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Associated Press:
Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates  —  President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump at the Pearly Gates  —  Donald Trump posts a lot of election conspiracy theories online, and he posts a lot of racist memes, too.  But it's not every day that he makes an elections-conspiracy-theory post that is also insanely racist.  Yesterday, he shared a one-minute video alleging that mysterious …
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Posts Video Online Depicting Obamas as Apes
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump shares racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash
Lucy Campbell / The Guardian:
White House takes down Trump's racist video about Obamas after outrage over ‘vile, unhinged’ post - live
Brian Niemietz / Las Vegas Sun:
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar  —  Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue's customers.  —  Days after being removed from his post in Minneapolis …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump  —  Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.  —  The Trump administration has sought …
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:20 minutes ago
Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her  —  Federal prosecutors say the public release of text messages sent by the Border Patrol agent who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez last fall could only serve one purpose: to “sully” his reputation.
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade  —  A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department's nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning …
Discussion: Oregonian
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?  —  In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week's big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement.  Also, the anti-trans mob's latest target: tight clothing.  —  Pocket … Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a new book coming out.
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
CNN Data Guru Reveals Trump's Catastrophic ‘Failure’  —  LOSING FORMULA  —  The animated numbers wiz said Trump has a “formula that equals failure.”  —  CNN's data guru foresees that the president's “failure, failure, failure” will defeat the GOP in the midterms.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Faler / Politico:
Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts  —  The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’ … Also helping, though less important: The law's expanded breaks for businesses research and development expenses.
Molly Castle Work / MPR News:
Kidney recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says  —  A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a kidney transplant recipient who may not have access …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:25 minutes ago
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school  —  A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas.  Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public view.
Discussion: Washington Post and Truthout
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November … But a Democratic takeover of the Senate would be a political earthquake — and neuter his last two years in office. … - Operatives say they've reviewed polling that shows the GOP facing competitive Senate races not just in traditional battlegrounds …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lindsay Kornick / Fox News:
JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says  —  The vice president celebrated his mother's 10th year of sobriety in April  —  New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was right to have attempted to sell him for drugs in a Bluesky post on Wednesday.
Discussion: KTSA, IJR and Althouse
Punchbowl News:
Progressive Mejia on brink of N.J. upset  —  Analilia Mejia is on the precipice of a huge political upset and notching a major progressive victory in the New Jersey Democratic political machine's home turf.  —  Despite being heavily outspent by other candidates and groups …
Ryan Nobles / NBC News:
Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week  —  Members will be able to review the files on computers at DOJ beginning Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.  They can take notes, but cannot have electronic devices.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
Emily Burack / Town & Country:
International Olympic Committee Asks Fans to Not Boo JD Vance at the Opening Ceremony  —  The U.S. delegation will be led by the Vice President and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.  —  Leading the U.S. delegation in Milan for the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony will be Vice President JD Vance …
Wall Street Journal:
‘Ignore It.’ How the Elite Consoled Jeffrey Epstein Over His Crimes.  —  Newly released emails show Noam Chomsky, Richard Branson and Steve Bannon commiserated with Epstein about his legal troubles and bad press  —  Since Jeffrey Epstein's death, a parade of powerful people who associated …
Discussion: New York Post
Madina Touré / Politico:
Senate education chair blasts Mamdani over revocation of antisemitism executive orders … Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, argued the rollback of the IHRA-related order risks “misalignment” with federal antisemitism policy, which requires agencies to consider that definition of antisemitism when enforcing civil rights protections.
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Key participant in 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack that killed 4 Americans is in custody, Bondi says  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in their deaths …
Haley Britzky / CNN:25 minutes ago
Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006  —  Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is named on a flight manifest found among millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that have been released in recent months …
Julie K. Brown / The Epstein Files:
Understanding Epstein's Crimes  —  “I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an ‘offender’ ... It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Jeffrey Epstein told the New York Post in 2011.  —  Epstein compared raping a 13-year-old girl to stealing a bagel.  Let that sink in.
Paul Krugman:
American Decency Still Lives  —  If you want to accomplish anything in politics, you have to have realistic expectations about voters.  Ordinary people aren't deeply informed about policy or politics.  They have jobs to do, children to raise, lives to live.
NBC News:
How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets  —  Witnesses describe an expansion of biometric surveillance as immigration agents use facial scanning and photography to track targets and bystanders.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:15 minutes ago
Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. government to return three migrant families affected by the family separation policy during President Trump's …
New York Times:
Trump's Online Drugstore Opens for Business  —  TrumpRx is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy medicines.  But researchers who study drug pricing warned that many patients could pay too much if they use the site.  —  President Trump announced the debut of a website …
U.S. Department of State:
The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control  —  Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio  —  During the Cold War, few negotiations proved as complex as those between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit and reduce their vast nuclear arsenals.  They required trust between adversaries …
Politico:
Elections overhaul takes center stage in House as hard-right pressure mounts … The issue almost tanked a massive government funding package this week and threatened to extend a four-day partial government shutdown — until Trump intervened and ordered House Republicans to pass the bill without attaching the elections legislation.
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Inside Trump's Takeover of D.C.'s Golf Courses  —  In early spring, the founders of the National Links Trust met with a White House adviser to talk about the future of golf in Washington, D.C.  —  The White House adviser, William Doffermyre, who was set to become the solicitor general …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and E&E News
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections  —  The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.  —  The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system through intimidation, the distortion of information, financial corruption, and the dismantling of government offices.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Salon
 
 
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported   Find
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Jon Seidel / Chicago Sun Times:
Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her   Find
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NBC News:
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school   Find
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Haley Britzky / CNN:
Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006   Find
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it   Find
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Ryan Nobles / NBC News:
Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week   Find
 
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
What Americans actually want done about ICE
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New York Times:
‘Gang Stuff’ and ‘Illicit Trysts’: How Epstein Sought Leverage With the Wealthy
Discussion: Jacobin
Oren Cass / New York Times:
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let's Start Treating It That Way.
 

 
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