Washington Post: “The Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space and banned journalists from accessing it to meet with the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.”
How Trump Made Penn Quake in Its Boots
Jordan Heller: “Fearful of being labeled antisemitic, the University of Pennsylvania has acquiesced to the demands of a punitive Trump administration and vindictive donors—and it’s chilling speech both inside and outside the classroom.”
GOP Candidate Won’t Say How Many People He’s Killed
Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx sat down for an interview with KUSA’s Kyle Clark:
CLARK: Your claim that your abusive stepfather forced you to kill a man when you were seven years old — is that the only person you’ve ever killed?
MARX: Well, I would say… as a child, yes, without question, but I’ve been in other situations where possibly people or persons died as a result of me defending myself in other countries.
CLARK: Do you think that you’ve killed people as an adult?
MARX: Does it matter? I don’t think that’s important. It’s actually kind of — it’s an odd question to me.
Judges Call Out Justice Department Lawyers
New York Times: “The government lawyers whose honesty the judges have called into question are a mix of career civil servants, political appointees and newcomers brought in as the Justice Department makes a public hiring push to fill its depleted ranks. Their missteps in court come as the department’s leadership takes an unusually combative tone with judges who rule against them, and department lawyers try to balance judges’ demands against the often stubborn posture of the executive-branch clients they represent.”
“But regardless, an increasing number of judges appear to be questioning the longtime assumption that Justice Department lawyers can be taken at their word, part of the ‘presumption of regularity’ that experts say allows federal courts to operate swiftly and smoothly.”
Janet Mills Says She’s Still on the Ballot
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) “is reminding voters that her name is still on the ballot in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
Said Mills: “People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out’ but I simply suspended active campaigning. I am still on the ballot.”
Trump Says Iran Talks Back On
President Trump claimed peace talks with Iran are continuing again “at a rapid pace.”
Flashback Quote of the Day
“If you’re a conservative watching Democrats talk themselves into supporting Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat who until recently wore what sure looked like a Totenkopf tattoo (he covered it up after it became a political embarrassment), you’re probably experiencing déjà vu. To a lesser but still familiar degree, I’m seeing Democrats engage in the same process of absurd accommodation and justification that Republicans use to excuse their deep love for Trump.”
— David French, writing in the New York Times early last month.
‘She’s Murdering 60 Minutes’
Oliver Darcy: “On Monday morning, the staff of ’60 Minutes’ convened for an introductory meeting with Bari Weiss’ handpicked new executive producer of the program, Nick Bilton. Bilton, the technology journalist who lacks both broadcast news and managerial experience, opened the meeting by reading from some prepared notes. He didn’t get far…”
“In the extraordinary back and forth, an impassioned Pelley relentlessly pressed Bilton on Weiss’ intentions for the storied newsmagazine, pointed out that he has no relevant experience to helm television’s most prestigious news program, grilled Bilton on what he knew about the firings, and more.”
Said Bilton, according to audio of the meeting: “Bari loves this institution. She loves ’60 Minutes.'”
Pelley countered: “She’s murdering ’60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she’s doing exactly that.”
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Trump Says He ‘Doesn’t Care’ If Iran Negotiations Are Off
President Trump told CNBC he doesn’t care about the possible collapse of peace negotiations with Iran: “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.”
He added: “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less.”
White House Not Budging on ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund
CNN: “Many Senate Republican remain furious at the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund and are refusing to advance a separate bill to fund immigration enforcement until they are satisfied that payouts won’t go to people who assaulted police during the January attack on the US Capitol and other guardrails are put in place.”
“Yet despite vocal public complaints from those GOP senators over the last two weeks, the White House has yet to offer a serious solution to their concerns, according to two Republican aides who say the immigration funding will remain stalled until it does.”
Supreme Court Sides With Another Death Row Inmate
CNN: “The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a death row inmate in Florida who was blocked from challenging his sentence even though a lower court acknowledged a key witness lied on stand, marking the third time the conservative high court has backed an inmate sentenced to death in recent weeks.”
Tom Kean Insists He’s Still Running for Re-Election
Associated Press: “Now Kean has missed more than 100 votes in Congress, and he has not been spotted in Washington or in his district. It is a political mystery with potentially national consequences: Kean represents a district that is among Democrats’ top targets as they try to retake control of Congress.”
“Kean’s office insists he is still running for reelection. He is not facing any challengers in Tuesday’s primary while several Democrats are running for their party’s nomination.”
Trump Was Not Told Iran Would Halt Negotiations
President Trump told NBC News he had not been informed of Iran’s decision to suspend peace negotiations ahead of time.
Said Trump: “It’s an appropriate thing to say, because they’re better negotiators than they are fighters. But they haven’t informed us of that.”
He added: “It doesn’t mean we’re going to go and start dropping bombs all over there. We’ll keep the blockade.”
Mike Johnson meets with Trump
Politico: “Speaker Mike Johnson is with President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday morning, meeting about the stuck GOP immigration enforcement bill.”
Jill Biden Admits She Had to Lie After Debate
Former first lady Jill Biden told NBC News she felt she “had to support” President Joe Biden publicly in the wake of his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, despite acknowledging now that she feared her husband might have been having a stroke.
Standoff Between Republicans and White House Continues
“A standoff between the White House and the Senate remains unresolved after Republican senators defiantly left town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies,” the Associated Press reports.
“Senate Republicans who are returning to Washington on Monday say they won’t have the votes to pass the Homeland Security spending bill until the White House works with them to place parameters on a new $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate Trump’s allies. But Trump has shown little interest in doing so, even after a judge temporarily halted any payouts.”
“It’s unclear how they will settle the dispute.”
Why Did the Press Ignore a Gathering of Fascists?
The Redoubt: “Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it’s not getting the coverage.”
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