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12:35 PM ET, August 2, 2025

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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side  —  The president had been on something of a winning streak.  But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn't bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
Discussion: Raw Story and Wide World of News
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Economy Stumbles  —  The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don't look so good.  —  Click for Sound  —  President Trump has now imposed his new tariff regime on the world, and the triumphalism is palpable in MAGA land.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's authoritarian streak  —  A five-alarm fire tore through the economic establishment Friday after President Trump ousted the government's top labor statistician, accusing her — without evidence — of “rigging” a weak jobs report. … - But apply any of these five storylines …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official  —  Economists said ousting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data.  — 1.2k  —  President Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market on Friday …
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
NBC News:
Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official  —  Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a significant slowdown in hiring in the U.S.  —  Some Republican senators have expressed concern …
Mike Allen / Axios:   🏖️Happy summer weekend! Smart Brevity™ count: 1,865 words ... 7 mins. Thanks to Natalie Daher for orchestrating. Copy edited by Lauren Floyd.
Associated Press:
Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump?
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics to be fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets
Paul Krugman:
Caracas on the Potomac  —  What I wrote just before Trump took office
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters and The Hill
CNN:
Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
Bloomberg:
Trump Fires Labor Statistics Head, Prompting Concerns About Data
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows  —  President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree.  He has authorized a major military buildup at the border.
Discussion: Raw Story
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New Republic:
Department of Homeland Security Memo … HOMELAND SECURITY AND DOD MEETING  —  [The New Republic omitted logistical details here.]  —  STAFF: Chief, Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Steven Munoz, Troup Hemenway, and Joseph Guy, Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, CBP Commissioner, Rodney Scott, Liaison Officer, DoD, Philip Hegseth
Discussion: Mother Jones, Fox News and USA Today
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Senate leaving Russia sanctions power fully in Trump's hands  —  Republican senators are getting ready to leave Washington without advancing a major sanctions bill against Russia, giving President Trump sole discretion over whether to follow through on his threats against Russian President Vladimir Putin …
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Wall Street Journal:   Hegseth's Latest Battle: Infighting Inside the Pentagon
Paul Kane / Washington Post:   Republican war hawks find momentum, a trust-but-verify moment with Trump
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith  —  The investigation comes after GOP Sen. Tom Cotton requested that Smith be investigated for “unprecedented interference in the 2024 election.”  —  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Federal judges side with Trump on ending union bargaining for federal workers  —  A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Trump administration, lifting a temporary block on a March executive order that prevented government workers from union bargaining.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Appeals Court Allows Trump Order That Ends Union Protections for Federal Workers
Discussion: Reuters and Commonplace
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:   Federal Court Orders Trump to Answer on Actions Taken for Anti-Voting Order
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels  —  Chris Booth's channel - rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism - garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months  —  The Guardian has identified the self-described …
Maxwell Adler / Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Suspends UCLA Grants After Rights Probe  —  The federal government is suspending certain research funding to the University of California at Los Angeles over concerns about antisemitism and bias on campus, hitting one of the most prestigious public higher-education systems in the US.
New York Times:
Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda  —  An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.  —  The Trump administration's agenda suffered …
CNN:
Four people dead in Montana bar shooting, suspect at large  —  Four people are dead after a shooting at a bar in Anaconda, Montana, Friday morning, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release.  —  Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center said in a Facebook post …
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
4 killed in bar shooting in Anaconda, Montana; authorities searching for suspect
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Stagflation fears are back  —  America is showing new signs of stagflation — inflation running hotter, the job market suffering new weakness, and economists warning both are at risk of getting worse in the months ahead.  —  Why it matters: The word “stagflation” revives miserable memories of the 1970s …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump's Pay-for-Access Operation  —  A new disclosure shows how corporations and individuals, including many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president.  —  When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard …
Discussion: Sludge and Bloomberg
NBC News:
Republican-led House committee postpones Ghislaine Maxwell deposition  —  Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, indicated that next steps will be determined after the Supreme Court decides whether to review Maxwell's appeal.  —  Congressional testimony …
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Not With a Bang, but With a Truth Social Post  —  The president is rattling a nuclear saber as a distraction.  —  Donald Trump, beset by a week of bad news, has decided to rattle the most dangerous saber of all.  In a post today on his Truth Social site, the president claimed that in response …
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question  —  The Supreme Court just issued this order:  —  Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district …
Discussion: Politico and NBC News
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Brenda Goodman / CNN:
HHS further constrains certain vaccine advisers to the CDC, limiting their input in evidence reviews  —  In a further jolt to the process of reviewing and recommending vaccines at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another group of outside advisers to the agency was abruptly sidelined this week.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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