Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection

The shrunken staff remains responsible for the 26,000 artworks entrusted to the General Services Administration that are housed in hundreds of buildings around the country.

The New York Times (Gift)

DOGE Staffers Fear Getting DOGE’d Themselves

As top Musk allies depart, the government cost-cutting effort is in question, staffers say

The Wall Street Journal (Gift)

Gina Ortiz Jones wins hyperpartisan mayoral race with 54% of vote

Jones, a former Air Force undersecretary under President Joe Biden, had the support of Washington, D.C.-based Fields of Change, which backs Democratic candidates running at all levels of government. It has spent more than $260,000 helping her campaign.

San Antonio Express News

The U.S. Has Ordered Mass Deportations Before. Now History Is Repeating Itself.

In the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration deported hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants, both documented and undocumented, as well as American citizens of Mexican descent. This included my grandfather, Daniel Campos.

He and his family were among those deported to Mexico. His mother was undocumented, but he was a U.S.-born citizen.

Daniel Campos, Grandfather of Santiago Campos: Why they were deported, I don’t know, but I know they were deported. And we shouldn’t have been. We were U.S. citizens. The powers to be were white, so they could basically do just whatever they wanted with us.

Teen Vogue

What to know about Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to L.A. protests

Generally, federal military forces are not allowed to carry out civilian law enforcement duties against U.S. citizens except in times of emergency.

An 18th-century wartime law called the Insurrection Act is the main legal mechanism that a president can use to activate the military or National Guard during times of rebellion or unrest. But Trump didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act on Saturday.

Instead, he relied on a similar federal law that allows the president to federalize National Guard troops under certain circumstances.

CNBC

The National Guard in Los Angeles

The president hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act. He’s instead relying on a theory of inherent constitutional power that is far more limited.

Lawfare

A diminished DOGE reels from the departure of the ‘Dogefather,’ Elon Musk

Even before the blow-up between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, the cost-cutting group’s influence was waning.

The Washington Post (Gift)

‘Some cry all day.’ ICE detainees face harsh conditions in Miami federal facility

The Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, located next to a courthouse and high-rise apartment buildings, holds about 400 immigrant detainees.

The Miami Herald

We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.

Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018. The policy caused chaos for everyone involved: people receiving Medicaid, hospitals and health clinics, pharmacies, social services organizations and state agency caseworkers. No officials serious about governing should willingly create such problems for their own state.

The New York Times (Gift)

The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer

Companies are freezing hiring and investment to deal with shifting tariff policies. ‘Even Trump doesn’t know what Trump will do next.’

The Wall Street Journal (Gift)

Texas valedictorian’s microphone goes silent during immigration remarks

Recognizing that people in their community are undocumented immigrants, Campos said the federal government is spreading lies about justifying political violence against immigrants. Then, the sound faded out.

The crowd started booing and shouting, “Turn the mic back on!” and “Let him speak!” The May 30 incident was captured in videos that have gone viral on social media.

San Antonio Express News

The Trump Administration Is Violating the Constitution. This Legal Theory Can Help Us Move Forward.

In the United States, we’re all governed by the 7,591 words in the Constitution and its amendments. But who decides what those words mean? The answer is us. We, the people, decide what the Constitution means and when it’s being violated.

This might not be what you were taught in school, where most of us were told that interpreting the Constitution is the exclusive job of judges and the Supreme Court justices. That’s because Americans, conservatives and liberals alike, have largely embraced the idea of judicial supremacy: that judges are the ultimate authority when it comes to interpreting the Constitution. Under that view, the law is what judges say it is, leaving the people with almost no role at all in making meaning of the law.

Teen Vogue

The questions raised by the new charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The potential political fallout for Democrats and why a federal prosecutor resigned days before the indictment remain unanswered.

NBC News

For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal

Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

The Atlantic

Westinghouse targets $75bn US nuclear expansion after Trump order

Plans for 10 new reactors come as president tries to encourage an American atomic energy renaissance

Financial Times (Archive)

Pink Triangle towers over S.F. as beacon of hope in face of rising intolerance

Carney, who attended Saturday’s event in an all-pink ensemble including a bejeweled tennis visor and glittering pink shoes, first installed the triangle with a few friends in the dead of night in an act of “renegade art” 30 years ago. In the years since, the triangle has grown exponentially larger, doubling in size four times, Carney said. Now, the event has won the endorsement of the city, and hundreds of volunteers decked out in pink shirts show up every year to install the triangle and deconstruct it weeks later.

San Francisco Chronicle

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions

Activists connected the dots: If women could get their hands on misoprostol, they could end their pregnancies despite the severe legal restrictions on abortion most Latin American countries had. With this new pill, they wouldn’t have to wait for the law to change.

NPR

Iraq accuses Kurdish govt. of causing significant losses

The Iraqi Ministry of Oil has sharply criticised the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for its persistent failure to hand over crude oil revenues, a standoff that Baghdad claims is inflicting “substantial financial losses” on the country and damaging its international standing.

Intellinews

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke on Her Viral Haka, New Zealand’s Treaty Bill, and Fighting for Maori Rights

A spark flashed across the internet last November. Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, a member of Te Pāti Māori, or the Māori Party, broke out into a powerful haka on the floor of New Zealand’s Parliament amid a reading of a controversial piece of legislation known as the Treaty Principles Bill. Another lawmaker was supposed to tear the bill in half and start the haka, a traditional Māori dance, but 22-year-old Maipi-Clarke was incidentally handed the paper instead. The lawmakers’ protest went viral, lighting up social media and making global headlines.

Teen Vogue

A powerful, opaque al-Qaeda affiliate is rampaging across West Africa

With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

The Washington Post

Colombia presidential hopeful shot in head at rally

Miguel Uribe Turbay, a 39-year-old senator, was attacked while addressing supporters in a park on Saturday. Police arrested a 15-year-old suspect at the scene, the attorney general’s office said.

BBC

Russian forces have reached the Dnipropetrovsk region, Moscow claims

According to Moscow, Russian forces have reached the western edge of the Donetsk region and that troops were “developing the offensive” in neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk. Ukraine denies Russia’s claims.

Euronews

Wagner replaced by Russia’s Africa Corp in Mali: diplomatic sources

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, diplomatic and security sources told AFP on Sunday.

AFP

Thailand, Cambodia to return to military positions after border clash

In a brief firefight at the end of May, a Cambodian soldier was killed along the countries’ shared border.

AlJazeera

Mali political activist freed after monthlong abduction

A leading political activist whose family said that he was abducted by Mali’s military authorities has been released after a month in captivity, his relatives said Sunday.

AP News

Champion of the people or a traitor? A new force emerges in southern Gaza

Israeli officials have acknowledged providing weapons to Abu Shabab’s militia, as part of an operation to arm local groups to counter Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the covert enterprise earlier this week, saying the security forces had “activated clans in Gaza which oppose Hamas.” He did not name Abu Shabab, but Israeli officials told CNN that Abu Shabab is part of the program.

CNN

Kyrgyzstan takes down tallest statue of Lenin

Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.

However, City Hall in the southern city of Osh, where the 23-metre high monument of the revolutionary Soviet leader stood for 50 years, moved quickly to counter any idea that Russia could be offended by the action. In a statement, city officials said the figure would be relocated as part of “common practice” pursued in improving the “architectural and aesthetic appearance” of Kyrgyzstan’s second city.

Intellinews