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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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The Borowitz Report, Daily Mail and Metro.co.uk
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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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USA Today, NewsNation, NBC News, Washington Times, The Hill and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Trump's Big Epstein Distraction Isn't Working — Hope and Change the Subject — FACED WITH CONSERVATIVE backlash over the end of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Donald Trump over the past week has engaged in what can only be described as a monumental distraction campaign.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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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CNN, New York Magazine, The Hill, Washington Examiner and HuffPost
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
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New Republic, HuffPost, NOTUS, IJR, New York Magazine, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, NewsMax.com, MeidasTouch News, The Wrap, PinkNews, The Daily Beast, MSNBC and Mediaite
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Says He Won't Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files This Summer
Johnson Says He Won't Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files This Summer
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The Free Press
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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein “sound like” Trump? An investigation.
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Roll Call
Barak Ravid / Axios:
White House confirms Trump objected to Israeli strikes in Syria
White House confirms Trump objected to Israeli strikes in Syria
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CBS News, Associated Press, Human Events and Breitbart
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.
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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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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 …
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NOTUS, NewsNation, The Hill, Salon, Raw Story and New Republic
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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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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Committee for a …, Washington Examiner, The Guardian 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
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Associated Press and Bloomberg
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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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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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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Politico, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, The Hill and Variety
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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
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding — In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration's case against the school “cooked up.” — A federal judge grilled a Trump administration lawyer on Monday during a crucial hearing …
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Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Reason, The Independent and CBS News
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case
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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 …
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New York Post, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, The Independent and The Hill
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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The Hill, Newsweek, Raw Story, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, New Jersey Online and Althouse
Politico:
House Republicans at standstill over Epstein drama — House Republicans may choose to scrap several floor votes this week as internal party drama over the release of Jeffrey Epstein files is derailing the work of the Rules Committee. The panel came to a standstill, again …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week
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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 …
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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Notes From The Circus and Blaze Media
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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CNBC, New York Sun and NewsMax.com
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 …
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The Dispatch
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 …
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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Telegraph, BBC, Mercury News, The Guardian, Boston.com, The Independent, HuffPost and New Republic
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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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 …
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American Thinker, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Marines Will Begin Withdrawing From Los Angeles — The departure of the Marines follows the removal of hundreds of other National Guard soldiers who were part of President Trump's deployment to Los Angeles. — Pentagon officials will begin withdrawing 700 active-duty Marines who were sent …
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Cristian Farias / New Yorker:
A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump's Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students — In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.
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USA Today and Associated Press

