The incredibly long list of family members and, frankly, assorted other random adults that I just told a summer camp are authorized to pick up my 6-year-old... really underscores the It Takes A Village approach (and even then, it's still a house of cards).

Today’s Murkowski Moment™. Asked how she felt about recissions, she said, “Concerned. Apparently, that's what you journalists say, ‘Murkowski is always concerned.’” Reporters: That’s Collins Murkowski: “So what’s my version?” Rs: Frustrated M: “Oh, true. Super frustrated.”

“An octogenarian Air Force retiree who spent half a century in his nation’s service was not allowed to attend a party for a dog he essentially donated to the government and named after his dead wife.” ⁦Shane Harris⁩ on Trump’s retribution theatlantic.com/national-secur…

OH on the monitor this morning, following indistinct shouting and crying: *The 6-year-old to the 2-year-old: "Alright! Let's make a deal! Do you want to do a deal?"

NEW: The White House mulled ways to quell the Epstein furor: Appoint a special counsel. Unseal court documents. Have Bondi address the press. Could Trump hold *daily* news conferences à la his COVID briefings? Then the birthday card story exploded: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

“Trump—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their behalf—had repeatedly told them it was time to move on from Epstein and that alone should suffice” (w/⁦Ashley Parker⁩) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The White House mulled ways to quell the Epstein furor: Appoint a special counsel. Unseal court documents. Have Bondi address the press. Could Trump hold *daily* news conferences à la his COVID briefings? Then the birthday card story exploded: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Trump has raged against MAGA influencers who, in his estimation, have profited and grown famous off their association with him and his political movement Trump said the “disloyal” influencers “have forgotten whose name is above the door” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

I was at a playground w my kids when the news broke. I called a babysitter first, then my editors. Wild day.

🔥 💃 👀 (Also, Toluse Olorunnipa +Robert Samuels George Floyd book is one of the few I broke my No Non Fiction rule for…)

"But lately, his posts are not having the desired effect. It’s possible that what observers witnessed this weekend is a tipping point of sorts. Trump’s posts, instead of influencing reality, suggest that the president is retreating from it entirely" theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Yes, come for Michael M. Grynbaum's deliciously juicy new book on Condé Nast. And stay for the tales of two kid reporters, locked in a glass huddle room, working on a story (which still holds up! ) on a candidate v few took seriously in the summer of 2016: Donald Trump.

Scoop: Minnesota Gov Tim Walz and Kansas Gov Laura Kelly are dropping membership of National Governors Association over frustrations with how the group has responded to Trump, other concerns. W/ Ashley Parker theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

NEW: Tension at the NGA. Dem governors are frustrated w what they view as the group’s silence in the Trump era—and two governors (Walz and Kelly) are about to step back and stop paying dues. W/ Michael Scherer: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

NEW: Tim Walz and Laura Kelly leaving NGA.

My 6-year-old takes a school bus about an hour to camp each day. And I have just learned that a poor bus wrangler has an official Vomit Bucket to deal with all the inevitable puke each day. #hero 🤢

Jasmine Crockett gets the Elaine Godfrey treatment (and it doesn't disappoint): theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

I cannot tell you the number of times (first at the NYT, then at the WaPo) when I wasn't sure about some complicated issue, and I always turned to the WaPo Fact Checker for a clear, honest and understandable answer. Glenn Kessler was its heart, and his is another big loss.

In Elbridge Colby’s view, the only way to stop Beijing is to pivot away from the rest of the world, Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف, Jonathan Lemire, and Missy Ryan report. To remain superpowerful, in other words, the U.S. may need to temporarily stop superpowering. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

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