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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness  —  With President Donald Trump sending more troops into Los Angeles amid protests there, a remarkable image has gone viral on social media.  It shows members of the National Guard crowded into a sterile-looking office …
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Politico:
‘He does love being commander in chief’: Trump leans in on the military  —  On one coast, military forces are arriving by the thousands to defend federal buildings and agents.  On the other, they're readying a celebration of American military might.  —  President Donald Trump loves displays of military force.
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Silence of the Generals  —  As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army's defense.  —  President Donald Trump continued his war against America's most cherished military traditions today when he delivered a speech at Fort Bragg.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He's Actually a Weak Man  —  President Trump thinks it is a sign of strength to send in troops to deal with protesters in Los Angeles.  To that end, he has federalized a portion of the California National Guard and mobilized nearby Marines to support Immigration …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
‘No Kings’: Millions to Protest Trump's ‘Dictator-Style Birthday Parade’  —  A national day of protest is set for June 14.  Can non-violent resistance counter Trump's authoritarian show of force?  —  Even before Donald Trump militarized his crackdown on pro-immigrant protesters in Los Angeles …
Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to deploy National Guard across the state in response to protests  —  The move comes ahead of a planned protest in San Antonio and follows days of protest in L.A. and across the nation.  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he'll deploy the National Guard to locations across the state …
Stephen Saideman / MSNBC:
Trump's Fort Bragg speech was a serious step toward ending democracy  —  The address projected the image of the military siding with the president against his political foes.  —  While Donald Trump has challenged many norms both as a presidential candidate and as president …
Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Grotesque Military Address
Discussion: Foreign Policy and New York Times
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Donald Trump v. America
Judith Levine / The Guardian:
Trump is waging war against citizens in LA. This is a dangerous new era
Discussion: Althouse, Mediaite and Breitbart
Rolling Stone:
Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's ‘Burn Book’  —  “What does he have on us?”  —  It's been less than a week since the explosive, extremely public breakdown in relations between Donald Trump, the most powerful person on the planet, and Elon Musk, the world's richest man.
Discussion: CBS News
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Scott Dance / Washington Post:
Trump says governors should be able to handle disasters without FEMA  —  In remarks to reporters, the president said the administration plans to “wean” states off FEMA assistance after hurricane season ends.  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” …
Reuters:
Musk says some of his posts about Trump ‘went too far’
Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump doesn't rule out reconciliation with Elon Musk as he sits down with Miranda Devine for ‘Pod Force One’
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference  —  The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.  —  The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program …
Discussion: Reuters
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Fulbright board quits, claims Trump administration politicized scholarships … The entire Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned over what it said Wednesday was meddling by the Trump administration in the board's authority to award scholarships.  —  The 12-member board, in a statement …
Wall Street Journal:
X's Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We'll Sue  —  Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform  —  Late last year, Verizon Communications got an unusual message from a media company that wanted its business: Spend your ad dollars with us or we'll see you in court.
New York Times:
Rubio Is Pressing to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard  —  Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department's sanctions process to target a domestic entity.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing …
Discussion: Reuters and NewsMax.com
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Rubio knocks allies for sanctioning Israeli officials  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio knocked U.S. allies on Tuesday for sanctioning Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir amid the war in Gaza.  —  Five countries — United Kingdom …
Pew Research Center:
U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of the United States and President Donald Trump in 24 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East …
Discussion: Politico
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NBC News:
Views of the U.S. under Trump dip sharply in many allied countries
Discussion: Pew Research Center
Associated Press:
Federal immigration raid at Omaha meat production plant sparks protests  —  Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law.
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Former Rep. Joe Walsh is considering a bid against GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham  —  The former Tea Party congressman has become a registered Democrat.  —  Joe Walsh, the former Tea Party congressman, right-wing radio host and current Never Trumper, is eyeing a possible move to South Carolina.
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names  —  The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.  —  President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases …
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters  —  His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.  —  Revolutions have a logic.  The revolutionaries start with a big, transformative, impossible goal.  They want to remake society, smash existing institutions, replace them with something different.
David Horowitz / Daily News:
ICE detains local teen despite legal authorization to be in U.S.  —  DAVID MAMARIL HOROWITZ  —  [email protected]  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized and detained a local teenager in Bowling Green who has legal authorization to be in the country, according to a Teranga Academy-partnered nonprofit.
Discussion: Associated Press
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Vance, Rubio peddle fiction that 88 percent of foreign aid doesn't go overseas  —  The vice president and secretary of state twist a statistic issued under the Biden administration — and pretend it's new.
Reuters:
Trump says China will supply rare earths, US to allow students  —  “WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%.  RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!”  Trump wrote on Truth Social without elaborating.  —  A White House official said the agreement allows the U.S. to charge a 55% tariff on imported Chinese goods.
Gabe Cohen / CNN:
Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year's hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration's long-term plans to dismantle …
Politico:
Most GOP lawmakers plan to skip Trump's big parade  —  POLITICO surveyed 50 Hill Republicans.  Only six said they'd stick around Saturday for the big show.  —  President Donald Trump is celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary — and his own 79th birthday — with a massive, multimillion-dollar military parade Saturday in Washington.
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Under Pressure From the White House, ICE Seeks New Ways to Ramp Up Arrests  —  Former officials said the Trump administration's push for the agency to detain record numbers of undocumented immigrants increases the chances of mistakes.  —  Former officials said the Trump administration's push …
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is running yet again.  That's a problem.  —  The 18-term delegate is the oldest member of the House.  Her clinging to office for another two years wouldn't serve her constituents.  —  Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat who represents Washington, D.C …
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and NOTUS
Wall Street Journal:
Beijing Puts Six-Month Limit on Its Ease of Rare-Earth Export Licenses  —  Tentative deal reached in London gives China leverage in trade talks  —  China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for U.S. automakers and manufacturers, according to people familiar with the matter …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Stephen Miller can't make America white.  LA is paying for his impotent rage  —  Mass deportations were never going to work, so Trump and Miller resort to authoritarian theater  —  Donald Trump loves authoritarian theater, but let's not forget that Stephen Miller is also to blame for the violence and chaos in Los Angeles.
Discussion: Time
Washington Post:
FBI leaders seek to move some training from Quantico, Virginia, to Alabama  —  FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino's plan for the National Academy is part of the Trump administration's effort to shrink the bureau's footprint in the D.C. area.  —  FBI leadership is pushing to move …
Liam Archacki / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Gabbard Admits to Asking AI What to Classify in JFK Files  —  EASIER THAT WAY  —  Gabbard revealed that she fed tens of thousands of documents about the JFK assassination into an AI program for review.  —  Tulsi Gabbard relied on artificial intelligence to determine what to classify …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests  —  The judges, who work for the executive branch, have been instructed to grant dismissals quickly; ICE has been arresting people after their cases are dismissed.  —  A recent memo to immigration judges obtained …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Independent
US Department of Justice:
Congresswoman Charged for Forcibly Impeding and Interfering With Federal Officers  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey  —  NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver was charged in a three-count indictment today for forcibly impeding …
Chloe Veltman / NPR:
National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites  —  The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service (NPS) to post signage at all sites across the country by June 13, asking visitors to offer feedback on any information …
Jake Spring / Washington Post:
DOJ finds Trump can abolish areas protected as national monuments  —  An opinion released by the Office of Legal Counsel concludes the president can abolish national monuments declared by past administrations.  —  Trump administration officials have concluded that President Donald Trump …
 
 
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