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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount. Immigrants are jailed in unsanitary, overcrowded jails and camps as part of Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-says-51-people-died-in-custody-under-trump-experts-say-thats-an-undercount/
Supreme Court Sides With Trump Admin. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the high court’s majority opinion in the case. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration in an immigration case concerning the government’s authority over green card holders accused of crimes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/23/us-supreme-court-backs-trump-policy-on-green-card-holder-rights
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Banks can automatically freeze accounts under new July 1 ‘good faith’ law – and access can be denied up to 30 days. A BILL allowing banks to freeze accounts for up to 30 days has been signed into law in one state.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/16564708/banks-freeze-accounts-fraud-protection-senior-citizens/
# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
The Education Department imposes a twin penalty: As with the old law, the Education Department determines a family’s ability to pay, declares the expected parental contribution for the coming school year, and then tries to meet the family’s financial need. Under the new law, though, that expected contribution is multiplied by the number of kids you have in college that year.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4620744/education-department-twin-penalty-college/
Taxpayers stuck paying off student loans for nonprofits’ employees: ‘It’s about who you work for’
Employees at any organization designated as a tax-exempt nonprofit is eligible for a federal student loan forgiveness program, even organizations who are avowedly anti-American.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/its-about-who-you-work-taxpayers-paying-student-loans-ngo-employees
Education Department layoffs hindered congressionally mandated activities, inspector general reports. The inspector general office at the Education Department has experienced several leadership shake-ups, including one acting leader who seems to have been replaced over the report.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2026/06/education-department-layoffs-hindered-congressionally-mandated-activities-inspector-general-reports/414362/?oref=ge-home-top-story
Inspector General Details ED Cuts From Early Days of Trump’s Second Term. The Education Department didn’t provide all the requested information, which the watchdog said limited its review.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2026/06/24/ed-dept-watchdog-details-extent-layoffs-contract-cuts
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Unions are furious after GM replaces 1,000 workers with 50 robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGQOivUt-g
# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
The Earth is trapping heat faster than ever before, and scientists warn that the world could breach the critical 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) threshold in just four years. This critical climate trend—known as Earth’s energy imbalance, is the difference between the energy absorbed from the sun and the heat radiated back into space
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Transcript reveals former Epstein assistant arranged multiple calls between Epstein & Trump before he was president. House Democrats are accusing Lesley Groff of misrepresenting her relationship with Epstein.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/09/congress/trump-and-epsteins-phone-calls-00954798
Michael Ovitz Storms Out of Deposition After He’s Asked About Jeffrey Epstein: ‘I’m Done With This.’ Ovitz showed up to testify at his attorney’s office in New York. He spoke about his relationship with Weinstein, repeatedly calling him a “bully,” but became irate when asked about Epstein.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/michael-ovitz-deposition-jeffrey-epstein-julia-ormond-1236787721/
# Gov / Politics / US
In a post on X, Sen. Mazie Hirono criticized the Trump administration’s spending priorities, contrasting expenditures on foreign policy, defense, and government projects with reductions in nutrition assistance programs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5truyUPJdWA
Trump threatened to assassinate the very people his team was negotiating peace with. Then he warned Iran “won’t have a country” left. Hours later, Iran’s delegation walked out of the talks and demanded that he apologize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhxRmTMFT3o
Senate approves Iran war powers resolution after 10 attempts. Senate approved a resolution limiting President Trump’s military actions in Iran, with four Republicans joining Democrats.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/24/us-senate-approves-iran-war-powers-resolution-what-that-means-for-trump
Steve Bannon made this statement on June 18, 2026, during his War Room podcast, where he called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and partisan supporters to occupy “every precinct” ahead of the upcoming election.
https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-calls-ice-and-others-be-every-precinct-midterms-if-youre-armed-or-not
These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried. Trump’s plan to suppress voting this fall starts with California
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/this-week-at-democracy-docket-trumps-plan-to-suppress-voting-this-fall-starts-with-california/
Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair unseated by socialist challenger: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old Ph.D. student, toppled the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in a victory for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s DSA-powered political project.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/darializa-avila-chevalier-wins-new-york-congress-primary-00972370
“You Can’t Have an End of Hostilities” — Rubio Says Full Iran Peace Impossible While Iran Proxies Keep Launching Missiles and Drones
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-rubio-says-no-country-can-charge-tolls-in-strait-of-hormuz
Donald Trump interrupts Cabinet member to tell him ‘nobody cares’ about what he’s saying in awkward situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ydgAAM4_k
Trump accused in scathing filing of using his own DOJ to ‘defile the court itself’
https://www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche-2677084694/
Election chiefs say ‘desperate’ Trump DHS plan to blackmail states into purging voters ‘endangers American lives.’ Secretaries of state are condemning the Trump administration’s latest reported attempt to exert control over elections by withholding homeland security funds from states unless they adopt draconian changes to their election procedures.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-homeland-security-department-grant-state-election-changes-voter-purges/
# Politics / Global
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Trump Says 6 Arrested, 7 Cited Over Reflecting Pool Damage. Troubled Reflecting Pool faces fresh scrutiny over vandalism claims and duck deaths
https://apnews.com/article/reflecting-pool-trump-algae-coating-park-police-d2ebb174e98913435d2108d60fb8de44
“The need to deter this type of conduct is high.” A federal judge in Texas meted out unusually long sentences of 30-to-100 years for eight anti-ICE protesters arrested last July outside an immigration detention facility
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced
Antifa-Antifacist: Rather than a single centralized organization, it operates as a loose network of autonomous groups and individuals who organize to oppose white supremacy, neo-Nazis, and far-right extremism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
“They can’t arrest all of us.” The Trump administration has indicted 15 people who prosecutors claim broke the law during anti-ICE protests in Minnesota earlier this year. But Trump administration officials have lied so brazenly and often that there is no reason why these allegations should be credited.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/minneapolis-indictments-operation-metro-surge-ice
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Trump DOJ’s plot to imprison ICE protesters for life hit by last-minute blow. (UPDATE): The defendants received long prison sentences Tuesday. Motions for acquittal and new trials were denied.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/antifa-2677071641/
DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled
https://www.kptv.com/2025/12/18/doj-vowed-punish-those-who-disrupt-trumps-immigration-crackdown-dozens-cases-have-crumbled/
“The Point Is to Spread Fear”: DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZBpqjKC0o
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
“Their interpretation is completely inconsistent with virtually all courts.” A new memorandum from the Justice Department signals that the Trump administration is moving toward a policy that will result in more people with psychiatric disabilities being forced into locked mental institutions
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-doj-memo-olmstead-psychiatric-disabilities-institutions-mental-health/
Justice Department Legal Opinion Challenges Disability Integration Mandate. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion on June 18, 2026, declaring that federal law does not require states to provide community- or home-based care for individuals with disabilities.
https://www.akses.co.id/en/justice-department-disability-integration-opinion
Northern District of Texas Charges 13 Health Care Fraudsters for Loss Over $360 Million
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/northern-district-texas-charges-13-health-care-fraudsters-loss-over-360-million
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Bacon Says Pentagon Still Hasn’t Explained How Hegseth Will Carry Out Trump’s Order to Deploy a Brigade to Poland: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland. It wasn’t clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a “model ally.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/14/poland-pentagon-hegseth-troop-withdrawl-surprise-00922169
What Was The “Jellyfish-Like” Drone Swarm The Downed F-15E Pilot Reportedly Saw Over Iran? One source described the Strike Eagle pilot seeing a “minefield of drones” in the skies over Iran, before their jet went down.
https://www.twz.com/air/what-was-the-jellyfish-like-drone-swarm-the-downed-f-15e-pilot-reportedly-saw-over-iran
# NASA / NORAD / Space
NASA wants to dump the ISS in the sea. Experts say the plan ‘raises serious concerns for ocean health.’ “We believe this gap in international law needs to be closed, and the ISS de-orbit is a vivid illustration of why.”
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/nasa-wants-to-dump-the-iss-in-the-sea-experts-say-the-plan-raises-serious-concerns-for-ocean-health
# NOAA / Weather
Rounds of Saharan dust will soon crash into Texas. Here’s when skies will turn hazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCmGJCtsN60
# Nuclear
Trump administration announces $17.5B in loans to support 10 nuclear plants
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5936219-nuclear-power-plants/
# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Another DEXIT: Axiom Space redomiciles in Texas. Another company has redomiciled in Texas, again leaving Delaware, continuing a trend known as DEXIT, or “DEXIT to Texas.” Decision made after receiving $5.5 million in taxpayer funded grant money
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_38f9290f-5516-4d0e-9208-2792701a75b2.html
China’s Most Human-Like Female Robot Is Going Viral Worldwide. A female robot out of China is breaking the internet right now — and once you see why, you’ll understand the reaction completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnR1zquQb8Q
Humanoid Livestream: Robot Makers Rushing To Show Machines On Real Production Lines. Starting today and continuing through June 28, Chinese embodied-AI company Agibot is livestreaming a fleet of its G2 humanoid robots with customized grippers working a real production line at Longcheer Technology’s factory in Nanchang
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/humanoid-livestream-robot-makers-rushing-091929038.html
Robotics startup Figure recently shared a new video showing several of its humanoid robots performing a task that could be applied to the automotive industry.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/figure-humanoid-robot-autonomous-tasks/
The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is the Newest Frontier of Global Class Warfare. Communities across the U.S. and globally are actively pushing back against Big Tech’s rapid infrastructure buildout. Grassroots resistance has already delayed or canceled roughly half of all planned data centers nationwide due to deep concerns regarding water consumption, spiking electricity costs, and a broader dread over AI’s societal impact.
https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/24/the-fight-against-ai-data-centers-is-the-newest-frontier-of-global-class-warfare/
No Chatbot Companions, No Deepfakes: Congress Takes On AI: Congress Is Coming for Your Child’s ‘Chatbot Companion’
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2026-06-23/no-chatbot-companions-no-deepfakes-congress-takes-on-ai
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