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New York Times:
X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform  —  Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.  —  Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down  —  X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership, X has managed to maintain its dominance as the top social discourse app in the U.S., but its ads business still faces challenges.
Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News:
Linda Yaccarino to step down as CEO of X
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Musk chatbot Grok removes posts after complaints of antisemitism  —  Grok, the chatbot developed by the Elon Musk-founded company xAI, removed what it called “inappropriate” social media posts on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content …
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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Meet the new national police force  —  A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.  To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.  —  CNN —  The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren't afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers and pluck nonviolent …
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John Pfaff / MSNBC:
Trump's megabill gives billions to ICE — but hiring 10,000 new agents won't be easy
Discussion: Breitbart
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:   Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
FBI launches criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey: DOJ sources  —  CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred Brennan for criminal investigation to the FBI, sources told Fox News Digital  —  EXCLUSIVE: Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey …
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John Sipher / The Bulwark:
The CIA Director Didn't Read His Own Report
Discussion: The Atlantic and Ace of Spades HQ
Politico:
Biden's physician declines to cooperate in GOP probe of former president's mental fitness  —  Kevin O'Connor, who served as Joe Biden's physician while the former president was in office, is refusing to testify in a closed-door interview as part of the House GOP probe into Biden's mental acuity.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Delayed Reciprocal Tariffs After Bessent Wanted More Time on Deals  —  President also decided to send out letters as a way to keep the pressure up  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump decided to delay the implementation of his so-called reciprocal tariffs to Aug. 1 after advisers including …
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New York Times:
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease  —  Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.  —  There have now been more measles cases in 2025 than in any other year since the contagious virus …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets  —  Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport …
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
GOP Senators Had No Idea They Voted For Controversial Gambling Tax  —  How the sausage is made in Washington: In the dark and behind closed doors.  —  WASHINGTON - The massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last week contains a provision limiting tax deductions …
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Trump Made His Epstein Problem Much Worse  —  Years have gone by since Jeffrey Epstein was tried, convicted, sent to prison, and committed suicide (allegedly).  Trump made it through his first election and term with the Epstein case not affecting him negatively with his MAGA base despite …
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Adam Cancryn / CNN:
Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show  —  Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” …
Wassim Serhan / Slingshot Strategies:
Slingshot Poll: The NYC Mayor's Race, July 2-July 6  —  Slingshot conducted a poll of registered voters in NYC from July 2nd to July 6th.  The poll provides an early look at the electorate after the Democratic primary and ahead of an intriguing general election on November 4th
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Secret White House meeting on Gaza raises hopes for ceasefire deal  —  Senior U.S., Israeli and Qatari officials held secret talks at the White House on Tuesday that honed in on the key remaining sticking point for a long-sought ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza, two sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
Discussion: The Forward
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts  —  Warehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan.  —  Few lifesaving tools are as effective as ready-to-use therapeutic foods, known as RUTFs …
Discussion: Can We Still Govern?
New York Times:
Trump Administration Renews Attacks On Harvard With Negotiations Uncertain  —  The Department of Homeland Security issued administrative subpoenas seeking data about the university's international students, while two federal agencies challenged Harvard's accreditation.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Elon  —  No friendship with Donald Trump can last for very long.  We've seen plenty of examples: Michael Cohen, “Sloppy” Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Elon Musk—and now Vladimir Putin.  “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said yesterday.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Liberalism is worth saving.  Just ask its critics.  —  Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America's most famous Black fascist.  —  Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his entire life.
Associated Press:
Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts  —  As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government's vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather.  The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party  —  The two men spoke about Mr. Musk's push to create the America Party before the midterm elections.  Mr. Yarvin has expressed support for a monarchy, along with provocative ideas about race.
Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Says the President Can Fire People  —  The Justices nix a lower-court universal injunction that presumed illegality.  —  Do you hear the Justices now?  That's the question for lower court judges after the Supreme Court on Tuesday nixed a universal injunction that had barred …
Jenni Reid / CNBC:
Copper now costs way more in the U.S. than elsewhere.  This could hit its economy hard … The cost of copper for U.S. buyers has rocketed after President Donald Trump said he would impose a 50% tariff on imports of the metal.  —  It means that already elevated prices are now even higher …
CNN:
Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized pause on weapon shipments to Ukraine, sources say  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration  —  Truths Self-Evident No More  —  There's a lot going on in the world, arguably much of it of more material consequence, so readers will be forgiven if they missed J.D. Vance's speech on July 5th at the Claremont Institute, where he accepted their “Statesmanship Award.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent  —  When a reporter demanded to know why the summer camps along the Guadalupe River weren't evacuated before its waters reached their deadly peak on July 4, Rob Kelly, the highest-ranking local official, had a simple answer: “No one knew this kind of flood was coming.”
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
With Taxes and Tariffs in Place, Trump Takes Reins of U.S. Economy … President Trump has forged ahead with the grand and potentially disruptive economic experiment that he previewed during the 2024 campaign.Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times  —  His expensive tax cuts have been signed into law.
Discussion: Althouse
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Ellison's Late-Night Limbo … Jon Stewart opened Monday's episode of “The Daily Show” not mincing words, calling Paramount's settlement with Donald Trump “shameful.” … “Did they?  Son of a bitch!”  Stewart exclaimed, playing along with the bit—yet nodding to a deeper fear …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Tillis says he'll ‘probably’ vote in support of Trump's controversial judge pick  —  Sen. Thom Tillis said he will likely vote to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney and controversial pick for a judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals …
New York Times:
The ‘Trump Pump’: How Crypto Lobbying Won Over a President … Just over a year ago, while sitting around a table in an ornate meeting room at Mar-a-Lago, David Bailey and a group of top Bitcoin executives made a pitch to Donald J. Trump.  —  They were looking for a savior.
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Grassley launders new MAGA smear campaign against the FBI  —  🗣️ Paid subscribers make Public Notice possible.  If you appreciate our fiercely independent coverage of American politics, please sign up and support us.  👇  —  “Chris Wray's FBI wasn't looking …
Politico:
Jan. 6 rally organizer must pay $2K a day until she complies with subpoena, judge rules … “I don't want to resort to incarceration if at all possible,” the judge said.  —  Wren did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  She's not the only witness facing scrutiny from a federal court …
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The GOP blew past debt warnings.  The markets have noticed. … The whole episode was a stark display of how short-term rewards and Trump's demands outweighed any anxieties about long-term calamity — even from a constituency as powerful as Wall Street, whose major players are reliable financiers for politicians of both parties.
Discussion: The Hill, The Contrarian and Bloomberg
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Some of Mamdani's far-left allies want to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC Democrats  —  Democratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next — and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at the top of their list, is daring them to try.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica:
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come  —  Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.  —  On July 4, the broken remnants …
Sam Ogozalek / Politico:
Trump's auto safety nominee has a history of tangling with Tesla … But Morrison's comments have received little media attention since Trump nominated him in February.  —  Over the years, NHTSA has opened several probes into how Tesla's vehicles operate, especially related …
 
 
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

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