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NEW In order for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to convince President Trump to put a pause on tariffs, he had to wait until Peter Navarro was in another meeting. He then rushed to the Oval Office, convinced Trump, and waited until he posted a Truth Social post announcing the news.

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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This is who @gallego.senate.gov doesn't believe deserves due process.

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A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.

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Ossoff: Trump’s cabinet is worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

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ACT UP will have a contingent in Manhattan for the 3/29 Tesla Takedown day of action, protesting cuts to HIV services and the dismantling of PEPFAR:

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Roses are red Violets are blue

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Trump has now erased the recent US surgeon general's warning that gun violence is a public health crisis. As I reported recently, this is just the start of what Trump will do to appease far-right gun lobbyists and wipe out years of progress on gun safety www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Hey journalists! We are starting a new publication at Morning Brew and I'm looking for two reporters. Subject matter expertise isn't as important to me as journalism experience. (We do have two other roles open covering IT and corporate finance, if interested) jobs.lever.co/morningbrew/...

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Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

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Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked Defense Minister Bill Blair to review the purchase of America’s F-35 fighter jet to see if there are other options “given the changing environment,” a spokesman for Blair said Saturday.

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German industrialists played a key role in bringing Hitler to power—and fulfilling his genocidal ambitions. The connection between fascism and capital should serve as a warning for what President Trump’s newfound alliance with big tech CEOs could have in store for the United States.

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BRENNAN: Then we also see comments from the president like 200% tariffs on champagne. That's not a critical industry for the United States. That seems more emotional. RUBIO: No. That's called retaliation. That's what happens in these trade exchanges.

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Seven of my colleagues and friends at Columbia Law have written a compelling (and, in my view unanswerable) response to the unprecedented Title VI demand letter that the Trump administration recently sent to Columbia University: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

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The system is propped up by a political economy that creates a class of disposable person: people on the margins, deprived of power over their own lives.

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God’s work from the @nytimes.com aka math www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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Capital is flowing from the U.S. to Europe. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 @barchart.com

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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

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looking to speak to people at USIP signal: marisakabas.04 email: [email protected]

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It’s the Tesla Spring Sell-a-Thon! 🎉 @forbes.com $TSLA www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

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A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

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"When she’d entered the portal she’d had a plan. Now, seven steps later, she had a problem. Said problem wriggled in a warded pocket." --Stars Die, #scifi #mystery #spacefantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXMQQT8J #booksky

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I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

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Quite an ad in Union Station DC today, mixed in with all the tiktok is great ads, is a NYS attempt to recruit fired or departing Federal workers.

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New in PN: Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift "It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food."

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Trump told Cabinet secretaries in Musk's presence that DOGE is meant to only have an advisory role. But we'll see what's next — & how much of this is for show (& for court) vs. making a meaningful difference. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

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More Tesla data from around the world and it’s — mostly — not looking good for Elon Musk’s company. Notably sales were up 14% in the US in February, but they were down about the same in January. sherwood.news/tech/tesla-s...

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What an absolute shocker. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

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NEW from me: DoD hired Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary with a very very long history of bigoted and xenophobic posts www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“.. Rolling 10-day moves in the Russell 2000 Tech Index … down ~14% over the last 10 days measures up as one of the worst stretches for Small (SMID) Cap Tech in 20+ years ..” - Goldman desk

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NEW: Some DOGE staffers are on government salaries as high as $195,000—from the same agencies they're gutting. from @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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