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12:20 PM ET, May 13, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump's Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts  —  The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week.  —  President Donald Trump kicks off the first major international trip of his second term Tuesday …
Discussion: DNyuz, ABC News and Townhall
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns  —  The second Trump administration is blowing through limits on the mixing of public office and personal benefits.  —  阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.
Washington Post:
Trump's gifted Qatari 747 would be a security problem, officials say  —  The luxury jet was moved five weeks ago to San Antonio International Airport, suggesting that preparations for improvements to the plane might already be underway.  —  President Donald Trump on Monday praised Qatar …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
May 12, 2025  —  The biggest news over the weekend was silence: the silence of Republicans.  They refused to disavow White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller's statement that the administration is looking at suspending the writ of habeas corpus, that is, essentially declaring martial law.
Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: A Used Plane That Needs Work  —  I have problems with the Qatar plane deal.  —  benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org  —  Meet The Authors … The Situation on Wednesday considered whether there's any way to stop Donald Trump's parade of crypto corruption.  —  Today let's consider the gift airplane.
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Trump's Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed Is Deforming America
Discussion: New Republic
Politico:
Trump's free plane is not so free
The Guardian:
Trump gives speech after US and Saudi Arabia sign $142bn defense sales agreement - live
Kim Ghattas / Financial Times:
Trump's patience with Netanyahu is running out
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Addresses Saudi Investment Forum as He Begins Gulf Tour
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were re-elected, new book says  —  This story is adapted from the forthcoming book “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson.
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Martha McHardy / Newsweek:
MAGA Attacks Church Over Donald Trump Rebuke: ‘Funds MUST Be Pulled’  —  A firestorm has erupted on the American right after the Episcopal Church said it is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans who were granted refugee status.  —  Why It Matters
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German Lopez / New York Times:   Tariff Flip-Flops  —  Despite President Trump's claims, America seems to need other countries' trade as much as they need ours.
Alondra Nelson / Time:
Why I'm Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress  —  Today, I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.  —  Even as the White House threatens the foundational tenets of constitutional democracy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
D.N.C. Takes Step to Void Election of Hogg and Kenyatta as Vice Chairs  —  David Hogg has faced sharp criticism for his plan to fund challenges to incumbent Democrats, but a D.N.C. vote on Monday began with an earlier complaint about the procedures used in an internal party election.
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Kseniia Petrova / New York Times:
The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren't in ICE Detention  —  When I moved to America from Russia to join a biology lab at Harvard Medical School in 2023, it felt as if I found my dream job.  America was a paradise for science.  Everything was flourishing.  There was freedom of discourse; conferences, seminars.
Discussion: USA Today
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Guess Which Other World Leader Said ‘Yes’ to Free Qatari Jet?  —  THE COMPANY YOU KEEP  —  Donald Trump isn't the first president to be offered a free luxury jet worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the ruling family of Qatar.  In 2018, Sheikh Tamim Al Thani gifted Turkey's President …
Discussion: EURASIAN TIMES
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, shared photos of himself and his grandchildren swimming in waters that handle sewer overflow.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday …
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
The Congressional Budget Office Still Works  —  The nonpartisan CBO that scores legislation is giving an honest analysis of President Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” and that's a good thing.  —  On Sunday, House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee released the details …
New York Times:
Trump Signs Executive Order Asking Companies to Lower Drug Prices  —  The president has long complained that the United States pays more for medicines than other wealthy countries.  But he offered no clear legal authority to mandate lower prices.  —  President Trump on Monday signed …
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James Politi / Financial Times:
Donald Trump leans left in bid to revive flagging poll numbers
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says  —  Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.  —  Chief Justice John Roberts described the rule of law as “endangered” and warned against “trashing the justices,” …
Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
Trump's Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher  —  His lawless view of his sovereign powers was articulated by Carl Schmitt  —  In a legal filing defending Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act (of “Alien and Sedition Acts” notoriety) …
Politico:
‘The bill is dead’: New York Republican blasts House GOP's chief tax writer  —  New York GOP Rep. Nick LaLota said he was “insulted” by how Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith presented a proposal for a key tax deduction on a Monday morning call.  —  New York Republican Rep. Nick LaLota …
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Jacob Sullum / Reason:
Defenders of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Offer an Implausible Take on a 127-Year-Old Precedent  —  On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding three preliminary injunctions against a January 20 executive order that purported to eliminate birthright citizenship except …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
In birthright citizenship case, US Supreme Court gets two controversies in one
Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of Arizona operations  —  A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that's inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier's flight attendants.
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump's Deportation Campaign
Discussion: Hartford Courant
George Saunders / New York Times:
Shame on the White House  —  If the White House wants to fire the librarian of Congress, it can.  But it was interesting to have recently had the experience of meeting this dynamic, dedicated person, and feeling so proud that she was our librarian of Congress, then reading the White House's sloppy …
Discussion: DNyuz
New York Times:
Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia … President Trump has never bought into long-running military entanglements in the Middle East.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times  —  When he approved a campaign to reopen shipping in the Red Sea by bombing the Houthi militant group …
Discussion: emptywheel
Amanda Mull / Bloomberg:
Trump Has Already Ruined Christmas  —  Even if the president were to call off the tariffs tomorrow, he's unleashed a series of supply chain shocks that will cause consumers pain beyond store shelves. … The afternoons are getting warmer, the cherry blossoms have bloomed …
Discussion: HotAir and DNyuz
Christian Paz / Vox:
The rise of the regretful Trump voter  —  PHILADELPHIA — In September 2024, Sharita White made a desperate choice.  After supporting Democrats in previous presidential election cycles, the 37-year-old Black Philadelphian decided she would cast her ballot for Donald Trump.
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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