Garcia case heightening contradictions
Karoline Leavitt melts down over detention — Daily Beast
Trump and Bukele bond over human rights abuses in Oval Office meeting — Rolling Stone
Welcome to post-law America — The Racket
Trump’s showdown with the courts — New York Times
The border plan
Trump raids DHS funds for anti-immigration efforts — Rolling Stone
Vermont attorney detained at border — NBC10
Former antisemitism envoy endorses brutal crackdown on activists — The Forward
DOGE gets quiet and gets to work
Palantir working with DOGE on IRS project — Wired
DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs — Washington Post
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data — NPR
Plus:
Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi’s rightward path — New Republic
Vance fumbles trophy — Jezebel
Tesla fired safety official for reporting unsafe conditions, lawsuit says — Reveal News
The C word — TruthDig
Librarians in UK asked to remove books — The Guardian
Trans musicians canceling US tour dates — Wired
The AI cult murders — The Cut
Harvard takes on Trump — New York Magazine
Big Gretch, big mistake — Discourse Blog
This is John Roberts’s monster — Salon
Top Hegseth advisor put on leave after leak investigation — Reuters