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This week in democracy:

- Donald Trump and his cronies at home are busy berating and threatening the free press.
- Pam Bondi is subpoenaed over the Epstein files.
- The FBI is buying your location data.

Read Zeteo's weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term: zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-61-trump

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In today's 'First Draft': "Trump embarrasses the US on the global stage, as his disastrous war becomes everyone's huge problem. Plus, you'll never guess why centrists are demanding Democrats stop attacking the 'Epstein class.'"

Read here, by Andrew Perez: zeteo.com/p/american-idiot-holds-world-hostage

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"The war [in Iran]… has birthed a more strident and unbending Islamic Republic.”

Vali Nasr examines how Iran’s new leadership reflects a shift away from restraint and toward a more hardline posture shaped by war.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader-w…

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Mojtaba Khamenei, and the younger hawks around him, think that Iranian restraint only encouraged American aggression. Trump could come to regret his regime change, writes Iranian-American Vali Nasr

Read: zeteo.com/p/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-supreme-leader-w…

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Why did Paramount cancel a Gaza panel… while hosting multiple pro-Israel ones?

In this week's 'Ragebait', Justin Baragona reports on Paramount canceling a Gaza panel, NYT “sanewashing” Trump, and CBS spinning Tony Dokoupil’s ratings drop.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/cbs-owner-paramount-pushed-pro-israel

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1 day ago | [YT] | 3,778

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Read Justin Baragona's latest scoop from Paramount land. Plus, the NYT gets caught sanewashing Trump again, and you won't believe how CBS News is spinning Tony Dokoupil's rating flop.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/cbs-owner-paramount-pushed-pro-israel

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“The US and Israel ensured that at the moment of truth, the dominant imperative inside Iran was… simply survival.”

Former US official Ilan Goldenberg lays out the 5 biggest lessons the Trump administration should have learned before starting a war with Iran.

Read here: zeteo.com/p/i-wargamed-iran-for-obama-this-is

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1 day ago | [YT] | 3,780

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In today's 'First Draft': "Politicians are behaving chillingly ordinary after the US killed 160+ children, the Pentagon seeks $200 billion more for the Iran war, and Markwayne Mullin has a bumpy hearing."

Read here, by Prem Thakker: zeteo.com/p/i-went-to-the-congressional-memorial

1 day ago | [YT] | 13,334

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I Wargamed Iran for Obama. This Is the Worst-Case Scenario

As a former US official, Ilan Goldenberg spent years gaming a conflict with Iran.

Here are 5 lessons he learned that Trump hasn't: zeteo.com/p/i-wargamed-iran-for-obama-this-is

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AIPAC Strikes Back

Andrew Perez on the pro-Israel lobby's victories in the Illinois Democratic primaries last night. Plus, a democracy watchdog says the US isn't a democracy anymore.

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