The Pentagon fired the publisher and editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that is supposed to maintain editorial independence from the very department it covers.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Thank You for Your Inattention to This Matter
David Graham: “One of Donald Trump’s current favorite riffs is to contrast how (in his opinion) the United States was seen under his predecessor, Joe Biden, and how it’s seen now.” Said Trump: “They didn’t respect us two years ago. They laughed at us. NATO laughed at us. Everybody laughed at us. They don’t laugh […]
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Kate Riga, Derick Dirmaier, Joe Ragazzo and Allegra Kirkland
Why the Right Is Going All-in on Stoking the WNBA Culture Wars
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
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The Green Beret Who Could FLIP A Montana Senate Seat
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• Paul Krugman
Jared Bernstein on Debt
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• Taegan Goddard
Natalie Harp’s Brother Is a ‘Gringo Sandinista’
The Washington Post profiles the brother of White House aide Natalie Harp, whose obsession with President Trump put her in the headlines this week. Preston Harp lives in Masaya, a city in western Nicaragua, and is “an ardent supporter of the Sandinistas, a Marxist-influenced revolutionary movement that has dominated Nicaraguan politics for decades under President […]
Ars Technica
• Jacek Krywko
Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
Ars Technica
• Mariah Meek and Travis Belote, The Conversation
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Is Living Inside a Billionaire Bubble
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Finds Tamping Down Costs to Be Tricky
“President Trump is reaching deeper into individual markets to try to ease consumer price strains,” Axios reports. “The administration is under mounting pressure to deliver relief as affordability becomes a bigger political liability ahead of the midterms.” “The push is cutting against — and sometimes rolling back — pillars of Trump’s economic agenda, including tariffs […]
WIRED
• David Nield
Set Up a Separate Work Profile on Your Android Phone
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WIRED
• Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman
Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Exchange of the Day
President Trump took questions from reporters on the instability in the bond market: REPORTER: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to him about another type of intervention? Is that something he will be doing? TRUMP: We have many types of intervention. That’s one. The ultimate intervention is our military. And […]
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The good news is that the world has stopped responding breathlessly to Donald Trump’s every empty provocation. That’s also the bad news.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Heads Into Midterms Short On Foreign Policy Wins
“With the Iran war now at a costly standoff and crises from Ukraine to Gaza still unresolved, President Donald Trump’s ambitious foreign policy agenda appears stuck as he heads into November’s midterm elections,” Reuters reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Canada Will Retaliate as U.S. Imposes 50% Tariffs
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