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Biden Declares That He Is Staying In The Race And Will Beat Trump

President Biden had a message for Democrats who are trying to push him out of the … Biden Declares That He Is Staying In The Race And Will Beat TrumpRead more

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Senior Democratic Operatives Circulate Memo Making The Case For VP Kamala Harris As Nominee

Senior Democratic operatives who didn’t put their names on it are circulating a memo making the … Senior Democratic Operatives Circulate Memo Making The Case For VP Kamala Harris As NomineeRead more

by •5 July 2024
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Trump Is Now Running Away From Project 2025

Trump is now claiming that he knows nothing about Project 2025, even though his super PAC … Trump Is Now Running Away From Project 2025Read more

by •5 July 2024
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The Perfect Storm To Create an Imperial Presidency

In years past, the warnings we hear from historians, experts on tyranny and from the Biden-Harris … The Perfect Storm To Create an Imperial PresidencyRead more

by •4 July 2024
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Biden And Harris Call On America To Celebrate The Freedoms Trump Is Trying To Rip Away

As Donald Trump and his Republican enablers work out in the open to turn the United … Biden And Harris Call On America To Celebrate The Freedoms Trump Is Trying To Rip AwayRead more

by •4 July 2024
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Democrats Need To Suck It Up Because Biden Says He Isn’t Going Anywhere

President Biden said in a call with campaign staff that he is not leaving and no … Democrats Need To Suck It Up Because Biden Says He Isn’t Going AnywhereRead more

by •3 July 2024
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White House Says New York Times Ran False Claim About Biden Weighing Dropping Out

The White House pushed back forcefully on a New York Times report that President Biden is … White House Says New York Times Ran False Claim About Biden Weighing Dropping OutRead more

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Katie Phang Says Calls for Biden to Withdraw Discount His First Term’s Successes

MSNBC’s Katie Phang, host of the show named after her, pointed out that calls for President … Katie Phang Says Calls for Biden to Withdraw Discount His First Term’s SuccessesRead more

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Gossiping Reporters Have Openly Loathed Biden for Years, Former Speechwriter Says

“These reporters are cherry-picking shreds of gossip at best… and making shit up at worst. Some … Gossiping Reporters Have Openly Loathed Biden for Years, Former Speechwriter SaysRead more

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GOP Speaker Mike Johnson Says We Don’t Know How Long Our Freedom Is Going to Last

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reminded voters ahead of the nation’s 248 years old “Independence” birthday that … GOP Speaker Mike Johnson Says We Don’t Know How Long Our Freedom Is Going to LastRead more

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Biden Is Seriously Considering Dropping Out

President Biden is reportedly considering dropping out of the presidential race as he realizes he has … Biden Is Seriously Considering Dropping OutRead more

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Thug Trump Goes After Stormy Daniels’ 13-Year-Old Child

In yet another story of Donald Trump harassing witnesses, Stormy Daniels told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that … Thug Trump Goes After Stormy Daniels’ 13-Year-Old ChildRead more

by •3 July 2024
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Finally, The New York Times Mentions That Trump Is Mentally Declining

Buried in a story about Biden contained one paragraph that noted Trump’s mental decline and lack … Finally, The New York Times Mentions That Trump Is Mentally DecliningRead more

by •2 July 2024
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Biden To Campaign In Swing States And Hold Press Conference

The White House announced that President Biden will visit multiple swing states, do a national TV … Biden To Campaign In Swing States And Hold Press ConferenceRead more

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Why Trump’s Felony Sentencing Postponement Could Backfire

Instead of getting his sentencing out of the way in July, Trump will now be sentenced … Why Trump’s Felony Sentencing Postponement Could BackfireRead more

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Biden Takes Action To Lower Gas Prices For The 4th Of July

The Biden administration announced that it would sell 42 million gallons of gasoline for the strategic … Biden Takes Action To Lower Gas Prices For The 4th Of JulyRead more

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The White House Takes Preemptive Action To Protect Americans From Extreme Weather

The White House is taking preemptive steps and action to protect Americans and communities from extreme … The White House Takes Preemptive Action To Protect Americans From Extreme WeatherRead more

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Biden Powerfully Blasts Trump And SCOTUS Immunity Decision In Primetime Remarks

President Joe Biden got political during primetime remarks from the White House, hammering Trump’s character and … Biden Powerfully Blasts Trump And SCOTUS Immunity Decision In Primetime RemarksRead more

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Rep. Zoe Lofgren Points Out That Biden Can Now Have The Military Kill Conservative SCOTUS Justices

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) pointed out that the conservative Supreme Court majority gave President Biden immunity … Rep. Zoe Lofgren Points Out That Biden Can Now Have The Military Kill Conservative SCOTUS JusticesRead more

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Battleground Pollster Says Data Shows Biden Wasn’t Hurt By The Debate

A battleground pollster who is completing a swing state survey says that the data shows Biden … Battleground Pollster Says Data Shows Biden Wasn’t Hurt By The DebateRead more

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  • On Facebook, posts about celebrity donations for Texas relief efforts went viral. They were baseless

    Claims about celebrity donations to Texas spread on Facebook

  • Scott Jennings - Are 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients watching TV all day? That’s unsupported

    Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.”

  • Timeline: What the Trump administration has said about Epstein files release

    What the Trump admin has said about Epstein files release

  • Social Media - Texas floods fact-check: NWS and NOAA cut jobs, but Trump hasn't ‘defunded’ them

    The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”

  • Hakeem Jeffries - Permanent tax breaks for billionaires, temporary for everyone else? That’s exaggerated

    President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”

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  • He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.

    How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left

    The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.

  • What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Understand About Soldiers

    Lethality alone doesn’t win wars.

  • Trump’s New Favorite General

    Dan “Razin” Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, doesn’t want the spotlight—but with this White House, there’s no avoiding it.

  • The Man Who Thinks Medicaid Cuts Won’t Cut Medicaid

    In Kevin Hassett, the Trump administration has picked an especially unfortunate spokesperson.

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Real clear politics

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  • The Impossible Geography of Survival in Gaza
  • The Settler Violence Myth
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  • Did Sheryl Sandberg Play a Role in Hit on Brett Kavanaugh?

    When Congress grills former White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients about who was running the government in the Biden years, they should have him explain his connections to the Kavanaugh hit, too.

The Atlantic

  • He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.

    How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Lesson for the Left

    The New York City mayoral primary showcased a better kind of politics than progressives are used to.

  • What Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Understand About Soldiers

    Lethality alone doesn’t win wars.

  • Trump’s New Favorite General

    Dan “Razin” Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, doesn’t want the spotlight—but with this White House, there’s no avoiding it.

  • The Man Who Thinks Medicaid Cuts Won’t Cut Medicaid

    In Kevin Hassett, the Trump administration has picked an especially unfortunate spokesperson.

Talking Points Memo

  • Welp

    Neil Jacobs, the nominee to run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (which includes the National Weather Service), pledged to work...

  • There’s Always Going to be a Conspiracy Theory

    There are plenty of legitimate questions swirling around the devastating flooding in Texas last weekend that left at least 100...

  • The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

    This article first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive...

  • Only KBJ Recognizes the Historic Stakes of Trump’s Purges

    A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version....

  • How the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ Is Linked to Political Extremism in the US

    This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Vance...

Fox News

  • Massachusetts bill would force ICE agents to unmask

    New Massachusetts legislation targeting masked ICE agents joins similar Democratic proposals at the federal level, drawing criticism from President Trump.

  • 'Gut check time': Dissent among Senate GOP ranks threatens to reduce Trump's spending cut demand

    Republican senators divided on $9.4 billion cuts to USAID and public broadcasting as leadership plans amendment process for the White House's rescissions package.

  • New book reveals what Obama and 'conqueror' Trump chatted about in viral moment during Carter's funeral

    President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama shared a friendly chat about golf during President Jimmy Carter's funeral, creating a viral moment of bipartisanship before Trump's return to office.

  • Ukrainian US ambassador, seen with head in hands during Oval Office meeting, is departing DC

    Ukraine announced Ambassador Oksana Markarova's departure Thursday following controversy and calls for her removal by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

  • Trump cautioned Putin he would ‘bomb the s---' out of Moscow if Russia invaded Ukraine, new book claims

    A new book alleges that President Donald Trump told donors he threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with bombing Moscow if Russia invaded Ukraine.

The Hill

  • Supreme Court tees up perfect chance to fully protect women’s sports

    It’s time to end this historic violation of equal opportunity for women and let Idaho guarantee fairness to all of our female athletes.

  • 2 student pilots killed in midair collision in Canada

    Two student pilots died on Tuesday morning when their single-engine planes crashed in midair south of Steinbach, in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

  • O'Reilly: Trump said 'a lot of names associated with Epstein' had nothing to do with his conduct

    Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said he discussed the Jeffrey Epstein case in March with President Trump, who told him that there are “a lot of names associated” with the disgraced financier for innocuous reasons. “I talked to President Trump, man to man, eye to eye, on St. Patrick's Day about this… And he...

  • A federal judge reminds government inspectors: Get a warrant

    Your home is supposed to be your castle.

  • Xi Jinping is waging a proxy war against Trump in Ukraine

    Now we are seeing China’s real intentions.

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  • Judge to weigh blocking Trump on birthright citizenship despite supreme court ruling – US politics live

    US district judge to grant class action status to a lawsuit seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Kuala Lumpur marks the first time he has visited Asia since Donald Trump took office.Rubio faces a bit of a difficult task as he meets with foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Reuters reports. He must convince them that America is committed to the region while Trump is poised to impose tariffs on seven Asean countries. Continue reading...

  • Bhutan tried to erase us. Now, Trump’s America is helping | Lok Darjee

    The administration has deported over two dozen refugees back to the very nation that tried to erase us. Democrats must speak upIn mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, surrounded by members of the Bhutanese diaspora. The silence was heavy, thick with fear and uncertainty. This modest office, once a vibrant hub for refugee youth, cultural celebrations, and literary competitions, had become an impromptu crisis center, where community leaders scrambled to make sense of the Trump administration’s escalating immigration crackdown on Bhutanese refugees across the country.Robin Gurung, the organization’s executive director, briefly outlined our legal rights. Another organizer then read aloud the names of those detained, awaiting deportation – or worse, already deported to Bhutan, the very country that once expelled them. Continue reading...

  • Redrawing Texas: the Republican plan to stack the decks for the midterms

    Redistricting gives Republicans in the state the opportunity to ‘increase their strength and numbers’, experts sayExperts, politicians and concerned Texans say their state could be a blueprint for Republican efforts to stave off losses in next year’s elections, with some calling the GOP division a “festering wound” in Texas – all while Donald Trump stacks the deck against potential Democratic inroads.Last month, nearly 150 people showed up at a Tarrant county commissioners court meeting in north Texas. The packed building wasn’t used to such a high volume of visitors, but the day’s key vote had been hotly contested for weeks. Continue reading...

  • Think you know Trump’s new bill? Try this big, beautiful quiz | Lawrence Douglas

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  • Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator

    Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floorThe Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”, the US senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in an interview Monday with the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. “It is defending a $700-plus billion [annual] subsidy” of not being charged for the health and environmental damages caused by burning fossil fuels. “I think the more people understand that, the more they’ll be irate [that] they’ve been lied to.” But, he added, “Democrats have not done a good job of calling that out.” Continue reading...

Politico

  • Josh Cowen is launching a congressional bid in a swing Michigan district

    The Michigan State University professor is making education and affordability central to his campaign.

  • Musk announces arrival of new ‘America Party’ after Trump split

    The billionaire donor has teased the launch of a third party ever since his megabill squabble with Trump.

  • The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

    Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

  • Dems are gearing up to weaponize Trump’s megabill

    House Democrats see an opportunity to expand the battleground, going on offense into red areas across the country and recruiting candidates deep into Republican territory.

  • This Pennsylvania Republican withstood pressure on the megabill. Here’s why.

    Brian Fitzpatrick, who won his seat in 2016, faces a serious Democratic challenger next year.

NPR

  • What Makes Us Free?

    What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might feel like a squishy term that's hard to define and understand. But this ideology, founded by a group of men in the Swiss Alps, is a political project that has dominated our economic system for decades. In the name of free market fundamentals, the forces behind neoliberalism act like an invisible hand, shaping almost every aspect of our lives. This episode originally ran as "Capitalism: What Makes Us Free?" Please add the following after each blurb on podcast and webpages: To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline.

  • U.S. issues sanctions against United Nations investigator probing abuses in Gaza

    The State Department's decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an unsuccessful campaign to force her removal.

  • Trump sets 50% tariff rate for Brazil, blasting treatment of former far-right president

    President Trump defended former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of plotting an attempted coup following his loss in the 2022 election.

  • Former White House doctor declines to testify in GOP probe of Biden's mental acuity

    Kevin O'Connor cited doctor-patient confidentiality and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in deciding not to answer questions from Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

  • After Murkowki's pivotal vote, what do Alaskans think of the GOP budget bill?

    Republicans made concessions for Alaska to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski to cast the deciding vote approving the GOP's sweeping tax and spending bill. Do her constituents think she got a good deal?

Five Thirty Eight

  • What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry

    Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of “a culture of corruption,” saying that the Biden administration

  • The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump

    The second Republican presidential primary debate is less than two weeks away, so time is running out for GOP contenders to meet the Republican National Committee’s qualification criteria. To make the Sept. 27 debate, each candidate must have at least 3 percent support in two qualifying national polls, or at least 3 percent in one

  • The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans

    On Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024. On the surface, the electoral impact of Romney’s decision is minimal — his seat should stay safely in Republican hands. But it’s still notable because it represents the departure of one of the few remaining Republican senators who had a

  • Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Working For Biden

    Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): For a long time, the economy has been seen as a big liability for President Biden in his reelection bid. Inflation soared in 2021 and 2022, culminating at a rate of 9.1 percent last June. The same

  • Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color

    Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not the final year and two months of a campaign. The focus was largely on general election polls: Whether a Wall Street Journal poll

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