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New York Times:
Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 — The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies. — Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism — Republican senators say they're worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them significant political problems heading into the 2024 election.
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The Federalist and WREG-TV
Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises — Friends of the Court — SCOTUS Justices' Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors — For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs …
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Vanity Fair, New Republic, Forbes and Balloon Juice
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Common typo causes millions of emails intended for members of the US military to be sent to accounts in Mali — Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
The Standoff Between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Is Worse Than You Think — Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert used to be allies. Now they're enemies. And it's much worse than almost anyone knows. … It's no secret that the relationship between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert has never been worse.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Retrospective Approval of JFK Rises to 90%; Trump at 46% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — John F. Kennedy remains the most highly rated former president when Gallup asks Americans whether, in retrospect, they approve or disapprove of the job each did as president. Ninety percent of U.S. adults …
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
This Is the Time for Quixotic, Corrosive Campaigns? Seriously? — You might think, in a two-party democracy where the man who is a dead-on bet to be the presidential nominee of one of those parties has all but pledged to wipe out said democracy and promised to use his second term to destroy …
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Raw Story and National Review
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The One Big Thing Everyone Misses About 2024 — No one alive has ever seen an election like this one. — ∙ Paid — 1. Unprecedented — The 2024 election has no modern precedent and this unprecedented difference (1) Is not properly appreciated, and (2) Explains why the race has been so stable.
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Progress Pond, National Review and One America News Network
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Non-binary ex-Biden official Sam Brinton was on secret taxpayer-funded trip at time of luggage theft — 'It's outrageous that tax dollars transported Brinton to and from the scene of a crime,' watchdog spokesperson tells Fox News Digital — EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brinton, the embattled non-binary …
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Crimea Bridge, key Russian supply line, damaged, two dead amid reports of blasts — Russia halts grain deal, Erdogan says talks continue — Two parents dead, girl injured in attack on bridge — Russia blames Ukrainian security forces — Ukrainian media says Ukraine organised attack
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
House Democrats to unveil legislation to censure George Santos — A trio of House Democrats will unveil a resolution to censure Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) Monday, the latest push by Democrats to penalize the New York Republican who for months has battled questions about his background and finances.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Democrats Prepare Push to Censure George Santos
House Democrats Prepare Push to Censure George Santos
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Can DeSantis do what Bush, Huntsman, Harris and Lieberman couldn't? — Shaking up a presidential campaign hasn't brought much past success, but the Florida governor is trying to buck the trend. — There was California Gov. Pete Wilson in September 1995, who, the Associated Press reported at the time …
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Kai Bird / New York Times:
Kai Bird on Christopher Nolan's ‘Oppenheimer’ — Mr. Bird is the director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography and co-author with the late Martin J. Sherwin of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” — One day in the spring of 1954 …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
No Labels Says It's Not a Political Party. But It's Setting Up State Parties. — Democrats and Never-Trump GOPers are worried about the group's 2024 plans. — No Labels, the self-professed centrist group that is preparing to possibly run its own presidential candidate in 2024, says it is not a political party.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
GOP donors fuel RFK Jr's presidential campaign — Mark Dickson, a Californian who amassed a fortune treating aluminum for the aerospace industry, has donated more than $450,000 to federal candidates since 2015. The total includes $400,000 to Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee …
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Rolling Stone, Media Matters for America, Vanity Fair and New Republic
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Boebert's Democratic challenger raises three times more than her — Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came close to beating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year's midterms, raised three times more than the incumbent in second-quarter fundraising as he seeks a 2024 rematch.
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The Colorado Sun, NBC News, Political Wire and Raw Story
Cassandra MacDonald / The Gateway Pundit:
Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas Wears ‘Antifa Super Soldier’ Shirt in Instagram Post — Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman, made his political views clear in a post to Instagram this week. — In the Instagram post, Thomas wore the Antifa supporting shirt …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death — Stephen K. Bannon, a spiritual leader of the Trumpist right, infamously declared in 2018 that the secret to political warfare was “to flood the zone with s—t.” For many observers, this quote continues to capture the perils of our …
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Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees — Reports of Oath Keepers in the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol officers collaborating with militias continue to concern Congress. — More than 65 Democrats in Congress sent a letter Monday asking …
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Raw Story
Sam Jeske / Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
Jayapal Statement on Israel Comments — At a conference, I attempted to defuse a tense situation during a panel where fellow members of Congress were being protested. Words do matter and so it is important that I clarify my statement. I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist.
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CNN:
Top House Democrats rebuke Jayapal comments that Israel is a ‘racist state’ as she tries to walk them back
Top House Democrats rebuke Jayapal comments that Israel is a ‘racist state’ as she tries to walk them back
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David Marchese / New York Times:
Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality — “I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.” That's putting it mildly. It's hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the 85-year-old, who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers.
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Biden Invites Netanyahu to Visit U.S. in the Near Future — It's the first time the two have spoken since March, after tensions grew surrounding Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plans — President Joe Biden invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. on Monday …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Oddly Cautious Challengers to Trump — On the menu today: The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 cycle is about five weeks away, and there's a strange, inverted dynamic at work in the GOP field. Usually, the frontrunner runs a cautious campaign, while the underdogs …
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Politico:
A group of GOP centrists threatens hardline tactics on tax bill — Usually it's the conservative bloc of House Republicans stirring trouble. This time, it's centrists who are threatening to hold up a signature party bill. — A group of House Republican centrists is taking a page …
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Sacramento Bee
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Author of spoof story shared by Greg Abbott calls him one of ‘dumbest people in the country’ — Texas governor shared fake article by Christopher Blair about Garth Brooks being booed by ‘patriots’ in made-up city — The author of a satirical website said the Texas governor, Greg Abbott …
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