How Biden and Trump are preparing for their first presidential debate  —  One is secluding himself at a mountainside retreat with a tight circle of advisers, poring over briefing binders, honing attack lines and bracing for personal smears.  The other is workshopping responses and retorts …

Putin Once Tried to Curb North Korea's Nuclear Program.  That's Now Over.  —  Vladimir Putin promised unspecified technological help to North Korea, which could allow it to advance its nuclear weapons program.  —  阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.

Democrats need to push back harder on Trump's immigrant hate  —  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 🛂

Fox News is helping Trump plan another Jan. 6-style assault on democracy  —  Five months before the election, claims that only fraud could explain a future Trump defeat are already common in the right-wing media ecosystem.  —  The cycle of lies that drove the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is again underway.

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law  —  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

Why Dictators Want Trump … We're big fans both of decarbonization and of reliable electricity, so two thumbs up on this one from us!  (One assumes the Democrats don't mind the job creation, either?)  Happy Thursday.  —  The Real World  —  Things are hopping in American politics.

Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source  —  Wikipedia's editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable source on antisemitism.

Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandal  —  Sources' claim suggests advice by Will Lewis, an informal adviser to then prime minister, contradicted instructions to staff  —  Will Lewis, the Washington Post publisher …

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling  —  LAST YEAR, I became obsessed with a plastic cup.  —  It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes.  And it was the first product I'd seen born of what's being touted as a cure for a crisis.

The Supreme Court Is Raising the Stakes of Congressional Dysfunction  —  One Democrat called the push from the right to rein in government agencies “part of a deeper, darker corporate strategy than this euphemism about putting power back in Congress.”  — Copy

These 25 rainbow-flag waving companies donated $18 million to anti-gay politicians since the last election  —  At the pride parade in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, accounting giant Deloitte promoted its support of the LGBTQ community:  —  In June 2023, Deloitte produced a report on “LGBT+ Inclusion @ Work.”

Tipping the Scales: The MAGA Justices Have Already Interfered with the 2024 Elections  —  By shielding Donald Trump from standing trial before a jury in two of his felony cases, Trump's three appointments to the Supreme Court, along with the even more MAGA Justices Alito and Thomas and Judge Aileen Cannon …

Supreme Court gets ready to drop its bombshells … - The court has 23 cases left to decide, and will likely hand down all of those opinions by the end of the month, give or take a few days — meaning the next week or so may redefine the limits of presidential power for generations to come.

Scorched-earth summer: Biden, Sunak and Macron go negative  —  Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.  —  Even at a glittering Hollywood fundraiser, President Joe Biden's message was dark.

Trump's Favorite Judge Puts Mar-a-Lago Prosecutor on Trial  —  ADVANTAGE: TRUMP  —  Judge Aileen Cannon stalled the ex-president's trial for hoarding classified documents.  Now she's making Special Counsel Jack Smith prove the case should be brought at all.  —  The tables have turned.

These 5 states are the most likely to see legislative chambers flip in November  —  Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania are among the country's biggest battlegrounds.  —  Democrats and Republicans are busting campaign spending records in state legislative races this year as they aim to shape policy debates far from Washington.