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3:40 PM ET, July 21, 2025

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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 …
Discussion: The Hill, New Republic and Raw Story
Human Rights Watch:
US: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel and Al Jazeera
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
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.  —  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 …
Discussion: Lawfare and Roll Call
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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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
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.
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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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
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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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence
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.
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 …
Ryan King / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says dad Joe was on Ambien during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump  —  WASHINGTON — He really was Sleepy Joe!  —  Former first son Hunter Biden claimed in a new interview Monday that his father's disastrous performance in last year's debate with Donald Trump was due in part …
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Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F— him and everybody around him’
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.
Politico:
GOP megabill's final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says … Congress' nonpartisan scorekeeper released its final prediction Monday for how President Donald Trump's signature legislative achievement will grow the national debt and affect U.S. households.
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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.
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
One year after Biden's unprecedented exit from 2024 race, Democrats poll numbers at rock bottom  —  Historic low approval ratings show Democrats in disarray 1 year after former President Joe Biden's shocking campaign exit  —  One year ago on Monday, then-President Joe Biden stunned …
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Associated Press:
Republicans can't stop talking about Joe Biden. That may be a problem
Discussion: Human Events
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 …
Discussion: Reuters
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
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Programmable Mutter
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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 …
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 …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House GOP campaign arm outraises Democrats in second quarter  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) outraised its counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), in the second quarter of 2025.  —  The House GOP campaign arm brought in $32.3 million …
Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Fed Chair Jerome Powell hit with criminal referral by House GOP Trump ally  —  Trump allies have been going after the embattled Federal Reserve chief  —  FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is referring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice (DOJ) …
 
 
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP's Murkowski says she feels ‘cheated’ by administration following megabill's passage
Discussion: New Republic, Daily Kos and RedState
Jon Fortt / The Verge:
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
5 reasons you should care about Texas' Trump-inspired redistricting scheme
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
QAnon world roiled by Trump opposing releasing the Epstein files
Discussion: RNS
Miami Herald:
How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward
ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Hegseth ousts Naval Academy's first female superintendent, adding to pattern
Discussion: The Federalist
Jeff Nesbit / The Contrarian:
What Trump and the GOP have planned next for NPR and PBS should scare you
Jeremy Barofsky / Can We Still Govern?:
How Trump's Big Bad Bill Will Kill Americans
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Boston Herald
Andrew Hay / Reuters:
As US wildfires rage, firefighters clean toilets after Trump staff cuts, critics say
New York Times:
The Path to Peace in the Middle East (and a Nobel Prize for Trump)
Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU to ramp up retaliation plans as US tariff deal prospects dim