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8:30 PM ET, August 23, 2025

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Asha Rangappa / New York Times:
Bolton, Trump and a Crisis of Trust in Federal Law Enforcement  —  On Friday, F.B.I. agents searched the home and office of President Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, to determine whether he illegally shared or possessed classified information.
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Yes, It IS a Police State.  And Yes, You Can Do Something  —  RED ALERT  —  In the short term, the answer must be to use what tools remain to fight back—even at the risk of becoming the targets of the next wave of MAGA retribution.  —  OPINION  —  Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live in a police state?
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown  —  Military officials are sketching out a plan that could deploy a few thousand National Guard members, officials said.  The use of active-duty forces has also been discussed.  —  The Pentagon has for weeks been planning …
Discussion: Forbes and NewsNation
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Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Pritzker Calls Trump's Threat to Target Chicago Next ‘An Authoritarian Grab of Major Cities’  —  The president said Chicago “will be our next” city where he may deploy federal forces after his infiltration of the nation's capital  —  Illinois Governor JB Pritzker blasted President Donald Trump …
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest sites
NBC News:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia notified by ICE that he may be deported to Uganda  —  Abrego, wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, now faces removal to Uganda just a day after being freed from a Tennessee jail.  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongfully deported …
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Travis Loller / Associated Press:
US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer in his smuggling case  —  Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty …
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine's Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia  —  The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has for months been blocking Ukraine's use of long-range missiles …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say  —  The ‘overwhelming majority’ of the material provided to a key investigative committee in response to a subpoena had already been released, according to Democratic members.  —  The “overwhelming majority” …
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Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Epstein files released to Congress are mostly ‘recycled’ documents, Democrat says
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Advocates File Immediate Legal Challenge to Texas Gerrymander  —  Hours after Texas lawmakers approved a new gerrymandered congressional map Saturday morning, Texans asked a court to block it.  —  The plaintiffs*, a group of Black and Latino Texans, filed an amended complaint in an ongoing challenge …
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Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
A Partisan Shot Fired in Texas Reverberates Around the Country
Discussion: Washington Post
Victor Nava / New York Post:
Democratic Texas state Sen. Carol Alvarado outfitted with catheter, urine bag for redistricting bill filibuster
Adam Klasfeld / All Rise News:
The Maxwell transcripts: Trump's lawyer gives away the game  —  Todd Blanche gave the convicted sex trafficker ample opportunity to disparage victims—but became laser-focused on matters related to Trump. … For two days of meandering questioning in Tallahassee, Fla. …
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New York Times:
Justice Department Releases Ghislaine Maxwell Interview Transcripts
Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Mail-in voting backed by most Americans despite Trump push to end it  —  More than half of Americans supported allowing no-excuse mail-in voting in a Pew Research Center poll despite President Trump's promise to end the practice he denounced as “fraudulent.”
Discussion: Pew Research Center and Forbes
Gillian Brockell / Rolling Stone:
ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants  —  Coast Guard planes mostly used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including one caught on video  —  President Donald Trump's deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased …
Discussion: Jacobin
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
Trump's targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  🌇🌇 Subscribe to PN 🌇🌇  —  While announcing his federal takeover of Washington DC last week, Donald Trump spoke as though he's a proud resident of the District.
Discussion: Breitbart
Korsha Wilson / New York Times:
As Troops Walk the Streets, Washington Restaurants Report a Slump  —  With the deployment of the National Guard, owners say business is down drastically.  —  When the chef Rock Harper read the news this month that President Trump was going to send the National Guard into the streets of Washington …
Financial Times:
The twilight of the central banking elite  —  After several decades in which economic technocrats enjoyed a large degree of autonomy, they are under intense pressure from the Trump administration  —  As Jay Powell stood up to deliver what will almost certainly be his final address …
Discussion: IJR, Atlantic Council and Rolling Out
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
ICE arrests brother of illegal immigrant trucker in deadly Florida Turnpike wreck  —  Harneet Singh was a passenger in the truck that allegedly made a deadly U-turn on a Florida turnpike  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the brother of Harjinder Singh, the illegal immigrant …
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)  — Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for your boss, the worse they are for you.  — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Greene issues scathing rebuke of conditions in Gaza: ‘I will not be silent about it’  —  Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) on Saturday upped her crusade against conditions in the Gaza Strip following a declaration of famine in the region by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn't Kept Text Message Data Since April  —  The agency's response to public records requests indicated potential violations of federal records laws, experts said.  —  The Department of Homeland Security rebuffed a request for public records related …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Brasch / Washington Post:
This conservative county lost teachers after administration cut key grant  —  Montgomery County, a Trump stronghold in North Carolina, saw elimination of a grant-funded initiative it says didn't involve DEI  —  MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.C. — Kylie Blankenship is everything this rural school district …
Discussion: Maui Now, Raw Story and Columbian
 
 
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NBC4 Washington:
National Guardsman ticketed for running red light after DC armored vehicle crash
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Pepper / Pepperspectives:
The Fateful, Dangerous Compliance of the “Moderates”
Axios:
Immigrant detentions soar 50% to a record under Trump
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Marc Hudson / Ars Technica:
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory
Zaeem Shaikh / Oregonian:
Donald Trump Jr. calls Portland, Seattle ‘craphole cities,’ hints at federal takeover of police forces
Discussion: Seattle Red, al.com and Daily Kos
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Washington Examiner:
Commercial surrogacy turns children into commodities
Thomas Kahn / New York Times:
What Is Trump Hiding in His Secret Budget?
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New York Times:
Where U.S. Medicines Are Made and How Trump's Tariffs Could Affect Them
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