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4:45 PM ET, August 18, 2025

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms  —  President Donald Trump raged at Democrats Monday for supposedly cheating in elections in a long and unhinged Truth Social rant—and buried in his tirade is a clear indication of how he hopes to corrupt the 2026 midterm elections …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat  —  The president demanded that states do what the federal government “tells them,” after announcing an executive order aimed at banning mail-in voting … Despite lacking any sort of constitutional power on the matter …
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security
Discussion: CNN
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Trump Promises New, Blatantly Unconstitutional Order to End Mail-In Voting
Sarah Ewall-Wice / The Daily Beast:
Trump Snubs Greatest Allies With Greeting From Fox News Host  —  LATER!  —  European leaders arriving at the White House were met by the Chief of Protocol, Monica Crowley.  —  After rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, President Donald Trump …
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den
New York Times:
Live Updates: Zelensky and Allies Head to White House to Show Unity on Ukraine
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Trump's Diplomacy-by-Spectacle Failed in Alaska
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Politico
Axios:
Trump-Zelensky summit: The suit question, again  —  The White House asked Ukrainian officials if President Volodymyr Zelensky will wear a suit to his meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, two sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Gut Check Time For Democrats  —  Send this to your senators.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Every lengthy government shutdown in my lifetime has been a consequence of Republican extortion.  —  The structure and rules of our government all but demand that annual budgeting be a cooperative enterprise …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Republican Bid to Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat … Speaker Mike Johnson has said that the House could not address the Epstein files while the courts were weighing in.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times  —  When House Republican leaders rushed to leave Washington for a long August break …
Associated Press:
Texas Democrats return to Capitol for Republicans' US House map overhaul as California counters
Office of Governor Tate Reeves:
Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.  —  Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington, D.C.:  —  “I've approved the deployment …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   A Modest Proposal: Send Blue State National Guardsmen to D.C.
Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
No, Trump's Fascist Takover of D.C. Is Not Good for Restaurants
Discussion: The Hill, The Independent and WUSA
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC to Change Its Name—And Lose the Peacock Logo  —  The cable news network will adopt the new name MS NOW ahead of its spinoff from NBCUniversal  —  MSNBC is changing its name in its spinoff from Comcast's NBCUniversal.  —  The left-leaning cable network will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News  —  As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also dropping the NBC from its name.  —  Later this year, the channel will become MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play  —  Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.  —  It is rare for an Attorney General of the United States to venture into the offices of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig
Discussion: Raw Story
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims  —  The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Administration in Talks to Take a 10% Stake in Intel  —  The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, in a move that could see the US become the beleaguered chipmaker's largest shareholder.
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Wall Street Journal:
White House in Talks With Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Laura Reiley / New York Times:
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life  —  Sophie's Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place.  Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that's not what she wanted to do.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy”  —  Yes, it's a weird sex thing.  But it also reveals secret insecurities  —  The MAGA movement is determined to make politics as disgusting as possible, destroying democracy one juvenile 4chan meme at a time.  It turns out that American fascism isn't just wrapped …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rosie Thomas / 404 Media:
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers  —  TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner.  Some of the videos have millions of views, and TikTok Shop's own metrics show …
Discussion: The Verge
Politico:
Why Munich 1938 concessions to Nazi Germany haunt Washington 2025 talks  —  Read POLITICO's live blog for all the news from Monday's high-level White House meetings.  —  Handing over massive fortification lines to an expansionist neighbor hellbent on destroying your state tends to be a bad idea.
Discussion: The Forward, CNBC and Bloomberg
Marcela Valdes / New York Times:
The Madden Sisters Don't Want to Be Institutionalized  —  Medicaid pays for most of the in-home care that lets disabled Americans live independently.  Will coming cuts put that care in jeopardy?  —  Carrie Madden at home in Los Angeles with Gigi Valbuena, one of her caregivers.
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says  —  Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize merger case that led to his firing  —  An antitrust lawyer who was dismissed last month from the Justice Department …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Zeteo:
The Vice President Who Can't Stop Taking Vacations  —  8 trips in 7 months - what could possibly go wrong for JD Vance, the tone-deaf veep who wants to succeed Trump in 3 years?  —  Team Zeteo  —  ∙ Paid  —  JD Vance is the talk of the town over in the Cotswolds …
Discussion: MSNBC
 
 
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Kat Cammack announces birth of baby girl
Discussion: Florida Politics and NewsMax.com
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Jeffries: Noem will be among the first ‘hauled up to Congress’ if Democrats retake House
Discussion: Mediaite
Ali Velshi / MSNBC:
Trump's family has made $3.4 billion during his time as president, new report finds
Discussion: Mediaite
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Hamas accepts latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal proposal
Seamus Hughes / Court Watch:
We Fought the Law. The Law Relented.
Matt Barnum / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Job Cuts Leave a Profession Looking for Its Next Act
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Once Filed a Brief Embracing Birthright Citizenship
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Democrat That Republicans Fear in Red-State America
Rick Bright / New York Times:
America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA
Discussion: Bloomberg
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The left gets a new publication
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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