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Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings
“The Trump administration can move forward with plans to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday. The decision could result in job…
The American Police State Is Here
Jonathan Last: “While most people spent the budget fight fixated on health care policy, I suspect that in a year we will consider this legislation to be the moment that…
Trump Will Stay Out of New York City Mayoral Race
“President Donald Trump said he aims to root out political corruption in New York City but he begged off making an endorsement in the mayor’s race on July 8,” USA…
Never Zohran Is Looking a Lot Like Never Trump
Patrick Ruffini: “An insurgent outsider surges to the front of the pack to defeat, among others, the scion of a political dynasty. In doing so, he takes positions considered unthinkable…
Trump Floats Taking Over Washington, D.C.
“President Trump revived the idea of taking over Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, saying the capital city should be run ‘flawlessly,’” Axios reports. Said Trump: “We could run D.C. We’d get…
GOP Lawmaker Won’t Challenge Josh Shapiro
“At a rally in Pittsburgh in May, Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) received the most powerful co-sign in Republican politics: an endorsement from President Donald Trump in the upcoming gubernatorial race,”…
How Insularity Defined the Last Stages of Biden’s Career
New York Times: “The effort by Joe Biden’s inner circle to limit access to him helps explain why it took him more than three weeks to drop his re-election bid…
Trump Claims He’ll Make ‘Changes’ to the Media
President Donald Trump raged at the media during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, ominously claiming that the media “ought to make a lot of changes” and adding that “changes are going to…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out…
China Says It Will Retaliate on Unfavorable Trade Deals
“Chinese state media warned the Trump administration Tuesday against striking deals that sideline China, after the president announced that Asian countries would face higher tariffs starting Aug. 1, unless other…
Trump Insists He Won’t Budge on New Tariff Deadline
President Trump said “no extensions will be granted” to his Aug. 1 tariff deadline in a Tuesday social media post, the latest bit of uncertainty over when his tariffs will…
Trump Frustrated by Jeffrey Epstein Questions
“President Trump expressed exasperation on Tuesday at questions about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after the Department of Justice announced Epstein did not have a ‘client list’ and confirmed he died…
House Democrats Demand Release of Epstein Files
“House Democrats on Tuesday demanded that the justice department release documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case that mentions or references Donald Trump, citing a comment by…
Trump is Daring MAGA to Oppose Him
Aaron Blake: “In recent days and weeks, the Trump administration has repeatedly bowed to the realities of governing. It’s done things – on Jeffrey Epstein, on Russia’s war in Ukraine,…
The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
Jason Zengerle: “There is much truth to the conventional wisdom that the biggest difference between the first and second Trump presidencies is that, in the second iteration, Mr. Trump is…
Trump’s New Masked Monster
Garrett Graff: “As someone who has covered federal law enforcement for the last two decades and has spent recent years writing both about the state of democracy today and authoring…
U.S. to Ban Chinese Purchases of Farmland
“U.S. Department of Agriculture chief Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will move to ban sales of farmland nationwide to Chinese buyers and other foreign adversaries, citing threats…
Trump to Visit Flood-Ravaged Texas
“President Donald Trump said he would visit Texas on Friday as the state reels after more than 100 people have been confirmed dead in last weekend’s devastating floods,” USA Today…
Congress Is Addicted to Megabills
Ron Brownstein: “Extraordinarily narrow and unstable House and Senate majorities have become routine in modern American politics. The frantic, final maneuvering last week before Congress approved President Donald Trump’s One…
Musk and Yang Have Discussed Third Party Threat
“As Elon Musk moves to create a third party to upend America’s political system, he’s spoken with one-time Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about the nascent effort,” Politico reports. Said…
