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6:55 PM ET, June 16, 2025

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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.
Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today:
Pentagon pizza account reported high activity before Israel's attack on Iran  —  WASHINGTON − Before Israel launched its top-secret attack on Iran, a viral social media account tracking pizza shop activity around the Pentagon predicted something was underway.
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 …
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Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished
Discussion: The Nation
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
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.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance
Discussion: ABC News and Coeur d'Alene Press
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Stating the obvious: Mass protests are not going to help Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
Discussion: New York Times
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House denies reporting by Guardian on VA benefits: ‘Totally FALSE story’
Discussion: Raw Story
David Pierce / The Verge:
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible  —  It's supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall.  I doubt it all. … It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment.  It is, according to the website, coming in September.  —  That's about all I feel confident saying.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Smartphone Can't Be Made in America for $499 by August
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
AppleInsider:
Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Judge orders many NIH grants restored, calling cancellation unlawful  —  A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration's canceling of federal health grants over their connections to “gender ideology” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” was unlawful and void.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
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Reuters:   Judge deems Trump's National Institutes of Health grant cuts illegal
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left  —  The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota's Democratic governor.  He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence  —  It took only hours after an allegedly Trump-supporting gunman shot multiple Democratic state lawmakers and their spouses for the right-wing misinformation machine to chug into action.
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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.
FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: Who was on Vance Boelter's hit list?  — Vance Boelter's “hit list” of lawmakers included prominent state and federal Democrats, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison.  — The list also named Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury).
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Andrew Solender / Axios:   Jeffries presses Johnson for more funds to protect lawmakers
Andrew Solender / Axios:
More Dems from outside Minnesota found in shooting hit list
Discussion: Politico and Chicago Tribune
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate unveils trickiest text of Trump's “big, beautiful bill”  —  Senate Finance Committee Republicans published their text of President Trump's “one big, beautiful bill” Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for.
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Rachel Cohrs Zhang / Bloomberg:
Senate Republicans Propose More Aggressive Medicaid Cuts to Help Pay for Tax Bill
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
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:
Terry Moran Says He Doesn't Regret Posts Criticizing Trump Administration  —  In his first interview since losing his job at ABC News, the longtime TV correspondent, newly popular on Substack, says he does not regret his social media post criticizing the Trump administration.
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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: Mediaite, The Independent and NPR
U.S. Government Accountability Office:
Institute of Museum and Library Services—Applicability of the Impoundment Control Act to Reduction of Agency Functions  —  B-337375  —  Highlights  —  Congress appropriated amounts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to carry out authorized mission activities for fiscal year 2025.
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump administration slapped with ‘impoundment’ violation for freezing library, museum funding
Discussion: New York Times
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.
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 …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  President Donald Trump's public approval rating held steady over the last month, but Americans are becoming less supportive of his approach to immigration as his administration cracks down …
Discussion: The Post Millennial
 
 
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Abortion providers devastated by political killings, hit list
CNN:
The Trump EPA is telling some staff to stop policing the oil and gas industry
Discussion: Raw Story
J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch News:
Trump Removes MLK Bust from Oval Office
The Hill:
Texas farmers hit hard as migrant workers avoid ICE
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists
 Earlier Items: 
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and CNBC
HuffPost:
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Discussion: El País
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is - you get out’
Discussion: HuffPost
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co's extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Paul Krugman:
Trump's parade flopped. No Kings Day was a hit.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Dylan Ebs / NBC News:
Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split
 

 
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