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Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest - using photos of South America — A federal judge had blocked Trump's request to deploy California national guard to Portland — Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California's national guard on the streets of Portland …
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Raw Story, Associated Press and New Republic
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NPR:
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained — President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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New Republic:
Trump's Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss — Over the weekend, a federal judge blocked President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland. The judge blocked Trump from deploying the California National Guard to Oregon too.
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Fox News, CBS News and Associated Press
Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
No, Trump Can't Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants — President Trump's escalating efforts to deploy armed troops onto the streets of several American cities run by Democratic officials are raising a question courts have been all but completely able to avoid since the Constitution was drafted …
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Axios, New Republic, The Portland Tribune, Esquire and JURISTnews
Robert Reich:
Trump's Plan — The direction we're going is either martial law or civil war.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Portland And Beyond — This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act …
Portland And Beyond — This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act …
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The Preamble, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, CNN and New York Sun
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
CHICAGO'S ‘ICE-FREE ZONE.’ One of the main themes of the second Trump administration …
CHICAGO'S ‘ICE-FREE ZONE.’ One of the main themes of the second Trump administration …
Reuters:
Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
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The Hill, NBC News, New York Times, Washington Examiner, twitchy.com, Washington Times, The Independent and Al Jazeera
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, The Independent, Newsweek, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Salon, UPI, The Guardian, ABC7, Mediaite, New Republic and HuffPost
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay — Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
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Fox News, The Hill, New York Times, NOTUS, Defense One, Business Insider, Politico, NBC News, HotAir, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, al.com, The Independent, IJR, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Raw Story, PEER.org, The Daily Signal and Associated Press
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GovExec.com:
OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance — An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown
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The Hill, Newsweek, Mediaite and NewsMax.com
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Democrats are winning the shutdown — 🎉 It's PN's fourth anniversary and we're commemorating it this week by offering paid subscriptions at a special discounted price. Click the button below to take advantage and support our work ⬇️ — 🥳 PN anniversary special offer 🥳
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Straight Arrow News and The Hill
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory — If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco. — ∙ Paid — For a few weeks in early 2021, when Joe Biden was popular and commanded narrow majorities …
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twitchy.com and Associated Press
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Peter Navarro, Trump's embattled trade adviser, on hand for Bondi's Hill hearing
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NPR, Raw Story, Washington Times, The Guardian and Associated Press
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Pam Bondi and Senate Democrats spar amid Trump's troop deployments
Pam Bondi and Senate Democrats spar amid Trump's troop deployments
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NewsNation, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Hill, ABC News, RedState, Daily Mail, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Mediaite, New Republic, CBS News and PBS NewsHour
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Flight Delays Begin as Air Traffic Staffing Shortages Worsen — The delays came just hours after the transportation secretary warned that flying could be disrupted by the government shutdown. — Flights into airports serving New York, Denver and the Los Angeles area were delayed on Monday night …
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Jory Rand / ABC7:
Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, CBS News, RedState, New York Sun, Fortune, New Jersey Online, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, New York Post, UPI and The Japan Times
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Staffing issues see U.S. flights delayed as shutdown persists
Staffing issues see U.S. flights delayed as shutdown persists
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The Hill, NBC News, CBS News, ABC7, Associated Press, Fox News, Mercury News, UPI, The Independent, Fox Business, NewsNation, Federal News Network, 77 WABC, New Jersey Online, Gizmodo and New York Times
David Struett / Chicago Sun Times:
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol says agent said, ‘Do something b— ’ — Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b—
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The Guardian, Raw Story, naked capitalism, emptywheel, Chicago Tribune and The Hill
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate votes for fifth time against advancing legislation to end the shutdown … But Monday evening, Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada — alongside Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats — were once again …
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Punchbowl News, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Reuters and Washington Post
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Nnamdi Egwuonwu / MSNBC:
Trump turned the shutdown into spectacle. That's not helping him.
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Associated Press and NPR
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Greene ‘disgusted’ if health care tax credits expire and premiums double — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) signaled a willingness to negotiate with Democrats on their health care demands, breaking with her party on an issue at the core of the government shutdown standoff.
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NBC News, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, New Jersey Online, The Guardian, New Republic, Forbes, Salon, NPR, Mediaite and Fox News
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Mike Johnson brushes off Marjorie Taylor Greene's health care attack
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LifeNews.com, Speaker of the House …, New Republic, The Hill and NewsMax.com
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
Mike Johnson faces bipartisan heat over delayed vote on Epstein files
Mike Johnson faces bipartisan heat over delayed vote on Epstein files
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El País, NBC News, New Republic, Daily Kos, MeidasTouch News, Deseret News and New Jersey Online
MSNBC:
Top prosecutor is refusing to charge New York AG despite Trump pressure — A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James. — A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges …
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The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, All Rise News, twitchy.com, Above the Law, Blaze Media, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, New York Sun, RedState, Daily Mail, NewsMax.com, Raw Story, Newsweek and Lawfare
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants — Donald Trump seems determined to keep on practicing a radical regime of mental hygiene when it comes to the Epstein files controversy, as he goes on pretending that not a single fact about the months-long scandal has yet lodged in his brain.
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New York Post, Newsweek and Metro.co.uk
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs challenge to bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids — Kaley Chiles, a Christian talk therapist in Colorado, argues that the state's ban violates her rights under the Constitution's First Amendment. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday considers …
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New York Times, Associated Press, CBS News, UPI, Advocate, Public Discourse, The Independent, Mother Jones, Deseret News, STAT, Truthout, NewsNation, ABC News, The 19th, Washington Post and The Guardian
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
The Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender care for minors during the last term.
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CNN, The Hill, CBS News, The Colorado Sun, NPR and Washington Examiner
Malgorzata Wiatros-Motyka / Ember:
Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 — Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal's share in the global electricity mix. — Senior Electricity Analyst — Ember … Highlights — 109% — Solar and wind growth exceeded global demand growth in the first half of 2025
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Axios, Semafor, Heatmap News and Fortune
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Justin Rowlatt / BBC:
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
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The Guardian and Semafor
Christopher Caldwell / New York Times:
That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good — When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of senior military officers worldwide to Quantico, Va., last week, fears quite naturally arose. Was a major military adventure afoot? If not, then why such a wasteful displacement?
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The Boston Globe
Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood — Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit — Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he …
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Politico, HuffPost, The New World, The Daily Sceptic and Metro.co.uk
Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post:
ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers — Agency's entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees and the administration's promise that its deportation push remains unchanged.
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NPR
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
No more “owning the libs”: Ramaswamy pushes sharp break for GOP — Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday plans to call on the GOP to embrace a less overtly belligerent and oppositional posture, Axios has learned. … - According to his prepared remarks …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Washington Post:
Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. — We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We're doing that again today. — The writers are all former U.S. surgeons general. — As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican …
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime — From ICE Gestapo raids to vaccines, from economic policy to Epstein files, the Administration's priorities are summed up perfectly in those three words. #FTK. — I. #FTK, Origin Story: — The ICE Gestapo Invades Chicago
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Daily Kos
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations — Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence — A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats …
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New Jersey Online, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Post Millennial and The Gateway Pundit
