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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump's attack on Harvard hampered by his inability to STFU  —  🧑‍🎓 📖 👩‍🏫 With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  PN is possible thanks to paid subscribers.
Paul Krugman:
America Turns Its Back on the World  —  Blocking foreign students is an act of self-destruction — and self-betrayal  —  My wife and I are co-authors of a widely used textbook on the principles of economics, which is revised on a three-year cycle.  When a new edition comes out …
Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway and Politico
Kinsey Crowley / Palm Beach Post:
No, Barron Trump was not rejected from Harvard, FLOTUS says amid university battle  — Barron Trump did not apply to or get rejected from Harvard, according to the first lady's office.  — Trump is in an ongoing fued with Harvard after it refused to comply with federal directives.
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education  —  I don't care about the “why” — I care about the “what.”  —  Recent readers may recall that I was in a bit of a funk last week because among other things “The [Trump] administration further escalated its war on Harvard in myriad ways.
Brian O'Neill / The Contrarian:
Another salvo fired at Harvard
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Politico:
White House plans — at last — to send some DOGE cuts to Hill  —  House Republicans are expecting a modest package next week amid an online pressure campaign.  —  The White House plans to send a small package of spending cuts to Congress next week, senior GOP officials told several House Republicans Wednesday.
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David Pogue / CBS News:
Elon Musk says he's “disappointed” by Trump's “big, beautiful bill” and what it means for DOGE
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Trump asking Congress to help with $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Hawley stakes ground as chief GOP defender of Medicaid
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.'s ‘whipping boy’  —  Musk made his comments at an inflection point for SpaceX amid a string of failures of its Starship spacecraft in recent test flights.  —  STARBASE, Tex. — Elon Musk, returning to SpaceX on Tuesday for a test flight …
Axios:
Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests  —  In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at possible pardons for men convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer  —  Whitmer, who met with Trump multiple times this year, once placed some of the blame for the plot on Trump's rhetoric.  —  President Donald Trump said he would look …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases
Niha Masih / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Republican Crumbles When Pressed About Tax Bill at Heated Town Hall  —  Rep. Mike Flood admitted to angry constituents that he hadn't read Trump's “big, beautiful” reconciliation package before voting for it  —  Republican Rep. Mike Flood appeared before his constituents in Nebraska on Tuesday …
Discussion: KOLN and The Daily Beast
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Wall Street Investors Mock Trump With A Brutal 4-Letter Code Word  —  Some investors are betting against Trump — and they've developed a tasty term for the move.  —  Wall Street investors have cooked up a new term for betting against President Donald Trump ― and some have used …
Discussion: MarketWatch, New Republic and Raw Story
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
‘TACO’: Wall Street Mocks Trump With 4-Letter Code to Call Bets Against Him
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Exclusive: Putin, for Ukraine peace, wants a pledge to halt NATO enlargement, sources say  —  President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia …
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Simon Lewis / Reuters:
US to ban foreign officials over ‘flagrant censorship’ on social media  —  The U.S. will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday, and he suggested the new policy could target officials regulating U.S. tech companies.
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M. Gessen / New York Times:
Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era  —  In a show that recently opened at the LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village, a group of actors led by a young, ambitious, charmingly naïve director are almost finished rehearsing Chekhov's “The Seagull” …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Trump Presidency's World-Historical Heist … During his first presidency, Donald Trump collected millions of dollars of other people's money.  He charged the taxpayer nearly $2 million to protect him during the hundreds of times he visited his own properties.
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath  —  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:  — AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs …
Discussion: New York Post
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
RFK Jr.'s War on Vaccines Is Here  —  Always another thing with these guys: … The administration may already be abusing the customs process to block entry to the country for conduct as innocuous as criticism of the president.  But we're sure this power won't be one they'll abuse.  Happy Wednesday.
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
DOL pulls guidance discouraging crypto in 401(k)s  —  The Biden administration had required “extreme care” before adding a crypto to retirement plan options.  —  The Labor Department on Wednesday yanked Biden-era guidance that strongly discouraged employers against offering cryptocurrency in workers' 401(k) plan options.
Discussion: CNBC, DOL, The Hill, CoinDesk and NewsMax.com
Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
Trump administration sues North Carolina over its voter registration records  —  The Trump administration accused North Carolina's election board on Tuesday of violating federal law by failing to ensure voter registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Didn't ‘Chicken Out’ on Tariffs  —  President Trump rejected claims that he is backing down on tariffs in Oval Office comments Wednesday, when asked about a new saying from Wall Street analysts that “Trump always chickens out” after imposing high duties.
Washington Post:
Trump oversight picks include scandal-hit ex-lawmaker, antiabortion lawyer  —  Several nominees have clearly partisan backgrounds, including two with controversial histories and two with ties to the agency they would be investigating.  —  President Donald Trump's pick to investigate waste …
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
SpaceX Starship Loses Control on Test Flight 9 as Rocket Re-enters Earth  —  Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk's giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel.  —  The latest flight of SpaceX's Starship …
 
 
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week
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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Sen. Cory Booker expands upon historic Senate floor speech for new book, ‘Stand’
Discussion: The Hill
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Trump targeted public media. Now NPR is taking him to court
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
India's alarm over Chinese spying rocks the surveillance industry
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
‘He Is Ohio’: DeWine Pitches an Alternative to Ramaswamy
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rubio's claim that it's ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts
Discussion: NPR
Mary Hudetz / ProPublica:
Trump Pledged to “Make America Healthy Again,” Then Cut a Program Many Tribes Rely on for Healthy Food
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
May 27, 2025  —  Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump …
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