Month: March 2025

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The Gist - Trump’s Revenge

Alex Isenstadt, national political reporter for Politico and author of Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power discusses how Trump’s inner circle handles the boss. Plus, a House hearing with more culture war than clarity over the governance of NPR and PBS.


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Time To Say Goodbye - SIGNALGATE!

We talk about SignalGate, Trump’s clown show problem, and a little bit about Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” and why the Alex Jones from 25 years ago might have been ahead of his time. What does “combative centrism” mean? Does anyone actually care? All these topics and more discussed in this here episode.



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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Pakistan Joins Crypto Race With Bitcoin Strategy

The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Bilal Bin Saqib, Chief Adviser to Pakistan’s Finance Minister and CEO of the Pakistan Crypto Council.

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Bilal Bin Saqib, Chief Adviser to Pakistan’s Finance Minister and CEO of the Pakistan Crypto Council, joins CoinDesk to discuss the country's evolving stance on digital asset innovation. Plus, Pakistan's advantage in the age of crypto with its young, digitally savvy population and surplus energy, which are being leveraged to attract bitcoin miners and AI data centers.

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Consider This from NPR - Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before

In January of 1987, Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian man who'd lawfully immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager, was taking care of his toddler son at home when federal agents arrived at his door and arrested him at gunpoint. Shehadeh soon learned he was one of eight immigrants arrested on charges relating to their pro-Palestinian activism.

Then, in March of 2025, federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student, and Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri. Both are in the U.S. legally, being threatened with deportation. And both are targets of the Trump administration's crackdown on what they describe as anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas speech on college campuses.

We hear from David Cole, who represented the Los Angeles Eight for insight into this moment, and what we can learn from their plight.

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Consider This from NPR - Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before

In January of 1987, Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian man who'd lawfully immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager, was taking care of his toddler son at home when federal agents arrived at his door and arrested him at gunpoint. Shehadeh soon learned he was one of eight immigrants arrested on charges relating to their pro-Palestinian activism.

Then, in March of 2025, federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student, and Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri. Both are in the U.S. legally, being threatened with deportation. And both are targets of the Trump administration's crackdown on what they describe as anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas speech on college campuses.

We hear from David Cole, who represented the Los Angeles Eight for insight into this moment, and what we can learn from their plight.

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Consider This from NPR - Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before

In January of 1987, Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian man who'd lawfully immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager, was taking care of his toddler son at home when federal agents arrived at his door and arrested him at gunpoint. Shehadeh soon learned he was one of eight immigrants arrested on charges relating to their pro-Palestinian activism.

Then, in March of 2025, federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student, and Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri. Both are in the U.S. legally, being threatened with deportation. And both are targets of the Trump administration's crackdown on what they describe as anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas speech on college campuses.

We hear from David Cole, who represented the Los Angeles Eight for insight into this moment, and what we can learn from their plight.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Keep Your Enemies Close…But NOT In Your Groupchats

Did Jeffery Goldberg really have access to top secret “war plans”?


When National Security Adviser Mike Waltz allegedly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, to an encrypted groupchat with other senior Trump administration members, Goldberg remained silent for over a week, listening in on discussions before publishing a bombshell exposé on March 24th.


Victor Davis Hanson reviews this debacle on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

 

“ He is one of the most hard-left critics of the Trump administration imaginable. But he was on there. And he listened to these conversations, apparently, for about 10 days. And then, when he was waiting and—he never notified anybody that they had mistakenly put his name on the inclusion list to this confidential information.

 

“ Bottom line, if you're in the Trump administration, do not, do not under any circumstances think you can be friends with people who despise you. And this is a lesson that I hope Mike Waltz learns.”

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Why are so many spies getting busted?

Forget pretty much everything you've heard about James Bond. While loosely based on espionage tactics of yesteryear, actual human-based tradecraft is far less glamorous -- around the globe, intelligence organizations make long-term investments in games that run for decades, carefully cultivating assets with such secrecy that, true story, some folks genuinely don't know who they're working for. In recent years, an extraordinary amount of these individuals have been arrested, tortured, murdered, or simply... disappeared. So what's going on? Why are so many spies getting busted? Tonight, Ben, Matt and Noel aim to find out.

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The Journal. - Trump’s Attack on Big Law

The White House is waging a pressure campaign against some of the country’s most prominent law firms. WSJ’s Erin Mulvaney on how the firm Paul, Weiss came to the decision to make a deal with President Trump.


Further Reading:

-Trump Signs Order Targeting Law Firm Jenner & Block 

-Law Firms Scramble to Avoid Being Trump’s Next Target 

-Why Law Firm Paul Weiss Pleaded Its Case With Trump, and Not With a Court 


Further Listening:

-Trump 2.0: A Showdown With the Judiciary 


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