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The Bulwark:
Why the Epstein Coverup Matters  —  In free societies, government coverups are difficult.  In authoritarian ones, they're routine.  —  Jeffrey Epstein damage control continues at the Justice Department, with Pam Bondi announcing this morning that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche …
Discussion: CNN, Off Message and Florida Politics
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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, emptywheel and Democrats
Axios:
House grinds to a halt as GOP tries to shut down Epstein votes  —  House Republicans have virtually stopped work on all major legislation leading up to their six-week summer recess to avoid taking votes on forcing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. … - “They're certainly not making it easier for themselves. ...
Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN and Reason
Punchbowl News:
Epstein mess freezes the House — again  —  Speaker Mike Johnson may as well send the House home today.  In fact, they probably should've taken the week off.  —  The House Rules Committee, the speaker-controlled panel charged with shaping legislation for the floor, is completely frozen …
Politico:   Capitol agenda: House GOP eyes an early exit over Epstein meltdown
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Says He Won't Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files This Summer
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills
Discussion: Roll Call
Jordain Carney / Politico:   Schumer's strategy for avoiding a shutdown strategy scramble
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Trump's Big Epstein Distraction Isn't Working
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest
emptywheel:
Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client  —  Trump Defense Attorney Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi just announced that Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell and discuss potential cooperation deals with her.
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Deputy Attorney General seeking meeting with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell  —  Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Tuesday that he is seeking a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell. … - “No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits,” he wrote.
ABC News:
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell ‘in the coming days,’ Bondi says
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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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump's WSJ Lawsuit Raises a New Constitutional Question … The president can sue you, but you can't sue him.  —  It seems like an absurd thing to say but that's effectively the reality of our legal system today, one that has become increasingly alarming during Donald Trump's second term.
Discussion: Reason and MSNBC
Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:   Rupert Murdoch should stand for free speech and fight Trump's bogus Wall Street Journal lawsuit
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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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family's opposition
Gabe Cohen / CNN:
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response  —  The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
Discussion: NOTUS
Diana Nerozzi / New York Post:
Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
From Truth Social to bitcoin empire: Trump's $2 billion pivot  —  Since President Trump's election in November, the price of bitcoin has skyrocketed.  On Election Day 2024, one bitcoin traded below $75,000.  Last week, bitcoin reached an all-time high of over $123,000.  (On Monday, it hovered around $118,000.)
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC)
Discussion: The Hill
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump.  A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.  —  Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration's agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.
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 …
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 …
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
Alice Speri / The Guardian:
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication  —  As Harvard's feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal.  Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
New York Times:
Can The Washington Post's TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post? … Dave Jorgenson is leaving The Post next month to start an online video company based on his personal YouTube channel, Local News International.  —  For years, Dave Jorgenson has been nearly synonymous with The Washington Post on social media.
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory  —  The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics. … I would prefer here a precise accounting of Jeffrey Epstein's history of pedophilia.  Unfortunately, much remains unknown.
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
Zohran's Bronx Science tales  —  MAMDANI PLAYS HOOKY: He's just like us.  He got detention.  He cut class to get lunch.  He says he's bad at math.  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani graduated from the public, test-in, competitive Bronx Science High School in 2010.
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump's Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground  —  The Trump administration's efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provision have no obvious legal parallel.  —  The four veteran immigration agents …
Discussion: New Yorker
Paul Krugman:
Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?  —  And will it ever come to America?  —  Last week the House passed the GENIUS Act, which will boost the growth of stablecoins, thereby paving the way for future scams and financial crises.  On Thursday the House also passed a bill that would bar …
 
 
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