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Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
There's Nothing Democratic About These Socialists  —  The DSA was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become.  —  The general idea that Democratic Party loyalists seem to have about members of the Democratic Socialists of America is that they're a lot like Democrats, but perhaps a bit more passionate.
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The Atlantic:
Something is happening in the Democratic base.  —  For a year and a half Democrats have been disgusted with President Trump.  They've been similarly outraged by the fecklessness of their own party leaders.  Now, after a handful of surprising primary elections last night in Colorado …
Perry Bacon / New Republic:
The Left Wins in Colorado—and It's Not Because of Gaza or Socialism … The primaries on Tuesday in Colorado weren't a sweeping victory for the Democratic left like last week's in New York, where three very progressive candidates won, knocking out two incumbent members of Congress along the way.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Melat Kiros is the first political star truly formed by the 2020s
Politico:   The insurgent left's newest star
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: An early look at the Georgia Senate race  —  Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff narrowly won his Senate seat in a January 2021 runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue by just over a percentage point.  New Fox News polling suggests a different dynamic this time …
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: A close Senate contest is brewing in Iowa  —  The race to succeed Iowa's retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is on track to be one of the closest Senate contests in 2026.  Ernst, the first woman senator to represent the Hawkeye State, won by 6.5 points in 2020 …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico  —  The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form.  —  Wednesday marked the deadline to renew the trade agreement, which President Trump struck …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Takes First Trip on Air Force One Jet From Qatar
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
The US, Canada and Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew North American trade pact
Donald Shaw / Sludge:
Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally  —  The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.  —  💡  —  Share this on X and Bluesky!  —  The day before President Trump announced a 90 …
Discussion: JURIST and Robert Reich
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Dave Levinthal / NOTUS:
Kash Patel's Late Stock Disclosure Raises STOCK Act Questions
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
Financial Times:   Donald Trump made up to $1.4bn in stock purchases in 2025
New York Times:
Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big  —  President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.  —  President Trump amassed enormous wealth during the first year of his second term …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks for Order Forcing Trump Administration to Preserve Records  —  Lawyers for John O. Brennan said they want the materials saved in anticipation of bringing a vindictive prosecution motion if charges against Mr. Brennan are ultimately filed.
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
John Brennan sues Trump administration, claiming ‘phantom criminal conduct’
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump's anti-mail voting order  —  In the latest blow to President Donald Trump's anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP's request to halt the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting.
Discussion: Persuasion
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NBC News:
Paramedics responded to a ‘cardiac arrest’ at Mitch McConnell's home on day of hospitalization  —  McConnell's office has not disclosed why the former Senate majority leader was hospitalized on June 14.  —  Paramedics responded to a report of a “cardiac arrest” for an “unconscious” …
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Mitch McConnell was found ‘unconscious’ in DC home last month, may have suffered heart attack
New York Times:
Another Major Precedent Crumbles at the Supreme Court.  3 Legal Scholars Assess the Fallout.  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown …
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Despite losses for Trump, Supreme Court enhanced presidential power
Discussion: Reuters and Al Jazeera
Calen Razor / Politico:
Capitol agenda: House floor freezes over  —  Last July 4 recess, House Republicans were triumphantly celebrating the massive victory of clearing the party's tax and spending bill.  Fast forward a year and Speaker Mike Johnson can't even get enough votes to open his chamber's floor for debate.
Discussion: NOTUS
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New York Times:   Promising Much to Many, Johnson Loses His Grip on the House
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
ICE's arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas  —  The president's deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister's release.  —  Summary  —  SAN ANTONIO — Sister Leticia …
Politico:
‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution … The move highlights the growing challenge of meeting rising electricity demand from data centers as the grid strains to keep the region cool during a period of extreme heat.  —  Many data centers rely on backup diesel generators …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and KSTP-TV
Jack Healy / New York Times:
Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier  —  Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, who tampered with voting machines in an attempt to show that the 2020 election had been rigged against President Trump.  —  Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado …
Discussion: Denver Post and The Hill
New Republic:
MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly  —  After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it.  Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which it can't do, and he lamely claimed it was a …
Amos Barshad / Columbia Journalism Review:
‘All I Have Is the Power to Talk and Be Heard’  —  On a recent afternoon, I drove down a wooded Maine road, past serene ponds with no people in sight, until I reached a big white barn.  I parked, in patchy grass, near a Ford F-350 with a crane bolted onto the back, an American flag, and an idling black SUV.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump's Renovation Turns the Reflecting Pool Literally Toxic … The multimillion-dollar renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was done with highly toxic materials.  —  The contractor that the Trump administration hired used products by the popular truck bed coating company Rhino Linings …
Discussion: MeidasTouch and Raw Story
Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
DOGE Cut Off Small Town America's 250th Birthday Money  —  A local Ohio historical society had hoped to go big for America's 250th anniversary.  It settled on what it could afford: a limited “passport” project to encourage people to visit and engage with local history sites.
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Navy helicopter makes emergency landing in Arabian Sea, one crew missing  —  A Navy helicopter assigned to a U.S. aircraft carrier made an “emergency water landing” in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday morning and one of the four aircrewmen is missing, according to the U.S. military.
Jake Spring / Washington Post:
Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show  —  Internal National Park Service modeling for the July Fourth show predicts dangerous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions across central D.C.  —  Summary  —  Fireworks for this year's July …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
David Strom / HotAir:
Even Degenerate Child Predators Deserve Representation Too, You Know  —  Imagine, if you will, a man who pled guilty to having child s@xual abuse material and was thus put on the sex offender registry, decided to run for office.  In California, where in some areas being a sexual predator is almost …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People.  That's the Truth.  —  Elon Musk is newly minted as humanity's first trillionaire, but the world's richest man seems grumpy.  And he definitely is not a fan of mine.  —  “Kristof is lying through his teeth,” he announced on social media this week.
Discussion: Futurism
CNN:
Crowd size gripes, state fair troubles: The problems of an America 250 celebration tied to Trump  —  President Donald Trump has billed his July Fourth rally on the National Mall as a culmination of the “most unforgettable birthday party any country has ever seen.”
Alicia Sitz / The Hill:
CDC seeks source of parasitic outbreak linked to ‘explosive’ diarrhea in multiple states  —  (NewsNation) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to find the source of a parasitic illness that's spreading across the country.  —  At least 145 cases of cyclosporiasis have been reported across 17 states.
Justin Kaufmann / Axios:
Retired military leaders back 18 governors over National Guard refusal  —  Nineteen former military and defense officials praised Democratic governors who declined to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., for this weekend's America 250 celebration in a letter Wednesday.
New York Times:
Ruling on Trans Athletes Gave the G.O.P. a Win.  Most Democrats Looked the Other Way.  —  While Republicans celebrated the ruling, many Democrats stayed quiet on an issue that had proved divisive in the last election.  —  The Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday to uphold restrictions …
Discussion: Mediaite
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
Dwayne Johnson Blasted By Celebrities For Staying Silent On Politics: ‘Such A Coward’  —  “Star Trek” icon George Takei and “Stand By Me” star Wil Wheaton slammed the high-paid actor over a recent declaration.  —  Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on Tuesday was roundly criticized after confirming earlier …
 
 
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
America Rings In 250th Birthday Amid Deep Polarization and Political Rifts
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top 2 Million, Study Finds
Discussion: CSIS, The Spectator and Straight Arrow
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
How Trump Has Become the Anti-George Washington
Discussion: Raw Story
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Sues the Commonwealth of Virginia for Unconstitutional Weapons Bans
Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
Anna Paulina Luna Held a Hearing on CIA Mind Control. It Went Off the Rails.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Remakes Washington, D.C., Into a Maze of Fences and Guard Members
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
No expectant moms at the border: Trump's birthright Plan B
Fox News:
RNC chair predicts first-ever midterm convention will turn Dallas into ‘Trumpapalooza’ for 2026 fight
Taylor Giorno / NOTUS:
Karoline Leavitt's Old Campaign Remains Awash in Red Ink
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
Zeteo:
‘This One!’: Trump Is Already Planning To Steal Classified Docs Again
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Pulte to be acting DNI for ‘a month or two’ and can ‘declassify almost everything,’ Trump says
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll says Trump wants to delay $5 million payment in sex abuse, defamation case
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Five Words That Changed America
Axios:
Scoop: Harris reaches out to Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in run-up to 2028