curated news excerpts & citations
American Prospect: Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,” according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week. The document also indicates that American workers are simply not interested in and do not have the skills to perform agricultural jobs, at odds with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s claim that the farm workforce will soon be 100 percent American.
“The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers,” the document says, adding that “this threat will grow” given new federal funding for immigration enforcement under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
(American Prospect more…)
Salon: Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel
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Robert Reich: Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?
When Trump is fighting the “enemy within” America and kicking out anyone who can’t prove they belong here?
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Democracy Docket: ‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up
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As both sides made their closing arguments Friday, Nina Perales, an attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), said the case was a straightforward one: Republicans intended to dilute minority voting strength.
(Democracy Docket more…)
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Jack Hopkins: The vote counters have changed hands-and America should pay attention
When a firm that counts votes gets sold behind closed doors, the price isn’t what matters. What’s being traded is confidence…and that’s the one currency a republic can’t print more of.
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The Sale Nobody Asked For
Dominion Voting Systems…the name you couldn’t escape after 2020…has quietly changed owners.The buyer: Scott Leiendecker…a former Republican election official and founder of an election-tech company, through a new entity called Liberty Vote.
The price? Undisclosed.
(Jack Hopkins more…)
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TNR: Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown
NewsNation: Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight
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NY Times: How Trump’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos
Week by week, the federal campaign to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has created fear and inflamed tensions.
Anne Applebaum: Manufactured Drama
The fear the raid created was real, but the goal was different. “It was like a movie,” one of the residents told the BBC. Which was the point: the Department of Homeland Security has since produced a recruiting video that uses footage from the raid. It resembles an advertisement for a video game.
Common Dreams: Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Chicago Troop Deployment And Questions Administration’s Grasp on Reality
“Ultimately, this court must conclude that defendants’… perceptions are not reliable,” wrote Judge April Perry.
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Closer to the Edge: The man who flew home
How a senior Israeli cyber official accused of child predation in Las Vegas boarded a plane instead of facing justice.
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Cool Down: Man slams new US government report as riddled with ‘more than 100 factual errors’: ‘Outright false’
(Cool Down more…)
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Gil Duran: Garry Tan Called Me a ‘Parasite.’ Now I’m in a Book
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Greg Palast: The LAST American President
Got democracy? A book review by Greg Palast
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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