UNBIASED Politics (4/17/25): Here's EVERYTHING to Know About the Abrego Garcia Situation, PLUS Were Migrants Added to Social Security "Death" List? And More.

Episode Format:

1. Trump Administration Threatens Harvard Funding, Tax-Exempt Status, and Certification to Enroll International Students (0:07)

2. DOJ Sues State of Maine Over Transgender Sports Policy (5:53)

3. HHS Kennedy Holds Press Conference About Autism Study (9:29)

4. Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt of Court; Here's What That Means (12:25)

5. Everything You Should Know About the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia Deportation Situation (19:47)

6. Quick Hitters: Border Crossings Hit Record Low, U.S. Service Members Killed at Border, Biden Makes First Public Remarks, Man Set Fire to Governor's Home Over Gaza, Fed Talks Economy After Tariffs, Google Violated Antitrust Laws, Pentagon Officials Put on Administrative Leave, Shooting at FSU, California Sues Over Tariffs, Supreme Court to Hear Birthright Citizenship Issue (37:19)

7. Rumor Has It: Were Migrants Added to Social Security "Death" List? Is Trump Considering Deporting American Prisoners to El Salvador? (42:18)

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Trump Administration Threatens Harvard Funding, Tax-Exempt Status, and Certification to Enroll International Students

https://san.com/cc/harvard-declines-federal-agreement-tied-to-billions-in-funding/

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=f53ad43d8ed200b781a6647915a310a2

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-reviewing-billions-government-contracts-grants-harvard-amid-antisemitism-allegations

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/task-force-antisemitism-harvard-contracts-grants.html

https://san.com/cc/government-launches-review-of-harvards-9-billion-in-federal-funds/

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/anti-semitism-task-force-statement-on-harvard-contracts-grants.html

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/harvard-reject-trump-funding-deal-billions

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-benefits-does-harvard-gets-undertax-exempt-status-heres-what-we-know-as-trump-escalates-campus-crackdown101744737123478.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/harvard-trump-tax-exempt-00290534

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-formation-task-force-combat-antisemitism

https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-administration-federal-cuts-antisemitism0a1fb70a2c1055bda7c4c5a5c476e18d

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irstege/How%20to%20Lose%20Your%20Tax%20Exempt%20Status.pdf

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/anti-semitism-task-force-statement-on-harvard-contracts-grants.html

https://san.com/cc/harvard-could-lose-ability-to-enroll-international-students/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harvard-under-fire-dhs-secretary-cuts-grants-demands-visa-records

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1egdy24v7po

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/us/harvard-kristi-noem-international-students/index.html

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/17/dhs-harvard/

https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/schools/apply/getting-started-with-sevp-certification

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/16/secretary-noem-terminates-27-million-dhs-grants-orders-harvard-prove-compliance

DOJ Sues State of Maine Over Transgender Sports Policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98Ryq9FzJg

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bondi-announces-lawsuit-against-maine-refusing-ban-trans-athletes-from-girls-sports

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-title-ix-transgender-athletes-trump-executive-order/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-doj-files-civil-suit-maine-standoff-transgender/story?id=120858499

https://apnews.com/article/maine-usda-funding-freeze-title-ix-c50bdfa491f11273353844ecf43f4aeb

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/us/maine-trump-funding-freeze-transgender-athletes/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/04/16/trump-administration-sues-maine-over-trans-athletes-in-girls-sports-threatening-federal-funding/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/donald-trump-lawsuit-maine-transgender-athletes-00292932

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxgMJYXBb8

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/bondi-maine-title-ix-trans-athletes/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/maine-washington-trump-pam-bondi-white-house-b2734343.html

https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1390796/dl

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-take-legal-action-against-maine-over-trump-executive-order-transgender-2025-04-16/

https://www.them.us/story/trump-administration-janet-mills-maine-executive-order-trans-girls

https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2025/04/16/trump-administration-sues-maine-over-participation-transgender-athletes-girls-sports

https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-statement-us-department-justice-announcement-2025-04-16

HHS Kennedy Holds Press Conference About Autism Study

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/ss7402a1.htm 

https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/hhs-sec-kennedy-news-conference-on-autism-rates/658669 

https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/rfk-jr-rising-autism-diagnosis-data-cdc/ 

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-secretary-kennedy-press-conference-cdc-data-autism-epidemic.html 

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/autism-epidemic-runs-rampant-new-data-shows-grants.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20has%20tasked%20me,to%20have%20answers%20by%20September.%E2%80%9D 

https://www.who.int/news/item/14-03-2024-over-1-in-3-people-affected-by-neurological-conditions--the-leading-cause-of-illness-and-disability-worldwide#:~:text=The%20overall%20amount%20of%20disability,increased%20by%2018%25%20since%201990. 

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/kennedy-cdc-autism-rates 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/autism-rates-up-cdc-report-2025-rfk-jr-rcna201305 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rfk-attributes-rise-autism-environmental-factors-while-cdc-points-improved-diagnostic-practices 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epidemic 

https://www.mbp.state.md.us/BPQAPP/orders/GeierOrder07.302.pdf 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/25/vaccine-skeptic-hhs-rfk-immunization-autism/ 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/rfk-jr-says-hhs-will-research-six-environmental-factors-for-potential-link-to-autism/ 

Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt of Court; Here's What That Means

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-finds-probable-cause-hold-trump-administration-contempt-deportat-rcna201569

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/boasberg-contempt-deportation-flights/index.html

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25899106/boasberg-contempt.pdf

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/contempt-court.asp

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contempt_of_court

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contempt_of_court_criminal

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contempt_of_court_civil

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/

Everything You Should Know About the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia Deportation Situation

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-deported-maryland-man-abrego-garcia-hit-scratched/story?id=120882240

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/credible_witness#:~:text=A%20credible%20witness%20is%20a,believe%20the%20witness%20is%20credible.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/abrego-garcias-lawyer-no-proof-ms13/

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13--what-do-we-know

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcias-court-trump-deportation-el-salvador-president/

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-ms13-ties-terrorist/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants/#:~:text=The%20Universal%20Declaration%20of%20Human,where%20they%20risk%20being%20persecuted

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.31.0.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-abrego-garcias-wife-responds-after-restraining-order-revealed-2060718

Quick Hitters

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-march-2025-monthly-update?origin=app

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

https://san.com/media-miss/illegal-border-crossings-hit-record-low-second-month-in-row/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/tech/google-adtech-trial-decision/index.html

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4114271x2o

https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/video/joe-biden-remarks-chicago-saenz-digvid

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-returns-podium-first-time-slam-trumps-social-security-plans-wreck-so-could-rob-it

https://threevillagecsd.org/news/story.aspx?id=181747

https://www.acrd.org/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-service-members-killed-us-mexico-border-vehicle/story?id=120847917

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/us-service-members-killed-border-new-mexico

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/us/cody-balmer-search-warrant-shapiro-arson-motive/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368177/fsu-shooting-injures-multiple-people

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-fed-chair-warns-tension-173020970.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/california-sues-trump-administration-presidents-sweeping-tariffs-rcna201498

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/third-top-pentagon-aide-collin-carroll-administrative-leave-over-leaks-probe

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-hear-oral-arguments-whether-trump-can-implement-birthrig-rcna199498

Rumor Has It

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/6300-migrants-social-security-death-list/

https://apnews.com/article/social-security-immigration-dhs-deportation-12cf4ab92d5cac3406ded3a343f75005

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/politics/trump-administration-social-security-dead-dhs/index.html

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/13/social-security-immigration

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10096.pdf

https://www.jordanismylawyer.com/episodes/april102025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-EpOMoo5EY

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marco-rubio-el-salvadors-president-agrees-house-us/story?id=118433524

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-some-us-citizens-el-salvador-2025-04-14/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homegrowns-trump-doubles-sending-convicted-us-citizens-foreign/story?id=120802863

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-prisons-homegrown-criminals/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-legally-questionable-proposal-deport-us-citizens-rcna201183