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9:15 PM ET, July 21, 2025

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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 Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest  —  President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video of former President Barack Obama being detained in the Oval Office.  —  President Trump reposted a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Trump's Big Epstein Distraction Isn't Working  —  Hope and Change the Subject  —  FACED WITH CONSERVATIVE backlash over the end of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Donald Trump over the past week has engaged in what can only be described as a monumental distraction campaign.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Talks About Anything but Epstein on His Social Media Account  —  On Truth Social, the president railed against Democrats and shared a wacky video.  —  Dogged for weeks over his administration's refusal to release the Epstein files, President Trump spent the weekend posting on social media about, well, anything else.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:   Trump Sharpens Attacks on a Favorite Foe: The News Media
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else
Discussion: The Guardian
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Says He Won't Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files This Summer
Discussion: The Free Press, Salon and Raw Story
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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National Archives:
Records Related to the Assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  —  On This Page  —  The National Archives' Role in Fulfilling Executive Order 14176  —  How is the National Archives Making These Records Available?  —  2025 Release  —  Release Notes  — Contact Us
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Dylan Wells / Washington Post:
Trump administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning  —  Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said.  Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department …
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 …
Discussion: Reason and Orlando Sentinel
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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 …
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Amanda Castro / Newsweek:
Pam Bondi Grants Hillary Clinton Email Probe Request Amid Epstein Furor  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Justice Department has released documents related to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.  —  The Context
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Dylan Lovan / Associated Press:
Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time  —  A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid five years ago …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for a review of ‘the entire’ Federal Reserve … Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday suggested a review of the Federal Reserve that would go beyond the current controversy over building renovations and look at its overall function.
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case … “She is a TOTAL DISASTER, which I say even before hearing her Ruling,” Trump wrote in the post to his social media platform, Truth Social.  “She has systematically taken over the various Harvard cases, and is an automatic ‘loss’ for the People of our Country!”
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Why Colbert got canceled  —  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.  —  According to IMDb, I appeared on The Daily Show seven times, The Colbert Report three times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert …
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:
House Republicans at standstill over Epstein drama  —  House Republicans may choose to scrap several floor votes this week as internal party drama over the release of Jeffrey Epstein files is derailing the work of the Rules Committee.  The panel came to a standstill, again …
Discussion: The Hill
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Gabbard Garbles 2016 ‘Russiagate’ Intelligence  —  FRIDAY'S MEMO RELEASED BY TULSI GABBARD, the director of national intelligence, claiming that the intelligence community “manipulated and withheld” key evidence in the “Russiagate” investigation in 2016—and her even more explosive allegation …
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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 …
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.
Berny Belvedere / The UnPopulist:
Only Three Weeks Left to Register for LibCon2025  —  Space is filling up fast for ISMA's second annual ‘Liberalism for the 21st Century’ conference—so you should sign up now without delay  —  There are only three weeks left till our parent organization, the Institute for the Study …
Discussion: The Dispatch
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 …
Discussion: CNBC, New York Sun and NewsMax.com
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: Raw Story
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.
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.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Michael Flynn floats ‘military trial for Obama’ despite presidential immunity  —  Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn suggested former President Barack Obama should face a “military trial” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of a …
 
 
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Hunter Biden Trashes Democrats He Saw as Betraying His Father
Cristian Farias / New Yorker:
A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump's Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
Jessica Kutz / The 19th:
Women's contributions and men's racism erased from history of national monument
Lindsay Clark / The Register:
Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Genevieve Glatsky / New York Times:
Venezuela Targets Economists as Inflation Surges Under Trump's Sanctions
Nick Taylor-Vaisey / Politico:
US senators visit Canada to build bridges as trade deadline looms
Discussion: WisPolitics and NewsMax.com
Max Flugrath / The Contrarian:
Republicans are brazenly rigging the 2026 midterms
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New York Times:
Marines Will Begin Withdrawing From Los Angeles
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP's Murkowski says she feels ‘cheated’ by administration following megabill's passage
Discussion: New Republic, Esquire and Daily Kos
Jon Fortt / The Verge:
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
The Politics of Humiliation  —  When I was in middle school I went through a rough patch socially.
Department of Homeland Security:
VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City
 

 
From Techmeme:

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy

 
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