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2:25 PM ET, March 24, 2025

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
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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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Atlantic journalist says Trump officials included him in war plans group chat
Amy Mackinnon / Politico:   ‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration's war plan group chat
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 …
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  —  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 …
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol
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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ABC News:
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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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Judge Rejects Trump's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law
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
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Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Trump says any country buying Venezuelan oil will face a 25% tariff
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.
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.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass firings of probationary workers
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
‘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 …
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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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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Business Insider:
The fight against Trump's ‘unprecedented’ attack on Big Law is on
Discussion: JURIST
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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 …
Fritz Farrow / Associated Press:
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.
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
Jordyn Dahl / Politico:
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 …
Discussion: Carscoops
Politico:
‘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.
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 …
Discussion: Ars Technica
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:
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.
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
Associated Press:
Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers  —  As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they're forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job.
Discussion: Associated Press
CBS News:
UNAIDS chief says sudden U.S. aid withdrawal risking millions of lives, could see AIDS pandemic resurge  —  Geneva — The sudden halt to U.S. foreign aid funding has been devastating, the UNAIDS chief said Monday, warning that without more funding, millions more will die and the global AIDS pandemic will resurge.
Discussion: The Hill, Al Jazeera and Reuters
 
 
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