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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party's Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year … Jerry Nadler intends to end a 34-year career in the House of Representatives at the conclusion of his current term next year.Clark Hodgin for The New York Times  —  Representative Jerrold Nadler …
Politico:
Congress hankers for closure in funding war with Trump.  SCOTUS is slow to deliver. … That means the high court's justices are unlikely to wade into the substance of the issue, if they choose to at all, until at least next year.  In the meantime, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill …
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
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Hilary Burns / The Boston Globe:
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective.  —  The cornerstone of the Trump administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice  —  Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration's crackdown on first amendment rights  —  The arrest of a US army veteran …
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Gets Scarier in Vile Fox Hit  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times:
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio  —  Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out  —  Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump's America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics …
Discussion: New York Times and Fortune
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs … This is not new.  But I at least hadn't heard any of these dots connected.  I wasn't even aware of the dots.  A friend mentioned to me over the weekend that he'd heard about Wall Streeters buying up the rights to tariff refunds from big corporate importers.
Devan Cole / CNN:
Judge says Trump administration's use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't Us  —  Can Americans stop fighting each other long enough to appreciate the threat from China?  —  The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation's capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats.
Reuters:
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace  —  U.S. regulators are pulling back on some bank exams and the use of confidential disciplinary notices, a sign lenders are already benefiting from a softer touch under President Donald Trump's administration, said more than half a dozen industry executives.
New York Times:
After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs  —  The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court's ruling that found many of the administration's tariffs to be illegal.  —  President Trump spent the weekend decrying a court decision …
Discussion: MSNBC, The Hill, CBS News and Raw Story
New York Times:
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image  —  Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.”  His actions say otherwise.  —  Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Giuliani out of the hospital after car crash, son says  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the hospital Monday after undergoing treatment for injuries from a car crash in New Hampshire over the weekend, his son said.  —  “I'm happy to report that he got out of the hospital today.
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Associated Press:
Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump says he'll honor Giuliani with Presidential Medal of Freedom
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds  —  Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation's sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy  —  America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists.
Discussion: Fox News
Michael Scherer / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working  —  Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department's revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.  Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama's White House …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Republicans fret about inflation's impact on 2026 midterms  —  Republican operatives and lawmakers are increasingly anxious about how inflation could affect the GOP in the 2026 midterms, and want President Trump to take more aggressive steps to address rising prices.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, The Hill and Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
The Bonfire of Trump's Vanities  —  A richness of embarrassments  —  Busy day yesterday, so all I have this morning is a brief follow-up on last week's post about the decision by an appeals court to uphold the Court of Trade's ruling that most of Trump's tariffs are illegal — which they clearly are.
CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book  —  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Here's the truth about Trump's ‘none of our business’ doctrine  —  As foreign leaders are finding, Trump's noninterference foreign policy is purely situational.  —  Speaking to a U.S.-Saudi investment conference in Riyadh on May 13, President Donald Trump enunciated what might be called …
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!  —  Want rule of law?  That's premium.  —  Valued users!  —  We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government …
Reagan Reese / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Full Transcript: Daily Caller Interviews President Donald Trump  —  The Oval Office.  —  DAILY CALLER WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT REAGAN REESE: I want to tell you President Trump, the Daily Caller, we have this motto called the ‘rebels in the swamp,’ and we see ourselves as the outlet for your voters.
Robert Klemko / Washington Post:
At an ICE career expo, thousands line up to ‘defend the homeland’  —  An ex-Marine, a former professional MMA fighter, a retired officer: Meet the people angling to join ICE and carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.  —  ARLINGTON, Texas — Christian Osborne …
Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch  —  The WLFI token trades above its previous value, confirming a paper windfall for the president and his sons  —  The Trump family notched as much as $5 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency.
The Guardian:
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing  —  Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship  —  A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities …
David Nir / The Downballot:
No, Texas Republicans did not pass a dummymander  —  The GOP might fall short of its aim of flipping five Democratic seats, but they haven't jeopardized their own incumbents  —  From the moment Donald Trump first began goading Texas Republicans to further gerrymander their state's already …
Discussion: NBC News and NOTUS
Marty Makary / Wall Street Journal:
Why the FDA Doesn't Support Covid Boosters Forever  —  The emergency is over, and the U.S. is joining other nations in shifting to a risk-tiered approach on vaccines.  —  The Food and Drug Administration last week approved Covid-19 vaccines for adults over 65 and for people 6 months and older …
Discussion: Maryland Matters
Charles T. Munger Jr / New York Times:
Do Not Re-Gerrymander California  —  For the better part of two decades, California's elections have been freer and fairer because the state doesn't allow for the gerrymandering of political districts.  I like to think I am in large part responsible.  —  Working alongside former …
 
 
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Richard A. Webster / ProPublica:
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New York Times:
White House Counsel Eases Trump's Path on Aggressive Agenda
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode
Discussion: RedState and MSNBC
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine Pursues a Weapons Buildup More Potent Than Any Security Guarantee
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
Washington Examiner:
It's time to audit the death bureaucracy
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
There's Only One True Bipartisan Issue Left
Discussion: The Free Press
Josh Siegel / Politico:
In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trump's clean energy war
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Victor Nava / New York Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar's net worth skyrockets to as much as $30 million - months after denying she was a millionaire
Jack Poulson / All-Source Intelligence:
Exclusive: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon, following its acquisition by U.S. capital
Emily Zemler / Rolling Stone:
Trump Declares D.C. a ‘Crime Free Zone’ Despite 442 Crimes Reported in Past Week
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump demands drugmakers ‘justify’ COVID treatment success
Molly Quell / Associated Press:
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

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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