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2:10 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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Jeet Heer / The Nation:
Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War
Discussion: Washington Post and LewRockwell
John Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Ayatollahs Are Weaker Than Ever
Discussion: Fox News, Semafor and American Thinker
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) …
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Raw Story and Alternet.org
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 …
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.
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
Discussion: Fox News, Newsweek and Raw Story
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:   Building the American Brownshirts
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Coming to America? In 2025, the US to some looks less like a dream and more like a place to avoid
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’  —  SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS  —  Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was captured at a farm on Sunday night.  —  Authorities are investigating whether the suspect arrested in connection with the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers acted as part of a 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.
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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
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
Discussion: NBC News, New York Sun and Daily Kos
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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Tony Romm / New York Times:   Watchdog Finds Trump Administration Broke Law by Withholding Library Funds
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and USA Today
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Man Charged in Minnesota Assassination Could Face Federal Death Penalty
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
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) …
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.”
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
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
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 …
Discussion: NOTUS, NPR and E&E News
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
 
 
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers
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Trump's former surgeon general is now 1 of his most pointed critics
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
After an ugly week, an ugly bill
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don't Appeal, Yet Prevail
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