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Svante Myrick / The Hill:
Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst — When President Trump was sworn into office for his second term, he made a lot of promises to the American people. He has broken many of them. — In his 2025 inaugural address, Trump declared, “Never again …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🚨🚨 Subscribe to PN 🚨🚨 — We have some shocking news: The Trump administration and the American right may not be quite …
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Trump's escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end?
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Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It's Down to Two. — The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration's attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms. — Copy — When Donald Trump took office eight months ago …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Scandal Covered in Tahini — Donald Trump fires a federal prosecutor for not persecuting his opponents quickly enough, then posts a public message to his attorney general telling her which of his former personal attorneys will be a better fit for the job.
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Media Matters for America
Washington Post:
Trump's new demands on Justice Department raise alarm among prosecutors
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Talking Points Memo, Law and Chaos and Wall Street Journal
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
It's Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
It's Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
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CBS News, Mediaite, The Week, Straight Arrow News, Washington Examiner and Election Law Blog
Financial Times:
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina's Javier Milei — Scott Bessent proposes support package during market volatility — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said “all options” are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility …
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Reuters, New York Sun, Washington Times and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Bessent Says All Options on Table to Help Milei's Argentina
Bessent Says All Options on Table to Help Milei's Argentina
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Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
Paul Krugman:
Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research! — H-1B visas: The latest front in a campaign of destruction — It often seems as if Donald Trump and his minions are engaged in a systematic campaign to undermine America's preeminence in the world.
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NBC News, Semafor and New York Times
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K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg:
US Student Visa Arrivals Fall to Four-Year Low, Led by Asia Drop
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Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
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Reuters, Financial Times, Townhall, Fortune, Reason, Daily Mail, NewsMax.com and Business Insider
Ethan Stark-Miller / AM New York:
EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani pulls planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show — Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian …
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Steven Levy / Wired:
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong — Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. — For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage … It's Republicans who are pushing a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, which they say will buy time for more negotiations on full-year spending bills and possibly an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.
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Bloomberg, Punchbowl News, Raw Story and Florida Politics
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump will never change, but Kirk's death shines a path to MAGA's future — President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk's killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country's divides. — Kirk's memorial service in Arizona on Sunday was a remarkable hourslong eulogy …
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New York Post:
Charlie Kirk's massive memorial was so much more than that — it was a message to the mainstream media
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New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Kirk's memorial signals a deeper embrace of evangelical politics on the right
Kirk's memorial signals a deeper embrace of evangelical politics on the right
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New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NBC News and Christian Science Monitor
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — (Editor's note: After we recorded, Trump bombed a third vessel in similarly lawless fashion.)
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Washington Examiner and Just Security
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Why Democrats can't match Trump's gerrymander push … “It's no doubt the case that it's harder for Democrats to do this right now than Republicans,” said All About Redistricting author and researcher Douglas Spencer, an expert in election law at the University of Colorado.
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New York Times and The Hill
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston
Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston
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The Gateway Pundit and Election Law Blog
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal — The president isn't just being accused of trying to weaponize federal law enforcement, he's now publicly flaunting his corrupt and authoritarian efforts. — Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered …
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Scripps News, Daily Kos, NewsNation, UPI, Bloomberg, The Mahablog, Mediaite, NBC News and The Daily Beast
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
A lot of powerful people just don't realize how unpopular Trump is — Last week, ABC/Disney canceled Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of television stations that carry the program.
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Semafor
Matt Egan / CNN:
The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege — The nation's top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.
Chance Phillips / Liberal Currents:
Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War — Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s. — “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more,” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji …
Sam Judy / The Barbed Wire:
She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She's Fighting for Those Still Inside. — On the evening of Feb. 11, 22-year-old Ward Sakeik sat on a plane from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami. She and her husband, Taahir Shaikh, were returning from their honeymoon, but he was sitting a few rows away.
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses — GIDDY UP — The president got medical ahead of his major autism announcement. — President Donald Trump unleashed a surreal rant about children being injected with “massive” vaccines similar to ones “you'd give to a horse.”
Debra Kamin / New York Times:
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws — Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise. — In one email, a Trump appointee at the Department of Housing …
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Turning Point USA Raised $389 Million Under Charlie Kirk—Including $13.1 Million From A Texas Foundation Overlooked Until Now — Topline — Turning Point USA raised nearly $400 million under Charlie Kirk, with support from billionaires and secretive donor-advised funds …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Hegseth's purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's campaign to oust service members celebrating or mocking the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk online has already seen at least eight people suspended or placed under investigation …
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Ben Terris / New York Magazine:
Top Goon — Kristi Noem is the face of Trump's police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle. Who really runs DHS? — On the morning of May 7, before making his way to Capitol Hill to testify in front of Congress, Cameron Hamilton, then the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, packed up his office.
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Trump administration cancels annual hunger report after enacting historic cuts to nation's safety net — The Trump administration is terminating the federal government's annual report on food insecurity in America, saying it had become “redundant, costly and politicized” and noting that …
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Washington Post, Letters from an American, The Hill, Washington Examiner, OutsideTheBeltway and New York Times
Jacob Rees-Mogg / Telegraph:
Trump for PM? It might just be possible... Britain needs a leader who can act like WD40 on the levers of power to lift the country from doldrums — A child born to a British mother, who was herself born in these Isles, normally has a right to British citizenship.
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