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REPORTER: What about the president's plan to expel Palestinians out of Gaza? TRUMP: Nobody is expelling any Palestinians. Who are you with? REPORTER: I'm with Voice of America, sir. TRUMP: Oh, no wonder.

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US pauses water-sharing negotiations with Canada over Columbia River

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New weather forecasting approach since Trump is killing NOAA

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Arresting someone without charge, explanation, or due process to silence dissent is unconstitutional. This type of thing happens in dictatorships, not America. You don’t have to agree with Mahmoud Khalil to defend his rights—if his freedoms can be taken by the Trump administration, so can yours.

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Gutting the Dept. of Education would be devastating to our nation's students — and our teachers. MAGA Republicans have been waging a war on public school teachers for years. They want public schools to fail so they can pour the money into private, for-profit schools.

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I will not be voting for the partisan bill coming before the Senate that will further cement the Trump Administration’s chaos and reckless actions that are hurting working families and our economy. Read: substack.com/@senschiff/n...

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Khanna: Propaganda doesn’t work when the reality is terrible. What Biden had was an economy that was recovering, and we got hurt by propaganda. Now you actually have a terribly moving economy, and people are hurting. There’s no amount of things that Sean Hannity can say that’s going to pay the bills

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: So, I think what American farmers are waking up to is the fact that Canadians are no longer buying their products. We’re just not going to participate in this abusive relationship. You threaten us, we don’t buy your products. How about that?

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Israel to occupy Syrian southern territory for ‘unlimited time’, says minister

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SANCHEZ: Do you have any ethical concerns about the president essentially hosting this Tesla showroom outside the White House as Elon Musk has direct business that's overseen by agencies? REP. WARREN DAVIDSON: Look, presidents have always highlighted products

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This is the state of the media today: If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job. Pathetic.

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This is what we’ve become. In just a single decade.

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REPORTER: How does the White House measure when you can no longer blame the economy on former President Biden? When does it become Trump's responsibility? LEAVITT: Well, we've only been here for 52 days

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“I’m the villain,” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek said in the recording. “I’m not going to have a job after this. I get it.” @propublica.org

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Not sure I have ever heard a government lawyer gaslight a federal judge quite like this. Despite the EO that bars Perkins Coie from doing business with the government, he claims they're worried about "boogeymen."

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They’re just such dishonest people. They’ve learned from Trump how to lie and never look back. They deserve to lose.

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No, you're not dreaming. Trump has gone and paid the better part of $100,000 for a car he's not yet driven, and which during the course of its production has been the subject of dozens of recalls for issues like seat-belt warning system malfunctions and unexpected speeding and lane changes.

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We're so far gone here/now on immediate presidency-ending high crimes, misdemeanors, & norm-shattering racism/antisemitism, that this won't even register, but just imagine if Joe Biden or the Black President in the Tan Suit had sat in the Oval Office & told us who he thinks is a (good) Jew.

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Judge Howell, ruling from the bench, will issue a TRO to keep the status quo in place and prevent Trump from enforcing his EO attack on the law firm of Perkins Coie while she has time to consider the issues.

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reminder as Trump's April 2 tariffs regime approaches that he admitted there's no data or process behind any of it

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"DOGE’s claims are often either mathematically impossible, or, like the $50m 'condoms for Gaza' claim, simply false. This allows the administration to take a strategically ambiguous stance in hopes of shielding DOGE from judicial interference. But that strategy is failing." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

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SCHUMER: “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input—any input—from congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR."

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Exclusive: President Donald Trump's administration intends to overturn pollution rules aimed at reducing soot emissions from US coal-fired power plants in a move intended to help keep some of the nation's dirtiest plants operational, according to people familiar with the matter reut.rs/4kKHzwQ

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Neguse: I think about the average working family in my district struggling to buy a new car because prices are soaring. Interest rates remain remarkably high, and what are they left with? The car infomercial the President of the United States conducted on the White House lawn.

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James: Whenever he issues an executive order, it’s the blue wall of defense. The attorneys general all across this country are responding in record time—defending the rights of individuals, defending the rule of law, and standing up for our democracy and for our freedom. We’ll continue to do that

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BREAKING: Senate Democrats have the votes to block the Republican Continuing Resolution, which was loaded with poison pills. Sen. Schumer says the Democratic caucus is unified on a clean short term resolution that would keep current funding through April 11.

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Jeffries: We understand that people are anxious, scared, concerned, and upset at the state of affairs as a result of the unleashing of extremism by the Trump administration.. We hear you, we see you, and most importantly, we are committed to making life better for you.

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Trump's escalates his trade wars and crashes the markets again. He hosts an informercial for Musk's cars as Tesla spirals. Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea propaganda. Catch up on this and more in today's recap:

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NEW: Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony. With @veritenews.org

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Elon Musk has signaled to President Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wants to put $100 million into groups controlled by the Trump political operation, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

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Independent podcasters on both sides of the aisle have attracted huge audiences since President Trump’s inauguration, replacing cable and legacy news outlets as go-to sources for the day’s news.

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Last time I checked there are exactly zero measles vaccine-related hospitalizations or deaths in 2025, but there are 223 of measles cases, 29 hospitalizations, and 2 deaths in Texas alone www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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Oh?

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Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.

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NEW: Perkins Coie, the law firm targeted by Trump in an Executive Order, has now sued the Trump Administration in federal court alleging the EO is unconstitutional on several grounds, including violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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These lies kill children.

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Flashback:

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President Donald Trump's announcement of 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports marks more than just another trade policy — it signals the potential revival of his first-term economic nationalism, this time with sharper teeth reut.rs/43CujnM

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House Democrats strongly opposed the partisan Trump-Musk spending bill. MAGA extremists are marching America toward a Republican recession.

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Has interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin violated lawyer ethics rules? @preetbharara.bsky.social and I discuss the misconduct complaint against him on a new episode of @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider. Listen: bit.ly/3DzKO9B

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The White House Press Secretary just wrapped up her press conference, and let’s be clear—the White House is gaslighting you as the country burns. Here is everything you need to know.

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