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7:20 PM ET, July 21, 2025

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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 …
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.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
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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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Reason and Orlando Sentinel
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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 …
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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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
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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Fox News:
DOJ receives Gabbard's criminal referral on bombshell claims Obama admin ‘manufactured’ Russian collusion hoax
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.
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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Amanda Castro / Newsweek:
Pam Bondi Grants Hillary Clinton Email Probe Request Amid Epstein Furor  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Justice Department has released documents related to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.  —  The Context
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 …
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Why Colbert got canceled  —  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.  —  According to IMDb, I appeared on The Daily Show seven times, The Colbert Report three times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert …
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 …
Discussion: CNBC, New York Sun and NewsMax.com
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.
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
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 …
Berny Belvedere / The UnPopulist:
Only Three Weeks Left to Register for LibCon2025  —  Space is filling up fast for ISMA's second annual ‘Liberalism for the 21st Century’ conference—so you should sign up now without delay  —  There are only three weeks left till our parent organization, the Institute for the Study …
Discussion: The Dispatch
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.
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 …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Michael Flynn floats ‘military trial for Obama’ despite presidential immunity  —  Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn suggested former President Barack Obama should face a “military trial” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of a …
Discussion: American Thinker and Fox News
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 …
Jessica Kutz / The 19th:
Women's contributions and men's racism erased from history of national monument  —  An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration.  —  Under pressure from the Trump administration, the National Park Service …
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
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP's Murkowski says she feels ‘cheated’ by administration following megabill's passage  —  The Alaska senator thought she'd negotiated an agreement to protect solar and wind projects.  Then she learned otherwise.  —  Around this time eight years ago, when Republicans were desperate to …
Discussion: New Republic, Esquire and Daily Kos
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.
Dylan Lovan / Associated Press:
Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time  —  A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid five years ago …
 
 
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Lindsay Clark / The Register:
Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Judge temporarily blocks DEI ban in Mississippi
Discussion: NewsMax.com and WTOP News
Genevieve Glatsky / New York Times:
Venezuela Targets Economists as Inflation Surges Under Trump's Sanctions
Nick Taylor-Vaisey / Politico:
US senators visit Canada to build bridges as trade deadline looms
Discussion: NewsMax.com and WisPolitics
ProPublica:
Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding
New York Times:
Marines Will Begin Withdrawing From Los Angeles
New York Times:
An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files
Discussion: Salon
 Earlier Items: 
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him’
Ryan King / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says dad Joe was on Ambien during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’
ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52
Paul Krugman:
Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy

 
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