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Big, Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office … There's a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of the alleged assault by Florida congressman Corey Mills (R). But as yet no one seems inclined to pull on the dangling thread. As you've probably already seen …
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HuffPost, Politico and The Status Kuo
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RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks … Over recent weeks I've told you several times that while Democrats are shut out of power in Washington and few means of arresting the Trump-Musk spree of criminal conduct across the executive branch they do have two points of leverage: the need for a new …
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Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle — The fight over curbing President Donald Trump's ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month.


It's crunch time for Mike Johnson and the GOP's ‘big, beautiful bill’ — The House speaker is set to put a budget resolution up for a floor vote on Tuesday but is facing a potential revolt from swing-district Republicans. — Republicans' push to enact President Donald Trump's tax …
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Warren Davidson is the latest Republican to oppose the House budget
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Johnson brushes off Musk, but GOP budget holdouts stand firm
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Scripps News, CBS News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and The Daily Caller

Stefanik's Confirmation Is on Ice as Republicans Guard Their Scant Majority
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Axios, Good Politics/Bad Politics, The Hill, The Independent, Blaze Media, Politico and CBS News


Trump Administration Highlights: Personnel Officials Say Musk's Directive Is ‘Voluntary’ — Where Things Stand — Musk's ultimatum: Federal personnel officials walked back Elon Musk's demand that government workers justify their jobs in an email or face termination, saying that his request had been “voluntary.”
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Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With ‘Very Rude’ Flood of Spam — After Musk told federal employees to list five accomplishments or be fired, internet users are encouraging people to flood the email with spam — President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through …


Even as Macron flatters ‘Dear Donald,’ the US is deeply estranged from the West on Ukraine


Trump, Meeting With Macron, Says He Might Visit Russia
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Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ — The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties. — A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince …
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Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls — Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act's major provisions.
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ACA Signups, KFF Health News, Politico and Washington Examiner
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The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment
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Sanity Clause, Raw Story and Fox News


Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate — Richard Glossip's case has attracted broad support after the state's top law enforcement official revealed prosecutorial misconduct. — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip …
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Supreme Court throws out Oklahoma death row inmate's conviction over flawed trial — In an unusual case, death row inmate Richard Glossip was backed by the state's Republican attorney general, who agreed the conviction was unsound. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw …
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USA Today, The Hill, Reuters, Fox News, CBS News, SCOTUSblog and The Independent


This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign — Teresa Borrenpohl later told the Coeur d'Alene Press that, as it happened, she didn't know if it was an arrest or a kidnapping. She was seated in a nearly-full town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee on Saturday.
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The Kootenai Journal, Bonner County Daily Bee, KTFT, Associated Press and Coeur d'Alene Press
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Coeur d'Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company's business license — COEUR d'ALENE — City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged …
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings — Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren't expected to save the government any money, the administration's own data shows.
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The Guardian, The Hill, WNYW-TV, The Independent, Digby's Hullabaloo and Poynter


Trump's New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’ — When a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last year, the conservative podcaster Dan Bongino made a veiled threat on social media. “The irony about this for the scumbag commie libs …
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FBI agents express shock and dismay over naming of right-wing podcaster to No. 2 post
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Talking Points Memo and The Hill

How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director
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Trump's Most Dangerous Move Yet? — Politicizing the military — Donald Trump has abruptly fired several high-ranking members of the U.S. military command. And his new, personally loyal secretary of defense promises a culture shift for the armed forces, with politics at its core.
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Robert Reich, CBS News and Tangle
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White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group — Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex — A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network …


DOGE's Latest Cut: Glenn Youngkin's Balls — However bad you think DOGE's decapitation of USAID was, this report from the Washington Post's Matt Bai suggests it was even worse: … Happy Tuesday. — Glenn Youngkin to Fired Federal Workers: Time to Be Productive For a Change — by Andrew Egger
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Axios


How to Make the GOP Pay a Price for DOGE — Trump made a huge mistake by putting Musk in charge of implementing deeply unpopular policy — I have seen this movie before, beat for beat. — In August of 2010, in the middle of the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act, Congress went home for a month-long recess.


America's Food Safety Is Now in the Hands of Don Jr.'s Hunting Buddy — As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president's son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation's food supply, infant formula, and more.


The idiot wind now howling through the US offers Ireland a transformative windfall — Fintan O'Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America's pocket. Fair enough - we should instead pick America's brains — America's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity.


Goya Foods CEO, Bob Unanue, Announces Next Chapter — 50-Year Food Industry Veteran Releases Statement After Being Left in “Limbo” by the Company's Board — Today, Robert “Bob” Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status …


Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall — Ariel Mollhagen couldn't hear what U.S. Rep. Mark Alford was saying but she didn't really need to. The crowd's reaction told the story. — During an extraordinarily heated town hall on Monday …
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The Independent, Mediaite and Raw Story


Americans Are Expecting Higher Prices. That Could Unnerve the Fed. — More Americans are starting to brace for higher prices as President Trump's policies begin to take effect. — Fresh off the worst inflation shock in decades, Americans are once again bracing for higher prices.
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EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine — “The added value Europe offers is that we will never demand a deal that's not mutually beneficial,” top official Stéphane Séjourné says. — The European Union offered its own agreement on “critical materials” …
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Agence France-Presse, The Kyiv Independent, Semafor, Euromaidan Press, The Bulwark and E&E News


Hackers play AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet on cafeteria screens at HUD headquarters: ‘LONG LIVE THE REAL KING’ — Cyberpunks breached a television at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday morning, broadcasting a stomach-turning AI video of President Trump caressing …
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Top Committee Dem goes after Trump's interim US attorney — Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to investigate Washington's top prosecutor for making threats against the Trump administration's political adversaries — including one of his own members.
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Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner and The Hill


How Trump's lawyers are trying to make him a king — ⚔️ 🫅 🏰 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
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Semafor


Musk Seeks to Use Starlink Terminals in US Airspace System — FAA says testing Starlink terminals in Atlantic City, Alaska — Starlink is SpaceX's rapidly growing internet-from-space unit — Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate …
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Judge Questions Constitutionality of Musk's Cost-Cutting Operation — The judge expressed concern over the unresolved issues about who is in charge of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, if it is not Mr. Musk, as the White House has claimed.
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Raw Story, Executive Functions, OutsideTheBeltway and Scripps News