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U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget:
Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.
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Politico:
Thune says Senate won't overrule parliamentarian  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday the Senate would not move to overrule its parliamentarian after she advised that including key provisions in the GOP's domestic-policy megabill would expose it to a fatal Democratic filibuster.
NPR:
Medicaid changes don't meet Senate rules in ‘big, beautiful bill’ says parliamentarian
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate referee rejects key Medicaid cuts in Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Trump's Bill Slashes the Safety Net That Many Republican Voters Rely on
Jasmine Li / Wall Street Journal:
Who Is the Senate Parliamentarian and Why Do Some Republicans Want Her Fired?
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's disastrous new abortion decision, explained
Discussion: Slate and The Daily Caller
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court upholds South Carolina's ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood
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Fred A. Bernstein / Washington Post:
Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91  —  He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.  —  Bill Moyers, who served as press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and then …
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91  —  Bill Moyers, who carried an unblemished air of moral conviction throughout a 43-year career as a broadcast journalist, mostly in his later years for PBS, died Thursday in Manhattan, the New York Times reported.  He was 91.
CNN:   Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91
New York Times:
Eric Adams Meets With Business Leaders Desperate to Stop Mamdani's Rise  —  Daniel Loeb, the hedge fund manager, and some other New York City business leaders are aghast at Zohran Mamdani's success in the Democratic mayoral primary and are considering backing Mr. Adams in the general election.
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James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship  —  The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.  —  On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   It's Mamdani Time!  —  The upside potential and downside risk of the new Democratic party.
Pew Research Center:
Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Trump came close to winning Latino vote in '24  —  President Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2024 than previously believed and came within striking distance of capturing a historic majority of those voters, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of the election results.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn't El Salvador  —  A government lawyer laid out a plan in court Thursday, but without a clear timeline.  — Copy  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back in the United States after the Trump administration mistakenly deported …
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Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that's not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge
Washington Post:
White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing  —  Top officials will brief lawmakers on Thursday amid a political battle over what intelligence reveals about the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  The White House plans to limit classified intelligence sharing …
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The Atlantic:
Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Guardian
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Threatens to Sue The Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting  —  The president has criticized media coverage of a preliminary classified report that ran counter to his assertion that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran's nuclear program.  —  President Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.
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Paul Krugman:
Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.
Discussion: Jacobin and Fortune
Wired:
‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine's placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.  —  Edward “Big Balls” Coristine …
Jordan Rubin / MSNBC:
Supreme Court set to issue final rulings, as birthright citizenship and other cases remain  —  The last six cases of the term include birthright citizenship injunctions and a parental bid to keep kids from LGBTQ-themed instruction in public school.  —  The Supreme Court is needlessly shrouded in mystery.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court is set to issue rulings on birthright citizenship and five other cases on term's final day
Discussion: Associated Press and NewsNation
Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed …
Discussion: NOTUS, NOAA OSPO, Mediaite and Raw Story
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Crockett questions Melania Trump's reported ‘Einstein visa’: 'The math ain't mathin"  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) questioned first lady Melania Trump's reported “Einstein visa” inata House hearing Wednesday.  —  “Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Hill
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines  —  Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.  —  An advisory panel recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to walk …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Vogue's Anna Wintour to tap new editorial leader  —  Anna Wintour, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue and a prominent Democratic fundraiser, is seeking a new day-to-day editorial leader at the famed fashion magazine.  —  While multiple outlets reported Thursday that Wintour announced …
Laurence Arnold / Bloomberg:
Carolyn McCarthy, NY's ‘Gun Lady’ in Congress, Dies at 81  —  Carolyn McCarthy, the New York congresswoman motivated to enter politics by the shooting of her husband and son, only to find gun control a difficult sell in Washington, has died.  She was 81.  —  Her death was reported on Thursday by Newsday.
Financial Times:
Early intelligence suggests Iran's uranium largely intact, European officials say  —  Preliminary assessments suggest Tehran was able to move much of its stockpile  —  Preliminary intelligence assessments provided to European governments indicate that Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into University of California Hiring Practices  —  The Trump administration has targeted the state system as part of its broad effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs.  —  The Trump administration on Thursday targeted California's …
 
 
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro disbarred in New York
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Parliamentarian requests AI moratorium rewrite
Peter Pinedo / Fox News:
Rubio announces new visa restrictions on families of fentanyl traffickers
Discussion: Newsweek
Shawn Fleetwood / The Federalist:
CNN ‘Stand[s] 100% Behind’ Natasha Bertrand's Serial Disinformation On Foreign Affairs
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Stefanik set to run for NY governor
Andrew Sullivan / New York Times:
How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
Discussion: New York Post, HotAir and Slow Boring
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
ICERaid: The App That Asks You To Report Illegal Immigrants For Crypto
Dan Katz / TPR:
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible …
Discussion: The Cross Section
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
Discussion: HotAir and Notes From The Circus
New York Times:
Iran's Khamenei Makes First Public Comments Since Cease-Fire With Israel
Wall Street Journal:
The Paramount Risk in Settling Trump's Lawsuit: ‘Bribery’?
Discussion: New York Sun
Ryan Quinn / Inside Higher Ed:
Scholars Continue Lambasting Higher Ed While Trump Upends It
New York Times:
Mamdani's Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews
Discussion: RNS, RedState and Jewish Insider
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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