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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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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Trump Promises New, Blatantly Unconstitutional Order to End Mail-In Voting — President Donald Trump announced he will issue a new executive order as part of a “movement to get rid of” mail-in voting. — Trump railed against “MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and, “Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He'll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He'll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security
Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security
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Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots
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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 — European leaders need to get Trump off the dangerous path laid out for him by Putin — Memories of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's last disastrous trip to the Oval Office will hang over the Ukrainian president's visit to the White House on Monday.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way
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Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast:
Flag-Waving Russian Forces Troll Trump After Crumbling to Putin
Flag-Waving Russian Forces Troll Trump After Crumbling to Putin
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Brennan: I hope Secret Service swept Trump limo for ‘microchip’ after Putin ride
Brennan: I hope Secret Service swept Trump limo for ‘microchip’ after Putin ride
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Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Trump's Diplomacy-by-Spectacle Failed in Alaska
Trump's Diplomacy-by-Spectacle Failed in Alaska
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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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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
White House Hides Trump's Cankles With Odd Prop in Zelensky Photo-Op — COVERED UP — A White House photo conveniently placed an Air Force One model in front of the 79-year-old president's swollen ankles. — The White House appeared to cover up Donald Trump's cankles in an official photo …
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Key takeaways from Trump and Zelenskyy's Oval Office meeting to discuss Ukraine
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Zelensky and Allies Head to White House to Show Unity on Ukraine
Live Updates: Zelensky and Allies Head to White House to Show Unity on Ukraine
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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
MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News
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Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
DOJ to begin sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday, House member says — Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), chairman of a House oversight committee, this month issued a subpoena commanding the attorney general to produce documents related to Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday.
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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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Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
DHS speechwriter linked to hateful social accounts while claiming American conservatives are ostracized like Jews in Nazi Germany — ‘They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history,’ DHS speechwriter writes on X
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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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Maddy Lauria / NPR:
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
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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.
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig
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David Gilbert / Wired:
An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories — A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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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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 …
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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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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The Verge
Department of Homeland Security:
Criminal Illegal Alien Recklessly Driving an 18-Wheeler Kills Three in Florida — Gavin Newsom's California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver's License — WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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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.
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Jeffries: Noem will be among the first ‘hauled up to Congress’ if Democrats retake House — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would be a top target of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee if Democrats retake the House in the midterms.
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong — Jonathan Greenblatt criticized the mayoral nominee for hedging on ‘globalize the Intifada’ and falsely claimed Mamdani hasn't visited synagogues or engaged Jewish groups — Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League CEO …
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.
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 …
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Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Is Trump's DC Military Deployment the Start of a Slow-Motion Civil War? — Anything is possible in the coming days and weeks, but it's difficult not to feel like we are veering toward escalating violence. — Pocket — What exactly is Donald Trump doing with the 800 National Guard soldiers …
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