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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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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin  —  Democrats have done well in special elections since Donald Trump's inauguration, but until this week we hadn't had any statewide contests to really assess how the administration's radical reshaping of U.S. government was landing with the public.
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Musk said Wisconsin would decide the fate of Western civilization.  Now he says he ‘expected to lose.’  —  The Musk-backed Brad Schimel got thumped Tuesday night.  —  Republicans lost decisively in Tuesday night's Wisconsin Supreme Court election.  Elon Musk is still saying everything is going according to plan.
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  —  The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is the most important election since Trump took office.  Wisconsin is a purple state, and Court races there have been both close and crucial.  The last one, when liberals retook the majority, ended the practice of gerrymandering in the state.
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions
New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results
The Guardian:
Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
A message to Musk  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Embed:
Discussion: New Republic, National Review and NOTUS
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 …
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 …
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: Tax Notes
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Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg:
Cory Booker's 25-Hour Speech Was a Stunt. It Worked.
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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Wired:
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Discussion: CBS News
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.”
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
Bloomberg:
Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event  —  President Donald Trump's deliberations over his plans to impose reciprocal tariffs are coming down to the wire, with his team said to be still finalizing the level and scope of new import taxes he is slated to unveil on Wednesday afternoon.
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Reuters:
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
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
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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Washington Post:
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights  —  It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.  —  Just now
Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press and HuffPost
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump-Allied Prosecutor Looks to Undermine Biden Pardons  —  In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s family and former White House officials about clemency.  —  Ed Martin, the ardent Trump loyalist serving …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Elon Musk is the autopen
Discussion: LewRockwell
Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card?  —  Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident.  —  Starting this week, I once again have the privilege of teaching law students about the First Amendment, a subject in which Americans rightly take great pride.
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Where the right's defense of free speech ends
Discussion: Daily Kos
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected  —  Tesla (TSLA) has released its Q1 2025 production and delivery numbers.  The automaker confirmed it delivered 336,681 electric vehicles during the first three months of the year — far below expectations.
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.
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: Washington Post and Above the Law
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 and Defense One
David Frum / The Atlantic:
No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers  —  American farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump's tariffs.  Republican members of Congress from farm states are working to deliver the relief farmers want.  But farmers do not deserve special treatment and should not get it.
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 …
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
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds FDA's rejection of fruit-flavored vape liquids  —  Companies had sued the FDA, saying it unfairly shifted its standards for approving e-cigarette liquids popular with teens.  The Supreme Court unanimously backed the agency.  —  just now
Adam Bonica / On Data and Democracy:
Does Higher Turnout Now Help Republicans?  A Data-Driven Analysis of Partisan Turnout Dynamics (Part 1)  —  A provocative claim has been echoing through Democratic circles since the 2024 election, recently amplified in a New York Times interview with prominent data strategist David Shor …
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
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
In a new book, top Biden aide describes ‘out of it’ president before Trump debate  —  Ron Klain tells author Chris Whipple then president could not focus and obsessed about foreign leaders ahead of debate that ended his campaign  —  In a new book, Joe Biden's former White House chief …
Discussion: New York Post, Fox News and CBS News
Jared Gans / The Hill:
McMorrow enters Michigan Senate race, citing ‘fear and anger and uncertainty right now’  —  Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) has formally entered the race for U.S. Senate after much speculation, citing the “fear and anger and uncertainty” facing the country as her motivation.
Max Kozlov / Nature:
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …
Discussion: Science and STAT
 
 
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
Key House Republican opposes Medicaid cuts
Discussion: OpenTheBooks
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
A Senate Blockbuster Looms in Texas, as Paxton Prepares to Challenge Cornyn
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Cuomo attacks mayoral rivals as aiding ‘forces of antisemitism,’ sparking outrage
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Choosing lawlessness  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who came …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Tariffs are a terrible policy. The uncertainty around them is even worse.
Discussion: New Republic and New York Post
Melanie Mason / Politico:
Xavier Becerra announces bid for California governor
John Liu / Bloomberg:
China Restricts Companies From Investing in US as Tensions Rise
Discussion: Quartz and CNBC
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorney Studied Options for Third Presidential Term
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Outside a Social Security office, fear, lines and misinformation
Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Disgraced ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran arrested at Miami airport with thousands of child sex abuse videos on phone
 

 
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Bloomberg:
The stock market briefly surged Monday after CNBC, Reuters, and others picked up an erroneous X post that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs

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