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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 …
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New York Times:
Israel attacks Iran's state television, live on the air.
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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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Washington Post and LewRockwell
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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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 Republic, 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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Politico:
Trump fires Democratic appointee from Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests
Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
ICE Faces Cash Crisis as Trump Orders New Crackdown in Dem-Led Cities
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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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount — I got a confirmation email saying I'll get another confirmation when it's shipped. But I haven't provided a shipping address. — On Monday the Trump Organization announced …
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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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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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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.
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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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Axios, 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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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.
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Raw Story, Washington Post and New York Times
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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The Contrarian and Strength In Numbers
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 …
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
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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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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Alternet.org
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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Washington Examiner, MPR News and ABC News
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 …
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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.
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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