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Politico:
Platner campaign quietly polls potential replacements as pressure mounts  —  Democratic Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner's team quietly fielded a poll Tuesday gauging the strength of people who could replace him on the ballot, as pressure mounts for him to drop out of the race.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, NOTUS and NBC News
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Patrick Dempsey / Portland Press-Herald:
Why I'm not running for US Senate  —  No matter who you are, service begins with a simple question: How can I make someone else's life a little better?  —  4 min readFont size +  —  Patrick Dempsey is an actor, producer, activist and Founder of The Dempsey Center in Maine …
New York Times:
Democrats Grow Frustrated as Platner Resists Dropping Out Quickly
CNN:
Platner's campaign trying to navigate exit from consequential Maine race, sources say
Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:
Republicans tie battleground Democrats to Graham Platner
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
He Lived Here for 35 Years.  Put Three Kids in College.  ICE Killed Him.  —  LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES thirty-five years ago—a few years too late to benefit from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, popularly known as the “Reagan amnesty.”  He worked in construction.
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Associated Press:
Son demands independent probe after father shot and killed by ICE officer in Houston  —  A Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston had no criminal convictions during his decades living in the U.S. and was driving a crew to a homebuilding site …
Politico:
Trump yelled at NATO leaders in public.  In private, it was a different story. … President Donald Trump spent his first hours at the NATO summit publicly bashing the alliance and reciting a list of grievances that had allies fearing the worst.  —  Then he went behind closed doors and changed his tune.
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Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:
Trump Erupts at NATO Summit—Cuts Off Trade With Spain, Declares Iran Deal “Over,” Appears Visibly Confused Throughout  —  Good morning.  There's already a lot of news.  Trump is erupting at the NATO summit in Turkey, calling the Iran deal “over,” cutting off all trade with Spain while calling the country …
Paul Krugman:
The Pain in Spain is Mainly in Trump's Brain
Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and Euronews
Politico:
Trump orders a halt to US trade with Spain
Michelle Del Rey / USA Today:
White House launches 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations in this region  —  The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.  —  The White House announced the initiative on July 7 on X with a video of customers thanking President Donald Trump for lowering gas prices.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Max Rego / The Hill:
White House launching dozens of ‘Freedom Fuel’ gas stations
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War  —  The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.  —  If Donald Trump ever had any control over the war he started with Iran, he's lost it.  The Iranians are now setting the terms of this conflict, and routinely humiliating the American president.
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Associated Press:
US carries out another round of strikes on Iran after Trump says ceasefire is over  —  The U.S. carried out another round of strikes on Iran on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the ceasefire.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Hugh Hewitt's only Iran principle is that Trump is always right
Discussion: CBS News
David E. Sanger / New York Times:   As Iran Cease-Fire Frays, Trump Faces a Muddled War and Unpalatable Options
Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
Trump returning to US on old Air Force One amid Iran threats  —  President Trump confirmed Wednesday that he's taking the old Air Force One back to the U.S. from Turkey but deflected questions about security concerns regarding the new Qatari-donated model.  —  Trump said the new $400 billion Air Force …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Stops in UK to Switch Air Force One Planes on Trip Home  —  President Donald Trump's return to the US from the NATO summit in Turkey took a detour when he switched Air Force One planes at a military base in the United Kingdom.  —  Trump had traveled to Ankara, Turkey …
Thomas Frank / Politico:
Trump denies disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states  —  President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he's injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.
Associated Press:
Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M after jury found Trump sexually abused and defamed her  —  E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became president and defamed …
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Kyle Mantyla / People For:
Dale Partridge Calls For The Return Of ‘European Christian Colonization Of African Nations’  —  For the last several weeks, far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge has been preaching on the Curse of Ham, a controversial theological theory long used to justify slavery and racism.
Justin Baragona / Zeteo:
Meet Fox's Latest Favorite Primetime Guest: A Democratic Senator  —  Trump's fav cable network can't get enough of the Dem it once called a ‘giant walking vegetable.’ Plus, ‘60 Minutes’ is still getting Bari'd, and a new TDS is taking over the MAGA world.  —  ∙ Paid
Tim Cocks / Reuters:
Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says  —  Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a policy of sending them to third countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case said.
Evelyn Elliott / The Daily Caller:
College Soccer Player Allegedly Killed In Crash Caused By Truck Driver Who Failed English Test  —  A University of Massachusetts Lowell men's soccer goalkeeper died Sunday after a 42-year-old allegedly rear-ended his car with a truck.  —  The incident happened at approximately 1:30 a.m …
Discussion: RedState and The Post Millennial
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Associated Press:
Former Wisconsin judge spared prison for obstructing ICE arrest of Mexican immigrant  —  Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
US judge throws out Trump's $3.8bn defamation lawsuit against Washington Post  —  Suit stemmed from 2023 Post article that said bank with ties to the porn industry helped fund Trump's media operation  —  A federal judge in Florida has thrown out Donald Trump's $3.8bn defamation lawsuit …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates  —  This morning on Bluesky Politico's Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others a piece by Matt Yglesias in which, he said, Matt “says progressive Dems [are] too obsessed with fighting Trump rather than winning in marginal states/districts …
Discussion: Slow Boring
Joey Rather / The Hill:
Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town  —  BARRACKVILLE, W.Va. (WBOY) — A small West Virginia town has lost its entire police department.  —  In a Facebook post on Tuesday, the Barrackville Police Department announced that, effective immediately …
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
Democrats Became Great by Fighting the Left  —  In the DSA era, liberals need to remember their history and fight for their values.  —  The democratic party is moving left.  Its most dynamic leaders over the past few years have been Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
 
 
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