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Voices, The Peoples News

August 1, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
US citizen responds to being asked to shave beard by ICE agents. The arrest raises concerns around identity verification and racial profiling.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-detained-ice-shave-beard-immigration-2105494

A Police Officer Arrested by ICE in Maine: Local Authorities Reject Allegations of Wrongdoing
https://apnews.com/article/maine-ice-police-officer-arrested-09952522b305e10659dce4018ce81f34

How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal. Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-alligator-alcatraz-indefinite-detention-911.html

MAGA senator slams illegal immigrants as ‘criminals’ — then steps in to free ICE detainee
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-john-kennedy-does-bizarre-180-to-release-ice-detainee-paola-clouatre/

What Happens To The Women ICE Detains? The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers. and they’ve become invisible targets. “You’re not human when you’re in there.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-detention-for-women-is-uniquely-cruel_n_688a681ee4b07dfa117f0372?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2025-08-01&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=2ad8a4b29c39da108f4f8ffda0cf56cd20dc9eb9

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump’s Tariffs Are Fundamentally Reshaping the U.S.-Brazil Relationship. The rift between the Western Hemisphere’s two largest democracies is the strongest evidence yet that Trump is in the business of autocracy promotion.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/brazil-trump-tariffs-lula/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921

‘You’re paying that!’ Michael Steele says Trump taking ‘money out of Americans’ pockets’
https://www.alternet.org/michael-steele-trump-tariffs/

Trump signs order imposing new tariffs on a number of trading partners that go into effect in 7 days. The executive order follows through on the president’s recent trade agreements with some trading partners and his threats to slap punishing new duties on others.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/trump-executive-order-higher-tariff-rates-00487913

Trump injects new dose of uncertainty in tariffs as he pushes start date back to Aug. 7
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-effect-05bc12428163b9f28ef80f952cf9dafd

Trump just upped the tariff burden on American consumers – this time for low-cost goods from around the world. The Tax Foundation calculated that about 75 percent of the country’s food imports would be impacted by the tariffs in some way, notably liquor, baked goods, coffee, fish and beer.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428344-trump-tariffs-food-grocery-prices/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / OSHA
Workers Roast as Federal Heat Standard Languishes. Workers are overheating on the job, even in blue states. A proposed federal rule could help—but the Trump administration might abandon it.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-07-30-workers-roast-federal-heat-standard-languishes/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump administration proposal to revoke key climate finding draws criticism from scientists. The repeal of the finding on the dangers greenhouse gases pose to human health and welfare will face fierce legal challenges.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/epa-to-revoke-2009-finding-that-climate-pollution-endangers-humans-00476166

Coal plants and chemical facilities secured air rule exemptions through Trump-era email system
https://www.dailyclimate.org/coal-plants-and-chemical-facilities-secured-air-rule-exemptions-through-trump-era-email-system-2673790818.html

# General News / Floods
‘Not a damned penny!’ ‘Abandoned’ Texas flood survivors prepare to clash with officials
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-flood-2673794764/

# General News / Gaza
Arab Nations Urge Hamas To Give Up Arms And Power In Gaza For First Time. The Arab states called on Hamas to relinquish its arms and rule over the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented move
https://san.com/cc/several-arab-and-muslim-states-call-on-hamas-to-disarm-relinquish-power/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Mystery Third Person Seen on Epstein Prison Video on Final Night Alive
https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/us-news/mystery-orange-shape-spotted-near-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-cell-night-before-his-death-report/

How Epstein and Maxwell Used Trump’s Fame to Groom 13-Year-Old Girl
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-met-teenage-epstein-victim-182140564.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump Threatens Trade Deal With Canada After Liberal Gov’t Moves To Recognize A Palestinian State. President Donald Trump has threatened to stall trade talks with Canada late Wednesday night after Canada’s move to recognize Palestinian statehood.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/trump-threatens-trade-deal-after-canada-moves-towards-recognising-palestine

‘RIP Democracy:’ Left-Wing Protesters Drop Coffin On Wisconsin GOP Rep’s Doorstep. A group of left-wing protestors left a coffin at the home of Republican Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil last week, the congressman confirmed.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/31/protesters-drop-coffin-republican-wisconsin-rep-bryan-steil/

Trump donor swindled more than $30 million from people thinking they were getting access and visas
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-donor-scam-guilty-plea-b2799636.html

The one man who has the strength to finish off Donald Trump. If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down.
https://www.alternet.org/rupert-murdoch-trump-2673787761/

This Trump policy ‘imperils’ the ‘most vulnerable’ residents of state that voted for him
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fema-missouri/

Trump threatens he could take over sanctuary cities and arrest unruly mayors under martial law
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14954615/donald-trump-martial-law-sanctuary-cities-mayors-immigration.html

Trump Kicks Melania Out of East Wing to Build Mar-a-Lago Ballroom
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4148861160574-trump-kicks-melania-out-of-east-wing-to-build-mar-a-lago-ballroom

C-SPAN Cameras Catch Elizabeth Warren Absolutely Wipe Out on Senate Floor — And MAGA Goes Wild
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/c-span-cameras-catch-elizabeth-warren-absolutely-wipe-out-on-senate-floor-and-maga-goes-wild/

‘We cannot run a Republic like this’: FBI’s Bongino hints at shocking deep-state corruption
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5422040-bongino-vows-to-uncover-truth-in-cryptic-message-we-cannot-run-a-republic-like-this/

‘All the fake gold’: Outrage follows new plan to ‘turn the White House into a Trump resort’
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/all-the-fake-gold-outrage-follows-new-plan-to-turn-the-white-house-into-a-trump-resort/ar-AA1JFRyv?cvid=07CE3304CC19494A845AF7402F996934&ocid=wispr

‘Shaky situation’: How Karoline Leavitt’s ‘absurdly over-the-top’ Trump flattery gives away the game
https://www.alternet.org/leavitt-trump-maga/

‘Barbaric’: Karoline Leavitt Calls ‘Ending the Chemical Castration of Children’ a Trump Administration ‘Priority’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/barbaric-karoline-leavitt-calls-ending-the-chemical-castration-of-children-a-trump-administration-priority/

‘How can this possibly be allowed?’: JD Vance asks the question as Trump orders Texas to rig its own election maps
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/how-can-this-possibly-be-allowed-jd-vance-asks-the-question-as-trump-orders-texas-to-rig-its-own-election-maps/

How the US Could Cash in On Mineral-Rich DR Congo’s Peace Deal
https://www.newsweek.com/india-philippines-hold-drills-south-china-sea-2105774

Democrat moves to block Trump admin from using military drones to monitor protests after LA riots
https://www.aol.com/democrat-moves-block-trump-admin-100032279.html

Making America Epstein Again. Trump’s transactional ethics are making the U.S. a refuge for criminals. This mirrors something Israel has done for years.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-01-making-america-epstein-again/

New York Gov. Hochul Warns She Will Also Retaliate If Texas Moves Forward With Redistricting: ‘I Won’t Sit By’
https://www.latintimes.com/new-york-gov-hochul-warns-she-will-also-retaliate-if-texas-moves-forward-redistricting-i-wont-587876

Texas AG to Dems: Accept GOP Gerrymandering or I’ll Lock You Up. Attorney General Ken Paxton says he could “lock the doors” on the state’s legislature if it doesn’t approve a radical new congressional map.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198673/texas-ag-dems-accept-gop-gerrymandering-ill-lock

Republicans reject Democrats’ amendment to block Trump from taking Qatari jet after presidency
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5431133-republicans-reject-democrats-amendment-aimed-at-blocking-trump-from-taking-qatari-jet-post-presidency/

Sen. Josh Hawley Wants to Block ‘Biden Voters’ From Getting $2,400 Trump Tariff Rebate Checks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sen-josh-hawley-wants-exclude-152244806.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
China Wants Nuclear Weapons to Strike Fear into America
https://www.newsweek.com/china-wants-nuclear-weapons-strike-fear-us-allies-2106812

India Wades into Contested South China Sea on Side of US Ally
https://www.newsweek.com/india-philippines-hold-drills-south-china-sea-2105774

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/israel-starvation-gaza-keir-starmer-west

American Jews’ Support for Israel Is Near Its Breaking Point. The big legacy groups remain mostly silent. But nearly everyone else now agrees: Netanyahu’s Gaza war is one of the great catastrophes in Jewish history.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198651/american-jews-support-netanyahu-israel-near-breaking-point

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
12,000 rounds of ammo stolen from FBI training camp in Southwest Washington, deputies say
https://www.chronline.com/stories/12000-rounds-of-ammo-stolen-from-fbi-training-camp-in-southwest-washington-deputies-say,384701

Another Shady Trump Official Is About to Lose His Law License
https://newrepublic.com/post/198674/trump-official-jeff-clark-disbar-law-license

‘At 80, to be treated like a terrorist is shocking’: arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action. Retired priest and former magistrate among those held after Palestine Action was banned as a terror organization
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/30/at-80-to-be-treated-like-a-terrorist-is-shocking-arrested-on-suspicion-of-supporting-palestine-action

Nearly all states allowing jails and prisons to charge incarcerated people for room and board or medical care highlights a deeper problem: their families, especially Black women, are forced to cover the costs, according to a new report.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/26/states-inmates-pay-incarceration-black-women

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Why Fauci says pandemic ‘didn’t have to be this bad’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-fauci-says-pandemic-didnt-have-to-be-this-bad

Anthony Fauci on becoming the ‘devil’ and a warning for his successor. After a frenetic 38 years, former U.S. infectious disease chief discusses his quieter new life, working for Trump, and what’s next for HIV and coronavirus prevention
https://www.science.org/content/article/anthony-fauci-becoming-devil-and-warning-his-successor

Famed immunologist who led the nation’s COVID response talks new PBS doc, Trump and Fox News, gain-of-function research, the lab-leak theory, and more
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/21/dr-anthony-fauci-would-like-to-set-the-record-straight/

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

Trump administration to burn $10 million in contraceptives meant for global aid. A nonprofit says the administration rejected its offer to buy the birth control.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-plans-to-burn-around-10m-worth-of-contraceptives-meant-for-aid/

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
What exactly are US special forces doing in Israel? Secrecy is the name of the game when it comes to the Biden administration’s support for the offensive in Gaza.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-special-forces-in-israel/

# NASA
NASA Unveils ‘Hidden’ Cave Entrances to the Moon’s Secret Underworld. Scientists have suspected for decades that there are subsurface caves on the Moon, just like there are on Earth. Pits that may lead to caves were suggested in images from NASA’s lunar orbiters that mapped the Moon’s surface before NASA’s Apollo human landings.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/new-evidence-adds-to-findings-hinting-at-network-of-caves-on-moon/

# Pharmaceuticals
Trump presses pharmaceutical companies to lower drug costs. President Donald Trump sent letters to 17 pharmaceutical companies Thursday, urging them to match drug prices to the lowest price offered in other developed countries within 60 days or face consequences.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/trump-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-lower-pharmaceutical-prices/

# Social / Communities
‘Anti-white bigotry’: Mob beats victims down to street — including male who punches woman in face, apparently knocks her out
https://www.allsides.com/news/2025-07-29-1037/violence-america-anti-white-bigotry-mob-beats-victims-down-street-including

White Florida couple racially harasses, threatens to lynch black man just for knocking on their door. Antavis Johnson, a Black project manager in Florida, recently had an encounter with a white couple who threatened to lynch him
https://newsone.com/6347873/white-florida-couple-threatens-to-lynch-black-man-for-knocking-on-their-door/

# Social Services / Programs
‘Trump Accounts’ Cannot Possibly Replace Social Security. This is just another tax break for the rich
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-07-31-trump-accounts-cannot-possibly-replace-social-security/

Treasury Secretary Says Trump Accounts Could Pave Way to Privatizing Social Security. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments about the safety net program ventured onto the so-called third rail of American politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/business/bessent-trump-social-security.html

Bessent backpedals after blowback on ‘privatizing Social Security’ comments. Representative Katherine Clark wrote on X, “Well, Republicans said the quiet part out loud: They want to ‘privatize Social Security.’ Your money. Your benefits. Sold to the highest bidder. So much for standing with seniors.”
https://www.investmentnews.com/retirement-planning/bessent-backpedals-after-blowback-on-privatizing-social-security-comments/261551

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
AI data center planned in Wyoming will consume more electricity than all the state’s homes combined
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/ai-in-wyoming-may-soon-use-more-electricity-than-states-human-residents/

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government. Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Global
The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware. The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia’s network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers.
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fsb-turla-secret-blizzard-apolloshadow-isp-cyberespionage/

# Transportation
USDOT boss says 1,500 truck drivers have been taken out-of-service for lack of English language proficiency
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/30/exclusive-transportation-department-suspends-1500-truck-drivers-poor-english/

# Veterans / VA
Privatizing Veterans’ Health Care Will Be a Disaster. Thousands of VA health care workers have been fired. Private-sector replacements will be worse. Thousands of VA health care workers have been fired. Private-sector replacements will be worse.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-30-privatizing-veterans-health-care-will-be-disaster/

Air Force Serviceman Finds Transformation in Wounded Warrior Program, Warrior Games as Part of PTSD Recovery. Multiple deployments overseas combined with the physical impact and psychological damage involved with his work led him to seek help with the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/23/air-force-serviceman-finds-transformation-wounded-warrior-program-warrior-games-part-of-ptsd.html

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Voices, The Peoples News

July 31, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Bloodied faces, sobbing children: Immigration officers smash car windows to speed up arrests. We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests, a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/

What is Mexico’s ‘supercartel,’ and what does it mean for crime? Two of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels are reportedly forming an unlikely and powerful alliance that represents a serious shift in the operations of international criminal organizations and could create a dangerous ripple effect across the world.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/mexicos-supercartel-crime/

Democratic lawmakers sue Trump admin. for limiting visits to ICE detention centers
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/ice-detention-facilities-lawsuit-democrats

State Dept: Trump’s “Third Countries” for Immigrants Have Awful Human Rights Records. The White House search for partners in its global gulag has grown to 64 nations. Most of them are notorious violators of human rights.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/29/trump-deport-immigrants-third-country-human-rights/

CBP officers working in Houston, Galveston ports playing role in border security. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the Area Port of Houston/Galveston are seizing large amounts of firearms, “many of which are smuggled southbound to dangerous nations such as Honduras.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_d97c04b0-1a24-46de-84bb-dffc3680bc78.html

Family of Mexican Brothers Released From Alligator Alcatraz To Sue For Abuses In Detention
https://www.latintimes.com/family-mexican-brothers-released-alligator-alcatraz-sue-abuses-detention-587832

Trump’s New Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship Would Put ICE in Maternity Wards. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html

Sheinbaum demands return of Mexican citizens held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Mexican president said citizens held at controversial Florida immigration jail ‘should be repatriated immediately’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/mexico-sheinbaum-alligator-alcatraz-trump

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
White House pushes Congress to open up crypto opportunities. Congress should get started on regulations for cryptocurrencies, a White House report released Wednesday recommends, as President Donald Trump ordered regulators to immediately enable trading at the federal level.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1beff8a0-a6f6-4020-bbeb-1592fc5af0df.html

Trump lands another deal, 15% tariff for South Korea imports. President Donald Trump outlined the framework of a trade deal with leaders in Seoul on Wednesday that will include a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/30/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-india-friday-deadline-deals-nears/

# Education / Schools
Idaho Schools Are Breaking Special Education Laws. Idaho Schools Consistently Break Disability Laws. Parents Say They’re Not Doing Enough to Fix the Problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-special-education-disabilities-complaints

Why Government Schools Are Broken and the Solutions to Fix Them. The public school system in America was never designed for the world we live in now. It was built in an era when conformity was the goal, not creativity.
https://dcjournal.com/why-government-schools-are-broken-and-the-solutions-to-fix-them/

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump. The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198355/big-ten-conference-colleges-trump-fight

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Radioactive Wasp Nest Found at Former U.S. Nuclear Bomb Site. Federal workers made a startling discovery during routine tests, and many questions remain unanswered.
https://people.com/discrepancies-discovered-in-jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-from-night-of-death-report-11782180

# General News
“The Simpsons” Creator Just Dropped How People Can Be Liberated From MAGA In Three Words
https://www.theblaze.com/align/the-simpsons-creator-gleefully-predicts-somebodys-death-before-attacking-maga-there-will-be-dancing-in-the-streets

# General News / Floods
Texas lawmakers to hold public hearings on floods in Kerr County
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/texas-flooding-kerr-county-public-hearing-live/

As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming. Lawmakers plan to hear testimony Thursday in Kerr County. Questions remain about how state and local entities responded to flood warnings.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/texas-kerrville-hill-country-floods-response-emails/

# General News / Gaza
As Gaza Starves, Republicans Take Aim at Another Lifeline. Almost No One Noticed. Many Republicans in Congress have criticized the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main agency distributing aid in Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/29/gaza-unrwa-aid-congress-republicans/

Will Gaza Ever Know a Real Ceasefire, or Just a Pause Before the Next Bomb? If the crossings remain closed and humanitarian aid is not allowed in, the world may soon witness one of the largest criminal mass killings in modern history.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/gaza-ceasefire-famine-starvation/

USAID Cuts Help Push West Bank Into Extreme Water Shortages. The world’s biggest humanitarian aid organization is effectively shut down. The Trump administration says foreign aid is not aligned with American interests, and it’s reevaluating the aid worldwide.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5298672/u-s-foreign-aid-freeze-shuts-down-critical-infrastructure-projects-in-the-west-bank

19 Senate Democrats Vote to Keep Arming Israel as It Starves Gaza. Here’s the list of every Democrat who voted against measures from Senator Bernie Sanders to stop giving weapons to Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/31/record-number-of-democrats-join-failed-bid-to-block-weapons-sales-to-israel

# General News / Trump / Epstein
CBS News investigation finds inconsistencies with Jeffrey Epstein jail video. CBS News analyzed footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail. The footage reportedly does not back up claims stemming from the government’s investigation
https://people.com/discrepancies-discovered-in-jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-from-night-of-death-report-11782180

DOJ’s Bombshell Admission About Epstein Grand Jury Testimony. DOJ also admits they never attempted to contact or provide notice to the victims who may be referenced in the grand jury transcripts.
https://www.aol.com/doj-says-epstein-maxwell-grand-105900868.html

Bondi Blows Up Trump Claim Epstein Files Are a ‘Hoax.’ The Attorney General also admits the firestorm had escalated since the administration tried to shut down the issue.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bondi-blows-up-trump-claim-epstein-files-are-a-hoax/

Epstein cover-up fears mount as Chuck Schumer unleashes FBI, points finger directly at Donald Trump. So they know he’s in there, but we’re pretending he’s not?
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/epstein-cover-up-fears-mount-as-chuck-schumer-unleashes-fbi-points-finger-directly-at-donald-trump/

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Worsens as Dems Suddenly Find Big New Weapon. Senate Democrats are using a 1928 law to pressure Trump to release the Epstein files. The White House will ignore them. Here’s what could happen next.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-epstein-fiasco-worsens-dems-174049617.html

Donald Trump Is in a Tailspin. The Epstein scandal is making an unpopular president even more unpopular, and there’s no sign that this will end anytime soon.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198303/trump-epstein-presidency-turning-point

Esptein Victim’s Family Stunned by Trump Claim Epstein “Stole” Her. Virginia Giuffre’s family is wondering what else the president knows.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198647/virginia-giuffre-esptein-victim-family-stunned-trump-claim-stole

The Epstein Case Is Not a Distraction. It Shows How Elite Impunity is Sustained. To wave off every horror as a distraction is to participate in the very obfuscation that protects the powerful.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/not-a-distraction-epstein-elite-impunity-and-the-rot-at-the-core/

# Gov / Politics
Virginia city councilman set on fire in workplace attack; suspect charged with attempted murder, an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute, not politics.
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-city-councilman-attack-fire-lee-vogler-61c21949bf022171834850ad32be9ef1

Black Politician Arrested, Dragged From Hearing After Criticizing Texas GOP
https://twincities.binnews.com/content/2025-07-29-black-politician-arrested-dragged-from-hearing-after-criticizing-texas-gop/

The Philippine Missile Crisis: U.S. Deployed Arms to the Philippines and No One Noticed but China. It was a massive escalation that angered China — and there was no congressional debate, no televised announcement, and no vote.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/philippines-missiles-us-china/

The GOP wants to use their majority to implement ALL of Trump’s most extreme policy goals.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g-s1-46934/congress-republicans-trump-policy

Donald Trump just bragged about keeping underage ‘staff’, and everyone finally connected the dots. Donald Trump made shocking comments aboard Air Force One, providing his most detailed account yet of how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ended. When reporters asked if the workers included young women, Trump clearly stated, “The answer is yes, they were.” He specifically named Virginia Giuffre as one of the women Epstein took from his property, saying, “He stole her.”
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/donald-trump-just-bragged-about-keeping-underage-staff-and-everyone-finally-connected-the-dots/

Trump Issues Veto Threat Against Bernie Sanders’ Latest Anti-Israel Move. The White House is coming out swinging against an effort from Bernie Sanders to block the Trump administration from selling certain weapons to Israel.
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-trump-issues-veto-threat-181445858.html

Gov. Newsom Warns California Will Retaliate If Texas Eliminates Dem Seats In Redistricting: ‘The 2026 Election Is Being Rigged.’ The new map, which still needs the approval of the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature, carves up five districts now represented by Democrats, greatly diminishing the incumbents’ chances of winning re-election.
https://san.com/cc/gop-unveils-new-texas-congressional-map-in-bid-to-retain-control-of-house/

Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America wasn’t followed
https://apnews.com/article/voa-voice-america-media-trump-administration-b60d40621f41b2ff4460803de4e0142f

The Fine Print of Trump Fascism. The Trump regime is taking over every major institution in America. Here’s how.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-is-what-fascist-control-looks

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-champion-scott-soucek-said-trump-would-fight-child-predators-arrested-for-being-a-child-predator/

Trump Russiagate papers found in ‘burn bags’ in secret room, FBI claims. Kash Patel and online allies suggest deep state conspiracy, while president appears to confuse incident with Epstein controversy
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/kash-patel-burn-bags-russia-trump-links-6n9zjdwjh

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-civil-rights-lawsuits-halted-louisiana-south-carolina

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Point: Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Common-Sense Reform
https://paragoninstitute.org/newsletter/american-voters-want-commonsense-medicaid-reforms/

COUNTERPOINT: Work requirements increase bureaucracy more than accountability
https://themercury.com/counterpoint-work-requirements-increase-bureaucracy-more-than-accountability/article_70d72ecf-7948-4c7c-a3ba-9bb17955ad7e.html

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Beta-HPV can directly cause skin cancer in immunocompromised people. NIH case study finds virus drives creation of cancer cells in context of defective T cells.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/beta-hpv-can-directly-cause-skin-cancer-immunocompromised-people

A Flu Vaccine in Your Dental Floss? Researchers Tout Benefits, Critics Question Safety. A new study shows “floss-based vaccination as a simple, needle-free strategy that enhances vaccine delivery and immune activation.” However, critics raise “real-world” concerns about uncontrolled dosing and the impossibility of guaranteeing informed consent.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/flu-vaccine-dental-floss-critics-question-safety-informed-consent/

# NASA
NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces. Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-isro-satellite-lifts-off-to-track-earths-changing-surfaces/

# NOAA / Weather
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecasts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/31/military-wont-cut-off-data-used-by-hurricane-forecasters/85421928007/

# Pharmaceuticals
Drug Giants’ Rebate Plan Could Gut Rural Hospitals
https://www.haponline.org/News/HAP-News-Articles/Latest-News/proposed-340b-rebate-changes-put-already-strapped-hospitals-at-risk

# Social / Communities
Vegas’ dark secret: City’s homeless living in storm drains under the Strip. Around 1,500 homeless people have been living in the tunnels. A HUD report found that homelessness in America rose by 18% in 2024
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/vegas-dark-secret-citys-homeless-living-in-storm-drains-under-the-strip/

# Social Services / Programs
Trump Treasury Sec. Brazenly Gives Up the Game on Social Security. Scott Bessent is saying the quiet part out loud. The Trump administration is working toward privatizing Social Security.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasury-sec-brazenly-admits-trump-182539612.html

# Transportation
A Landmark Deal Just Reshaped the Future of US Rail
https://www.newsweek.com/landmark-deal-reshaped-future-us-rail-2105759

# Veterans / VA
Exodus at VA: 10,000 Employees Are Resigning in September
https://thewarhorse.org/list-va-positions-deferred-resignation/

Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans. A pending VA rule appears designed to strip crucial health care from hundreds of thousands of veterans in states with abortion bans.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/07/abortion-at-veterans-affairs-medical-facilities-trump-rule-biden-policy/

Advocates warn Trump order pushes homeless veterans into long-term ‘institutional settings.’ The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is protesting a July 24 executive order that directs state and local officials to forcibly move people living on the streets into long-term “institutional settings.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/07/28/advocates-worry-new-white-house-order-on-homelessness-could-hurt-vets/

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘Had to Sleep on the Floor’—Honduran Woman Detained by ICE During Routine Check-In Describes ‘Inhumane’ Conditions in U.S. Custody
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/07/28/honduran-woman-held-at-broadview-ice-facility-describes-conditions-as-inhumane

South Dakota’s ‘Operation Prairie Thunder’ to support ICE
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/operation-prairie-thunder-to-aid-ice/

Florida State Senator Condemns Conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘32 Men to a Cage, Chanting for Freedom’
https://www.aol.com/florida-state-senator-laments-visit-200030960.html

Lawyers say Alligator Alcatraz violates constitutional rights of detainees. ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys, are being held without any charges and that a federal immigration court has canceled bond hearings.
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/toledo/politics/2025/07/28/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-held-without-charges–barred-from-legal-access-attorneys-say

Police in Maine say officer arrested by ICE was cleared by federal government to work. ICE accused the police department in Old Orchard Beach of “knowingly” hiring an immigrant who is in the country illegally, which the police chief denied.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maine-ice-arrest-jon-luke-evans-reserve-officer-government-work-rcna221719

Masked and armed agents are arresting people on US streets as aggressive enforcement ramps up
https://theconversation.com/masked-and-armed-agents-are-arresting-people-on-us-streets-as-aggressive-enforcement-ramps-up-261499

More churches are suing ICE over arrests in places of worship: ‘Congregations have gone underground’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-church-raids-lawsuit

U.S. border officers admit to scheme to allow vehicles hauling drugs to pass through certain inspection lanes
https://san.com/cc/cbp-officers-admit-to-drug-smuggling-conspiracy-using-emojis-to-talk-to-runners/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Analysis Shows Big Corporations Are Using Trump Trade Chaos as ‘Cover’ to Jack Up Prices. Tariffs and judicial chaos shake investor confidence in Mexico: ‘Everything has been put on hold.’ Growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, rattling business leaders in the US and abroad
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/trump-tariffs-mexico-us-trade

‘Great cover for increased pricing’: CEOs say Trump policies help them gouge customers
https://www.aol.com/social-media-posts-reveal-anti-195534013.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
New Tariff Rebate Proposed. For policymakers, it could be a balancing act, as tariff checks could rekindle inflationary forces, since direct transfer payments boost disposable income, leading to higher consumption levels and broader-based price increases.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/senate-republicans-wants-americans-get-600-checks-from-tariff-revenue

Trump to Decide China Tariff Truce Extension After Trade Talks Conclude
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/us-china-agree-to-continue-talks-on-a-tariff-truce-extension

# Education / Schools
Investors gamble with teachers’ retirement. Texas’ teacher pension fund divested from investment firms accused of ‘boycotting’ oil and gas industry
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/07/texas-investment-funds-teacher-retirement-system-esg/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Big Tech Is Behind Your Massive Electric Bill. States are competing to attract artificial intelligence-powering data centers, at the expense of consumers’ electricity bills.
https://www.levernews.com/big-tech-is-behind-your-massive-electric-bill/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
‘Exceptionally Dangerous’: Trump EPA Targets Endangerment Finding That Enables Climate Rules. “Zeldin’s assertion that the EPA shouldn’t address greenhouse gas emissions is like a fire chief claiming that they shouldn’t fight fires,” said one critic. “It is as malicious as it is absurd.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/exceptionally-dangerous-trump-epa-targets-endangerment-finding-that-enables-climate-rules

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
‘Big 4’ Consolidate 80 Percent of Beef Supply; Steak Prices Soaring
https://thehill.com/business/3469128-big-four-meatpackers-deny-price-fixing-amid-record-profits/

# General News
Day in Photos: Wildfire in Portugal, Protest in Peru, Cease-Fire in Thailand
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/day-in-photos-wildfire-in-portugal-protest-in-peru-cease-fire-in-thailand-5893935?utm_source=atcn&utm_content=hw1016multicomp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atc&utm_term=hws1comp

# General News / Gaza
US Veteran Alleges Gazan Child Who Thanked Him For Food Was Shot Dead Moments Later By IDF
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/us-veteran-alleges-gazan-child-who-thanked-him-for-food-was-shot-dead-moments-later-by-idf/

The U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state if Israel doesn’t agree to a Gaza ceasefire
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5484001/uk-palestinian-state-israel-hamas-gaza

How significant is UK’s move to recognise Palestinian state, and why now? Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces that the UK will recognise the state of Palestine in September, amid famine situation in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/30/how-significant-is-uks-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state-and-why-now

Netherlands bans Israeli far-right ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich over supporting ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza. Israeli ministers ‘repeatedly incited violence against the Palestinian population,’ and ‘called for ethnic cleansing in Gaza Strip,’ says Dutch foreign minister
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/netherlands-bans-israeli-far-right-ministers-ben-gvir-smotrich-over-supporting-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/3644891

Far-right Israeli minister slams aid airdrop for Gaza. Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticized the resumption of larger aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/far-israeli-minister-slams-aid-184718429.html

‘Worst-Case Scenario of Famine’ Unfolding in Gaza: IPC Report
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-133/en/

Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene labels Gaza crisis a ‘genocide’ in break from GOP colleagues
https://www.wabe.org/georgias-marjorie-taylor-greene-labels-gaza-crisis-a-genocide-in-break-from-gop-colleagues/

“This Is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering. An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel cover as starvation spread.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/gaza-famine-united-states-donald-trump/

Silence in the Face of Gaza’s Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal-of-the-victims-of-the

‘I will never care’: Laura Loomer shamelessly celebrating death of 59K children but don’t you dare criticize Israel, or she’ll have a meltdown
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/i-will-never-care-laura-loomer-shamelessly-celebrating-death-of-59k-children-but-dont-you-dare-criticize-israel-or-shell-have-a-meltdown/

The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States. During this century, in the Middle East, the U.S.-Israel duo has vastly outdone all other entities combined in the categories of killing, maiming, and terrorizing.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/u-s-israel-genocide

# General News / Trump / Epstein
The Epstein Conspiracy Flames That Trump Fanned Are Now Blowing Back on Him. In 2019, then first-term President Donald Trump jumped aboard the Epstein conspiracy bandwagon. Six years later, he’s now trying desperately to stop it.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-epstein-conspiracy

There is a larger problem for Trump in the Epstein chaos. Whatever he does to deflect and distract from the Jeffrey Epstein morass only deepens the suspicions — including those about the two men’s relationship.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-could-burned-conspiracy-theory-120042894.html

Forensics expert analysis of Jeffrey Epstein jail video contradicts government’s claims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDSqqd9GRM

Ghislaine Maxwell Throws Down Gauntlet: ‘I’ll Testify Before Congress — But Only If You Grant Me Immunity!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/ghislaine-maxwell-congress-testify-immunity

I’ve Told a Story About Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein for Years. Suddenly People Are Interested
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-list-fbi-news.html

DOJ Called Just 1 FBI Agent, and No Victims, to Testify before Epstein Grand Jury
https://www.live5news.com/2025/07/30/justice-department-says-epstein-maxwell-grand-juries-heard-only-2-law-enforcement-witnesses/

Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its ‘Shadow Docket’: The right-wing-dominated Supreme Court keeps greenlighting Trump’s most authoritarian actions without even bothering to give us an explanation
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-supreme-court-shadow-docket-emergency-agenda-1235394694/

# Gov / Politics
‘Everything Is Under Consideration’: Senate GOP Vows Action To Steamroll Dems’ Obstruction. Senate Republicans are mulling how to circumvent Democrats’ unprecedented roadblocks slowing the confirmation process of President Trump’s nominees.
https://ijr.com/everything-is-under-consideration-senate-gop-vows-action-to-steamroll-dems-obstruction/

House GOP Moves To Prop Up Anti-Conservative ‘Democracy’ Org Trump Wants To Defund. House Republicans want to give hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to an organization the Trump administration has sought to defund for its anti-GOP bias.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/29/house-gop-moves-to-prop-up-anti-conservative-democracy-org-trump-wants-to-defund/

‘F*cking Fight’: Two Dems Face-Off In Epic Verbal Spat On Senate Floor. Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker accusing his fellow party members of betraying their party and condoning authoritarianism.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/29/cory-booker-amy-klobuchar-fight-senate/

‘We can’t let them control the narrative’: Republicans panic as leaked memo exposes their biggest fear. The party leadership wants members to take control of the message, particularly regarding controversial aspects like Medicaid changes.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/we-cant-let-them-control-the-narrative-republicans-panic-as-leaked-memo-exposes-their-biggest-fear/

From Medicaid Cuts to Violent Deportations: Trump Policies Are Boosting Democrats’ Confidence Ahead of The Midterms
https://www.latintimes.com/medicaid-cuts-violent-deportations-trump-policies-are-boosting-democrats-confidence-ahead-587774

Donald Trump is breaking America — our children will suffer worst
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5414744-fixing-government-efficiency-speed/

Trump Administration Invests Millions In Creating Mega Database Of Americans’ Private Data. The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Trump admin’s emerging surveillance state raises privacy concerns. Civil liberties advocates say the Trump administration’s data collection and sharing endanger Americans’ constitutional rights.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/04/trump-surveillance-state-federal-data/83924420007/

Awkward: Trump Spills Secret Service Agent’s Crazy Wife-Smuggling Plan. An investigation is now underway over the incident, which the president described as “weird.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-spills-weird-new-details-about-secret-service-incident/

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Rise of China’s ‘Surveillance Colonialism’ in Africa. As African nations increasingly implement advanced surveillance systems developed by Chinese firms, significant concerns emerge regarding the erosion of civil liberties and the entrenchment of authoritarian governance.
https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/articles/the-coloniality-of-chinese-surveillance-technologies-in-africa/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Social Media Posts Reveal Anti-Trump Bias Of CIA Officer Who Helped Create 2016 Russiagate Report. Social media comments show that a CIA counterintelligence officer who helped lead the 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment has compared Trump to dictators.
https://www.aol.com/social-media-posts-reveal-anti-195534013.html

Black Man Handcuffed and Searched After Stopping to Text—Now He’s Suing Police For Racial Profiling
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4142037991767-black-man-handcuffed-and-searched-after-stopping-to-text-now-he-s-suing-police-for-racial-profiling

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump and Bondi have degraded the once-proud Justice Department
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5423818-trump-and-bondi-have-degraded-the-once-proud-justice-department/

DOJ Targets Federal Judge for Warning Trump Could Spark ‘Constitutional Crisis.’ Judge James Boasberg reportedly raised concerns that the Trump administration “would disregard rulings of federal courts,” something the White House has done repeatedly.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doj-complaint-boasberg

Senate Confirms Trump Lawyer Emil Bove to Appellate Court
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/senate-confirms-emil-bove-to-third-circuit-as-dems-fail-to-thwart-trump-pick-00482965

‘A dangerous embarrassment’: Feds caught lying as ‘assault’ charges against LA protesters crumble
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/a-dangerous-embarrassment-feds-caught-lying-as-assault-charges-against-la-protesters-crumble/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
No One Is Happy After Learning The Trump Admin Is Burning Nearly $10 Million Worth Of Contraceptives. “This is cruel, disgraceful, and a needless waste of your taxpayer dollars,” one representative said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/state-department-burn-contraceptives-poor-countries

A Federal Judge May Have Just Saved Planned Parenthood. The reality is that Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit will raise the stakes for Republicans next year.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/judge-saves-planned-parenthood-republican-loss-midterms.html

Judge blocks Trump attempt to defund Planned Parenthood clinics serving Medicaid patients
https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-funding-cuts-ruling-343034bc26917049d6d58a8ba8c58c21

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Longer assignments coming soon for troops heading to South Korea. The directive extends tours for unaccompanied service members assigned to South Korea from 12 months to 24 months.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-south-korea-tours-longer/

# NASA
Ex-NASA engineer claims trillions of shape-shifting, cloaked devices are hidden across Earth. Richard Banduric, CEO of Field Propulsion Technologies and a former propulsion engineer for NASA and Lockheed Martin, shared the shocking allegations during a December 2024 episode of the Ecosystemic Futures podcast, which has recently resurfaced on social media platform X.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14951779/NASA-engineer-trillion-devices-hidden-Earth.html

# Pharmaceuticals
Federal judge blocks Arkansas law barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies in state
https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2025/07/30/federal-judge-blocks-arkansas-pbm-law

# Planetary / Earth
8.8 Magnitude Earthquake Triggers Tsumani Warnings Across Northern Pacific. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Far East, triggering a tsunami in the northern Pacific and prompting warnings for Alaska, Hawaii, and New Zealand.
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/tsunami-warning-8-8-magnitude-earthquake-triggers-alert-worldwide-list-of-countries-that-are-under-threat-11753845941230.html

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI). Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set global AI standards and reap broad economic and military benefits. Last week, the Trump administration released plans further gutting environmental laws in order to help Big Tech build data centers unhindered by bare-minimum concerns like preserving clean water or breathable air.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf

# Tourism / Travel Advisories
Mexican Diplomat Warns Nationals To Take ‘Extreme Precautions Or Not Come To Florida’: ‘They Will Detain You For Anything’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14941523/mexico-travel-warning-florida-migrants-alligator-alcatraz.html

# Water / Lakes / Oceans / Rivers
As Climate-Related Wastewater Threats Grow, U.S. and Mexico Sign a Deal to End the Tijuana Sewage Crisis
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29072025/todays-climate-sewage-mexico-united-states-overflow-agreement/

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July 28, 2025
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump DOJ propping up ‘incorrect’ and ‘contrary’ new arguments in ICE raid case that are ‘based on a misreading’ of a judge’s order and applicable law, ACLU says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-doj-propping-up-incorrect-and-contrary-new-arguments-in-ice-raid-case-that-are-based-on-a-misreading-of-a-judges-order-and-applicable-law-aclu-says/

ICE arrests 56 Irish nationals in US under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Approximately 35 men and 21 women were taken into custody by ICE in Irish American strongholds of Boston, New York and New Jersey
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-56-irish-nationals-35628004

Nancy Mace Shares Her Love of ICE Detention Videos: ‘I Can Think of Nothing More American’
https://www.aol.com/nancy-maces-perverse-migrant-dream-160140740.html

Reports of masked ICE agents sweeping neighborhoods, raiding worksites and making arrests have sparked protests and debates across the country. “We haven’t seen this type of the volume of interactions between ICE officers and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEpqlK3hdQ

Trump pick rages as grand juries reject ICE protest cases over false claims
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-appointee-2673755083/

US Citizenship and Immigration Services reinforces rule to bring your own interpreter
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2025/07/24/us-citizenship-immigration-services-reinforces-rule-bring-your-own-interpreter/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
EPA prepares to approve dicamba weedkillers despite history of crop damage. A controversial chemical that has wreaked havoc across farm country, sparked years of litigation and twice drawn court-ordered bans.
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/07/epa-move-dicamba/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
‘Sanitized view of our history’: Judge blows up Trump’s plans to scrap ‘DEI-related’ grants and history projects that do not conform to ‘preferred, triumphalist version of the past’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sanitized-view-of-our-history-judge-blows-up-trumps-plans-to-scrap-dei-related-grants-and-history-projects-that-do-not-conform-to-preferred-triumphalist-version-of-the-past/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE plans to use AI to identify 50% of 200,000 federal regulations that can be eliminated by January
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/doge-ai-tool-delete-list-federal-regulations

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
IRS Developing System to Share Taxpayer Addresses with ICE, Raising Legal and Privacy Alarms
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations

Americans encouraged to Venmo and Paypal the government to pay off $36.72tn national debt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/venmo-americans-us-government-debt

# Education / Schools
Tennessee School District Won’t Accept Doctor’s Notes For Absences: Tennessee district bans doctor’s notes to exempt kids from school to teach them good work ethic. Lawrence County Board of Education says ‘absences are not excused’ in most circumstances, even illness
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tennessee-school-district-doctors-notes-ban-b2796653.html

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown has unintended consequences.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee

Districts brace for growing costs as cyber criminals target schools. When hackers stole a rural school district’s computer system last year, students in the middle of midterm exams were left frustrated, but concerns went far beyond testing.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2ef87b38-e109-479f-a1e7-4da2e7c436ae.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The European Union has agreed to purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the U.S., and invest an additional $600 billion more into the U.S.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5422634-trump-eu-trade-deal-tariffs/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Right now several volcanoes across the United States are waking up and showing signs of serious activity.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/13/us-volcanoes-rumbling-explained/84629488007/

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Farmers fear migrant worker crackdown threatens U.S. food supply. A sharp reduction in the number of agricultural workers could have devastating impacts on the food supply chain and farm-belt economies
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/los-angeles-ice-raids-trump-food-supply-b2779475.html

# General News / Floods
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has announced legal action against President Donald Trump after the Trump administration denied Maryland’s request for federal disaster assistance following devastating floods in May 2025.
https://twincities.binnews.com/content/2025-07-25-gov-wes-moore-vows-legal-action-after-trump-denies-flood-aid/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out. Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/

‘The Fact That He Keeps Lying…’ Trump Roasted For Claiming He Wasn’t Told He’s In the Epstein Files
https://www.yahoo.com/news/epstein-ex-says-trump-had-175301523.html

Melania Trump Was ‘Very Involved’ in Jeffrey Epstein’s Social Circle Before Meeting Husband Donald
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/melania-met-trump-through-epstein-social-circle-trump-biographer-michael-wolff-drops-bombshell-claim-11753629553117.html

Trump Losing It as Epstein Scandal Fractures His MAGA Base
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-losing-epstein-scandal-fractures-132509593.html

Top Dem Addresses Going After Bannon’s Secret Epstein Tapes. The footage was recorded in 2019, before Epstein’s arrest on sex-trafficking charges later that year, for a documentary that has yet to see the light of day titled, “The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among the Global Elite.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/epstein-brother-demands-steve-bannon-162452073.html

The Epstein Files Timeline Raises Real Questions for Trump. The administration’s rhetoric has shifted in notable ways.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/25/trump-epstein-files-timeline-column-00475334

President Donald Trump’s niece believes that while the Jeffrey Epstein files crisis might weaken him, her uncle “isn’t the problem anymore.” “Even if it implicates him, nobody’s going to indict him,” Mary said, alluding to both the fierce loyalty Trump, 79, has cultivated within his administration and the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling that presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for “official acts.” She then theorized, “if it did kind of end his reign of power, J.D. Vance becomes president.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mary-trump-says-uncle-donald-023549935.html

# Gov / Politics
‘Guess where the money came from?’ Outrage sparked as cost of ‘free’ Air Force One is revealed
https://www.alternet.org/trump-plane-qatar-cost/

‘The United States committed human trafficking’: Lawyer slams Trump’s prisoner swap
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673765935/

Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022
Also: Preserving and Protecting the Intrgrity of American Elections
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

Executive Order 14196—A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14196-plan-for-establishing-united-states-sovereign-wealth-fund

‘Bloated, braindead, blithering idiot’: Outlandish fight between lawmakers rages in public
https://www.rawstory.com/randy-fine-2673759057/

‘Kicked a hornet’s nest’: Backlash follows red state Republicans’ repeal of voter-approved laws
https://www.alternet.org/missouri-republicans/

Trump defies the skeptics and conquers Europe
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5371579-trump-defies-the-skeptics-and-conquers-europe/

‘Thuggery From Trump and Vance’: World Reacts to Oval Office Meltdown With Zelenskyy. “Donald Trump is treating the destruction of a democracy as a political show—throwing Ukraine to the wolves and doing a favor for Putin,” said one Senate Democrat.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-zelenskyy

An unprincipled bully is now basically ruling the world. Arguably for the first time in US history, a president has broken diplomatic etiquette and insulted a head of state live on television. This sets a very bad precedent.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250303-an-unprincipled-bully-is-now-basically-ruling-the-world/

Will America call Trump’s bluff — or fall for the con? The world is now better positioned to call Trump’s bluff as allies and markets push back
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/the-world-is-now-better-positioned-to-call-trumps-bluff-as-allies-and-markets-push-back/articleshow/122282860.cms?from=mdr

Trump just revealed his total contempt for the rule of law. The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportees-el-salvador-contempt-boasberg-da282511ac6f5c8dd19af620995ca440

‘Bizarre place to be’: ‘Shocked’ former official fires back following Trump ‘retribution’
https://www.alternet.org/trump-retribution/

Graham suggests Israel take Gaza by force and ‘start over’ like US did in Tokyo and Berlin
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/lindsey-graham-israel-gaza-by-force-00479406

Top State Dept. official who once attended conference with White nationalists picked to lead US Institute of Peace
https://apnews.com/article/darren-beattie-us-institute-of-peace-trump-8765ed564a138836de72c9dd7534f027
United States Institute of Peace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace

Maddow Blog | Why the Trump administration’s choice to lead the U.S. Institute of Peace is so ridiculous
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maddow-blog-why-trump-administration-124140955.html

Trump and Melania slammed for ‘tacky’ White House rose garden redesign as new images reveal concrete
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4136371589916-donald-trump-and-melania-slammed-over-white-house-rose-garden-redesign-as-new-images-reveal-a-tasteless-makeover

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘A dark day’: EU condemned after giving ‘bully’ Trump ‘biggest victory he could hope for’
https://www.alternet.org/trump-eu/

Why Europe must stand up to Trump’s bullying
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/why-europe-must-stand-up-to-trumps-bullying-a6ad57d2d40f

Jordan and UAE begin aid drops into starving Gaza after Israel pauses attacks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgj270grkxo

Taliban fighters ‘have been brought to the UK on secret airlift flights’ after Afghanistan data breach
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14944011/Taliban-fighters-brought-UK-secret-airlift-flights-Afghanistan-data-breach-cover-revealed-Mail.html

Elite police unit to monitor social media for anti-migrant posts – UK: Reports indicate that the UK’s Home Office is establishing a dedicated police unit to monitor social media for signs of potential anti-migrant disorder and civil unrest
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/police-social-media-migrant-immigration-b2796646.html

Israeli Parliament Votes for Making Apartheid Official. Fetterman: “I Haven’t Been Following It.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-share-tax-records-ice-dhs-deportations

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Why did Trump target the law firm Susman Godfrey? The answer is shocking. One seemingly obscure aspect of the case deserves more attention, as it suggests a broader threat to America’s system of free expression. The Susman executive order was the odd one out from the start.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5420259-why-did-trump-target-the-law-firm-susman-godfrey-the-answer-is-shocking/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
International Criminal Court refers Hungary to its oversight body for failing to arrest Netanyahu
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-netanyahu-icc-hague-gaza-israel-a7419dd89ae5a05c04cf25117e99acf5

The Rule of Law Finally Comes for Donald Trump. A court of law held a president of the United States, Donald Trump, in criminal contempt. In 235 years of American presidents, this has never happened before. Sadly, it’s probably going to happen again
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rule-law-finally-comes-donald-222903353.html

Judge Swallows Prosecutors’ Discredited Arguments to Keep Richard Glossip in Jail. Mere months ago, Glossip seemed close to exoneration. Now he’s facing a third murder trial.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/24/richard-glossip-bond-denied/

ProPublica Updates Supreme Connections Database With Previously Missing Disclosures. We’ve added more information about the Supreme Court justices’ finances, including newly uncovered filings from Clarence Thomas from the 1990s and Samuel Alito’s latest disclosure.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-new-filings

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Fox News Host Wants Child Labor to Replace Deported Immigrants
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-host-wants-child-182835870.html

Trump cowed Paramount. Now he’s targeting ABC and NBC. Paramount’s $16M settlement seems to have emboldened him, and now he’s turning his attention to NBC and ABC with more threats of retaliation
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/trump-attacks-abc-nbc-news/

# Marijuana / Hemp
Kentucky Governor Sends Letter to President Trump Urging Him to Oppose Move To Block Rescheduling of Cannabis. This is about helping people. Rescheduling would provide suffering patients the relief they need,” the governor said. “It would ensure communities are safer because legal medical products reduce the illicit market.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kentucky-governor-urges-trump-to-oppose-bill-blocking-marijuana-rescheduling-thats-advancing-in-congress/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Texas Removes 1.8 Million People From Health Care Plan. These Americans have lost their health insurance as part of the unwinding process happening nationwide after Medicaid coverage was expanded following the COVID pandemic. Four states together accounted for 36 percent of Medicaid enrollment and subsequently accounted for 31 percent of the drop in the unwinding period between 2020 and 2025
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-removes-1-8-million-people-health-care-plan-2103928

Medical Debt Expected to Grow as Premiums Rise and Trump Slashes Regulations. The Trump administration has gutted rules and programs meant to protect people from ever-increasing health care costs.
https://truthout.org/articles/medical-debt-expected-to-grow-as-premiums-rise-and-trump-slashes-regulations/

Medicaid Cuts And Work Rules Will Be Catastrophic, Hospital Group CEO Says
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/medicaid-cuts-and-work-rules-will-be-catastrophic-hospital-group-ceo-says/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Airborne pollutants tied to rising dementia risk, Cambridge study finds. A large review of more than 29 million people links fine particulate matter and soot from traffic and wood burning to higher dementia risk
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/long-term-exposure-to-outdoor-air-pollution-linked-to-increased-risk-of-dementia

# NOAA / Weather
5 tropical cyclones brew in Atlantic at the same time, only 2nd time on record. This year’s hyperactive hurricane season continues to smash records, as the Atlantic Ocean experiences high activity. The Atlantic currently has five active tropical cyclones spinning simultaneously for only the second time in history.
https://www.fox13news.com/weather/5-tropical-cyclones-brew-in-atlantic-at-the-same-time-only-2nd-time-on-record

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-tech-support-government-cybersecurity-china-doj-treasury

# Water / Lakes / Oceans / Rivers
Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: Earth’s freshwater resources are disappearing at an alarming rate. This unsustainable depletion, driven largely by the “overmining” of underground aquifers, poses a significant threat to global water supplies.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE agents under fire: Dem lawmakers push to ban mask use, demand answers from DHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLwxjChY28

‘Hundreds’ of people have been removed from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention camp, says Florida governor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-bYzEqinyI

‘I was born in College Station’ U.S. citizen says ICE detained him for nearly two hours
https://www.kbtx.com/video/2025/07/27/i-pretty-much-felt-kidnapped-ice-mistakenly-detains-man-born-college-station/

‘You don’t have immunity’: Stephen Miller and ICE agents put on notice by legal expert
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-2673765097/

19-Year-Old Went to Visit Girlfriend’s Family in Another State, Then Ended Up Wrongly Detained for 10 Days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/19-old-went-visit-girlfriends-110000955.html

Third Court This Month Blocks Trump’s Unconstitutional Birthright Order. New Jersey’s attorney general, whose state took the lead on bringing the case, celebrated the ruling.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/third-court-blocks-birthright-order

Broken Promises with Devastating Consequences’: Abused Immigrant Youth Sue Trump Administration Over Cancellation of Deportation Protections
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-about-face-on-protecting-abused-and-neglected-immigrant-youth-from-deportation/262678

GOP Governor and Trump Ally Voices Concern Over Number of ICE Detainees Without Criminal Charges: ‘That Should Raise Eyebrows’
https://www.latintimes.com/gop-governor-trump-ally-voices-concern-over-number-ice-detainees-without-criminal-charges-that-587580

‘Most Detainees Aren’t Even Criminals At All’: Ivey Denounces Trump Admin ‘Weaponization Of ICE’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiz3Sgg3Xs

ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter
https://www.aol.com/news/ice-releases-deaf-mongolian-immigrant-203428045.html

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say. “They beat us, they kicked us. I even have quite a few bruises on my stomach,” he added before later showing a bruised left abdomen.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-venezuelan-deportations-el-salvador-prison

This family self-deported to Mexico, and lost everything
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/family-self-deported-mexico-lost-100153216.html

U.S. Officials Knew a Triple Murderer Was Among Detainees Being Released From Venezuela In Deal With Maduro. Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S. At least some American officials knew that Dahud Hanid Ortiz had been convicted of a triple murder when he was put on the plane to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/trump-venezuela-convicted-murderer-swap.html

‘The Government Has Presented No Evidence’: Abrego Garcia Wins Release Orders in Criminal and Immigration Cases — But Remains in Custody for Now
https://www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-llc-333211895/4135952936398-the-government-has-presented-no-evidence-abrego-garcia-wins-release-orders-in-criminal-and-immigration-cases-but-remains-in-custody-for-now

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
MAHA Sounds Alarm Over Pesticide Manufacturer Immunity. Supporters of HHS’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are warning that a new House bill includes a provision that would shield pesticide manufacturers from legal liability.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/maha-pesticide-manufacturer-immunity-section-453-glyphosate-rfk-jr-tom-cole-house-appropriations/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Goons Use AI to Delete Hundreds of Federal Regulations. One staffer at an agency where the deregulation tool was tested said that it made several errors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-use-ai-to-delete-hundreds-of-federal-regulations/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Explains Why He Might Not Make Trade Deals With Thailand And Cambodia. President Donald Trump explained why he might not pursue trade deals with Thailand and Cambodia in posts to Truth Social
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5421881-trump-thailand-cambodia-trade-deals-ceasefire/

# Education / Schools
Trump Admin Returns Education Grants It Accused Of Funding Illegal Immigrants. The Trump administration will return several education grants revoked in July for allegedly funding illegal immigrants and other “radical leftwing” priorities.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-grant-funding-immigration-093aa36735f5d50de7406ee8465e1729

Families Feel The Back-To-School Spending Squeeze As Feds Cut Education Funding. As the Trump administration freezes billions of federal funds earmarked for public schools, a startling number of parents say they can’t afford back-to-school shopping this year.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administration-withholds-billions-in-school-grants-for-critical-programs

The True Impact of School Meal Funding Cuts: More Hunger, Less Learning. Wilson: Reductions that Congress and the White House are considering would make it harder for students to learn and thrive.
https://www.the74million.org/article/the-true-impact-of-school-meal-funding-cuts-more-hunger-less-learning/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
As Private Equity Comes for the Utility Sector, Minnesota Is a Test Case. An administrative law judge has issued a report siding with opponents of BlackRock’s acquisition of an electric utility.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-private-equity-comes-for-the-utility-sector-minnesota-is-a-test-case/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
How the Trump Budget Cuts Are Playing Out at Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park. National parks across the board have seen about a 24 percent reduction in staffing since the current administration
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26072025/oregon-crater-lake-national-park-budget-cuts/

The Trump Administration Is Recklessly Axing Funding and Staff for America’s National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. The number of visitors to America’s public lands remains at an all-time high, while the Trump administration has made drastic cuts to popular agencies.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-recklessly-axing-funding-and-staff-for-americas-national-parks-forests-and-public-lands/

Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages. “Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/02/crater-lake-national-park-superintendent-kevin-heatley-staff-shortages/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
New FEMA grants set to hand out $600M to states so they can build migrant detention facilities
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5421400-new-fema-grant-program-gives-states-600m-to-build-migrant-detention-centers/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Melania Trump ‘Very Involved’ In Epstein Scandal:  The first lady has largely avoided the hot topic, but Trump biographer Michael Wolff suggests that she’s acting behind the scenes. Epstein–Melania BOMBSHELL? Trump Wife Breaks Silence as Rumours EXPLODE Over Sex Offender Ties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5w3EllYVeE

Trump Claims He ‘Never Went’ To Epstein’s Island, Tells People To Focus On Bill Clinton Instead. President Donald Trump lashed out at a group of reporters pressing him about his prior relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday and attempted to deflect their attention to former president Bill Clinton.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-never-went-epsteins-180834845.html

Trump Claims He ‘Never Went’ To Epstein’s Island, Tells People To Focus On Bill Clinton Instead
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-never-went-epsteins-180834845.html

It all finally makes sense – Trump threatening to crack open the Epstein case to suddenly hiding behind bushes
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/it-all-finally-makes-sense-trump-threatening-to-crack-open-the-epstein-case-to-suddenly-hiding-behind-bushes/

Court Records Reveal Feds’ Shifting Story On Epstein Files. An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
https://www.levernews.com/court-records-reveal-feds-shifting-story-on-epstein-files/

# Gov / Politics
Gabbard Is Lying About Obama and Russian Intel: Top CIA Officer. The Trump administration’s allegations of “treason” carried the stench of desperation from a president straining to shift the focus from a burgeoning scandal around Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/tulsi-gabbard-treason-allegation-obama-world-rcna220730

FactCheck Post: Gabbard’s Misleading ‘Coup’ Claim. The foundation for her case is misleading.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/gabbards-misleading-coup-claim/

AIPAC-Backed Lawmakers Are Pushing AI Funding for Israel. Congressional Republicans have delivered on the pro-Israel organization AIPAC’s wish list in the latest military spending bill, including tens of millions of dollars a year for the Israeli military to develop AI technologies.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/aipac-military-ndaa-israel-tech

Stunning amount Trump’s Scotland trip will cost taxpayers – largely to promote his golf courses there: report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stunning-amount-trump-scotland-trip-155730615.html

The more Trump’s tyranny is exposed, the stronger the resistance.
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-backlash-2673768296/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Fact Check: Scottish newspaper headline about Trump visit referred to him as ‘convicted US felon’? The newspaper’s front page reflected Trump’s legal challenges while avoiding using his name directly in the headline.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scotland-national-newspaper-trump/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Dan Bongino Says He’s ‘Shocked’ To His ‘Core’ Over Recent ‘Public Corruption’ Investigations. Deputy Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director Dan Bongino said on X Saturday that he’ll “never be the same” after recent things he has learned.
https://www.thewrap.com/dan-bongino-statement-fbi-corruption-investigation-shocked/

Who is Robert Shinn, ‘TikTok cult’ leader whose home was raided in federal sex-trafficking probe? A handful of people were led away from the home, located in Los Angeles’ Tujunga neighborhood, in handcuffs, after FBI, IRS, US Postal Service and Labor Department agents swooped in on the residence. However, it was unclear if Shinn, 87, who has been likened to a cult leader, was among them.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/who-is-robert-shinn-tiktok-cult-leader-whose-home-was-raided-in-federal-sex-trafficking-probe/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Facing Rising Caseloads and Stagnant Pay, Hundreds of NYC Legal Workers Strike, The workers say their pay and workloads keep them from providing the best possible representation for their clients.
https://truthout.org/articles/facing-rising-caseloads-and-stagnant-pay-hundreds-of-nyc-legal-workers-strike/

# LGBTQ / Gender
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump, Colbert, And The War On Truth. The White House, billionaires and corporations are aiming to silence criticism and limit free speech.
https://www.levernews.com/trump-colbert-and-the-war-on-truth/

Corporate Media Mostly Sidestepping Russiagate Revelations For Torrent Of Trump-Epstein Coverage
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/corporate-media-mostly-sidestepping-russiagate-revelations-for-torrent-of-trump-epstein-coverage/

‘Get over it’: some middle America Trump supporters remain unfazed over Epstein files tumult. New revelations about Trump’s relationship with late sex offender dominate the news, yet many Trump boosters say they’re overblown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/27/trump-supporters-middle-america-epstein-files

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
GOP Rep. Tells Medicaid Recipients to ‘Get Off Your Ass and Get a Job’
https://www.latintimes.com/gop-rep-tells-medicaid-recipients-get-off-your-ass-get-job-587646

Eye-Popping Rate Hikes After Eyebrow-Raising Profits. After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to raise premiums. Major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/health-insurers-are-hiking-premiums-as-their-profits-balloon/ar-AA1J0TkN

U.S. health insurers seek largest jump in Obamacare premiums since 2018, study shows. Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes and higher health expenses
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/#:~:text=This%20analysis%20of%20preliminary%20rate,policy%20uncertainty%20contributed%20to%20sharp

Analysis of preliminary rate filings submitted by 105 ACA Marketplace insurers in 19 states and DC finds that ACA Marketplace insurers are requesting a median premium increase of 15% for 2026, which would represent the largest hike in premiums since 2018, the last time policy uncertainty contributed to sharp premium growth.
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
RFK Jr. looks to boot panel that decides which HIV and cancer screenings will be free: Decisions from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force impact millions of people’s access to preventative care for cancer, infectious diseases and mental health
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-preventative-services-task-force-b2796595.html

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
AIPAC-Funded Lawmakers Push For Millions In Spending On Genocide Tech. The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
https://www.levernews.com/aipac-funded-lawmakers-push-for-millions-in-spending-on-genocide-tech/

# Social Services / Programs
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Is Speeding Up Social Security Insolvency. The cuts could be as deep as $18,000 per year for a typical married couple, the report found.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-speeding-up-social-security-insolvency/

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
$1.26 BILLION to detain immigrants in tents? The federal government just awarded a massive contract to turn Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base in El Paso, into a 5,000-bed immigrant detention camp, the largest in the country. Reports confirm that the Trump administration has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to construct and operate a 5,000-bed tent facility at Fort Bliss, Texas
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-administration-to-open-largest-immigration-detention-center-in-texas/3640738

Revealed: Officials informed that Trump program ‘intended for white people’ only. A Friday report from Reutersclaims that a senior Trump administration official recently informed diplomats in South Africa that a refugee program set up by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year was explicitly intended for white people.
https://www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4136143236611-revealed-officials-informed-that-trump-program-intended-for-white-people-only

‘You Have No Rights, You’re a Migo’: Teenage U.S. Citizen Secretly Recorded His ICE Arrest. Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

Democrats ask SEC to investigate ICE detention contracts
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5420521-democrats-ask-sec-to-investigate-ice-detention-contracts/

National Guard soldier deployed to South Texas to help secure border convicted of smuggling illegal aliens into US. Sandoval was deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with the Texas National Guard as part of Operation Lonestar. Following release from his orders, Sandoval remained in the Rio Grande Valley and began smuggling illegal aliens into the country in July 2024.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/national-guard-soldier-deployed-south-texas-help-secure-border-convicted-smuggling#:~:text=Sandoval%20was%20discharged%20from%20the,Ashley%20Martin%20prosecuted%20the%20case.

Quebec man says U.S. Coast Guard abducted him in Canadian waters and Border Patrol threw him in jail. The detention of 60-year-old Edouard Lallemand prompted outrage and raised questions about enforcement on shared waterways, highlighting how routine recreational activities near international borders can escalate unexpectedly.
https://www.newsweek.com/canadian-man-furious-after-us-coast-guard-cross-border-arrest-him-2104109

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Courts Banned This Herbicide Twice. The EPA Wants to Bring It Back. On July 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposal to approve registration for the use of dicamba on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybean crops.
https://www.newsweek.com/epa-seeks-bring-back-twice-banned-pesticide-2103447

Scientists call for removal of over 4,200 “chemicals of concern” from plastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-plastic-chemicals-highlight-safer.html

# Children / Youth
Alabama authorities rescue at least 10 kids from sex trafficking ring. Children as young as three were rescued from the bunker. Authorities say people would make appointments to abuse them. Seven people have been arrested so far
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/alabama-sex-trafficking-rescue-kids-bunker/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Is Using Your Taxpayer Dollars to Promote His New Golf Course. President Trump is using $10 million of our taxes to market his new golf course in Scotland.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198465/trump-taxpayer-money-promote-golf-course-scotland

Trump’s trade deals are illegal, Piper Sandler warns, predicting a Supreme Court smackdown by June 2026
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-trade-deals-illegal-piper-140346962.html

# Education / Schools
Tennessee school won’t accept doctor’s notes for absences. The policy will also count kids as tardy if they are sent home by the school nurse
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5421394-tennessee-school-doctors-note-chronic-absenteeism/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / OSHA
Trump Labor Department Launches ‘Barrage of Attacks’ on Workers. “They’re showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-labor-department-attacks-workers

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US electricity prices skyrocket under Trump, hitting highest levels in years
https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/business/us-electricity-prices-continue-to-climb-under-trump/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come. Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.
https://www.wired.com/story/kerr-countys-tragic-flood-wasnt-an-outlier-it-was-a-preview/

# General News / Floods
‘Gross negligence’: Texas county’s emergency management coordinator was likely asleep in critical morning hours of deadly floods, sheriff says. The National Weather Service began forecasting the threat of flooding in Kerr County as early as Thursday morning with a hazardous flooding outlook, CNN previously reported. A flood watch was issued at 1:18 p.m. CT, that highlighted Kerrville, among other locations, as being at risk of flash flooding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/texas-officials-begin-state-investigation-040143066.html

Trump administration denies federal disaster assistance for Western Maryland floods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wCB1SwPY8

# General News / Trump / Epstein
President Donald Trump continues to be dogged by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal even while visiting another continent.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-conspiracy-theories/

‘Fix is in’: Trump sparks outrage by leaving door open to pardoning Epstein co-conspirator
https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump-epstein-2673760119/

Three critical stories are getting buried by the Trump-Epstein debacle. The Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case appears to constitute the rare controversy in which there are no innocuous explanations for what has unfolded. The possibilities range from bad to worse for everyone involved.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/16/jeffrey-epstein-doj-pam-bondi-column-00454487

‘Reducing her sentence’: Republican confirms plan to free Ghislaine Maxwell early if she plays ball
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/reducing-her-sentence-republican-confirms-plan-to-free-ghislaine-maxwell-early-if-she-plays-ball/

Ghislaine Maxwell spoke to DOJ about 100 people linked to Epstein: Attorney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdSKlwBAkGM

Trump and Bondi Have 100,000 Pages of Epstein Documents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-bondi-100-000-pages-191504751.html

The Main Obstacle Keeping Congress From Getting Answers on Epstein. The coils of the Epstein snare are tightening around Donald Trump, his lackeys in the Justice Department, and his desperate defenders in Congress.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-epstein-news-republicans-congress-subpoena-hearings.html

# Gov / Politics
‘Critical’: 14 GOP senators call on Trump to stop withholding money from their states
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senators-trump-funds/

‘Like hiring someone to rob me’: Trump ridiculed over new ‘rebate’ proposal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/like-hiring-someone-to-rob-me-trump-ridiculed-over-new-rebate-proposal/ar-AA1Jj4bT

‘Not just racist but stupid’: VP slammed for ‘sleight of hand’ while promoting far-right theory. Are the real Americans white? That’s not just racist but stupid; most Black Americans today have ancestors that lived in America significantly longer, on average, than white Americans.”
https://www.alternet.org/jd-vance-baseless-claim/

‘Elon is going to get decimated:’ How Trump’s feud with the world’s richest man might end. “They’re going to take his money, they’re going to shutter his businesses, and they’re going to either incarcerate or deport him,” Cohen said. “He’s probably got the White House working overtime already, as we speak, figuring out how to close his whole damn thing down.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-going-decimated-trumps-feud-160346534.html

Don’t Count on the U.S. Supreme Court to Corral Trump. Trump appears determined to destroy the two and a half century U.S. experiment in democracy. The U.S. Supreme Court is enabling him to do so.
https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-donald-trump-us-supreme-court-republicans-democracy-autocracy-us-congress-us-constitution/

After accusing Obama of treason, Trump now says the former president ‘owes me big’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/25/donald-trump-barack-obama-treason-immunity-jeffrey-epstein/85372083007/

Another Top Democrat Warns Party Will Redistrict Blue States If Republicans Move Forward In Texas: ‘All Is Fair In Love And War’
https://www.latintimes.com/another-top-democrat-warns-party-will-redistrict-blue-states-if-republicans-move-forward-texas-587542

29 Senators Demand Investigation Into Israeli Killing of American in West Bank. “It is long past time for the US government to demand accountability in these killings,” the Democrats said.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5420192-senators-demand-justice-american-palestinian/

Nobody wants to work with Pete Hegseth, and now Trump has to deal with the chief he tried to boot
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/nobody-wants-to-work-with-pete-hegseth-and-now-trump-has-to-deal-with-the-chief-he-tried-to-boot/

Supreme Court blocks North Dakota redistricting ruling that would gut key part of Voting Rights Act
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/supreme-court-ruling-north-dakota-voting-rights-act-00475642

Ted Cruz Wants to Use Law Meant to Prosecute Gangs to Go After Anti-ICE Protest Organizers. Three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, would have rejected the appeal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/supreme-court-ruling-north-dakota-voting-rights-act-00475642

Trump gives big promotion to ‘dangerous’ official who said ‘white men must be in charge.’ One official in President Donald Trump’s administration just got a new job heading up a congressionally funded organization that Trump previously tried to eliminate.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-big-promotion/

Trump Impeachment Campaign Makes Major Moves in House. Backed by a growing protest movement and a formal campaign known as “Impeach Trump. Again.” led by constitutional lawyers at Free Speech For People, the effort accuses President Trump of a sweeping list of constitutional violations and abuses of power. Supporters of the movement argue that Congress must now act decisively to defend the democracy.
https://knewz.com/trump-impeachment-campaign-makes-major-moves-in-house/

President Donald Trump is taking direct action to shape the 2026 midterm elections by making personal calls to Republican lawmakers across the country. The president and his senior White House aides have been steering Republican candidates in key House and Senate races to avoid messy primary battles and strengthen their chances of keeping control of Congress.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trump-just-made-some-very-specific-calls-to-republican-lawmakers-and-now-theyre-completely-changing-their-2026-plans/

Alina Habba Is Back in Power Thanks to Shady Trump Move. Donald Trump is bypassing the Senate—and overruling judges—to keep Habba in charge.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-pulls-shady-move-keep-142751963.html

WATCH: Congressional Candidate Thrown to the Ground, Dragged Out of Wild Texas Redistricting Hearing
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/watch-congressional-candidate-thrown-to-the-ground-dragged-out-of-wild-texas-redistricting-hearing/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Grenade missing after LA explosion that killed 3 deputies
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/07/26/grenade-is-missing-scene-an-explosion-that-killed-3-la-deputies/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
‘Do not cross me’: Ex-DOJ prosecutor explains why ‘bogus’ Trump lawsuit is especially dangerous. “Trump has a habit of filing monstrous lawsuits against news outlets that do reporting he doesn’t like. But the facts don’t really matter. They never do with Trump.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-wehle-murdoch/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump Adviser Warns Stephen Colbert Is Just the Beginning. FCC Chair Brendan Carr had a chilling threat for all media critical of Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198463/donald-trump-fcc-warns-stephen-colbert-just-beginning

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
‘Walking a tightrope’: Millions of Trump voters are about to get bigger bills — here’s why. Millions of people are expected to lose health insurance in the coming years as a result of the tax cut legislation Trump signed this month, leaving them with fewer protections from large bills if they get sick or suffer an accident.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-medical-bills-2673764231/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying. There it was, sandwiched between the review on bloodborne pathogens and quizzes about HIPAA, information on unreasonable search and seizure and the right to remain silent. It was then that I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor-trump-patient-privacy-ice_n_687e3e9de4b06691ec25114c

# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Tech Billionaires Spearhead Efforts to Build Gene-Edited Designer Babies. Bootstrap Bio, a company created about 18 months ago, has “hired a chief science officer, opened a lab and pivoted its work” to genetic editing of human embryos, Bloomberg reported. In June, MIT Technology Review reported that the founder of Coinbase, whose worth is estimated at $10 billion, posted on X that he is “ready to fund a US startup focused on gene-editing human embryos.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/tech-billionaires-spearhead-efforts-gene-edited-designer-babies/

RFK Jr. to oust entire panel behind cancer screening guidelines for being too ‘woke’
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk/

Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to allow $783 million research-funding cuts n its push to roll back federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. U.S. District Judge William Young said the cuts amounted to “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.” An appeals court left the ruling in place.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-institutes-of-health-research-cuts-6b69c254bc245f0ec1c7ddf1af74281f

# Medical // Global
Belgium is trying to stop the Trump administration from burning $9.7M in medical supplies—but a ‘regrettable outcome’ looms. The Trump administration was primarily driven by its ideological opposition to family planning.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/belgium-is-trying-to-stop-the-trump-administration-from-burning-9-7m-in-medical-supplies-but-a-regrettable-outcome-looms/

# Military / Global
Mysterious annex at North Korean missile plant has analysts puzzled
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/07/23/mysterious-annex-at-north-korean-missile-plant-has-analysts-puzzled/

Russia’s Using New R-77M Air-To-Air Missile In Ukraine. The long-range R-77M air-to-air missile, a much-improved version of the AA-12 Adder, appears to have been used in combat.
https://www.twz.com/air/signs-russias-using-new-r-77m-air-to-air-missile-in-ukraine

Thai F-16 Strikes As Border Dispute With Cambodia Erupts. Long-running tensions have spilled over into heavy exchanges of fire in the disputed border region between Thailand and Cambodia.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/thai-f-16-strikes-as-border-dispute-with-cambodia-erupts

# Pharmaceuticals
Rep. Gosar Reintroduces Bill to Strip Liability Protection From Vaccine Makers
https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8582

Drugmaker-telehealth deals risk unnecessary prescribing, senators’ probe finds. An investigation by Democratic senators has raised concerns about conflicts of interest in telehealth companies’ ties to pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Eli Lilly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/17/pfizer-eli-lilly-telehealth-senate-investigation/

# Social / Communities
Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Eviction fears, disability discrimination, and Trump’s war on fair housing. On Feb. 27, the Trump administration abruptly canceled funding grants for 78 nonprofit organizations that work to combat housing discrimination nationwide
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/hud-cuts-eviction-fears-disability-discrimination-and-trumps-war-on-fair-housing/

New Trump Executive Order Will Further Criminalize Homelessness, Mental Illness. “Mental illness is not a crime, and people with mental illness deserve to be treated as human beings, with dignity and respect, to truly address the systemic causes of this crisis, we should be pouring resources into treatment to improve early access to care and investing in supportive housing and other wrap-around services.
https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-statement-on-executive-order-targeting-homelessness-and-criminalizing-mental-illness/

ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Order Targeting Disabled and Unhoused People. President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental health disabilities and substance use disorder.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-trump-executive-order-targeting-disabled-and-unhoused-people

Southern California community pleading for help after Trump Administration pulls funding. In Rancho Palos Verdes, a handful of landslides have been moving homes for years and recent wet winters have made things worse.
https://patch.com/california/palosverdes/southern-california-community-pleading-help-after-trump-administration-pulls

Trump order shifts homelessness strategy toward enforcement. Trump order pushes cities to remove homeless people from streets. Follows ruling allowing arrests for sleeping outdoors, Critics say policy ignores housing and violates rights
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-homelessness-strategy/

# Social Services / Programs
3-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Hot Car While with Child Services, Which Took Him Away from His Family. The boy was left for hours while a contract worker for the state ran “personal errands,” the family’s attorney says
https://people.com/3-year-old-boy-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-by-the-department-of-human-resources-who-took-him-away-from-his-father-11778946

# Sports
United States denies entire team visas for Little League World Series
https://www.newsweek.com/us-denies-visas-venezuelan-little-league-baseball-team-2104257

# Veterans / VA
Lawmakers convene special hearing at veterans center to examine rural health care challenges
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-25/veterans-rural-health-care-18556522.html#:~:text=The%20two%2Dhour%20hearing%20of,in%20remote%20areas%20know%20they‘

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# Indigenous
On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow. Austin shared his list of 49 flowing wells he’d found across the Navajo Nation over the years in New Mexico and Utah. Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/24/on-the-navajo-nation-the-list-of-mystery-wells-continues-to-grow/

As Donald Trump ramps up his mass deportation efforts, a petition has arisen asking for his wife, Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia, to be deported. Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006. Her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, also became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2018 through family-based immigration, which President Trump has previously criticized as “chain migration.”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-melania-trump-could-be-deported-under-new-rules-joy-reid-warns-shes-outta-here-under-deporting-denaturalizing-citizens-policy/articleshow/122267764.cms?from=mdr

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Fact Check: Melania Trump’s parents came to U.S. through process Donald Trump tried to curb. True: First lady Melania Trump’s parents came to the United States through a family-based sponsorship, also referred to derogatorily as “chain migration.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-melania-trumps-parents-110000838.html

Abrego Garcia Wins Bail, Can’t Be Detained Again Without Notice, Judge Orders. Abrego Garcia’s release will be delayed by 30 days as his lawyers ponder additional protective order requests.
https://truthout.org/articles/abrego-garcia-wins-bail-cant-be-detained-again-without-notice-judge-orders/

Fear Of US Federal Agents Force Texas Immigrants To Stay Indoors Even During Medical Crisis”We’re not bad people,” Maria says from her dining room table, where her 4-year-old son happily eats a lime green popsicle.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/fear-of-us-federal-agents-force-texas-immigrants-to-stay-indoors-even-during-medical-crisis-8920086

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nathan-albers-fort-bliss-immigration

Homeland Security urges Americans to report former lovers to ICE: ‘From domestic abuser to deported loser’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-report-tip-line-immigration-ex-b2794141.html

House Republicans warn anti-ICE rhetoric from Democrats is driving violent attacks on agents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-warn-anti-ice-130007978.html

Latino neighborhoods overwhelmingly targeted in immigration raids, rights group says
https://www.dailygazette.com/tribune/latino-neighborhoods-overwhelmingly-targeted-in-immigration-raids-rights-group-says/article_7cf02851-4eb8-5ee8-a22e-cc06893e319d.html

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive. Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/inside-cecot-mega-prison-el-salvador/683646/

ICE’s Shocking Midday Kidnappings Remind Me of Something I’ve Seen Before. American police are turning away from this terrifying, chaotic practice—but the agency is embracing it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/immigration-donald-trump-ice-policing.html

The state where immigration raids are becoming a problem for Republicans
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/california-republicans-ice-raids-backlash-00471909

US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in west Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-detention-deportation-kristi-noem-a27916786c732c8f784a1d388a10e752

# Bundy Rides Again
Can Ammon Bundy Escape a $52 Million Judgment w/ Bankruptcy?
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/law-justice/2025-07-15/ammon-bundy-bankruptcy-st-lukes-judgment

Ammon Bundy makes veiled threats while in hiding after $52m defamation ruling. The far-right militant is wanted on contempt of court charges stemming from a multi-million dollar lawsuit
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ammon-bundy-idaho-defamation-arrest-b2469652.html

Back in good LDS standing, Ammon Bundy talks about his life in Utah as a wanted man. Police in the Beehive State show little interest in arresting the anti-federal government zealot, and Idaho appears to be relieved he’s no longer there “pulling stunts…with his little band of merry men.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04/27/anti-government-zealot-ammon-bundy/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
EPA proposes bringing dicamba herbicide back to farms after court bans.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-dicamba-weed-killer-herbicide-2f5a3bce541e2e9965a66ecc21281835

Congress Asked To Stop Provision in Approps Bill Blocking Pesticide Lawsuits on Farmer and Consumer Harm
https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2025/07/congress-asked-to-stop-provision-in-approps-bill-blocking-lawsuits-by-farmers-and-consumers-harmed-by-pesticides/

Trump moves to speed AI growth by cutting environmental protections. Trump AI plan would “ramp up exploitation” of people and the environment, advocates warn
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/07/trump-ai-plan-would-ramp-up-exploitation-of-people-and-the-environment-advocates-warn/

White House rescinds $20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural California
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/water-pesticide-polution-california-trump

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Experts See Echoes of the 1930s Amid Trump’s Tariff Tantrums. If a US-European tariff war really does kick off in earnest, the consequences could be hugely damaging.
https://truthout.org/articles/experts-see-echoes-of-the-1930s-amid-trumps-tariff-tantrums/

# Education / Schools
Consent decrees force schools to desegregate. The Trump administration is striking them down. Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, will not be forced to follow the law for the first time since the 1960s
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-consent-decrees-school-segregation

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Microplastics wreaking havoc on human hormones, fertility, a new review says. Tiny bits of plastic pollution are found all across the natural environment from the deep ocean to Arctic ice. This widespread contamination comes from the manufacture and overuse of plastics which degrade over time and leach toxic chemicals into the environment and the food system.
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/microplastics-wreaking-havoc-on-human-hormones-fertility/?mc_cid=aa92e82d97&mc_eid=485b9951ab

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Texas Emergency Management Chief Raises Disaster Communication Concerns With State Lawmakers. He called for improvements to communication and warning systems.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072025/texas-emergency-management-chief-disaster-communication-concerns-after-floods/

20 States Sue Trump Administration for Slashing FEMA Disaster Mitigation Program. A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration last Wednesday over the shutting down of a multibillion-dollar grant program with the purpose of strengthening natural disaster preparation and mitigation.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-trump-disaster-grants-beff4bbc84a88e1b7136749ad3012590

Trump targets disaster mitigation funds, raising risks in future crises
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5418834-trump-texas-fema-natural-disaster-funds-nws-noaa/

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Trump Shakes Up Bloated Agriculture Department, Relocates Bureaucrats Out Of Beltway. USDA announced a sweeping reorganization and significant staff reductions, citing a bloated workforce and rampant overspending during the Biden administration.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/24/trump-shakes-up-agriculture-department-relocates-bureaucrats/

# General News
Michelle Obama Artist Pulls Show Over Trump Censorship Threats. The portraiture gallery suggested replacing a potentially controversial portrait with a video of people reacting to the painting.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/amy-sherald-national-portrait-gallery

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5416606-a-wrongly-arrested-grandma-is-taking-on-the-us-marshals/

# General News / Floods
Man finds 10 flood victims on his land, bringing closure to grieving Kerr County families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IhdzUAun8I

Two still missing in Kerr County after woman’s body is recovered Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBFCKJFbLC0

Bodies of 12 flood victims recovered on Kerrville family’s property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3TEIQ4qqo

FEMA delays disaster aid to multiple states while Texas receives rapid approval
https://www.dailyclimate.org/fema-delays-disaster-aid-to-multiple-states-while-texas-receives-rapid-approval-2673754102.html

Delays and dysfunction: How Trump’s FEMA overhaul failed Texas flood victims. As deadly floods ravaged Texas, FEMA’s response was stalled by political interference, bureaucratic delays, and personal oversight from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—leading to the resignation of a top official.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/07/24/delays-and-dysfunction-how-trumps-fema-overhaul-failed-texas-flood-victims/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘Dumpster fire’: Senator explains what makes Trump DOJ’s response to Epstein so ‘weird’
https://thehill.com/video/this-is-a-dumpster-fire-sen-whitehouse-d-on-government-funding-jeffrey-epstein-trending/10919433/

‘What the hell is going on?’ Senator bewildered by suspicious threads in Epstein saga
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-cover-up/

Court Records Reveal Feds’ Shifting Story On Epstein Files. An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
https://www.levernews.com/court-records-reveal-feds-shifting-story-on-epstein-files/

DOJ Meets with Ghislaine Maxwell Today
https://www.today.com/video/doj-meets-with-ghislaine-maxwell-as-epstein-scrutiny-intensifies-243823173647

Ghislaine Maxwell Didn’t Plead the Fifth During Six-Hour DOJ Grilling: Lawyer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-didn-t-plead-the-fifth-during-six-hour-doj-grilling-lawyer/ar-AA1Jfdx3

Oversight Committee Moves To Subpoena The Clintons, Comey, Garland And Others In Epstein Probe. Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena a slate of former top officials in a rare show of bipartisanship.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416843-epstein-doj-investigation-subpoenas/

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.  Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-epstein-fiasco-takes-darker-100000547.html

Three critical stories that are getting buried by Epsteingate. We have little or no chance of rectifying the most serious wrongs if we’re captivated by the most exciting. The public conversation has become so distorted by the moral squalor of Trump and his lackeys that I fear we’re confusing what’s exciting with what’s important.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-we-should-be-talking-about-imho

Schumer Explodes at Trump Sending His Trial Lawyer to Interview Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘Stinks of High Corruption’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/schumer-explodes-trump-sending-trial-100039938.html

House Panel Votes to Subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton in Epstein Probe
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/epstein-clinton-comey-house-panel-subpoenas

These are the names a House panel plans to subpoena in its Epstein probe
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/24/epstein-clinton-comey-house-panel-subpoenas

# Gov / Politics
‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Even Trump’s own appointees can’t save his delusion as judges refuse to rewrite reality in his favor
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/blatantly-unconstitutional-even-trumps-own-appointees-cant-save-his-delusion-as-judges-refuse-to-rewrite-reality-in-his-favor/

‘Said it out loud’: GOP senator slammed for admitting Republicans aim to ‘cover’ for Trump
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senator-cover-trump/

Trump in a ‘very sour mood’ because ‘people don’t like what he’s doing on any topic’: Morning Joe
https://www.alternet.org/trump-vandehei-scarborough/

Republican power-struggle is ‘the game to watch’ as Trump vanishes ‘before our eyes’: expert
https://www.alternet.org/trump-decline-gop/

U.S. cuts short Gaza ceasefire talks and accuses Hamas of lacking ‘good faith.’ Hamas’ latest response “shows a lack of desire” to reach a truce, President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479673/gaza-ceasefire-talks-cut-short-us-israel-hamas

The United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States’ decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States.
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco

Withdrawal of the United States of America from UNESCO: statement by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General. Statement attributable to Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/withdrawal-united-states-america-unesco-statement-audrey-azoulay-director-general
See also: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
https://www.unesco.org/en

‘Absolute threat’: Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly breaks with Trump over key policy issue
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/24/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-ai-trump-00474396

House Republican Claims GOP Leaders Are Conspiring to Block Trump From Making Recess Appointments
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-report-tip-line-immigration-ex-b2794141.html

JD Vance’s “Intellectual” Spin on the Racist Great Replacement Theory. As the Trump administration advances its draconian immigration schemes, the vice president is doing his part—by polishing ideas from the far-right gutters with an Ivy League sheen.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198347/jd-vance-great-replacement-theory

# Gov / Politics / Global
France will officially recognise a Palestinian state in September, President Emmanuel Macron has said, which will make it the first G7 nation to do so.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg5g4p3245o

420,000 Aid Pallets Await Entry Into Gaza as Israel Blames Starvation on Aid Groups. Oxfam says preventable diseases are ripping through Gaza as Israel maintains its near-total blockade on aid.
https://truthout.org/articles/420k-aid-pallets-await-entry-into-gaza-as-israel-blames-starvation-on-aid-groups/

Israel Restricting Visas for UN Humanitarian Workers for Gaza, Amid Starvation. Israel notified the agency of the restrictions after it spoke out about the Israeli slaughter of aid seekers in Gaza.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-restricting-visas-for-un-humanitarian-workers-for-gaza-amid-starvation/

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Kentucky Cop Who Jailed Woman for Filming from Her Porch Goes Viral Again—Now Sued for Dragging Delivery Driver from Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0mTyYaJN_I

A wrongly arrested grandma taking on the US marshals. McCarthy did nothing illegal or suspicious. But the marshals accused her of being Carole Anne Rozak, a fugitive wanted for a 25-year-old parole violation for a nonviolent crime.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5416606-a-wrongly-arrested-grandma-is-taking-on-the-us-marshals/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Alert! Trump threatens political ‘enemies’ in chilling DOJ speech. Donald Trump visited the Justice Department and delivered an hour-long speech in which he called for his political enemies to be jailed, suggested it should be “illegal” to criticize judges, and declared it should be “illegal” to say he lost the election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFezDZ1jaM

‘Alice in Wonderland world’: Political science expert explains how Trump got DOJ to do his ‘bidding’
https://www.alternet.org/trump-gabbard-obama/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
“CANCELED ON LIVE TV!” – Karoline Leavitt DROPS BOMBSHELL on Whoopi Goldberg — ‘The View’ Spins Into Total Chaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8t0Fj_bO0

‘E! News’ TV Program to End After 34 Years. The impending end of E! News comes after another popular late night talk show will also conclude in 2026
https://www.the-sun.com/tv/14813680/e-news-canceled-years-last-air-date/

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
“The NIH is not just a national treasure — it is a global beacon of biomedical excellence. Its integrity, productivity and impact are unrivalled. We must not weaken it.” Kevin Kent Lloyd, Karen Johnston and Barbara Kelley, three senior US National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisers, speak out against ongoing grant terminations, planned budget cuts of 40% for 2026 and a proposed structural reorganization of the agency
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02331-1?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=371cd4c3c5-nature-briefing-daily-20250724&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50037248

# Social / Communities
‘Why Don’t You Put a Whites Only Sign?’—Video of Manager Threatening to Call Cops on Black Customer for Taking ‘too Long to Purchase’ Sparks Massive Outrage. The incident, highlighted in a social media video, underscores a continuing issue of racial profiling and discrimination faced by Black individuals while shopping
https://www.inquisitr.com/why-dont-you-put-a-whites-only-sign-video-of-manager-threatening-to-call-cops-on-black-customer-for-taking-too-long-to-purchase-sparks-massive-outrage

Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5479139/trump-homelessness-executive-order-civil-commitment-camping

Whites-only community plotting expansion to another state as its efforts to build a ‘white nation’ continue
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/return-to-the-land-whites-only-community-b2795213.html

# Veterans / VA
‘Slap in the face’: Vet fumes as Afghan interpreter who saved his life faces deportation
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673716268/

# Water / Lakes / Oceans / Rivers
‘We stand on the brink of system failure’: Feds up pressure for states to reach deal on the future of the Colorado River. The clock is ticking for seven states to figure out how they’ll share dwindling water in the Colorado River for the foreseeable future.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/06/26/trump-admin-turns-up-pressure-sets/

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
GOP congressman: ‘Round everybody up and deport them all,’ before he claimed that undocumented immigrants are a “huge drain” on the U.S. economy. Experts disagree.
https://local.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4128030624079-gop-congressman-round-everybody-up-and-deport-them-all

Alabama: Father of 4-year-old leukemia-stricken girl faces deportation by ICE, ‘He is devoted to her’
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2025/07/dont-be-sad-alabama-father-detained-by-ice-while-his-4-year-old-battles-leukemia.html

Cornyn: ‘Illegal aliens’ not entitled to same due process as Americans. Senators spar over ICE raids as witnesses share emotional testimony of how immigration policy has ripped their families
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/cornyn-illegal-aliens-not-entitled-to-same-due-process-as-americans/

Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon release from custody. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the federal government “shall restore Abrego Garcia to his ICE Order of Supervision out of the Baltimore Field Office,” paving the way for his return to Maryland.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-custody/

Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone.’ Advocates say unaccompanied minors are being detained longer and used as bait to arrest those who care for them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/trumps-immigration-children-unaccompanied-minors

Trump administration moves to rapidly deport migrant children, asking teens if they want to leave
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-trump-administration-moves-rapidly-215017158.html

Feds Make It a Crime to Give PPE to ICE Protesters. The Trump administration is targeting nonviolent acts like identifying masked agents and aiding LA’s anti-ICE protests.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/feds-criminalize-protests-masked-ice/

State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE. Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to immigration authorities.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/ice-gang-database-trump-deportations/

The Pentagon Won’t Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. The Pentagon says 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be markedly higher.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/military-troops-deployed-border-ice/

Trump admin prepares to kick mixed immigration status families out of public housing. A pending HUD rule mirrors an old Trump proposal that would force families with undocumented members to leave their homes or be separated.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/22/hud-immigration-mixed-status-eviction/

Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities. A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
https://san.com/cc/border-patrol-seeks-surveillance-technology-to-see-through-walls/

Heavily armed Mexican soldiers accidentally cross US border, surround Americans while looking for drug traffickers, gunrunners
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-post-509648/4126721559161-heavily-armed-mexican-soldiers-accidentally-cross-us-border-surround-americans-while-looking-for-drug-traffickers-gunrunners

Latino tenants sued their landlord. A lawyer told them they would be ‘picked up by ICE’: “I was born here. I have a birth certificate. I pay taxes. I was already depressed over the eviction,” she added. “Now I’m hurt, embarrassed and nervous as well. Will he really call ICE on us?”
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/los-angeles-eviction-landlord-ice-b2794709.html

Terrifying moment dad pleads with ICE agents to let his child out of the car at daycare before they arrest him. The alarming footage shows the 38-year-old chiropractor asking ICE agents to “wait for three minutes” because “there is a baby in the car.” After the child was removed, ICE officers can be seen cracking open the driver’s side window.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/terrifying-moment-dad-pleads-ice-135654336.html

ICE Sets Its Sights on a New Target in Deportation Drive. An advocacy group leader says the change will harm the most vulnerable people in an attempt to boost deportation numbers.
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4130035318390-ice-sets-its-sights-on-a-new-target-in-deportation-drive

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement ‘Corporate Dictatorship.’ In an interview on Decoder, tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing emerging ideology espoused by the “Nerd Reich,” a slurry of ideas championed by benevolent figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others.
https://futurism.com/billionaires-corporate-dictatorship

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
There’s a new acid in our rain. A chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is falling in rain and its levels are rising across the planet — in lakes and rivers, food crops, trees, and in our own bodies
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02259-6

We got rid of acid rain. Now something scarier is falling from the sky. Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.
https://www.vox.com/climate/401600/pfas-microplastics-pollution-rain

# Consumer Product Safety
SCOTUS rules Trump can remove three Democrats from Consumer Product Safety Commission. The justices once again have backed the president’s power to reshape agencies that Congress sought to insulate from political pressure. All three liberal justices dissented.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/supreme-court-consumer-product-safety-firings-00472292

# Education / Schools
‘You voted for all of this’: GOP senator ripped for saying Trump’s law could close schools
https://www.alternet.org/gop-murkowski-schools/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency drafting plan to destroy environment, boost emissions, aid polluters. The administration is reportedly rescinding a landmark declaration about the danger greenhouse emissions pose to humans
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/environmental-protection-agency-endangerment-finding-1235392233/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Trump goes on FEMA spending binge announcing several states will receive federal funding months after disasters
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fema-funding-states-truth-social-b2794516.html

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘Deal with it’: Top Senate Republican gives Mike Johnson an ultimatum over Epstein scandal
https://www.alternet.org/gop-senate-johnson/

Speaker Johnson questions if Ghislaine Maxwell can ‘be counted on to tell the truth’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416064-speaker-johnson-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein/

Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘worse’ than Jeffrey Epstein, claims accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre: ‘She is a monster.’ “She’s worse than Epstein,” Giuffre declared. “She did things even worse than Epstein did. She was vicious, she was evil and she was a woman.”
https://www.aol.com/2020-07-16-ghislaine-maxwell-is-worse-than-jeffrey-epstein-claims-accuser-virginia-roberts-giuffre-she-is-a-monster-24563772.html

Federal judge denies DOJ’s request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts. The DOJ had cited “extensive public interest” and “transparency to the American public” in its request
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/jeffrey-esptein-grand-jury-doj-00471291

House subcommittee passes motion to subpoena Clintons over Maxwell connection. The move comes the same day Comer subpoenaed Maxwell for a deposition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5416843-epstein-doj-investigation-subpoenas/

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-epstein-fiasco-takes-darker-100000547.html

Epstein’s Brother Exposes Just How Close Epstein and Trump Really Were. Mark Epstein says Trump is lying about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein to “cover his butt.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5415258-epstein-brother-white-house-claim-blatant-lie/

# Gov / Politics
American fascism, is it alarmist to point out the parallels? While it’s not necessarily alarmist to point out parallels between American politics and historical fascism, it’s crucial to do so with careful consideration and nuance. But this descent into fascism is coming on faster and more flagrantly than almost anyone would have foreseen.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-07-23-american-fascism/

‘Menace’: Former Air Force secretary says Trump using ‘universal tool of authoritarians.’ Kendall further said the insidious fear brought on by Trump’s second term has penetrated not only military and civil services, but extends into “universities, law firms, C‑suites and the leadership of nonprofit organizations.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/menace-former-air-force-secretary-says-trump-using-universal-tool-of-authoritarians/ar-AA1J0Q5e

Donald Trump just pulled a Jimmy Carter move that could destroy America’s relationship with Brazil forever
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/donald-trump-just-pulled-a-jimmy-carter-move-that-could-destroy-americas-relationship-with-brazil-forever/

Tulsi Gabbard Says She’s Referring Obama For Criminal Charges. Russiagate reignited: Tulsi Gabbard says Barack Obama engineered false intel, DOJ to review charges
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/russiagate-reignited-tulsi-gabbard-says-barack-obama-engineered-false-intel-doj-to-review-charges-11753300695097.html

Ro Khanna Says Mike Johnson’s Decision To Shut Down The House Early Speaks Volumes. The California Democrat said the House speaker likely acted at the direction of President Donald Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/khanna-criticizes-johnson-call-to-adjourn-house-early_n_6880ad5ae4b0f277db45279b

Trump administration defies one in three court orders, undermining rule of law. Analysis finds the White House routinely ignores federal court rulings, triggering growing concern over constitutional crises and erosion of judicial power.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-white-house-refuses-to-abide-by-1-in-3-court-orders-made-against-them/

Trump faces roadblock in prosecuting Obama for ‘treason’ after his own presidential immunity ruling
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-many-roadblocks-trump-prosecuting-161520249.html

Why is Trump calling out Zelenskyy? What does this mean for the future of global peace and America’s role in international politics? This unexpected move is sparking debates and could have major consequences for diplomatic relations, the economy, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The absurd fight over Trump’s MAGA prosecutor in New Jersey, explained. Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
https://www.vox.com/criminal-justice/420816/alina-habba-new-jersey-donald-trump-us-attorney

# Gov / Politics / Global
American man from Oklahoma ‘brutally executed’ by Syrian-backed jihadis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/american-man-oklahoma-brutally-executed-173908707.html

US Military Veteran Working for Aid Site in Gaza Says He Had ‘Never Seen Such Force Used Against Unarmed Civilians’: US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery. Man who claims to have worked for US Mercenary firm UG Solutions says he has never seen such violence inflicted on unarmed civilians
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-contractor-recounts-gruesome-details-gaza-aid-delivery

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Cops Force Black Man Out of Car and Accuse Him of Selling Drugs—All They Recover Is $10 After He Gave Someone a Ride
https://www.inquisitr.com/cops-force-black-man-out-of-car-and-accuse-him-of-selling-drugs-all-they-recover-is-10-after-he-gave-someone-a-ride#deny

# LGBTQ / Gender
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Trump Escalates His War on the Press. The president is not happy with reporting linking him with Jeffrey Epstein. White House Correspondents Association, retorted: “This attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment. Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-07-23/trump-escalates-his-war-on-the-press

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
‘He has no clue!’ Pentagon insiders pen blistering letter demanding Pete Hegseth be fired
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-pentagon-press-pledge/

# NASA
NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Earth-Tracking NISAR Satellite
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-for-earth-tracking-nisar-satellite/

# NORAD
NORAD intercepts Russian bombers and fighters near Alaska:  July 24, 2024, NORAD intercepted six Russian military aircraft, including two Tu-95 bombers, two Su-35 fighters, one Tu-142 F/J, and one A-50 Mainstay, operating near the Western Aleutian Islands.
Duration: The intercept lasted about two and a half hours.
NORAD Response: NORAD launched fighter jets from Alaska to monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft.
International Airspace: The aircraft remained in international airspace, not posing a direct threat to U.S. or Canadian territory.
ADIZ: The Alaska ADIZ is a designated area extending 150 miles from U.S. sovereign territory, where aircraft are expected to identify themselves.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-intercepts-russian-bombers-fighters-near-alaska/

# Other Interesting Stuff / Lost Civilizations / Archaeology / Astronomy
Treasure trove of half-billion-year-old animal fossils in Grand Canyon. It’s the first time Cambrian fossils have been found in the Grand Canyon.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/grand-canyon-animal-fossils/
Also: Preserved Cambrian biota from the Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv6383

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Why Are We Pretending AI Is Going to Take All the Jobs? Yes, generative AI is transformational. Will it eliminate most entry-level jobs? That depends. Will we continue to demand excessive returns on capital? If so, then we’re in trouble.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we-pretending-ai-is-going

# Veterans / VA
Republican lawmakers take aim at VA bonuses amid staffing cuts
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/07/23/republican-lawmakers-take-aim-at-va-bonuses-amid-staffing-cuts/

‘Gaslit and abandoned’: Gulf War veterans push to declassify documents on chemical exposure. Advocates are pushing the Defense Department to declassify thousands of documents relating to the potential toxic exposures of more than 100,000 troops from the 1991 demolition of a chemical weapons complex in southern Iraq.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-22/gulf-war-veterans-chemical-exposure-18518789.html

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
2,000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2000-national-guard-troops-expected-170727514.html

Military bases in New Jersey and Indiana will be expanded to detain immigrants
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5475109/immigrant-detention-military-bases

Advocates demand closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, citing appalling conditions. Non-profit groups say detained immigrants in Florida are denied medical care and living in ‘cages flooded with feces’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/22/florida-alligator-alcatraz-mexico

Alligator Alcatraz is overlit, mosquito-filled hell where inmates rarely get to shower, inmate says. The Cuban migrant said that he and 32 other people live in what he described as a cage and that they are only allowed to shower every three or four days.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/4125089650994-alligator-alcatraz-is-overlit-mosquito-filled-hell-where-inmates-rarely-get-to-shower-inmate-says

Another Migrant Dies Under ICE Custody After Experiencing ‘Seizures, Vomiting, And Unresponsiveness’: The 55-year-old had been detained at the Immigration Processing Center for seven weeks before being taken to a local hospital and later airlifted to a larger hospital. The cause of death is currently under investigation.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/vietnamese-national-dies-ice-custody

Cartels targeting homes as smuggling profits dwindle. Del Rio resident loses over $60K in guns, jewelry, documents to break-in. Thieves dragged safe across border; Mexican officials guarded it. Residents now fortifying homes, buying weapons for protection
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/cartels-targeting-homes/

DOJ Quietly Cuts Off Critical Services to Undocumented Communities Nationwide. Rescinded policy had protected access to shelters, food banks, and health clinics for two decades—nonprofits warn of widespread harm.
https://migrantinsider.com/p/doj-quietly-cuts-off-critical-services

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America. As Trump’s deportation gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. But that comes with its own dangers.
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-22-no-safe-place-for-legal-immigrants-trumps-america/

US appeals court allows Trump administration to remove deportation protections for Afghans, Cameroonians
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5413210-trump-admin-ends-afghan-cameroonian-tps/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump announces trade deal with Japan, 15% tariff on Japanese imports. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had reached a framework for a trade deal with Japan that will include a 15% tariff on imports from the island nation
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/financial-markets-rally-trump-tariff-deal-japan

Manufacturing Activity Sinks ‘Sharply’ as GM Blames Trump Tariffs for Profit Drop. Experts had expected a key manufacturing index number to tick upward, which makes the massive drop in July a significant and unpleasant surprise.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tariffs-manufacturing

Conservative group sues Trump, claims tariffs are a ‘presidential power grab that usurps Congress’ right’: A conservative legal group is suing the Trump administration in Texas over the president’s tariffs on Chinese imports, alleging that they were unilaterally imposed through an “unlawful” use of an obscure emergency executive power.
https://www.newsbreak.com/law-crime-520571/4125225856218-someone-gave-the-president-very-bad-legal-advice-conservative-group-sues-trump-claims-tariffs-are-a-presidential-power-grab-that-usurps-congress-right

Trump lowers Japan tariffs to 15% after reaching trade deal with ally. Trump previously threatened to impose a 24% tariff rate on Japanese imports in April and 25% in a letter earlier this month. The agreement comes shortly before Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline.
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-strikes-tariff-deal-with-japan-auto-stocks-surge-2025-07-23/

White House, Philippines make trade deal. U.S. exports to the Philippines will not face tariffs, Trump said.
https://apnews.com/article/marcos-trump-philippines-china-tariffs-3138d1d7f8368c022ab9242bebb4a2e2

# Education / Schools
Is Oklahoma Really Going to Interrogate Teachers From “Woke” States? Yes, Ryan Walters is a right-wing troll. No, you can’t afford to ignore him.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/oklahoma-woke-teacher-screenings-ryan-walters.html

Trump’s Mass Firings at Department of Education Are Already Harming US Students. Firing of 1,300 DOE workers is bad news for all student loan recipients and K-12 students alike.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5402571-education-department-trump-mcmahon-supreme-court/

# Employment / Labor / Unions / OSHA
Trump Labor Department Launches ‘Barrage of Attacks’ on Workers. “They’re showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration,” Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation told Common Dreams.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-labor-department-attacks-workers

Labor Department to cut workplace regulations and home healthcare minimum wage requirements
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3478183/labor-department-workplace-regulations-home-healthcare-minimum-wage/#google_vignette

Trump administration aims to roll back more than 60 workplace safety rules
https://www.fox9.com/news/trump-labor-deregulation-rules

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
UN Chief Says Nations Clinging to Fossil Fuels Are ‘Sabotaging’ Their Own Economies. “The clean energy future is no longer a promise. It’s a fact,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “No government, no industry, no special interest can stop it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/guterres-green-energy-transition

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Hunger Threatens to Plague “Golden Years” of Older Americans Due to Trump’s Cuts. Malnutrition and food insecurity are set to soar among vulnerable older populations due to aid cuts in Trump’s budget.
https://truthout.org/articles/hunger-threatens-to-plague-golden-years-of-older-americans-due-to-trumps-cuts/

# General News
Starbucks Denies Water To Black People In Sweltering Heat, This Time To A USPS Worker. A USPS worker in Texas passed out and died on a record-breaking 104 degree day.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/usps-driver-slams-starbucks-for-lack-of-humility/

New York City man charged with allegedly building, stashing IEDs around Manhattan. The DOJ claimed the suspect, Michael Gann, constructed and hid at least seven devices around the city, including at least five that were stored on the rooftops of residential buildings and one that was thrown onto subway tracks.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/new-york-man-charged-making-and-attempting-use-improvised-explosive-devices-manhattan

# General News / Floods
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/21/texas-hill-country-flooding-inaction-state-legislature/

# General News / Trump / Epstein
Federal Judge Wants More Information Before Ruling On Releasing Epstein Testimony. A federal judge is seeking more information before he decides on the Trump administration’s request to release Epstein grand jury testimony.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5414135-epstein-maxwell-transcripts-judges/

Massie Picks Another Fight With Trump, This Time Over Epstein. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is sparring with President Donald Trump in a fight to unseal the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massie-fights-release-epstein-files-152343703.html

Watch Trump Admit He’s Attacking Obama to Distract From Epstein. Donald Trump was asked a simple question on the Jeffrey Epstein case. He began spiraling about Obama instead.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198217/trump-admit-obama-attack-distract-epstein

House GOP Has ‘Shut Down Congress’ to Avoid Voting on Epstein Files: “Who’s he gonna pick?” Republican Thomas Massie asked of Speaker Mike Johnson. “Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/jeffrey-epstein-house-republicans-vote-democrats

‘Donald certainly knew’: Trump biographer reveals new evidence of intimate ties to Epstein. “Epstein would often recount his experiences with women, hunting women, pursuing women, with Trump,” Wolff told Cohen. “Incuding, at one point, they shared a girlfriend for the better part of a year.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673534192/

Ghislaine Maxwell breaks Epstein silence and vows to ‘uncover truth’ with Donald Trump. Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has officially broken her silence from prison, saying that she and her lawyer were working with the federal government
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-breaks-epstein-silence-1283089

‘Pardon watch starts now’: Analysts smell ‘witness tampering’ as DOJ meets Epstein partner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrO6CudlXdA

‘Trying to take Trump down’: Adam Kinzinger suggests Trump’s biggest Epstein threat is JD Vance
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trying-to-take-trump-down-adam-kinzinger-suggests-trumps-biggest-epstein-threat-is-jd-vance/

Speaker Johnson Sends Congress Home Early to Avoid Vote on Epstein Files.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-jeffrey-epstein-trump-f2a03eca247268b14a9e38858338eded

Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5414628-democrats-hardball-epstein-files/

Never-Before-Seen Photos of Trump and Epstein Unearthed. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among limited archival footage reviewed, according to exclusive report
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/jeffrey-epstein-went-trumps-wedding-001441555.html

# Gov / Politics
Podcast: Trump’s Rage at Obama Explodes, Unnerving Experts: “We’re in Trouble”: Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard, put it very starkly, saying that authoritarianism is “right here in front of us.” He explains why “we’re in real trouble in the short term,” how Trump compares to other authoritarians around the globe, and why our only choices now are to fight the takeover or “accept that this is our future.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/198245/trump-rage-obama-explodes-unnerving-experts-were-trouble

‘Hell no, not on our watch’: Texas Democrat ready to break quorum to block redistricting. Leaders of Texas House Black Caucus are ready to do anything to stop it
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/texas-democrats-ready-anything-block-redistricting-20779102.php

‘This Was Treason’: Trump Says He Wants DOJ To Target Obama Over Alleged 2016 Election Plot. Donald Trump called for his Department of Justice to target Barack Obama over allegations he was part of a plot to subvert Trump’s 2016 victory.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/trump-epstein-urges-doj-obama-00467514

House panels subpoena ActBlue CEO for documents in probe. The chairmen of the House committees on Administration, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform requested that ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones provide the documents by Aug. 12
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/actblue-subpoena-house-gop-investigation-00424703

Speaker Johnson has ‘no concern’ about questioning Obama over Russia election interference hoax. “If it’s uncomfortable for him, he shouldn’t have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it appears to us has happened,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/speaker-johnson-has-no-concern-about-questioning-obama-over-russia-election

‘Weak attachment to democracy’: Former Presidents on both sides just united to blast Donald Trump
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trying-to-take-trump-down-adam-kinzinger-suggests-trumps-biggest-epstein-threat-is-jd-vance/

United States President Donald Trump has called for the arrest of former President Barack Obama, repeating unproven claims that the Democrat’s administration intentionally misled the public in its assessment of the 2016 election.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/donald-trump-accuses-barack-obama-of-treason-over-2016-election-claims

Obama Hits Back at Trump’s Treason Accusation: ‘Weak Attempt at Distraction’
https://time.com/7304820/trump-treason-obama-response-distraction-epstein-guilty-president-prosecution/

Republican Rep Randy Fine Says People In Gaza Can ‘Starve Away’ Until Hostages Are Released. Rep. Randy Fine took to X, endorsing that civilians should continue to starve in Gaza until the remaining hostages are released by Hamas.
https://www.aol.com/republican-rep-randy-fine-says-013101769.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Most ‘Minutely Designed and Controlled’ Since WWII. “This is preventable starvation,” said Alex de Waal. “It is entirely man-made.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/famine-expert-israel-s-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime. You think it can’t happen to you — until it does.
https://abc7ny.com/post/criminal-facial-recognition-racial-bias-in-technology-man-falsely-arrested-nijeer-parks/9197215/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Lawyer Gets Replaced as U.S. Attorney by Her Assistant
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyer-gets-replaced-as-us-attorney-by-her-assistant/

Judges reject Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s bid to serve as federal prosecutor. The Trump administration quickly acted to remove Habba’s replacement following a decision not to extend her term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/judges-reject-trump-lawyer-alina-habbas-bid-to-serve-as-federal-prosecutor

DOJ Staffer Suddenly Fired After 10 Years Says It Was ‘Retribution’ For Husband’s Anti-ICE App
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14927553/DOJ-Carolyn-Feinstein-fired-husband-anti-ICE-app.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Tyrus Walks Into The View, Delivers One Sentence That Freezes the Room—Minutes Later, ABC Pulls the Plug in Total Panic as Hot Mic Chaos Erupts, Hosts Melt Down Off-Camera, and the Entire Show Mysteriously Disappears Without a Trace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yur_JHBblLY

“You don’t want conversation. You want obedience. I’m not here to kneel for champagne liberals pretending to be oppressed.” That was the moment the room cracked. Tyrus didn’t just say it—he threw it like a grenade across The View’s table
https://hellotinhay.com/kieutrang/you-dont-want-conversation-you-want-obedience-im-not-here-to-kneel-for-champagne-liberals-pretending-to-be-oppressed-that-was-the-moment-the-room-cracked-tyrus/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLswO1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE2ejlQeUtpclJOUm1tT1JoAR6IaQxaGhKg7_wa3MdCzo7CEE41kiuIoahqydYRnvwVqnKIDnYmHcH7PqDDJg_aem_nd46Co0NKIDJcPZqonuOGQ#goog_rewarded

Trump Sets His Sights on Two More TV Hosts as CBS Axes Stephen Colbert. Donald Trump is going to war with anyone in the media who dares criticize him.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198215/trump-two-more-tv-hosts-cbs-stephen-colbert

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium Increases. In around 90 days, millions of Americans will learn about out-of-pocket cost hikes of more than 75 percent on average.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-22-countdown-clock-begins-health-insurance-premium-increases/

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Space-Based Missile Interceptors For Golden Dome Being Tested By Northrop. Competition to supply parts of Golden Dome is heating up with Northrop Grumman stating they have begun ground testing orbital missiles.
https://www.twz.com/space/space-based-missile-interceptors-for-golden-dome-being-tested-by-northrop

Marines ordered home from immigration deployment to LA. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles more than five weeks ago to help quell immigration protests to return to their California duty station.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-07-21/marines-los-angeles-immigration-18508873.html

# Military / Global
Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat. Ukraine is frantically working to cope with increasing Russian Shahed-136 drone attacks that feature evolved tactics and capabilities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-scrambling-fight-against-growing-223006145.html

# NASA
Nearly 3,000 people are leaving NASA. A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency. Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674

# Social Services / Programs
Cuts to the Social Security Administration Threaten Millions of Americans’ Retirement and Disability Benefits. As the Social Security Administration cuts thousands of jobs and closes offices, families’ livelihoods are on the line.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/cuts-to-the-social-security-administration-threaten-millions-of-americans-retirement-and-disability-benefits/

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# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
China-Backed Hackers Breach U.S. Nuclear Weapons Agency. China has denied any involvement in operations carried out by two cyber warfare groups, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, slamming the reports as “unfounded speculation.”
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/us-nuclear-agency-hit-microsoft-flaw-china

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant. Apple has made headlines in recent weeks for touting its commitment to privacy and human rights, rolling out tools to limit surveillance and spyware. But behind the corporate messaging lies a much darker reality.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

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July 22, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘They’re human beings!’ Republicans cheering ICE raids change their tune behind the scenes
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mass-deportation-2673538227/

“We Were Kidnapped”: On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a mega prison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/we-were-kidnapped-prisoner-swap-venezuela-bukele-cecot-trump-ms13-deportation-el-salvador/

The plainclothes goon squad. The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/

How Mexican consulate staff struggle to defend migrants in the US while living on the brink of poverty themselves. Foreign Service employees are receiving the same salary as in 1998, getting by on subsidies, and coping with grueling workdays to deal with the surge in requests for help stemming from Trump’s deportation drive
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/mexican-consulate-staff-face-the-challenge-of-defending-migrants-in-the-us-while-living-on-the-brink-of-poverty-themselves.html

Two detained in NYC shooting of off-duty border patrol agent, DHS says. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the perpetrators were two unauthorized immigrants who had been arrested multiple times
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-random-robbery-nyc-park-rcna219905

Tom Homan on CBP shooting: Sanctuary cities are enabling criminals. Homan fed up after federal officer was shot by two migrants. ‘People put politics over public safety’ — border czar on shooting. Homan says ICE will ‘flood’ NYC after Adams’ invite
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-czar-homan-cbp-officer-shot-enough/

Noncriminal ICE arrests rose in Arkansas last month
https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2025/07/22/ice-arrests-non-criminal-arkansas-trump-quota

Noncriminal migrants arrested to curb crime, violence: ICE director. ICE Director says 70% of ‘noncriminal’ arrestees have pending charges. Agency defends arrests as crime prevention, cites violent incidents. Data shows sharp rise in noncriminal vs. criminal immigrant arrests
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/noncriminal-migrants-arrested-curb-crime-ice-director/

Immigrants at three Florida detention facilities have been deprived of critical medical care — including access to vital medications like insulin as well as timely treatments for life-threatening conditions. These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious abuses
https://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/you-feel-your-life-over-abusive-practices-three-florida-immigration-detention-centers-january-2025

Federal agencies sued for targeting migrants during court proceedings. Claiming the U.S. government violated constitutional and legal protections by detaining and deporting migrants during their court proceedings
https://san.com/cc/federal-agencies-sued-for-targeting-migrants-during-court-proceedings/

Migrants face degrading treatment at US detention centers: Immigrants in Florida detention centers face abuse, neglect, overcrowding. Report details poor medical care, degrading treatment, and rights violations in ICE facilities
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/hrw-immigrants-in-florida-detention-centers-face-abuse-neglect-overcrowding/3638257

Outrage Erupts After Honors Student Sara Lizeth Lopez Garcia Detained By ICE In New York. Lopez Garcia, 22, was taken from her home in Mastic, New York, alongside her mother and younger brother, despite reportedly being in the process of obtaining legal permanent residency. According to her fiancé, Santiago Ruiz Castilla, ICE agents admitted they were looking for someone else entirely.
https://shinemycrown.com/outrage-erupts-after-honors-student-sara-lizeth-lopez-garcia-detained-by-ice-in-new-york/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details. Judge rules Trump administration broke law in takedown of public funding tracker
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5411550-trump-administration-funding-tracker-judge/

CBO: ‘Big, beautiful bill’ will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficit by 2034. Republicans’ recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add trillions to the federal deficit and debt over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s final cost analysis.
https://thehill.com/business/5412262-biden-bill-adds-3-4-trillion-deficits/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response. Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fema-search-rescue-chief-resigns-224252589.html

# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Scientists outraged as US cuts threaten food supply and farm workers: ‘Not just stupid, it’s evil.’ “Will doom us to decades or even hundreds of years more of exposure.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pfas-farm-research-funding-trump/

Warning on Popular Sugar Substitute.  Popular Sugar Substitute Linked to Brain Cell Damage
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-popular-sugar-substitute-linked-to-brain-cell-damage/

# General News
The Trump administration on Monday released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a pledge from President Trump despite some reluctance from the civil rights icon’s children.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5412414-historic-release-mlk-fbi-records/

Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/don-jr-eric-trump-secret-service-qatar-saudi-arabia-b2793080.html

# General News / Floods
Veterans come together in aftermath of Texas floods to support community, each other. Military veterans volunteer to help victims of the floods in Texas.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-21/texas-flood-veterans-18508510.html

Veteran-led nonprofit Team Rubicon mobilizes volunteers in Hill Country flood response. Team Rubicon has a network of more than 200,000 volunteers, who they call “grayshirts” — about 65% of which are either veterans or active-duty military. The nonprofit’s CEO, Art delaCruz, said the majority of the volunteers that assisted in the flood response were from Texas, including some volunteers local to Kerr County.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-07-16/veteran-led-nonprofit-team-rubicon-mobilizes-volunteers-in-hill-country-flood-response

# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘That was a confession’: Ex-insider claims ‘crime happened’ with Trump and Epstein. Donald Trump’s former “trusted operative” on Sunday made the case that the president is indeed hiding something potentially criminal with his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-confession-trump-epstein-allegation/

DOJ officials to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein case to ask ‘what do you know?’ The move comes amid a schism in MAGA world over the late financier’s case
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-doj-ghislaine-maxwell-b2793679.html

In Her Own Words: Virginia Giuffre’s Handwritten Diary Claimed the FBI Had Hidden Camera Footage From Epstein’s Properties — in Bombshell That Contradicts Trump’s D.O.J. Memo
https://www.newsbreak.com/radaronline-561399/4122842625864-in-her-own-words-virginia-giuffre-s-handwritten-diary-claimed-the-fbi-had-hidden-camera-footage-from-epstein-s-properties-in-bombshell-that-contradicts-trump-s-d-o-j-memo

Trump Flips Out at Republican Lawmaker Exposing the Party on Epstein. “Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-flips-republican-lawmaker-exposing-134239453.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse. Dismantling the federal government, yanking support for poor and working-class Americans, and emboldening extremism have been among his accomplishments so far.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/six-months-in-trump-has-made-american-life-immeasurably-worse/

Too Many Failures To Count. President Donald Trump’s careless personnel decisions, slapdash executive orders, whiplash-inducing policy pivots, and general malevolence have combined to make this among the most disruptive yet least successful first six months of any presidency in American history.
https://www.newsweek.com/six-months-trump-has-too-many-failures-count-opinion-2099198

Trump stops deportation of U.S. military’s Afghan interpreters to Taliban, begins vetting for visas. Trump tasked Vance and Rubio to make an emergency intervention with United Arab Emirates, which agreed to keep the refugee Afghan interpreters and soldiers safe.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/trump-stops-deportation-us-militarys-afghan-interpreters-taliban-begins-vetting

This Is How Trump Turned the Presidency Into Pure Grift: Conservative commentator David Frum says Donald Trump’s use of the presidency for personal gain is like nothing else in American history. President Donald Trump’s shady financial dealings have turned his second term into a brazen moneymaking scheme,
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4123938732812-this-is-how-trump-turned-the-presidency-into-pure-grift-conservative

Trump Hosts US’s Oldest Pacific Ally Amid Tensions with China. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is staunchly pro-American and has made U.S. ties a priority since he was elected in 2022, replacing a predecessor who spurned the U.S. in favor of closer relations with China.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-philippines-trump-marcos-jr-trade-security-talks-china-2101710

Judge Warns Trump Is Turning Into Henry II With His Dangerous Rants. Donald Trump may not even know the power of his own words, a judge said.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198175/judge-warns-donald-trump-henry-ii-dangerous-rants
Henry II of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England

# Gov / Politics / Global
Thousands of Children Severely Malnourished in Gaza: 4 year old child dies of hunger in Gaza as aid blockade fuels catastrophe. Over 17,000 children face severe malnutrition amid Israel’s restrictions, hospitals overwhelmed
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/another-child-dies-of-hunger-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-fuels-catastrophe/3637003

25 nations slam Israel over “inhumane killing of civilians” in Gaza
https://www.yahoo.com/news/25-nations-slam-israel-over-160426044.html

Updates: Israel aid sites in starved Gaza a ‘sadistic death trap’ – UN
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/21/live-israel-pounds-gaza-as-palestinians-mourn-aid-seekers-killed-at-zikim

Iran Pivots from Russia to China in Quest for New Weapons After Israel War. China is emerging as top candidate to provide advanced weaponry that could help Tehran reestablish deterrence as tensions continue to simmer across the Middle East.
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-pivots-russia-china-quest-new-weapons-after-israel-war-2100933

Will China take the devastating step of invading Taiwan, and if so, when can we expect an invasion to happen?
https://www.globalguardian.com/global-digest/will-china-invade-taiwan

# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Civil rights attorneys, Florida lawmaker call out officers after Black man struck during stop
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-attorneys-florida-lawmaker-153433035.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
DOJ Charges Man for Threatening People on the ‘Epstein Client List’—Which the DOJ Says Doesn’t Exist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-man-arrested-threatening-kill-epstein-client-list/story?id=123933077

Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/judge-gives-ex-officer-nearly-3-years-in-breonna-taylor-raid-rebuffs-doj-call-for-no-prison-time-00466606

# LGBTQ / Gender
LGBTQ+ organizers build community-led disaster response amid rising climate threats. As disasters grow more intense and frequent, LGBTQ+ leaders in New Orleans and beyond are developing grassroots networks to support vulnerable communities left out of mainstream emergency planning.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/lgbtq-organizers-build-community-led-disaster-response-amid-rising-climate-threats-2673535528.html?vgo_ee=78N4d5pM5vTMDj%2FFa5ePTc%2BtWnGuFgRmj23%2BOH509tFZEGiquee1dh5R8aw%3D%3A%2BNsuo4twWHW4iObC9lq1CoY34L5UmuLl

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Maddow Cracks Up at MAGA Bots ‘Melting Down’ on Epstein
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-cracks-maga-bots-melting-075236220.html

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy. Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to subsidize liberal media.
https://theconversation.com/pbs-and-npr-are-generally-unbiased-independent-of-government-propaganda-and-provide-key-benefits-to-us-democracy-261512

# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
In the latest move by the Trump administration to root out government waste, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid plan to remove duplicative health insurance coverage from 2.8 million Americans improperly enrolled in taxpayer-funded healthcare plans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7c567aee-2b7d-4110-a1dd-3488bf4c837e.html

# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
CDC says COVID-related emergency room visits climbing especially among young children
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cdc-says-covid-related-emergency-room-visits-climbing-especially-among-young-children/

GOP sen tells constituent he’s ‘not obligated to listen’ after she’s denied care over marital status. A 35-year-old pregnant mother in Tennessee reportedly became the first known case in the state of someone being refused prenatal care by a physician because she was unmarried
https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/tennessee-health-care/

Republicans stripping away health care from millions to Give Tax Cuts to Already Wealthy
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/senate-republicans-vote-to-take-away-medicaid-for-millions-to-give-tax-cuts-to-already-wealthy

RFK Jr orders changes for organ donation network as report finds dozens were not dead when harvested. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-orders-changes-organ-204941188.html

Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Who Keep Hospitals Afloat Want a Union. Unionization will lead to better and safer patient outcomes, says one medical resident.
https://truthout.org/articles/underpaid-overworked-medical-residents-who-keep-hospitals-afloat-want-a-union/#:~:text=Unionization%20will%20lead%20to%20better,outcomes%2C%20says%20one%20medical%20resident.&text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20Truthout,our%20work%20with%20a%20donation

Resident physicians largely in favor of unionization, citing low pay, long hours
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/resident-physicians-largely-favor-unionization-citing-low-pay-long-hours

# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Ex-Air Force chief reveals shocking retaliation as he defies Trump effort to silence him. Frank Kendall wrote in the New York Times that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673534432/

Marines ordered home from immigration deployment to LA. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles more than five weeks ago to help quell immigration protests to return to their California duty station.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-07-21/marines-los-angeles-immigration-18508873.html

# Military / Global
Australian Abrams battle tanks arrive in Ukraine. The U.S.-built tanks, still painted in their AusCam camouflage scheme, had been loaded onto a commercial cargo ship in Geelong, Australia, in May 2025.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/07/21/australian-abrams-battle-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained. Talk about a brain teaser.
https://futurism.com/documents-ai-training-surge

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