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Oliver Darcy / Status: Paramount's Weiss Woes … Over the last week, as Bari Weiss plunged CBS News into an unprecedented crisis by implementing her ill-advised overhaul of “60 Minutes … -
Financial Times: Inside the CBS mutiny against Bari Weiss and David Ellison — A saga that started with Donald Trump's assault on ‘60 Minutes’ has turned into a full-blown crisis -
Will Neal / The Daily Beast: Whistleblower Exposes Trump Goons' Jaw-Dropping Social Security Plot — WIPED FROM EXISTENCE — The plan involved exploiting a database known as the “Death Master File.” -
Kristina Fiore / MedPage Today: Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting — Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions -
Andrew Duehren / New York Times: Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S. Audits, Even as $1.8 Billion Fund Falls Away — Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump's allies … -
Avani Kalra / NOTUS: Senate Passes Party-Line Reconciliation Bill, Sidesteps Attempts to Kill ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund — The bill provides $70 billion for immigration and border agencies. -
Will Saletan / The Bulwark: Senate Republicans Chicken Out—Again. — Finally, some decent economic news. The May jobs numbers are in, and the economy added 172,000 nonfarm payroll jobs. -
20 minutes ago Washington Post: Inside Trump's suddenly softened new green card policy — Big business, including tech and AI companies, launched a quiet but extensive lobbying effort … -
New York Times: Judge Says Trump Officials Must Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing — The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants … -
Katya Schwenk / The Lever: Trump Wants Lawyers' Files On Migrant Children — The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data … -
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate — Alabama gambled on the Court's partisanship, and won. — This week, the Roberts Court made clear … -
Mara Gay / New York Times: The Betrayal of Black Voters Threatens Our Democracy — Outside the blindingly white antebellum columns of the Alabama State Capitol on a recent Saturday … -
CNN: First on CNN: DOJ sends prosecutor to observe LA ballot counting amid Trump's baseless ‘cheating’ claims — The Justice Department sent one of its attorneys … -
Silver Bulletin: Why can't California count? — The Golden State needs to bring its vote counting into the 21st century. … California has few (good) excuses for its slow vote counting -
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill: GOP squeezes Hegseth, but backs Pentagon rebranding: 4 NDAA takeaways — The House Armed Services Committee early Friday advanced a historically large defense policy bill … -
Connor O'Brien / Politico: House GOP endorses Trump's Department of War renaming … In one of its final votes, the Armed Services Committee approved an amendment from Rep. Ronny Jackson … -
Politico: Trump's next GOP loyalty test: Ending the changing of the clocks … His personal touch, coupled with engagement from the White House Office of Legislative Affairs … -
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic: Trump Fumes as Republican Senator Delivers Todd Blanche an Ultimatum — President Trump is incensed by outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis's refusal … -
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic: Todd Blanche Reveals He's Making It Harder for Dems to Prosecute Trump … Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche—who is currently struggling to secure Senate support … -
New York Times: Pentagon Cuts 180 Religious Identities From Military Personnel Records — The new policy, which the Pentagon framed as a largely administrative action … -
Ron Ribiat / RNS: Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths — (RNS) — The Department of Defense is substantially reducing the number … -
Lawfare: Is Trump's “Anti-Weaponization” Slush Fund Dead? Or Is It Undead? — And why the answer is less important than you might think. — annabower.bsky.social — EricColumbus -
Jonathan Larsen's Substack: Bill Pulte's Family Has Ties to “The Family” — Becoming a paid subscriber supports my reporting and keeps it free for everyone. Thank you. -
Radley Balko / The Watch: How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees — Bari Weiss continues to take a hatchet to CBS News. -
Filip Timotija / The Hill: Putin pours cold water on Zelensky meeting — Defense & National Security — The Big Story — Russian President Vladimir Putin poured cold water on the prospect … -
Torrence Banks / NOTUS: Trump Is Eyeing Control of Smithsonian's Budget — The administration is creating a conflict with how Congress intended its money be spent. — Copy -
Finya Swai / The Hill: 6 Republicans vote no on FISA extension — Six Republican senators sided with Democrats early Friday to vote against advancing an extension of warrantless spy powers set … -
Associated Press: Treasury warns banks of ‘red flags’ tied to customers in the US illegally — Treasury's financial crimes arm wants banks to help identify payroll schemes tied … -
Olivia Ralph / The Daily Beast: White House Explodes Over Viral Video of Sleepy Trump, 79 — EYES WIDE SHUT — Trump's aides flew into attack mode amid renewed scrutiny of the president's health. -
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg: Trump Says He, Not Congress, Is in Charge of Kennedy Center in Reversal — President Donald Trump floated that he'd remain in charge of the John F. Kennedy Center … -
Axios: Scoop: Trump's Iran envoys quietly convene nuclear experts in Tennessee — President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to the national lab in Oak Ridge … -
Jeff Cox / CNBC: U.S. payrolls rose by 172,000 in May, much more than expected; unemployment at 4.3% … Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued …