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7:35 PM ET, May 11, 2026

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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won't Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats  —  Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week's state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms as Polls Turn Brutal  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 11 episode of The Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
Discussion: The Contrarian and Townhall
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Republican Judges Leave Democrats No Choice But To Escalate
Discussion: Politico, Slate and NewsMax.com
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
This is a crisis of democracy. What will Dems do about it?
New York Times:
Virginia Officials Ask Supreme Court to Restore Voting Map Drawn by Democrats
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:   Virginia Democrats appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to save new House maps
Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Supreme Court greenlights 11th-hour Alabama redistricting plan for 2026 election  —  The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year's congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun.
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court halts order for Alabama to use US House map with 2 largely Black districts  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year's midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans …
Steve Vladeck / One First:   227. “We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This”
New York Times:
Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million.  Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million.  —  The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the no-bid contract for repairs to the Lincoln Memorial pool late last week.  —  President Trump said that his handpicked contractor would charge only $1.8 million …
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Nancy Cordes / CBS News:
Trump says he aims to suspend gas tax “for a period of time”  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — President Trump said in a phone interview with CBS News Monday morning that he aims to suspend the federal gas tax “for a period of time.”  —  “I think it's a great idea,” the president said.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Complaints About Iran War Leaks Prompt Aggressive DOJ Investigations  —  President Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter …
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New York Times:
Iran Defends Its Demands After Trump's Rejection
Thomas Frank / Politico:
Trump picks Cameron Hamilton to run FEMA  —  The president nominated the man he fired as leader of the nation's disaster agency a year ago.  —  Cameron Hamilton testifies on Capitol Hill last year before he was fired as acting administrator of FEMA.  President Donald Trump nominated him Monday to lead the agency again.
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Gabriela Aoun Angueira / Associated Press:
Trump nominates Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA, a year after he was fired from the role
Discussion: NOTUS and The Gateway Pundit
The White House:
Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate  —  NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:  —  Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.  —  Cameron Hamilton, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
New York Times:
Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His New Silence on the Issue … Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said little publicly about vaccines in recent months, at the behest of a White House worried that his unpopular stance will hurt Republicans in November's midterm elections.
Discussion: Raw Story, MS NOW and HuffPost
Liam Scott / Washington Post:
Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds  —  About 1 in 4 say the correspondents' dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.  —  Summary  —  About 1 in 4 Americans …
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theRighting:
Traffic to Truth Social Soars 45% in April While Other News Websites Decline  —  Trump-Controlled Platform Vaults to #2 in Traffic for First Time Ever  —  Year-over-year (YOY) visits in April to the Trump-controlled Truth Social rose 45%, while almost every news website monitored by TheRighting experienced declines.
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
The problem(s) with the transportation secretary's tone-deaf reality series  —  Sean Duffy's return to reality programming isn't just a political mess, it also raises unavoidable ethical questions.  —  Just two weeks into Donald Trump's second term, Axios published a report noting …
Discussion: NBC News and HuffPost
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Gary Sernovitz / New York Times:
'Bill Cassidy Sold His Soul to the Devil, and He Didn't Get Anything for It'  —  On Saturday, we'll get some data on how yet another Trump Tragedy will end.  Recent polls put Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, in third place heading into the first round of the Republican primary here.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
People Want What They Want  —  1. The People  —  Sarah had Tim on The Focus Group this weekend.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Brandi Buchman / HuffPost:
Trump Gets 3 ‘Fully Functional’ Arcade Games Erected At D.C. War Memorial  —  See scenes from Secret Handshake's games depicting FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the pope and others.  —  Secret Handshake, the group responsible for erecting statues around Washington …
Discussion: Gizmodo, The Independent, MS NOW and Wired
Erica Orden / Politico:
Top federal prosecutor in New York committed misconduct, watchdog says … A request for comment left with Sarcone's office wasn't immediately returned.  —  Though the letter didn't disclose the conduct in question, a complaint by the watchdog organization, Campaign for Accountability …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Inside the wild fight to oust a top GOP Trump critic  —  The fight between Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and President Trump-backed rival Ed Gallrein is now the most expensive U.S. House primary in history — and it's one of the nastiest, too. … - One pro-Gallrein super PAC ad features …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians … It's a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.  —  Supporters of Israel made that point after the brutal sexual assaults against Israeli women during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Clears Way for More Beef Imports, Aiming to Bring Down Record-High Prices  —  The administration is suspending tariff-rate quotas on all beef-exporting nations; beef prices have climbed steadily since Trump took office  —  The Trump administration is opening the way to import more steaks …
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
The families going hungry because of Trump's food stamp cuts  —  Under President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle.  A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.
Discussion: New Republic and Al Jazeera
The Atlantic:
Stephen Miller in Retreat  —  Just hours before Stephen Miller arrived at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom on New Year's Eve—where he would welcome 2026 by dancing next to the soon-to-be-defenestrated homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, as the 1990s cultural relic Vanilla Ice performed—he won a great, though ultimately fleeting, victory.
Bloomberg:
Navy Plans to Buy 15 Costly Trump-Class Battleships by 2055  —  The US Navy said it plans to buy at least 15 new battleships endorsed by President Donald Trump over the next 30 years, according to its new shipbuilding plan, marking a deeper commitment than previously revealed to what could be the costliest warship ever produced.
Discussion: USNI News
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave  —  Deloitte and Zoom are among the employers reducing support for working parents, signaling a retreat from a “golden age of benefits.”  —  Not long ago, employers were competing over who could be most generous in providing family-friendly benefits …
 
 
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Trump nominates Kari Lake and Doug Mastriano to diplomatic posts
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Already Facing a Challenge, a Republican Is Accused of Self-Dealing
Discussion: NewsMax.com
NBC News:
The cage match is on for tickets to Trump's UFC fight at the White House
 Earlier Items: 
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns
Discussion: NOTUS, Jewish Insider and Reason
Associated Press:
Supreme Court temporarily extends women's access to a widely used abortion pill
Reuters:
Americans don't think Trump has explained Iran war goals, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
Discussion: The Hill and Forbes
Paul Krugman:
Will our Hyper-Gilded Age Usher in Genuine Populism?
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly”; iPhone is unchanged

New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku:
Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025

 
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