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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Not Paying Attention to His Own War  —  As the Iran crisis spirals back out of control, it's a big day for the president of the United States: His official schedule suggests he will have “Executive Time” all morning until 1:30 p.m., followed by a ninety-minute policy meeting and a closed-press session to sign executive orders.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Kash Patel files defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic … “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” The Atlantic said.  —  The article, citing about two dozen anonymous sources, details Patel's alleged …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking
Jana Winter / Reuters:
FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences
Liz Landers / PBS NewsHour:
Trump tells PBS News that ‘lots of bombs start going off’ if Iran ceasefire expires  —  President Donald Trump told PBS News on Monday morning that if the ceasefire with Iran expires Tuesday, “then lots of bombs start going off.”  —  The statement came during a phone call …
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New York Post:
JD Vance, US delegation to land in Islamabad within hours as Trump tells The Post: 'Nobody's playing games'
Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed:
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Concerns  —  Fed up with the state's censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.  —  Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump says energy secretary ‘totally wrong’ on gas prices not dropping to $3 until next year  —  President Trump told The Hill on Monday that he disagreed with Energy Secretary Chris Wright's assessment that gas prices may not drop below $3 per gallon until next year.  —  “No, I think he's wrong on that.
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New York Times:
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Vows Retaliation for U.S. Attack on Cargo Ship
Politico:
Trump's inconvenient truth
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars … When Infowars, the website founded by the right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones, came up for sale two years ago, an unlikely suitor stepped up.  The Onion, a satirical news outlet, planned to convert the site into a parody of itself.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?  —  Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump's presidential library, a planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
NOTUS:
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Has Resigned  —  A Labor Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  — Copy  —  Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Noah Hawley / The Atlantic:
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat  —  For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.  —  at the end of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis's oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents  —  Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether Catholic preschools …
Discussion: Fox News, SCOTUSblog and Joe.My.God.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court takes up Catholic objection to Colorado's preschool program
Kadia Goba / NOTUS:
Cory Mills Is Weighing an Expulsion Resolution Against Nancy Mace  —  The House is facing a deluge of tit-for-tat expulsion resolutions.  — Copy  —  Tag.  You're it.  —  Embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills is weighing an expulsion resolution against Rep. Nancy Mace, and he has already drafted the text, NOTUS has learned.
Nick Marsh / BBC:
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency  —  Throughout US President Donald Trump's second term in office, traders have been betting millions of dollars just before he makes major announcements.  —  The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto  —  It is not enough for the broligarchy to have untold wealth.  They also wanted political power.  Now they have that.  And they want to be esteemed as philosopher kings, while simultaneously shielded from criticism.  Well, that's a taller order.
Discussion: Techdirt, Reason, Wonkette and Futurism
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Cooperating witnesses in criminal probe of ex-CIA Director Brennan subpoenaed to testify before grand jury, sources say  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Former senior intelligence and FBI officials who are cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department's criminal probe into whether former CIA …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why a Democratic Senate, Once Unthinkable, Is a Real Possibility  —  Helped by a favorable national environment and strong candidate recruitment, Democrats are tied or ahead in four Republican-held seats, polls show.  —  At the start of the 2026 election cycle, the Senate looked far out of reach for the Democrats.
New York Times:
Trump Administration to Begin Refunding $166 Billion in Tariffs  —  The government will debut a system to repay importers two months after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs at the heart of the president's trade policy.  —  When President Trump unveiled his sprawling global tariffs last spring …
Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post:
House Ethics panel makes rare request for information on sexual misconduct  —  The rare move comes after recent scandals raised questions from lawmakers and others about how Congress handles investigations involving its members.  —  Summary  —  The House Ethics Committee …
Paul Krugman:
The Harm from Hormuz  —  Why we should still fear a global slump from Trump's Iran debacle  —  Another week, another false all-clear.  —  The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.  It appears increasingly obvious that the 20 percent of world oil supply that normally flows through it to world markets …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Brynn Tannehill / The Bulwark:
Ukraine's Second Miracle Year  —  The war isn't won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.  —  THE END OF 2024 LOOKED GRIM FOR UKRAINE: President Trump was promising no further aid, and Hungary under Viktor Orbán was vowing to block any further European Union financial support.
Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
From Res Publica to the United States of Trump  —  This president's vulgar self-glorification is revolting to a self-governing people and must not stand  —  The cult of personality has always been central to Trumpism.  Now it is the official policy of the United States government.
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?  —  The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.  —  Prego, the pasta sauce company, is getting into hardware …
Discussion: The Verge
Damien Cave / New York Times:
The Iran War Sent Shock Waves Through Asia That Are Likely to Spread  —  The Asia-Pacific was hit hard and quick by the war in Iran and its energy bottlenecks.  Scenes of crisis there indicate that problems are multiplying and spreading.  —  When the war in Iran started on Feb. 28 …
Washington Post:
He sat atop an extremist empire.  She thought he needed money. … Summary  —  Kristine Kasubienski's donation appeared on viewers' screens four hours into the live stream of Nick Fuentes, the far-right influencer she often called her second son.  —  “I pray DAILY for your safety,” …
Carrie Hodgin / WXII-TV:
Winston-Salem park mass shooting: Two people killed, suspects identified and located as two schools remain on secure lockdown  —  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —  Update: The Winston-Salem Police Department will hold a live news conference on Monday at 4 p.m. WXII 12 News will livestream it here.
NBC News:
FBI will look for connections to deaths and disappearances of scientists  —  Online speculation has grown over the seemingly unrelated deaths or disappearances since 2022 of at least 10 scientists and government workers who at some point may have worked with sensitive information.
Bloomberg:
Trump Invokes Wartime Powers to Fund New Energy Projects  —  President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to provide federal funds for a wide range of energy projects, as his administration faces pressure to help curb rising oil and gas costs.  —  Trump on Monday signed five …
Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way  —  Some 60 years ago, American legislators set out to tackle a problem that was driving employment and education rates down, driving health care and welfare costs up and making American family life significantly less stable …
Discussion: Throughline
Scott Stump / NBC News:
Jenna Bush Hager sits down with former Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden  —  The former presidents shared a message for the American people ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary in July.  —  Each of the four former U.S. presidents — Joe Biden, 83; Barack Obama …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The media blackout of Jared Kushner's historic, ongoing corruption scandal  —  As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law …
Discussion: Slate
 
 
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