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1:35 PM ET, July 10, 2025

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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.
Discussion: The Hill, Alternet.org 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” …
Discussion: 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 …
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration's Assault on the Law
Discussion: 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 …
CNN:
FEMA's response to Texas flood slowed by Noem's cost controls  —  As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters.
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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 …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Have you seen this man?  —  In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator …
Discussion: Raw Story
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” …
NBC News:
Trump's immigration enforcement record so far: High arrests, low deportations
Discussion: The National Pulse, Vox and CBS News
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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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:   The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’  —  Meet more of the worst people in the world.
Regan Morris / BBC:
Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party's Status Quo
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
A Newsmax guest called out Epstein's 2008 plea deal.  Its architect sits on Newsmax's board.  —  A Newsmax guest said on Wednesday night that Jeffrey Epstein “got a very soft touch” from authorities in Florida who “did not prosecute Epstein correctly,” referring to the sweetheart federal …
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Wired:
This Is DOGE 2.0  —  Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.  —  On Monday, June 23, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young, inexperienced technologists to join Elon Musk's …
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Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers
Discussion: Plain Dealer and NewsMax.com
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.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Washington Post:
Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial  —  Trump announced a 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian goods, escalating a feud over Brazil's prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro.  Brazil vowed to retaliate.  —  ANAPU, Brazil — President Donald Trump announced …
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NBC News:
Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariff, in part due to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
A(nother) Major Blow to Conservative Media  —  Plus: A missing-flag mystery at RFK Jr.'s Health and Human Services Department.  —  ∙ Paid  —  The conservative media money machine faces some headwinds  —  FOR TALK-RADIO HOST HUGH HEWITT, Georgia financier and state Republican power …
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.
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 …
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.
The San Francisco Standard:
A czar is born: Inside David Sacks' 130-day White House mission to remake crypto and AI … The investor and podcast host has scored major regulatory wins, all while the Trump family rakes in millions from crypto ventures. … For months, White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks bit …
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Wall Street Journal:
Lobbyists Revel in Trump Bonanza but Ask How Long It Can Last
Discussion: New York Magazine
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.
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.
Discussion: HotAir
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.
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
8 Million Federal Student Loan Borrowers Will Soon See Interest Restart  —  It will kick back in on Aug. 1 for people in the SAVE repayment program, whose payments have been on hold since last summer.  —  The U.S. Education Department said on Wednesday that it would resume applying interest …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Lisa Murkowski, Charles Sumner, and a cowardice crisis in Congress  —  Once, there was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts who had something he felt he had to say about America's racial crisis, and whether the United States could survive as a democracy.  Some of his colleagues urged him not to speak …
Discussion: Slate
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line
Scientific American:
Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on All Americans
Discussion: CBS News
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Discussion: The Register and SPACE.com
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani's college application
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
How Trump's D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural White Americans Too
Discussion: Just Security
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump quietly claimed a power even King George wasn't allowed to have
Jacob Silverman / The Nation:
Does Trump's Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?
Discussion: CoinDesk
Laura Sullivan / NPR:
New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump on Brennan, Comey probe reports: “Maybe they have to pay a price”