“Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, took the unusual step of ordering the National Security Agency to retract an intelligence report on Venezuela,” the New York Times reports.
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Fascist at Home, Fascist Abroad
John Ganz: “It used to be that one could roughly say that while paleocons were fascists at home, reimagining America as a white ethnostate, they were relatively more dovish abroad and skeptical of foreign entanglements, while the neocons were fascists abroad, favoring unabashed imperialism, foreign adventures, and unilateral wars, but broadly in support of center-right liberal democracy at home.”
“The current fusionism of the right is the worst of all possible worlds: fascist at home, fascist abroad.”
A Strategic Shutdown is a Terrible Idea
Matt Glassman: “The Democrats are well-positioned to win the House in 2026 and perhaps even make serious gains in the Senate. Thermostatic public opinion is real in America, and the public almost always punishes the president’s party in the midterms. Trump is incredibly unpopular and his party remains divided over a number of his major policies.”
“It can be hard in politics to do nothing, but if the Democrats strategically shut down the government, they will likely hurt themselves on the margin electorally, for no real potential upside.”
Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?
Robert Reich: “Under ordinary circumstances, people like you and me — who believe that government is essential for the common good — would fight like hell to keep the government funded beyond September 30.”
“But we are not in ordinary circumstances. The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath…”
“So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole fucking thing down.”
Quote of the Day
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
— Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissenting opinion.
A Shutdown Would Backfire on Democrats
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ICE Scraps Paperwork
“For more than 15 years, before they conducted any operation to arrest an immigrant in the United States, officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division have been required to fill out a form with details about their target — name, appearance, known addresses and employment, immigration history, any criminal history and more — and give it to a supervisor for approval,” NBC News reports.
“This year, in a sign of how the agency has moved from targeted enforcement to broad street sweeps under the Trump administration, that policy has been ended.”
Trump’s Epstein Letter Is the Final Test
Andrew Egger: “In a way, Donald Trump and his allies have spent their entire political lives preparing for this moment. The whole miserable decade of ‘alternative facts,’ of witch hunts, of flooding the zone with shit—it all amounted to a long, powerful education for his base. It’s a training in a certain kind of zen meditation, in which stories damaging to Trump pass from the eyes and ears directly out of the body without ever intersecting the brain. By now, the base has gotten in their 10,000 hours. They’ve become masters of the craft. They can perform all sorts of remarkable feats—the media-cope equivalent of lying on beds of nails while cinderblocks are smashed on their chests. These cinderblocks, they whisper serenely, are just a liberal plot. If I pay attention, the Democrats win.”
“This Epstein story might as well be their final test. They’ve clamored for years for more information about Epstein’s sexual-deviant associates—and here Trump is, wallowing in that muck of perversity, clear as day. Trump plainly thinks he’s got them well trained enough that he doesn’t even need to find a good cover story. They’re ready to excuse him all on their own.”
The New Symbol of the Brazilian Right
“Brazil’s Independence Day has become the moment for the country’s nationalist, right-wing movement to take to the streets, protest the left and hoist the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag,” the New York Times reports.
“This year, it carried a new banner.”
“An American flag the size of a basketball court unfurled over several lanes of São Paulo’s main avenue on Sunday, with demonstrators holding the flag aloft as they protested the expected conviction this week of former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of planning a coup.”
Trump Calls Epstein Letter a ‘Dead Issue’
President Trump declined to discuss his birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein released by the convicted sex trafficker’s estate, calling it a “dead issue,” NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue. I gave all comments to the staff. It’s a dead issue.”
Spanberger Maintains Solid Lead in Virginia
A new Virginia Commonwealth University poll shows Abigail Spanberger (D) ahead of Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in the race for governor, 49% to 40%.
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Trump Quietly Builds a National Voter Roll
“The Justice Department is compiling the largest set of national voter roll data it has ever collected, buttressing an effort by President Trump and his supporters to try to prove long-running, unsubstantiated claims that droves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally,” the New York Times reports.
Michigan Judge Throws Out Charges Against Fake Electors
“A Michigan judge threw out charges Tuesday against Republicans who claimed to be presidential electors for Donald Trump in a state he lost in the 2020 election,” the Washington Post reports.
“The dismissal of the case delivers a victory to Trump and his allies and a blow to the state’s Democratic attorney general and to those who have been calling for accountability for lies about the 2020 election.”
A Catch-All Message to Frame Republicans in 2026
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Job Growth Revisions Signal Shaky Economy
“The labor market created far fewer jobs than previously thought, according to a Labor Department report Tuesday that added to concerns both about the health of the economy and the state of data collection,” CNBC reports.
“Annual revisions to nonfarm payrolls data for the year prior to March 2025 showed a drop of 911,000 from the initial estimates, according to a preliminary report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
Washington Post: “The new annual revisions provide a more accurate snapshot of the labor market before new economic forces began to take hold — including higher tariffs and stronger immigration enforcement from the Trump administration. Those forces have lately weighed on the labor market, which could be heading for a downturn.”
Israeli Strike Targets Hamas Leadership in Qatar
“An Israeli strike targeted senior members of Hamas’s leadership on Tuesday in the Gulf nation of Qatar, which has been mediating to try to end the Gaza war,” the New York Times reports.
“Qatar condemned the attack, which Majed al-Ansari, the spokesman for the Qatari foreign ministry, said in a statement targeted the ‘residential headquarters’ where a number of senior Hamas politicians lived.”
Supreme Court’s Scant Explanations Cause Friction
“The Supreme Court’s scant explanation in recent emergency decisions backing President Trump is sparking increasing debate among lower judges — and even the justices themselves,” The Hill reports.
“The Supreme Court has issued emergency decisions without explanation well before Trump took office, and several justices have long defended them.”
A Shutdown Is the Least-Bad Option for Democrats
Jonathan Bernstein: “A shutdown is probably the least-bad option for the Democrats; they perhaps might consider a fixed-time shutdown followed by normal negotiations with an abnormal president; and while this is something of an opportunity for the party, no one should expect too much from a situation in which they really don’t have all that much leverage at all.”
“They should do what they can, but as long as Republicans have working majorities in both chambers, Congressional Democrats are just not the ones in a good position to defend the republic.”
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