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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Urges ‘Less Shackled’ Pulte to Fire Intelligence-Community Employees  —  President said in interview Office of the Director of National Intelligence should be ‘much smaller’ and maybe even terminated  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director …
Avani Kalra / NOTUS:
Senate Passes Party-Line Reconciliation Bill, Sidesteps Attempts to Kill ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund  —  The bill provides $70 billion for immigration and border agencies.  The House plans to take it up next week.  — Copy  —  The Senate voted mostly along party lines …
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Will Saletan / The Bulwark:   Senate Republicans Chicken Out—Again.
NBC News:
Senate passes $70B bill to fund immigration enforcement, without limits on Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
House GOP moves to codify Hegseth's ‘Department of War’ name change
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower says  —  A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.  —  Summary
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Whistleblower Exposes Trump Goons' Jaw-Dropping Social Security Plot  —  WIPED FROM EXISTENCE  —  The plan involved exploiting a database known as the “Death Master File.”  —  A Trump administration whistleblower says officials plotted to declare 2.7 million living individuals dead to push immigrants out of the country.
Discussion: Novara Media
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Paramount's Weiss Woes … Over the last week, as Bari Weiss plunged CBS News into an unprecedented crisis by implementing her ill-advised overhaul of “60 Minutes,” other Paramount leaders have been left to deal with the fallout.  Indeed, Status has learned that the Weiss-induced turmoil …
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Financial Times:
Inside the CBS mutiny against Bari Weiss and David Ellison  —  A saga that started with Donald Trump's assault on ‘60 Minutes’ has turned into a full-blown crisis  —  Scott Pelley walked into a meeting with CBS executives on Tuesday evening with his future at one of America's most venerated news programmes hanging in the balance.
Kristina Fiore / MedPage Today:
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting  — Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions  —  NEW ORLEANS — Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate  —  Alabama gambled on the Court's partisanship, and won.  —  This week, the Roberts Court made clear that when it comes to drawing congressional districts, Black voters have no rights that anyone is bound to respect.
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Mara Gay / New York Times:
The Betrayal of Black Voters Threatens Our Democracy
CNN:
First on CNN: DOJ sends prosecutor to observe LA ballot counting amid Trump's baseless ‘cheating’ claims  —  The Justice Department sent one of its attorneys to observe ballot processing in Los Angeles Friday morning, the county's elections office told CNN, after President Donald Trump claimed earlier …
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Silver Bulletin:
Why can't California count?  —  The Golden State needs to bring its vote counting into the 21st century.
HuffPost:
Trump Says He Still Wants To Pay Jan. 6 Rioters.  It Would Be Pretty Easy To Do So.  —  Jan. 6 rioters are betting that Trump will still have their backs — and there's an easy way he could pay them.  —  The $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay President Donald Trump's allies is …
Discussion: MS NOW, Lawfare and Mediaite
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Lawfare:
Is Trump's “Anti-Weaponization” Slush Fund Dead? Or Is It Undead?
Discussion: MeidasTouch
Radley Balko / The Watch:
How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees  —  Bari Weiss continues to take a hatchet to CBS News.  This week she fired longtime journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he angrily confronted her handpicked new editor for the program.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Cooper Quintin / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Move Fast, Surveil Things  —  Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired.  EFF's Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition code is present through static analysis of the application.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Platner ex-girlfriend accuses New York Times of ‘set up’  —  An ex-girlfriend of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is expressing her frustration with The New York Times over the way it portrayed her and others' experience dating the Democrat.  —  Lyndsey Fifield, whom the Times quoted …
Torrence Banks / NOTUS:
Trump Is Eyeing Control of Smithsonian's Budget  —  The administration is creating a conflict with how Congress intended its money be spent.  — Copy  —  A directive from the Office of Management and Budget could force the Smithsonian Institution to change its spending plans …
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He, Not Congress, Is in Charge of Kennedy Center in Reversal  —  President Donald Trump floated that he'd remain in charge of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts just days after he said Congress would retain control over the institution.  —  “I'm the chairman, so we'll just keep it going.
Discussion: Reason and New York Times
Joe Lovinger / Bloomberg:
Talarico Orders a Texas BBQ Feast After Paxton's ‘Vegan’ Jab  —  James Talarico picked at the brisket with his bare hands and polished off a rack of pork ribs.  Sausage links and “Texas Twinkies” — stuffed jalapeño peppers wrapped in bacon — crowded the butcher paper on his overflowing tray of smoked meats.
Discussion: Washington Times
Washington Post:
Lewis George leads in D.C. mayoral race, Post-Schar School poll finds  —  Janeese Lewis George leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double-digits in the Democratic primary, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.  —  Summary  —  Janeese Lewis George leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double-digits …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S. Audits, Even as $1.8 Billion Fund Falls Away  —  Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump's allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration granted him potentially lucrative tax protections.
Associated Press:
Treasury warns banks of ‘red flags’ tied to customers in the US illegally  —  Treasury's financial crimes arm wants banks to help identify payroll schemes tied to people living in the country illegally, as part of the Trump administration's latest measure to clamp down on immigration.
Discussion: Dallas Express and Semafor
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. payrolls rose by 172,000 in May, much more than expected; unemployment at 4.3% … Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued a solid year of expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.  —  Nonfarm payrolls jumped a seasonally adjusted 172,000 …
New York Times:
Judge Says Trump Officials Must Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing  —  The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Trump Arch Will Need Red Lights, F.A.A. Says  —  The Federal Aviation Administration advised that if the Trump administration adds red obstruction lights to the arch design, it is likely to pose no risk to local aviation.  —  The Federal Aviation Administration said the Trump administration's plans …
Discussion: Raw Story
Olivia Ralph / The Daily Beast:
White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Trump, 79  —  EYES WIDE SHUT  —  Trump's aides flew into attack mode amid renewed scrutiny of the president's health.  —  A viral video of Donald Trump sitting with his eyes closed sent the White House's social media operation into full meltdown mode.
Jeff Stein / NOTUS:
Trump Is Talking With Tech Executives About Acquiring ‘Pieces’ of Major AI Companies  —  The president's comments confirmed he's been in conversation with tech executives about federal intervention in the sector.  — Copy  —  President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is talking …
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Fumes as Republican Senator Delivers Todd Blanche an Ultimatum … President Trump is incensed by outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis's refusal to support Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general until he disavows January 6 insurrectionists.  —  “Tillis said he won't support …
Dan McCarthy / Canary Media:
Electric cars are starting to take over the world  —  Despite sluggish EV sales in the U.S., it's full steam ahead for electric vehicles in most other regions. … Electric vehicles may be struggling to find buyers in the U.S. — but they're making inroads elsewhere.
Discussion: Deseret News and The Japan Times
Nicholas Wu / Semafor:
Democrats ramp up plans to investigate Trump through corporate America  —  Progressive and centrist Democrats are remarkably aligned around their plan for using a potential House majority to investigate President Donald Trump: Pursue businesses that have cultivated his administration for backdoor oversight, and don't hold back.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
M. Gessen / New York Times:
The White House's Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’  —  “They walk among us.”  The glowing green letters emerge ominously against a dark backdrop.  Above them hover the words “aliens” and “declassified,” suggesting the release — long awaited in some corners of the internet …
 
 
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