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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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Washington Examiner, Althouse and Salon
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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
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
This week's big questions: Can Trump finally quell the Epstein storm — and is it hurting his presidency?
This week's big questions: Can Trump finally quell the Epstein storm — and is it hurting his presidency?
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Political Voices Network
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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The Independent, Ars Technica and Raw Story
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 …
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Reeks Of A Cover-Up’: Ex-Trump Official Suspects ‘Embarrassing’ Info In Epstein Files
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Foreign Policy and Civil Discourse …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Trump wins the Epstein battle — as the left, media foolishly believe prez is on the skids
Trump wins the Epstein battle — as the left, media foolishly believe prez is on the skids
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Epstein Accuser Twice Told FBI About His Ties to Trump
Epstein Accuser Twice Told FBI About His Ties to Trump
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The Daily Beast, Boston.com, Townhall, israelhayom.com, The Independent, Raw Story, New York Times, Mediaite and Salon
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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Bloomberg
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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.
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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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
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
What Trump and the GOP have planned next for NPR and PBS should scare you — Defunding the public broadcasters is only the first step. — The Republican Congress has voted almost unanimously to strip public broadcasters NPR and PBS of their federal funding.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
What's at stake when public media funds are cut
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 …
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.
Can We Still Govern?:
How Trump's Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans — What research tells us about how Trump policies are bad for your health — 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 …
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Orlando Sentinel
Conor Gallagher / The Irish Times:
Dramatic increase in number of Russian ‘shadow ships’ in Irish-controlled waters — The Naval Service and Air Corps have stepped up monitoring of the sanctioned vessels — There has been a dramatic increase in the number of sanctioned Russian ships, known as shadow fleet vessels …
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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Reuters and NewsMax.com
Human Rights Watch:
US: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites — Pervasive Overcrowding, Medical Neglect, Degrading Treatment — Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment.
Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Posts Deranged AI Video of Obama Being Arrested — SUNDAY SCARIES — The bizarre post came as the president seeks to move on from the Epstein controversy tearing apart his base. — President Donald Trump shared a bizarre fake video depicting the arrest and imprisonment …
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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Politico, NewsMax.com and NBC News
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
Margaret MacMillan / Foreign Affairs:
Making America Alone Again — History Offers Few Parallels for Washington's Repudiation of Its Own Alliances — Henry Kissinger once compared himself to the lone cowboy who rode into town to sort out the bad guys. But the U.S. secretary of state, who also served as national security adviser …
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.
Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Over half of Americans say ‘big, beautiful bill’ going to raise health care costs: Poll — More than half of Americans — 57 percent — said in a new survey that they think the GOP's sweeping package extending tax cuts and slashing welfare services will increase their health-care costs.
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Washington Examiner, Eschaton, Daily Kos and New York Post
Noah Keate / Politico:
Nigel Farage channels Trump with El Salvador plan — Right-wing Reform UK party says it would ‘consider multiple partners including El Salvador’ in third country prison pledge — and heaps praise on Trump ally Rudy Giuliani. — LONDON — Nigel Farage announced Monday that any future Reform UK government …
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HuffPost
The Bulwark:
Andry Is Free. Trump's Barbarous Immigration Regime Is Just Getting Started. — Plus: The president's new Epstein avoidance strategy. — Bill's out today, but in his place we've got a dispatch from Tim on the weekend release from CECOT of Andry Hernández Romero.
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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Mary Cunningham / CBS News:
Feds recall 5 million pools linked to drowning deaths of 9 children — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling roughly 5 million above-ground pools linked to the deaths of nine children over the last two decades. — The federal agency said in a recall notice that the pools …
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Associated Press and UPI
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Can Europe break free of American tech supremacy? — The continent's dependence on US groups for digital infrastructure is causing growing concern among executives and policymakers — Benjamin Revcolevschi, an engineer by training, did not imagine one of his future jobs …


