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 Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms — President Donald Trump raged at Democrats Monday for supposedly cheating in elections in a long and unhinged Truth Social rant—and buried in his tirade is a clear indication of how he hopes to corrupt the 2026 midterm elections …
2025-08-18 16:20:00 UTC
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emptywheel:
Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia — There's a great deal of normalcy bias in the reporting on Trump's capitulation. NYT reports (based on watching the Sunday shows) that Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff “hint” that Putin will make concessions to reach a plea deal with Ukraine …
2025-08-18 16:10:00 UTC
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Gut Check Time For Democrats — Every lengthy government shutdown in my lifetime has been a consequence of Republican extortion. — The structure and rules of our government all but demand that annual budgeting be a cooperative enterprise, but Republicans have repeatedly attempted …
2025-08-18 16:00:05 UTC
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Rosie Thomas / 404 Media:
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers — TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner. Some of the videos have millions of views, and TikTok Shop's own metrics show …
2025-08-18 15:50:01 UTC
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Democrat That Republicans Fear in Red-State America — Rob Sand's campaign for Iowa governor could offer template for others in his party — DES MOINES, Iowa—Rob Sand could almost pass for a Republican: He frequently quotes the Bible, owns two SIG Sauer handguns …
2025-08-18 15:50:01 UTC
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Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers — Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions. — The ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, seen on March 21, 2025
2025-08-18 15:45:00 UTC
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why MAGA calls Trump “Daddy” — Yes, it's a weird sex thing. But it also reveals secret insecurities — The MAGA movement is determined to make politics as disgusting as possible, destroying democracy one juvenile 4chan meme at a time. It turns out that American fascism isn't just wrapped …
2025-08-18 15:45:00 UTC
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News — As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also dropping the NBC from its name. — Later this year, the channel will become MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.
2025-08-18 15:35:01 UTC
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Chaotic Truth Social Meltdown Hours Before High-Stakes Meeting — RAMPAGE — The president clearly had a lot to brain-dump before bedtime. — Donald Trump fired off a dizzying barrage of Truth Social posts on Sunday evening, raging at criticism over his summit with Vladimir Putin …
2025-08-18 15:35:01 UTC
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Public Notice:
Gavin Newsom's moment — Democrats have found their fight. Newsom is leading the charge. — ∙ Paid … Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he's moving forward with a ballot initiative which would allow Democrats to put in place a partisan gerrymander in the state.
2025-08-18 15:30:00 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
What Kind of Peace in Ukraine? — A good or bad agreement may depend on the quality of Western security guarantees. — President Trump conducts foreign policy on personal instinct and tactical impulse, and his abrupt Friday turn on Russia and Ukraine is a classic illustration.
2025-08-18 15:15:00 UTC
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Corey Atad / Defector:
Selling Zohran — On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump's re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE?” on one side and “LET'S TALK ELECTION,” on the other.
2025-08-18 15:15:00 UTC
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
MSNBC to Change Its Name—And Lose the Peacock Logo — The cable news network will adopt the new name MS NOW ahead of its spinoff from NBCUniversal — MSNBC is changing its name in its spinoff from Comcast's NBCUniversal. — The left-leaning cable network will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World …
2025-08-18 15:05:00 UTC
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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House — Jamie Ager has spent much of the past year rebuilding his farm in the foothills of western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene tore through the region, cutting power, destroying fences and scattering livestock.
2025-08-18 14:30:00 UTC
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Hallmarks of authoritarianism’: Trump banks on loyalists as he wages war on truth — Former officials say firing of BLS commissioner emblematic of president's battle against established facts and history — Donald Trump is waging a war on truth by firing top officials who present facts …
2025-08-18 14:15:00 UTC
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New York Times:
Trump Wants to End Mail-In Voting Ahead of Next Year's Midterms — President Trump has claimed mail voting was a source of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, although his former attorney general said his assertions of widespread fraud couldn't be proven.
2025-08-18 14:05:00 UTC
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Reuters:
Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order ahead of next year's midterm elections, saying he would lead “a movement” targeting mail-in balloting and voting machines across the country.
2025-08-18 13:50:00 UTC
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Axios:
Trump-Zelensky summit: The suit question, again — The White House asked Ukrainian officials if President Volodymyr Zelensky will wear a suit to his meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, two sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
2025-08-18 13:10:00 UTC
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Laura Reiley / New York Times:
What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life — Sophie's Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place. Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that's not what she wanted to do.
2025-08-18 13:00:04 UTC
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Max Tani / Semafor:
The left gets a new publication — The Scoop — A group of left-leaning writers and journalists are starting a new publication on Monday aimed at arguing in favor of what liberalism is for, rather than just what it's against. — Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument …
2025-08-18 12:05:01 UTC
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Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Kristen Welker of NBC Meet the Press — WASHINGTON, D.C. — QUESTION: And joining me now is Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio. Secretary Rubio, welcome back to Meet the Press. — SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you.
2025-08-18 11:40:00 UTC
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Rick Bright / New York Times:
America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA — In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, scientists were ready. Within hours, they began designing a vaccine. Within weeks, clinical trials were underway.
2025-08-18 11:20:00 UTC
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
Inside the DNC's money problems … Major Democratic donors have withheld money this year amid skepticism about the party's direction, while the small-dollar donors who have long been a source of strength are not growing nearly enough to make up the gap. And the party has quickly churned through …
2025-08-18 11:10:03 UTC
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