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Closer to the Edge: An Interview with Betty Osceola
On the edge of the Florida Everglades, where ancestral lands meet razor wire, a detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has become the center of a legal and moral battle. Just days after a federal judge ordered the site shut down, our editor-in-chief, Rook T. Winchester, spoke with Betty Osceola — Miccosukee tribal judge, and longtime protector of this land. What follows is a conversation about resistance, and the deeper currents beneath the headlines.
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Rook: Do you feel like people outside Florida understand what’s happening here?
Betty: No. I don’t think they do. Because if they did, there would be more outrage. There would be more people standing with us. There would be more media coverage. When the media ignores it, when the public ignores it, that’s when they get away with things like this. That’s when they bulldoze the land and say, “Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to.” And it’s too late. There are already environmental laws that are supposed to protect the environment. Those laws need to be upheld.
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Austin Chronicle: Kidnapped in McAllen
Two migrant Austinites’ nightmare trafficking experience – and how it may impact their path to citizenship
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Guardian: Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights
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The 11 June protest against Ice that led to Mavalwalla’s arrest was confrontational, leaving a government van’s windshield smashed and tires slashed, but Mavalwalla was not among the more than two dozen people arrested at the scene. More than a month passed before the FBI arrived at his door on 15 July.
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WSJ: Trump’s Troop Deployment to Los Angeles Violated Federal Law, Judge Rules
Decision finds military units engaged in domestic law enforcement, which the law prohibits
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Bulwark: Trump’s Real Health Care Problem
From Medicaid cuts to vaccine availability to Obamacare subsidies, the president’s troubles are mounting.
Noah Berlatsky: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode
They’re failing — so far.
WSJ: The Turmoil Inside MAHA Is About More Than Just Vaccines
Disparate factions are sparring over some of RFK Jr.’s biggest priorities; a top FDA scientist is hired, ousted, then hired again
NY Post: RFK Jr. is ‘endangering every American’s health,’ 9 former CDC directors argue in scathing op-ed
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “Maybe We Like a Dictator,” Trump Says & The Cracker Barrel Fiasco Reveals MAGA’s Anti-Capitalism
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Kareem’s Daily QuoteWhat would my replacement do?
Intel President Andrew Grove [1985]
…Imagine what qualities your children would give your replacement as a parent. Imagine what qualities your friends and colleagues would give your replacement as a friend and colleague. Then try to be that person.
(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)Jennifer Rubin: Whatever is happening, Trump is not “testing” anything
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When corporate and billionaire media suggest that Donald Trump is testing the limits of the Constitution or executive authority or congressional Republicans’ self-debasement, one conjures up a vision of deliberate inquiry. It assumes a level of intentional, rational analysis, a set of intellectual skills Trump has never demonstrated. Worse, the deceptive phrasing gives one the false impression that Trump would retreat if the “tested” scheme did not work or proved unnecessary (or if courts disallowed it). But it is not a “test,” if he plunges forward regardless of facts, deterrents, public reaction, or nettlesome lower court decisions.Dan Pfeiffer: Defeating MAGA One Share at a Time
Trump benefits from politics being impossible to follow
…In the meantime, all of us can inform the people in our lives about what is happening.
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Atlantic: Only One Republican Is Holding This Many Town Halls
Mark Alford bucked his party and held 15 public events this week. Here’s what he heard.
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Robert Reich: The “Woke” Myth
Who should decide what we see, read, and learn?
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NBC: Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
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Adam Mockler: Trump’s Gaza Plan Just Leaked, And It’s As Bad As You Feared
A 38 page document has leaked from the Trump administration and it is breathtaking. It outlines a postwar plan for Gaza that goes far beyond reconstruction. It proposes relocating Gaza’s entire population and transforming the ruins into what Trump calls the Riviera of the Middle East.
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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