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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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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” …
Discussion: MSNBC, CBS News, The Hill and The Guardian
Gus Saltonstall / West Side Rag:
A Baseball Coach Says He Fended Off ICE Agents Questioning Kids on the Upper West Side  —  After coaching baseball on the west side of Manhattan for more than 20 years, Youman Wilder says he had a first-of-a-kind experience at the end of last month.  —  Wilder was leading a group …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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 …
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
Discussion: The Independent and Esquire
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton  —  In a statement, Angela Paxton said she moved to end her 38-year marriage “on biblical grounds,” citing “recent discoveries.”  —  State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Lauren McGaughy / KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station:
State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton  —  State Sen. Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.  —  On the social media site X, Angela Paxton posted she was seeking divorce “on biblical grounds.”
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
Joey Safchik / KNSD-TV:
ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court … A grandmother planning to document ICE arrests at the San Diego courthouse instead became the story Tuesday after video of her own arrest began circulating.  —  An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her.
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.
Discussion: The White House
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump nominates self-described ‘alpha male’ influencer Nick Adams as ambassador to Malaysia
Discussion: Washington Examiner, UPI and Raw Story
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 …
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration  —  On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child's birth in New York.
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Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal:
Mahmoud Khalil Seeks $20 Million From Trump Administration
Discussion: The Guardian and New York Sun
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 …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty  —  Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.  —  Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests …
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 …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
When Power Is Not Currently An Option, You Might As Well Tell The Truth  —  Amy Coney Barrett's pissy response to Ketanji Brown Jackson's CASA dissent is a real hit dog hollers moment:  —  As Jay Willis observes, it is...convenient that Barrett did not choose to “dwell” …
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probed Trump Terror Chief, 22, Over Teen Love Triangle  —  EYEBROW-RAISING  —  Police were called in after a threatening message was sent to a child by the ex-gardener chosen by the president to lead a key homeland security post, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  EXCLUSIVE
Discussion: Raw Story
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Some of Iran's Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says  —  The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.  —  Israel has concluded that some of Iran's underground stockpile …
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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Anthony Zurcher / BBC:
‘Trump was right’ - John Kerry says Democrats allowed migrant ‘siege’ of US border
Politico:
Joni Ernst is the next GOP senator on retirement watch … Many will be watching closely for clues next week when Ernst files new campaign fundraising totals.  She raised just over $1 million in the first quarter of 2025, a solid but not overwhelming number for an in-cycle senator.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dell Cameron / Wired:
DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’  —  DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.  —  The Department of Homeland Security …
Discussion: New York Times and Reuters
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 …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Billy Bush Says He Warned of ‘Animal’ Trump Comments Years Before Scandal  —  BUS BEAST  —  The host phoned a producer in 2005 after the president bragged about seducing co-anchor Nancy O'Dell.  —  Former Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush says he warned NBC that President Donald Trump …
Mike Stone / Reuters:
Trump to use presidential authority to send weapons to Ukraine, sources say  —  President Donald Trump for the first time since returning to office will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power frequently used by his predecessor, two sources familiar with the decision said on Thursday …
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 …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump loses appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse, defamation verdict … A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday upheld a civil jury verdict that found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, and which ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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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
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Held Talks on Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell: Biographer  —  WHITE HOUSE JITTERS  —  The president agonized over what Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice would reveal upon her arrest, author Michael Wolff said.  —  President Donald Trump weighed pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell for fear …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump's New Go-To Response: 'I Don't Know'  —  The president has taken to passing the buck when asked about the chaos his administration is unleashing on America and the world … When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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.
Nathan Taylor Pemberton / New York Times:
Democracy  —  If you want to know where Republican politics is heading, look at the memes.  Since the start of its second term, the Trump administration and its G.O.P. surrogates have been crashing out online.  —  Like an unhinged Zoomer, they've relentlessly posted sadistic memes …
Discussion: RNS
Los Angeles Times:
Federal immigration agents carry out sweep at Ventura County cannabis farm  —  Federal immigration agents were carrying out immigration sweeps in Ventura County Thursday, prompting a standoff between authorities and immigrant rights groups.  —  Videos shared on social media show nearly …
Discussion: FOX 11 Los Angeles
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.
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.
Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart:
Ex-UFC Star, Green Beret Tim Kennedy Admits to ‘Unintentionally’ Falsifying Military Record  —  Former UFC middleweight star and U.S. Army Green Beret Tim Kennedy has admitted to a “serious mistake” in implying “directly or indirectly” that he had been awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor during his military service.
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.
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.
Discussion: Range Widely
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
 
 
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Nicolas Misculin / Reuters:
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ICE:
ICE arrests one of El Salvador's “Top 100 Most Wanted” hiding in Nebraska
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A(nother) Major Blow to Conservative Media
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