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Politico:
Internal DOJ messages bolster claim that Trump judicial nominee spoke of defying court orders … Bove has said that he never advised anyone to violate court orders. DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Alternet.org, The Hill and Salon
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case — Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” …
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The Hill and The Guardian
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Whistleblower's texts suggest Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove urged lawyer to defy court order — A week before an expected committee vote on the controversial nomination of Trump ally Emil Bove for a federal judgeship, CBS News has obtained emails and text messages shared with Congress …
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The Bulwark, New Yorker, Notes From The Circus, Raw Story and Staten Island Advance
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration's Assault on the Law
Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration's Assault on the Law
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NewsMax.com and Rolling Stone
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order despite Supreme Court ruling — A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump's order seeking to end birthright citizenship — A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. — The ruling from US District …
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Federal Judge in New Hampshire Blocks Trump's Birthright Citizenship Ban for All Affected Babies
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Straight Arrow News, WTOP News, All Rise News, Al Jazeera and ballot-access.org
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling
Judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling
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New York Times, UPI, New York Post, JURISTnews and E&E News
Thomas Frank / E&E News by POLITICO:
FEMA leader is a no-show after deadly Texas flooding … As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader. — David Richardson, the agency's acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the nation's deadliest floods …
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The Handbasket, The Hill, Raw Story, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, NPR, Alternet.org and MSNBC
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Laura Sullivan / NPR:
New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic
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New York Times, HousingWire and Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely
Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely
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Associated Press and New York Times
CNN:
FEMA's response to Texas flood slowed by Noem's cost controls
FEMA's response to Texas flood slowed by Noem's cost controls
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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement. He praises the bravery and fortitude …
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Who actually is the President of the United States right now? — What Stephen Miller and Bridge Colby tell us about the “epochs” and “ages” of Trump 2.0 … We've seen two remarkable — and intriguing — developments in the last week that independently we might just chalk up to the “normal” …
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Esquire and The Independent
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party — During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win elections. It's destroying them now. … July 10, 2025 — 5:40 AM — A few months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a press conference with an almond farmer …
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The Bulwark and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party's Status Quo
These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party's Status Quo
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
GOP rep says he believes Epstein files were destroyed — Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday he believes a so-called “client list” associated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration. — “I think the files existed at one time …
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Mediaite, RedState, Alternet.org, Newsweek, NewsNation and The Bulwark
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check! — Ex-CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, seems to have left the company on good terms. That is to say, Elon Musk has not disparaged her yet, and we know that he is not known to mince words about his adversaries. But now, we have the teeniest …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Religious Rebellion Against Mass Deportation — Donald Trump posted a new “tariff letter” yesterday, and this one was notable because it didn't follow the template of the others. Yes, it included the standard complaints about “Brazil's Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers” …
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Associated Press and Staten Island Advance
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Anthony Zurcher / BBC:
‘Trump was right’ - John Kerry says Democrats allowed migrant ‘siege’ of US border
‘Trump was right’ - John Kerry says Democrats allowed migrant ‘siege’ of US border
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The Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Independent, The Daily Signal, Not the Bee, Fox News and NewsMax.com
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump nominates ‘alpha male’ MAGA firebrand to serve as ambassador to Malaysia … Adams, born in Australia, served in local government before being formally condemned by his colleagues and threatened with suspension from the Liberal Party for conduct “likely to embarrass or cause damage to the reputation” of the party.
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The White House
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Taps Hooters-Obsessed MAGA Diehard to Be an Ambassador
Trump Taps Hooters-Obsessed MAGA Diehard to Be an Ambassador
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New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Mediaite, New Republic and The Independent
Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers — A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars …
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Plain Dealer, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
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Tim Cunningham / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know. … Tim Cunningham is the board president of Clowns Without Borders, a nonprofit that performs clown shows for communities facing hardship. — Allegations that President Donald Trump is a clownish figure are not hard to come by.
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HotAir, The Washington Free Beacon, Breitbart, Townhall, Newsbusters, Instapundit, Fox News, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Not the Bee and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas … As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash floods and some 170 remain missing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has both denied that DOGE cuts …
Reuters:
Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says — Grok AI will be available in Tesla (TSLA.O) vehicles next week “at the latest”, the EV maker's CEO, Elon Musk, said in a post on X on Thursday. — Musk's AI startup xAI launched Grok 4, its latest flagship AI model, on Wednesday.
The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge — The dismantling of Harvard's diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.
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HotAir and Above the Law
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
A(nother) Major Blow to Conservative Media — The conservative media money machine faces some headwinds — FOR TALK-RADIO HOST HUGH HEWITT, Georgia financier and state Republican power broker Brant Frost IV was like a cinematic hero from one of those classic Hollywood movies.
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA — Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis … After Donald Trump pulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the post, the president announced Duffy would be the interim NASA administrator.
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, WPR, Associated Press, E&E News, New York Times, The Guardian, SPACE.com, Mock Paper Scissors, RedState, Washington Examiner, Reuters, The Register, The Independent, Florida Politics, Washington Post, The Hill, Mediaite, Breitbart, Forbes, UPI, The Free Press, Ars Technica, New York Post, Fox News, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Raw Story, Politico and NewsMax.com
Hamilton Nolan / How Things Work:
This Land Is Not Your Land — In the spring of 2012, I went to Harrison, Arkansas to report on a Ku Klux Klan meeting. When I arrived at the group's compound the first day, after navigating down tiny dirt roads and over intermittently running streams, I was greeted not by a burning cross, but by a lawyer wielding a release form.
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Greg Abbott accused of trying to ‘fix’ midterms for Republicans by redrawing congressional maps — Texas governor unveiled plan to redraw state's districts in a move opponents are calling ‘an egregious gerrymander’ — The fight for democracy is supported by
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Mother Jones, The Daily Signal, Raw Story, The Texas Tribune, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, Daily Kos, Democrats, Off the Kuff, Democracy Docket and NBC News
The Budget Lab at Yale:
State of U.S. Tariffs: July 10, 2025 — The Budget Lab (TBL) estimated the effects all US tariffs and foreign retaliation implemented in 2025 through July 9, including the effects of the US-Vietnam trade framework, the 50% commodity tariffs on copper, and the July 7 & July 9 announcements on new rates for 22 countries.
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Firings without explanation create culture of fear at Justice Dept., FBI — Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say. — Summary364 — The Trump administration is firing and pushing …
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
6 Secret Service agents suspended over conduct during attempted Trump assassination — The July 2024 incident left Trump's ear bloodied and a firefighter killed. — Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally in Butler, Penn., July 13, 2024.
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Rachael Fugardi / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Antifeminist women's summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’ — ‘Christians are not called to empathy’ — Thousands of people gathered in Grapevine, Texas, to attend Turning Point USA's 10th annual Young Women's Leadership Summit in June.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn't Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey just sent threatening letters to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming their AI chatbots violated Missouri's consumer protection laws. The crime?
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The Hill, HuffPost and Attorney General Office …
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Espaillat Endorses Mamdani for Mayor, After Backing Cuomo and Adams — Representative Adriano Espaillat, the most powerful Latino leader in New York City, will back Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor. — Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor's race …
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ABC News, The Hill, Fox News, Bloomberg, New York Daily News, AM New York, Gothamist, abc7NY, Politico and Washington Examiner
Casey Michel / The Atlantic:
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This — The White House has seen its share of shady deals. Ulysses S. Grant's brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market. Warren Harding's secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons …
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Alternet.org
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’ — I've been listening to Robert Evans' podcast series on Adolf Eichmann and one of the things Evans mentions is that throughout the Holocaust, many Nazis had in their lives a “Good Jew.” Some Jewish person who they liked and wished to save.
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Range Widely
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
The Fallout Is Growing on Trump's Deals With Law Firms — The deals are looking worse and worse — for Trump and the law firms. — The Trump administration is on an unbroken losing streak in the courts — 0 for 4 — in its effort to defend President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting large law firms.
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Alternet.org, Above the Law and Raw Story

