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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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Wall Street Journal, MeidasTouch News and Daily Kos
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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 …
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Raw Story, Politico and The Parnas Perspective
Donald J. Trump / Trump's Truth:
Truth Details — I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster …
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New York Post, The Hill, New York Sun, Election Law Blog, The Daily Signal, PoliticusUSA, The Daily Caller, NewsMax.com, Newsweek and The Post Millennial
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots
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Reuters, Salon, Althouse and Daily Mail
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting — RAMPAGE — The president clearly had a lot to brain-dump before bedtime. — Donald Trump fired off a dizzying barrage of Truth Social posts on Sunday evening, raging at criticism over his summit with Vladimir Putin …
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emptywheel:
Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia — There's a great deal of normalcy bias in the reporting on Trump's capitulation. NYT reports (based on watching the Sunday shows) that Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff “hint” that Putin will make concessions to reach a plea deal with Ukraine …
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NewsMax.com, New York Times and The Daily Beast
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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Axios, WTOP News, The Times of Israel, NewsMax.com and Political Wire
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den
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Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting with Russia's president Vladimir Putin …
On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting with Russia's president Vladimir Putin …
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The Daily Beast, The Guardian, New York Sun, HuffPost and The Independent
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Democrat That Republicans Fear in Red-State America — Rob Sand's campaign for Iowa governor could offer template for others in his party — DES MOINES, Iowa—Rob Sand could almost pass for a Republican: He frequently quotes the Bible, owns two SIG Sauer handguns …
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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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Gavin Newsom's moment
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Nick Reisman / Politico:
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
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Semafor and NewsMax.com
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House
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KXTV
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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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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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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NewsMax.com, The Hill, New Jersey Online and Newsweek, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Pam Bondi Secretly Betrayed Matt Gaetz to Get Attorney General Gig — SHE GAETZ IT — The attorney general went behind the disgraced former congressman's back to secure her nomination, a new report claims. — Attorney General Pam Bondi betrayed her old friend Matt Gaetz in a bid to secure the top job at the Justice Department.
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Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play
Laura Reiley / New York Times:
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life 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 …
Rick Bright / New York Times:
America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA — In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, scientists were ready. Within hours, they began designing a vaccine. Within weeks, clinical trials were underway.
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Bloomberg
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Inside the DNC's money problems … Major Democratic donors have withheld money this year amid skepticism about the party's direction, while the small-dollar donors who have long been a source of strength are not growing nearly enough to make up the gap. And the party has quickly churned through …
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed
Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed
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New York Times, WyoFile and Los Angeles Times
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
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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Raw Story
Max Tani / Semafor:
The left gets a new publication — The Scoop — A group of left-leaning writers and journalists are starting a new publication on Monday aimed at arguing in favor of what liberalism is for, rather than just what it's against. — Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument …
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The Argument, more at Mediagazer »
Dan Ruetenik / CBS News:
As attorney general, William Barr personally investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death. Now Congress has questions. — In the hours after convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan detention cell, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr pledged to intervene personally to lead the investigation into Epstein's death.
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Washington Examiner, MSNBC, IJR and Fox News
Matt Barnum / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Job Cuts Leave a Profession Looking for Its Next Act — Niche researchers in a government-dependent education field are trying to pivot. ‘There are no crops coming out of this ground anymore.’ — Betsy Wolf has a doctorate in education, a record of publishing research and a strong professional network.
Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers — Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions. — The ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, seen on March 21, 2025
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Christian Science Monitor
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Ed Martin Confirms Ed Martin's Witch Hunt Against Elected Democrats — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. — A Classic Example of Political Corruption — Ed Martin had no prior experience as a prosecutor …
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Townhall, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
