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How Did Football Buddies From Utah Join a Coup in the Congo?

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The Long History of Donald Trump Pretending to Be Superman

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screen time -- The Future of Tech Regulation Is Both Stupid and Scary -- John Herrman -- Missouri's attorney general is trying to force AI companies to make their chatbots give partisan answers. Will they fight back?

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the city politic -- Inside the Well-Funded, Likely Doomed Plan to Stop Mamdani -- David Freedlander -- A lot of donors "are not behaving rationally," one operative said.

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politics -- The Anti-Mamdanis Are Still Fighting Among Themselves -- Nia Prater -- While Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa try to elbow each other aside, donors are just lining up behind the idea of stopping Mandani.

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The Black Americans Gentrifying Ghana -- Kéchi Nne Nomu

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early and often -- Iowa's Joni Ernst May Just Hang It Up and Go Home -- Ed Kilgore -- The once-ascending senator has lost steam after getting bullied into backing Pete Hegseth and horribly mishandling protests over Medicaid cuts.

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early and often -- Trump's Mass State Department Layoffs Upend Foreign Policy -- Ed Kilgore -- Along with rescissions hitting foreign aid, the new round of firings shows Trump is still bent on tearing down bipartisan foreign-policy traditions.

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politics -- Here Comes the Backlash to Trump's Immigration Crackdown -- Nia Prater -- Gallup found that 62 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the issue, and there are signs of erosion among Republicans, too.

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forget to code -- Big Tech Is Making Big Money. Time for More Layoffs? -- John Herrman -- Working for the tech giants used to be considered a lucrative, super-stable career. Those days are over.

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7/11/2025 - the approval matrix - The Approval Matrix: When Isn't Ted Cruz on Vacation? Our guide to what's highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.

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the law -- Nobody Trusts Pam Bondi -- Elie Honig -- From hopeless partisanship to constant bullshitting to her botched handling of the Epstein files, the attorney general has alienated nearly everyone.

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early and often -- Will MAGA Cred Let Ken Paxton Survive Yet Another Scandal? -- Ed Kilgore -- The Texas attorney general's divorce could upend his effort to oust John Cornyn from the U.S. Senate — or loyalty to Trump could save him once again.

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side quests -- Bill Ackman Got Smoked in a Pro Tennis Doubles Tournament -- Matt Stieb -- You can't buy athleticism.

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early and often -- Trump Pushes Texas Republicans Into Risky Midterms Power Grab -- Ed Kilgore -- It's going to be tough for the GOP to hang on to the House. But tilting the map via redistricting in Texas and Ohio could help.

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politics -- Trump's EPA Just Released an Infomercial for Conspiracy Theorists -- Allison Quinn -- "To anyone who's ever looked up to the streaks in the sky and asked, What the heck is going on?," Lee Zeldin has an answer for you.

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early and often -- Can Trump Really Deport Elon Musk and Zohran Mamdani? -- Margaret Hartmann -- The president's vague threats make booting out his political enemies sound easy. Here's what he can actually do.

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7/10/2025 - politics - Why Did Trump Tap an 'Alpha Male' Influencer for Ambassadorship? By - Nia Prater - and - Chas Danner - Nick Adams, a prolific X poster who projects hypermasculinity, has been nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia.

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natural disasters -- Kristi Noem Laughs Off Criticism of Her Texas Flood Response -- Allison Quinn -- FEMA officials say Noem took days to sign off on the deployment of resources to assist with the search and recovery efforts.

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early and often -- Why the GOP's Recycled Midterms Strategy Won't Work -- Ed Kilgore -- Sadly for the Republicans, midterm turnout is always lower, they won't have Biden to run against, and Trump may be losing ground.

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gen z -- Who Wants to Have Sex? -- Sarah Jones -- Gen Z is doing it less than millennials, leading to a familiar moral panic.

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american affairs -- Did the One Big Beautiful Act Accidentally Gut the Gambling Industry? -- Ross Barkan -- Buried among it's many damaging provisions is at least one happy surprise.

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the power trip -- The New Gold Rush for MAGA Lobbyists -- Ben Terris -- "I haven't even had time to make it to the golf course since November," said one lobbyist.

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early and often -- Trump's Tariff Letters to World Leaders Are Copied and Pasted -- Allison Quinn -- The spam is coming from the White House.

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early and often -- Racial Profiling Could Create Mass Backlash to Mass Deportations -- Ed Kilgore -- ICE isn't targeting violent criminals and perhaps not even noncitizens. As the hard-line crackdown accelerates, there could be political hell to pay.

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screen time -- How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi -- John Herrman -- The chatbot's sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.

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