After the Cameras
What they wrote when the cameras stopped rolling

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03
Apr

Pam Bondi: “Eternally Grateful”

President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, ending a turbulent 14-month tenure defined by fallout over the Epstein file release and frustration that she had not aggressively enough prosecuted his political opponents.
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02
Apr

Cecillia Wang: “Born on This Soil”

ACLU lawyer Cecillia Wang argued before the Supreme Court against President Trump's executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship, with Trump himself sitting in the courtroom — the first sitting president ever to attend oral arguments.
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01
Apr

Victor Glover: “The Weight Up Here”

NASA launched the Artemis II mission at 6:24 p.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center, sending astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day lunar flyby — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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31
Mar

Benjamin Netanyahu: “Four to Six Weeks”

The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump told aides he is prepared to wind down the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, prioritizing a four-to-six-week timeline over the complete reopening of the waterway.
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30
Mar

Pete Hegseth: “The Weight of the Pen”

The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump is considering deploying U.S. troops into Iran to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of enriched uranium from buried nuclear sites at Isfahan and Natanz. Secretary Hegseth stated the U.S.
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29
Mar

Tim Walz: “After the Roar Stopped”

Governor Tim Walz headlined the flagship 'No Kings' rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 28, drawing an estimated 200,000 people to the state capitol as part of what organizers called the largest single-day protest in US history with 8 million participants nationwide.
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28
Mar

Mike Johnson: “The Math Doesn't Lie”

Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a bipartisan Senate-passed bill to fund most of DHS, calling it 'a joke' and a 'crap sandwich,' and instead rammed through a 60-day stopgap funding bill on a 213-203 vote that Senate Democrats have declared 'dead on arrival.
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27
Mar

John Thune: “The Line at Dulles”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune dismissed Democrats' latest compromise to end the partial government shutdown as 'not even close to being real,' blocking a deal hours before Congress is scheduled to leave for a two-week recess.
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26
Mar

Marco Rubio: “Versailles Again”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling to a G7 foreign ministers meeting near Versailles to persuade skeptical allies to support the U.S.-Iran war strategy, even as the conflict has sent global fuel prices soaring and strained transatlantic relationships.
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25
Mar

Gavin Newsom: “Sort Of”

In a Politico interview published today, California Governor Gavin Newsom walked back his March 5 'Pod Save America' remarks in which he described Israel as 'sort of an apartheid state,' saying he regrets using the word in that context.
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