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10:15 PM ET, May 24, 2025

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The Guardian:
US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake  —  Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him  —  Authorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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Heather Gann / al.com:
Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’
Discussion: Latin Times
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Seeks Extensive Student Data in Pressure Campaign to Control Harvard  —  Harvard and the federal government are locked in a battle that boils down to turning over records on international students.  But Harvard says it is also about the First Amendment.
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Washington Post:
We're international students at Harvard. We're afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Wall Street Journal:
The Week That Derailed Joe Biden's Post-Presidency  —  A fight against cancer and a struggle to amass an inheritance for his family are setting up a somber final chapter  —  When Joe Biden left office in January, he sought to follow the template set by his predecessors for a post-presidency …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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NBC News:
Former President Joe Biden makes first public appearance since cancer diagnosis
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Since George Floyd's Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling  —  The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of Mr. Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020.  —  After a police officer killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street corner in 2020 …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Is Immensely Vulnerable  —  How can Americans best defend their democracy from their president?  —  In my last column, I recounted three lessons from other countries where popular movements have made headway challenging authoritarian rulers.  Critics of President Trump have frankly …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Joe Biden winning the 2020 nomination was probably suboptimal, but it was not an elite conspiracy  —  As part of his endless promotional tour, Jake Tapper repeats the very commonly repeated fiction that Joe Biden was imposed on an unwilling party by a backdoor elite conspiracy:
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Death of a Master Manipulator  —  Michael Ledeen, the controversial national security journalist, scholar and schemer who died at age 83 on May 17 from complications following a stroke, played a significant covert role leading up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, as well as other productions of false intelligence for political ends.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jessica Priest / The Texas Tribune:
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities' courses and hiring under bill OK'd by House  —  Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
A Fox host's ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking  —  Jesse Watters' list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz - and Watters' show helps shape US politics  —  The Fox News-approved guide to being a man  —  Tim Burchett, a Republican representative …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Congressman Says Trump's Tax Bill Doesn't Cut Any Medicaid, Food Benefits  —  Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said Democrats are “lying” about the sweeping GOP plan to cut $1 trillion from federal health and food programs.  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) …
Discussion: MLive.com
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Trump's Big Budget Bomb
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants  —  The agency plans to argue that carbon emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to climate change.  Scientists disagree.  —  The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate …
Martin Kaste / NPR:
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling  —  The Justice Department has drastically scaled back its support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement agencies and private groups scrambling to try to replace the money.
Keren Landman / The Atlantic:
A Convenient Piece of Junk Science  —  RFK Jr.'s affection for junk science has struck again.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had a long love affair with junk science, and as secretary of Health and Human Services, he has embraced it once more, most brazenly to justify his false claims that vaccines cause autism.
Discussion: The Independent
Washington Post:
Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump's deportation push  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered them to be deported or after prosecutors move to drop their cases.
Discussion: Reuters
Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump at West Point graduation lauds “Golden Age” as anti-DEI and pro-defense  —  President Trump gave the commencement address for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, in his speech refusing to cut the $1 trillion military budget and praising who he called the “first West Point graduates of the Golden Age.”
Victoria Bisset / Washington Post:
Runway lights not working before fatal San Diego plane crash, NTSB says  —  Everyone on board, including music executive Dave Shapiro, was killed when the private plane crashed in a San Diego neighborhood, setting homes and cars alight.  —  The pilot of a small private plane that crashed …
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Restoring Gold Standard Science  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.
Discussion: E&E News
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Orders Trump Officials to Seek Return of Guatemalan Man to U.S.  —  Judge Brian Murphy criticized the government for errors in the case and said the man, who feared persecution if he was deported, was likely to show “his removal lacked any semblance of due process.”
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult  —  Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.  —  President Trump went on the offensive against Apple on Friday …
 
 
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Ed White / The Detroit News:
U.S. Justice Department pardon lawyer pledges ‘hard look’ at plot to kidnap Michigan governor
Associated Press:
Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute for aiding migrants
Discussion: Gothamist
Lizzie Dearden / New York Times:
American Emigration to Britain Rises
Discussion: UPI, The Guardian and KDFX-TV
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
DOGE appointee sparks turf battle at Interior: ‘Ignore the email from HR’
Adam Wren / Politico:
The Biden ads that never ran
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Bloomberg:
Trump Shocks With US Steel-Nippon Approval But Details Elusive
Derek Guy / Politico:
Michael Anton Was a Menswear Writer — And He Hated Trump's Fashion
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Agence France-Presse:
South Korea says concerned by China's ‘no-sail zone’ in overlapping waters
Washington Post:
Prove citizenship to vote? For some married women, it might not be so easy.
Discussion: CBS News
New York Times:
Pivoting From Tax Cuts to Tariffs, Trump Ignores Economic Warning Signs
Discussion: Truthout
The Guardian:
Ukraine war briefing: Multiple injuries as Russia attacks Kyiv with drones and missiles
New York Times:
Who Won a Seat at Trump's Crypto Dinner?
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

 
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