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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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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests — President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities — RETRIBUTION MOVE — President gives nakedly political order for law enforcement to target Democratic cities. — Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night.
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
Building the American Brownshirts
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters
Why The Latest Round Of Democratic Infighting Really Matters
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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
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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
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Financial Times:
Iran's regime fights for survival
Iran's regime fights for survival
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John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
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NBC News:
How Trump went from opposing Israel's strikes on Iran to reluctant support
How Trump went from opposing Israel's strikes on Iran to reluctant support
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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) …
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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.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone … Arrows pointing outwards
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone — President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
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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.
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
MAGA political violence claims more victims
MAGA political violence claims more victims
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Washington Examiner and USA Today
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 …
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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) …
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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.”
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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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade — Ten years after he descended the Trump Tower escalator to announce his campaign for the White House, President Trump has come to dominate his era like few presidents ever have. — The trip down that escalator took less than 30 seconds …
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Elizabeth N. Saunders / Foreign Affairs:
Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
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.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Man Charged in Minnesota Assassination Could Face Federal Death Penalty — Prosecutors said the suspect, who faces federal murder charges in the attacks on two lawmakers, had visited the homes of two other politicians on his target list. — TRANSCRIPT — Back
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect's Arrest: 'It's Not About Mean Tweets'
Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect's Arrest: 'It's Not About Mean Tweets'
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