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Aggressive Security Crackdown in Iran
Iran’s generals have tightened their grip on the country in the weeks after the Israeli air strikes, The Telegraph reports. Save to Favorites
House Won’t Vote on Epstein Files This Week
“Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for…
The Game Changer
This will be a must-read: The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight by Jon Ralston. “He was, in his own words, willing…
California Could Lose Four Seats in Next Redistricting
“California could lose as many as four congressional seats in the 2030 apportionment,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “A recent report from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee choes earlier forecasts…
Chip Roy Wants an Exception for Immigrant He Knows
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who enthusiastically backs President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, told NOTUS he’s “going to bat for” one immigrant that he knows who was arrested because he deemed…
Judge Will Seal Ken Paxton’s Divorce Records
The judge currently handling Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) divorce case has decided to shield the records in the case from public disclosure, KUTX reports. Save to Favorites
Marjorie Taylor Greene Sends Warning to Trump
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “appeared to send a pointed message to President Donald Trump: If the Department of Justice does not release more information on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,…
Trump Seeks to Upend Civil Service Protections
“The Trump administration is formally arguing before a federal oversight body that it has unilateral authority to fire many federal employees at any time, seeking to unwind decades of precedent…
Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs
New York Times: “Mr. Trump has fired or demoted more than 20 inspectors general or acting inspectors general since he took office six months ago, hobbling offices that for years…
U.S. to Stop Practice of Assessing Fairness of Elections
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to “stop commenting on the fairness, integrity and legitimacy of foreign elections, a major shift away from a decadeslong practice of…
Migrants Made to ‘Eat Like Dogs’
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a…
Epstein Scandal Still Gripping the Public
A White House official tried to wave away the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, telling Politico this morning that “no one outside the Beltway is talking about it anymore.” But Brian Stelter…
NASA Employees Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
A public letter from NASA employees on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration, the New York Times reports….
Will Democrats Use Their Only Leverage in Spending Fight?
Congress is barreling toward a September 30 deadline to fund the government, and this week is shaping up to be a critical moment in the appropriations battle. While all twelve…
Trump Team Frets About Netanyahu
“As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control,” Axios reports. Said one White House…
Trump Calls for Prosecution of Adam Schiff
President Trump went after Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), attacking the former lead House impeachment manager as a “thief” and sharing an apparent tax document to make his case that Schiff…
Lindsey Graham Warns Putin
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) warned Russian president Vladimir Putin on Fox News that President Trump is about to put a “whoopin’ on your ass.” Said Graham: “The game has changed…
Dershowitz Wants Immunity for Ghislaine Maxwell
Former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz — who the Wall Street Journal also said sent Jeffrey Epstein a drawing for his 50th birthday — told Fox News that it’s unlikely that…
Travelers to U.S. Must Now Pay $250 ‘Visa Integrity Fee’
Visitors to the United States will need to pay a “visa integrity fee,” according to a provision of the Trump administration’s recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act, CNBC reports….
Minneapolis Democrats Pick Democratic Socialist
Minneapolis Democrats chose state Sen. Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, as their nominee in this year’s mayoral election, Axios reports. “The young democratic socialist lawmaker’s victory over two-term sitting mayor…
