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Makena Kelly / Wired:
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse  —  Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.  Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them  —  The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened last night.  Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the government will no longer recognize and bargain with a huge portion of the unions that represent federal workers.
Discussion: New York Times and The Nation
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Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico:
Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers  —  It's the latest effort in his drive to disempower the federal bureaucracy.  —  President Donald Trump is trying to revoke collective bargaining rights from most federal employees — the latest move in his aggressive campaign to weaken the federal workforce.
Andrea Hsu / NPR:
Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements
Wall Street Journal:
Detained Tufts Student Is Moved to Louisiana Despite Judge's Order  —  Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a student visa, was detained by federal authorities this week  —  Federal agents moved a Turkish student arrested in Massachusetts to Louisiana despite a judge's order barring her transfer without notice.
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Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press  —  SECRETARY RUBIO: Grant?  —  QUESTION: The Ukrainian children who —  SECRETARY RUBIO: Oh, the data.  The data is secured.  We secured the data.  We'll transfer it to the appropriate party.  We've ensured that.
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn't “Signalgate”  —  On March 26, 2024, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, co-authored an op-ed criticizing the university's response to student demands for divestment from Israel, which was published in its student newspaper.
Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone:
Here Are The Students Trump Wants to Deport Over Their Speech
Politico:
Musk butts up against Wisconsin state law with (now deleted) $1 million check giveaway  —  Election law experts were skeptical about the billionaire's move.  —  Elon Musk will visit Wisconsin on Sunday ahead of the state's high-profile Supreme Court election.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Musk deletes post promising he'd go to Wisconsin to deliver $2 million to Supreme Court race voters  —  Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday clarified his reasons for visiting Wisconsin two days ahead of its hotly contested Supreme Court election after deleting a social media post saying he planned to …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Wisconsin Democratic leader accuses Musk of ‘illegal’ actions in Supreme Court race
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Politico:
Stefanik's withdrawal suggests Republicans are sweating their thin margins
Politico:
Another law firm targeted by Trump sues to block punishing executive order  —  Jenner & Block is the second law firm to try to fight Trump in court over his executive orders.  —  A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump sued Friday to bar enforcement of his executive order that seeks …
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Major Law Firm Makes Deal to Avoid Punishing Order, President Says
Discussion: CBS News and Bloomberg
Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
This Is Just Dumb  —  It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it's the stupidity.  We're all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don't actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws.  But we knew that already.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs  —  Threat came in a call earlier this month, in which carmakers feared punishment if prices go up  —  When President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country's top automakers for a call earlier this month …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case … President Donald Trump pardoned Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’
Associated Press:
Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water  —  Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over opposition from dentists and national health organizations who warn the move will lead to medical problems and disproportionately affect low-income communities.
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:   Utah becomes first state to ban fluoride in public water supply
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Everything Scandal  —  Democrats have shown real signs of life since The Atlantic exposed the amateurish inner-workings of the Trump administration.  But in the interests of keeping them bucked up so they don't return to hibernation (and, frankly, in the interest of fueling distrust between …
Discussion: CNN
John Towfighi / CNN:
Dow sinks 600 points.  Stocks are on track for their worst quarter since 2023  —  New York CNN —  US stocks were lower Friday as investors digested souring consumer sentiment and inflation data that showed an uptick in one of the Federal Reserve's key gauges, underscoring the delicate state …
Discussion: CNBC and The Atlanta Voice
Associated Press:
North Carolina judge challenging outcome of race wore Confederate uniform in college photo  —  A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member …
Ailia Zehra / The Hill:
Bannon: Trump ‘going to prison’ if Democrat wins White House in 2028  —  President Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon predicted Thursday that President Trump will go to prison if a Democrat wins back the White House in 2028.  —  “God forbid we don't win in '28, President Trump is going to prison …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik  —  President Trump's dramatic rug pull of Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y.) UN ambassador nomination has given House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) a new series of headaches.  —  Why it matters: Johnson has to reassure GOP lawmakers …
Mark Carney / Prime Minister of Canada:
Prime Minister Carney speaks with President of the United States Donald J. Trump  — Prime Minister Carney speaks with President of the United States Donald J. Trump  —  Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke with the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Discussion: Fox News and Bloomberg
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 27, 2025  —  Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on the Houthis in Yemen.  A payment on one of them was identified …
Ailia Zehra / The Hill:
Trump administration ‘proposing a silly new bureaucracy’: Former HHS secretary  —  Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna Shalala criticized the Trump administration's efforts to cut back the department she once led, calling it an insult that puts Americans' health at risk.
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Senate Overturns Rule Limiting Bank Overdraft Fees to $5  —  Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  It now moves to the House.  —  The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5 …
US Department of Justice:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Launches Compliance Review Investigation into Admissions Policies at Stanford University and Several University of California Schools, Advancing President Trump's Mandate to End Illegal DEI Policies  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi directed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Reuters, UPI and Fox News
Thomas Frank / Politico:
FEMA blocks $10B in disaster aid over immigration concerns  —  The move is part of a wholesale review of 56 FEMA programs to ensure they meet President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid …
Discussion: Scientific American
Nicholas Florko / The Atlantic:
Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.'s Unproven Measles Treatment  —  Kennedy made a show of shipping vitamin A to measles-stricken communities.  The state's public-health department didn't take up the offer.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., staring down his first major health crisis as the head of Health and Human Services, had a plan.
Discussion: Raw Story, TPR, The Barbed Wire, Techdirt and KFF
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Works to Make Our Nation's Capital Safe and Beautiful  —  MAKING WASHINGTON THE GREATEST CAPITAL CITY IN THE WORLD: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to make Washington, D.C. what it should be—the pride of every American to whom it belongs.
 
 
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Brian Todd / CNN:
‘Heartless and dangerous’: Proposal to automate VA call centers part of aggressive layoff plan
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing ‘DEI’
Dave Troy / America 2.0:
Why ‘Signalgate’ Marks Our (Official) Descent into End Times Ideology
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ‘Alien Enemies Act’ deportations
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A New Administration's Signal Failure
Ali Bianco / Politico:
University of Michigan closes its DEI office, ending multi-million dollar investment into diversity
Maya C. Miller / New York Times:
Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
All the laws flouted during SignalGate
Discussion: New Republic and New York Post
Associated Press:
Vance and wife to tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit
Alex Kane / Jewish Currents:
ADL Shutters Flagship Anti-Bias Program
Discussion: Fox News
 

 
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Center for Public Integrity has ceased publishing after 36 years, and is in talks to turn over its archives to the Project on Government Oversight

Wall Street Journal:
WBD adds Anton Levy, former co-president of PE firm General Atlantic, to its board, a source says due to pressure from activist shareholder Sessa Capital

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
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