Week of 2025-0420

Sunday 2025 April 20

• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “What Is To Be Done – The DOJ In Exile Edition“

Tuesday 2025 April 22

• William Benzon at 3 Quarks Daily: “Why I am a Patriot: Vietnam, the Draft, Mennonites, and Project Apollo“
• Michael Liss at 3 Quarks Daily: “If The Thing Be Pressed: Two Weeks In April, 1865“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Right-Wing Justices Lap Up Anti-LGBTQ Arguments In Case On School Board Culture War“
• David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Administration Takes Defiance In Abrego Garcia Case To A New Level“

Thursday 2025 April 24

• Jerry Cayford at 3 Quarks Daily: “What Is the Game?“
• Stefanos Chen and Benjamin Weiser at The New York Times: “U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Asks ‘How High?’ After Xi Tells Him to Jump“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Judge Rejects Trump’s Vision Of An All-Powerful Presidency In Blocking Chunks Of His Election Order“
• Eric Katz at Government Executive: “VA forces staff in workforce reduction discussions to sign non-disclosure agreements“
• Todd Spangler at Variety: “Trump Lashes Out at Rupert Murdoch Over Fox News’ ‘Trump Hating, Fake Pollster’ After Survey Reveals Record-Low Approval Ratings“
• Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times: “One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality“

Friday 2025 April 25

• Mark R. DeLong at 3 Quarks Daily: “Islands of Safety and Ironic Points of Light“
• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “FBI Stages Courthouse Arrest of Wisconsin Judge“

Saturday 2025 April 26

• Shane GoldmacherRuth Igielnik and Camille Baker at The New York Times: “Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds“
• Alan Feuer at The New York Times: “2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects“
• Paul Krugman: “Cronyism, Capitulation and Utter Chaos“
• Erin Horáková at Strange Horizons: “Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift“
• Mike Brock at TechDirt: “Gavin Newsom Has Lost The Plot“
• Cathy Gellis at TechDirt: “Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare“
• Cory Turner at NPR: “Why judges blocked the Trump admin’s school DEI crackdown“
• Tom Bowman, Quil Lawrence at NPR: “New senior staff announced as White House looks to ‘right the ship’ at the Pentagon“
• Lisa Hagen at NPR: “They say they want Americans to have more babies. What’s beneath the surface?“
• Sasha Ndisabiye and Bennett Brinkman at NonDoc: “Walters accuses board members of lying to media as tensions run high in meeting“
• Norman Eisen at The Contrarian: “Trump’s autocracy is growing—but patriotic opposition is growing faster“
• Anat Shenker-Osorio at The Contrarian: “Fascism and the English language“
• Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian: “Words & Phrases We Can Do Without“
• Claudia Sahm at Stay-at-Home Macro: “A crash course in Fed independence“
• Cheryl Rofer at Nuclear Diner: “DOGE At NLRB“
• Haidee Chu at The City: “Vending Enforcement Slams Poor Minorities in White Neighborhoods, New Report Finds“
• Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “So, We’ve Entered The ‘FBI Arresting Judges’ Stage Of Dystopia“
• Paul Butler at The Washington Post: “Can Trump send U.S. citizens to prisons overseas? Not yet.“
• David Blatt, Ph.D. at Oklahoma Appleseed: “Gross Misconduct: A Comprehensive Compilation of Ryan Walters’ Misdeeds in Office“