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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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MSNBC and New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
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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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CNN, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Althouse and Salon
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein “sound like” Trump? An investigation.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
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New Republic, New Jersey Online, Raw Story and Civil Discourse …
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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The Hill, NewsMax.com, Forbes and Daily Mail
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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HuffPost and field negro
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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Orlando Sentinel
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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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NOTUS, New York Magazine, The Hill, New Republic, The Wrap, IJR, NewsMax.com, MeidasTouch News, PinkNews, Mediaite, MSNBC, HuffPost, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit
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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MSNBC, New Jersey Online, Mediaite, 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 …
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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Ars Technica, The Independent and Raw Story
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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Blaze Media and Notes From The Circus
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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The Hill, Variety, Washington Times and Washington Examiner
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for a review of ‘the entire’ Federal Reserve
Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for a review of ‘the entire’ Federal Reserve
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The Hill, Breitbart, Daily Mail, RedState, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and LewRockwell
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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Townhall, Mediaite, twitchy.com, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, National Review and The Daily Signal
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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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New York Sun and NewsMax.com
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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Washington Examiner, New Jersey Online, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Fox News and Bloomberg
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.
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Business Insider, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
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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The Hill, TMZ.com, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, The Post Millennial, The Daily Caller, New York Daily News and Mediaite
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Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F— him and everybody around him’
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F— him and everybody around him’
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New York Post, RedState, Variety, PoliticusUSA and Mediaite
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, The Guardian, Mercury News, Boston.com, The Independent, HuffPost and New Republic
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 …
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Bloomberg
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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RedState, Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
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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 …
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Reuters
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 …
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
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
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.
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Breitbart, The Guardian, Townhall, Newsweek, Blaze Media, Minneapolis Star Tribune, UPI, The Daily Caller, New York Sun, twitchy.com, Fox News and KARE-TV
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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New York Post, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, The Post Millennial and Newsweek
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 …
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New York Post and NewsMax.com
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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Fox News, Associated Press, Bloomberg, USA Today, Washington Post, The Independent, CBS News, Reason and NPR
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 …
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Reuters, UPI and The Independent, more at Techmeme »
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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Bloomberg
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.

