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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Demands Trump Use Teen Sex Accused Gaetz to Probe Epstein
Discussion: HuffPost and Daily Mail
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Carlson: Bondi ‘made up a bunch of ludicrous’ Epstein files claims
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Brian Stelter / CNN:
MAGA media's conspiracy theories put Trump in power — and now they're coming back to bite him
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 …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's ‘major’ announcement on Russia sounds familiar — and falls far short  —  For the fifth time, the American president has threatened Russia with economic sanctions.  The first four times, Trump failed to follow through.  —  In recent days, Americans have repeatedly been told …
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Axios:
Trump to announce “aggressive” Ukraine weapons plan
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Russia It Has 50 Days to Make Peace With Ukraine
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Eshe Nelson / New York Times:
Stocks Shrug Off Trump's Latest Tariff Threats
Discussion: Slate, Reason, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg
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 …
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.”
New York Times:
Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen … Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
America Thirst  —  Twitter may be a shell of its former self these days, but we've got …
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.”
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.
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 …
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?  —  Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to speak in front of Congress about The Epstein Files, sources tell Daily Mail.
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.
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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Paul Krugman:
Making Immigration Great Again
Discussion: Tangle and CNN
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.
Discussion: The Bulwark
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: New York Post
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
The CIA reveals more of its connections to Lee Harvey Oswald  —  New documents show an officer known only as Howard managed a Cuban group that interacted with Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination.  —  Summary422  —  For more than 60 years, the CIA claimed it had little …
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
The Canadians Are Furious  —  Trump accomplished what was once considered impossible: Our northern neighbors have united against us.  —  In May, I reoriented my algorithms to flood me with Canadian content, turned on push notifications from The Globe and Mail, and temporarily moved my family north of the border.
Discussion: twitchy.com
New York Times:
Cuomo Will Stay in the Race for N.Y.C. Mayor to Challenge Mamdani  —  Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to announce his commitment to a third-party run against Zohran Mamdani, who soundly defeated him in the Democratic primary.  —  Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has decided to run …
 
 
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Irina Vilcu / Bloomberg:
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New York Times:
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Discussion: The Independent and NewsMax.com