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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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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, 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 …
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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
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
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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 Republic, New Jersey Online and Raw Story
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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The Hill, Forbes, The Guardian and Daily Mail
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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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
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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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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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The demise of Trump's lawsuit against Bob Woodward offers a reminder to his other targets
The demise of Trump's lawsuit against Bob Woodward offers a reminder to his other targets
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Reason, Above the Law and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
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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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, CNBC, RedState, Variety, NewsMax.com, Washington Times and Washington Examiner
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 …
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 …
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
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
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
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
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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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 Hill, The Independent and The Gateway Pundit
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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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
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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The Daily Caller and RUMBLE
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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The Federalist, Townhall, Mediaite, twitchy.com, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, National Review, The Daily Signal and Washington Examiner
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.
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.
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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Miami Herald:
How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz — One worked in a celebrated restaurant in Miami's Design District. — Another is an aspiring DJ. — An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S. — All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz …
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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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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