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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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NBC News:
Senate passes $70B bill to fund immigration enforcement, without limits on Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund  —  Republicans ultimately defeated multiple attempts by senators on both sides of the aisle to codify ending or changing the $1.8 billion pot of money.
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:   Senate Republicans Chicken Out—Again.
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
House GOP endorses Trump's Department of War renaming
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and NOTUS
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.
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.
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 …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Casting Her 10,000th Vote in a Row, Collins Sets a Senate RecordNEW!
New York Times:
Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior
Paul Krugman:
America, the Inessential Nation  —  On Feb. 28, 2025 Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, for what he claimed was failure to show sufficient respect.  “You're not in a good position,” Trump declared.  “You don't have the cards right now.”
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
House Passes Ukraine Aid in Defiance of Republican Leaders
Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:14 minutes ago
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 …
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Ron Ribiat / RNS:
Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths  —  (RNS) — The Department of Defense is substantially reducing the number of religions it officially recognizes, reportedly excluding atheists, pagans, humanists and New Age faiths, an independent military-focused news website reports.
Discussion: Fox News
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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.
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
Nick Bednar / Lawfare:
Inside the Implementation of Schedule Policy/Career  —  President Trump signed an executive order making over 8,000 federal employees removable at will.  —  nicholasbednar.bsky.social  —  Meet The Authors  —  Immediately following his second inauguration, President Trump signed …
Discussion: E&E News
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:30 minutes ago
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.
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 …
Molly Jong-Fast / New York Times:
It's No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers  —  Commencement address season hasn't been going well — for the commencement speakers.  —  I'm sure you've seen the videos on social media.  The big shots who have been brought in to inspire a next generation of graduates have used …
Discussion: Althouse
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Vanilla Ice Is In, Bret Michaels Is Out: Trump's Battle for Celebrity Validation  —  President Trump has pursued fame his entire adult life.  Now in his second term in the White House, he is finding how little power he has to force cultural figures to fall in line.
Associated Press:
Kennedy Center moves to erase Trump references after judge said they were illegally added  —  The Kennedy Center is beginning the process of removing references to President Donald Trump a week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been illegally added to the performing arts center.
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.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
I wrote about George Santos.  Then he made a violent threat and lied about it  —  I was winding down my work day here in Los Angeles when my phone rang at 5:37 p.m. from a blocked number.  It was former Congressman George Santos.  He was boiling with rage.
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite, The Wrap and Raw Story
Tonya Alanez / The Boston Globe:14 minutes ago
Quotes about slavery, immigrants, and war memorials slated for removal from Bunker Hill historic site  —  The National Park Service has ordered the removal of three quotes that reflect on slavery and immigrants' places in the American Revolution and question war memorials built to honor death rather than …
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Politico:
Trump's next GOP loyalty test: Ending the changing of the clocks … His personal touch, coupled with engagement from the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, helped land the provision in the House transportation bill, according to a senior White House official granted anonymity to share private legislative strategy.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children  —  Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.  —  Summary  —  As grocery prices continue to rise nationally …
Discussion: Newsweek, New Republic and Truthout
Politico:
House members keep losing their bids for higher office.  Some think they know why. … Some of those who have been on the campaign trail this year have a simple explanation for the trend: It's hard for members of a dysfunctional and unpopular institution to ask voters to reward them with even bigger jobs.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:20 minutes ago
Spike in border wall spending goes mostly to 2 firms with GOP, White House ties  —  Construction contracts — including a $2.6B award this week — are being awarded at a historic scale through a streamlined process that could put Trump on track to realize his vision for a border wall.  —  Summary
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 …
 
 
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Olivia Ralph / The Daily Beast:
White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Trump, 79   Find
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Casting Her 10,000th Vote in a Row, Collins Sets a Senate Record   Find
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators' Fight Over Trump Fund Spills Onto Floor   Find
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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Urges ‘Less Shackled’ Pulte to Fire Intelligence-Community Employees   Find
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Jake Spring / Washington Post:
Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston's Bunker Hill monument   Find
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Tonya Alanez / The Boston Globe:
Quotes about slavery, immigrants, and war memorials slated for removal from Bunker Hill historic site   Find
 
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M. Gessen / New York Times:
The White House's Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’
Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump admin's 2A “tsunami” rolls back gun regulations
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Trace
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The John Bolton Plea Deal
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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