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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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Democracy Docket, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Salon and Alternet.org
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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, The Gateway Pundit, 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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Politico, The Hill, Associated Press, HotAir, Washington Examiner, Democracy Docket, Roll Call, ABC News, The National Pulse, JURISTnews, The 19th, NBC News, New York Daily News, RedState, NewsMax.com, Blaze Media, All Rise News, The Post Millennial, Daily Caller News Foundation, Patterico's Pontifications, Daily Mail and Reuters
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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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.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
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Esquire and The Independent
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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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
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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HotAir, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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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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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Townhall, RedState, Mediaite, Alternet.org, Newsweek, NewsNation and The Bulwark
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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.”
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The Texas Tribune, Raw Story, Politico, Axios, The Hill, KHOU-TV, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Texas Standard, New York Daily News and Newsweek
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 National Pulse, The Independent, The Daily Signal, Not the Bee, The Gateway Pundit, 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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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 …
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, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Instapundit, Fox News, Not the Bee and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
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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Politico, New York Magazine, TechCrunch and Gizmodo
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Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers
DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers
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Plain Dealer, Raw Story 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.
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 …
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Reuters
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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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
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
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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The Guardian, Axios, Newsweek, The Independent, NewsMax.com and The Post Millennial
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.
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, Roll Call, Daily Kos, Democrats, Washington Examiner, Off the Kuff, Democracy Docket and NBC News
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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Daily Kos, Gizmodo, New York Times, TechCrunch, Associated Press, E&E News, Mock Paper Scissors, SPACE.com, RedState, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Reuters, The Register, WPR, The Independent, Florida Politics, Washington Post, Mediaite, Breitbart, Forbes, UPI, The Free Press, Ars Technica, Fox News, New York Post, The Hill, 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.
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 …
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Mercury News, Raw Story and The Hollywood Reporter
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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Washington Examiner, ABC News, The Hill, City & State New York, New York Daily News, AM New York, Gothamist, abc7NY, Bloomberg, Fox News and Politico
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.
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Alternet.org
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 …
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 …
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New Republic
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 …


