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9:00 AM ET, June 9, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
The Deportation Wars Begin  —  Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead.  —  Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest.  But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn't tell voters during the campaign.
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NBC Los Angeles:
Live updates: Protest spills onto 101 Freeway in downtown LA … What to Know  — Crowds gathered in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights Sunday for a third straight day of protests over recent immigration raids.  — A march that began Sunday in Boyle Heights arrived …
MSNBC:
'Tom, arrest me.  Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.
Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David  —  President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he's heading to Camp David to meet with military leaders, among others, shortly before he posted a message online calling Los Angeles protesters an “insurrectionist mob.”
9News:
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops  —  Tensions in Los Angeles have escalated again as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the National Guard …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump's Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests  —  President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities.  He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles.  —  Setting up a rare use of military force on domestic soil …
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state  —  The national guard's deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway.  History shows the results  —  Now that Donald Trump's tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied …
Discussion: Robert Reich and New York Times
Politico:
Playbook: Trump: ‘BRING IN THE TROOPS’  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine  —  On this morning's podcast, Dasha and I discuss the eruption of violence in Los Angeles and its political fallout; and the latest on Elon Musk's falling-out with Donald Trump.
Punchbowl News:
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Discussion: E&E News
New York Times:
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Read: Newsom demands Trump pull National Guard from LA protests
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The stealth Senate dealmaker who could deliver Trump's tax cuts
Discussion: Punchbowl News
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:   What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
NBC News:
Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to ‘cross that line’
Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
LA anti-ICE riots are latest instance of Democrats ‘on the wrong side’: Joe Concha
Associated Press:
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
The Economist:
Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting
New York Times:
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility  —  Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building.  —  Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday …
Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Silicon Valley's not crying for Musk  —  Few tears will be shed in Silicon Valley or at Big Tech firms over Elon Musk's precipitous fall from White House grace.  —  Why it matters: Musk's brief alliance with President Trump warped the usual dynamics of the relationship between America's …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   Trump's Feud With Musk Highlights His View of Government Power: It's Personal
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
What's a Medicaid cut?  Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question  —  When is a Medicaid cut not actually a cut?  —  That's the $800 billion question facing Senate Republicans as they write their own version of the sweeping House-passed tax and spending bill.
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Politico:   Democrats' big bet on the Big Beautiful Bill
Yesica Fisch / Associated Press:
Israeli forces prevent aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching Gaza  —  Israeli forces stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists early Monday and diverted it to Israel, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory …
Graham Lanktree / Politico:
Trump promised Britain a trade deal.  So where is it?  —  LONDON — In a much-hyped split-screen Oval Office phone call a month ago, U.S. President Donald Trump promised Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the two had struck an “historic” trade deal.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Daily Mail
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes  —  The social media network was doomed to fail as users tried to re-create Twitter.  —  Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed the social media site's name to X and altered its moderation policies, progressives have been hunting for a substitute.
Olivia George / Washington Post:
Army video of parade prep appeared to show ‘Hang Fauci’ graffiti  —  The footage, up for more than a day on the Army's official X account, showed tanks being loaded onto a flatcar.  —  A video shared Saturday by the U.S. Army of tanks being transported to the nation's capital …
Reuters:
How Trump defanged the Justice Department's political corruption watchdogs  —  Stripped of its authority and nearly all its staff, the U.S. Justice Department's storied Public Integrity Section is on life support.  Former prosecutors say the overhaul could make it easier to prosecute Trump's opponents.
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters  —  Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’  —  ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White …
 
 
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Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
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Kat Lonsdorf / NPR:
What Trump's national emergencies could mean for American democracy
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A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Alison Gash / Washington Monthly:
Ten Years After Obergefell: Is Same-Sex Marriage Safe?
Discussion: USA Today
The Economist:
Putin unleashes a summer offensive to break Ukraine
Discussion: Bloomberg
Dan Merica / Washington Post:
How a Democrat turned independent could shake up a key governor's race
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
STAT+: With U.S. vaccine policy in flux, four members of CDC advisory panel receive termination notices
NBC News:
Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which could limit low-income students' college access
Discussion: Vox, CBS News and NewsMax.com
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The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer
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