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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump calls on House GOP hard-liners to end floor blockade  —  President Donald Trump instructed a band of his GOP hard-liner allies to end their House floor blockade with multiple major bills at risk of being derailed.  “House Republicans should unify, and stop voting down ‘Rules’ or …
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Johnson Says He Will Send Housing Bill to Trump  —  After meeting with the president, the speaker said he would send him a housing bill that Mr. Trump declined to sign this week.  There was no word on whether he would sign it.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday that he would send …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Trump hits a wall on voter fraud  —  President Trump's voter fraud crusade is crashing into the limits of his power ahead of November's midterm elections. … - Trump has retaliated by threatening not to sign any legislation without it. … - A D.C. court on Monday blocked Trump's expansion of the SAVE …
José Olivares / The Guardian:
Supreme court conservatives accused of advancing ‘white-supremacist agenda’  —  Lawmakers and advocates condemn ‘disastrous’ decisions that allow Trump officials to strip away migrant protections  —  Lawmakers and immigration advocacy groups on Thursday sharply denounced two US supreme court rulings …
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Elora Mukherjee / New York Times:
This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Law  —  On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration sweeping power to remove the legal right to live in America for Haitians and Syrians who are here under a program known as Temporary Protected Status.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Supreme Court Expands Trump's Power Over Immigration
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Attacks Cargo Ship, Testing Trump's Deal to Reopen Strait  —  Attack takes place hours after Iranian warning to ships not to use routes that the regime hadn't sanctioned  —  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz …
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James Bikales / Politico:
Hormuz evacuation effort on hold after new ship attack … “I have decided to temporarily pause its implementation in order to reconfirm that the necessary safety guarantees continue to be in place for the ships on our evacuation list and all those in the region,” Dominguez said.
CNN:
FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say  —  Federal agencies Fighting disinformation  —  A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
FEMA official who said he teleported to a Waffle House steps away from post  —  Gregg Phillips, tapped to lead FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery in December, had also claimed that millions had voted illegally in the 2016 election.  —  Summary  —  A high-ranking official …
Discussion: Raw Story and KRDO
Matthew Choi / Washington Post:
After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back  —  Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for an initiative that commits them to centrist principles.  —  Summary  —  Thirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Dem centrists plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack  —  Moderate House Democrats are warning they're prepared for “war” if incoming progressives and democratic socialists try to hijack the House floor to secure ideological concessions. … - Despite being generally more closely aligned …
Discussion: NOTUS, Politico and OutsideTheBeltway
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's New Expansion of the Second Amendment Is Genuinely Deranged … The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority's Second Amendment jurisprudence: It is a freewheeling policy project utterly unmoored from history …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's embarrassing new Second Amendment decision, explained
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Judge orders DOJ to release more Epstein files  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to release additional unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or explain by July 2 why it can't. … - The department has already released 3.5 million pages under the law …
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Janaki Chadha / Politico:
Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments … It caps a triumphant week for the Democratic socialist, who scored a clean sweep in Tuesday's primary elections.  The mayor's endorsed candidates won three congressional contests and a handful of state legislative contests …
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
A district that went +20 for Trump now in play for Democrats … Constantino, the CEO of a sticker company who's self-funding his campaign with $10 million, earned Trump's endorsement in April, a blow that proved fatal for Smullen's primary campaign.  —  Constantino is an eccentric …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
The Lincoln Memorial should be green with envy: This reflecting pool stayed clear … Still blue waters, abundant waterfowl, promenading tourists and barely a whiff of mildew — that is the vision President Donald Trump has struggled to turn into reality this month at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Texas Public School Students May Soon Be Required to Read the Bible  —  Texas is set to pass what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students.  It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.  —  Texas is on the verge of passing a sweeping …
Wall Street Journal:
How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation  —  Satellite imagery reveals for the first time the extent of what Iran destroyed at Naval Support Activity Bahrain  —  When the Iranian missiles and drones came for the nerve center of America's naval operations …
Discussion: emptywheel and The Times of Israel
Washington Examiner:
Illegal immigrant gets eight year prison sentence for $89 million payroll tax fraud scheme  —  The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Mario Flores, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraudulently cashing $89 million in a payroll scheme between 2015 …
Associated Press:
WATCH: Stephen Miller says 'America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers' after Supreme Court rulings  —  The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria …
Adam Wren / Politico:
Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success  —  The triumph of the World Cup's first two weeks — boosting the U.S.'s global reputation with sold-out stadiums and few logistical complications — has forced Democrats who had criticized President Donald Trump's role in preparations to grudgingly reconsider.
John Sexton / HotAir:
Trans Cultist Charged with Murder of ‘Her’ Parents  —  Do you remember the trans cult known as the Zizians?  I wrote about them several times last year because members of this group have been tied to a number of murders.  Like a lot of bad ideas, this one started in Berkeley.
Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See  —  There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump's latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans.  —  THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE clear that it wishes to purge America of some of its undesirables.
Gregg Gonsalves / The Nation:
Russell Vought's Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You  —  A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.  —  Pocket  —  This is how things are supposed to work: We pay our taxes.
Discussion: Axios
The White House:
Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Executive Order 14212 of February 13 …
 
 
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Elon Musk ordered to give deposition in alleged ‘vote buying’ election scheme
Discussion: Reuters, The Independent and Raw Story
Rachel Cohrs Zhang / Bloomberg:
Trump Taps Chris Klomp as No. 2 Official at RFK Jr.'s HHS
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 Earlier Items: 
Finya Swai / The Hill:
Postmaster general confirms plan to hold back mail ballots in states that won't share voter data
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What Cletus Thinks About “Democracy”
Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
First felony conviction from Operation Midway Blitz on rocks amid grand jury scandal
Discussion: Raw Story
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Billionaire Trump Envoy's Superyacht Stunt Blows Up in His Face
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. urged Iowa candidate to make deal to help GOP win House seat, per audio recording
 

 
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