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3:50 PM ET, June 13, 2025

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Axios:
Israel's strike on Iran was 8 months in the making  —  Israel's stunning and sprawling operation overnight targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, missile sites, scientists and generals followed eight months of intensive clandestine preparations.  —  Why it matters: The operation launched …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As Israel launches a major attack on Iran, Trump's pre-election rhetoric runs into reality  —  The president spent four years saying “This would never have happened if I was president” in response to foreign violence.  Now he's haunted by the claims.  —  About a month before Election …
Discussion: CNN, Pravda Trump, Politico, Al Jazeera and Axios
Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack  —  Talks seen as a way to keep the peace gave Israel the opportunity to land heavy military blows  —  U.S. negotiations with Iran aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear program were widely seen as an important way to preserve regional peace.
New York Times:
Here's the latest.  —  The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  Here's the latest.  —  Explosions rocked Tehran early Friday morning, and Israel's defense minister said his country's warplanes had carried out an attack on Iran …
Washington Post:
Israel strikes Iran, killing 3 commanders; Trump urges Tehran to ‘make a deal’  —  Israel strikes Iran; explosions rock Tehran  —  President Donald Trump urged Iran to “make a deal” with Israel “before it is too late,” after Israel launched what it called a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear program and military targets.
NBC News:
Live updates: Israel strikes Iranian nuclear facilities as fears of war mount  —  Iran's top military official, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Hossein Salami, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed, according to state media. … Mehrabad International Airport closed until tomorrow afternoon, state media says
Yonah Jeremy Bob / Jerusalem Post:
IDF intercepts massive drone attack from Iran, pummels Tehran's air defenses
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Humiliated as Israel Strikes Iran Right After Last-Ditch Plea
JP Store / Jerusalem Post:
IDF warns public to take shelter as Iranian missiles reach Israeli territory
Foreign Affairs:
How War Between Iran and Israel Could Escalate—and Drag In the United States
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening  —  This week, President Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.  Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Blurts Out a Dark MAGA Truth, Handing Dems a Weapon  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: New York Times and Alternet.org
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
They're Gaslighting Us Again
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:   Gavin Newsom rediscovers fighting MAGA is popular
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Padilla Assault Fails to Stop Senate Business as Usual
Discussion: The Hill and NPR
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
All the polls on the LA protests and Trump's response so far  —  I have struggled to come up with more to say on the Los Angeles protests that isn't repetitive of some of the great things other people are writing on the subject.  But then it struck me that it may be useful to readers …
Discussion: Newsweek
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:   Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Sen. Alex Padilla Tells MSNBC FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed  —  Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) told MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff that he was “escorted” to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference by FBI agents, where he was then manhandled by agents under the claim they didn't know who he was.
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Kenneal Patterson / The Daily Beast:
Trump is Calling Handcuffed Senator Vile Racial Slur: Author
Discussion: HotAir and Gomez
Josh DuBose / The Hill:
Noem attends ICE raid at home of pregnant California mother
Discussion: RedState
Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says  —  About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:   We've reached the indicting the opposition stage of fascism
New York Times:
Law Enforcement Officers Respond to Reports of Unrest at Migrant Facility
FJ Feng / CNN:
‘We will kill you’: Florida sheriff issues stern warning to protesters  —  As protests over the Trump administration's immigration raids continue in Los Angeles and other cities, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and law enforcement officials warned that demonstrators could face …
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Madeline Sherratt / The Independent:
Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
No Kings.  No Surrender.  —  Shows of force can work both ways.  —  ∙ Paid  —  On the Secret show this morning, Sarah and I went deep on the manhandling of Sen. Alex Padilla.  Spoiler: I have some accelerationist questions. . . .  The show is here.
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New York Times:
Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades  —  The authors reviewed distributional analyses from bills over the last 35 years.  —  The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor.
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Paul Krugman:
Reverse Robin Hood and Trumpian Totalitarianism
Discussion: Politico
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil  —  A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.  —  A Trump administration official has told lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil …
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Gabe Whisnant / Newsweek:
Trump Administration Won't Release Mahmoud Khalil
Discussion: Raw Story
Kerry Howley / New York Magazine:
Playing Secretary  —  As war looms, Pete Hegseth's Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks.  How long will Trump stand by his man?  —  On Dan Caldwell's 87th day as a senior official at the Department of Defense, he read some intelligence reports and prepped …
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions.  The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.  —  Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.  For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
Christina Cassidy / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump's election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach  —  A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate GOP Strips Provision From Tax Bill That Would Let Trump Rule As A King  —  They removed jarring language from the House GOP's “big, beautiful bill” that would have limited the ability of courts to enforce contempt orders.  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans have quietly removed …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Trump Org Keeps Bringing In Foreign Workers To Staff Its Clubs And Winery  —  Topline  —  On Thursday, President Donald Trump acknowledged concerns from the agriculture and hospitality industries that his strict immigration policies are making it harder to retain long-time workers …
Discussion: Reuters and New Republic
Bitwize / Times of Oman:
Iran announces withdrawal from 6th round of talks with US  —  Iranian airspace shutdown: Air India reroutes numerous international flights  —  London-bound Air India flight returns to Mumbai after three hours in air  —  Air India flight makes emergency landing after receiving bomb threat
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Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash  —  A dozen or more masked men, some with long guns, tried to enter a men's homeless shelter without identifying themselves in a rural town with a long-standing immigrant community on eastern Long Island in New York.
Discussion: Reason, Newsday and Chicago Tribune
Tony Schick / ProPublica:
Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon  —  The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
Discussion: The White House and The Guardian
Mother Jones:
How MAGA Took Over America's 250th Birthday  —  Tanks, armored personnel carriers, and howitzers will roll through the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday—coming to a halt just steps from where President Donald Trump once exhorted his supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the US Capitol.
 
 
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The Manhandling of Alex Padilla Was a Red-Line Moment for America
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Richard Grenell has talked with Trump as he weighs running for California governor
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The Assault on Los Angeles Brought Jorge Ramos Back
New York Times:
Forecasters Warn It May Rain on Trump's Military Parade
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Jackie Fortiér / NPR:
RFK Jr. sent Congress ‘medical disinformation’ to defend COVID vaccine schedule change
Discussion: Forbes and Daily Kos
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
The Patriotic Rich  —  DONALD TRUMP HAS HUGGED A FLAG more than once, and he's now adding flagpoles …
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ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
 

 
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