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8:05 PM ET, March 26, 2025

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The Atlantic:
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal  —  So, about that Signal chat.  —  On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans 

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Spiegel Online:
Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online  —  Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike.  Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers 

Wired:
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public  —  A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.  —  A Venmo account under the name 

Discussion: New Republic
Irie Sentner / Politico:
The country's most powerful institutions are bowing to Trump.  The Atlantic just backed him into a corner.  —  The president has used a strongman playbook to bring universities, news organizations and law firms to heel.  That didn't work on The Atlantic.  —  Over the past two months 

Discussion: Raw Story and New Jersey Online
Dasha Burns / Politico:
‘Own it, fire Waltz, move on’: White House allies fume as group chat scandal grows
Politico:
Trump gave Waltz a vote of confidence. It wasn't as smooth behind the scenes.
Daniel Boguslaw / American Prospect:
Michael Waltz's Venmo Is Public, and It's Full of Journalists
Discussion: Townhall
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:   When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron
FPWellman / On Democracy with FPWellman 
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EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
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GBH:
Tufts international graduate student taken into ICE custody  —  A Tufts University international graduate student is in federal custody after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.  —  Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and PhD student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 

Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine  —  “I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
New York Times:
Here is the latest.  —  The measure is intended to bring car factories to the United States but could increase prices for consumers significantly.  —  Here is the latest.  —  President Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 25 percent tariffs on all cars that are shipped into the United States.
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:   Von der Leyen vows EU will protect its interests as Trump announces huge car tariffs
Politico:
Trump announces additional 25 percent tariff on auto imports
CNN:
Sources say the details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified as Atlantic publishes additional messages  —  The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it 

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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Duckworth: 'Pete Hegseth is a ‘f‑‑‑ing liar’
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Emma Colton / Fox News:
Trump admin declares the Atlantic's Signal article a ‘hoax’ after it drops ‘war plans’ rhetoric
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, ‘Big Balls’, provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show  —  WILMINGTON, Delaware, March 26 (Reuters) - (This story contains strong language in paragraph 15)  —  The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support 

Mother Jones:
“You're Here Because of Your Tattoos”  —  On Friday, March 14, Arturo SuĂĄrez Trejo called his wife, Nathali SĂĄnchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas.  SuĂĄrez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation flight had been delayed.
Discussion: Just Security and UPI
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Social Security Administration backtracks on some ID requirements after backlash  —  The Social Security Administration is partially backtracking on a plan that would require all new and existing beneficiaries to travel to a Social Security field office to verify their identity.
Discussion: CBS News
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:   Social Security postpones and partially rolls back ID changes
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died, NATO leader says  —  NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he did not yet know the details.  A U.S. official would say only that the four soldiers 

Associated Press:
Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district  —  Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a district that a Democrat 

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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
‘A lot closer than people expected’: GOP worries, Dem cash dominate tense Florida special election
Noah Shachtman / New York Times:
Foreign Spies to Team Trump: 👊đŸ‡șđŸ‡žđŸ”„  —  If you're running the security directorate of a hostile nation, savor this moment.  It's never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government.  Can you even call it stealing when it's this simple?
Discussion: Bloomberg
Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal appeals court maintains temporary block on Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations  —  A divided federal appeals court has maintained a temporary block on President Donald Trump's ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
Stephanie Nolen / New York Times:
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries  —  A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration's plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.  —  The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States' financial support for Gavi, the organization 

Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Federal Court Slaps Down DOJ's Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law  —  A three-judge panel Wednesday with a 2-1 vote declined the Department of Justice's (DOJ) request to lift a lower-court order preventing the Trump administration from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people 

Discussion: NPR
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Matt Shuham / HuffPost:
Trump To Courts: What I Do With Migrant ‘Terrorists’ Isn't Your Business
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Prosecutors Probe Tip About Timing of Pfizer Vaccine  —  Claim came to the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan via Pfizer rival GSK  —  Soon after President Trump won the presidential election in November, British drugmaker GSK brought an unusual claim to federal prosecutors in Manhattan 

Discussion: USA Today
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Hmmm: Did Pfizer Try to Throw the 2020 Election to Biden?
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Politico:
What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about  —  The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.  —  Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are striking a chord.
Walter Olson / The UnPopulist:
Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law  —  A new presidential memo is meant to instill fear in any firm that dares to represent his political adversaries  —  The Trump administration's assault on lawyers who represent its perceived adversaries 

New York Times:
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services  —  States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.  —  The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion 

Reuters:
Canada freezes rebate payments to Tesla, bans it from future rebate programs due to tariffs  —  Canada has frozen all rebate payments for Tesla (TSLA.O) and banned the electric-vehicle maker from future EV rebate programs, Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday.
Stephen Richer / The Contrarian:
Trump's executive order on voting seems to ignore a lot of law  —  The process of governance matters, but the president pretends we don't have a Congress and rides roughshod over the states.  —  President Trump has finally issued an executive order on election administration.  —  I'd expected it to come sooner.
Julie Pace / Wall Street Journal:
The AP's Freedom of Speech—and Yours  —  A brazen attempt to punish us for using words Trump dislikes.  —  For anyone who thinks the Associated Press's lawsuit against President Trump's White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger.  It's really about whether the government can control what you say.
Discussion: The Federalist
Ceylan Yeğinsu / New York Times:
‘Trump Slump’ Looms as Foreign Visitors Rethink Travel to U.S.  —  A growing number of travelers say they are worried about feeling unwelcome or unsafe in America and are reluctant to support the economy of a country that may be destabilizing other nations.  —  International tourists detained at U.S. borders.
 
 
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New York Times:
Federal Judiciary Seeks to Curb Threats as Trump and Allies Single Out Judges
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrat Asks Intel Leaders If Pete Hegseth May Have Been Drinking Before Signal Chat
Christa Marshall / Politico:
Trump ratchets up the appliance war
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Post:
Team Trump will pay a price for whistling past the Signal group-chat fiasco
Discussion: HuffPost
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
LA Times owner defends remaking paper to Tucker Carlson
New York Times:
Trump Allies Grill PBS and NPR During Congress Hearing
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 Earlier Items: 
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Discussion: Off Message and The Hill
Wired:
Inside DOGE's Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID
NPR:
‘Felt like a kidnapping’: Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal
Paul Krugman:
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy
NPR:
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
Discussion: Popular Information
Politico:
Trump admin considers killing big energy projects in Dem states
Discussion: Washington Examiner
ProPublica:
How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
Discussion: TechCrunch
 

 
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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”

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company

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

 
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