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The Daily Blast: Trump Suddenly Set to Cut Musk Loose as Knives Come Out Over WI Fiasco Apr 03, 2025

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After Democrats scored a huge victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a contest that revolved heavily around Elon Musk’s involvement, Trumpworld is turning on their favorite billionaire. In a striking turn of events, Politico reports that Trump has informed members of his inner circle that Musk will soon be moving on from his multi-faceted role. What’s more, as Musk’s departure looms, White House loyalists and outside allies are now dishing that they view Musk as unpredictable and a major political liability. But what happened in Wisconsin isn’t just about Musk the person. It’s about the public backlash to the Trump-Musk alliance in government—and what it’s doing to the country. We spoke to Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan about what he saw unfold during this race, what it says about the deep unpopularity of the Trump-Musk agenda, and what now lies ahead.

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A Richness of Embarrassments Apr 02, 2025

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It’s Liberation Day in America according to the administration, but what exactly are we being liberated from? The police state is growing, democratic institutions are being eroded, and we’re about to enter a destructive era of tariffs. What’s not to love? Rosa Brooks and Ed Luce join David Rothkopf to break down the latest.

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The DSR Daily for April 2: Cory Booker’s Record Breaking Senate Speech Apr 02, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Wednesday, we break down Cory Booker’s record-breaking Senate speech, election results in Wisconsin and Florida, Canada’s response to Trump’s tariffs, and more.

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The Daily Blast: Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Melts Down Apr 02, 2025

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By now you may have heard that the Trump administration deported a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error.” The administration is refusing to bring him back, and this case has extremely dark implications. JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt both mounted defenses of this that were both weirdly angry, and quickly went off the rails. Meanwhile, MAGA-friendly media have gone into justificatory overdrive. Here’s the real story: They’re all fine with “accidental” deportations, because they want immigrants to fear they’re going to be next. We talked to veteran immigration advocate Douglas Rivlin, who explains why it’s so appalling that the administration is washing its hands of any responsibility to rectify this “error,” and why it vaults us into new frontiers of lawlessness.

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The DSR Daily for April 1: Special Election Day Apr 01, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Tuesday, we cover the special elections in Wisconsin and Florida, the administration’s legal fights over deportations, massive cuts to Planned Parenthood, and more.

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The Daily Blast: Trump Hit by Two Brutal Polls on Econ as GOP Tariff Panic Goes Nuclear Apr 01, 2025

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President Donald Trump is set to announce that he’ll impose sweeping new global tariffs on imports, and Congressional Republicans are already scrambling wildly to try to shield their states and districts from the fallout. Meanwhile, a Fox News poll finds that Trump is sliding on the economy, with the public turning against tariffs in particular. And an Associated Press survey also has terrible news for Trump on this front. Notably, all these negative consequences kicked in well before the tariffs have even started. We talked to Jared Bernstein, former chair of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers and now a visiting scholar at Stanford, who has a new piece on his Substack predicting the consequences could be dire. He explains why the tariffs are so wrongheaded—and why they’re likely to cause major backlash against Trump and his party.

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AI, Energy and Climate: Chris James Part 1: AI Power Demand Mar 31, 2025

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What forces are shaping the explosive growth in demand for electric power for AI? Do revenue projections for AI justify the massive scale of capital investment in data centers and electric power supplies? What can we learn from the boom-and-bust cycle in other new technologies? Join host David Sandalow as he discusses these and other topics in the first episode of a two-part conversation with Chris James, CEO and Founder of Engine No. 1, who brings more than 30 years experience investing in semiconductors and other technologies to this timely discussion.

The AI, Energy and Climate Podcast is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

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The DSR Daily for March 31: A Third Term for Trump? Mar 31, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Monday, we discuss Trump floating the idea of a third term, Musk giving away $1m checks in Wisconsin, Marine Le Pen’s conviction, and more.

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The Daily Blast: Trump Text Fiasco Suddenly Worsens as MAGA Knives Come Out for Hegseth Mar 31, 2025

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President Donald Trump’s own allies are beginning to turn on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Politico reports. White House and Pentagon insiders are increasingly questioning Hegseth’s judgment, and see him as the culprit in the disastrous news that Trump’s top advisers discussed war plans in an insecure chat. Yet there’s little indication that Trumpworld is ready for the next Hegseth fiasco, even as Trump allies clearly are bracing for his tenure to get worse. We talked to Jennifer Rubin, co-founder and editor in chief of The Contrarian Substack, who explains how this scandal is revealing the sheer arrogace and untouchability that’s consumed Trump and his team, and why this will grow more politically untenable for them.

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Siliconsciousness: The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies: Part 1 Mar 28, 2025

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Welcome to a very different episode of Siliconsciousness. Today, we are taking a creative new approach to discussing the future of AI. This episode comprises the first part of our special event, “The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies”. The event, co-hosted by MIT Technology Review, brings together some of the leading voices in AI policy from the public and private sectors to role-play these complex issues. These AI leaders play roles in the US, China, and The EU, and enact policies that best align with their roles interests in the AI space. This first episode contains the first phase of the game, as well as introductions from the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review Mat Honan as well as game controller Ed McGrady. We hope you enjoy.

Our Players:

US Government Players
Doug Calidas, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)
Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Vivek Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley
Susan Ariel Aaronson, American author, public speaker, and GWU professor
Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Anupam Chander, Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
David Mussington, professor of the practice the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and currently serves as the CISA Executive Assistant Director
Cameron Kelly, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institutution
China players
Rohit Talwar, founder of FastFuture
Daniel Richardson, President of Indepth Global AI
Sarah Myers West, co-director at AI Now
David Lin, Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
European Union
Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute
Gordon LaForge, senior policy analyst at New America
Michelle Nie, EU Tech Policy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute
David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Rumman Chowdhury, scientist, entrepreneur, and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture
Civil Society
Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor; Affiliate Fellow, UMD Honors College – Artificial Intelligence Cluster
Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College Of Information Systems And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park
David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Kahaan Mehta, Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Universities and academia
Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law
Anand Patwardhan, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher at MIT Technology Review
Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Professor

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