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4:50 PM ET, July 5, 2025

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Liam Archacki / The Daily Beast:
Texas Officials Slam Trump's National Weather Service for Bad Forecast  —  BLAME GAME  —  The government weather forecaster has been hit with huge cuts by the president's administration.  —  Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing …
Discussion: Forbes, The Texas Tribune and Truthout
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Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm  —  As the best and the brightest were being fired at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by senseless and draconian ‘DOGE’ cuts earlier this year under Trump …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Cara Tabachnick / CBS News:
Dozens dead in Texas after devastating flash floods slam Hill Country, officials say
New York Times:
Frantic Search for the Missing After At Least Six Killed in Texas Flood
Luc Olinga / Gizmodo:
Joe Rogan Feels Trump Betrayed Him on Immigration  —  The podcast king, once a prominent supporter of Donald Trump, denounced the president's aggressive deportation tactics on his wildly popular podcast. … Joe Rogan, one of the most influential voices in American media, is turning on Donald Trump.
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Axios:
Trump ramps up deportation spectacle with new stunts and ICE funding … - It's an extraordinary shift from Trump's first term, when nationwide backlash and the appearance of cruelty forced the administration to abandon its family separation policy for unauthorized immigrants.
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it.
Discussion: MSNBC and Rolling Stone
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
The next megabill Congress needs to worry about … It's not escaping the notice of Democrats.  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spent much of his marathon floor speech before the vote Thursday calling out GOP moderates in battleground seats, many of whom had swallowed their misgivings …
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:   The GOP's Big Bill Is Massively Unpopular — If People Actually Know About It
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
Trump branded, browbeat and prevailed. But his big bill may come at a political cost
Jason Furman / New York Times:
A Road Map for Undoing the Damage of the Big, Awful Bill
Discussion: USA Today
Andrea Pitzer / MSNBC:
Don't call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.  —  This facility's purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.  —  By Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps”
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Alternet.org:
The Supreme Court's timing couldn't be worse  —  Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate.  In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, under criminal processes constrained by the US Constitution at all times.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy … TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared notes on the news of the day and I am always particularly attentive to her thoughts on state structure and power.
New York Times:
Trump's Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe  —  Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau's most important missions.  His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers …
Bhargav Acharya / Reuters:
Musk says ‘America Party’ is formed in US  —  A day after asking his followers on X whether a new U.S. political party should be created, Elon Musk said on Saturday that the “America Party is formed.”  —  “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” he said in a post on X.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke  —  In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias.  On the term's last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.  —  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions …
Discussion: Althouse
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
One of the Supreme Court's sharpest critics sits on it
Discussion: USA Today
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law  —  The emails say nearly nine in 10 Social Security beneficiaries won't pay income taxes on their benefits in the future.  But the Trump tax law did not directly address Social Security.
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Phillips Payson O'Brien / The Atlantic:
What Trump—And the U.S.—Can't Understand About Air Strikes  —  American leaders refuse to learn from allies and overestimate the benefits of showy tactical attacks.  —  When Donald Trump ordered air strikes on key Iranian nuclear-enrichment sites last month and immediately declared …
The Guardian:
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla's cars keep crashing  —  Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.  But a series of shocking incidents - from drivers trapped in burning vehicles …
Discussion: Eschaton
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump tariff letters going to a dozen countries Monday  —  President Trump said the U.S. will begin sending letters Monday to other countries setting a tariff rate on their imports. … - For businesses craving certainty, who've had a period of relative calm of late, the move could once again upset that balance.
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Luke Barr / ABC News:
Trump administration deports 8 migrants to South Sudan  —  The migrants were the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation.  —  In this Dec. 21, 2024, file photo, an aerial view of Djibouti, East Africa is shown.  —  The Trump administration deported eight migrants to South Sudan …
Ben Johansen / Politico:
Trump on if he can end fighting in Ukraine: 'I don't know' … Throughout the campaign, Trump pledged to end the fighting between the two countries on day one of entering office.  He later backtracked in an interview with TIME Magazine, calling the pledge “an exaggeration.”
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Kamala Harris Sparks MAGA Meltdown With Fourth of July Post  —  FIREWORKS  —  President Donald Trump's supporters took the former vice president's holiday sentiments as a sign she'd be looking to run for office again.  —  Former Vice President Kamala Harris sent MAGA into a frenzy with her simple Fourth of July message.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Turner / LiveScience:
RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn  —  HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
The Cost of Victory: Israel Overpowered Its Foes, but Deepened Its Isolation  —  It is more secure from threats than at any time since its founding.  But the war in Gaza, and attacks on Iran and Lebanon, have undercut Israel's standing among the world's democracies.  —  It's Israel's Middle East now.
 
 
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Civil War That Never Ended
Mike Brock / Notes From The Circus:
The Secret Police Are Here  —  While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
Tim Zadorozhnyy / The Kyiv Independent:
Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's ‘window falls’
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Metro.co.uk
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
A golden age for scammers
Marc Caputo / Axios:
CIA admits shadowy officer monitored Oswald before JFK assassination, new records reveal
Discussion: HotAir and JFK Facts
Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Thom Tillis' exit shakes up the battle for the Senate as key races take shape
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump DOJ Drops Cases Against Top MS-13 Leaders
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Nicholas Bariyo / Wall Street Journal:
Congo Braces for HIV Surge After U.S. Funding Stops
Wall Street Journal:
No One is ‘Gutting’ the Safety Net
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts
 

 
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