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3:05 PM ET, July 17, 2023

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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.
Discussion: The Federalist
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 …
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.
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story, IJR, New Republic and UPROXX
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: National Review
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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New York Times:
Russia Pulls Out of the Black Sea Grain Deal
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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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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.
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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.
CNN:
Top House Democrats rebuke Jayapal comments that Israel is a ‘racist state’ as she tries to walk them back  —  Top House Democrats are rebuking Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal's comments from earlier this weekend that “Israel is a racist state,” which she sought to walk back on Sunday.
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Sam Jeske / Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:
Jayapal Statement on Israel Comments
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Elton John Testifies at Kevin Spacey's Sexual Assault Trial  —  A-LIST DEFENSE  —  Elton John and his husband David Furnish gave evidence at Kevin Spacey's sexual assault trial in London on Monday.  The pair joined the proceedings from Monaco via video link as part of the trial in which Spacey …
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.
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 …
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 …
Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
Groups sue Florida over latest immigration law  —  Filed in Miami federal court, the lawsuit targets the wide-ranging immigration policies enacted by Florida earlier this year at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Several groups sued the DeSantis administration Monday …
 
 
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Democrats press Homeland Security about domestic extremism among employees
Discussion: Raw Story
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Americans are still better off, with more in the bank than before the pandemic
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Cedric Richmond to join Biden campaign as co-chair
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg, The Messenger and CNBC
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Trump describes how he could solve Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Iowa's Republican governor to hold interviews with GOP presidential candidates at state fair
Discussion: Washington Times and IJR
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani Plays Detective at Gilgo Beach Suspect's Home
Discussion: The Messenger and TMZ.com
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose launches GOP Senate bid
David Jackson / USA Today:
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