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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 …
Discussion: New York Times
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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 …
Discussion: The Contrarian
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Won't America's Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump?
C. Ryan Barber / Wall Street Journal:
Some Republicans Warn of Government Overreach on Free Speech
Discussion: Reuters and NBC News
Steven Beschloss / America, America:   Trump's Expanding Mafia State
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Scandal Covered in Tahini
Discussion: New York Sun
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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Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg:
Bessent Says All Options on Table to Help Milei's Argentina
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.
Discussion: NBC News, Semafor and New York Times
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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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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.)
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.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Republican Redistricting Is Sowing Chaos in Houston
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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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Trump ramps up retribution campaign with push for Bondi to pursue cases against his foes
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.”
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Libbey Dean / NewsNation:
Trump autism announcement to urge limited Tylenol use: Source
Ethan Stark-Miller / AM New York:
EXCLUSIVE |  Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian …
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.
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Fortune:   Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again
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 …
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.
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 …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook  —  Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.  —  “NO CLASS TODAY,” read the email.  It was the morning after the November 2024 presidential election.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
RFK Jr's war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids  —  The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing  —  To understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking the hepatitis B vaccine, look to the rhetoric coming …
NBC News:
White House bullish after a long string of Supreme Court victories  —  Officials are on a winning streak at the high court, in part due to a strategy of selecting cases most likely to find favor with the conservative majority.  —  WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump's aggressive use …
Discussion: One First and Wake Up To Politics
Dan Ruetenik / CBS News:
The night Jeffrey Epstein claimed his cellmate tried to kill him  —  Jeffrey Epstein lay in the fetal position on the floor of his jail cell, unresponsive, with an orange fabric noose tied around his neck.  The post-midnight quiet of the Metropolitan Correctional Center's secure housing unit …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
 
 
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Brian Bennett / Time:
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Hegseth's purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny
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Tanvi Misra / Mother Jones:
They've Won In Court, But ICE Is Still Detaining and Trying to Deport Them
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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Reuters:
Exclusive: South Korea's President Lee says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
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