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11:35 AM ET, July 22, 2025

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Why the Epstein Coverup Matters  —  Jeffrey Epstein damage control continues at the Justice Department, with Pam Bondi announcing this morning that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is seeking a prosecutorial interview with Epsitein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Discussion: CNN, Off Message and Florida Politics
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House GOP leaders grapple for way out of Epstein crisis  —  House Republicans have lost control of the floor over their Jeffrey Epstein blow-up, and they're struggling to chart a path out of the crisis.  GOP leaders are talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways …
Discussion: Newsweek and Raw Story
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. ...
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, Democrats and emptywheel
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 …
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills
Discussion: Roll Call
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kyle Stewart / NBC News:
Oversight Committee to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell ‘as expeditiously as possible,’ spokesperson says
NBC News:   Deputy attorney general to meet with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
ABC News:
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell ‘in the coming days,’ Bondi says
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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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. again withdraws from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias and “woke” causes  —  President Trump has again withdrawn the U.S. from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). … - The move further decreases U.S. footprint and influence in international organizations …
Financial Times:   Trump left a power vacuum at the UN. China saw an opportunity
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election  —  Five years ago, Marco Rubio said there was “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”  Now, Tulsi Gabbard says that claim is “treasonous” and should be criminally investigated.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's forever grudge ties Epstein files to Russia “hoax”
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.
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
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.
David Gilbert / Wired:
Everything Is a ‘False Flag’ Now  —  Conspiracy theories about so-called false flag attacks have been around for decades.  But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake.  —  As President Donald Trump struggles to contain …
James Liddell / The Independent:
Bernice King's demand comes after Tulsi Gabbard announced the release of thousands of documents tied to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination  —  Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter has urged Donald Trump to release the full, unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files after thousands …
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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.
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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Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:   Rupert Murdoch should stand for free speech and fight Trump's bogus Wall Street Journal lawsuit
The Coca-Cola Company:
Coca-Cola Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Full Year Guidance  —  Comparable Currency Neutral Operating Income (Non-GAAP) Grew 15%  —  Operating Margin was 34.1% versus 21.3% in the Prior Year;  —  Comparable Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) was 34.7% versus 32.8% in the Prior Year
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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: Talking Points Memo and New Yorker
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 …
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A QAnon-affiliated figure has hosted Trump's VA secretary and at least four GOP members of Congress since May  —  A podcast host affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement has featured the secretary of Veterans Affairs and at least four Republican members of Congress in recent months.
 
 
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