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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
White House Proudly Promotes Trump's Snub to Greatest Allies  —  DEPUTIZED  —  Welcome to the White House!  Here is... Monica Crowley?  —  European leaders arrived at the White House on Monday not to be met by President Donald Trump, but by the former Fox News host Monica Crowley …
Babak Dehghanpisheh / NBC News:
French President Emmanuel Macron says he doesn't believe Putin is ‘very willing to get peace’ in Ukraine  —  After a meeting at the White House on Monday, the French president said that if there is no progress in talks, Russia should be hit with more sanctions.
Elena Giordano / Politico:
Moscow waffles on Putin-Zelenskyy summit as Trump escalates pressure  —  Don't free up your calendar just yet.  —  Moscow on Tuesday moved to cool expectations of a long-awaited face-to-face summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Vladimir Putin …
The Economist:
Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show  —  America hints at providing security guarantees for Ukraine  —  “I can't believe it,” said Donald Trump, America's president, as he greeted Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart, outside the White House on August 18th.  “I love it.”
Politico:
Inside Trump world's reaction to the Zelenskyy reset
Politico:
Playbook: How Trump and Zelenskyy hit reset
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
In hurried D.C. summit, Europeans try to bend Trump away from Kremlin
CNN:
Zelensky meeting shows how the White House has remade the press corps to Trump's liking
Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump rules out putting ‘American boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval holds at 40%, lowest level of his term, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Breitbart
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Texas Democratic legislator to stay in State Capitol after refusing law enforcement escort to leave  —  State Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth said she will remain locked in the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes Wednesday morning.  —  First, Texas House Democrats refused …
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David Montgomery / KERA News:
Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier refuses to leave Texas House, protesting state trooper escorts  —  AUSTIN — A Fort Worth lawmaker said on Monday that she can't leave the Texas House chambers because she won't agree to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers, which the GOP speaker is requiring of Democrats who fled the state.
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and @amuse
Associated Press:
Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate  —  Texas Democrats who ended a walkout found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts …
Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:
Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows' pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state's electoral map  —  Texas Democratic State Rep. Nicole Collier spent Monday night locked in the state House of Representatives in Austin after refusing to sign a pledge …
Ashley Lopez / NPR:
Trump wants to stop states from voting by mail and using voting machines  —  President Trump announced Monday on his social media site, Truth Social, that he plans to “lead a movement” to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines in the country ahead of next year's midterm elections.
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms
Discussion: Salon and NewsMax.com
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   August 18, 2025  —  This morning, J.D. Wolf of Meidas News pulled together all of Trump's …
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Trump Demands: Ditch Vote-By-Mail. Republicans Shouldn't
New York Times:
In Pursuing Trump Rival, Weaponization Czar Sidesteps Justice Dept. Norms  —  Edward R. Martin Jr.'s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on President Trump's enemies.
Discussion: MSNBC, American Thinker and Raw Story
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms  —  It's been a minute since we heard from Eagle Ed Martin, the Trump attack dog who bounced from a stint as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. to an Orwellian role as the Justice Department's “weaponization czar.”  The New York Times reports he's been keeping busy:
Discussion: MSNBC
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director alongside Bongino  —  Bailey will join the FBI as a co-deputy director with Deputy Director Dan Bongino  —  EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey …
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Dan Bongino Suffers Fresh Embarrassment After Epstein Files Tantrum
Politico:
Cuomo's seeking a Trump bump  —  Andrew Cuomo's counting on President Donald Trump and top Republicans to tell the party faithful to vote for Cuomo for mayor if they want to stop Zohran Mamdani, and not to vote for GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.  —  “We can minimize (the Sliwa) vote …
Daniel Wu / Washington Post:
Oklahoma will test some incoming teachers with ‘America-first’ exam  —  Candidates from California and New York must pass a 50-question test to qualify to teach in Oklahoma, state Superintendent Ryan Walters said.  —  Teachers from New York and California who apply to teach in Oklahoma …
Discussion: LARRY VIP, Daily Kos and Fox News
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Defying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids  —  The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a coronavirus vaccine as federal officials move to roll back recommendations.  —  The American Academy of Pediatrics …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime  —  Public Notice is reader funded.  Support us by becoming a paid subscriber 👇  —  ✍️ Subscribe to PN ✍️  —  If President Trump installed a guillotine where the White House Rose Garden used to be and started kidnapping …
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
Discussion: The Guardian, NOTUS and Raw Story
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations … Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, the president and chief executive of the Knight Foundation.Moriah Ratner for The New York Times  —  In June, on the eve of a House vote to strip $500 million in federal funding from public radio and TV stations …
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CBC News:
Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal to end strike  —  Airline says flights to gradually return beginning Tuesday evening  —  Air Canada strike over, with tentative deal reached, airline and union say  —  A tentative agreement has been reached to end the contract dispute between Air Canada …
Jessica Steier / New York Times:
The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism  —  The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says he wants to understand what causes autism.  It's a perfectly laudable goal and one that scientists have been pursuing for decades.  But after announcing a large new federal study on the topic …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
More GOP governors agree to send National Guard troops to D.C.  —  Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, announced yesterday that he had approved the deployment of 135 National Guard troops to D.C.  —  “We cannot allow our cities to be overcome by violence and lawlessness,” Landry said in a post to X.
Discussion: The Hill, UPI, Associated Press and NOLA.com
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.
Frances Vinall / Washington Post:
Over 6,000 student visas revoked for crimes and overstays, U.S. says  —  A small number were revoked for “support for terrorism,” a State Department official said, without elaborating.  Other crimes included assault and burglary.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration has revoked thousands …
Washington Post:
Top Air Force general to exit in Hegseth's latest shake-up of Pentagon  —  Gen. David Allvin will retire halfway through his four-year term, becoming the most recent senior military official to be forced out by the Trump administration.  —  Just now  —  The chief of staff of the Air Force …
 
 
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
The Situation: Then the Law Is an Ass
Reuters:
US targets steel, copper, lithium imports under Uyghur forced labor law
Discussion: Bloomberg and Fox Business
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Chris Pratt rebukes idea of being ‘allergic’ to Trump administration's success
Punchbowl News:
How Schatz locked up the whip race
Shikha Dalmia / The UnPopulist:
‘Appeasing an Aggressor Never Leads to Peace’: Vladimir Kara-Murza
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second-degree murder
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Las Vegas tourism is down. Some blame Trump's tariffs and immigration crackdown
 Earlier Items: 
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Data over dogma: A reply to Matt Yglesias
Discussion: Slow Boring
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Rising Democratic MAGA movement
Discussion: NewsMax.com
NBC News:
‘Not on their nice list’: Sen. Josh Hawley irks Republicans as he tries to carve out a lane
Discussion: Raw Story
Foreign Affairs:
The World Economy Was Already Broken
Wall Street Journal:
The Nationalization of Intel?  —  A 10% federal stake in the computer chip maker would be another dive into corporate statism.
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

New York Times:
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate
 
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