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2:10 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 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 …
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 …
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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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.
Laura Sullivan / NPR:
New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic
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
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
Axios:
Trump faces MAGA trust crisis over Epstein debacle  —  Top MAGA influencers warn the Trump administration is bleeding trust over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and that the president is drifting dangerously out of step with the movement he built.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
GOP rep says he believes Epstein files were destroyed
Discussion: NewsNation 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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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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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.
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 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.
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.
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 …
CNN:
Andrew Cuomo has spent millions on his legal defense against his #MeToo accusers.  New York taxpayers are footing the bill  —  In the summer of 2023, Ana Liss sat in a law firm conference room in Rochester, New York, to be deposed — again.  This time the ordeal lasted more than eight hours …
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.
Washington Post:
Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line  —  The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website.  —  Summary106  —  The Social Security Administration …
 
 
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The San Francisco Standard:
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Lisa Murkowski, Charles Sumner, and a cowardice crisis in Congress
Discussion: Slate
Casey Michel / The Atlantic:
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
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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
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:
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

 
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