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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Mike Johnson says the quiet part on Fox — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 📈 Subscribe to Public Notice 📈 — It was a given, of course …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse … - In our column on Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion, we told you how the speaker defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain — Sen. Tim Scott wants you to know: 2024 is not an abortion-policy election. — “The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is a states' issue. President Trump and Speaker Johnson have both said that this will remain a states' issue …
ProPublica:
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign — Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages …
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New York Times:
Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum — The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States. — President Biden is expected to sign an executive order …
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Associated Press:
Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a day
Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a day
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden executive action on the border could come as early as Tuesday
Biden executive action on the border could come as early as Tuesday
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions — Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse” — A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
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Washington Post:
Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post. Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure. — The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Suspend!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci — Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci “doctor.”
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump's Most Audacious Lie Yet — The former president is claiming he never said “Lock her up.” — When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton
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Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict, son Eric Trump claims — Eric Trump says $70 million has flown into campaign coffers from small donors — The Trump heir also noted how gangster Al Capone has less felonies than his dad
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Eric Trump Claims Black Voters Are Turning To His Dad ‘In Spades’
Eric Trump Claims Black Voters Are Turning To His Dad ‘In Spades’
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users' deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents …
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Associated Press:
Jury selection is beginning in gun case against President Joe Biden's son — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection is to begin Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden's son after a deal with prosecutors fell apart that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 election.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Joe Biden's looming presence over Hunter's trial serves as a warning to their political enemies
Joe Biden's looming presence over Hunter's trial serves as a warning to their political enemies
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Menendez will file independent re-election bid — The New Jersey Globe has learned that Bob Menendez will enter the race for the United States Senate today, filing nominating petitions with over 2,000 signatures in Trenton to seek re-election to a fourth term as an independent.
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David Smith / The Guardian:
The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? — Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists — When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand — Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist presiding over special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump for storing highly classified national defense information, is giving the former president two weeks to rebut Smith's request to impose a gag order.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
8 years later, Trump haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes — By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.” — Eight years later, some find it easy to forget some of the more ridiculous elements …
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Congress is already bracing for a 2025 fiscal pileup — It could make the past six months of shutdown heartburn look tame. — Congress is headed for a perilous spending pileup in early 2025 — with crisis points on the debt ceiling, federal spending, tax cuts and budget caps all hitting in rapid succession.
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Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? — Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren't just hostile to progressivism. They're hostile to American democracy itself — Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party …