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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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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now — By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one. — In the week after the Justice Department walked back its promise to release …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein “sound like” Trump? An investigation. — On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to the Journal, the materials collected as part …
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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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 Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
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Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Posts Deranged AI Video of Obama Being Arrested
Trump, 79, Posts Deranged AI Video of Obama Being Arrested
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Sanity Clause, MSNBC, New Jersey Online, The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, Fox News and The American Conservative
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 …
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump demands end to cashless bail, says ‘complete disaster’ driving crime in cities, endangering police
Trump demands end to cashless bail, says ‘complete disaster’ driving crime in cities, endangering police
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Daily Mail, Raw Story and The Post Millennial
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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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week — Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’ … “If not,” she continued, “The base will turn and there's no going back. Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.”
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New Jersey Online and Raw Story
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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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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Variety, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Washington Times and Washington Examiner
Sophia Cai / Politico:
Trump installs new GSA acting administrator, sidelines DOGE leaders … GSA staffers and people close to the Department of Government Efficiency view this appointment as a strategic move by the White House to rein in Ehikian, the former acting administrator, and Gruenbaum, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service within GSA.
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Jory Heckman / Federal News Network:
State Dept deputy secretary takes over as new acting GSA leader
State Dept deputy secretary takes over as new acting GSA leader
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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 …
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 …
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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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop … It's an anime-loving neo-Nazi whose hobbies include furry drawings, posting fan art of a video game character, and hacking universities. On X, the alleged hacker is followed by New York Times …
Financial Times:
X slams French criminal probe over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’ — Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform — Elon Musk's X has attacked a French criminal probe over “the alleged manipulation of its algorithm”, calling it politically motivated and a threat to free speech.
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Paul Krugman:
Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros — Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned — One of the many weird, ugly developments in these weird, ugly times has been the MAGAfication of a number of Silicon Valley billionaires. In a fully functional democracy the views …
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Programmable Mutter
Fox News:
DOJ receives Gabbard's criminal referral on bombshell claims Obama admin ‘manufactured’ Russian collusion hoax — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley will also declassify the appendix to a 2018 DOJ Inspector General report — The Department of Justice confirmed Monday …
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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
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward — It's not just bending the knee. It's also oligarchic solidarity. … 📚 📺 📚 — Last Friday, CBS announced the The Late Show will be cancelled when host Stephen Cobert's contract expires next May. Colbert …
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Financial Times:
Russia's drone swarms pierce Ukraine's defences at record rate — Proportion of Shaheds hitting targets tripled in recent months, according to analysis of official data — Charles Clover in London and Christopher Miller in Kyiv — Russia's “swarm” tactics against Ukraine …
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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU to ramp up retaliation plans as US tariff deal prospects dim — The European Union is exploring a broader set of possible counter-measures against the United States as prospects for an acceptable trade agreement with Washington fade, according to EU diplomats.
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Bloomberg
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Orange Juice Importer Says Trump's Brazil Tariffs Will Raise US Prices — A US orange juice distributor is suing over President Donald Trump's move to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil starting next month. — Johanna Foods Inc. is arguing that Trump's reasons for the levy increase …
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NPR, Washington Post and World Politics Review
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
How Trump's game-planning for the 2026 midterms — President Trump is already fixated behind the scenes on next year's midterm elections for the House and Senate — unleashing his billion-dollar political operation and personally burrowing into the minutiae of races.
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Punchbowl News, NBC News and Associated Press
ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52 — The incident is under investigation. — The pilot of a Delta Connection flight Embraer E175LR aircraft, like the one pictured here, was forced to make an “aggressive” maneuver, July 19, 2025, to avoid a mid-air collision with an Air Force B-22 bomber.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans fear Washington headed for shutdown after bruising spending fights — Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill.
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Federal News Network, Politico, Roll Call, NewsMax.com and NBC News
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
July 20, 2025 — On Friday, G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers reported that “polls show Trump's position plummeting.” On Friday morning, the average job approval rating for Trump was 42.6% with 53.5% disapproving. — Those numbers break down by policy like this …
Jeremy Barofsky / Can We Still Govern?:
How Trump's Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans — When confronted by a constituent claiming that “people are going to die” from the massive Medicaid cuts in Trump's just-passed Big Bad Bill, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst flippantly responded that “we are all going to die.”
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New York Times:
The Path to Peace in the Middle East (and a Nobel Prize for Trump) — The big, beautiful blueprint to a new Middle East.By Sam Ellis and Megan K. Stack — I didn't want Donald Trump to be president. But once he was elected, I wondered if his impulse to smash convention could actually do some good in the Middle East.
Washington Post:
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say — Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world. — Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software …
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