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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.”


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


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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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.
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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
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The Hill, The Independent and Washington Examiner

Trump Says Nations Buying Venezuela Oil, Gas Face 25% Charge
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Politico, Scripps News, Townhall, Associated Press and New York Post


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, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
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Four hurdles facing Republicans as they shift focus to a bill to pass Trump's agenda
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eVille Times, New Yorker and Washington Examiner


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.


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.
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The Independent
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Supreme Court turns away casino mogul Steve Wynn's challenge to defamation law
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The Hill, CBS News, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Bloomberg, New Republic and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »


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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Greenland rebukes Trump officials' upcoming trip as “aggressive”
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The Daily Wire, Associated Press, The Independent, Politico, New York Times, Semafor, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, USA Today, New York Post and Reuters


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.


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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Trump's hostile takeover of big law
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The Contrarian, Original Jurisdiction, Executive Functions, New Republic, New York Times, Business Insider and JURIST


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.
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The Texas 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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Washington Examiner, Axios, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, Scripps News, Washington Post, The Hill, Blaze Media, Townhall, IJR, The Post Millennial, RedState, UPI, The US Sun, Roll Call, New York Post, The National Pulse, Breitbart and Not the Bee
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Judge dread — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Good Monday morning.
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Vanity Fair


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.


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 …


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


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


‘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 …
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Raw Story, STAT and Baltimore Sun


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.
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Political Wire


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.


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.
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Reuters, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, The Post Millennial and Associated Press


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 …
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Just The News


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.
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Axios, Washington Examiner, MeidasTouch News, The Hill, Forbes, Townhall, Raw Story, The Post Millennial and Politico


Judge Says DOGE Has No Right To Sensitive Personal Data Held By Federal Agencies — A federal judge ruled Monday that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has no right under federal law to access sensitive personal information at the Department of Education …
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New York Times, Washington Times, Associated Press and New Republic


Tesla's Europe sales collapse as anti-Musk backlash grows — To add insult to injury, Chinese EVs are surging. — Tesla's downward spiral is turning into a rout, with its share of European electric car sales falling by 58 percent in the first two months of this year …