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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.
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
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:   Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions
New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results
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 …
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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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Why Cory Booker's Speech Matters
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg:
Cory Booker's 25-Hour Speech Was a Stunt. It Worked.
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
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 …
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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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: al.com and Tax Notes
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.
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 …
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
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.”
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Hunter Biden gives up law license in Washington, D.C., avoiding disbarment proceedings  —  The voluntary decision to accept disbarment avoids potentially protracted proceedings over whether Hunter Biden's two prior criminal cases required him to lose his law license.
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
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: Politico, Quartz and CBS News
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New York Times:
Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
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
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: New Republic and The Daily Caller
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 …
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
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 …
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.
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
‘He repels people’: DeSantis tears into Fine after Florida special election underperformance  —  The governor called Fine a “squish” and blamed policies he supported for an underperformance in the special election.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his attacks against Randy Fine on Wednesday …
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
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
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.
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.
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
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: The Hill
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.
Discussion: Just Security and Fortune
 
 
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Michelle Van Cleave / The Hill:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Isabella Volmert / Associated Press:
Michigan lawmaker Mallory McMorrow announces Democratic bid for US Senate
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Democrat Kamlager-Dove takes aim at DOGE ahead of potential State Department cuts
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
‘Unsatisfactory’: Dems slam McMahon for dodging questions about end of Education Department in meeting
Discussion: ABC News, UPI and Raw Story
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court to decide if states can strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds
Nicole Silverio / The Daily Caller:
‘Apartheid Country’: Far-Left Pundit Says All Laws Passed Before 1965 Should Be ‘Presumptively Unconstitutional’
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Key House Republican opposes Medicaid cuts
Discussion: OpenTheBooks
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Cuomo attacks mayoral rivals as aiding ‘forces of antisemitism,’ sparking outrage
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds FDA's rejection of fruit-flavored vape liquids
Max Kozlov / Nature:
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
Discussion: Science and STAT
 

 
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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Tech stocks teetered in volatile trading on April 7: AAPL closed down 3.67% and MSFT closed down 0.55%, while Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia closed up

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple plans to send more iPhones to the US from India to offset the China tariffs, but the situation is too uncertain to upend supply chain investments

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta VP of Generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained Llama 4 Maverick and Scout on test sets, saying that Meta “would never do that”
 
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