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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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New York Magazine, The Hill, Mediaite, St John Starling and Military History Blog


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.”
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Raw Story


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, NPR, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Washington Examiner


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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‘Full-Blown Meltdown’: Trump Flips Out Over A Not-Very-Flattering Official Portrait — The president railed against an image he claims was “purposefully distorted” but was actually commissioned by his own supporters. — President Donald Trump spent part of his Sunday railing against a portrait …
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The US Sun, Metro.co.uk and Washington Examiner


Judge keeps block on Trump gang deportations, says they face ‘torture, beatings’ in El Salvador — An appeals court is set to weigh President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act. — Alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua who were deported by the U.S. government …
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The Guardian, New York Times, The Hill, The Independent, The Daily Signal, Semafor, Los Angeles Times and Politico
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Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law
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Axios, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, MeidasTouch News, The Hill, New Republic, Forbes, The National Pulse, Townhall, Raw Story and The Post Millennial

Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions
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The Hill


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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Associated Press, The Hill, Fox News, CNN, Washington Examiner, ABC News, New York Times, Axios, New York Magazine, USA Today, Washington Times, The Daily Wire, Baltimore Sun, New Republic, Bloomberg, One America News Network, New Jersey Online, Al Jazeera, American Thinker, The Daily Signal, New York Post, Politico, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Breitbart, CBS News and UPI
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Trump's Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring
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The Independent, Associated Press, Semafor, Washington Post, The Hill and Reuters

Greenland condemns planned visits by Usha Vance and Trump adviser
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NBC News, Breitbart, Associated Press, Daily Mail, USA Today, Bloomberg, Washington Times, The Independent and New York Times


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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Politico, New York Post, Scripps News, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, Townhall, One America News Network, Associated Press, Raw Story and IJR
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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, New York Times, Washington Examiner, USA Today, Bloomberg and The Independent


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 »


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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Washington Post, The Hill, ABC News, CBS News, Reuters, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, The Post Millennial and Associated Press
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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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‘We Are in an Emergency’: Progressive TikTok Star Launches Bid to Unseat Old Guard Dem — The Democratic district where Kat Abughazaleh is running hasn't had a competitive primary in decades — Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965 …


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.
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The Daily Caller


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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Reason, The Gateway Pundit, Advocate, The Texas Tribune and The Barbed Wire


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.


Trump Dismantling Education Department Violated Constitution, Lawsuits Say — President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the Department of Education violated the Constitution and federal law, school districts, education advocacy groups and unions alleged in multiple lawsuits Monday.
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New York Times and American Thinker
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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, The Gateway Pundit and Palm Beach Post


‘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


Trump appoints Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey — Habba served as Trump's personal attorney before becoming White House counselor. — Counselor to the President Alina Habba speaks to reporters outside the West Wing at the White House, Mar. 17, 2025, in Washington.


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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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


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 …
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Carscoops


‘Not how this works’: The GOP agenda is stuck amid House vs. Senate infighting — To show quick progress, lawmakers will have to make a host of difficult decisions in the coming weeks. — Congressional Republicans left Washington riding high after their big victory on government spending.
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Reuters, Washington Examiner, Punchbowl News, NBC News, Roll Call, NOTUS and Raw Story


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 …
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Ars Technica


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


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