We are going on an hour after the military’s 48 hour ultimatum expired. Yesterday, President Morsi gave his confrontational speeches which many interpreted as a call to arms to his Muslim Brotherhood followers to defend the legitimacy of his presidency. This is turn brought a new statement from the Army pledging a fight to the death against “terrorists, extremists and fools”, which in the context seemed clearly to mean Morsi and his followers. Read More

For those who are interested, I’ve assembled this list of twitter accounts to follow on the unfolding developments in Egypt. It’s not comprehensive; I’m still adding to it. It includes both journalists, government officials and partisans (on both sides). But I think it’s a good collection of people to follow to monitor the situation in real time.

Morsi just issued an statement on FB, calling for national coalition government to lead the country until parliamentary elections. #Egypt

— Iyad El-Baghdadi (@iyad_elbaghdadi) July 3, 2013

Note that there is some unclarity as to whether this is Morsi or ‘the Presidency’, which in such a chaotic moment is not necessarily the same thing.

A couple of interesting developments in Europe today, where there seems to be quite a bit more adverse political reaction to U.S. surveillance revelations than there has been here, for reasons that are pretty obvious. Read More

North Carolina Republicans attach strict new abortion restrictions (a la Texas) onto bill to outlaw Sharia in state.

Early this morning, the Texas anti-abortion bill sailed through a House committee on a party-line vote. Now it heads to full House.

If you missed the happenings overnight (US time) in Egypt, let me give you a quick run-down. The key from last night is that Morsi and the Egyptian military have both – using slightly different phrasings – pledged a battle to the death over control of the state, making a confrontation at the end of the military’s 48 hour deadline almost inevitable. Read More

Remember when the Senate voted 79-19 to provide fighter jets & tanks to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood? http://t.co/b1jOxO6dUQ @SenRandPaul

— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) July 3, 2013

After the jump, live feed from Egypt’s OnTV … Read More

Report: Egyptian Military about to take more sweeping steps than anticipated including MB house arrest http://t.co/3m3nuBS3dO via @eahram

— Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) July 3, 2013