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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

NPR reports: The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship. Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving district attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online. The move is aimed at U.S. citizens who were not born in the country; according to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants…

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Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations

Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski This story was originally published by ProPublica In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show. In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000…

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Sen. Warnock: ‘Who are we? Not, who do we tell ourselves we are, but who are we really?’

Sen. Warnock: ‘Who are we? Not, who do we tell ourselves we are, but who are we really?’

  In a speech delivered in the U.S. Senate yesterday, Sen. Reverend Raphael Warnock said: Maybe because I’m a preacher, and it’s Sunday, and I’ve been here instead of church, I have especially been thinking about those of us who are people of faith. People whose lives are informed by scripture, people of the book. And maybe those of us who have different politics but read from the same book ought to spend some time together reading the book, because…

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Elon Musk just made his starkest political threat since the election

Elon Musk just made his starkest political threat since the election

CNN reports: After declaring he was stepping away from the political spotlight, Elon Musk got right back in it. As the Senate debated President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Monday before a final vote, Musk issued a stark warning via his social media platform X. “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next…

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

Eric Levitz writes: If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon. It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before long, a little voice in your head will whisper, “Click away for just a second” — just long enough to take a quick glance at your email or Instagram feed or group chat or 401(k) or chatbot’s answer to “how to tell if a mole is cancerous” or…

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This isn’t just a constitutional crisis. It’s a constitutional failure

This isn’t just a constitutional crisis. It’s a constitutional failure

Jack Rakove writes: The idea that the United States awaits some dread constitutional crisis has become commonplace. For lawyers, such a crisis would likely involve Donald Trump’s administration defying the Supreme Court on some critical ruling. But other crises are readily imaginable. Might President Trump invoke the Militia Act to manipulate the 2026 congressional elections, or order the Marines to take sites in Greenland without congressional approval, which seems ever more plausible after the June 22 bombing of Iranian nuclear…

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Intel reveals Iranian officials found bomb damage to less destructive and extensive than they expected

Intel reveals Iranian officials found bomb damage to less destructive and extensive than they expected

The Washington Post reports: The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified intelligence circulating within the U.S. government. The communication, intended to be private, included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the strikes directed by President Donald Trump were not as destructive and extensive as they had anticipated,…

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The Israeli-U.S. supply scheme in Gaza is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid

The Israeli-U.S. supply scheme in Gaza is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid

Médecins Sans Frontières: The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, Palestine, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies. With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the Israeli authorities and their allies to lift the siege on food, fuel, medical, and humanitarian…

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Trump regime is building a national citizenship data system

Trump regime is building a national citizenship data system

NPR reports: The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for. NPR is the first news…

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Three-time felon and star witness against Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed

Three-time felon and star witness against Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García, according to a review of court records and official testimony. Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38, has been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally reentering the United States after having been deported. He also pleaded guilty to “deadly conduct”…

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‘He’s going to do everything to damage the president,’ former friend of Musk believes

‘He’s going to do everything to damage the president,’ former friend of Musk believes

Politico reports: A former longtime friend of Elon Musk has a word of caution for President Donald Trump about the tech mogul: He doesn’t really move on. Philip Low, an award-winning neuroscientist who partnered with the late, legendary cosmologist Stephen Hawking as a test subject, learned that the hard way in 2021 when he fired Musk, one of his early investors, from the advisory board of the Silicon Valley startup he founded. Over an hour-long interview, Low weaved something of…

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The Democratic Party is ripe for a populist revolt

The Democratic Party is ripe for a populist revolt

Christian Paz writes: The signs have been bubbling up for months: The Democratic base is fed up with the status quo of their party. Democratic voters believe their party leaders are out of touch, and they don’t think they’re rising to meet this moment. They want more confrontation with President Donald Trump, and they’re hungry for an inspiring, forward-looking economic vision. That sentiment comes through in just about all the polling of the party, in focus groups with voters, and…

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Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win

Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win

Heba Gowayed writes: In a tremendous upset of politics as usual, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old brown, Muslim, Democratic socialist who had little name recognition in February beat the poster boy of the Democratic party establishment, Andrew Cuomo, by a plurality of votes in the first round of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. What makes this win even more remarkable is that Mamdani has refused to back down from his vocal support for Palestinian liberation, a position…

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