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11:55 AM ET, April 15, 2025

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Roger Parloff / Default:
Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?  —  The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.  —  Meet The Authors … In multiple filings, the government has conceded that it wrongfully removed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is halfway to making America a police state  —  The president's refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point  —  At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government.  Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here  —  Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador's infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.  —  We are approaching one month since the United States illegally sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the CECOT “terrorism” prison in El Salvador on the third March 15 flight that took people to the prison.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Trump's immigration agenda is not popular  —  To start this post, I am going to ask you a key question about immigration policy.  But first, I need to establish a few facts based on recent news:  —  On Monday, April 14, 2025, Donald Trump met with the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, in the Oval Office.
Discussion: Daily Kos, RVM News, NPR and ProPublica
Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power
Discussion: To the Contrary, Truthout and Mediaite
Caroline Foreback / CBS News:
Maryland senator requests meeting with Salvadoran president to discuss deported Maryland man
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That's likely illegal
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data  —  In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Sohrab Ahmari / UnHerd:
JD Vance: My message to Europe America doesn't want a vassal continent  —  “It's not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.”  So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President.
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Politico:
JD Vance: Europe can't be a ‘permanent security vassal’ of the US
Discussion: Reuters
U.S. Department of Education:
Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Statement Regarding Harvard University  —  Today, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism released the following statement:  —  “Harvard's statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar...
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Jack Blanchard / Politico:   The Great Fightback?  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Good Tuesday morning.
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
This Tax Day, an IRS in Crisis  —  Every year during tax season, please spare a thought for the IRS.  It is our least loved agency, but one of our most important.  Last year, I noted how an IRS modernization effort was making real progress in terms of improved service quality.
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Punchbowl News:
Why President Trump isn't signing many laws … Trump and Republican congressional leaders often claim his new administration has been the most productive in recent memory.  —  Except when it comes to passing laws.  —  Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency …
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Bloomberg:
China Orders Boeing Jet Delivery Halt as Trade War Expands … Beijing has also asked that Chinese carriers halt any purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from US companies, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing matters that are private.
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:   China orders its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets, report says
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
State Terror  —  Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.  —  This is the beginning …
Discussion: Mediaite
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Inside Trump's Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations … At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty.  —  At the Mine Safety and Health Administration …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Bloomberg:
US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine  —  The US has told Group of Seven allies it won't endorse a statement condemning Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year because it wants to keep negotiations with Moscow on track.  —  Russia fired two short-range …
George Porteous / The Stanford Daily:
Levin and Martinez express support for Harvard amid funding fight with Trump administration  —  University president Jonathan Levin '94 and Provost Jenny Martinez expressed support for Harvard after its president Alan Garber M.D. '83 — a Stanford Medicine professor emeritus …
New York Times:
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont.  He has not been charged with a crime.  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Vibe Shifts Against the Right  —  Alex Kaschuta's podcast, “Subversive,” used to be a node in the network between weird right-wing internet subcultures and mainstream conservatism.  She hosted men's rights activists and purveyors of “scientific” racism, neo-reactionary online personalities …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Laura Nahmias / Bloomberg:
Ackman Gives $250,000 to Cuomo's New York City Mayoral Run  —  Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City's mayoral race.  —  Ackman's contribution to the pro-Cuomo PAC “Fix the City, Inc.” …
Discussion: New York Post, Politico and Fox News
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Jeffries backs stock trading ban after Greene buys market dip  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off market fluctuations during President Trump's tariff roller-coaster.
Robert Maguire / CREW:
As Trump pursues mass deportation, his businesses again seek foreign workers  —  While President Donald Trump and his administration reiterate the need to “hire American” and crack down on both documented and undocumented immigrants alike, his company is again seeking seasonal foreign workers …
Yuki Noguchi / NPR:
DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims  —  In and around Asheville, N.C., there are still visible signs of devastation that remain from the floods of Hurricane Helene six months ago: rusted debris in the yards of water-damaged residences in ruins.
Discussion: Carolina Journal
David Nir / The Downballot:
Morning Digest: Michigan Republican who fell just short in '24 will run for Senate again  —  Leading Off  —  Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers announced on Monday that he would run for the Senate, five months after he narrowly lost the general election for Michigan's other Senate seat.
Punchbowl News:
State Dept. to propose major overhaul of U.S. diplomatic footprint … The document, part of a broader FY 2026 budget proposal due to the Office of Management and Budget later today, outlines a consolidation of outposts in countries such as Japan and Canada, that includes “resizing” …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Politico:
Trump to skip White House Correspondents' Association dinner amid battle with press  —  The president snubbed the event throughout his first administration.  —  President Donald Trump will not attend the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner later this month …
Discussion: Axios
Popular Information:
North Carolina Supreme Court throws out hundreds of ballots based on flawed data  —  This is a special collaboration between Popular Information and Anderson Alerts, a newsletter about North Carolina politics.  —  Josiah Young was born and raised in North Carolina.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
EU Expects US Tariffs to Stay as Talks Make Little Progress
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Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
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Words & Phrases We Can Do Without
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This Lawyer Defended Republicans and Democrats. His Candor Cost Him His Job.
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 Earlier Items: 
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court threatens to bring “Don't Say Gay” to every classroom in America
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
RFK Jr. and the great discrediting of HHS
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
The Dollar Keeps Falling as Its ‘Safe Haven’ Status Is Questioned
Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: Court Orders, Kidnapping, and Smuggling
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New York Times:
White House to Ask Congress to Claw Back Funding From NPR and PBS
 

 
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Jessica Testa / New York Times:
An analysis of YouTube's new weekly ranking of top podcasts in the US by watch time shows many popular and well-established podcasts did not rank in the top 100

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Reuters:
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