TMN will be off tomorrow and Friday. We’ll see you Monday. Senate Republicans return a “more politically explosive” megabill to the House for passage. / Politico Ramesh Ponnuru: Republicans are playing a shell game because it lets them pass a bigger bill with a simple majority instead of facing a
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Checkpoints are springing up around Tehran as Iranian authorities seek out people they suspect helped Israel’s attacks. / The Wall Street Journal [$] Haaretz says soldiers have been ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza. / Haaretz, Al Jazeera See also: In Britain, a round-up of newspaper front
The Supreme Court decides to limit the ability of federal judges to pause Trump’s executive orders. / Reuters It also preserves a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to cover preventive health services like colonoscopies. / Politico An explanation of who is Elizabeth MacDonough—“the most powerful
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What is the United States if it follows Trump’s path into a post-American world? “Too brutal to love but too irrelevant to fear.” / Foreign Affairs See also: Dictatorships around the world and countries with major corruption problems often have “masked police who protect their identities.” / The Guardian So
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