Stars & Stripes,
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Matthew Adams
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“Good morning, and welcome to the War Department because the era of the Department of Defense is over,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told hundreds of generals and admirals gathered Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. The secretary told the top military brass, summoned on short notice last week, that 10 directives would arrive in the inboxes of commands Tuesday. Some of the initiatives include adding combat field tests for combat arms units, emphasizing “male-level” standards for fitness, and seeing that every member of the joint force — including four-star generals — take a fitness test twice a year and meet height and weight requirements.
New York Post,
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Victor Nava
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President Trump used an AI-generated video to mock Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Monday, hours after he met with the Democratic congressional leaders at the White House to discuss the looming government shutdown.
The faux footage, posted by Trump on Truth Social, shows Jeffries – depicted with a mustache and sombrero – standing silently next to Schumer, who, in a fake voice, argues in favor of giving “illegal aliens free healthcare” as part of an effort to court “new voters” for the Democratic Party.
A traditional Mexican folk song plays over the 35-second video, for which the White House appears to serve as the backdrop.
The Guardian,
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George Chidi
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At an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”
Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise.
New York Post,
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Editorial Board
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President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end the Gaza war, deliver the hostages, remove Hamas from power, ensure security for Israel and rebuild Gaza is ambitious and welcome, offering a real hope for regional peace and prosperity — if Hamas will take it, and maybe even if the terrorists won’t.
The plan, conceived in concert with a range of regional powers, is equal parts idealistic and practical.
And perhaps its most idealistic piece, the proposed “Board of Peace” — a multinational and interagency overseer to shepherd Gaza’s postwar progress — is the only realistic route out of this ghastly vortex.
Fox News,
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Andrew Mark Miller
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Paul Steinhauser
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New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, who is currently embroiled in a controversy involving a cheating scandal while she studied at the U.S. Naval Academy, is facing questions and accusations of nepotism over her children being admitted to that same academy earlier this year.
"I am so proud of all the young men and women from NJ-11 who are reporting to the military academies or academy preparatory programs this summer," Sherrill said in a June press release highlighting 24 students from her district being appointed to various military academies including two of her children, Lincoln and Margaret Hedberg.
USA Today,
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Nicole Russell
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They say the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes, but I think I could add a third axiom to that list: President Donald Trump will vow to fix a problem, Democrats will claim it isn't a problem, or that he's an authoritarian overreacting. Trump will fix it anyway; they'll admit he was half-right, and the cycle will start over. This happened with the overrun border and a National Guard presence in Washington, DC, and it's bound to happen in Portland, Oregon, too.
Oregon and Portland have sued the Trump administration after the president announced
Substack,
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Kelsey Piper
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This month, the Department of Education released its latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the standardized tests better known as the Nation’s Report Card. The results have left me blazing with rage.
In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school fourth graders can read proficiently. Fully 41% cannot even read at a basic level — which is to say, they cannot really understand and interpret written text at all. Eighth graders, as you might expect, look almost as bad.
These numbers have been tumbling downhill in California and more widely across the U.S. for years now,
Real Clear Politics,
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Hayden Ludwig
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Who is the census for? Or more importantly, who does Congress represent? If you answered "U.S. citizens," you're correct – or at least you should be.
At the start of each decade, the federal government tallies who's living in the country and where, citizens and non-citizens alike. That census data determines how many seats in the House of Representatives each state receives, as well as its share of Electoral College votes for president. This whole process is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, the part most focused on proper representation.
But representation for whom? Since 1790, anyone and everyone living within America's borders, "excluding Indians not taxed."
The Hill,
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Doug E. Schoen
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris released the full version of her tell-all political memoir last week, writing in intense detail about the 107 days of her presidential campaign and what she believes were the moments that ultimately cost her the presidency.
The book pulls back the curtain on Harris’s historically short presidential run. But in doing so, it has somehow managed to put the Democratic Party in a worse spot than it once was. It also did Harris herself no favors as she contemplates another shot at the White House. As longtime Democratic operative David Axelrod put it, “If there’s a political strategy here (for Harris), it’s a bad one.”
Real Clear Politics,
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Tim Hains
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Former Rep. Devin Nunes suggested during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures" that the latest charges against former FBI Director James Comey aren't everything, suggesting "a grand conspiracy charge... against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years."
DEVIN NUNES: I think Comey should consider himself lucky, Maria, number one, that he wasn't treated like Roger Stone was treated, who had a very similar charge, where they actually raided his home at 6:00 a.m., drug him out.
American Greatness,
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Victor Davis Hanson
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We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process. It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick. We know, however, that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential fines, nor 93 indictments, nor the scrutiny of five different local, state, and federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the J6 arrested, will he be sent to solitary confinement
Deutsche Welle [Germany],
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John Silk
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Denmark on Sunday ordered a ban on civil drone flights, after several unmanned aerial vehicles were witnessed at military facilities overnight, following a week in which drone sorties caused the temporary closures of several airports in the Nordic country.
The Danish military said it had deployed "several capacities" in response to the overnight drone sightings.
Earlier this week, drones forced Denmark to close its airports, including Copenhagen Airport, which was closed for nearly four hours on Monday. Denmark has called the drones part of a "hybrid attack" but the government has stopped short of saying definitively who it believes is behind the missions.