Dems win key messaging battles against Trump  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🌊 Subscribe to PN 🌊  —  Last week, Democrats achieved two impressive, consequential, and very different messaging victories over President Donald Trump.

U.S., Ukraine agree to change draft of peace plan that appeased Russia  —  Negotiators in Geneva had been working off an earlier proposal that bipartisan lawmakers say would further destabilize global security by rewarding Russia after its 2022 invasion.  —  KYIV — U.S. and Ukrainian officials …

The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay  —  Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.  —  In June, President Donald Trump's two older sons held an event at Trump Tower where they touted …

Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump's Family and Followers  —  In President Donald Trump's second term, crypto assets transformed his family's wealth.  Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital currencies.

Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries … - It's a tool that drew national attention when it propelled New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to a decisive primary win. … - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Joe Biden pollster Celinda Lake, the nonprofit FairVote Action …

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges … Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed that people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to a legal filing that was released on Friday.

194. Another Bad Week for the Presumption of Regularity  —  Three different flashpoints highlight how much the Trump administration has done, in such short order, to undermine its own litigation efforts and to damage—perhaps irreparably—DOJ's credibility.  —  Welcome back to “One First …

How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise  —  The News  —  President Donald Trump has strong views about news media and an interest in asserting them; he's long claimed credit for ending the careers of journalists and comedians.

Trump says he opposes lifting broadcast ownership cap, defying his FCC  —  President Trump said Sunday he “would not be happy” if the Federal Communications Commission lifted the national ownership cap that bars any station owner from collectively reaching more than 39% of U.S. households.

How Democrats are building their own digital media army … AUSTIN — Donald Trump's victory last November devastated the Democratic Party.  But it may have also invigorated its new media strategy.  —  As Trump and his allies prepared to retake the White House and supercharge its briefing room …

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82  —  A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression.  As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention.  —  Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin …

Insurrection Chic … Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?  —  The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?

Thousands of arrests by Trump's crime-fighting task force in Memphis strain crowded jail and courts  —  A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, has made thousands of arrests, compounding strains on the busy local court system and an already overcrowded jail …

Trump claims GOP has ‘never been so united,’ calls Greene and other Republicans ‘lowlifes’  —  President singles out Rand Paul, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene in Truth Social message  —  President Donald Trump made a passionate post claiming that the Republican Party is “so UNITED” …

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He's Right?  —  How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science  —  robert f. kennedy jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places.

The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump  —  While President Trump certainly has supporters who adore him and feel no need to justify that, he survives — and too often prospers — with the crucial help of voters who basically regard him as the lesser of evils.

How Bernie Sanders Is Weighing 2026 Endorsements  —  The populist senator looks for candidates with a similar progressive stripe.  — Copy  —  A Bernie Sanders endorsement doesn't always mean a primary win — some voters might even see it as a red flag.

Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children  —  Two men from North Texas have been charged over violent plans that included an armed coup on the Haitian island of Gonave, according to the Justice Department.  —  Gavin Weisenburg, 21 years old of Allen …