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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated  —  It is a fool's errand to try to rationalize President Trump's obsession with tariffs.  —  This is not to say that people haven't tried.  There are any number of theories that seek to explain Trump's preoccupation with tariffs and trade wars.
Discussion: PBS NewsHour
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy  —  The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.  —  As the breadth of the Trump revolution has spread across Washington in recent weeks …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Steve Doocy: Major GOP donors ‘terrified’ after Trump tariffs  —  “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy remarked that major Republican donors are “terrified” after President Trump implemented sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries, including steep tariffs on China, shaking up international markets.
Discussion: Mediaite and Axios
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Clown in a China Shop  —  A weird split-screen underway this morning: With Liberation Day tariffs slamming in place pretty much everywhere overnight, the wheels are well and truly coming off the economic bus.  J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said this morning on Fox News that a recession has become “a likely outcome.”
Jesse Pound / CNBC:
China slaps 84% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in response to Trump  —  China has pushed back again on U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies by hiking its levies on U.S. imports to more than 80%.  —  Tariffs on U.S. goods entering China will rise to 84% from 34% starting April 10 …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Markets Slide Further as U.S. Imposes Punishing Tariffs
Politico:   House GOP leaders move to quash vote on Trump's global tariffs
Eli Stokols / Politico:
As the trade war rattles bond markets, Trump advises to ‘BE COOL’
Rachel Wolf / Fox Business:
Trump reciprocal tariffs, additional China levies take effect
Huizhong Wu / Associated Press:
China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84% as it vows to ‘fight to the end’
NOTUS:
Trump and Johnson Appear to Be Losing House GOP Holdouts on the Budget
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
It's Republicans' Fault
Discussion: The Atlantic
Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Republicans who say they didn't vote for this economic crisis are wrong
Discussion: The Hill and The Independent
South China Morning Post:
Breaking | China fires back with fresh 50% tariff in stern rebuke to Trump's escalation
Discussion: Politico, Semafor and Daily Mail
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
April 8, 2025  —  Stocks were up early today as traders put their hopes in Treasury Secretary …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Anders Hagstrom / Fox Business:
Stocks turn higher as trade war escalates: Live Updates
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You  —  Databases that Elon Musk's team is trying to access include more than 300 personal details about members of the U.S. public.  —  The federal government knows your mother's maiden name and your bank account number.
Discussion: Futurism, Bloomberg and Rolling Stone
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Washington Post:
IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authorities
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
IRS Acting Commissioner Is Resigning After Deal To Share Immigrants' Tax Information With ICE
Felix Salmon / Axios:
The bond market plunges as crisis brews  —  The price of U.S. Treasury bonds is plunging, in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called “deleveraging convulsions.”  The effect is to raise borrowing costs just as recession fears spike.  —  Why it matters: The last thing America needed …
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Emese Bartha / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Treasury Yields Jump as Trump Tariffs Fuel Bond Selloff  —  The increase in long-end Treasury yields prompted a rise in European counterparts, though the selloff in Europe was less intense  —  U.S. Treasury yields continued to surge after President Trump's sweeping duties …
Colby Smith / New York Times:
U.S. Bond Sell-Off Raises Questions About ‘Safe Haven’ Status
Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg and Semafor
Bloomberg:
About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record  — Men were accused of ties to Tren de Aragua criminal gang  — US court records show just a few charges for serious crimes  —  Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as …
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Wall Street Journal:
Dollar Confidence Crisis Is Here, Deutsche Bank Warns  —  The broad selloff in U.S. stocks and bonds, and the continuing decline in the dollar, represents a “simultaneous collapse in the price of all U.S. assets,” analysts at Deutsche Bank said Wednesday.  They warned that “unchartered territory” lies ahead.
Discussion: Reuters
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Naomi Tajitsu / Bloomberg:   Deutsche Bank Sees Fed Doing Emergency QE If Bond Rout Goes On
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets.  We asked them why.  —  President Donald Trump's tariffs haven't only demolished trillions in wealth and raised the chance of a global recession.  They've also led some prominent Trump supporters to wonder whether they made a huge mistake.
New York Times:
How Trump Is Putting Law Firms in a No-Win Situation  —  As Willkie Farr & Gallagher learned, cutting a deal with the White House can avert a financially punitive executive order.  But doing so can draw internal rebukes and external criticism.  —  Willkie Farr & Gallagher last week became …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Jasmine Garsd / NPR:
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism  —  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrant's social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Many lawyers who argue for Trump at Supreme Court are heading for the exit  —  At least half of the front-line attorneys in the solicitor general's office plan to leave, people familiar with the matter said, as Trump's emergency requests pile up at the high court.
New York Times:
'Where's Alex?'  A Beloved Caregiver Is Swept Up in Trump's Green Card Crackdown … Alfredo Orellana, 31, was not just a caregiver for Luke Ferris, a 28-year-old with severe autism.  The pair worked out at the gym, got tacos and played video games together.  They exchanged elbow bumps.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People  —  A powerful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, parts of which have been seen by 404 Media, allows the federal government to search for and filter people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump tries to restore a grim era for American workers  —  🪚 🚧 ⛏️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Discussion: The Nation and Futurism
KWTX-TV:
High school students post photo on social media standing in front of a Nazi flag  —  AURORA, Neb. (KSNB/Gray News) - A pair of students in Nebraska are facing consequences after they were seen on social media posing in their high school's locker room holding a flag symbolizing hate.
NBC News:
Pete Hegseth senior adviser pushing for Pentagon to cut ties with Scouting America  —  Critics like the adviser, a former Fox News producer, say the group formerly known as the Boy Scouts is too “woke.”  No decision has been made.  —  One of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top advisers …
Wall Street Journal:
Why Musk vs. Navarro Matters  —  The fight reflects the competing factions in Trump's coalition.  —  Elon Musk opined on the internet Tuesday that White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.”  Mr. Navarro had told a TV show that Mr. Musk …
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
'I Know Musk's Secret Blueprint to Destroy Social Security from The Inside'  —  COLD AND CALCULATED  —  “I'm almost certain that the goal is privatization,” one 15-year veteran of the agency tells the Daily Beast.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Rennie Glasgow took a pay cut when he left a job in sales …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: ABC News
Politico:
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Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups, not parents
Discussion: Advocate and PinkNews
New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Reuters:
Has Trump cancelled Christmas? China's decorations makers report no US orders
Discussion: American Thinker
Washington Post:
Kari Lake to be detailed to State Department to dismantle VOA parent agency
Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
DOGE head denies responsibility for mass firings in private group chat message
Discussion: Raw Story
David Bauder / Associated Press:
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