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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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McSweeney's, Raw Story and Business Insider
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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 …
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Axios, Washington Examiner and Raw Story


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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wallstreetonparade.com and The Colorado Sun
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Brad Karp's Email To Paul Weiss About Its Deal With The Trump Administration
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The Contrarian, Just Security, Executive Functions, New Jersey Online, NBC News, Law and Chaos, Business Insider and JURIST


Greenland leaders call planned visit by US officials a ‘provocation’ as Trump talks of takeover - US politics live — Outgoing prime minister says Greenland can no longer trust Americans ahead of visit led by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz — IRS nears deal with Ice to share data of undocumented immigrants - report
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
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Second lady Usha Vance to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for ownership of the Danish territory
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Forbes, Associated Press, The Independent, New York Post, Bloomberg, USA Today, Daily Mail and Washington Times

Anger in Greenland over Usha Vance and Mike Waltz's planned visit this week
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New York Times, USA Today, Al Jazeera, American Thinker, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Associated Press and CBS News


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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Axios, CNN, Townhall, The Post Millennial, RedState, Not the Bee, The US Sun, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, New York Post and The National Pulse
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Judge dread — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Good Monday morning.
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New York Times

Mia Love, 1st Black Republican woman elected to Congress, dies of cancer at 49
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Washington Post, IJR and The US Sun

Mia Love, First Black Republican Woman Elected to Congress, Dies at 49
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The Hill, Scripps News, The Gateway Pundit, Roll Call, UPI and The Independent


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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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
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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.


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 …
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The Post Millennial


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 …
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The Hill, Associated Press, The Daily Wire and Palm Beach Post


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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New York Times, Politico, New York Post, Denver Post, Breitbart, TMZ.com, RedState, WCSH, Townhall, New Jersey Online, Metro.co.uk, The Independent, Mediaite, Adventus, Washington Examiner, IJR, The Daily Wire and Daily Mail


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.


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.


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.


Universities Sprint from ‘We Will Not Cower’ to Appeasing Trump — With much of their funding at stake, schools are quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians amid Washington's quest to rein in academia — WASHINGTON—When University of Michigan President Santa Ono sat …
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Washington Post
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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 …


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 …


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.


Law in Mahmoud Khalil's Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump's Sister — Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state. — The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks …
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Raw Story


Putin's Aims in Trump Talks on Ukraine — Moscow sees economic and geopolitical benefits in humoring President Trump's push for a cease-fire in Ukraine. But the Kremlin's war aims haven't shifted. — President Trump says he is focused on stopping the “death march” in Ukraine “as soon as possible.”


‘Buckle Up’: In Montana, Republican Lawmakers Target the Judiciary — Republicans in Montana and other states complain that liberal judges are tossing out the laws they pass. Now, conservative legislators are trying to change the rules, and the judges. — Republicans in Montana …
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Washington Times


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.
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Daily Kos


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 …