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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 …
Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
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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NBC News:
Second lady Usha Vance to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for ownership of the Danish territory
New York Times:
Greenland Officials Express Fury Over Trump's Plan to Send Delegation
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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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's hostile takeover of big law
Matt Stoller / BIG:
Monopoly Round-Up: The Democrats' Corporate Lawyers Get the Humiliation They Deserve
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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.
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: NBC News
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.”
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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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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Maggie Severns / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Wall Street Journal:
Columbia Learns a Hard Lesson
Discussion: Washington Post and Cafe Hayek
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 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
‘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 …
Discussion: Washington Times
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
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.
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
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump pumps eponymous meme coin  —  On Sunday, President Trump used his social media platform, Truth Social, to promote his eponymous meme coin, $TRUMP.  —  Trump last promoted $TRUMP on January 17, 2025, a few days before he took office.  Buoyed by his impending inauguration …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
There's a pattern in Trump's power grabs  —  The White House strategy demands we defend alleged criminals and those with unpopular views. … You've surely heard “First They Came,” German pastor Martin Niemöller's famous poem about the road to Nazi Germany.
 
 
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Eric Lagatta / USA Today:
Mia Love, 1st Black Republican woman elected to Congress, dies of cancer at 49
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democrat Model
Discussion: American Prospect
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In a Shift, More Republicans Want Government Investment in Children
Discussion: American Greatness
David Bauder / Associated Press:
2 months into Trump's second administration, the news industry faces challenges from all directions
Associated Press:
Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers
Discussion: Associated Press
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
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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
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
Lauren Villagran / USA Today:
Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention
Discussion: Axios
 

 
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Zaslav has started meeting with candidates who could replace film studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose contracts expire in 2026

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban, who has acquired 92 community newspapers across the US with the goal of revitalizing local journalism

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The BBC says its content spend will fall by £150M to £2.5B in the next 12 months as it faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge”

 
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