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A megabill mystery: New solar and wind tax comes as a surprise to Republican senators
— “I don't know where it came from,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the
chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told NBC News after he released
the 940-page legislation. — WASHINGTON — Tucked inside …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Politico, Canary Media, Associated Press, Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal
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ICE will require lawmakers to give a week's notice before detention visits.
… Where Things Stand — Domestic policy bill: The White House
reiterated President Trump's Friday deadline for passage of a sweeping
economic and domestic policy bill being hammered out in the Senate …
Discussion:
CBS News, League of Conservation Voters, Reuters, Daily Kos, Associated Press, Public Notice, Washington Post, NBC News and Wall Street Journal


Here Are the Republican Senators Who May Revolt on Trump's Bill
— Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their
own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained
undecided. — Even as the Senate pressed closer on Monday to a
consequential vote …
Discussion:
CNN, Raw Story, Axios, NewsMax.com, NBC News, The Independent, The Hill, CNBC, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Punchbowl News, The Indian Express and Bloomberg

The Senate megabill is on a collision course with House fiscal hawks
Discussion:
Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Signal, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Washington Post

Elon Musk says he'll launch third party if megabill passes
Discussion:
USA Today, The Hill, Raw Story, al.com, IJR, Business Insider, New York Daily News and The Independent

Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ hits another snag in House as conservative caucus raises red flag
Discussion:
Associated Press, New York Post, CNN, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, NewsMax.com, 24sight News, Grabien and MSNBC

House GOP fumes over Senate megabill: ‘How did it get so much f‑‑‑ing worse?’
Discussion:
The Status Kuo

Anxious House Republicans scramble to forestall Senate's Medicaid cuts
Discussion:
USA Today, Associated Press, twitchy.com, National Review, The Hill and Popular Information


Bush, Obama — and singer Bono — fault Trump's gutting of USAID on agency's last day
— Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare
open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono recited a
poem — in an emotional video farewell Monday with staffers of the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
Discussion:
Al Jazeera, Raw Story and Newsweek
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USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
— Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development
and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million
additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet
medical journal on Monday.
Discussion:
Bloomberg and twitchy.com


Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day
— Two ex-presidents and a rock star thanked the outgoing workers of a
doomed agency. — As most staff members at the U.S. Agency for
International Development marked their final day with the agency, they
got thanks from two presidents and a rock star.

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
Discussion:
Agence France-Presse and Mediaite


Suspected Idaho shooter showed ‘Nazi tendencies’ in school, ex-classmates say: Updates
— The man accused of fatally shooting two firefighters in an ambush in
rural Idaho on Sunday had “Nazi tendencies” in school, sketched
pictures of guns and swastikas in a notebook and was “obsessed with
guns,” three former classmates told USA TODAY.
Discussion:
CNN, New York Times, NBC News, KXLY-TV, New York Post, Axios, The Indian Express, RedState, Reuters, TMZ.com, Deseret News, CBS News, Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, NewsNation, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com and Blaze Media


Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska SNAP carveout
— Senate Republicans are racing to salvage a food aid carveout for
Alaska and Hawaii in their policy megabill after the parliamentarian
privately signaled the plan wouldn't meet strict Senate rules as
written.
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Collins, Murkowski vote with Democrats on striking Planned Parenthood provision from GOP megabill
— Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
on Monday sided with Democrats who were trying to strike a provision
from the GOP's megabill that bars Planned Parenthood health centers …
Discussion:
Politico, Roll Call, Washington Examiner, The Post Millennial and NewsMax.com
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Senate bill allowed to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood
Discussion:
Vox, The Nation, Breitbart, Townhall, Deseret News and The Gateway Pundit


Judge again delays Abrego Garcia's release from Tennessee jail over deportation concerns
— Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns from
his lawyers that he could be deported if he's released to await his
trial on human smuggling charges, a federal judge in Tennessee ruled
Monday.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Scripps News and The Daily Caller


Trump signs executive order lifting sanctions on Syria
— He had previously announced he would do so in hopes of stabilizing
the country. — President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with
Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba
Wagner …
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Trump Insults America—Again
— The president of the United States seems to have no interest in
appealing to a national sense of pride or honor. — Oops, he did it
again. — On Sunday, President Donald Trump had a rambling conversation
with the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
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Trump Says He'll Announce TikTok Buyer In ‘About Two Weeks’
Discussion:
CNBC, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Adweek, Townhall, The Hill, Axios, Agence France-Presse, CNN, Deadline, The Information, The Independent, News Talk 105.9 WMAL and New York Times


Team Trump Is Serious About Unleashing the Espionage Act on the Media
— It is more likely a matter of when, not if, the administration tries
to prosecute journalists using the arcane law — Donald Trump hates
leakers. He isn't a fan of journalists, either.


Alligator Alcatraz immigrant prison camp is Florida's sadistic ‘one-stop shop’ for mass deportation
— Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday with Gov. DeSantis and DHS
Sec. Noem. … The Florida GOP announced via X on Friday: “Feds approve
Alligator Alcatraz: Florida's gator-guarded prison for illegal aliens.
Discussion:
Miami Herald, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Fox News and Scripps News

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
— Public Indiana colleges and universities will eliminate 19 percent
of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state's
budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education. — The
institutions volunteered to cut …
Discussion:
Chicago Tribune


A Court Without the Range
— “O for a Supreme Court which shall be as true, as vigilant, as
active, and exacting in maintaining laws enacted for the protection of
human rights as in other days was that Court for the destruction of
human rights!” -Frederick Douglass


California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law
— Gov. Gavin Newsom had demanded changes to address the state's
housing crisis, a philosophical shift for Democratic leaders. —
California leaders on Monday rolled back a landmark law that was a
national symbol of environmental protection …


Paramount, Trump in ‘advanced’ discussions to settle $20 billion lawsuit
— The parties asked a Texas judge on Monday to pause case deadlines
until Thursday as negotiations over the suit play out. — Summary162
— A settlement appears close in President Donald Trump's lawsuit …
Discussion:
New York Times, Variety, NOTUS, Fox News, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Deadline and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »


Supreme Court Rules Some Americans Have a Constitutional Right to Insist on Theocracy
— There have been any number of awful decisions from the current
Supreme Court, but last week marked a clear breaking point for the
American rule of law. You need only look to the second-worst decision
of Friday …


Scoop: Roy Cooper leans toward N.C. Senate bid, potential Trump showdown
— North Carolina Democrats are getting closer to the gift they've have
been asking for all year, with former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) leaning
toward a Senate run in the state President Trump has won three times.


Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill
— Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if the G.O.P. Bill Passes
— There's a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. —
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world; Washington is pushing oil
and gas.
Discussion:
Vanity Fair and The Bulwark


There's a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.
— Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing
oil and gas. Both are driven by national security. — By David Gelles
in New York; Somini Sengupta in Brasília and in Tirunelveli, India …
Discussion:
Heatmap News and Washington Monthly


‘I wanted to do something to fight back’: This iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings
— New York CNN — Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech
industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack
game — at computer camp when he was 13.


Erika Donalds talks education policy and gov race
— Good morning and welcome to Monday. — Gubernatorial candidate Rep.
BYRON DONALDS shot to fame in conservative politics largely thanks to
his role as a key surrogate for President DONALD TRUMP. — But his
wife, ERIKA DONALDS …
Discussion:
Axios, New York Sun and UPI


Sound Familiar? Democrats Lay Groundwork for a ‘Project 2029’
— The plan to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic president
is at the center of a raging debate within the party: whether its
biggest problem is its ideas or its difficulty in selling them.
Discussion:
twitchy.com


Trump imposes tougher US policy toward Cuba
— President Donald Trump on Monday signed a memorandum imposing a
hard-line U.S. policy toward communist-run Cuba and reversing measures
put in place by former President Joe Biden, the White House said. —
The directive will enforce a statutory ban …
Discussion:
Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and Politico


‘60 Minutes’ Draws the Line
… While Paramount Global and Donald Trump negotiate behind the scenes
with a mediator over a potential settlement that could decide the fate
of the historic Hollywood studio, a very different kind of showdown has
been unfolding inside the company—one that pits the …


An 82-year-old woman who was injured in a firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, has died
— An 82-year-old Colorado woman who was injured in a Molotov cocktail
attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza has died,
prosecutors said Monday.
Discussion:
The Colorado Sun, New York Times, Denver Post, Jewish Insider, twitchy.com, Raw Story, FOX 11 Los Angeles, The Daily Caller, The Forward, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, RedState, UPI, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Fox News, New York Daily News, CBS News, The Washington Free Beacon and New York Post


Americans Have Never Hated Being American More, New Poll Finds
— As fireworks will rocket into the sky this weekend, national pride
has, under Trump, sunk to its lowest point in recent memory, per a new
Gallup poll. — Since January 2001, the polling firm has asked
Americans whether …
Discussion:
Associated Press, Newsweek, Fox News, The Independent, WTTG-TV, IJR, Mediaite, New Jersey Online, Washington Examiner, The Hill, UPI and Semafor


Justice
Department Announces Coordinated, Nationwide Actions to Combat North
Korean Remote Information Technology Workers' Illicit Revenue Generation
Schemes — For Immediate Release — Law Enforcement
Actions Across 16 States Result in Charges, Arrest, and Seizures of 29
Financial Accounts …
Discussion:
Politico, The Korea Herald, NK News, UPI, The Register, Fox News, Wired, Military and Veteran … and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »


Trump drops lawsuit against Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer
— Lawyers for President Trump have dropped a lawsuit against Iowa
pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, according to a
Monday court filing. — An attorney for Selzer told NPR that there has
been no settlement.
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Trump will visit a remote immigration detention site in the Florida EvergladesNEW!
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UPI, CBS News, East Bay Times, New Jersey Online, Associated Press, The Independent, NOTUS, Axios, NewsNation, IJR, Reuters, Washington Examiner and NBC News

Military requesting to pull 200 troops back from California protest duty
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Raw Story, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, NOTUS, FOX 11 Los Angeles, New York Daily News, Bloomberg and Newsweek

China sanctions former Philippines senator, foreign ministry says
Discussion:
Bloomberg

Blackburn yanks support for AI moratorium
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Fox News, The Hill, Breitbart, Wired and New York Post

The Center Is Not Holding — Who's ready for a Big, Beautiful Barrage of votes in the Senate?
Discussion:
Sabato's Crystal Ball, The Daily Signal, The Banter, New Jersey Online and Talking Points Memo
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To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works
Discussion:
Raw Story and The Contrarian

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming
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The Nation and New Republic

Key data used in hurricane forecasting will be cut by end of July, NOAA says
Discussion:
UPI, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Associated Press and CNN

Violent Settlers Turn on Israeli Military After Attacking Palestinians in West Bank
Discussion:
New York Times and Associated Press

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Discussion:
Raw Story and MeidasTouch News
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