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4:50 PM ET, August 13, 2025

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Rolling Stone:
Trump's Military Crackdowns Are Only Going to Get Worse  —  L.A. and D.C. are only the beginning, as the president's team has been drawing up plans to unleash federal forces in other Democratic strongholds  —  President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why Trump Always Wants a Crisis  —  How did the president justify the “public safety emergency” he used to deploy the National Guard to Washington and seize control of its local police force?  —  He said there was crime — “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”
Discussion: Associated Press, The US Sun and CNN
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Worst People Have the Most Power  —  With Trump's high-stakes Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin just two days away, it's good to see that the president is in exactly the preparatory headspace you'd like to see: whining into the ether about how mean the press's response is likely to be.
Robby Soave / The Hill:
DC police support Trump's federal takeover — are Dems and the media clueless on crime?  —  National Democratic politicians and mainstream media commentators have spent the last 24 hours blasting President Donald Trump for announcing a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's brownshirts deploy in DC  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  🚨 Subscribe to PN 🚨  —  If it wasn't Big Balls almost getting carjacked, Donald Trump would have figured out a different excuse for deploying the National Guard in Washington DC.
Washington Post:
As National Guard troops arrive, uncertainty over command of D.C. police
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump indicates he would federalize D.C. police for longer than 30 days
Amy Mackinnon / Financial Times:
No experts in the room: Donald Trump to meet Vladimir Putin after loss of Russia specialists  —  Reduction in federal workforce has hollowed out the number of knowledgeable officials in Washington  —  In 2018, when Donald Trump held a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin …
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Axios:
Zelensky scrambles to avert disaster as Trump meets Putin
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Putin Summit
Jonathan Landay / Reuters:   Putin appears ready to test new missile as he prepares for Trump talks, researchers say
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry  —  President Trump has become the semiconductor sector's leading decision maker, from new fees on exports to China to a brief demand for a C.E.O.'s firing.  —  At an Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump dangled an offer …
Discussion: Foreign Policy, Semafor and CNBC
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Bill Saporito / New York Times:   Trump Wants to Take Over the Fortune 500. What Can Go Wrong?
Oren Oppenheim / Associated Press:
Newsom says California's new congressional maps will take down Trump  —  Newsom said the new maps will “END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.”  —  Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of the Texas Democratic lawmakers for their walk out to block …
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
The midterm map fight favors the GOP — and could help them stay in power  —  Democrats have vowed to counter Trump's push for more red seats, but they may struggle to match it.  —  President Donald Trump's push to redraw the congressional map has fueled a redistricting arms race …
Eva Corlett / The Guardian:
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal  —  A New Zealand woman who is being held at a US immigration centre with her six-year-old son after they were detained crossing the Canada-US border, is being wrongly “treated like a criminal”, according to her friend and advocate.
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Drinking Rate at New Low as Alcohol Concerns Surge  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup's nearly 90-year trend.  This coincides with a growing belief among Americans …
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Financial Times:   Republicans lead American decline in alcohol consumption
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Trump Picks Stallone and Kiss for Kennedy Center Honors  —  The actors Sylvester Stallone and Michael Crawford, the singers George Strait and Gloria Gaynor and the rock band Kiss will be honored later this year.  —  The five Kennedy Center honorees President Trump announced on Wednesday hail …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Court Lets Trump Block Billions of Dollars in Foreign Aid  —  The Trump administration can cut billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds approved by Congress for this year, a US appeals court ruled.  —  In a 2-1 decision on Wednesday, the appellate panel reversed a Washington federal judge …
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Jessie Blaeser / Politico:
Just how much has DOGE exaggerated its numbers?  Now we have receipts. … The Trump administration's claim that it is saving billions of dollars through DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mediaite and South Shore Press
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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
How the unraveling of two Pentagon projects may result in a costly do-over
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights  —  State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.  —  For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world.
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Trump considering 11 candidates for Fed chair, including David Zervos and Rick Rieder, sources say  —  The Trump administration is considering 11 candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell when his term expires in May, including three who have not previously been publicly named …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Signals He'll Announce Fed Chair Pick ‘A Little Bit Early’
Dave Levinthal / NOTUS:
Markwayne Mullin's Late Disclosures Show Millions of Dollars' Worth of Stock and Bond Sales  —  This is the second time in two weeks Mullin has filed paperwork showing him in violation of the STOCK Act.  — Copy  —  For the second time in two weeks, Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin …
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Living in 1984  —  The headline tonight reads, “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump's Historical Vision.”  It's in The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of liberal views.  “Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes …
Aletha Adu / The Guardian:
Lammy refers himself to watchdog after fishing illegally with JD Vance  —  Foreign secretary reports ‘oversight’ to Environment Agency after failing to acquire necessary rod licence  —  David Lammy has referred himself to the environment watchdog after going fishing with the JD Vance without …
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship … “Every single day, there's new evidence that our democracy is falling, and you've got to take stands.  You have to take fights,” Murphy explained.  “I just worry — every time that we go along with these appropriations bills …
Discussion: The Daily Signal and IJR
pbump:
The decline of representation in our representative democracy  —  The effort by Texas Republicans to wring five more GOP House seats from their state triggered a range of responses.  For example: This doesn't seem like something that a party confident in its electoral chances would do.
 
 
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Eric He / Politico:
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