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2:15 PM ET, May 22, 2025

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Republican Party's Populist Betrayal  —  There were lots of last-minute tweaks to the Big, Beautiful Bill the House passed this morning, but here, per the New York Times, is the most openly stupid one: … Happy Thursday.  —  Another Win for the Plutocrats  —  by Andrew Egger
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New York Times:
Here are some of the changes to the House bill that passed on Thursday morning.  —  The early-morning vote was 215 to 214, mostly along party lines.  It was a crucial victory for what President Trump and Republicans are calling the “big, beautiful bill.”  —  A victory for House Republican …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
House Republicans pass ‘big, beautiful bill’ after weeks of division  —  The sweeping measure heads to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to make changes.  —  House Republicans came together to pass their domestic-policy megabill early Thursday, after weeks of internal conflict …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
The Deficit Is Unsettling Bond Traders.  Here's How That Affects the Economy.  —  The trade war has calmed down, but rising government borrowing costs pose a new worry  —  An economy facing possible indigestion from big increases in tariffs now is contending with a second headwind …
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Hurdle: The Bond Market Hates His ‘Beautiful’ Tax Bill … President Donald Trump cut a deal with blue-state Republicans on taxes and put down an 11th-hour rebellion by conservatives over spending to get his “one big, beautiful bill” passed by the House.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Two House Republicans missed the big vote
New York Times:
Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky Were Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in D.C. Shooting  —  Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky met while working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, her father said.  Mr. Lischinsky had just bought an engagement ring, an official said.
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New York Times:
2 Israeli Embassy Aides Are Fatally Shot Outside Event in Washington  —  The shooting occurred outside the Capital Jewish Museum.  A suspect shouted “Free, free Palestine” after he was taken into custody, officials said.  —  Two young Israeli Embassy aides were shot and killed outside …
Rudy Chinchilla / NBC News:
Two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead outside D.C.'s Capital Jewish Museum  —  The gunman shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested, law enforcement officials said.  —  Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district's Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate … A woman was shot and wounded at CIA headquarters after crashing into a gate there early Thursday morning, NBC News reported.  —  The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
Maya Sweedler / Associated Press:
2 staff members of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC
Emily Rose / Reuters:
Israeli embassy staffers killed in Washington aspired to Middle East bridge-building
Associated Press:
Here's what we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court deadlock leaves in place ruling blocking nation's first religious charter school  —  The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation's first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma's top court that found the proposed Catholic school unconstitutional.
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ABC News:
Supreme Court says Oklahoma can't launch taxpayer-funded religious charter school
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court sidesteps major ruling on religious public charter schools
Discussion: The Hill, UPI, Advocate and Raw Story
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court deadlocks in dispute over effort to create first religious charter school
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Trump Administration Halts Harvard's Ability to Enroll International Students  —  The move was a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump's demands.  —  The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability …
Discussion: CNBC
Politico:
Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education  —  The judge said the administration's planned reductions were clearly aimed at carrying out Trump's campaign-trail promise to eliminate the department altogether.  —  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration …
Discussion: New York Daily News
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Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump's orders to dismantle the Education Department and fire employees
Nicole Cohen / NPR:
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
NBC News:
Judge halts dismantling of Education Department, orders fired workers to be reinstated
Paul Krugman:
Gaming Out a Sudden Stop  —  What happens if investors lose faith in America?  —  I used to be an economics ambulance-chaser — someone who raced around the world to wherever there was an interesting economic calamity.  And this international experience probably made me more sensitive …
ProPublica:
More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging  —  The week before President Donald Trump unveiled bruising new tariffs that sent the stock market plummeting, a key official in the agency that shapes his administration's trade policy sold off as much as $30,000 of stock.
Discussion: Fox News, New Republic and Axios
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed.  Only a day before, he was a welding foreman …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term.  He's Making Up for It  —  As the president mixes public service with personal profit, he's making the world safe for corruption  —  President Donald Trump will host a gathering of VIPs at his private golf resort outside Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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Daniel Engber / The Atlantic:
Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech  —  A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.  —  American Masters, an award-winning documentary series in its 39th season on PBS, promises to tell “compelling, unvarnished stories” about the nation's most important cultural figures.
New York Times:
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades  —  The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years.  —  The funding decreases touch virtually every area …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He's Making With Jony Ive  —  Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman gave his staff a preview Wednesday of the devices …
Robert Reich:
The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king  —  I've been following with a mixture of dismay and disgust Trump's One Big Ugly Bill, soon to emerge from the House.  I'll report back to you on it later this morning.  —  But I want to alert you to one detail inside it that's especially alarming.
Discussion: Newsweek and The Status Kuo
New York Times:
Trump Claimed a Social Media Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers.  It Didn't.  —  During a meeting with South Africa's president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution.  A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
Julie Watson / Associated Press:
Multiple people on private plane that crashed into San Diego neighborhood are dead, authorities say  —  A private jet crashed into military housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars parked along a suburban neighborhood block and killing multiple people on board the plane, authorities said.
Financial Times:
BYD sells more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for first time  —  Chinese car group has been pushing to expand into overseas markets for past few years  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.  —  BYD has sold more electric vehicles …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
Bonus 152: Judge Ho, Due Process, and “Disrespect”  —  Some thoughts on Judge Ho's rather galling claim that the Supreme Court “disrespect[ed]” the district court and the President in Friday's ruling in the “A.A.R.P. II” Alien Enemies Act case.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Welcome back to the weekly bonus content for “One First.”
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
‘The View’ Told to Tone Down Trump Bashing by ABC News Boss  —  COOL IT  —  Multiple sources shared details with the Daily Beast about a meeting in which the ABC News president delivered a message that left the co-hosts unnerved.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Disney and ABC News have asked the hosts …
 
 
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
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Discussion: Fox News
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump Administration Wrongly Impounded Infrastructure Aid, Watchdog Finds
Discussion: E&E News
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Zack Colman / Politico:
Trump undermined Biden's FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch.
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Charles Franklin / Homepage:
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CBS News:
Kim Jong Un fumes as North Korea's new warship damaged due to “absolute carelessness” in launch accident
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
The GOP's Chaotic Bid to Defang the Courts
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New York Times:
Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care
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NBC News:
White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website
 

 
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