Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
By Rashid Khalidi for the Guardian, 3-25-2025
NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) March 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
By Raphael Satter for Reuters, 3-26-2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump’s agenda.
By Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Rebecca Kaplan for NBC News, 3-25-2025
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— Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info) March 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens
He’s 17 and lives in the Chicago suburbs. He loves theater and recently helped direct a play at his high school. He takes competitive AP courses and is working on his Eagle Scout project.
And he’s been on a journey for four years.
By Kristen Schorsch, NPR, 3-25-2025
In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...
— Eric Topol (@erictopol.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The Justice Department Just Debuted a New Defense of Trump. It’s Terrifying.
Does the “mandate of the electorate” give the president absolute power to defy the courts?
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for Slate, 3-25-2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The United States of Fear
For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker for the Atlantic, 3-24-2025
The White House has apparently decided the best course of action is to lie their way through it.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
Confrontations with judges are grabbing attention, but more quietly a pattern of questionable arrests shows the extent to which the administration is willing to test norms and laws.
By Vernal Coleman for ProPublica, 3-25-2025
If Pete Hegseth had even a tiny bit of honor and sense of responsibility, then he would hand in his resignation this morning.
— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) March 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
By Jeffrey Goldberg for the Atlantic, 3-24-2025