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First, a reminder from Trump’s speech yesterday: President Donald Trump announced the renaming of several military bases and proposed jail time for flag burners during a military-themed speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Along with remarks honoring military members, including a 100-year-old World War II veteran, Trump noted that Los Angeles protesters have brandished foreign flags and burned U.S. …

The San Antonio News-Express reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has deployed National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of planned protests in the city against a Trump administration crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The San Antonio Police Department said Chief William McManus contacted state officials Monday night seeking to confirm the presence of guardsmen in the city. McManus “was able …

First, a reminder from Reason: Five years ago last Tuesday, The New York Times, after considerable internal turmoil, published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.) advocating that the federal government unilaterally send military troops to quell the riots ripping through the country in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The piece led directly to the …

“I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tarred and feathered, I’ll say that. He’s standing in the way of the administration of carrying out federal law. He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys. He is a participant, an accomplice.” …

The cult is screaming about this: Christy Walton, an heiress to the Walmart fortune, is facing blowback from MAGA-inspired Republicans over a full-page ad in The New York Times promoting the “No Kings Day” protests against President Trump. The paid political ad features an image of the Statue of Liberty alongside a series of public declarations, including “WE honor our …

NBC News reports: Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who heads the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, raised concerns in a brief post on social media about the Health and Human Services Department’s gutting of an independent vaccine advisory committee. Cassidy wouldn’t elaborate on that warning when Capitol reporters asked about it last night. But the decision comes weeks …

Just in via press release: Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) announced he will introduce legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to take severe action against those who assault law enforcement personnel, including ICE Agents or CBP officials. If enacted, the Curbing Offenses on Policing Services (COPS Act) would increase jail time and civil fines for assaulting a law enforcement …

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s political team is encouraging Republican leaders in Texas to examine how House district lines in the state could be redrawn ahead of next year’s midterm elections to try to save the party’s endangered majority. The push from Washington has unnerved some Texas Republicans, who worry that reworking the boundaries of Texas House seats …

The Hill reports: Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) on Monday said he plans to resign from Congress after the House holds a final vote on the party’s “big, beautiful bill,” giving up his seat as well as his leadership post on the House Homeland Security Committee. Green said he has already lined up a job outside of Congress. “It is with …

Axios reports: Senate Republican leadership is urging senators to double down on condemning the chaotic protests that erupted over the weekend in Los Angeles, Axios has learned. Republicans are convinced they have a winning issue. “This gives us an opportunity to remind Americans how extreme the Democratic party is on immigration,” Sen. Tom Cotton’s office wrote to communications staff on …

NBC News reports: Bradley Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi, lost his bid for president of the D.C. Bar, receiving 3,490 votes compared with opponent Diane Seltzer’s 34,982. Seltzer, an employment lawyer who ran a campaign focused on supporting members of the organization at a time of “governmental chaos,” said after the results were announced Monday that she …

NOTUS reports: The reconciliation bill has given Republicans a way to target abortion access in states that legally protect it: threatening their federal health care funding. House Republicans added a last-minute provision to their reconciliation bill via a manager’s amendment that would block certain Affordable Care Act funds from going to state health plans that cover abortion services. There are …

The New York Times reports: Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership, a new study has found. In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling, the researchers reported, and in some, they …

“We have ICE agents getting hurt, all right? The federal government has the ability, has the right, to defend the federal agents. Why does California want to allow people to become violent? I don’t understand why the Mayor and the Governor don’t care about the safety of their citizens. “Democrats have all been okay with criminals and terrorists and narco-traffickers …

The Miami Herald reports: A Miami Republican who co-founded the group Latinas for Trump is condemning President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign and blasting recent immigration enforcement actions as harmful. “This is not what we voted for,” State Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement on Saturday. “I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and …

The Advance reports: When James Woods tweeted a video of burning police cars on Sunday with the caption, “If I hear one more leftist shill in mainstream media utter the words ‘peaceful protests,’ I’ll throw up,” the truth brigade jumped on it immediately. Woods was intimating that the video was from current L.A. protests over Trump’s unconstitutional immigration enforcement. In …

“It’s tragic to see what’s happening in L.A. I spent 20 years in the military. I fought in two wars. I fought to give people the freedom to protest whatever the hell they want to. But what we’re seeing in L.A. are not advocates. We’re seeing anarchists, and the president of the United States should absolutely put down the mob …

The Hill reports: Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said President Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 National Guardsmen to the Los Angeles area without a governor’s signoff is an effort to “de-escalate” the situation. “I think what President Trump’s trying to do is pretty clear. He’s trying to de-escalate all the tensions that are there,” he said. “What President Trump is trying …

NOLA.com reports: The Louisiana Legislature has passed a new bill to outlaw “chemtrails,” a made-up and very fake thing that conspiracy theorists and other assorted fringe people believe in. Because of course. This clearly unhinged theory claims that those streaks are actually dangerous chemicals that “they” are pumping into the sky for … reasons. Who are “they?” That’s a great …

Flagler Live reports: The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has sent a cease and desist letter to an Orlando Sentinel reporter who has been digging into the Hope Florida scandal. Jeffrey Schweers, the Sentinel’s Tallahassee bureau reporter, has broken some scoops regarding the embattled charity backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis. Schweers recently wrote about …