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12:45 PM ET, July 4, 2025

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Punchbowl News:
Doctor readies run against Valadao … Democrats are excited about recruiting Bains, who has a resume tailor-made for the political moment.  Bains is a doctor who specializes in family medicine and addiction. … This is a vote that shocked even some Republicans.
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Punchbowl News:
7/4/25 ☀️ AM: … And happy Independence Day.  —  President Donald Trump …
Discussion: WTTG-TV
Washington Post:
6 ways Trump's tax bill could shape the battle for control of Congress
Discussion: Strength In Numbers and Vox
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
How Republicans Re-engineered the Tax Code
Discussion: Alternet.org and NPR
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
The Center Keeps Shrinking in Trump's GOP
Discussion: Raw Story and NOTUS
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Rails Against ‘Shylocks And Bad People’ In Iowa Speech  —  President Donald Trump employed a term often used as a slur against Jewish people as he blasted bankers during a speech in Iowa on Thursday evening.  The remark came as he was touting tax cuts in his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill …
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Washington Post:
Trump uses term viewed as antisemitic slur to refer to unscrupulous bankers  —  President Donald Trump deployed the term during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds held to kick off a year of events culminating in America's 250th birthday celebration.  —  President Donald Trump used a term …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump to host UFC fight at White House as part of “America250” celebrations  —  President Trump will host a UFC fight at the White House as part of celebrations marking 250 years since the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he announced at a Thursday rally in Iowa.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says he had ‘never heard’ Shylock as an anti-semitic term after using it at rally  —  President Donald Trump said early Friday that he wasn't aware that some people view the word “Shylock” as antisemitic after using the term during a rally to decry amoral money lenders.  —  “I've never heard it that way.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump goes after Mamdani at Iowa rally
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Reuters:
Trump, Zelenskiy discuss weapons, escalating Russian strikes  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed air defences in a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, and agreed to work on increasing Kyiv's capability to “defend the sky” as Russian attacks escalate.
Discussion: Financial Times and Bloomberg
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The U.S. Is Switching Sides  —  Trump is giving the Russian dictator every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.  —  The American president wrote, “Vladimir, STOP!” on his Truth Social account in April, but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump tells Zelensky he wants to help Ukraine with air defense, sources say  —  President Trump told Ukrainian President Zelensky in a call on Friday that the U.S. wants to help Ukraine with air defense, due to escalating Russian attacks, a Ukrainian official and a source with knowledge of the call said.
Anna Fratsyvir / The Kyiv Independent:
‘Deliberately massive and cynical’ — Russian attack on Ukraine began as Trump and Putin spoke, Zelensky says
New York Times:
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application  —  Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda.  He doesn't consider himself Black but said the application didn't allow for the complexity of his background.
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?  —  Here is one version of the story.  An anti-affirmative action hacker broke into Columbia's records, stealing private student information in the hope of providing material for Trump's authoritarian squeezing of the university.
Discussion: Fox News, Eschaton and Ken Klippenstein
NBC News:
Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn't jeopardize U.S. readiness  —  The move blindsided the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, who demanded an explanation from the Pentagon.  —  The Defense Department held …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show  —  In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies …
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process  —  The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday that will empower the Trump administration to send people subject to deportation to countries they have no connection with that are so dangerous the Trump administration advises Americans not to travel there.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
After House Republicans ignored her appeals, Lisa Murkowski's vote looks even worse  —  The Alaska Republican cast an indefensible vote in favor of the GOP's megabill.  After the House approved the same package, her vote now looks even worse.  —  Three Senate Republicans balked …
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Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court and Congress cede powers to Trump and the presidency  —  The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions.  Congress is giving ground on spending and tariffs.  It adds up to a turbocharged executive.
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Washington Post:
GOP tax bill bets big on Trump's immigration agenda despite poll warnings
Discussion: Associated Press
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies  —  It's hard to convey just how big the new budget makes the country's immigration enforcement infrastructure.  —  The Bureau of Prisons?  Bigger than that.  The FBI?  Bigger.  The Marine Corps?
Associated Press:
Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' $1 trillion Medicaid cut  —  Tyler Sherman, a nurse at a rural Nebraska hospital, is used to the area's aging farmers delaying care until they end up in his emergency room.  Now, with Congress planning around $1 trillion …
Discussion: al.com
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Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
U.N. Pulls Nuclear Inspectors Out of Iran for Safety Reasons  —  Move intensifies standoff over agency's oversight of Iran's nuclear work  —  The United Nations atomic agency is pulling its inspectors out of Iran over safety concerns, severing the link between the agency and Tehran …
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Trump's FBI Deputy Director Is A Podcaster Who Thinks The Election Was Stolen  —  “Folks, the FBI is at it again.  I don't trust these people at all,” the conspiracy theorist once wrote on social media.  —  President Donald Trump tapped a conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist for a big job in his administration.
Melina Walling / Associated Press:
EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump  —  The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump administration's agenda.
 
 
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Morgan Lee / Associated Press:
US expands militarized zones to 1/3 of southern border, stirring controversy
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Ramble On: How Are You? (video)  —  Fourth of July thoughts on the Bigly Bad Bill …
Discussion: The Five 8 on YouTube
Public Notice:
Fred Wellman on the MAGA-fication of the military
Myra Adams / The Hill:
The Founders put God at the center of the Declaration of Independence
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That's Unconstitutional
 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. payrolls increased by 147,000 in June, more than expected
Charles Fain Lehman / Wall Street Journal:
Legal Marijuana's Disastrous Legacy
Discussion: HotAir
New York Times:
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases Involving Transgender Athletes
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
200 Marines among those being sent to Florida to help ICE
The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes Our National Parks Great Again
Jose Pagliery / NOTUS:
Alina Habba Has Been Under an Ethics Investigation for Over a Year
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
 

 
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