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Americans of all political affiliations will miss the checks and balances that Donald Trump is trying to dispense with.

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Oh look, an affiliate transaction!

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

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EXCLUSIVE: @emilyflitter.bsky.social reports that the Treasury is moving to protect a crucial financial lifeline for millions of low-income and under-served Americans 🎁Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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NEWS: The Treasury informed OMB last Friday that the CDFI Fund, which was on a list of institutions targeted for cuts by an executive order, is completely supported by laws. Its 11 functions can’t be halted.

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Video from a Boston news station shows a Tufts University graduate student approached by several people in plain clothes, not uniforms and taken away. They converge on her from multiple directions. She freezes, her shoulders curl up, they take hold of her arms. youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Federal workers laid off in connection with President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders said their terminations were discriminatory and violated their First Amendment rights, in an administrative complaint seeking reinstatement to their jobs 🎁 Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Hmm.... From the Signal chat - "We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed," Waltz wrote. Reuters could not immediately establish what kind of building was brought down, who was inside, and how that squares with Pentagon denial of civilian casualties.

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1/ So get this: You go on to Facebook & see a loan ad. You click through & apply, giving lots of sensitive information. Unbeknownst to you & sometimes the loan company, guess who also gets all that sensitive info? Meta (parent co of Facebook).

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And here is that breaking news: A federal judge in Boston granted a TRO requested by fair housing groups in litigation over HUD's decision to block grants for local fair housing groups on DOGE's orders. The grants must be reinstated. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

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Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat My story (as always - for NPR) www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

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As Trump challenges the authority of the courts to block his agenda, even calling for the impeachment of judges, the government has been increasingly accused of disobeying judicial orders and failing to properly follow the law

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You never want to get this particular lecture from a judge.

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I just emailed someone and got an auto-response that basically said: ‘I’ll be slow to respond because my book just came out!’ And then there was a whole description of the book and a link to order it. And I gotta say: well played.

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SCOOP: Christopher Stanley, the cybersecurity engineer who has worked for DOGE and two of Elon Musk’s companies abruptly resigned from the Fannie Mae board of directors a day after he was appointed to the post. W/ @ellebeyoud.bsky.social & Jake Bleiberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Crypto is poised to secure major legislative wins after years of frustration. Kirsten Gillibrand, the newly minted Senate Dem campaign chair, is a big reason why. "Without her, it doesn't happen," said longtime partner Cynthia Lummis. GIFT LINK ! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New from me, @emilyflitter.bsky.social and @theamarareport.bsky.social - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is walking a tightrope as he tries to keep a popular community-lending initiative, the CDFI Fund, alive even after it was targeted by a Trump EO: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Bessent Resists DOGE Cuts That Put Low-Income Lending Program Under Fire www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com @emilyflitter.bsky.social @simonefoxman.bsky.social @theamarareport.bsky.social

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NEW: Scott Bessent is on a tightrope, trying to balance demands for bureaucratic cuts with his own support for the CDFI Fund, a crucial and very popular program that backs lending in poor communities. Details about the frantic calls, a confusing Treasury meeting and an office w/no internet here ⬇️

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BREAKING: Judge Reyes has granted an injunction barring th military from enforcing Trump's order banning transgender people from serving. She is staying her order until Friday to give admin time to seek an emergency appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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WHAT WILL YOUR JOB BE ON THE MARTIAN COLONY? In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about what I think might be the single most annoying aspect of crypto. The LARP. Sub to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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NY Fed with some bad news: March “business activity declined significantly” in region, “input price increases picked up to the fastest pace in nearly two years, and firms turned pessimistic about the outlook for future business activity for the first time since 2023.”

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Opinion | Editorial Board Don’t Let Politics Pollute Official Data Undermining the credibility of GDP and other essential metrics is a terrible idea. By The Editorial Board www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... via @opinion.bloomberg.com

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NEW: Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, have been fired by Elon Musk's DOGE—leaving food to rot in ports and invasive pests to spread. from @knibbs.bsky.social:

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BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

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Here’s a gift link to our latest story about the unlikely advocates for restarting the CFPB, which got a shout-out in @matt-levine.bsky.social’s Money Stuff today www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Because of tariffs and recession fears, Americans are more likely to buy a sedan instead of a pricey SUV or truck. But Detroit doesn’t offer any sedans. Only foreign automakers do. In @fastcompany.com, I explained why car bloat leaves the Big Three uniquely vulnerable to Trump’s economic chaos. 🧵

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NEW: You know who really wants the CFPB back up and running? Banks. And the other financial firms the agency regulates. While its operations are frozen, some of the rules these companies hate the most are frozen in place, which means the companies have to keep following them. Gift link coming

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Tonight I watched an episode of Star Trek: TNG & for the first time I felt no hope or expectation that we could achieve the advancements the show depicts.

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DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

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“The United States helped China modernize and expand its economy in the hope that China would become more like America — more democratic and more open. Now for some Chinese, the United States is looking more and more like China.” By the unparalleled Yuan Li www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...

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Drilling has started on the iconic Black Lives Matter mural in Washington, DC. 🎁 Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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You know the Jersey Barrier; now meet the Colorado Barrier. Every eight feet of barrier uses 100 recycled tires. "A mile’s worth of barriers uses 65,000 tires. Over 1.8 billion tires end up in landfills or are burned each year."

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Taken on March 5, 2020: a cherry tree in Tompkins Sq Park. I visited the same spot this morning and the trees were barely budding out. It really has been a cold winter in NYC

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How lonely, troubled people can graduate from dark corners of the web to even darker ones, where “Terrorgram” grooms them into killers From AC Thompson & James Bandler: www.propublica.org/article/tele...

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