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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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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 …
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
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
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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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.
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
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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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’
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence
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.
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.
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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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
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.
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
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
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 …
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
Wired:
Trump's Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs.  His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them  —  A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump's tariffs will be struck down in court.
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 …
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
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
House GOP campaign arm outraises Democrats in second quarter
Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward
 Earlier Items: 
ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52
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
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