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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Democrats’ priority “now must be to show that the threat of authoritarian rule is real and unfolding every day,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says in his first piece as a contributing writer for Times Opinion. “The economy will always be with us. Our free institutions might not.”

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

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DOGE staffer Akash Bobba knew that he hadn’t turned up evidence of 12 million “vampires” collecting Social Security benefits, and he tried to communicate this fact to Elon Musk, but to no avail, SSA officials say.

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Top executives of a company that owns strip clubs across the U.S. sent an auditor on at least 13 free trips to Florida, lavishing him with lap dances in an effort to avoid paying millions in taxes, according to the New York attorney general’s office.

NEWS On the heels of Lisa Cook's victory in the D.C. Circuit, Reuters knocks down another foundation of the Trump admin's mortgage fraud claims. The property tax authority over Cook's Michigan home found “no reason to believe” she broke the rules, per the wire. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

How an Emirati Royal Won the Battle for A.I. Chips. And the Trump and Witkoff families earned millions of dollars. A video overview of our NYT investigation by my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

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'If my story can help someone ... I have won': 9/11 survivor leaves finance to become a nurse www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

European leaders accused Russia of a deliberate incursion by sending drones to invade Polish airspace. “If the Russians were trying to test NATO, NATO passed that test with flying colors,” an official said.

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Jocelyn Brooks pursued her dream of working in medicine after she escaped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “I want to hold somebody’s hands when they’re crying and when they’re at their lowest because I survived,” she said. https://wapo.st/4maoHa8

OK, I’ll admit it: Envying Brazil its seemingly principled Supreme Court wasn’t on my bingo card. Like, not ever. apnews.com/article/braz...

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WATCH: Tonight on public television across the nation, the premiere of the new documentary “Becoming Thurgood.” It’s so good. Check your PBS and public television schedules. It is part of #HBCUWeek on PBS.

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Imagine going on cable news and telling millions of people you lack even basic critical thinking skills

Epstein victims' attorney Kuvin: [Epstein's co-conspirators] remain unnamed. The feds know who they are, but they’re refusing to disclose it. The public needs to know, and the public deserves to judge for themselves why someone may have been at Epstein’s home with a bunch of topless underage girls

ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)

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The most important election of the year.

Best part of the Harvard ruling from today is when the judge repeatedly quotes Trump boasting over and over again that what he’s doing is exactly retaliation

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

The Trump administration in a nutshell (from www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...)

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Here’s the source of this amazing story.

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OPINION Lawrence: Trump uses his desk to hide his swollen ankles & his Atty. Gen. to hide the Epstein files @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com describes how Donald Trump can hide his ankles from European leaders behind the Resolute Desk, but “that is the only problem the desk can help Donald Trump hide.”

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