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11:00 AM ET, August 18, 2025

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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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Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?
Politico:
Playbook: Zelenskyy's White House do-over
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story, Salon and Axios
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Zelenskyy in the lion's den
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 17, 2025  —  On the heels of President Donald J. Trump's Friday meeting …
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump to meet Zelenskyy with 2 big issues in focus: security guarantees and land
New York Times:
Putin's Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
Joanna Coles / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Can't Cover Up the Truth. Trump's Cankles and Hand Makeup Say It All
Discussion: Need to Know
Frank Gardner / BBC:
Trump rules out Ukraine reclaiming Crimea or joining Nato ahead of Zelensky White House talks
Public Notice:
Gavin Newsom's moment  —  Democrats have found their fight.  Newsom is leading the charge.  —  ∙ Paid … Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he's moving forward with a ballot initiative which would allow Democrats to put in place a partisan gerrymander in the state.
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Liz Crampton / Politico:
Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff … The drama in Texas set off a national redistricting battle, most prominently with California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowing to retaliate against Texas Republicans by extracting an equal number of Democratic-leaning districts from California's congressional map.
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House
Discussion: KXTV
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:   Meet the Democrat That Republicans Fear in Red-State America
Nick Reisman / Politico:
Why this swing seat House member is doubling down on Trump's megalaw
Discussion: Semafor
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Mail-In Ballots  —  President Trump has claimed mail voting was a source of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, although his former attorney general said his assertions of widespread fraud couldn't be proven.  —  President Trump said on Monday …
Discussion: Daily Mail
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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 …
Reuters:
Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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.
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 …
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
The Lies Behind Trump's D.C. Troop Surge  —  Past presidents called out troops to defend the capital from invasion and insurrection.  Trump does so to intimidate political opposition. … Support the Washington Monthly  —  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based …
Discussion: The Hill
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New York Times:   Trump Wants to Fight Democrats on Crime. They're Treading Cautiously.
WUSA:
ICE boasts about ripping Mount Pleasant sign with anti-border patrol message  —  “We're taking America back, baby,” one of the masked men says in the video posted to ICE's official X account.  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials proudly claimed responsibility …
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 …
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.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Hallmarks of authoritarianism’: Trump banks on loyalists as he wages war on truth  —  Former officials say firing of BLS commissioner emblematic of president's battle against established facts and history  —  Donald Trump is waging a war on truth by firing top officials who present facts …
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
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Diana Stancy / Fox News:
Rubio's State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorism  —  Students who've publicly protested supporting Palestine have faced heightened scrutiny  —  EXCLUSIVE: The State Department has yanked more than 6,000 student visas in 2025 for overstays …
Discussion: Reuters
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
Heartbreak (but also hope) at the still-essential Washington Post  —  One of the thrills of my life as a newly minted editor in chief at the Buffalo News was attending a very fancy — white tie, no less! — dinner in Washington, DC, and being introduced to Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post.
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy”
Ruth Marcus / New Yorker:
Pam Bondi's Power Play
David Rohde / NBC News:
The Trump ally fighting for criminal investigations of Obama, Biden and Clinton
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Flooded Social Media With Self-Praise After Putin Meeting Disaster
Marie-Rose Sheinerman / Washington Post:
Florida GOP scraps ‘Deport Depot’ merch after Home Depot objects
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
As Medicaid cuts loom, North Carolina shows the stakes
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Paul Krugman:
AI Is Power-Hungry  —  And consumers are paying the price  —  This is a post about AI …
Eyal Press / New Yorker:
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Pa. Treasurer Stacy Garrity launches GOP challenge to Josh Shapiro for governor
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Kristen Welker of NBC Meet the Press
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
The unusual GOP alliance pushing earmarks in this fall's funding fight
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump's war on numbers
Discussion: Votebeat
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Whitmer's big gamble for '28: Working with Trump
Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon:
UN Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training and Therapeutic Yoga Instruction, Drawing Scrutiny From Trump Admin
Discussion: Associated Press
 

 
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Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

 
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