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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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The Contrarian
Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Gabbard Breaks With Trump in MAGA Free Speech Rebellion
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The Hill and Hartford Courant
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Trump's escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end?
Trump's escalating war on speech raises a chilling question: Where does it end?
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The Guardian, CNN and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
It's Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy — If you haven't had time yet to soak in the details of the stunning Tom Homan story that Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC broke over the weekend, hold on to your hats. I'd say you won't believe what you're about to read, but of course, you will.
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CBS News, Mediaite, The Week, Straight Arrow News, Washington Examiner and Election Law Blog
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Scandal Covered in Tahini
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Media Matters for America and New Jersey Online
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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Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Why Democrats can't match Trump's gerrymander push
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New York Times and The Hill
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Why Trump welcomes this government shutdown fight
Why Trump welcomes this government shutdown fight
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Townhall, Taxpayers for Common Sense, RedState, emptywheel, PoliticusUSA and Washington Times
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
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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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, more at Techmeme »
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.
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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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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MeidasTouch News, The Wrap, Variety, Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
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
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, Bloomberg, UPI, The Mahablog, Mediaite, NBC News and The Daily Beast
Brian Bennett / Time:
Trump Wants to Target Left-Wing Groups. Here's How He Might Do It … There is a long history of political players improperly deploying the IRS for political purposes, says Patrick G. Eddington, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “The IRS has been misused repeatedly …
Reuters:
Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon — U.S. considers entity-wide sanctions against ICC, sources say — ICC member states to oppose U.S. sanctions at U.N. meeting — ICC holds emergency meetings to prepare for U.S. sanctions
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.
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 …
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.”
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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NewsMax.com and The New World
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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Fox News, Michigan Advance and NPR
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.
Zack Colman / Politico:
Shell-shocked green movement searches for how to counter Trump … Whichever path they choose, green groups big and small are grappling with political and financial threats unlike any they've confronted in decades — at the same time that Trump is racing to dismantle decades-old regulations …
