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12:25 PM 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.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Trump says any country buying Venezuelan oil will face a 25% tariff  —  President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela.  —  “Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and the Freedoms which we espouse.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
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 …
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:   ‘Full-Blown Meltdown’: Trump Flips Out Over A Not-Very-Flattering Official Portrait
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol
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: Roll Call, NOTUS and Raw Story
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
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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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.
April Rubin / Axios:
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case  —  The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case seeking to challenge the 1964 precedent that protects news outlets from litigation for publishing critical information about public figures.
Discussion: The Independent
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans  —  U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.  Then the bombs started falling.  —  The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern …
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”
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.
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.
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
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.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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.
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 …
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
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law  —  A federal judge rejected a request from the Trump administration to lift a court order preventing it from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people to a Salvadoran hard labor prison without due process.
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 …
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, STAT and Baltimore Sun
Mother Jones:
Ed Martin Is Trampling the Rule of Law.  And He Won't Shut Up About It.  —  Trump's loyal prosecutor is weaponizing the DOJ—one typo at a time.  —  When Elon Musk ordered a government-wide email blast directing federal employees to list their recent accomplishments, most senior officials paused to consider their options.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
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.
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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Jordyn Dahl / Politico:
Tesla's Europe sales collapse as anti-Musk backlash grows
Eric Jotkoff / National Education Association:
Coalition Sues Trump Administration For Dismantling Department of Education, Hurting All Students
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Congressional Democrats investigate unpaid January 6 restitution after pardons
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Future Mole Fears on the Potomac
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Associated Press:
Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers
Discussion: Associated Press
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Liberal group warns Democratic leaders over their strategy against Trump
Discussion: The Nation and Chicago Tribune
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Discussion: Raw Story
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