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Rolling Stone:
Trump's Wildly Fascistic Posting Spree Isn't Just a Distraction From Epstein — The president spent Sunday night posting content fantasizing about the arrest of Barack Obama and other Democrats — President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former …
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Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest — President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video of former President Barack Obama being detained in the Oval Office. — President Trump reposted a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Talks About Anything but Epstein on His Social Media Account — On Truth Social, the president railed against Democrats and shared a wacky video. — Dogged for weeks over his administration's refusal to release the Epstein files, President Trump spent the weekend posting on social media about, well, anything else.
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New Jersey Online
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now
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Politico:
White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell … The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president's weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told POLITICO.
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges — Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida — Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs …
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Human Rights Watch:
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over” — Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 — Summary — Among the flurry of immigration-related executive orders marking the second presidential administration of Donald Trump is Executive Order 14159 …
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The Hill, Salon, New Republic and Raw Story
C.J. Ciaramella / Reason:
Report Alleges Degrading Treatment and Medical Neglect at South Florida ICE Detention Centers
Report Alleges Degrading Treatment and Medical Neglect at South Florida ICE Detention Centers
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Human Rights Watch, Orlando Sentinel and Mercury News
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family's opposition — The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
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National Archives:
Records Related to the Assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — On This Page — The National Archives' Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176 — How is the National Archives Making These Records Available? — 2025 Release — Release Notes — Contact Us
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CBO Publications:
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline — Public Law 119-21 as enacted on July 4, 2025 — CBO estimates that Public Law 119-21 will result in a net increase …
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Washington Examiner, Committee for a … and New Republic
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says — The law will also “increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance” over the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated.
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Associated Press:
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning — Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said. Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department …
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence — FRIDAY'S MEMO RELEASED BY TULSI GABBARD, the director of national intelligence, claiming that the intelligence community “manipulated and withheld” key evidence in the “Russiagate” investigation in 2016—and her even more explosive allegation …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House Dems to force another committee vote on Epstein — Democrats will force another vote on releasing Jeffrey Epstein-related documents during a Rules Committee meeting Monday afternoon, pressing Republicans yet again on the matter before lawmakers leave this week for August recess.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
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James Carville / New York Times:
My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats — Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they're not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.
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Peter M. Shane / The Atlantic:
How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency — The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible. — No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump's extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.
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Financial Times:
Scott Bessent calls for probe into ‘the entire Federal Reserve institution’ — Treasury secretary is latest top Trump administration official to criticise the central bank — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for an inquiry into the “entire Federal Reserve institution” …
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Why Colbert got canceled — Economics played a role. Politics might have, too. But mainstream liberal comedy has struggled between the death of mass culture and the rise of Trump. — There was a time not so long ago when going on TV with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was pretty much the best thing I could imagine.
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Business Insider, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Jeff Coltin / Politico:
ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC … The alleged shooter entered the country illegally in 2023 during then-President Joe Biden's tenure and had been arrested and released four times in the years since, Noem said. She blamed the shooting on New York's sanctuary city policies that limit …
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case … “She is a TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling,” Trump wrote in the post to his social media platform, Truth Social. “She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic ‘loss’ for the People of our Country!”
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him — A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system. — Just now
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Ars Technica, The Independent and Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal now has a judge — and it's not Aileen Cannon … Trump's new lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch seeks an even more audacious sum: $20 billion. Trump says the newspaper defamed him by reporting last week that Trump …
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Washington Post:
Divorce, adultery allegations against Paxton jolt Senate race in Texas — In one of the biggest GOP primaries of the midterms, Sen. John Cornyn and his allies are attacking Ken Paxton over his personal life, and some backers are rethinking their support. — Firebrand Texas Republican Ken …
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Idyllic Vacation in Foreign A-List Hotspot to Be Hijacked by Protests — WE'LL BE WAITING — The Stop Trump Coalition said the vice president will “find the resistance waiting” on his English summer break, an ocean and almost 4,000 miles from DC.
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Kyle Stokes / Axios:
Omar Fateh wins mayoral endorsement at chaotic DFL convention … - It's also the Minneapolis DFL's first endorsement in any contested mayor's race since at least 1997, per the Star Tribune. … - “We know the status quo are going to do anything and everything to maintain power,” he told his supporters.
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Max Flugrath / The Contrarian:
Republicans are brazenly rigging the 2026 midterms — America can survive the Trump regime—but only if we stop pretending like this is politics as usual. It's authoritarianism in motion. — In Alabama, a panel of federal judges found that Republican legislators intentionally weakened Black voting power.
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Department of Homeland Security:
VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City — The suspect is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic was apprehended at the southern border and released into the country under the Biden Administration
Jon Fortt / The Verge:
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’ … I'm guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. — Today, I'm talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich …
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
The Politics of Humiliation — When I was in middle school I went through a rough patch socially. I was awkward, had hardly any friends, and was hence a target. I can recall one instance where, returning to the classroom after leaving to use the toilet, a group of boys my age …
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’ — Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx headquarters was vandalized by anti-Israel activists after she voted against cutting US funding for the Jewish state. — The office in Westchester Square …
Wired:
How Trump Killed Cancer Research — Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research. — When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years …
Nick Taylor-Vaisey / Politico:
US senators visit Canada to build bridges as trade deadline looms … Wyden said the delegation agreed the three countries should “reinvigorate” USMCA when it comes due for review. — “This is something that we've had a considerable amount of success with since it was written during …
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