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4:55 AM ET, July 2, 2026

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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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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.
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
How Once-Red Colorado Became Fertile Ground for Democratic Socialists
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Melat Kiros is the first political star truly formed by the 2020s
New York Times:
The Key Ways Trump's Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy  —  President Trump's business holdings, which garnered him more than $2 billion last year, create potential conflicts of interest surpassing any predecessor.  —  When President Trump's annual financial disclosure …
Discussion: Vox and The Guardian
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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 …
Molly White / Citation Needed:
Trump's $1.4 billion crypto disclosure  —  Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.  —  President Donald Trump's most recent financial disclosure reveals that he earned more than $1.4 billion …
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 …
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
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 …
New York Times:
Judge Blocks Postal Service From Imposing Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots  —  The ruling, based on agreements the service made in a 2021 legal settlement, was the second time a judge has blocked new curbs by President Trump on voting by mail.  —  A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked …
Discussion: CNN, Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and UPI
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Court blocks USPS from implementing Trump's anti-mail voting order
Discussion: Persuasion
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 …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Takes First Trip on Air Force One Jet From Qatar  —  What We're Covering Today  — Air Force One: President Trump is visiting North Dakota for events including the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, his first trip …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico
New York Times:
Minnesota Pardons Sexual Abuser Who Was Set to Be Deported  —  Tou Lue Vang has expressed regret for abusing a 10-year-old two decades ago.  The Trump administration accused Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, of shielding an immigrant who committed a serious crime.
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down  —  The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year's large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.  —  Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days …
Discussion: Fox News
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: NOTUS, Raw Story, JURIST and Robert Reich
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Financial Times:   Donald Trump made up to $1.4bn in stock purchases in 2025
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.
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New York Times:   Promising Much to Many, Johnson Loses His Grip on the House
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’
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
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
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pledged No Forever Wars.  Now He Risks Forever Talks With Iran.  —  Tehran has well-worn playbook for putting off concessions that cross its redlines  —  President Trump came to office promising an end to forever wars.  He now finds himself bogged down in talks with Iran with no end in sight.
Discussion: Foreign Affairs
Anna Law / Anna O. Law:
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don't Have To  —  As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship, a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) in Trump v Barbara and read the entire 194 page opinion issued yesterday, June 30.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top 2 Million, Study Finds  —  Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022.  —  More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
 
 
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Kathianne Boniello / Mediaite:
Trump Chief Hassett Blames Strait of Hormuz Problems on ‘Guys Living in Caves’
Discussion: HuffPost
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Justin Kaufmann / Axios:
Retired military leaders back 18 governors over National Guard refusal
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
America Rings In 250th Birthday Amid Deep Polarization and Political Rifts
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
Dwayne Johnson Blasted By Celebrities For Staying Silent On Politics: ‘Such A Coward’
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
How Trump Has Become the Anti-George Washington
Discussion: Raw Story
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Despite losses for Trump, Supreme Court enhanced presidential power
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
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
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Remakes Washington, D.C., Into a Maze of Fences and Guard Members
Fox News:
RNC chair predicts first-ever midterm convention will turn Dallas into ‘Trumpapalooza’ for 2026 fight