NATIONAL

Military Parade and Repudiation of Kings: A military parade was held yesterday to celebrate 250 years of the US Army (and President Trump’s birthday) with 200,000 spectators and 8,800 troops. The attendance fell far shorter than expected as citizens, alarmed by the dictatorial spectacle, decided to hold a counter event labelled “No Kings,” a throwback to American independence from British monarchy, where over 5 million Americans peacefully marched. (Pictures from TSB members attending their local protests can be found here. Send your photos to tsbmarcomm@gmail.com). AP News CBS News

House Republicans vote to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS: The Republican-led House voted 214-212 on Thursday to pass a proposal from President Donald Trump to cancel $9.4 billion in previously approved federal funding. The “rescissions” package would claw back $8.3 billion for foreign aid and $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to NPR and PBS. NBC News

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Continues Assault on Obamacare: Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also be called Obamacare Repeal Lite, its critics say. INDIA CURRENTS

LA Protests Over Immigration: Los Angeles residents took to the street to protest summary arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants. Matters were inflamed when President Trump sent in the National Guard and the Marines, despite being asked not to do so by LA city officials and the Governor. Protests have mainly been peaceful and been confined to a roughly five-block stretch of downtown LA, a tiny patch in the sprawling city of nearly 4 million people. No one has died. There’s been vandalism and some cars set on fire but no homes or buildings have burned. AP News

FBI agents tackle Sen. Alex Padilla at an LA news conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country. FORTUNE

Israel and Iran at War: Senior Iranian regime officials. Nuclear scientists. The uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and surface-to-air missile systems in Tehran. These were among the targets Israel struck June 13 as part of a wave of attacks on Iran. Now Iran has launched retaliatory drone strikes on Israel, according to Israel's military, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had begun an operation aimed at rolling back Iran's "threat to Israel's very survival." USA TODAY

Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, state Sen. John Hoffman injured in targeted shootings: Authorities are investigating after targeted shootings left one Minnesota lawmaker dead and another injured. Gov. Tim Walz called the shootings "politically motivated" in a news briefing. CBS

GOVERNANCE

GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says: The Republican tax bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually, according to a new analysis released by the Congressional Budget Office. AP News

Education Department pays over $7 million a month to employees forced to sit idle: The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees. The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cuts instituted by the Trump administration. CNN

Republican who once tried to abolish the IRS will now run it: The Senate confirmed former GOP Rep. Billy Long of Missouri to lead the Internal Revenue Service, installing a loyal ally of President Donald Trump atop the very agency he once tried to get rid of. DAILY KOS

DESI NEWS

Black Box Found At Site of Air India Crash: A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India's civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed. All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area less than 60 seconds after take-off on Thursday. An official told the BBC that at least eight people on the ground were also killed. BBC

Major League Cricket Debuts in the West Coast: Major League Cricket made its West Coast debut in Oakland, California. More than 5,000 fans came to cheer and wave orange flags as the San Francisco Unicorns took on the Washington Freedom in the 2025 MLC season opener. KQED

IMMIGRATION

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’: Secretary Marco Rubio’s State Department published a reorganization chart Thursday morning showing massive cuts to diplomatic offices and functions, plus a few new additions. …The extensive 136-page document Congress received that includes the more granular details of what the reimagined department would look like— including an “Office of Remigration,” a far-right, anti-immigrant buzzword made popular in Europe for ridding the country of migrants. THE HANDBASKET

CORRUPTION ALERT

Close Trump Allies Sponsored the Military Parade, Raising Ethical Concerns: Saturday’s military parade in Washington celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army was sponsored by at least four brands that have strong financial and political ties to President Trump, raising questions about whether the event benefited his allies and supporters. NY TIMES (paywall)

CONSUMER SAFETY

Climate.gov will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff : The widely used federal website that publishes information about changing weather patterns, drought conditions, agricultural best-practices, atmospheric changes and greenhouse gas emissions will no longer be updated. NPR

Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states. CNN

GOOD NEWS FOR PROGRESSIVES

Nevada GOP governor vetoes voter ID bill: Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo unexpectedly vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have required voters in the swing state to show a photo ID at the polls — a conservative priority across the country and something that has long been on the governor’s legislative wish list. AP News

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