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A lot of powerful people just don't realize how unpopular Trump is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
A lot of powerful people just don't realize how unpopular Trump is  —  Last week, ABC/Disney canceled Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of television stations that carry the program.

2025-09-22 16:30:00 UTC

Strength In Numbers

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EXCLUSIVE | Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show (Ethan Stark-Miller/AM New York)

Ethan Stark-Miller / AM New York:
EXCLUSIVE |  Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show  —  Democratic mayoral nominee and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall …

2025-09-22 15:45:01 UTC

AM New York

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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired:
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley.  I Was Wrong  —  Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump.  A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.  —  For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough.  He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta.

2025-09-22 15:15:00 UTC

Wired

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US offers financial lifeline to Argentina's Javier Milei (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina's Javier Milei  —  Scott Bessent proposes support package during market volatility  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said “all options” are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility …

2025-09-22 15:10:01 UTC

Financial Times

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She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a 'Beautiful Sisterhood.' Now She's Fighting for Those Still Inside. (Sam Judy/The Barbed Wire)

Sam Judy / The Barbed Wire:
She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She's Fighting for Those Still Inside.  —  On the evening of Feb. 11, 22-year-old Ward Sakeik sat on a plane from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami.  She and her husband, Taahir Shaikh, were returning from their honeymoon, but he was sitting a few rows away.

2025-09-22 15:10:01 UTC

The Barbed Wire

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Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Vaccine Rant About Babies and Horses  —  GIDDY UP  —  The president got medical ahead of his major autism announcement.  —  President Donald Trump unleashed a surreal rant about children being injected with “massive” vaccines similar to ones “you'd give to a horse.”

2025-09-22 15:10:01 UTC

The Daily Beast

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Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War (Chance Phillips/Liberal Currents)

Chance Phillips / Liberal Currents:
Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War  —  Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s.  —  “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more,” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji …

2025-09-22 15:00:25 UTC

Liberal Currents

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Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst (Svante Myrick/The Hill)

Svante Myrick / The Hill:
Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst  —  When President Trump was sworn into office for his second term, he made a lot of promises to the American people.  He has broken many of them.  —  In his 2025 inaugural address, Trump declared, “Never again …

2025-09-22 15:00:25 UTC

The Hill

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Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges (New Republic)

New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  (Editor's note: After we recorded, Trump bombed a third vessel in similarly lawless fashion.)

2025-09-22 14:35:00 UTC

New Republic

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The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It's Down to Two. (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)

Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time.  Under Trump, It's Down to Two.  —  The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration's attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.  — Copy  —  When Donald Trump took office eight months ago …

2025-09-22 14:35:00 UTC

NOTUS

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Charlie Kirk's massive memorial was so much more than that — it was a message to the mainstream media (New York Post)

New York Post:
Charlie Kirk's massive memorial was so much more than that — it was a message to the mainstream media  —  The massive gathering for Charlie Kirk on Sunday was more than just a funeral — it was a message.  —  A 200,000-person crowd inundated the stadium inside and out, and millions around the world watched live.

2025-09-22 14:25:01 UTC

New York Post

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Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🚨🚨 Subscribe to PN 🚨🚨  —  We have some shocking news: The Trump administration and the American right may not be quite …

2025-09-22 14:10:00 UTC

Public Notice

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The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege (Matt Egan/CNN)

Matt Egan / CNN:
The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege  —  The nation's top economic statistician was fired.  Central bank independence is being undermined.  The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

2025-09-22 14:10:00 UTC

CNN

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Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)

Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage … It's Republicans who are pushing a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, which they say will buy time for more negotiations on full-year spending bills and possibly an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.

2025-09-22 13:55:00 UTC

Politico

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Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws (Debra Kamin/New York Times)

Debra Kamin / New York Times:
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws  —  Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.  —  In one email, a Trump appointee at the Department of Housing …

2025-09-22 13:45:00 UTC

New York Times

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Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research! (Paul Krugman)

Paul Krugman:
Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research!  —  H-1B visas: The latest front in a campaign of destruction  —  It often seems as if Donald Trump and his minions are engaged in a systematic campaign to undermine America's preeminence in the world.

2025-09-22 13:40:00 UTC

Paul Krugman

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Putin offers Trump a temporary nuclear arms control deal that would extend status quo by one year (Reuters)

Reuters:
Putin offers Trump a temporary nuclear arms control deal that would extend status quo by one year  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he was ready to extend by one year the last arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow that limits the number of nuclear weapons each side …

2025-09-22 13:40:00 UTC

Reuters

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Why Trump's directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why Trump's directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal  —  The president isn't just being accused of trying to weaponize federal law enforcement, he's now publicly flaunting his corrupt and authoritarian efforts.  —  Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered …

2025-09-22 13:10:01 UTC

MSNBC

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White House bullish after a long string of Supreme Court victories (NBC News)

NBC News:
White House bullish after a long string of Supreme Court victories  —  Officials are on a winning streak at the high court, in part due to a strategy of selecting cases most likely to find favor with the conservative majority.  —  WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump's aggressive use …

2025-09-22 13:00:31 UTC

NBC News

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At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
At Kirk Service, an Extraordinary Fusion of Government and Christianity  —  The memorial reflected the degree to which conservative Christianity had melded with Republican politics in the Trump era.  —  Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, paid tribute to Charlie Kirk by citing the gospel message …

2025-09-22 00:50:00 UTC

New York Times

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How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One (Ken White/The Popehat Report)

Ken White / The Popehat Report:
How “Free Speech Culture” Is Killing Free Speech: Part One  —  I'm a long-time critic of the modern concept of “free speech culture” — the notion that support of freedom of speech requires me not just to refrain from official censorship, but to avoid a wide array of expression that might chill, deter, or punish other people's speech.

2025-09-22 00:05:04 UTC

The Popehat Report

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Security Officials Are Treating Charlie Kirk's Memorial Like a Super Bowl (New York Times)

New York Times:
Security Officials Are Treating Charlie Kirk's Memorial Like a Super Bowl  —  The authorities have approached security measures as an “all hands on deck” operation.  —  An anticipated crowd of perhaps more than 100,000 people, including President Trump and several cabinet members …

2025-09-21 23:40:00 UTC

New York Times

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Trump Officials Didn't Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret (Rolling Stone)

Rolling Stone:
Trump Officials Didn't Know If His Order To Prosecute Foes Was Meant To Be Secret  —  The president's social media posts urging Pam Bondi to promptly charge his political foes blindsided top officials in his administration  —  President Donald Trump surprised members of his administration …

2025-09-21 21:35:01 UTC

Rolling Stone

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Trump administration to link Tylenol use to risk of autism (Politico)

Politico:
Trump administration to link Tylenol use to risk of autism … In a statement Sunday, White House spokesperson Kush Desai said the “announcement will make historic progress” in addressing rising autism rates.  —  Finding the condition's cause is a major priority of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …

2025-09-21 21:15:00 UTC

Politico

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Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say  —  Officials will also tout the drug leucovorin as a potential autism treatment, in what President Donald Trump has billed as a “very important” announcement.  —  The Trump administration is expected to unveil new efforts …

2025-09-21 20:40:01 UTC

Washington Post