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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon  —  The president is pleased with Musk but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.  —  President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping …
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
Musk has been everywhere. A new poll says Americans don't approve.
Discussion: 19FortyFive, Newsweek and Forbes
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country  —  Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans.  —  Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Wall Street Journal:
The MAGA Backlash Arrives  —  Republicans hold two Florida House seats despite a sharp swing to the Democrats, but Democrats easily keep their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority.  —  Democrats solidified their 4-3 progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the ramifications are nationwide.
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’
Discussion: JSOnline
Dasha Burns / Politico:
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world  —  It's a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration's national security team relies on Signal.  —  National security adviser Mike Waltz's …
Jordain Carney / Politico:
McConnell breaks with party to reject Trump's Canada tariffs  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell privately indicated to Sen. Tim Kaine he would back the Virginia Democrat's resolution to undo President Donald Trump's Canada tariffs.  Kaine told reporters Wednesday that the former GOP leader told …
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Paul Krugman:
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness  —  From Apocalypse Now: … Today, according to Trump and co., is Liberation Day — the day Trump will announce big new tariffs on top of the substantial tariffs he's already slapped on steel, aluminum and autos.  —  Nobody knows much about the details …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg:
Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history’  —  Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “may have changed the course of political history” with his marathon speech breaking the Senate's record for the longest floor speech in its history.
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Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg:
Cory Booker's 25-Hour Speech Was a Stunt. It Worked.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Why Cory Booker's Speech Matters
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Hunter Biden tax informant set to control IRS criminal division  —  The Trump administration has placed a political appointee in charge of tax investigations, in a break with longtime precedent.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration is amassing influence over criminal investigations at the IRS …
Discussion: Fortune, al.com and Tax Notes
Jesse Zanger / CBS News:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams corruption case dismissed with prejudice, judge rules  —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams' historic federal corruption case has been dropped.  —  Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so “with prejudice.”
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Associated Press:
Judge dismisses corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
NBC News:
‘We were lied to:’ Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out  —  The women's accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration's vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison.  —  On March 15, the Trump administration loaded …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Salvadoran Gulag
Discussion: USA Today, CBS News and Fox News
New York Times:
Inside Elite Law Firms, Protests and Quitting After Trump Deals  —  The discontent does not appear to be resonating with leaders at Paul Weiss and Skadden, but it could hamstring their recruitment efforts.  —  Ever since the elite law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden reached deals with President Trump …
Discussion: City & State New York
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New York Times:
Read the Letter to the Chairman of Paul Weiss
Discussion: Raw Story
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback  —  Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.  —  WASHINGTON ― Emails show that the Social Security Administration canceled contracts …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Leaked Emails Expose Trump's Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor
Chris Isidore / CNN:
Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history  —  Tesla sales plunged 13% in the first three months of this year, as the company reported the largest drop in deliveries in its history by far, amid backlash against CEO Elon Musk and as growing competition from other automakers' electric vehicles took …
Washington Post:
How the Trump administration took aim at Maine  —  Maine has faced investigations and arbitrary reversals of funding, turning it into a test case for the Trump administration's approach to perceived adversaries.
Politico:
Fauci allies, Covid vaccine officials get ax at NIH  —  The removals have gutted FDA and NIH leadership.  —  As an anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent years attacking Anthony Fauci and sowing doubts about the successful effort he led to develop a Covid vaccine.
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Politico:
Top Trump FDA official Brenner hits pause on Novavax Covid-19 vaccine decision
Discussion: Public
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk Can't Take the Heat  —  The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working.  So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.  —  Elon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what's ailing America: It's being destroyed by empathy.  In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65  —  A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable.  At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.  —  Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
Alvaro Murillo / Reuters:
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa  —  Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
Washington Post:
Trump team has weighed deal to save TikTok that would leave algorithm in Chinese ownership  —  The White House has examined a menu of options to avert a TikTok ban deadline set for Saturday.  One proposal — letting TikTok's Chinese owner lease the algorithm to a TikTok spinoff in the U.S. …
Discussion: The Hill, Quartz and New York Times
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New York Times:
Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Reuters:
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally  —  U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Discussion: Politico
M. Gessen / New York Times:
Unmarked Vans.  Secret Lists.  Public Denunciations.  Our Police State Has Arrived.  —  “It's the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said.  He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's abduction.
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Coco Gong / The Princetonian:
Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants  —  The University has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds.  The sale, first reported on by Bloomberg on Tuesday afternoon, follows the Trump administration's freezing …
Rolling Stone:
Inside Trump and RFK Jr.'s Health Agency ‘Bloodbath’  —  Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are uncertain: ‘Shitshow is an understatement’  —  The Trump administration gutted federal health agencies on Tuesday morning …
Ale Franqueza / Migrant Insider:
ICE Raids Idaho Lawmaker's Farm  —  State Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen was reported to ICE for speaking out against Trump's immigration policies.  —  An Idaho Republican state representative has accused her own party of weaponizing federal immigration authorities against her after she publicly …
Discussion: InvestigateWest
 
 
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Jason Beeferman / Politico:
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Reuters:
Milbank reaches deal with Trump as divide among law firms deepens
Discussion: Above the Law
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Klobuchar and Cruz clash at hearing over judicial injunctions
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Reuters:
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Discussion: Ars Technica
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