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1:10 PM ET, June 10, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown  —  After deportations fell short of President Trump's campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’  —  Even with the high-profile arrests …
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YouGov /Research Reality:
Do you approve or disapprove of deploying Marines to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement?  —  YouGov surveyed 4309 US adults  —  Approve  —  34%  —  Disapprove  —  47%  —  Not sure  —  19%  —  Download Image
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests  —  Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.  —  Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles …
Discussion: Raw Story, TMZ.com and MSNBC
Christopher F. Rufo:
Trump Should Crush the L.A. Riots—with a Subtle Hand  —  Los Angeles is burning.  Earlier this year, seasonal fires ripped through the Southern California city, but now, the fires are entirely manmade.  In response to the Trump administration's deportation policy, left-wing activists …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: DHS secretary seeks military arrests in Los Angeles in leaked letter  —  One day before the Trump administration deployed U.S. Marines to confront protesters in Los Angeles, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest …
Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Anti-ICE protests held coast-to-coast after L.A. unrest as national movement grows  —  Activists plan more events on Tuesday, with events due in New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta.  —  Dozens of protests and rallies opposing ICE raids and government immigration policies were held across …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
This Is What Autocracy Looks Like  —  Since Donald Trump was elected again, I've feared one scenario above all others: that he'd call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to martial law.  Even in my more outlandish imaginings, however …
Politico:
Troops deployed to LA will cost $134M, Pentagon official says  —  The acting budget chief said the estimate covers costs such as travel, housing and food.  —  President Donald Trump's decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles amid mass deportation protests will likely cost $134 million, the Pentagon's budget chief told lawmakers.
Discussion: CBS News
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Unrestrained Trump flirts with Insurrection Act as Marines deploy to L.A.  —  President Trump is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act, driven by a vision of executive power free from the guardrails, governors and generals who stifled him in 2020.
Associated Press:
Pentagon draws up rules on possible use of force by Marines deployed to LA protests  —  The Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration …
Associated Press:
Hegseth faces Congress for first time since Signal leaks and Marine deployment to Los Angeles
Leo Sands / Washington Post:
L.A. protests live updates
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   June 9, 2025  —  At 10:19 last night, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media: “Stand with ICE.
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:   Passé Comitatus / We Don't Need No Insurrection
New York Times:
700 Marines Are Deploying to LA Protests to Join Federal Response
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War  —  Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.  —  The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year as President Trump's …
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Citing trade wars, the World Bank sharply downgrades global economic growth forecast to 2.3%
Discussion: Bloomberg and KRDO
Politico:
Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week  —  The use of the facility would send another signal of deterrence amid immigration crackdown.  —  The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants …
Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Elon Was Right, Trump Is Compromised and Knows It: Ex-Aide  —  ‘KOMPROMAT’  —  The president may be compromised—but not exactly how Musk alleged, according to Anthony Scaramucci.  —  Even if Donald Trump's not in the Epstein files, Anthony Scaramucci suspects the president's real vulnerability lies somewhere even more alarming.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
House to make fixes to GOP megabill to avoid ‘fatal’ ruling with Senate parliamentarian  —  House Republicans will try to fix issues with their megabill in the Rules Committee this week based on provisions the Senate parliamentarian has identified as non-compliant with the chamber's rules …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS  —  This article was primarily reported using public records requests.  We are making it available to all readers as a public service.  FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work.
Washington Post:
Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire  —  The Board of Regents publicly backed Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch III and called for nonpartisanship after Trump attempted to fire a museum director.  —  The Smithsonian's Board of Regents said on Monday night that …
Fox News:
GOP lawmaker demands accountability for LAPD's delayed response time helping assaulted ICE officers  —  DHS claimed in a press release that LAPD took 2 hours to respond to help ICE officers  —  FIRST ON FOX: California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa is calling for an investigation into allegations …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Bannon calls for special counsel probe of Musk  —  Former White House aide and conservative pundit Steve Bannon says President Trump's administration should launch a special counsel investigation into Elon Musk following last week's explosive falling out the world's richest man had with the president last week.
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Musk's administration allies become targets
Discussion: MM Press, Alternet.org and Raw Story
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Rural Republicans used to back NPR.  Then MAGA changed everything.  —  Public media is facing its biggest challenge as it fights off a vote to eliminate its federal funding.  —  WESTBY, Wis. — Fourteen years before he joined President Donald Trump's Cabinet, Sean P. Duffy rode a tea party wave into Congress.
Discussion: Deadline
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
White House tweaks AIDS funding rollback to assuage skeptical Republicans
Discussion: The Independent
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
RFK Jr. breaks promise to senators, guts CDC vaccine panel of independent experts  —  Before his confirmation, the HHS secretary said he'd leave the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices alone.  Now he's doing the opposite.  —  In early February, when there was still some question …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr / Wall Street Journal:
RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller  —  📰 Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.  If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please support us by clicking the button and signing up for a paid subscription.  👇
The Guardian:
Trump administration to cut all USAID overseas roles and axe thousands of staff  —  State department to take control of US foreign assistance programs in mass restructuring by 30 September  —  Joseph Gedeon and Robert Tait in Washington  —  The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID …
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
UK places sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers over ‘monstrous’ Gaza comments  —  Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich face travel bans and asset freezes as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway also impose measures  —  The UK has been joined by Australia, Canada …
Jonathan Cohn:
A Tale of Two Resolutions: 75 Dems Join GOP in Resolution Praising Trump's Mass Deportation Regime  —  Yesterday, the US House voted on two resolutions that both claimed to be about condemning antisemitism, but only one truly was.  —  HRES 481, which condemns the recent attack in Boulder …
emptywheel:
Banging on a Gate: Pam Bondi Found a Cyber Investigator Who Doesn't Check Phone Logs!  —  Less than three weeks ago, Pam Bondi's DOJ got admonished by a Magistrate Judge for charging first, investigating latter.  —  When dismissing Ras Baraka's charges on May 21, Magistrate Judge André …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
 
 
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Chris Cannon / New Republic:
The Tiny Border Town Getting Battered by Trump's Tariffs on Canada
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Maybe We Should Let Liberal Cities Burn
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerusalem Post:
Greta Thunberg among voluntarily deported activists, eight remain in detention
IJR:
DOJ Employee Spiked Girlfriend's Drink With Abortion Pill, Police Allege
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Mediaite
Ethan Bronner / Bloomberg:
US Holds Deep Doubts About Palestinian State, Ambassador Says
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Oliver Willis Explains:
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Trump's red Tesla is no longer parked outside the West Wing
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
How Murdoch Media is fanning the L.A. flames
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Paul Krugman:
We Finally Know What “American Carnage” Was About
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