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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
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’  —  CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover.
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.
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.
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.
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump indicates he would federalize D.C. police for longer than 30 days
HuffPost:
Donald Trump's War On Counting
Discussion: HotAir and pbump
Washington Post:
As National Guard troops arrive, uncertainty over command of D.C. police
Cas Mudde / The Guardian:   Why is Trump deploying national guard troops to Washington DC?
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Agrees on Ukraine Red Lines With Europe Before Putin Summit  —  U.S. leader tells his European peers that he won't negotiate territorial issues during Friday's meeting but seek an immediate cease-fire instead  —  BERLIN—President Trump agreed with European leaders including Ukrainian …
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Axios:
Zelensky scrambles to avert disaster as Trump meets Putin
Jonathan Landay / Reuters:   Putin appears ready to test new missile as he prepares for Trump talks, researchers say
Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Illinois Judge Rules Against Arresting Quorum-Breaking Texas Lawmakers  —  An Illinois judge Wednesday rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)'s demand to enforce arrest warrants against Democrats who left Texas to block a Republican redistricting plan that could help the GOP keep control of the U.S. House in 2026.
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Illinois judge denies Paxton's request to help arrest Texas Democrats
Discussion: KVIA-TV
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
Discussion: RedState
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
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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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules  —  In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.  —  A federal appeals court panel cleared …
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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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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
Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
RFK Jr. Refuses To Blame Misinformation As Driving Force Behind CDC Shooting  —  The health secretary is one of the country's most prominent vaccine skeptics and has previously labeled the agency as a “cesspool of corruption.”  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused …
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Jake Scott / STAT:   Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
Matthew Xiao / The Washington Free Beacon:
Toronto Film Festival Cancels October 7 Documentary, Citing a Lack of ‘Legal Clearance’ From Hamas Terrorists  —  The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has canceled its screening of a documentary about Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, ostensibly citing a lack of …
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.
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump presses Nobel Peace Prize case: 'The pressure's on'  —  President Trump is raking up global support in his push for a Nobel Peace Prize — garnering nominations from Pakistan, Cambodia, Israel and GOP lawmakers as he touts his role in talks to end various global conflicts.
Discussion: PJ Media
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
How the unraveling of two Pentagon projects may result in a costly do-over  —  Donald Trump's Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.
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 …
 
 
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