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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 …
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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 …
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The Mahablog
Matt Lanza / The Eyewall:
Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy, plus Tropical Storm Chantal — In brief: Invest 92L became Tropical Depression 3 yesterday and is now Tropical Storm Chantal. It's en route to the Carolinas. We take a detailed look at what occurred in Texas Thursday night and Friday morning.
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Wired, New York Times, The Texas Tribune, twitchy.com and Balanced Weather
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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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law
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Washington Post, Social Security Matters, CNN, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, CBS News, USA Today, Alternet.org and Wall Street Journal
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
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Bangor Daily News and Washington Examiner
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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Al Jazeera and Talking Points Memo
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it.
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MSNBC and Rolling Stone
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 …
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Al Jazeera, Fox News, Rolling Stone, UPI, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, RedState, The Indian Express and Associated Press
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New York Times:
U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo — Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration's plan to move forward. — A flight carrying eight men who had been held …
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Mother Jones, Fox News and The Guardian
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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OutsideTheBeltway, RedState and Thinking about
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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.
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.
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Forbes, Raw Story, The Post Millennial, Washington Examiner, New York Post and IJR
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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 …
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Raw Story, Alternet.org and Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
One of the Supreme Court's sharpest critics sits on it
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USA Today
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 …
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Eschaton
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.
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New York Post and Raw Story
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.”
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NewsMax.com, Forbes, Washington Times, The Kyiv Independent, New York Times, New York Sun, Washington Examiner, The Hill, The Guardian, Newsweek and New York Post
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.
Cara Tabachnick / CBS News:
At least 32 dead in central Texas in devastating flash floods, over two dozens remain missing, officials say — Dozens of people are dead in central Texas in what officials called a “mass casualty event” after devastating flash floods slammed Hill Country, with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River.
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Houston Chronicle, USA Today, WWL-TV, Forbes, New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Lone Star Left, The Daily Caller, NewsMax.com, Blaze Media, WTTG-TV, The Post Millennial, RedState, Al Jazeera, TPR, Metro.co.uk, Washington Examiner, APA.AZ, UPI, New York Daily News, Reuters, NBC News, Mediaite, NPR, The Hill, WTOP News, NewsNation, Bangor Daily News, twitchy.com and Associated Press
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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RedState, The Post Millennial, NewsMax.com, UPI, Euractiv, The Guardian, Forbes, HuffPost and Semafor
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