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CNN:
Bongino still in limbo as Trump fumes and JD Vance seeks to play mediator, sources say  —  Several of President Donald Trump's top officials went to work on Monday with a key question unanswered: would Dan Bongino show up today?  —  The deputy FBI director did not go into the office Friday …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
3 ways Trump might try to defuse the Epstein mess  —  President Trump isn't ready to course-correct over how his administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein evidence.  — But officials and advisers are considering at least three ways Trump could try to defuse an issue that …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump's Jeffrey Epstein post contradicts what top Fox hosts have argued  —  Just months ago, Trump allies claimed the deep state hid the “Epstein Files.”  Trump now claims that they were fabricated all along.  —  President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that the “Epstein Files” …
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit  —  The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University …
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica  —  OWN GOAL  —  Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself.  —  President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won't be getting …
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Safid Deen / USA Today:
Chelsea put on show in Club World Cup final — only to have Trump steal their moment  —  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Chelsea star Cole Palmer was like much of the world wondering why President Donald Trump was obliviously standing in the middle of their trophy celebration after winning the FIFA Club World Cup.
Axios:
Trump to announce “aggressive” Ukraine weapons plan  —  President Trump will announce a new plan to arm Ukraine on Monday that is expected to include offensive weapons, two sources with knowledge of the plans tell Axios. … - U.S., Ukrainian and European officials hope the weapons will shift …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's ‘major’ announcement on Russia sounds familiar — and falls far short
Discussion: Townhall and CBS News
Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump threatens Russia with tariffs if war on Ukraine isn't resolved
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Russia It Has 50 Days to Make Peace With Ukraine
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Tucker Carlson leads MAGA's worried warriors in questioning Trump  —  The former Fox News host and “America First” leader spoke with NBC News as MAGA influencers rebel over amnesty, Iran and the Epstein files.  —  As President Donald Trump weighed U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel …
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Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk's controversial AI Model  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up said its models are now available to federal agencies.  —  The U.S. Department of Defense will begin using Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's start-up xAI, the company announced in a post on Monday.
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Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:   The Pentagon's about to start using xAI's Grok — and other federal agencies could be next
Lauren McGaughy / ProPublica:
Why Gov. Greg Abbott Won't Release His Emails With Elon Musk  —  We asked Abbott for his and his staff's emails with Elon Musk and Musk's companies.  The governor's office won't turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
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Lauren McGaughy / KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station:
Gov. Greg Abbott says emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate and embarrassing’ to make public
Discussion: The Verge
Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:
Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor  —  A recent leak of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's group chats has revealed that he's quite happy to see our university system destroyed if it will keep out foreigners and humiliate the elites who “actively discriminated against” people like him.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Marc Andreessen and the Billionaire Victims Club  —  The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don't stand up to scrutiny.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. White People  —  Over the weekend the Washington Post got hold of a text chain in which Marc Andreessen explained some facts of life to his fellow travelers in the Trump White House.
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Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Cuomo Will Run in General Election in NYC Mayor's Race
abc7NY:
Andrew Cuomo formally announces decision to stay in NYC mayoral race: ‘In it to win it’
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees  —  The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track — and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings at Education Department  —  The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
The Young GOPer Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Dark Future of MAGA  —  The other day, Stephen Miller went on Fox News and offered a plea that got surprisingly little attention given its highly toxic and unnerving implications.  Miller urged politicians in GOP-run states to build their own versions of …
Arlette Saenz / CNN:
Obama's blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’  —  Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald Trump to “stand up for the things that you think are right.”
Jerry Dunleavy / Just The News:
Pentagon pulls all military speakers from ‘globalist’ Aspen Security Forum  —  A dozen top U.S. military commanders and officials was slated to participate in the Aspen Security Forum this week.  — Article  — Dig Deeper  —  The Pentagon has pulled roughly a dozen high-ranking U.S …
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Pentagon withdraws senior military leaders from national security forum
Discussion: New York Times
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
The Situation: The Case of Erez Reuveni  —  What if America had checks and balances and nobody came?  —  benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org  —  Meet The Authors … The Situation on Wednesday predicted that the so-called investigation of John Brennan and James Comey will prove to be a ghost …
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump finds himself on the wrong side of a conspiracy theory  —  He has leveraged conspiracy theories for a decade — now one lumps him in with The Elites.  —  One of the common misunderstandings about President Donald Trump is that he created the culture of conspiracy and surreality in which the American right is now immersed.
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Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Why Trump Can't Make the Epstein Story Go Away
Discussion: Salon
Jonathan Alter / Washington Monthly:
America Is Now a Police State  —  If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  And if you have $75 billion over four years in new funding for ICE, you—Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan—will use it to fund a huge domestic army to round up four million people in the next three years …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Mark Cuban Reveals A Cold Truth About Why Democrats Are Flailing  —  “That's not the way to win.  It's just not,” said the billionaire.  —  Billionaire investor and “Shark Tank” alum Mark Cuban pulled no punches when talking about what he sees as the Democratic Party's current failings.
Peter Behr / Politico:
DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear … The meeting was held after President Donald Trump signed a May 23 executive order that would supplant the NRC's historical role as the sole agency responsible for ensuring commercial nuclear projects are safe and won't threaten public health.
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The right-wing outrage machine gears up, and a cartoonist gets death threats  —  Here are some possible reasonable responses to seeing an editorial cartoon you don't agree with:  — Write an email to the journalist who created it, expressing your opposing view.
Washington Post:
Camp Mystic's leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert.  They evacuated an hour later. … Camp Mystic Executive Director Richard “Dick” Eastland did not begin to evacuate the young campers asleep in cabins near the rapidly rising Guadalupe River for more than an hour after he received …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
 
 
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Key Senate Republican to meet with Trump on funding clawback request
Discussion: The Hill, NewsMax.com and Roll Call
Mississippi Free Press:
Mississippi Cotton Farmers Face Tough Decisions Amid Falling Prices, Rising Costs
Jim Wyss / Bloomberg:
Trump Piles Fresh Sanctions on Cuba's Flailing Tourism Industry
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce
Robert Frank / CNBC:
Tax cuts for private jet buyers expected to lead to surge in sales
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
The Canadians Are Furious  —  Trump accomplished what was once considered impossible …
Discussion: twitchy.com
New York Times:
We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
Ruchir Sharma / Financial Times:
The markets are signalling a clear winner in the Middle East
Discussion: New Yorker
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffery Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is ready to reveal ‘truth’ of the pedophile client list, say insiders.  So, why are Republicans blocking her?
Bianca Vázquez Toness / Associated Press:
More than 20 states sue Trump administration over frozen after-school and summer funding
Thomas Joscelyn / The Bulwark:
Unfit to Serve: Jeanine Pirro Made Excuses for Jan. 6th
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
 

 
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