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# Indigenous
New Mexico activists oppose mining at ancient Indigenous site. Opposition has grown against federal plans to allow oil and gas drilling at a more than 1,000-year-old Indigenous UNESCO site, which features the ruins of an ancient New Mexico community.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/new_mexico/article_d5881cd8-4cb5-4031-8c07-e3ba72f9b95a.html
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
‘Disgusting’: Dem Senator Says ICE Threatened to Beat Seattle Business Owner Unless He Signed Deportation Form. “What ICE is doing is illegal and disturbing.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/patty-murray-ice-video
Study shows how Trump’s ICE raids cost Americans jobs: “Not only are these arrests cruel and unnecessary,” said one economist, “but they’re also hurting the very Americans President Trump promised to help.”
https://immresearch.org/reports/ice-arrests-result-in-a-decline-in-employment-state-level-projections/
‘I Want To Be With My Family’: Law-Abiding Refugees Scramble After SCOTUS Rules They Can Be Deported Or Arrested. For hundreds of thousands of immigrants in America, the reality of being arrested or deported came into even sharper focus Monday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-want-to-be-with-my-family-law-abiding-refugees-face-arrest-and-deportation-thanks-to-scotus_n_6a67a97be4b006a1a8374a17
An Afghan soldier who fought beside U.S. Special Forces for a decade died in ICE custody one day after agents arrested him at home. His wife tried to hand them his asthma inhaler. They refused it.
Newly obtained records raised even more questions about what happened inside federal custody.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/afghan-national-died-ice-custody-allergic-reaction-rcna353290
ICE arrests surge at airports, just in time for the busy travel season. Federal immigration agents are seizing people whose visas have expired, including those with active renewal applications.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/30/fox-run-youth-residential-treatment-runaways
Prison failed to give ICE detainee meds, left him lying in a pool of blood after a seizure caused by missed epilepsy medication, and correctional officers pepper-sprayed him after he returned from the hospital.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee-says-he-was-left-pool-blood-pepper-sprayed-12257856
“ICE Is Beyond Reform” — Rep. Don Beyer Says Congress Must Replace The Agency With A System “That Reflects Our Values And The Rule Of Law” After Months Of Deadly Incidents
https://share.newsbreak.com/j5hzjmz3
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Warnock Accuses Trump Of Making Billions And Turning The White House Into “His Personal Piggy Bank” While Americans Foot the Bill
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4794817256336-warnock-accuses-trump-of-making-billions-and-turning-the-white-house-into-his-personal-piggy-bank-while-americans-foot-the-bill
Rep. Thanedar Says Trump Sons Made “$6.3 Billion” Off Their Father’s “Crooked War” After Trump Jr. Calls Democrats “Useful Idiots”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4798671172349-rep-thanedar-says-trump-sons-made-6-3-billion-off-their-father-s-crooked-war-after-trump-jr-calls-democrats-useful-idiots
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Appeals court overturns ruling declaring Act 10 unconstitutional: In late 2024, Dane County Judge Jacob Frost ruled that the law violates the state constitution’s equal protections clause because it made some public safety workers exempt from the law’s limits on unions while excluding other workers with similar jobs from those protections.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/07/29/appeals-court-overturns-ruling-declaring-act-10-unconstitutional/
Act 10 controversial 2011 law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_Act_10
Staffing cuts are leaving federal statistical agencies stretched thin. The Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau have been hard hit by staffing cuts, and experts say replacing lost expertise won’t happen overnight.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/07/staffing-cuts-are-leaving-federal-statistical-agencies-stretched-thin/415104/
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
Trump Administration Slashes Environmental Rules To Accelerate Space Race
https://www.investors.com/news/space-race-trump-dot-faa-environmental-rules-regulations-commercial-space-operations-spacex/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Energy bills are set to skyrocket in these 13 states: Even if you live outside these 13 states, rising energy costs, extreme weather/cooling loads, and aging infrastructure are driving up electricity bills nationwide. The 13 states covered by this grid region are: Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina (parts of), Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee (parts of), VirginiaWest Virginia
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/summer-electricity-bills-heat-wave-northeast/
Judge Rules Trump Administration Violated Constitution Over $7.6 Billion Clean Energy Grant Cuts Targeting Democratic States that voted for Kamala Harris
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/trump-administration-grants-democratic-states
# General News
Permanent daylight saving time: Trump tells Congress to ‘get rid’ of time change: Speaking at a rally in Michigan, Trump praised the House for passing the measure and urged the Senate to follow suit, calling the ritual of resetting clocks an inconvenient nuisance.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/politics/daylight-saving-time-donald-trump
House passes bill to make daylight saving permanent. What it could mean for golf?
https://www.aol.com/articles/house-passes-bill-daylight-saving-210048000.html
Trump announces a $22.5B makeover of Dulles airport that will eliminate the ‘people movers’
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dulles-airport-modernization-people-mover-1cbe864498a94cb81f7d86c8e95cd2e3
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Scrambling DOJ rushed to shut Epstein case as ‘flag list’ surfaced big names: new docs. The email from Parry and other documents about sensitive items flagged for review by the DOJ, including references to public figures, was quietly released by the FBI last week and are being reported here for the first time.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/todd-blanche/
Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon: Senate Unanimously Agrees to Oppose Clemency for Convicted Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirator
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5997699-senate-ghislaine-maxwell-pardon/
‘Devastating’ Findings at Epstein’s Former School: An investigation turned up allegations of sexual misconduct against nearly 50 people who were formerly affiliated with Interlochen Center for the Arts.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/07/29/interlochen-school-epstein/
Senate GOP unanimously abandons Trump after he opens door to Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Every Senate Republican went on record against a presidential pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, breaking with President Donald Trump, who has refused to rule one out.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143703275
# Gov / Politics / US
Trump wants a fourth term. The room clapped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ58s4bwzG0
11 GOP states join Trump’s crusade to block mail ballot. A dozen Republican states led by Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting go into effect before the midterm elections in November.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-states-join-doj-in-asking-supreme-court-to-let-trump-block-some-mail-ballots/
Trump Admin Condemned After Missouri Couple Killed in Guatemala Following Deportation. Neither ICE nor the White House immediately issued detailed statements responding directly to the specific criticisms regarding the killings
https://www.commondreams.org/news/asylum-from-guatemala
Blinkered MAGA threatens jail — for a crime Trump committed 450 times. It’s just so weird how Republicans just can’t stop reliving and relitigating 2020.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-5th-amendment-2677288048/
‘I hope they’re lying’: Physician calls out McConnell’s staff for ‘atrocious’ work claims. A vascular surgeon is raising alarms over Sen. Mitch McConnell’s recovery, warning that his staff’s claims he’s continuing to work on Senate business while in rehab could amount to abuse of an elderly, frail patient.
https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-2677282011/
President Trump issued a new demand for lawmakers to amend a Russia sanctions bill and grant him authorities to tariff Iran, likely complicating the legislation’s path forward as it heads to a vote in the House.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5997977-trump-demands-iran-tariff-power/
U.S. spy chiefs equate China’s targeting of American voter files to ‘election interference,’ arguing that sweeping up non-public data represents a direct threat to electoral infrastructure
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/hldwhite-house-china-election-interference
‘Expertise is for chumps’: New ‘golden ticket’ Trump ‘grift’ exposed by fuming analyst
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-science-2677291657/
Trump strips honor from decorated military intelligence veteran who served both parties
https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/trump-clapper-dia-leadership-hall-b3023523.html
# Global News
China’s Next Weapon Against America Is Our Own Food Supply: For too long, the United States has treated China as a difficult trading partner rather than the adversary it is. Our policy of economic entanglement has enriched Beijing while leaving American families, American farmers and American food security exposed to a communist regime that plays by no rules but its own.
https://www.creators.com/read/ken-buck/07/26/chinas-next-weapon-against-america-is-our-own-food-supply
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Democracy is on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. A trio of bills from Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin would require Supreme Court justices to explain their secretive emergency orders and change how the high court selects cases for review.
https://www.courthousenews.com/house-democrats-take-on-the-supreme-court-shadow-docket/
“I don’t think in the annals of the Department of Justice, in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” Federal judges around the country have expressed public frustration with the lack of candor, professionalism and integrity exhibited by federal lawyers representing the Trump administration
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
USPS stops collection time for rural Americans under ‘outrageous’ new. The controversial move has sparked fury among customers in rural areas, with officials warning the change could leave communities facing even slower mail deliveries.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/16751885/usps-halts-collection-times-rural-americans-new-rule/
Americans warned to pay new $1.25 USPS fee and fill out form under ‘transition’ rule – or they risk losing mail
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16764817/new-mail-forwarding-fee-identity-verification-usps/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Trump admin to cut Medicare Part D as projected costs skyrocket. A Biden-era health care subsidy under Medicare Part D will no longer be available in 2027, the Trump administration announced, as the costs of the prescription drug coverage plan continue to rise rapidly.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_5d6677fd-ef8f-47fb-92a5-92dcf0260bbc.html
Dr. Oz just killed a program that kept seniors’ drug costs down, called it a “bailout” for insurers, and handed millions of older Americans a bigger bill.
https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/75-medicare-seniors-face-higher-141845834.html
# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide recall of 11,460 bottles of Chlorthalidone Tablets (25 mg) because the medication failed dissolution specifications and may not work properly.
https://cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/clinical/hypertension/blood-pressure-drug-recalled-after-failed-test
Texas woman goes to a hospital for help with pain related to Sickle Cell Anemia, only to be told ‘seems like you’re trying to get high’
https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/texas-woman-goes-to-a-hospital-for-help-with-pain-related-to-sickle-cell-anemia-only-to-be-told-seems-like-youre-trying-to-get-high/
Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidies. As a result, Medicare Part D subsidies will expire at the end of the year and no longer be offered in 2027.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5996677-part-d-subsidies-expiring-2027/
DOGE Cuts for Spiraling Cyclospora Outbreak. Public health agencies are struggling to mount an effective response with less resources and fewer staff.
https://truthout.org/articles/disease-researchers-blame-doge-cuts-for-spiraling-cyclospora-outbreak/
How an Ohio treatment center traumatized troubled children. It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape. At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma. It’s also privately run by a Fortune 500 company.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/30/fox-run-youth-residential-treatment-runaways
Outrage After Texas Sheriff Deputy Searched 83,000 Flock Cameras To Track Down Woman Who Had an Abortion: ‘At this point, people in China are safer than we are’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/texas-deputy-searched-83-000-152212195.html
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces calls to resign and demands he be fired after the Pentagon’s
Iran war casualty tally changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TR7QmHUHWs
US military launches strikes against Iran in ‘powerful’ response to Middle East conflict. Iranian media report that a couple and their two-year-old child were killed in the latest US attacks on Qeshm island.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/30/us-launches-another-round-of-attacks-on-iran
Missile barrage on Jordan base lights fuse, and Trump is ready to crush Iran
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/29/trump-threatens-iran-strikes-after-attack-on-us-base-in-jordan
# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics / Internet
Greg Abbott “Waived All Sales Tax for Data Centers in Texas” Says Challenger
https://2paragraphs.com/2026/07/greg-abbott-waived-all-sales-tax-for-data-centers-in-texas-says-challenger/
# Travel / Tourism / TSA
US Issues Travel Alert for Caribbean Tourist Destination. Highlighting the risk of crime, including sexual assaults, the State Department has upgraded its travel advisory for yet another Caribbean nation, following statements earlier this year on travel risks to the region.
https://people.com/u-s-issues-travel-advisory-for-popular-caribbean-hotspot-12020064
# Veterans / VA
100% disabled veterans say Social Security still denied their disability claims. For veterans who have already cleared one of the federal government’s toughest disability reviews, being told by another federal agency that they are not disabled enough is confusing.
https://share.newsbreak.com/j4xafecs
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