YouTube: “With rare access and unflinching restraint, the documentary The Alabama Solution exposes the human cost of confinement in stark – at times difficult to watch – detail. The film sets out and succeeds in offering a view of a mass incarceration system laid bare. If what we see is functioning as designed, should it…

The Atlantic: “Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana congressional candidate Blake Miguez, the Republican contender posted a video from outside the West Wing boasting of his close relationship with Trump and his team. “I just got done having some great meetings with the White House,” he told his supporters…

NY Times: “Last week, James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, was speaking to a packed house at the Queens Harbour Yacht and Country Club in Jacksonville. Every one of the room’s almost 100 seats was taken, and people were standing several rows deep around the perimeter, with more listening from the lobby…

CBS News: “Eight defendants were found guilty Friday of providing material support to terrorists for their roles in the antifa attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in 2025, marking one of the most sweeping terrorism‑related convictions in the case to date. The verdicts came as nine defendants stood accused in the July 4, 2025,…

Political Wire: “A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally,” NBC News reports. “Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host,…

WaPo: “The 2026 midterm election season kicks off Tuesday with primaries in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas, including several high-profile contests that will set the tone for November as voters weigh in on President Donald Trump’s second administration and Democrats debate their party’s direction…. The night’s primaries will also kick into high gear with two…

WaPo: “Fifteen feet beneath the surface, divers drifted through one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida, spotting juvenile parrotfish and grunts darting between branches of staghorn coral that survived the catastrophic heat waves and disease outbreaks that have rendered their species all but extinct in the continental United States. But soon, this refuge could also…

NY Times: “Representative Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye in Afghanistan, has voted in lock step with President Trump’s second-term agenda. But the fourth-term Republican has condemned Mr. Trump’s election denialism, split with some in his party on immigration and feuded with the right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson. Now, he is trying…

WaPo: “Authorities are investigating whether a man who fatally shot two people and wounded 14 others at a popular bar in Austin’s Sixth Street entertainment district early Sunday was motivated by the U.S. military campaign in Iran, according to two people briefed on the investigationPolice identified the gunman, who was killed by officers at the…

NY Times: “Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas in the state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago. Ms. Crockett is locked in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial…