GOP effort to defund public media; Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for total CPB defunding

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says the Academy declined to publicly support the Oscar-winning co-director Hamdan Ballal when he was arrested by Israel

 
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