July 2025

Toothless election watchdogs, fake Musk filings and an old-school heist from Speaker Johnson's campaign warchest
A bam-bam-bam look-back at news breaks in July
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Dave Levinthal
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has a money problem that won't go away
The legacy of her 2022 congressional campaign? Debt, dozens of creditors and a federal audit.
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Dave Levinthal
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'Liberation Day 2.0,' Epstein everlasting and Trump in kilt-landia
Helping Canadians understand WTF is happening *now* with the United States
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Dave Levinthal
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White House boasts of a D.C. hospital pausing puberty blockers. But the hospital doesn't exist.
Anti-transgender statement is a St. Elsewhere moment of sorts.
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Dave Levinthal
What Hollywood wants most from Washington
Oh, it's not just Paramount that has a wish list
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Dave Levinthal
'Do not respond at all'
Internal emails and documents I obtained detail U.S. Geological Survey 'stonewalling' of journalists over Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dave Levinthal
A path forward for public media?
Times are grim for many radio and TV stations that rely on federal funding. But amid adversity, there's some hope.
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Dave Levinthal
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Jenna Flanagan
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Laura Jedeed
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Not a false equivalence — an equivalence!
Republicans and Democrats are quite alike in one notable respect.
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Dave Levinthal
SCOOP: Thief steals $10,000 from Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign
Theft from political committees is reaching epidemic levels
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Dave Levinthal
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Epstein files? They're just the beginning.
The Trump administration is withholding untold numbers of other government records while ignoring the Freedom of Information Act.
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Dave Levinthal
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