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Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.

Why is Trump demolishing the White House's East Wing? Because he wants to | Arwa Mahdawi The president’s mega-project raises a lot of questions – including when he’s planning on leaving

Why is Trump demolishing the White House's East Wing? Because he wants to | Arwa Mahdawi

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Diane Keaton in ‘Reds’: A Remarkable Performance but Also a Returning Point

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Can Erika Kirk turn the tide? And why Bob Iger lost the plot. Whose words will live longer in the viral afterlife of the Charlie Kirk memorial?

Can Erika Kirk turn the tide? And why Bob Iger lost the plot.
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Trump’s War on Late-Night Comedy It could be his undoing

Trump’s War on Late-Night Comedy
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Trump Wants to Crack Down on “Debanking,” but He’s Dismantling a Regulator That Was Doing Just That An executive order seeking to stop banks from discriminating against customers could be undermined by the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been investiga...

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Since his second inauguration, we've heard from reasonable commentators that our checks and balances–and the Supreme Court, in particular–will rein Trump's apparent autocracy in.

In actuality, the Supreme Court laid the groundwork for everything that Trump is doing today. trib.al/dAzuIm6

Losing the plot: Bolsonaro verdict tests Brazil-US relations Also on the daily podcast: Niche sports surge and Downton’s Julian Fellowes

“Bolsonaro is now a kingmaker.” Hal Hodson tells “The Intelligence” why Brazil’s former president will still influence politics, despite a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup

MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama

TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor

M: Who was in office at the time?

T: Bush

M: No. Obama was in office

TAPPER: Not true

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Orange Lotus: How the Trump Show Outwits Reality One thing you have to acknowledge about Trump is that he understands the press so much better than the press understands him.

Orange Lotus: How the Trump Show Outwits Reality
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Is Delusion the Right's New "Weapon of Mass Destruction"? Militia attacks on weather radars aren’t just crimes: they’re symptoms of a deeper sickness that rightwing media, foreign trolls, and the GOP are using to devastate our democracy via lies and hate...

Is Delusion the Right's New "Weapon of Mass Destruction"?
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"We Are Going to Have Troops Everywhere" The war Trump wants.

"We Are Going to Have Troops Everywhere"
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When a President Spits on Unity: The ‘Scum’ Speech That Should Warn Us All Once you’ve labeled your opponents as subhuman, how do you work with them? How do you compromise? You don’t.

When a President Spits on Unity: The ‘Scum’ Speech That Should Warn Us All
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Judge Beryl Howell just issued a 101-page rebuke of Trump’s assault on the legal system—and named the law firms that bowed. This isn’t just about lawyers. It’s about democracy. When the law fears power, justice dies. #RuleOfLaw Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/1FvZ...

Stephen Miller is suing Chief Justice Roberts—yes, suing—to reclassify the judiciary as an arm of Trump’s executive branch. This isn’t a lawsuit. It’s a power grab. A constitutional coup in plain sight. If the courts fall, we fall with them. Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/18nf...

Trump’s first cabinet shake-up of term two is chaos by design. Waltz leaks ops, gets promoted. Rubio grabs power. And now Stephen Miller—the architect of cruelty—is poised to run U.S. national security. This isn’t a pivot. It’s a purge. Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DXW...

Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup Every stolen vote, every purged roll, every billionaire’s whisper in the ear of power — this is the legacy of John Roberts’ court…

Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup
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Please repeat over and over:

“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”

—Gov. JB Pritzker

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'Silenced Americans': Rubio shuttering disinfo office amid surge in foreign influence ops Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the government is shutting down a State Department office meant to fight foreign disinformation, alleging it "spent millions of dollars to actively silenc...

"Spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans."

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I believe he can fly . . . I believe he can touch the sky. And I'm hoping the big fat tub o' goo melts like the lard-laden Icarus that he is . . . may he crash in a big grease-fire puddle.

Ye gods . . .