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Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system — Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports — The writer is President Trump's senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing — The international trade system is broken — and Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff doctrine will fix it.
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Metro.co.uk, LewRockwell, The Hill, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, City A.M., Semafor and The Daily Wire
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Trump Offers An Uneasy World No Reassurance In Word Salad Oval Office Remarks — WASHINGTON ― With a world economy on edge since he declared a trade war with the rest of the planet last week, President Donald Trump offered no reassuring words Monday and instead provided yet more evidence …
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Politico, CBS News and Washington Times


Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs — The world's richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful. — Just now — Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing …
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City A.M., Fortune, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Independent, Reuters, Daily Caller News Foundation, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider


Lutnick's Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides — Some executives have come away from meetings with the commerce secretary confused and exasperated — WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has tried to sell President Trump's trade agenda to American companies for months.
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New Republic, Raw Story and Washington Examiner


Trump has no idea what he has unleashed — There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions — We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.


China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat — Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a ‘mistake on top of a mistake’ as Wednesday deadline for latest levies looms — China's government says it will “fight to the end” if the US continues to escalate the trade war …
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CNBC, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Reuters, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP and Semafor

Can Musk Pull Trump Back From the Tariff Ledge?
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PinkNews, New Republic, Washington Examiner, City A.M. and Business Insider

‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
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Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain
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New York Times, Raw Story and The Hill


140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G. — In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times. — Welcome back to “One First,” an …
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emptywheel, Reason and Talking Points Memo
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Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely …
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Raw Story, Townhall, UPI, The Hill, Washington Times, Forbes, The Post Millennial, CBS News and Patterico's Pontifications


The Supreme Court's New 5-4 Bailout for Trump Couldn't Be More Ominous — The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory on Monday night, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison under an 18th century wartime law.


‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
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New York Times, Axios, New Jersey Online and CBS News

Rights and Wrongs of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Alien Enemies Act Case
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Israpundit, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit

Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Block on Venezuelan Deportations

Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family — Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone. — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money


MTA, feds reach agreement that could keep NYC congestion pricing tolls in place into the fall — The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that could keep New York City congestion pricing in place into the fall. — Once the agreed-to timeline expires …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, VINnews and New York Post


The Case of Wrongful Migrant Deportation — The Trump Administration fights to keep a man falsely expelled in a Salvadoran hellhole. — Click for Sound — The Trump Administration's never-back-down style is becoming a governance problem with overtones of cruelty.
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The Bulwark, Raw Story and Reason
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Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported
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U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge — Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — and the fourth woman — removed since Trump's return to Washington. — The Trump administration has fired a top Navy admiral assigned …
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Fox News, Stars & Stripes, New York Times, UPI, USA Today, Reuters, Task & Purpose and Politico
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Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say — Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
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Daily Kos, more at Techmeme »


1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea — Republicans admit President Trump's tariffs are spiking their blood pressure. Their Wall Street donors are feeling it too, with some giving top GOP lawmakers an earful this weekend. — Why it matters: Trump is making it clear he won't tolerate …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire and Politico


The False Tariff Headline That Sent Stocks on a $2 Trillion Ride — Misinformation on a White House official's remarks triggers a short-lived rally — A wild stock-market swing based on false information added $2.4 trillion in value and erased it almost as quickly Monday morning.
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NBC News, Axios, Fortune and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
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Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off. — With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail. — The biggest technology companies …


Nearly 150 Students Have Had Visas Revoked and Could Face Deportation — Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days. For many, the reasons are unclear.
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N.C. Supreme Court halts decision requiring verification of 65,000 votes in tight judicial race — The order temporarily pauses a ruling that had the potential to tip the results of a North Carolina Supreme Court race that the Democratic candidate currently leads by 734 votes.
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New York Times, Popular Information, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Wausau and Carolina Journal
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How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick
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The Bulwark, Mother Jones, Democrats and The Contrarian


Influencer Who Bought Trump a Rolex Has Lost Over $10M Since Tariffs Hit the Market: 'It's So Bad' — “It's bad, I'm not gonna lie to you” — Just months after gifting President Donald Trump a gold Rolex and a custom MAGA-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck, controversial streamer Adin Ross …
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Raw Story


Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex — By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness. And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts. — For the past few days everyone …


Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention — A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. — The Trump administration is seeking …
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NPR, Mediaite, New Republic and Washington Examiner


Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels — The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade. — The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels …
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HotAir, Reuters, American Military News and NewsNation


What is the Underground Railroad? — I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. — The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight …
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CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, Civil War Memory, Global News and The Guardian


Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs — New Civil Liberties Alliance says president's invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful — A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge …
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Washington Post


FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino — The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail. Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said. — The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …