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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
A familiar name returns to lead ICE amid renewed political pressure. A longtime DHS official with prior ties to Obama-era immigration enforcement and private detention work is stepping back into a top role at a pivotal moment for the agency.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/05/familiar-name-returns-lead-ice-amid-renewed-political-pressure/413529/?oref=ge-featured-river-top
Shutdown of expensive Florida Everglades prison promises to be expensive, too. Building anything so intrusive in a nature ‘preserve’ is a bad idea for both nature and for taxpayers.
https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/14/shutdown-of-expensive-florida-everglades-prison-promises-to-be-expensive-too/
Social Circle sues ICE, DHS over proposed 10,000-bed detention center. The small Georgia town of Social Circle is suing federal immigration authorities in an effort to stop plans for a proposed 10,000-bed immigration detention facility that city leaders say could overwhelm local infrastructure and harm the surrounding environment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/social-circle-sues-ice-dhs-over-proposed-10000-bed-immigration-detention-center-in-georgia/
Woman Suffers Miscarriage in ICE Custody — Claims She Was Denied Medical Care Despite Severe Bleeding.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/pregnant-immigrants-say-theyve-denied-medical-care-detention-centers/
Preborn Babies Died, Mothers Were Denied Care in ICE Custody. These two cases are only the tip of the iceberg
https://sarahterzo.substack.com/p/preborn-babies-died-mothers-were
Health Harms Experienced by Pregnant Women in U.S. Immigration Custody. Records indicate 18 women experienced a miscarriage while in ICE custody
https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/PHR-Pregnant-Women-in-Immigration-Custody-Fact-Sheet-Nov-2019.pdf
What’s Happening to Pregnant, Postpartum, and Nursing Women in ICE Custody? While the Trump administration calls itself “pro-family,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] is detaining pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women and subjecting them to inhumane and dangerous treatment
https://reproductiverights.org/news/pregnant-postpartum-nursing-women-ice-custody/
Texas woman stressed, says ‘no one is safe’ following six-week ICE detention, fearful it could happen again
In an exclusive interview, a court translator and single mom of four talks about spending more than six weeks in ICE custody. Meenu Batra, who was recently released, says she was living and working in the U.S. legally when she was detained
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-mom-held-in-ice-custody-for-over-6-weeks-says-she-s-fearful-it-could-happen-again/vi-AA22C4l0?ocid=MD12O1
# Business / Industry / Corporations
“Where the f*ck’s my phones!?” Yet another satisfied customer of Trump Mobile.
https://futurism.com/future-society/maga-shambles-trump-phone-dust
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Prices Are Going To Keep Rising For Customers As Wholesale Inflation Pressures Companies
https://www.aol.com/articles/producer-prices-shot-6-adding-124150000.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Democrats just hit Trump’s clueless Interior Secretary with a real smackdown after he tried to claim solar energy is useless after dark. ‘Dumbest People in History’: Critics Shred Trump Energy Department Comments on Wind, Solar. “That such an obviously false and, frankly, asinine tweet was just issued by a federal government account is an insult to the American people,” said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doe-wind-solar
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Dramatic Thermal Fissure Opens in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, USA — The ground has quite literally opened up in one of the park’s active geothermal basins. Following a period of heightened seismic activity and increased steam discharge, a massive ground fissure has emerged, sparking immediate concern from both visitors and park officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpqsgL0TVco
15 WIDEST CRACKS in the Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fkBafO5sU&t=6s
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
‘This Is War Profiteering’: Fertilizer Giants See Fortunes Boom as Trump Militarism, Tariffs Hurt Farmers.
“While a few agrochemical giants shamelessly reap bumper profits, farmers are watching their livelihoods wither on the vine,” said one Greenpeace campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-fertilizer-prices
# General News / Arctic Frost
House Judiciary Chairman urges DOJ to permanently dismiss all Trump cases after bombshell report. “It’s probably time that this all just ended,” Jim Jordan told Just the News. The agents in the controversial Arctic Frost case also wrote a new memo insisting they believed Trump violated laws, creating a fresh roadmap for prosecution after Trump’s presidential immunity from prosecution ends in 2029.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/house-judiciary-chairman-urges-doj-permanently-dismiss-all-trump
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Rep. Robert Garcia releases bombshell NEW Epstein report exposing how a top Trump cabinet official helped Jeffrey Epstein build his global sex trafficking network! “The more Donald Trump tries to cover-up the Epstein files, the more we uncover,” Garcia said in a statement.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-11-30/garcia-leads-democrats-strategy-on-epstein-probe-to-gops-dismay
Trump Admin Has Up to 120,000 Pages of Documents on Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer. The bad news: It won’t tell us when our FOIA request for these records will be fulfilled.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ghislaine-maxwell-trump-prison-transfer-foia/
# Gov / Politics
[Note: Not sure about the starred items this morning. Read and decide for yourself. J.]
* Common Cause Calls on the Cabinet to Invoke the 25th Amendment. Trump is unfit to serve. The consequences of Trump’s reckless behavior will be catastrophic for generations — and failure to act won’t be seen as caution or restraint, but as complicity in the downfall of our democracy.
https://www.commoncause.org/work/trump-is-unfit-to-serve/
* Donald Trump is Mentally Unfit and Should be Removed from Office, Declares Group of Leading Physicians. Trump’s mental instability and sole authority to launch nuclear weapons make him “a clear and present danger,” one doctor said.
https://mindsitenews.org/2026/05/07/donald-trump-is-mentally-unfit-and-should-be-removed-from-office-a-group-of-leading-mental-health-experts-declare/
* Congress PASSES Resolution Declaring Trump Unfit for Office:
In The House Of Representatives; May 15, 2025
Mr. Green of Texas submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
RESOLUTION: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/415/text
Fetterman only Democrat to vote against Iran War Powers resolution
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_cc8f2708-e966-46ad-9cab-74faa40fa000.html
A New House Resolution Would Dismantle DHS and Defund Trump’s War Machine. Congress needs a new human rights mandate after deadly abuses by the Trump administration, progressives say.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-new-house-resolution-would-dismantle-dhs-and-defund-trumps-war-machine/
Tennessee GOP House Speaker Suspends Democrats From Committees for Voting Map Protest: Tennessee House speaker suspends all Dems from committees, citing decorum violation. Minority leader says it’s like being ‘stabbed in the back’
https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/13/tennessee-house-speaker-suspends-dems-for-decorum-violation/
Trump on Verge of ‘Largest Single Act of Grand Larceny in American History’: As of mid-May 2026,2026, politicians and commentators are accusing President Donald Trump of considering a settlement in a lawsuit against the IRS that could amount to what Rep. Don Beyer described as the “largest single act of grand larceny in American history.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement
Georgia Gov. Calls Special Session to Rig US House Map for GOP, SC Expected to Follow. “We will not sit back and watch while Gov. Kemp takes orders from a felon-in-chief to turn Dr. King’s dream into a nightmare,” said the head of Common Cause Georgia.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-redistricting
Senate Republican Opposition To The Iran War Grows. For the seventh time this year, Senate Democrats tried to force a vote to end the Iran war. And for the seventh time this year, Senate Republicans blocked their effort.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republican-opposition-iran-war-lisa-murkowski_n_6a037e8fe4b0af4eda3f57a8
A ‘Legion of Professionals’ Refusing Trump’s Orders Revealed: Former CIA Director Claims Officials in DOJ and CIA Are Secretly Pushing Back Against Prez
https://san.com/media-miss/ex-cia-director-claims-there-are-many-in-the-doj-cia-working-against-trumps-actions/
Marco Rubio Is Doing His Job—Which Is Why Trump Will Fire Him
https://www.rawstory.com/marco-rubio-2676886839/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Supreme Court Breaks Another Election To Make Sure Black Voters Are Disenfranchised
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/supreme-court-alabama-voting-sotomayor-dissent-alito.html
Supreme Court Just Executed Truomp Overnight — 7–2 Ruling Wipes Out 30-Plus Executive Orders, Bans National Guard Seizure and Mass Firings; Roberts and Barrett Betray Him, White House in Chaos, Government Paralyzed
https://usaglobe24.com/supreme-court-just-executed-trump…/
Justice Department alleges states are not providing federal officers with undercover license plates
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5876343-undercover-license-plates-doj-fight/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Vance cuts $1.3 billion in California Medicaid, pauses hospice care
https://www.aol.com/articles/jd-vance-announces-major-decision-083721000.html
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is halting enrollment of new hospice and home health agency providers for six months in a bid to “crush” on fraudulent businesses STAT’s
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-announces-aggressive-nationwide-crackdown-fraud-six-month-hospice-home-health-agency-enrollment
# Medical / Nursing / Biologicals / Pharmaceutical / Chemistry / FDA / CDC
China’s Monopoly on Pharmaceuticals Is Bad Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJriS1rMMY
China Controls Our Medicine: Rep. Neal Dunn Sounds the Alarm on Pharma Supply Chains. In a powerful congressional Q&A, Rep. Neal Dunn draws on 35 years as a physician to warn that America’s pharmaceutical supply chains are dangerously dependent on China. Highlighting that nearly 90% of generic drugs—including antibiotics and blood thinners—rely on Chinese manufacturing, Dunn warns this isn’t just a trade issue—it’s a national security and medical readiness crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnCQ3Erf6g
# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp
Lawmakers push cannabis reform on Capitol Hill
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-smoke-cannabis-in-congress-lawmaker-says/
Senate bill 220 signed into law Tuesday, advancing legislation for medical cannabis
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYTuwsZku0-/
# MiIitary / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Hegseth rethinking Army reforms, cuts to aviation. One year after launching the Army Transformation Initiative, the Defense secretary says he’s reviewing the to-do list.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/05/hegseth-army-cuts-aviation/413498/
# Nuclear
We can’t curb nuclear proliferation if we don’t acknowledge Israel’s nukes. No credible nonproliferation policy begins by pretending not to see the bombs your ally already has.
https://truthout.org/articles/we-cant-curb-nuclear-proliferation-if-we-dont-acknowledge-israels-nukes/
# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability
Republicans Push “Waste and Fraud” Narrative Again to Gut the Social Safety Net. The real fraud is gutting SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs to fund a war the public overwhelmingly opposes.
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-push-waste-and-fraud-narrative-again-to-gut-the-social-safety-net/
# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Report: As AI electricity demands soar, Microsoft weighs retreat from ambitious carbon-free energy pledge
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/report-as-ai-electricity-demands-soar-microsoft-weighs-retreat-from-ambitious-carbon-free-energy-pledge/
Microsoft Ousts Head of Israeli Branch Over Use of Tech to Spy on Palestinians. Microsoft continues “to supply cloud and AI arms to the Israeli military,” activists pointed out.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/microsoft-head-israel-step-down
# Transportation / Trucking
It’s not your truck anymore, they won! Recent developments indicate a shift toward increased vehicle surveillance, with automakers like Ford patenting in-cabin sensors to monitor drivers’ biometric data, including facial expressions, heart rates, and voice, potentially affecting vehicle control. These technologies are partly driven by federal regulations aiming for mandatory driver monitoring systems in all new vehicles by 2027
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWT1dzpQWqw
# Veterans / VA
Bipartisan Congressional Push Advocates for Expedited Psychedelic Therapies for Veterans’ Mental Health
https://hempgazette.com/news/psychedelic-therapies-veterans-congressional-push/
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