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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison  —  The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction …
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act  —  The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.  —  Throughout the fall and winter, Alexis Romero de Hernández struggled to accept a grim new routine.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump administration admits ‘error’ in deporting Maryland resident to El Salvador  —  The Department of Justice says it has no recourse now that the man is in his home country, where he'd previously feared torture and persecution.  —  The Trump administration acknowledged late Monday …
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admin Admits Deporting the Wrong Guy to El Salvador Mega Prison.  They Still Won't Bring Him Home  —  DOUBLING DOWN  —  Despite the “error,” the federal government doesn't plan to bring him home and says the courts can't make them.  —  The Trump administration admitted …
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Discussion: Scripps News and WUSA
Josh Marcus / The Independent:
Trump admin accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian mega-prison and says it can't get him back
Discussion: New York Post
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
D-Day for Musk: Democrats in Special Elections Target Trump's DOGE Chief  —  Special Elections Reveal Trump's Weak Spot: Elon Musk  —  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Trumpeting new tariffs he hopes will return industry to America, President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day.”
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New Republic:
Trump Hit by Brutal New Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear … President Donald Trump is set to announce that he'll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly to try to shield their states and districts from the fallout.
Axios:
Trump's “Art of the Deal” hits new hurdles  —  President Trump's global dealmaking blitz is facing new obstacles, with early optimism eclipsed by broken ceasefires, pissed-off allies and thinning patience at home and abroad.  —  Why it matters: Ten weeks isn't a long time in foreign policy.
Punchbowl News:
4/1/25 ☀️ AM: … President Donald Trump is on the brink of levying a sweeping set …
Discussion: CBS News and The Hill
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at stake in race that's drawn powerful political interests
Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg:
Republican Anxiety Grows as Florida Races Test Trump Strength
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
The elections on Trump's mind
Discussion: NPR and Daily Mail
Carla K. Johnson / Associated Press:
Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food  —  Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
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Wired:
The CDC Has Been Gutted  —  Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force.  Experts say people will die.  —  Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies  —  The layoffs and reorganization efforts reflect the extent to which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is willing to go to remake the country's public health infrastructure.  —  The Trump administration carried out mass layoffs across …
Politico:
Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies
Discussion: USA Today, Daily Mail and Forbes
STAT:
HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
Discussion: Axios and GovExec.com
Dasha Burns / Politico:
'I don't know anyone that isn't pissed off at him': Trump world turns on Lutnick  —  As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration.  —  Inside the White House, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been perhaps the biggest proponent of …
Discussion: CBS News, Semafor and New York Post
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Inside Cory Booker's Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor  —  A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening — and he doesn't plan on leaving it any time soon.  In a text message to TPM, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he was about to begin speaking for as long as he could stand.
Mike Catalini / Associated Press:
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker speaks through the night to protest Trump's agenda
Brian Barrett / Wired:
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show  —  The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.  —  The DOGE-affiliated acting president …
Discussion: Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Jacqueline Sweet / Rolling Stone:
Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks  —  Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth … Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what's left of USAID …
Discussion: Townhall
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
As Republicans Target Colleges, Harvard Cower  —  Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism.  The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway.  —  The Trump administration has turned campaign promises …
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The Guardian:
Who actually runs Columbia University?
McKenzie Funk / ProPublica:
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”  —  Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump's immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
Discussion: “At some point …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Immigrant removals continue slide under Trump, new data show  —  The Trump administration's pace of removing immigrants from the U.S. continues to lag behind Joe Biden's pace last year, even as detentions have jumped under President Trump, new numbers show.  —  Driving the news …
Kathryn Anne Edwards / Bloomberg:
The Coming Recession Will Be Self-Inflicted  —  The looming economic contraction will be unique in past-war America in that it will be the first directly caused by White House policy.  —  The US economy is plodding toward a recession, a result of the Trump administration's pursuit …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Ten weeks that shook the world  —  On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power  —  Civilisations are not murdered, said the historian Arnold Toynbee.  They die from suicide.  Though military clout and geographic fortune will sustain America, its republic is flirting with Toynbee's script.
Camille Gijs / Politico:
EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump's mega tariffs  —  Brussels sees America's transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles' heel.  —  BRUSSELS — It's one thing to hit Harley-Davidson motorbikes and bourbon whiskey.  It's another to go after Silicon Valley or Wall Street.
Washington Post:
Massive layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies  —  The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services.  —  April 1, 2025  —  The Fix  —  Analysis  —  Aaron Blake
Discussion: Press Herald
Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Center for Public Integrity Is Shutting Down  —  Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair.  The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.  —  The Center for Public Integrity, a thirty-six-year-old nonprofit newsroom in Washington, DC …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrat will block Trump's VA nominees to protest cuts  —  Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) says he will put a hold on President Trump's nominees to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs to protest cuts at the agency that provides lifelong healthcare services to military veterans.
Discussion: Associated Press and Fox News
 
 
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
When ‘Owning The Libs’ > The Constitution
New York Times:
Doug Emhoff's Law Firm Is Said to Be Trump's Next Target
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Divergence From the Interests of Capital
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Scoop: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandate
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
House GOP leaders move to kill proxy-voting effort
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Trump's Risky Move on Tariffs
U.S. Senate:
Floor Proceedings  —  3:00 p.m.: Convene and proceed to executive session to resume consideration …
Discussion: Scripps News
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Garrett Shanley / The Independent Florida Alligator:
'Ladapo's a charlatan': Florida surgeon general's tenure at UF is lackluster, colleagues say
Discussion: Raw Story
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Cutting Off NPR and PBS
Anne Applebaum / Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum:
The Hungarian Model  —  The corruption and stagnation in our future
Discussion: The Atlantic
Mark Alfred / NOTUS:
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