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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Pete Hegseth's Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knows that playing a decisive tough guy on television is the way to keep Donald Trump happy, so he did just that while addressing reporters Monday about the U.S. bombing of Iran.
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Paul Krugman:
War Is Expensive for the Little People  —  Operation Epic Fury will cost billions that could have been put to much better use  —  On Sunday, according to the U.S. military, Kuwaiti forces shot down three U.S. F-15s in a “friendly fire” incident.  Fortunately, the crews were able to safely eject and survived.
Axios:
Rubio's war remarks blow open MAGA's Israel divide  —  MAGA's ascendant “America First” wing erupted after Secretary of State Marco Rubio effectively blamed Israel for drawing the U.S. into war with Iran. … “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” against Iran, Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill on Monday.
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  The Trump administration has offered very little in the way of justification for attacking Iran.  Instead, it was bomb first, offer a feeble explanation later.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's dangerous ‘war of whim’
Sophia Cai / Politico:   Trump to POLITICO: “I really don't care” if Iran plays in World Cup
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The Trump Doctrine is here. It ends forever wars.
Discussion: The White House
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Trump has cornered himself with his war in Iran
James LaPorta / CBS News:
Military questioned use of makeshift office space in Kuwait where U.S. troops were killed  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait …
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NBC News:
Live updates: U.S. shuts embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait after drone attacks; Israeli troops stage incursion into Lebanon  —  President Donald Trump indicated the conflict could last weeks and said wars can be fought “forever” with America's stock of munitions.
Associated Press:
Live updates: Strikes escalate across the Middle East as Iran attacks US embassy in Saudi Arabia
Associated Press:
Live Updates: Global Markets Tumble After U.S. Warns War Could Last Weeks
Financial Times:   Iran conflict: Iraq's crude production on cusp of collapse
Lara Seligman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Troops Killed in Kuwait Had No Warning of Deadly Drone Attack
New York Times:
Trump Administration, in Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms  —  The administration told a court on Monday that it was abandoning its defense of executive orders targeting the firms.  But on Tuesday, the Justice Department abruptly changed its position.
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Jonathan Larsen / Jonathan Larsen's Substack:
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus  —  To support my reporting and keep it free for everyone, you can become a paid subscriber.  Thank you.  —  A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan …
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Brandi Buchman / HuffPost:
Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is 'Part Of God's Divine Plan'
NBC News:
Democrats say they won't relent on DHS funding demands because of Iran war  —  Republicans have called on Democrats to drop their demands for changes to immigration enforcement due to the war.  Democrats aren't buying their argument.  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans have sought to use …
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
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Associated Press:
Live updates: Midterm primary voters head to the polls in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Tillis threatens to hijack Senate business amid frustrations with Noem … The announcement from Tillis, who has called repeatedly for Noem to leave her post, would represent a rare escalation from any senator — in particular one from the president's party — in the face of frustrations with a member of the Cabinet.
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Harriet Torry / Wall Street Journal:
What the Iran Strikes Could Mean for U.S. Inflation
NOTUS:
Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren't Getting Help from the State Department  —  The Trump administration is not currently helping U.S. citizens make travel plans to evacuate the Middle East, despite urging Americans to “depart now” from 16 countries in the region as the war with Iran continues to escalate.
Mona Zhang / Politico:
Trump administration can't stop New York's congestion pricing, court rules … The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sued the DOT last February, arguing that attempts to halt congestion pricing by the Federal Highway Administration — which is under the DOT — were unlawful after it had gone through a lengthy approval process.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Joe Patrice / Above the Law:
Law School Tells Students, ‘You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,’ For Summer Job  —  In The Hunt for Red October, we learn that Soviet submarine carried a “political officer,” a Communist Party appointee whose job wasn't navigating or torpedoing things, but making sure everyone …
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say  —  Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Justice Alito's Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for Voting Rights  —  A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday evening overturned a New York state court ruling that found …
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Pete Buttigieg in the Wilderness  —  In May 2001, at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a 19-year-old freshman named Peter Buttigieg asked David Gergen, a Harvard professor and horse whisperer to five presidents, a question that he might have reserved for himself, a couple of decades later.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
How you word a poll question can have a large impact on results  —  Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20-60 points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.  That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want  —  ∙ Paid
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Labor Secretary's Top Aides Forced Out  —  The two aides to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer had been on leave during an investigation of misconduct at the department.  —  Two top aides to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer were forced out Monday night amid an internal investigation …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements  —  Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games …
 
 
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Discussion: The Independent
William Jackson / Straight Arrow News:
SCOTUS pauses California student gender-privacy protections, for now
Steve Rose / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Scott A. Rivkees / The Hill:
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
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The Guardian:
Stock markets slump amid Iran war as gas prices jump 30% to three-year high
Discussion: Associated Press
Tim Naftali / The Atlantic:
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Ties to Israel plague Democrats in top primaries post-Gaza
Reuters:
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