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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A scary quote for the GOP on Trump and tariffs  —  What if Trump is willing to go down with the tariff ship — and take his party with him?  —  Just now  —  Perhaps the most infamous quote Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) ever offered about Donald Trump came in May 2016.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Playbook: A dispatch from the trade war front lines
Discussion: MLive.com
Associated Press:   Trump goes all in with bet that the heavy price of tariffs will pay off for Americans
Associated Press:
US consumers rush to buy big-ticket items before Trump's tariffs kick in
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk slams key Trump adviser Navarro as tariffs bite  —  Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials.  —  Why it matters: The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 4, 2025  —  The stock market rout continued today.  As expected, China announced …
Discussion: New York Times and The Mahablog
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
China says ‘market has spoken’ after Trump tariffs spark global stocks rout
Discussion: Wausau and IJR
CNBC:
Buffett denies social media rumors after Trump shares wild claim that investor backs president crashing market
Washington Post:
Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda  —  In a campus speech, the former president said universities should be prepared to lose federal funds to defend academic freedom, rather than be “intimidated.”  —  Just now  —  Former president Barack Obama called …
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
138. Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power  —  Federal courts don't have jurisdiction over foreign prisons.  That doesn't mean that they're powerless when the U.S. government wrongly removes someone from the United States.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
Discussion: NewsNation and New York Times
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Trump Admin Dismisses Judge's Order to Bring Back Man Accidentally Sent to El Salvador  —  “We suggest the judge contact President Bukele,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt … “We suggest the judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction …
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants  —  The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information.  But immigration officials now say they're seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without authorization.
Kevin M. Levin / Civil War Memory:
The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library  —  We now have a list of the 381 books that have been removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library in Annapolis, Maryland.  Many of the books in the list fall under categories such as Critical Race Theory, Gender and Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies, etc.
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John Ismay / New York Times:
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
Discussion: Daily Nous
CBS News:   Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge
Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal:
Big Law Firms Struck a Truce With Trump—and Set Off a Clash With Recruits  —  Law students at top schools reconsider offers at Skadden and other firms while associates cancel interviews in protest  —  Campus recruiting is the newest front in the Trump-induced turmoil at some of the country's most prominent law firms.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Hundreds of law firms, former judges sign onto briefs in support of Perkins Coie
Discussion: Business Insider and Reuters
Jenny Kleeman / The Guardian:
I was a British tourist trying to leave America.  Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre  —  Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime.  But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE.
New York Times:
Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger  —  The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country's fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.  —  When President Trump abruptly fired …
Discussion: CBS News and Wall Street Journal
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Firing of National Security Agency Chief Rattles Lawmakers  —  Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who was also the head of U.S. Cyber Command, was one of several national security officials fired on the advice of a conspiracy theorist.  —  As soon as word spread that President Trump had fired Gen. Timothy D. Haugh …
The Kyiv Independent:
US embassy's response to Russia's Kryvyi Rih attack ‘surprisingly disappointing,’ Zelensky says.  —  The U.S. Embassy to Ukraine's response to Russia's attack on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on April 4, which killed 19 people and injured 68, was “unpleasantly surprising,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 5.
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New York Times:
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On  —  The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers.  The video appears to contradict Israel's version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
Kevin Corinth / American Enterprise Institute:
President Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense.  It's Also Based on an Error.  —  President Trump on Wednesday announced tariffs on practically every foreign country (and some non-countries), ranging from a 10 percent minimum all the way up to 50 percent.
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Tariffs bring overnight economic chaos  —  In one 48-minute speech, President Trump scrambled every American's budget, every U.S. company's balance sheet and every global alliance.  — Tariffs, a sometimes obscure economic tool, have massive power, especially when enacted this expansively.
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Shannon Osaka / Washington Post:
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled  —  Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.  —  Just now  —  Over the past few years, electric vehicle manufacturing facilities producing lithium batteries …
Discussion: Electrek
Alan Elrod / Liberal Currents:
You're Not Crazy.  America Has Gone Mad … This is an oft-quoted passage from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.  And it's one that has proven especially popular in the years since the rise of Trump and explosion of global authoritarianism.  —  I open with it here because I …
Associated Press:
‘Hands Off!’ protests against Trump and Musk are planned across the US  —  Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk plan to rally across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration's actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.
 
 
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Fox News:
Dems slam Elon Musk, Melania Trump with xenophobic attacks: ‘Go back to South Africa!’
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Bloomberg:
From Ray-Bans to Wigs, US Buyers May See Unexpected Price Hikes
Discussion: Daily Mail
Reuters:
Treasury's Bessent: Market drop a ‘Mag 7’ problem, not a MAGA one, he says in Tucker Carlson interview
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Montana GOP censures 9 Senate Republicans for working with Dems
James Rothwell / Telegraph:
Germany considers withdrawing 1,200-ton gold stockpile from US in riposte to Trump
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
RFK Jr. said HHS would rehire thousands of fired workers. That wasn't true.
Troy Closson / New York Times:
New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order
Discussion: Chicago Tribune