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Wall Street Journal:
A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate  —  Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return to talks if the U.S. stays out of the fight  —  DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption …
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Axios:
Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast  —  Iranian state television was broadcasting live on Monday when a massive explosion rocked the studio, with the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble.  The broadcast then went dark.  —  The big picture: Israel's strike …
New York Times:
Israel attacks Iran's state television, live on the air.  —  Israel expanded its attacks on Iran on Monday, striking the headquarters of state television after telling residents to leave part of Tehran, as the fiercest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Israeli-Iranian conflict entered its fourth day.
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Discussion: Washington Post and LewRockwell
Andrew Prokop / Vox:   The surprising right-wing push to keep us out of war
Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans  —  Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’  —  Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE's cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown  —  President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month.  —  Why it matters: Immigration …
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Politico:
Trump fires Democratic appointee from Nuclear Regulatory Commission  —  NRC commissioner Christopher Hanson's dismissal comes as the White House has sought control over independent agencies.  —  President Donald Trump has terminated Commissioner Christopher Hanson from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission …
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
Discussion: Newsweek and Raw Story
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:   Building the American Brownshirts
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters
Discussion: Blaze Media and Twitchy
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
New York Times:
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security … Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration.
Discussion: NPR
Associated Press:
Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative  —  The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in Africa two years ago that the U.S. was in a “bad place” where most churches didn't oppose abortion.
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular, Dems up 8 in House vote  —  Summary:  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the job Donald Trump is doing as president and favor Democratic U.S. House candidates for the 2026 midterms by 8 points, a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds.
Discussion: Reuters
New York Times:
Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor  —  Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade.  They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and '80s.  —  Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.
Dylan Ebs / NBC News:
Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split  —  Eight in 10 respondents believe the Trump administration shouldn't ignore a federal court ruling the White House doesn't like, per the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Tyrant Test  —  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.  —  For as long as I've been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds  —  Every claim made by the Republican senator to ridicule the nonpartisan agency turns out to be false. … — Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), in a video posted on social media, June 12  —  As part of the GOP campaign attacking …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding  —  For the second time this year, the federal government's top watchdog concluded Monday that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding funding Congress already approved.
Paul Krugman:
Trump's parade flopped.  No Kings Day was a hit.  —  Right now, images largely determine the outcome  —  America is no longer a full-fledged democracy.  We are currently living under a version of competitive authoritarianism — a system that (like Orban's Hungary or Erdogan's Turkey) …
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists  —  On Saturday, a gunman impersonating a police officer fatally shot Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband at their home, and wounded state Sen. Mark Hortman and his wife at their home.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests  —  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday his department would withhold funding from cities where anti-ICE demonstrations were allowed to take place.  —  In a Monday post on X, Duffy responded …
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’  —  Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada.  She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society  —  She finds the whole idea absurd.
Discussion: HuffPost
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term  —  Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire - the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on ... and on  —  The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it.
Discussion: Alternet.org
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell.  Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.  —  Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees' immigration cases have been dismissed - denying Trump's victims their day in court.  —  The only information Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos' family has received …
Discussion: El País
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police  —  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.
NPR:
Sen. Klobuchar urges peers to mitigate ‘inflamed’ rhetoric after Minnesota shootings  —  Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is calling for fellow lawmakers and the general public to tone down incendiary rhetoric, while hailing a slain Democratic state lawmaker as “one of the most consequential speakers in Minnesota history.”
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point—and There's No Going Back  —  Saturday was a surreal day in American politics, in ways simultaneously horrifying and heartening.  The horrifying part was the news we all woke up to about the political assassinations (both attempted and consummated) in Minnesota.
 
 
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
DC mayor: Military parade cleanup expected to take several more days
The Hill:
‘100 percent’ haven't shown up to work due to immigration raids, Texas farmer says
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Department of Energy looks to gut sex discrimination protections for education programs, athletics
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Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Travel Advisory
Discussion: The Hill, USA Today and NewsMax.com
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Army's 250th anniversary parade was a celebration of America — unlike foolish ‘No Kings’ protests
Discussion: The Bulwark, ABC News, Roll Call and Reuters
Politico:
Senate GOP tax bill would hit politically explosive Medicaid provision
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Mental health group launches ad campaign against Medicaid cuts
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump's former surgeon general is now 1 of his most pointed critics
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