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9:40 PM ET, July 7, 2023

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Associated Press:
Dutch Government Collapses Over Plan to Further Limit Immigration  —  The country's prime minister wanted to limit entry for children of war refugees already in the country, among other things.  The proposal went too far for some members of the coalition government.
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Eline Schaart / Politico:
Dutch government falls as ministers clash over migration
Discussion: Just The News
Jamie Raskin for Congress:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2023  —  Dear Friends and Supporters Across America:  —  Nothing matters to me more in the 2024 cycle than winning a blowout victory for the party of democracy and freedom.  —  We Democrats may not be perfect but we fight hard every day for the Constitution and the common good of the people.
Discussion: CNN, HuffPost, Bloomberg, NPR, The Messenger and TIME
Politico:
Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani's disbarment  —  His ultimate disbarment or other penalty would be decided by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Mark Wingfield / Baptist News Global:
Oklahoma superintendent of schools says Tulsa Race Massacre wasn't due to color of anyone's skin  —  It's OK to teach Oklahoma schoolchildren about the Tulsa Race Massacre, just don't tell them it was motivated by the color of anyone's skin, the state superintendent of schools said at a July 6 forum.
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David Chasanov / KOKH:
State Supt. Ryan Walters faces heated questions at Norman public forum, attendees left unsatisfied
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState and Daily Kos
NBC News:
White House officials worried Trump showed reporters classified material while in office, new book recounts  —  Former Trump aide Miles Taylor details an episode in which White House staff discussed a 2018 Oval Office incident.  —  WASHINGTON — A forthcoming book by an ex-Trump administration aide describes …
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Biden says sending cluster munitions to Ukraine was ‘difficult decision,’ but ‘they needed them’  —  Watch the full interview with President Joe Biden at 10 a.m. ET Sunday on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”  —  CNN —  President Joe Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria Friday that it was a …
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Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
US to send cluster munitions banned by over 100 nations to Ukraine after months of debate
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
How Twitter lost its place as the global town square  —  A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance  —  Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian in Philadelphia, woke up one morning in June and turned on the local news.  A portion of Interstate 95 had collapsed.
Discussion: HotAir and The Messenger
Elizabeth Troutman / Fox News:
Former Trump Cabinet member tells him to ‘kiss’ his ‘butt’  —  Trump's former HHS secretary bashes ex-president for his ‘narcissism’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price told Fox News Digital there's “no way” he will support former President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid.
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
Poolside ‘Karen’ Who Spewed Racist Bile Is ID'd as Feng Shui Consultant  —  “You don't even know what Hermès is,” she screamed at one point in the viral tirade at a Colorado apartment complex.  —  A Colorado white woman who specializes in Feng Shui interior decorating has gone viral …
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
DC Bar panel recommends Giuliani be disbarred  —  A preliminary report from the D.C. Bar Association recommends that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be disbarred over his efforts to challenge the 2020 election.  —  The report, released Friday by a committee assembled to review his conduct …
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Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
D.C. Court of Appeals committee recommends Giuliani be disbarred
Discussion: Mediaite
Daniella Diaz / Politico:
GOP declares war on ... Barbie  —  Warner Bros. said there were no geopolitics intended in “Barbie.”  —  In a Barbie world, who controls the South China Sea?  —  That's the question a handful of Republican lawmakers — not to mention much of Southeast Asia — is asking thanks …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The bizarre contradiction in the GOP's view of America  —  Candidates running against a sitting president will always argue that the incumbent has botched just about everything and spread misery throughout the land.  But as the 2024 Republican contenders maneuver for position and respond …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Step Aside, Joe Biden  —  The president has no business running for office at age 80.  —  I am deeply grateful to Joe Biden.  By defeating Donald Trump in 2020, he rescued this country from the continuing misrule of a dangerous grifter and serial liar, a man gripped by vindictiveness, lawlessness, and egomania.
David Weigel / Semafor:
America is moving on from COVID.  That's not good for Ron DeSantis.  —  Mask mandates are finished, even in hospitals.  The federal COVID emergency ended two months ago, along with the last federal vaccine requirements.  And last week, for the first time since Gallup began asking Americans …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Elon Musk sues Wachtell law firm to recoup fees from Twitter buyout  —  Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion buyout of the social media company.
Morgan Chalfant / Semafor:
FBI investigates Biden Iran envoy over classified information  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating Rob Malley, who until recently served as President Biden's special envoy for Iran, over the handling of classified information, according to a source briefed on the matter within the State Department.
Discussion: The Dispatch and PoliticusUSA
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten will be paroled, lawyer says, after Gov. Newsom drops effort to block her freedom  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has repeatedly blocked efforts for Van Houten to be paroled, said Friday he would not challenge her release on parole at the State Supreme Court.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Associated Press
Associated Press:
Texas gunman in Walmart shooting gets 90 consecutive life sentences and may still face death penalty  —  The Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack at a Walmart has returned to federal court for sentencing.  Patrick Crusius is facing multiple life sentences after pleading guilty …
Charles Bramesco / The Guardian:
Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America  —  Jim Caviezel stars as a hero trying to stop child traffickers in a paranoid new movie turning into a surprise box-office hit  —  ype the words “sound of freedom” into Twitter (decent people who wish to live good …
Associated Press:
Arizona governor approves over-the-counter contraceptive medications at pharmacies  —  PHOENIX — Adults in Arizona can now obtain contraceptive medications over the counter at a pharmacy without a doctor's prescription under a governor's order announced Thursday.
Politico:
The MTV generation's unemployment problem  —  The Labor Department reported Friday morning that the U.S. job market added a net 209,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.6 percent.  —  The Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes haven't knocked the labor market to the pavement.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
RFK Jr. touted bitcoin, but said he wasn't an investor.  Financial records show otherwise  — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lists on his June 30 financial disclosure report a brokerage account that held between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of bitcoin.  — Kennedy, who is running for president …
Discussion: The Hill
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
North Carolina's GOP front-runner for governor has a history of racist and antisemitic diatribes  —  Previously unreported social media posts by Mark Robinson are part of a well-documented pattern of inflammatory pronouncements in which he has invoked antisemitic stereotypes …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Rich Are Crazy for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a crank.  His views are a mishmash of right-wing fantasies mixed with remnants of the progressive he once was: Bitcoin boosterism, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, assertions that Prozac causes mass shootings …
Discussion: Raw Story and Eschaton
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation  —  Regardless, right-wing Twitter users already hate Threads. … If you regularly spread “false information” online, Threads already knows.  The platform apparently flagged those accounts on launch …
Aria Bendix / NBC News:
As malaria cases tick up in Florida, a doctor treating patients describes their symptoms  —  Two additional locally acquired malaria infections have been reported in Florida, bringing the state's total to six.  —  Florida health officials reported two additional cases of malaria on Thursday.
Diane Taylor / The Guardian:
Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children's asylum centre  —  Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK  —  Murals of cartoon characters including Mickey Mouse and Baloo from The Jungle Book painted on the walls …
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Secretive Russian Security Force That Targets Americans  —  FSB unit that took Evan Gershkovich is also believed responsible for incidents blurring the lines between spycraft and harassment, including the mysterious death of a diplomat's dog  —  For years, a small group …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Freedom Caucus can't get Marjorie Taylor Greene to call them back  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has not responded to calls by top members of the House Freedom Caucus aimed at notifying her that she has been ousted from the influential conservative group, two lawmakers familiar with the situation told Axios.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why MAGA elites are facing a fresh set of disasters  —  In the elite world of right-wing lawyers, an intriguing split screen effect has taken hold.  On one side, longtime conservative legal causes are prevailing, most recently with the Supreme Court invalidating affirmative action programs …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
 
 
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS Announces Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
Discussion: Breitbart and CBS News
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Raskin passes on Senate bid
Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:
Trump Blasted by Former CIA Chief Over Classified Documents in New Political Ad
CBS News:
Trump says he'd bring back “travel ban” that's “even bigger than before”
Anna Brown / Pew Research Center:
About half of U.S. pet owners say their pets are as much a part of their family as a human member
Discussion: CBS News
 Earlier Items: 
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Texas Republicans divide over impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton
Discussion: Raw Story and Just The News
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A perpetually surprised media isn't doing its job
Politico:
A supporter's plane flew from Florida to N.H. DeSantis won't say if he was on it.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The NYT aims to sell podcast subscriptions via Apple Podcasts and Spotify, requiring users to pay to access older episodes, starting Oct. for $6/mo. or $50/year

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount's Pluto TV and M6+ strike a partnership that includes content channels and ad sales in France; French TV company M6 launched the AVOD platform in May

 
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