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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Citizenship under scrutiny: Trump administration reportedly plans major increase in denaturalization cases across the United States
https://democracyforward.org/work/investigations/the-denaturalization-of-u-s-citizens/
[Video] U.S. Supreme Court faces historic ruling on birthright citizenship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCygktDbU3Q
Clarence Thomas Just Gave Border Agents a Terrifying New Power. “There is no obvious reason why the court should adopt such an absurdly cramped reading of federal law other than a skepticism that lawful permanent residents really deserve to live in this country.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/supreme-court-analysis-clarence-thomas-border-agents.html?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=ad29254b5b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_25_10_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-ad29254b5b-486092373
“The ruling in Blanche v. Lau is likely to create a chilling effect on lawful permanent residents traveling overseas.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/scotus-gave-the-government-a-blank-check-to-weaken-due-process-for-green-card-holders/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump signals he may pull out of trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, which could impact Texas businesses. President Donald Trump, who negotiated the USMCA during his first presidential term as a replacement for NAFTA, praised it at the time. Negotiations on whether to extend the agreement are likely to stretch past a key July 1 deadline.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2026/06/23/555319/texas-business-trade-agreement-trump-usmca/
# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
NASA satellite captures wave of warm water hundreds of miles long that signals a devastatingly strong El Niño
https://www.earth.com/image/el-nino-is-back-and-satellites-show-it-is-getting-stronger/
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Is No Match for the AlgaeBTQ Agenda. Despite all the money being spent on the nation’s great reflecting pool, the algae keeps coming back. There’s a reason why that it is, and it has to do with — believe it, or not — science.
https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-reflecting-pool-algaebtq-agenda
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
As Trump Discovers Gas Price Gouging, Democrats Offer a Solution: Tax Big Oil. “Mr. President: I have a windfall excess profits bill you could support,” said one Democratic senator.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-big-oil-windfall-tax
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA / FEMA / USAID
‘Unconscionable’: Outrage as GOP Farm Bill Omits Plan to Delay Looming Food Aid Disaster. “The harm unfolding across the country is already far greater than many anticipated,” warned one expert.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-republican-farm-bill
Over $10 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars spent on improper SNAP payments in 2025. U.S. states and territories made a collective $10 billion in improper payments to SNAP recipients nationwide in fiscal year 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107461
SNAP rule reversal impacts Texas, 22 other states: With one strike of the gavel, a federal judge has reversed the SNAP restrictions states have been slowly rolling out since the start of the year.
https://www.aol.com/news/snap-rule-reversal-impacts-23-173044861.html
# Gov / Politics / US
Trump gets hit with major congressional investigation over his $14 million reflecting pool boondoggle! Trump tries to blame Reflecting Pool woes on vandalism, without offering substantiation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/20/trump-tries-to-blame-reflecting-pool-woes-on-vandalism.html
Bill would limit federal relocations to states with abortion restrictions. Legislation introduced by Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., would block the Trump administration from relocating agencies to states that have instituted or revived abortion bans since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and grants feds the right to refuse relocations to those jurisdictions.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/06/bill-limit-federal-relocations-states-abortion-restrictions/414391/?oref=ge-home-top-story
“The President Must Withdraw U.S. Forces Immediately” — Rep. Angie Craig Demands Trump End “This Chaos” After War Powers Vote
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4728837495966-the-president-must-withdraw-u-s-forces-immediately-rep-angie-craig-demands-trump-end-this-chaos-after-war-powers-vote
“He Is A Sick Man!” — Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Of Holding Affordable Housing “Hostage” To Push Voter Suppression Bill — “Literally Delaying Help For Families”
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/newsom-accuses-trump-of-weaponizing-doj-files-foia-request-over-probe/
Bill Gates names three women he had affairs with. Microsoft co-founder told US Congress that Jeffrey Epstein was ‘brainstorming’ ways to blackmail him. Questioned by US congressmen, Mr Gates again denied any sexual misconduct but agreed he “may have been in the presence of victims” unknowingly while meeting Epstein, given that some of the women and girls had been employed by the disgraced financier.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/06/24/bill-gates-epstein-files-affairs-testimony/
Bernie Sanders Says Congress ‘Finally Did What Should Have Been Done Months Ago’ As Senate Votes To End Iran War: ‘About Time. ‘Congress finally accepted its responsibility’, says Senator Bernie Sanders after Iran war powers vote
https://www.dawn.com/news/2010479/congress-finally-accepted-its-responsibility-says-senator-bernie-sanders-after-iran-war-powers-vote
Trump Is Drowning in His Own Slimy Green Swamp. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says there can be no more fitting metaphor of President Donald Trump’s second term than “trillions of microscopic organisms suck[ing] up all the oxygen and endanger[ing] life around them.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tourists-flock-trump-green-swamp-200232870.html
‘Holy Sh*t’: Moderate Dems Reportedly Stunned After Mamdani-Backed Progressives Pull Off Upsets in NYC Primaries: Mamdani-Backed Democrats Won Big in New York Elections. Moderates Are Not Happy About It. If the country ever is going to repair itself, the party is going to have to band together.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71714811/mamdani-democrats-new-york-elections/
‘Should not countenance such malfeasance’: The judge tasked with overseeing President Donald Trump’s since-settled lawsuit against the IRS and ensuing “anti-weaponization fund” should “rectify the fraud perpetrated” and “deter future misconduct,” several state attorneys general said in a Tuesday court filing.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/should-not-countenance-such-malfeasance-judge-urged-to-rectify-the-fraud-perpetrated-by-trump-his-family-and-doj-in-establishing-anti-weaponization-fund/
Trump’s clashes with top Senate Republicans intensify as GOP lawmakers fear internal chaos could cost them Congress in November
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-republican-senators-968c1454ede461d2db413790670c07df
New Poll Shows More Americans See Donald Trump as a “Dangerous Dictator” as Democracy Fears Deepen
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-now-branded-dangerous-dictator-174209000.html
Trump’s Secret White House Hoarding Room Revealed: Trump Was Hoarding Some of America’s Most Sensitive Secrets, Letter Reveals.Trump ally and National Archives liaison John Solomon posted a letter on Monday noting that more than 700 pages of classified documents were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hoarding-sensitive-government-secrets-national-archives-1234579964/
Trump doesn’t own the government – even though he acts as if Congress is not his equal in constitutional power and authority: The American experiment depends on institutional checks on power’s exercise. If there are no checks, then these indeed will be devastating times.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-authority-constitutional-crisis/
Shouting Match! Trump’s war powers defeat sparked a meltdown that left Republican senators stunned after he screamedat one of their own. Donald Trump just got into a screaming match with a Republican senator inside the Capitol — because that senator dared to tell him the truth about his disastrous Iran war.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-testy-meeting-gop-senators-201019052.html
Kaitlan Collins catches Trump in another lie about his $16.4 million Reflecting Pool fail – with receipts! CNN’s Kaitlan Collins just torched Trump’s pathetic attempt to blame “vandals” for his expensive reflecting pool disaster.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kaitlan-collins-humiliates-trump-brutal-150629151.html
Trump to seek $80B in Iran war funding: The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs about $80 billion in new funding, mostly to pay for the ongoing costs of the U.S. war with Iran.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/iran-war-pentagon-80-billion/
States that won’t obey Trump order will have their mail ballots halted, postmaster says. That it’s even possible the U.S. Postal Service would refuse to deliver ballots unless states comply with unnecessary demands is breathtaking.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-voter-rolls-postal-service-general-block-ballots-states
A new round of corruption charges in New York City. Federal officials arrested Frank Carone and charged him and three others with bribery, money laundering and other political corruption offenses. Carone was an adviser and chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-nyc-mayoral-chief-staff-and-three-others-charged-bribery-scheme-related-nyc
Ray Dalio just finished a 10-day trip to China. He says global leaders know America ‘doesn’t have what it takes to fight to maintain its empire’
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/ray-dalio-just-finished-10-131300937.html
We hold these truths to be self-evident. “We believe there is an important history lesson in simply reading, and rereading, the Declaration [of Independence] and reflecting on the current times in the United States. We have identified 17 of the 27 grievances with a contemporary analog.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/141994/federal-courts-declaration-independence/?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=ad29254b5b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_25_10_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-ad29254b5b-486092373
# Politics / Global
Putin’s ‘doomsday radio station’ sparks into life as Brit Nato ally warns Vlad is preparing ‘false flag’ attack on West. Kremlin powerbroker Nikolai Patrushev has accused the UK of triggering a nuclear World War 3 by trying to provoke Moscow into a conflict – and warned of ‘immediate and harsh’ retaliation
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/putin-fsb-ally-makes-ww3-35621306
Despite Trump-Iran Deal, Netanyahu Says Israel Will Not Leave Lebanon ‘As Long as I Am Prime Minister.’ “Words are not enough to restrain the Israelis,” one journalist said. “There have to be real consequences.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-israel-staying-in-lebanon
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Court Inquiry Denounces “Disturbing Pattern” of Violations at Arizona’s Largest Sheriff’s Office:
A court inquiry alleges that top leaders at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office undermined efforts to comply with mandated reforms brought on by a long-running racial profiling lawsuit and settlement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-sheriff-deputy-misconduct-reforms-undermined
Emergency calls from inside the nation’s jails show that jail employees often cannot handle the people in their custody. Corrections officers and medical personnel in jails are considered first responders, said Michele Deitch, a former Texas prison monitor and director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas-Austin. When a jail consistently makes emergency calls for outside help, she added, it suggests that larger, systemic problems are likely going unaddressed.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/25/jail-911-medical-st-louis-cleveland-jackson
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Courts keep rejecting Trump’s anti-voting agenda. In big win for voters, court permanently blocks key parts of Trump’s first anti-voting executive order
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-permanently-blocks-key-parts-of-trumps-first-anti-voting-executive-order/
The Supreme Court Looks to Expand Its Empire of Impunity. An upcoming case in the high court’s next term may determine whether people in federal custody can seek legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights.
https://newrepublic.com/article/212182/supreme-court-bivens-nielsen-watanabe
The justices have yet another opportunity to force federal agents to be held accountable for their misconduct. “It’s one of the Supreme Court’s most palpable fears: Somewhere, somehow, a government official might one day be held personally accountable in some way for their official conduct — or, more accurately, their misconduct.
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/aclu-calls-on-congress-to-to-hold-federal-agents-accountable-by-allowing-people-to-sue-them-for-rights-violations
The Supreme Court Just Empowered Prison Guards to Violate Religious Rights With Impunity
The conservatives on the Court often posture as great defenders of religious rights. In reality, they only care about the religious rights of some people.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/landor-supreme-court-opinion-recap/
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Your Fourth Amendment rights now depend on your ZIP code: A single objective standard, applied consistently, is what separates constitutional protection from a sliding scale that produces different rights for different people depending on who they are.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4621053/fourth-amendment-rights-depend-on-zip-code-united-states-v-carter/
Fourth Amendment: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
The ‘tech neck’ time bomb: why 43 million young Americans could cripple U.S. health care within a generation. In approximately 20 years this nation will face a medical crisis so widespread and so debilitating, that it has the potential to harm America’s health care economy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tech-neck-time-bomb-why-113000081.html
UnitedHealth denied 71% of seniors’ long-term-care requests, versus 42% at smaller plans: The nation’s dominant Medicare Advantage insurers denied rehabilitative care for older and disabled Americans at higher rates than industry peers, then frequently overturned those denials when patients appealed, federal investigators found. The pattern reinforces longstanding concerns that insurers are profiting by forcing seriously ill and injured adults 65 and older to fight for care recommended by their doctors.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/medicare-advantage-oig-report-rehab-care-deny-appeal-reverse/
UnitedHealth, Humana And CVS Denied Post-Hospital Care At Some Of The Highest Rates
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-06-24/unitedhealth-humana-and-cvs-denied-post-hospital-care-at-some-of-the-highest-rates
In a 5-year low, most Americans say they can no longer afford healthcare. Forty-one percent of adults in 2025 are considered “Cost Insecure,” or “lack access to quality, affordable care, or have recently been unable to pay for either needed care or medicine.”
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/gallup-poll-claims-less-50-american-adults-can-afford-healthcare
# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Anti-abortion Florida congresswoman needed abortion care to save her life, called governor’s office for assistance. Cammack revealed her political position on the uncompromising sanctity of life clashed with reality when a pregnancy complication put her body, her future, and her survival in jeopardy.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/anti-abortion-florida-congresswoman-needed-abortion-care-to-save-her-life-called-governors-office-for-assistance/
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
US Embassy Struck by Drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nK1SV12pEo
US Sent B-1 Bombers ‘Deep Inside Iran,’ CENTCOM Says. B-1B Lancers conduct deep strikes in Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/03/03/b-1b-lancers-conduct-deep-strikes-in-iran-as-part-of-operation-epic-fury/
Top Army General Who Was Last US Soldier to Leave Afghanistan Is Suddenly Leaving His Post: Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command, will relinquish his command
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pentagon-hegseth-christopher-donahue-afghanistan-9ade7033e3a9e0c5e41acb5dcdb25133
# Planetary / Solar Activity
Two major earthquakes devastated Venezuela just 39 seconds apart, killing at least 164 people and injuring 971 others. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the initial earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1, followed by an even larger tremor of 7.5 which hit moments later
https://people.com/at-least-164-dead-over-971-injured-as-2-earthquakes-hit-venezuela-12006373
Strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake shakes off eastern coast of Japan. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook off the northeastern coast of Japan on Thursday morning. (Fox Weather)
https://apnews.com/article/japan-earthquake-tsunami-d55ef22e943aba927183ca016aa486e6
Another blast hits Yellowstone. What just happened at Biscuit Basin? Another hydrothermal explosion occurred at Yellowstone National Park, pointing to the unpredictable nature of the park’s vast underground thermal system and providing scientists with a rare opportunity to study one of the area’s most dangerous natural hazards
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2026/06/24/yellowstone-hydrothermal-explosion-biscuit-basin/90680923007/
# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center. “If we allow corporations to decide which speech is or is not allowed, that absolutely hurts democracy.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-investigates-retaliation-employees-ai-data-center
Amazon-backed Agility Robotics to go public in $2.5B deal: Agility Robotics, based in Salem, Oregon, announced Wednesday a planned merger with an investment firm that will value the company at $2.5 billion as it becomes the first publicly traded company entirely devoted to building and selling humanoids
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/digit-maker-agility-robotics-to-go-public-in-2-5b-deal-heres-what-the-filings-say-about-its-finances/
Agencies look to AI to improve hiring and build workforce skills //Sean Michael Newhouse. The chief human capital officers also emphasized the importance of improving the skillset of the mid-career workforce.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/06/agencies-look-ai-improve-hiring-and-build-workforce-skills/414401/?oref=govexec_today_nl&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GovExec%20Today:%20June%2025%2C%202026&utm_term=newsletter_ge_today
# Transportation / Trucking
A Texas trucking firm filed for liquidation, pulling 177 trucks and 286 drivers off the road. Trucking company bankruptcies have occurred amid freight demand challenges, higher operating costs and federal regulatory changes in recent years, tightening capacity.
https://www.truckingdive.com/news/texas-based-carrier-files-for-chapter-7-bankruptcy/823008/
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