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The Contrarian
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We are SO proud of Katie Zacharia on her new accomplishment of becoming the shortest-serving White House Press Secretary. Five days is impressive, kudos. 🎉🥳

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The Bulwark
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Bill Maher: Do you think you'll ever go back to the Republican Party? @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Under no circumstances." Maher: "You think it's gone for ever?" Longwell: "Voters don't want it back and the Republican Party is something completely different from the one I was part of."

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I think we should make all the #Billionaires who #SuckedUp to #Trump dig up the garden that he destroyed themselves - see all those old motherfuckers out sweating - get more cherry 🍒 trees 🌳 from #Japan 🇯🇵 and replant them.

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The Bulwark
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Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

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The Bulwark
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El-Sayed: “I’m a lot more focused on whether or not folks can afford their groceries or pay their rent. I'll leave it to other folks to have that conversation about the future of the Democratic Party.”

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The Bulwark
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“It just ripped the wiring out of the national security system.” CIA veteran Julia Curlee talks with Mona Charen about how purging expertise within the intelligence community is setting Trump 2.0 on the path to self-destruction.

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New York Times Opinion
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“Dolly might have been the most beloved living American, but in Tennessee she was something different,” our columnist David French writes. “One of my students, a young woman, said, ‘This must have been what it was like in London when the Queen died.’ And she was not alone.”

nyti.msOpinion | What Dolly Did for Tennessee Is What She Did for the WorldThis is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …

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The New York Times
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So far this year, New York City has issued permits for 74 projects that would convert old office buildings into homes to address its housing shortage, a New York Times analysis of city data shows. The pace of these office-to-residential conversions has quickened sharply.

nyti.msNew York Is Relying on Office Conversions to Address Its Housing CrisisA New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.

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PBS News
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"Two major conflicts seem to be starting to take away a lot of the maritime transit routes on which we are all reliant for global trade," says Ian Ralby. https://to.pbs.org/45DrFxP

to.pbs.orgHow shipping risks from Ukraine and Iran wars are convergingThe blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly all Middle Eastern oil flows, has prompted Saudi Arabia to call for a maritime defense coalition to protect Red Sea shipping. For perspective...

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MeidasTouch
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Pam Bondi’s portrait was taken down at DOJ and tossed in a trash bin soon after her firing. MS NOW obtained the photo. The move reflects how deeply unpopular she was among career officials. Ken Dilanian & Carol Leonnig scoop www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...