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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Donald Trump Is Frightened  —  The media verdict is in: President Trump has “softened” his stance on his paramilitary war on Minneapolis.  He struck a “cooperative tone” in a call with Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz.  The administration hopes to “shift its strategy” on its ICE raids.
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
ICE's No. 1 Ally  —  The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.  —  On Saturday, the same day that federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street …
Discussion: The Indian Express and CBS News
New York Times:
Nervous Allies and Fox News: How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis  —  President Trump often blusters his way through a crisis, refusing to back down.  Minneapolis tested the limits of that strategy.  —  The crisis in Minneapolis was not dying down.
Discussion: The Hill, DCReport.org and BusinessDay
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Five Constitutional Amendments Trump Is Ignoring in Minnesota
Discussion: Reuters and The Marshall Project
Popular Information:
How legacy media fell for Trump's fake “pivot” in Minnesota
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Discussion: The Guardian
American Prospect:   Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents …
Discussion: The Bulwark and MPR News
New York Times:
Live Updates: 2 Federal Agents Who Shot Minneapolis Man Are Placed on Leave  —  The move was disclosed by an administration official as more Republican leaders broke with the White House's handling of the shooting.  U.S. Capitol Police were also investigating an attack on Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump's Response to Ilhan Omar Attack Is as Ugly as It Gets  —  President Trump used the Tuesday night spray attack against Representative Ilhan Omar to further berate the congresswoman—accusing her of spraying herself, although video of the incident clearly shows the contrary.  —  “No. I don't think about her.
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Man arrested after charging Rep. Ilhan Omar, spraying her with liquid during town hall: Police  —  The congresswoman continued her remarks after the incident.  —  A man is tackled after spraying an unknown substance at US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) during a town hall she was hosting …
New York Post:
Alleged Ilhan Omar attacker hinted at town hall plans in cryptic texts to neighbor: ‘I might get arrested’  —  The maniac who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a mystery liquid at a Minnesota town hall meeting had hinted in a cryptic text to a neighbor that he “might get arrested” at the event.
Jana Winter / Reuters:
FBI executing search warrant at Georgia election office related to 2020 vote, law enforcement official says  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Fox News:
FBI agents search election hub in Fulton County, Georgia  —  FIRST ON FOX: FBI agents were seen Wednesday carrying out a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that became ground zero for concerns and complaints about voter fraud beginning in 2020.
Martin Holmes / Yahoo Entertainment:
‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom  —  After CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she and her team would put a “huge emphasis on scoops,” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil responded by... interviewing his own mother.
Politico:
European leader spoke of shock at Trump's state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting  —  BRUSSELS ― Slovakia's prime minister told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president's state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the conversation said.
Discussion: Daily Mail and New Republic
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ally Shocked at President's ‘Psychological State’ in Private Meeting
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy.  It's Not the One You Think.  —  Whether or not money is the root of all evil, the root of our current American oligarchy is a single Supreme Court case.  That Supreme Court decision, Buckley v. Valeo, happens to turn 50 years old this week.
Discussion: Reason
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Next ‘No Kings’ march on the horizon with flagship event in the Twin Cities  —  The liberal grassroots group Indivisible simultaneously announced nationwide “Eye on ICE” trainings in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
Discussion: Fox News and Mother Jones
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New York Times:
Trump Threatens Iran With ‘Massive Armada’ and Presses a Set of Demands  —  U.S. and European officials say they have put three demands in front of the Iranians, including a permanent end to all enrichment of uranium.  —  President Trump sharply intensified his threats against Iran on Wednesday …
Discussion: NextDraft, Mediaite and Al Jazeera
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Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Threatens Iran Invasion In Post, Says Armada Is On Its Way
Reuters:
Ecuador says ICE agent was blocked from entering its Minneapolis consulate  —  The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said it had issued “a note of protest” to the U.S. embassy in Ecuador.  —  Listen to this article with a free account  —  Ecuador's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says an Immigration …
Adam Wren / Politico:
New polling memo urges Senate Dems to ‘play hardball’ on ICE … The memo was written by Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) and top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), for his organization the Searchlight Institute …
Discussion: Townhall
Kent Nishimura / The Times:
Trump hangs picture of himself with Putin in White House  —  After months of tension the Russian leader has taken pride of place above a photo of the US president and his granddaughter  —  President Trump's on-off relationship with President Putin is so volatile that he has veered from describing …
Discussion: The Hill and The Independent
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Fed holds key interest rate steady as economic view improves  —  The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to take a break from a recent run of interest rate cuts, as the central bank navigates questions about its independence and awaits a new leader.  —  Meeting market expectations …
John Sexton / HotAir:
2030 Census Predictions Look Good for GOP  —  At this point we've all heard about the battle for midterm redistricting taking place in Texas, California and several other states.  The outcome of that battle won't be known until November but already some experts are looking ahead at the next census …
Washington Post:
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’  —  The editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.  —  Bari Weiss has two jobs.
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Inside the Washington Post's existential meltdown.  —  It's been another terrible week for the Washington Post.  The newsroom is bracing for a devastating round of layoffs with rumors flying that some desks may be shuttered entirely.  Sportswriters were stunned to learn they would no longer …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the ADL  —  In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist, and extremist inputs and measured how each responded. … Across six top large language models …
NOTUS:
Kristi Noem Is Holding Up More Than $1 Billion in Hazard Mitigation Funds  —  Somewhere in the pile of projects awaiting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's personal signature sits a plan to protect the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, from devastating wildfire.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
In Minneapolis, far-right influencers frame ICE resistance as terrorism  —  Over the weekend on X, conservative influencer Cameron Higby began posting screen recordings from the encrypted messaging app Signal showing a list of hundreds of usernames in one massive group chat in Minnesota.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
Tesla bet big on Elon Musk.  His politics continue to haunt it.  —  More than a year after Musk joined the Trump administration, the electric vehicle company is still reeling from the damage of his political involvement.  —  When Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Catholic Church emerges as a bulwark of resistance … With an American Pope at its helm for the first time, the Vatican is positioned to be a unique foil for the president.  — “Leo is the pope for this moment,” said Vincent Miller, a theology professor at the University of Dayton …
Daniel Barnes / Politico:
Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings … The 2017 shooting of Bijan Ghaisar by two U.S. Park Police officers in a Northern Virginia neighborhood — and the protracted legal battles that followed — may be the best preview of what Minnesota officials …
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules  —  The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR.
Craig Unger:
Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short  —  In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis.  Know who bailed him out?  You did! … If you paid federal income taxes back during …
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman's Doorstep  —  In pursuit of illegal immigrants, federal agents are carrying the instruments of war, fine-tuned and perfected for killing at short range.  —  Images of the immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis and across the United States …
 
 
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ICE's Brutality Is Its Weakness
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