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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

Dems Finally Question Biden’s Ability To Lead

Setbacks Prompt Open Questioning About Biden’s Leadership
Dems Criticism Of Biden Gets Louder
White House Planned To Nominate Anti-Choice Judge On Day Roe Fell
Biden’s Approval Worse Than Trump At Same Point In Presidency
As Biden Flounders, Other Voices Emerge

PLUS:
Highland Park Shooter Considered 2nd Attack — Chicago Tribune
Trump’s White House Counsel Will Give Jan. 6 Interview — CNN
Over 220 Shot And Killed This Weekend — CBS News
“Broken” Capitalist Food System Drives Global Hunger — Common Dreams
How America Legalized Corruption — The Lever
Nipsey Hussle’s Killer Found Guilty of Murder — Los Angeles Times
Evangelist Group Brags She Prayed With SCOTUS Justices — Rolling Stone
White Nationalist Conference Features Current GOP Contender — SPLC
We Need Unity To Combat The Right’s Violence — The Nation
How The Left Should Think About Realism In Foreign Policy — Jacobin
“School Security” Industry Valued At $3.1 Billion — CNBC

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

PLUS:

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

PLUS:

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

Nation Paralyzed By Fear After Deadly July 4 Weekend

Philly Fireworks Disrupted By Mass Shooting
Alleged Highland Park Gunman Disguised Himself In Women’s Clothes
Highland Park Shooting Illustrates Gun Violence Frustrations
Over A Dozen Mass Shootings Over July 4 Weekend
Gun Control Alone Won’t Suppress US’s Death Drive


PLUS:
The Mysterious Billionaire Behind Jeffrey Epstein — Daily Beast
The GOP Is The Party Of Gruesome Oil Profiteering — The Nation
Covid Shows Signs It Will Be A Forever Plague — The Tyee
New Omicron Subvariant BA.5 Now A Majority Of US Cases — The Hill
Bernie Demands More Action On Guns After Violent July 4 — Scheerpost
John Fetterman Calls For Assault Weapons Ban — Common Dreams
NRA Posts Appalling July 4 Message — HuffPost
New Footage Emerges Of Trump Family On Jan. 6 — Raw Story
Bezos’ Inflation Idiocy — Robert Reich

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?

PLUS:

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

Rogue SCOTUS Leaves Dems Scrambling For Options

The Fight For Abortion Rights Turns To State Constitutions
Strategy Emerges: Regroup And Attack
How Do We Tame A Rogue Supreme Court?
Could Dobbs Be Reversed Like Roe Was?
The Supreme Court Is Making Governing Difficult
Petition To Remove Clarence Thomas Nears 1 Million Signatures


PLUS:
J6 Committee Has ‘Loaded Gun’ Evidence Against Trump — RawStory
Liz Cheney Hints She Might Run Against Trump In 2024 — Mother Jones
Progressive Candidates Rack Up Some Big Wins — In These Times
Abortion Searches Online Have Been Used In Prosecutions — Washington Post
Right-Wing Billionaire Ken Griffin Is Florida’s Problem Now — Jacobin
US Won’t Press Ukraine To Negotiate — Politico
Right-Wing Culture Warriors Upend Small July 4 Parade — HuffPost

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

PLUS:

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