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Ideas. Influence. Impact. TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

"It’s happening in Portland. It’s happened in L.A. It’s happening in D.C. ... To be frank with you, this isn’t about politics. This is genuinely about the future of our country. Do we believe in a constitutional republic, or do we think that it’s okay if this becomes the law of one?" trib.al/FA8Dioq

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President Trump can’t seem to explain why Americans are the ones responsible for making “Argentina great again" to the tune of $20 billion in taxpayer dollars. trib.al/p3jpDN2

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In an interesting turn of events, MAGA is now in favor of the government pressuring Big Tech platforms to censor users’ speech.

On Tuesday, AG Bondi revealed the DOJ got Facebook to remove a group page where users shared information about ICE operations in the Chicago area. trib.al/kpUJoNz

Pam Bondi Announces Facebook Caved and Removed ICE-Tracking Page

The Trump administration is getting social media platforms to bend to its will on content moderation.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1h

The American-born pope has released his first apostolic exhortation—the message is certain to rile conservatives.

Leo is making clear that the moral center of contemporary Catholicism is Latin America, where the theology of the poor and marginalized first formed half a century ago. trib.al/5tuWMNl

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia can be heard discussing a location “in a region” that’s “not safe, security-wise.” Trump says something, but can’t be heard clearly. trib.al/spYvqYq

Why does Indonesia’s president want a private meeting with Trump Organization leaders?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new press policy will ensure that the only outlet with a desk inside the Pentagon is a MAGA propaganda machine. trib.al/FWL97TX

Pete Hegseth Is About to Kick All Outlets Out of the Pentagon—but One

Only one network has agreed to sign Hegseth’s new rules for reporters.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.

She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/hDC7Vgv

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

In Trump’s first term, mainstream media outlets often made Trump’s actions the central focus of their coverage and covered them very negatively, combining the agenda-setting and framing powers into a force against the president.

Not anymore. trib.al/TJZoSpH

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CBS aired a segment by Olivia Reingold—a reporter for the Weiss-founded Free Press—in which NYPD officers are worried about Mamdani, with some “considering retiring.” The evidence? Four unnamed officers quoted out of ~33,000.

The story is thinly sourced, fearmongering, tabloid drek. trib.al/hfqsrL0

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

Ultimately, Trump’s desire to wield the military for his political agenda is startlingly like Egypt, which he showered with praise while celebrating the Israel-Palestine ceasefire.

Egypt is categorized as “not free” by Freedom House, and political opposition is nearly nonexistent. trib.al/QXPm3HX

Trump Is Now Begging Dem Leaders to Let Him Send in National Guard

Donald Trump pleaded for governors to “beg” him for help.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h

"This is constitutional, this is a right, and they’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know that it turns public opinion ... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular." trib.al/K4nrXgt

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Leave it to Trump to take issue with a glowing cover story about a ceasefire deal—that may come to define his term—because he doesn’t like the way he looks in it.

The picture isn’t even that bad. He always looks like that. trib.al/Se5wB9r

Trump Melts Down Over His Hair Disappearing on Time Magazine Cover

“What are they doing, and why?” Trump fumed in the middle of the night.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.” trib.al/dar37Om

Trump Cabinet Secretary Thinks Peaceful Protesters Are Terrorists

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

On a simple human level, this is a day to be celebrated. But, as Israeli analyst and former diplomat Alon Pinkas wrote at TNR last week (trib.al/KuC5ntb), there’s a strong chance Netanyahu will bide his time and find an occasion to blow this peace deal up. trib.al/ceiWSTS

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

At a peace summit in Egypt, Trump claimed he is “the only one that matters” (trib.al/n0P5wpR) and waxed poetic about Egypt’s ability to stomp out unrest. trib.al/wHdTAyG

"They have very little crime, because they don’t play games, that’s why. They don’t play games like we do, in the United States."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress, so they can end the impasse any time they want, all on their own. This shutdown reveals a much deeper dysfunction, to which blame can be wholly attached to Trump and his GOP enablers. trib.al/4RMmelX

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

During a press conference, Johnson was asked if he was “comfortable” with cuts that had reportedly decimated special education services at the Department of Education.

Johnson decided his best line of defense was to play dumb. trib.al/9kxsoWj

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h

Antifa be warned: The Trump administration is coming for you, but first they have to speak with some podcasters. trib.al/x94mgks

Trump’s Hunt for Antifa Is Already Falling Apart

A MAGA podcaster said the FBI essentially begged him for leads on the famously decentralized ideology.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

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The disturbances in Portland are basically limited to a single block. And Trump says the city is burning. Why would a president and his aides lie so nakedly about an American city?

For one thing, because they hate it. But mostly, because they want to make this nation a fearful one. trib.al/Eu0MgCh

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Not a single Democrat voted in July for the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts within President Trump’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill. trib.al/aiMllmQ

The only legislators who voted themselves tax cuts were Republicans—not a single Republican voted *against* the bill.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Yet another thing on the long list of what Donald Trump has deemed a “hoax.” trib.al/OPi9OMH

You Won’t Believe How Trump Just Described Watergate

Yet another thing on the long list of what Donald Trump has deemed a “hoax.”

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Speaking with CBS News, Vice President Vance couldn’t muster an answer as to why more than a thousand staffers at the CDC had been mistakenly laid off. trib.al/2sHa4To

“So, you ask, how does this mistake happen? It happened because Chuck Schumer shut down the government." Right.

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He’s embarrassingly desperate for the honor, even as his presidency becomes ever more dictatorial and bloodthirsty. trib.al/Gw50E9v

The Peace Prize is tantalizing because it’s a tangible and rarefied accomplishment—proof that he’s a winner, not an incompetent loser.

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President Trump—a man regarded by some as the most corrupt president in U.S. history and a flagrant abuser of the presidential pardon power—on Monday called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned for corruption charges. trib.al/hzrUsc8

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Last week, Hegeth announced the United States would build a facility in Idaho to “host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots,” and this week Vance is insisting that Hegseth’s own statement was “largely a fake story." trib.al/xzhWdHI

JD Vance Completely Undercuts Pete Hegseth on Qatar Military Base

Vance insisted that Hegseth’s own statement was a “fake story.”

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