From the weekend:

• 🏛️ Capitol Reset: The Bare-Knuckle Tariff Brawl →

• 🌎 Geopolitics 101: Trump’s Dollar Warfare →

• 🔴 Redshift: Europe Attacks Musk →

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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🔥 PA gov’s mansion set on fire during Passover. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family evacuated their residence early Sunday after an arsonist set fire to their mansion while they slept during Passover. Police declared the incident "an act of arson" that caused "significant damage" to the south side of the residence. The timing of the attack during a Jewish holiday raises serious concerns about potential antisemitic motivations behind this targeted violence.

📱 White House has mixed messaging over tariff exceptions. Despite a brief White House reprieve on China tariffs for smartphones and laptops, President Trump insisted that no products are "getting off the hook," warning that the exemptions are temporary. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed new sectoral tariffs are coming within two months, as Trump vowed a national security crackdown on the tech supply chain. The reversal on tariff exemptions signals Trump’s intent to keep the pressure on China.

🚫 China halts rare earth exports as trade war escalates. Beijing has suspended exports of critical rare earth minerals and magnets vital to the auto, aerospace, and semiconductor industries in response to President Trump’s new tariffs. The move threatens major supply chain disruptions for US companies and military contractors, as China controls nearly all global production of these materials. The standoff underscores China’s willingness to weaponize industrial dominance in a high-stakes trade clash.

🇷🇺 Russian strikes kill dozens on Palm Sunday. A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Sumy city killed dozens of civilians celebrating Palm Sunday, marking the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians this year. The strike occurred just days after a US envoy visited St. Petersburg to revive peace negotiations. This attack suggests Putin may be deliberately stalling negotiations with the Trump administration while continuing to inflict maximum damage on Ukrainian civilian targets.

INSIDER RADAR

Peter Navarro on his relationship with Elon Musk

Insiders behind the paywall: Peter Navarro, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, Kevin Hassett, Steve Bannon, and Marco Rubio.

HOAX TRACKER

“Have we been looking at ADHD wrong?”

QUICK AND IMPORTANT

• A Wisconsin teen murdered his parents to fund a plot to assassinate President Trump and overthrow the US government.

• An immigration judge ruled that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported after Secretary Rubio revoked his visa.

• The State Department directed employees to report incidents of anti-Christian bias as part of a government-wide task force.

• The Trump administration ended temporary protected status for thousands of Afghans who entered the US after the 2021 withdrawal.

• The most clicked link in our last newsletter was Elon Musk suggesting that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) may be benefiting from government fraud — a claim Schumer has denied.

INSIDER EXCLUSIVE

Making museums great again

Ahead of America’s 250th birthday next year, President Donald Trump has undertaken an aggressive campaign to root out anti-American biases and progressive ideologies from the Smithsonian museums and federal sites, replacing them with pro-American virtues and philosophies…

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THE MAIN STORY

Universities panic as Trump freezes billions

WHAT’S HAPPENING_

President Donald Trump is escalating his crackdown on elite universities, freezing billions in federal funding to schools he accuses of harboring antisemitism and advancing “woke” ideology. The move targets some of the wealthiest and most prestigious institutions in the country — Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, and others — as part of the administration’s efforts to force them to comply with federal civil rights laws, which officials claim the universities have violated.

The Trump administration argues that taxpayer dollars should not go to schools that fail to protect Jewish students or promote values contrary to American ideals.

_THE FACTS_

• The Trump administration has frozen or is reviewing more than $12 billion in federal funding to major universities.

• The administration argues that, after years of violent protests and on-campus radicalism, universities have failed to protect Jewish students.

• Harvard faces the largest potential cut, with up to $9 billion in grants and contracts at stake.

• Harvard professors sued the Trump administration, alleging it is unlawfully using Title VI — which prohibits universities that receive federal funds from discriminating based on race, color, and national origin — to pressure universities and restrict academic freedom.

• Targeted schools include Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Brown, Penn, Princeton, and dozens more across the country.

• Northwestern and Cornell received over 75 stop-work orders on federal research projects this month.

• The administration cites campus antisemitism, failure to control protests, and DEI policies as key reasons for the cuts.

• Brown University is set to lose $510 million over its handling of campus encampments and diversity initiatives.

• Columbia University agreed to new protest restrictions and oversight changes after losing $400 million in funding.

• The Trump administration says funding could be restored if schools fully protect Jewish students and comply with civil rights laws.

_OUR INSIGHTS _

Insights and analysis are for members only.

Insights behind the paywall: The media’s compliance, antisemitic incidents spikes, and Columbia’s concessions.

MEDIA BIAS SPOTTER

How left and right outlets frame Trump’s university funding freezes

Mentioned behind the paywall: Politico, NPR, Just The News, and The Daily Caller.

THE DAILY DEBATE

POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY (REDSHIFT)

Do you think the US should retaliate against the EU if they fine X $1 billion?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👍 Yes (1075)

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⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Unsure (117)

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