“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to help advance a spin-off of TikTok in the United States to a group of mostly American investors, further pushing the influential app with 170 million U.S. users into the hands of some of Trump’s wealthiest allies,” the Washington Post reports.
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Justice Department Sues Six States Over Voter Data
“The Department of Justice sued six states, including Pennsylvania, the nation’s biggest presidential battleground, as the Trump administration escalates its efforts to obtain the personal and private information of voters,” the New York Times reports.
“The lawsuits, filed against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, follows similar suits that the department brought against Maine and Oregon, two Democratic-controlled states.”
“All of those states have rebuffed previous demands from the Justice Department to gain access to statewide voter rolls that include sensitive information, such as drivers license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.”
DNC Chair Tells Democrats to ‘Stop Bitching’
DNC Chair Ken Martin told NPR that recent special election results show Democrats are on the right track for 2026, and tells detractors to “stop bitching” and help the party’s efforts.
Lisa Cook’s Lawyers Say Trump Would ‘Eviscerate’ the Fed
Lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook argued that the Supreme Court should reject President Trump’s request that he be allowed to fire her pending the outcome of her lawsuit challenging her removal, CNBC reports.
From the filing: “The President’s stay application asks this Court to act on an emergency basis to eviscerate the independence of the Federal Reserve Board.”
Government Shutdown Seems Inevitable
“The U.S. government is hurtling toward a shutdown in a matter of days, with Republicans and Democrats digging in to starkly different positions and White House threats of more federal layoffs ratcheting up the stakes,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Justice Department Wants Charges Against John Bolton
“Senior Justice Department leaders are advocating for a charge against President Donald Trump’s former adviser-turned-critic John Bolton this week,” CNN reports.
“Currently, the prosecutors think they could bring a stronger case by the end of the year against Bolton over the mishandling of national security documents, rather than pushing for a charge at this time.”
GOP Lawmaker Gets Trump Endorsement for Redistricting
North Carolina state Sen. Phil Berger (R) is expected to accept an endorsement from President Trump in his 2026 primary challenge in exchange for redrawing congressional maps, WNCN reports.
Ken Griffin Slams Trump’s Corporate Deals
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin knocked the Trump administration for making deals with large corporations to avoid the full extent of its tariff policies, describing such agreements as anti-American, CNBC reports.
Said Griffin: “Is that our country, that we’re going to favor the big and the connected? That’s not the American story.”
He added: “When the state becomes involved in picking winners and losers, there’s only one way this game ends: All of us lose.”
Democrats Reach for an Open Senate Seat
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Diplomats Have Their Doubts About Trump
Politico: “The feeling among many foreign diplomats gathered in Turtle Bay this week is that Trump is often more interested in declaring victory than focusing on the unsexy diplomatic slog it takes to achieve it — a problem when U.S. support is key to negotiating the end to many conflicts.”
“For the countries actually mired in conflict, the struggle to keep his attention is existential.”
Trump Will Use Tariff Revenue to Bail Out Farmers
“President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will use tariff revenue to offer cash bailouts for farmers who are struggling with trade uncertainty and other economic headwinds,” Politico reports.
Said Trump: “We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit. So we’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.”
The MAGA Media Takeover
David Karpf: “American mass media has been transformed in these early months of President Donald Trump’s second administration. We’re about 35 weeks into a term that will last for 173 more, and in that time, we have seen a tech titan gut a once-great newspaper in an apparent act of capitulation to the commander in chief, government accounts gleefully spreading hateful memes on X (the far-right platform owned by a billionaire tech oligarch), a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against The New York Times (and quickly dismissed by the judge as “superfluous”), and, of course, the assault on free speech carried out by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman. Big things can happen very quickly.”
“Here is what seems to be next: TikTok’s U.S. operations are reportedly on the cusp of being sold to a group that includes Trump allies, led by yet another tech baron, Larry Ellison.”
Russian Warplanes Detected Near Alaska
U.S. fighter jets “scrambled to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska” yesterday, the AP reports.
“It’s the third time in about a month and the ninth time this year NORAD has reported such an incident involving Russian aircraft flying near Alaska.”
Ballot Access Battles Intensify Ahead of the Midterms
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George Santos Appeals to Trump
Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) wrote a letter to the South Shore Press asking President Trump to “intervene” and “help me escape” from prison.
Microsoft Disables Services for Israel’s Defense Ministry
“Microsoft has disabled certain services and subscriptions by Israel’s defense ministry, after finding evidence that it used the tech company’s cloud services to surveil Gaza citizens,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump Says He Doesn’t Know If Comey Will Be Indicted
President Trump said he didn’t know if former FBI Director James Comey would be indicted after issuing a direct call for Attorney General Pam Bondi to do so over the weekend, The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “I can only say that Comey’s a bad person, he’s a sick person. I think he’s a sick guy actually, he did terrible things at the FBI. But I don’t know, I have no idea what’s going to happen.”
Official Who Put Trump Bibles in Schools Quits
“Oklahoma’s superintendent, who has attracted national attention as he sought to install religion and rightwing viewpoints in Oklahoma schools, will resign to run a conservative education non-profit,” The Guardian reports.
“Ryan Walters, who has led public schools in Oklahoma since 2022, has in the past tried to put Donald Trump-branded Bibles into classrooms and to require teaching 2020 election conspiracies.”
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