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NEWS: A group of Democratic thinkers are plotting to lay out a new agenda for the left. They’re called it Project 2029. Comes in middle of raging Democratic debate: whether the party needs better ideas or just better salesmanship to succeed in 2028. nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/…

Read the memo that Biden's aides sent the president to convince him to do an early debate with Trump: politico.com/newsletters/pl… 2024 comes out tomorrow! Order the book: amazon.com/2024-Trump-Ret…

“If for any reason you decide to raise your Tariffs, then, whatever the number you choose to raise them by will be added onto the 25% that we charge.”

(point being, what the letter actually represents is an official three week extension of the July 9 deadline, which had been the date the April 2 rates were scheduled to snap into place, for negotiations to continue)

🚨 “They need to leave and they need to leave right now!” Mayor Karen Bass Karen Bass arrives at MacArthur Park as federal agents raid the area. She demands to speak to the person in charge and is given a cell phone to speak with leadership. Video via FOX 11 Los Angeles’s Sean S 🚨

Ernst endorses Feenstra (who is technically not in the race yet but "exploring") for governor

NEW TONIGHT: @IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to a decades-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt nonprofits. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

Very excited to read this book by Josh Dawsey Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf — all of whom are talented and smart reporters whom I have had the privilege of calling colleagues at one point.

I've covered political $/lobbying for a while. The crypto capture of Trump — combining personal enrichment of a president with traditional lobbying tactics — is one of the most remarkable influence campaigns I've seen. Here's a gift link to our story: nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/…

NRSC w/ a recruitment effort in Texas:

Write up with J. David Goodman on Abbott (and the White House) moving to redistrict Texas to squeeze out more seats for GOP nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/…

Also happening in Texas politics tonight —>

Another new how-to-remake-the-Dems initiative, via Katie Glueck nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/…

The energy world is looking to Wyoming this week, as the nation’s first rare earth mine in decades breaks ground near the Bighorn Mountains. wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resour…

Photo from a source: Andrew Cuomo on the Upper East Side—93rd & 2nd—this morning with top campaign aide Melissa DeRosa shooting what looks like an ad—as he’s reportedly staying in the mayoral race. Hasn’t held a press conference since losing the Democratic primary.