memeorandum: Student Loans Make it Hard to Rent or Buy a Home (Natalie Kitroeff/New York Times)

10:50 AM ET, June 7, 2014

Top Items:

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Rand Paul: Let's trade Dems, not Taliban — FORT WORTH, Texas — Sen. Rand Paul on Friday likened Democrats to the recently released Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay in a speech here at the Texas GOP convention. — “Mr. President, you love to trade people,” …

Discussion: Joe. My. God., Business Insider and The New Civil Rights Movement

Kathleen Hunter / Bloomberg:

No Evidence of ‘Credible Threat’ to Bergdahl: Feinstein — The Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman said she hasn't been convinced that there was a “credible threat” against the life of freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl that motivated the White House to keep its plans secret from Congress.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and CNN

Washington Post:
The Bergdahl boomerang: GOP lawmakers who long urged a rescue now sour on the idea

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Conservatives4Palin

Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Four Things To Keep In Mind Regarding Bowe Bergdahl

Discussion: Hot Air and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein: No threat to Bergdahl

Discussion: Townhall.com and Hot Air

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
John Podesta: U.S. can monitor detainees released in Bergdahl deal

Discussion: The Hill

Jason Stein / JSOnline:

Federal judge overturns Wisconsin's gay marriage ban — Judi Trampf (left) and her partner Katy Heyning speak during a news conference in February by the American Civil Liberties Union about a lawsuit challenging the state's seven-year-old ban on gay marriage. A federal judge in Madison on Friday overturned the ban.

Discussion: Althouse, ACS Blog, Outside the Beltway, SCOTUSblog, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Ban On Same-Sex Couples' Marriages — The judge held off on issuing an injunction stopping enforcement of the ban until at least June 16. [ Update: Some counties, however, are marrying couples immediately — but the state's attorney general is trying to stop that. ]

Discussion: CNN and ThinkProgress

WISC-TV:
Dane County Clerk to stay open late after same-sex ruling

Discussion: The Week

Washington Post:
Half of Americans say gay marriage is a constitutional right

Discussion: Guardian, Metro Weekly and Daily Kos

CNN:

Actor Tracy Morgan in critical condition after six-vehicle accident in New Jersey — (CNN) — Actor Tracy Morgan is in critical condition after a six-vehicle accident in New Jersey early Saturday, authorities said. — The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member and “30 Rock” …

Discussion: Mediaite, Gawker, Scared Monkeys, The Huffington Post and WAMC

ABC News:

Hillary Clinton Won't Second Guess President Obama's ‘Very Hard Choice’ On Bergdahl … In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton defended President Obama's decision to swap five Taliban prisoners for U.S. solider Bowe Bergdahl, saying she won't second guess him.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, CNN, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, Washington Post, National Review, CBS News and ABC News

Chris Good / ABC News:

Hillary Clinton: ‘No Lingering Effects’ From ‘Serious’ Concussion … Hillary Clinton has not experienced any sustained after-effects from the concussion that sidelined her from her work at the State Department in late 2012 and early 2013, the former secretary of state told ABC News' Diane Sawyer …

Discussion: Business Insider

Travis / Uber Blog:

4 Years In — We have some exciting news to share this morning. We have just closed a financing round with some of the leading investors in the world, raising $1.2B of primary capital at a $17B pre-money valuation. The total raise will be about $1.4B with a second close of strategic investors soon.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post, The Verge, Gigaom, Mashable and NPR

Wall Street Journal:
Uber has an uber-valuation of $18.2 billion after securing $1.2 billion in additional funding.

Discussion: WAMC, Engadget and Re/code

Associated Press:

British D-Day vet ditches nursing home for secret trip to Normandy — LONDON (AP) — An 89-year old World War II veteran who was reported missing from a nursing home in England has been found in Normandy after traveling to attend D-Day commemorations, police said Friday.

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Outside the Beltway

BBC:
D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Balloon Juice, Hot Air, The Raw Story, WAMC, The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo

Claire Phipps / Guardian:
D-day landings 70th anniversary live coverage

Discussion: Daily Kos and Gawker

Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:

Student Loans Make it Hard to Rent or Buy a Home — For young people, moving to New York City hasn't made much mathematical sense for decades. The jobs don't pay enough, the internships don't pay at all, and the rents are prohibitive by any sane standard.

Discussion: Vox Popoli

American Prospect:

Progressives Win Big In Democratic Congressional Primaries — On Tuesday, in competitive primaries from New Jersey to Iowa to California, voters chose bold progressive Democrats over more conservative and corporate Democrats, handing big victories to the “Elizabeth Warren wing” of the Democratic Party.

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Was There A Struggle For the Soul of the Democratic Party on June 3?

Discussion: Democratic Strategist

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

D-Day Interpretive Dance Caps Off Month of Disrespect for Vets — If you weren't sure that the Western world's supposed admiration for the sacrifices of military veterans was just lip service, you were privy to a rather definitive confirmation of that fact in the past four weeks.

Discussion: Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Brooklyn Will Vie to Host 2016 Democratic National Convention, de Blasio Says — Brooklyn, a nexus of the new Democratic left that has morphed from working-class enclave to a gritty, global arbiter of cool, will vie to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City said on Friday.