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NBC News:
Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems  —  The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
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Reuters:
Musk's DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems  —  Representatives of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where they were granted access to agency systems and technology, CMS said on Wednesday.
Washington Post:
DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems  —  Associates of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have spread out across the federal government in recent days, alarming many career employees.  —  Representatives of billionaire Elon Musk's Department …
Discussion: Fortune and Inside Medicine
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments  —  A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Associated Press:
Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan  —  Residents of the largest Arab American community in the U.S. had plenty to say during the 2024 presidential campaign about the roiling politics in the Middle East.  But after President Donald Trump's …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Madness of Donald Trump
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
Washington Post:
White House tries to soften Trump's mass displacement proposal for Gaza
CNN:
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
NBC News:
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice  —  Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office.  A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
Slate:
Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI  —  On Wednesday evening, newly installed Attorney General Pam Bondi sent staff in several divisions of the Department of Justice more than a dozen memos within a 15-minute span, laying out the agency's new policies …
Discussion: NPR, CBS News and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump's Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos  —  Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime  —  WASHINGTON—A half-dozen of the most senior officials …
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Politico:
Pam Bondi issued a flurry of orders on Day 1 as Trump's attorney general
Associated Press:
What to know about the court cases over President Trump's birthright citizenship order
Politico:
‘Blow this place up’: Frustrated Democrats want the Senate to fight harder  —  It has in many ways been business as usual in the Senate during Trump's second term.  —  Senate Democrats are struggling to deal with a rising tide of anger inside their party as President Donald …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:   Democrats' phones bombarded with calls to “fight harder”
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest  —  The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies.
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Dell Cameron / Wired:
NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’  —  An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”  —  A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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Financial Times:
Tesla's sales plummet across Europe  —  Registrations in Germany fall 59% amid consumer backlash against Elon Musk's political activism  —  Sales of Tesla's electric vehicles have fallen sharply across many of its key European markets amid a consumer backlash against Elon Musk's interventions in the region's politics.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us  —  ELON MUSK, OUR NEW UNELECTED OVERLORD, is mad at Bill Kristol.  Very, very mad.  And because this is the world we live in now, his hordes of online minions are mad, too.  —  Let me explain.  This week, Elon has been amplifying several tweets alleging …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Democrats To Take Over Senate Floor All Night To Oppose White House Budget Office Nominee  —  “He's the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” Sen. Brian Schatz, one of dozens taking part in a 30-hour talkathon, said of Russell Vought.  —  LOADING
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New York Times:
White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees  —  The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an executive order to trim the federal work force.  —  The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing …
Mark Walker / New York Times:
Elon Musk Says His Efficiency Team Will Tackle F.A.A. Technology  —  His announcement comes after an outage last week to the primary system that provides pilots safety alerts in real time.  —  Elon Musk's team will now dig into the nation's aviation system, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday.
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Wired:
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers  —  Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump's D.E.I. Orders  —  The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.  —  Google tried for years to diversify its work force …
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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets
Washington Post:
Republican ire at USAID finds an unusual target: Politico  —  Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government.  Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The World's Richest Men Take On the World's Poorest Children  —  The world's richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world's poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”
New York Times:
List: Examples of Trump's Actions That Are Defying Legal Limits  —  Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws.  But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the throttle on blowing through …
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide  —  Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech worker, is calling for generational change in Democratic Party.  —  Another chapter in a generational battle over the future of the Democratic Party appears to be taking shape in San Francisco …
Politico:
The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany's Merz  —  Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump's second presidency.  —  The German chancellor candidate told …
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
As Washington reels from Trump's first actions, his voters like what they see  —  Most were in favor of his efforts to scale back the federal workforce, to stand by controversial Cabinet nominees and to slash foreign aid.  —  PLAINS, Pa. — Behind the counter of the pink-tiled D's Diner …
Washington Post:
Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government  —  The administration plans to close the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice office and remake the Justice Department's environmental division.  —  In a little over two weeks, the Trump administration …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk  —  Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson's office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk's team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
 
 
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New York Times:
To Keep Aid Coming, Ukraine Appeals to Trump Allies: Conservative Christians
Discussion: The Hill
Sara Ruberg / New York Times:
Anti-Trump Protesters Across the U.S. Gather to Condemn White House's Policies
Russell Payne / Salon:
“What's the point of having Congress?”: Even some conservatives now say it's a constitutional crisis
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Susan Collins Tells Reporters She Is ‘Concerned’ About Elon Musk's Power Over Federal Spending
Karl Mathiesen / Politico:
Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund
Erik De La Garza / Raw Story:
‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities
Discussion: NPR
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Trump Has Paralyzed Renewables Permitting, Leaked Memo Reveals
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Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Trump takes action to ban transgender women from women's sports
David Dayen / American Prospect:
L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says it expects its merger with Skydance to close on August 7; the new company will trade on Nasdaq as PSKY

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
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