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Iona Cleave / Telegraph:
Mormon church gunman was Marine ‘who supported Trump’  —  Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, killed by police after ramming truck into Michigan church and opening fire on worshippers  —  The gunman who rammed his truck into a Mormon church and opened fire on worshippers was an Iraq war veteran who had previously shown support for Donald Trump.
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USA Today:
What we know about Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Michigan church shooting suspect  —  Joey Garrison Chris Quintana Dinah Voyles PulverUSA TODAY … Michigan law enforcement authorities identified 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan as the suspect who killed four people …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Says MAGA Shooter Just Hated Mormons  —  SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS  —  Trump's press secretary made the claim as officials continue to probe the motive.  —  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed on Monday that the Mormon church shooter “hated” members of the faith.
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House  —  GUNMAN'S LAIR  —  Authorities stressed that they have yet to identify a motive for the attack on the Mormon church amid social media speculation.  —  The Mormon Church shooter who killed at least four people in an attack on Sunday …
Meg Hilling / NewsNation:
Michigan church shooting leaves at least 4 dead, 8 injured
Chicago Sun Times:
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’  —  Dozens of federal agents took individuals into custody during a winding patrol Sunday through downtown Chicago, and a top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on “how they look.”
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New York Times:
'I'm From Here!':  U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump's Dragnet  —  As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.  —  U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody …
Brad Heath / Reuters:
Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations  — Federal drug prosecutions drop 10% in 2025 as agents focus on immigration  — Number of new cases being filed is lowest in decades, according to Reuters analysis
Discussion: New Republic
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats  —  Exclusive: Miller's homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say  —  Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has played a leading role in directing US strikes …
Discussion: New Republic and Salon
Axios:
Democrats turn up heat on Johnson over Epstein files vote delay … But she has to be sworn in first.  — Grijalva was elected in a landslide last Tuesday in the race to succeed her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), in Congress.  — She has accused Johnson of dragging …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson urges GOP unity as shutdown deadline nears
NBC News:
Government shutdown looms ahead of a high-stakes White House meeting
Robert Reich:
Again: Why isn't the media reporting on Trump's growing dementia?  —  Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that …
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Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Trump says US to impose 100% tariff on movies made outside the country  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood's global business model.  —  The step signals Trump's willingness …
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New Republic:
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President.  These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.  —  What if we told you that Donald Trump is a really unpopular president?  Would that surprise you?  It's not something you hear much in the media.  Yet in recent days new polls from the Associated Press, Gallup …
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The ADL Defended Elon Musk's ‘Awkward Gesture.’ Now He Calls It a Hate Group  —  “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group,” Musk tweeted Sunday.  —  READING TIME 4 MINUTES  —  Read Later Read Later  —  When Elon Musk gave two Nazi-style salutes the day President Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Independent
Politico:
Oregon sues to block Trump from deploying state's National Guard in Portland … “When the president and I spoke yesterday, I told him in very plain language there is no insurrection or threat to public safety that necessitates military intervention in Portland or any other city in our state,” Kotek said.
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
In Court Filings, Oregon Police Slam Trump's Portland Takeover
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Comey and the lessons of pre-capitulation  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🔥 Subscribe to PN 🔥  —  Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies
Discussion: To the Contrary and The Hill
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire  —  A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary  —  Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced …
Fox News:
Editorial overhaul: Washington Post's new opinion chief feels the weight of the challenges ahead … But that's the situation 33-year-old Adam O'Neal has found himself in at The Washington Post.  —  “I just feel a tremendous responsibility to get this right,” O'Neal told Fox News Digital …
pbump:
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left  —  It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration.  This is not really contestable and rarely seriously contested.
Discussion: Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Axios
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Netanyahu apologizes for Qatar strike, says it won't happen again  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Monday for the Israeli strikes on Doha that killed a Qatari service member and violated Qatari sovereignty.
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Politico:
‘Bibi is on his own island’: Trump will try to secure peace with an isolated Netanyahu
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Not Suicidal’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Posts Ominous ‘If Something Happens’ Message  —  The Republican lawmaker has been pushing for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted a message on social media over the weekend instructing followers to …
Associated Press:
Video gamer Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest-ever private equity buyout  —  Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $52.5 billion in what could become the largest buyout ever funded by private equity firms.
MSNBC:
Democratic voters are furious with party leaders.  And that disaffection has a cost.  —  The Trump era has put the Democratic Party in an unprecedented bind.  —  By Jill Lawrence, author of “The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock”
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
The Man Behind Trump's Push for an All-Powerful Presidency … Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, was preparing the Trump administration's 2026 budget proposal this spring when his staff got some surprising news: Elon Musk's cost-cutting team was unilaterally axing items that Mr. Vought had intended to keep.
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
The U.S. is not a Functional Democracy  —  We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.”  We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy.  Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat.  Last week, in case you had any doubt, the Trump regime went full-bore authoritarian.
Guy Chazan / Financial Times:
Stephen Miller: Donald Trump's ‘prime minister’ executes his plan to reshape America  —  Washington's most powerful unelected bureaucrat slashes immigration and threatens his political enemies  —  When Stephen Miller took to the podium at the memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk this month …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account … Two days after Charlie Kirk was killed, Suzanne Swierc, an employee at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., woke up to a cascade of missed calls, texts and voice mail messages from numbers she did not know.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
“No one is safe”: Democrats fear Trump will prosecute them next  —  Some congressional Democrats are going so far as to check their own personal finances after the indictment of James Comey, Axios has learned. … - “I've explored liability insurance,” another House Democrat said.
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Raw Story
Khaya Himmelman / Talking Points Memo:
DOJ Keeps Escalating Its Attempts to Get Ahold of States' Voter Rolls  —  A series of attempts by President Trump's Justice Department to access voter roll information is prompting increasing alarm from election administrators, who warn that the federal government may be laying the groundwork …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Robert Schmad / Washington Examiner:
New Jersey gubernatorial candidate took large donations from CCP-linked auto executives
Discussion: NewsMax.com and E&E News
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario  —  The November 2024 version of you would be shocked …
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Trump ally Orbán pushes back on pressure to halt Russian oil imports
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Politico and Bloomberg
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Trump bashes Zohran Mamdani after Eric Adams drops out of New York mayor's race
NBC News:
Sen. Chris Murphy sends funds to anti-Trump organizing groups
Bloomberg Law:
Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump
 Earlier Items: 
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
One mystery, and two looming disasters, in the next Supreme Court term
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Matt Bruenig / The Argument:
The problem with #BossBabe leftism
Felicia Schwartz / Politico:
An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel
Discussion: Washington Post
Jesse Coburn / ProPublica:
Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan
Stephen Mcgrath / Associated Press:
Moldova's pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups
 

 
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