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9:40 AM ET, July 5, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Now Republicans Have to Sell Trump's Megabill to Voters  —  Control of Congress in next year's election could turn on how Americans view the sweeping tax and domestic-policy package  —  Republicans had a hard time persuading some of their own lawmakers to support the party's big tax-cutting and domestic-policy bill.
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Reuters:
Trump signs controversial spending bill during White House 4th of July celebrations
Zack Stanton / Politico:
Playbook: The fireworks begin
Brian Faler / Politico:   GOP megabill littered with special tax breaks
Andrea Pitzer / MSNBC:
Don't call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.  —  This facility's purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.  —  By Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps”
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Concentration Camp Labor  —  With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.  —  Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor.  Among many other aims, the Soviets used …
Uriel J. García / Associated Press:
Multiple deaths reported in Hill Country, rescue efforts underway as flash flooding threatens communities  —  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said rescuers are searching for survivors, including 23 girls missing from a Christian camp along the Guadalupe River.  —  Officials said as many as 13 bodies …
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New York Times:
Frantic Search for the Missing After At Least Six Killed in Texas Flood
Maydeen Merino / Washington Examiner:
Twenty-three girls missing from Texas summer camp after flash floods devastate area
Wall Street Journal:
No One is ‘Gutting’ the Safety Net  —  The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election.  —  Democrats and their media collaborators always distort GOP policy, but the coverage about the big budget bill has kicked free of the earth.
Discussion: Fox News
Nicholas Bariyo / Wall Street Journal:
Congo Braces for HIV Surge After U.S. Funding Stops  —  The virus is quickly spreading in what should be the country's most economically productive regions  —  The mineral-rich provinces of South and North Kivu along the eastern flank of the Democratic Republic of Congo should be among its most productive.
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm  —  Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA  —  As the best and the brightest were being fired at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by senseless …
Axios:
Trump ramps up deportation spectacle with new stunts and ICE funding … - It's an extraordinary shift from Trump's first term, when nationwide backlash and the appearance of cruelty forced the administration to abandon its family separation policy for unauthorized immigrants.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts  —  Aside from hype artists and White House spokespeople, it's hard to find true enthusiasm for the sweeping new policy law, even among Republicans who voted for its passage.  But because almost all Republicans did vote for it …
New York Times:
Trump's Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe  —  Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau's most important missions.  His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Judge transfers new case challenging South Sudan deportations  —  An administrative stay issued Friday morning will last until 4:30 p.m. Further action would have to come from Massachusetts.  Read the new claims at Law Dork.  —  After a hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss transferred …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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Politico:
Judge clears way for U.S. to deport eight men to South Sudan
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke  —  In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias.  On the term's last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.  —  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions …
Discussion: NewsNation
Kathryn Carlson / Politico:
3 Turkish mayors reported arrested as crackdown on opposition continues  —  The mayors of three Turkish cities were arrested Saturday morning, according to media reports, as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues his crackdown on the political opposition.
Shannon Najmabadi / Washington Post:
Social Security letter on taxes sends confusing message, some experts say  —  The Social Security Administration says most won't pay federal income taxes on their benefits.  But Congress didn't directly exempt those payments from taxes.  —  The Social Security Administration is telling people …
Carl Gibson / Alternet.org:
China sees Trump's new law as ‘one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm’: analyst  —  According to one analyst, only two groups are celebrating H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's massive new budget law — on July 4: Republicans, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:
AOC Warns of ICE ‘Explosion’ After ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Passes  —  THE WORST HAS YET TO COME  —  “It is setting up to make what's happening now look like child's play,” said the Democratic representative.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the effects of President Donald Trump's …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia Hits Ukraine With Large Air Barrage Hours After Trump-Putin Call  —  It was the latest in a series of almost weekly large-scale missile and drone attacks.  President Trump said he “didn't make any progress” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Trump speaks with Zelenskyy after he was ‘disappointed’ in call with Putin
 
 
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Perri Klass / New York Times:
I'm Scared Children Will Die of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Felisha Bull / GOA:
GOA to File “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” Against NFA Registry as “One Big Beautiful Bill” Heads to President's Desk
Adrianna Tomasello / Democrats:
Trump is Putting the American Dream Out of Reach
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
James Faris / Business Insider:
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Jan. 6 federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi quotes Theodore Roosevelt in passionate farewell letter
Discussion: Raw Story
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Lawler nears decision on NY governor bid
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Stephen Foley / Financial Times:
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
NBC News:
Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump
Discussion: LewRockwell
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Grandin / New York Times:
In Trump's America, Who Gets to Call Themselves American?
Dan Primack / Axios:
Elon Musk floats strategy for new political party
Spencer Kimball / NBC News:
Trump megabill gives the oil industry everything it wants and ends key support for solar and wind
Sara Dorn / Forbes:
Trump's Pardons Cost At Least $1.5 Billion In Restitution
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ken White / The Popehat Report:
The Fourth Of July, Rethought
 

 
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David Pierce / The Verge:
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