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RECESSION COMING?

Mortgage Rates Fall As Recession Fears Grow
US Braces For Increase In Layoffs, Jobless Claims
“Natural Slowdown”

PLUS:

Biden Court Commission Warned of Need to Expand SCOTUS — Politico
WNBA Star Brittney Griner Pleads Guilty on Drug Smuggling in Russia — New York Times
GOP Concerned Over Abortion Issue For Midterms — DailyKos
House Panel Asks Gun CEOs to Testify — Common Dreams
Boris Johnson Is Going, But UK Stuck With Same Nightmare — Jacobin
Biden Won’t Fight For Young People — American Prospect
Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign — Daily Beast
Az. Gov. Ducey Splits With Trump, Endorses Rival — The Hill
Graham’s Relationship With Trump Comes Back To Bite Him — The Hill
The Biggest Masshole in Massachusetts — Hellworld
MA Planned Parenthood Forms Union — VICE
Montana Abortion Clinics Limit Access For Out-Of-State Patients — NPR
Derek Chauvin To Be Sentenced Today On Federal Charges — CNN

UK PM BORIS JOHNSON RESIGNS, ENDING SCANDAL-RIDDEN TERM

This Is It For Boris
What Happens Now
Who’s Next For Top Spot In UK Government

PLUS:

Intrusive IRS Audits For Trump Foes — New York Times
Biden Administration Pushes More Offshore Drilling Permits — The Intercept
Dad Helped Highland Park Suspect Buy Weapon Despite Red Flags — VICE
US Sanctions Iran Over Nuclear Deal — Common Dreams
Bill O’Reilly’s Racist Tantrum — DailyKos
Major Texas Abortion Clinic Flees State — HuffPost
Dealing With The SCOTUS Roe Fallout Wreckage — Chris Geidner
Rights Are Won Through Struggle Not Via Courts — Jacobin
Fed Moves Toward Another Rate Increase — New York Times
Senate Dems Push For Drug Price Fixing — Reuters
Georgia Monument Damaged In Deliberate Explosion — NPR

THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS NOW

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies
Uproar Over EU/Industry Push to Label Gas “Green”
US Water Contains More “Forever Chemicals” Than Previously Realized

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Chuck Grassley’s Big Corn — Discourse Blog
Dumping Vulnerable Allies Won’t Work — Hellworld
Uvalde Shooting Victims Aren’t Getting Compensated As Promised — Texas Tribune
Highland Park Toddler’s Parents Both Killed — New York Times
Another Trump Aide to Testify — DailyKos
The GOP Could Stop Abortions for Child Migrants Who Are Victims of Rape — VICE
“Just Asking Questions” On Transphobia — New York Magazine
Dems Frustrated By Biden’s Powerlessness — The Hill
Ditch the Constitution, Start Over — CounterPunch
Apache, Labeled “Hispanic” — Texas Observer
Recession At Internet Speed — American Prospect

DEMOCRATS LOOK FOR ANSWERS

Democrats Are Killing Supporter Enthusiasm
…And Alternative Voices Emerge
Progressives Need to Take the Fight to the States

GUN REFORM NEEDED, BUT A LONG WAY OUT

Blaming Anything But Guns
Soccer Star Focuses on Gun Violence in Press Conference
Highland Park Shooter Escaped In Woman’s Clothing

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Democratic Complicity In Post-Roe World — The Intercept
Judge Throws Out Trump Attacks on Endangered Species — AP
DeSantis and Newsome Fight Shadow Race — Politico
Oil Drops Below $100 a Barrel on Recession Fears — Bloomberg
El Salvador Woman Sentenced to 50 Years For Miscarriage — Le Monde
Oregon Man Charged With Hate Crime After Attacking 5-Year-Old, Father — NBC News
The Three Most Important Post-Roe Races — New York Magazine
House Progressives Aim At Justices — Common Dreams

LOSING THE BASE

Dem Loyalists Enraged Over White House Inaction
The Democrats Have Been Embarrassingly Useless On Abortion
…And They Don’t Care About the Housing Emergency

PLUS:

Here’s to Mike Davis — Discourse Blog
NYT Op-Ed Inadvertently Shows Dangers of Ectopic Pregnancy — DailyKos
Grand Jury Subpoenas Trump Lawyers Over Election Claims — The Guardian
DOJ Sues Arizona Over Proof Of Citizenship Law — The Hill
Brittney Griner’s Show Trial — The Nation
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Blows Up — New York Times
Chicago Shooter Left Trail of Online Violent Imagery — NBC News
Liberals Get the New Deal Wrong — Labor Politics
The Victim Blaming Of The Victorious Right — The Nation
Ending Pandemic Aid Created A Disaster — The Lever
Key Post Resignations Rock Boris Johnson’s Government — HuffPost
Major Opioid Distributors Let Off The Hook By Judge — NBC News
4 Oakland A’s Fans Injured By ‘Celebratory Gunfire’ — CBS Sports

HOLIDAY MASSACRE

Shooter, a Local Rapper From the Highland Park Suburb of Chicago, Arrested
Another White Man Arrested “Without Incident”
Six Dead, More in Hospital
The Endless Arms Race

POST-ROE REALITY

Doctors Choosing Between Prosecution or Patients
How Latin American Feminists Took on Anti-Abortion Laws and Won
How Much Will the Abortion Police State Cost?

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Boebert’s “Deadly” Stupid Take on Denmark Shooting Panned — HuffPost
The BA.5 COVID Surge Is Here — New York Magazine
Climate Crisis Increasing Workplace Heat Injury and Death — DailyKos
Deadly Glacier Collapse in Italy “Linked Directly to Climate Change” — Common Dreams
US Seeks 250,000 Mentors/Tutors For Covid Learning Loss — Reuters
Moderate Democrats Have No Ideas — New Republic
India’s Press Freedom Conundrum — Rana Ayyub

WHERE WE’RE AT THIS 4TH OF JULY

Will America Be a Democracy Next July 4th?
Cursed United States
Police in Akron, Ohio Use Tear Gas Against Demonstrators

PLUS:

Come On, Man — The Flashpoint
McConnell Wins Again — American Prospect
Dobbs and the “Good” Republicans — New York Magazine
How 6 Supreme Court Justices Undid Decades of Progress in Just 6 Weeks — VICE
“Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas” Petition Nears 1 Million Signatures — Common Dreams

LOST YEARS

71% Don’t Want Biden To Run Again
Biden’s Deal With McConnell To Appoint Anti-Choice Judge Spurs Outrage
White House Staff Diversity Unchanged After A Year

POST-ROE REALITIES

Sinema Fundraises on Blocking Roe Reform
Who Will Help Care For Texas’ Post-Roe Babies?
Activists in the 13 Trigger-Law States Who Aren’t Giving Up Post-Roe

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Cops Tased Father Trying to Protect Daughter, Choked Family Dog — The Real News
Travel Nightmare Looms Over July 4th Weekend — Axios
Bush v Gore and the End of Roe — Slate
Biden Says He Will Beef Up Military Presence In Europe — Scheerpost
Migrants Dead in San Antonio Truck Is Politics As Usual — MSNBC
Tucker Carlson Embarrasses Himself During Bolsonaro Interview — New Republic
SCOTUS, Law Enforcement, and Immigration –Border/Lines
Bored ’24 — The Flashpoint

WHAT’S NEXT?

Biden Doesn’t Actually Support Abortion Rights
Inside Private Conservative Conference On Banning Abortion
Total Abortion Ban Would Up Maternal Deaths By 24%
Growing Calls For GWU To Remove Clarence Thomas

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🔈 Tucker Carlson Goes to Brazil — The Flashpoint Podcast
Neo-Nazi Newspaper Endorses Blake Masters — Alternet
Reparations For Racist Laws — Center For Public Integrity
Some Texas Schools May Call Slavery “Involuntary Relocation” — AP
NY Lawmakers to Ban Guns in Times Square — Gothamist
Immigrant Moms Get Rare Win in Family Detention Case — Texas Observer
Pentagon’s Proxy War Program — The Intercept
Mass Shooter Gender Needs to Get More Attention — FAIR
📺 Ukraine-Russia Propaganda War — Listening Post
The Biden Administration Needs To Act Like A Blue State — The Nation
Kentucky Judge Steps Down, Clearing Way For Biden-McConnell Anti-Abortion Pick — Courier Journal
McKinsey’s Role in the Opioid Crisis Revealed — Axios

SCOTUS INCREASINGLY SEEN AS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

The Supreme Court’s Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup
AOC: We Are “Witnessing a Judicial Coup in Process”
Court Now Aims at Democracy Itself

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New Haven Police Paralyze Black Man During Transport, Trigger Investigation — New York Times
Ten-Year-Old Boy Held in Jail For Three Weeks Without Charge — Fair For All
Witness Pressure? Trump Under Fire — New York Times
Tampering Should Generate Charges: Expert — Raw Story
Biden’s Familiar Excuses for Inaction — American Prospect
It’s Essential to End “Remain in Mexico” Policy — New Republic
Stop Giving Chris Rufo a Platform — Media Matters
Inside the Rural Psychiatric Hospital Staff Call a “21st Century Asylum” — VICE
Arizona Looks to End Public Education — Salon
Why Don’t Travel Advisories Include Countries’ Abortion Restrictions? — VICE
Bladder Surgery For the Hamptons — Insider