curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Lucian K. Truscott IV:
It took a woman of immense courage to bring Trump to justice. E. Jean Carroll is that woman.
It is truly worth celebrating, what happened today when Donald Trump was finally forced by a court of law to transfer $5,625,005.48 to E. Jean Carroll’s bank account. We cannot forget the living hell she went through. E. Jean was sexually assaulted in a Bergdorf’s dressing room by Donald Trump. She was penetrated in such a way that it did not amount to rape under New York law but was declared a rape as “the word is commonly understood” by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who presided over her defamation suit against Trump.
I don’t know of any way to calculate how much courage it took for E. Jean to sue the President of the United States. She filed suit in 2019, claiming that Trump had defamed her in an interview after her article in New York Magazine, “Hideous Men,” was published in June of that year. Trump denied knowing her, he called her a liar, and of course, as proof that it never happened, Trump said “she’s not my type.”
That’s not just a regular lawsuit to file. …
Dean Blundell: E Jean Carroll Has Officially Been Paid in Full: The Wire Cleared, the Record Is Permanent. Trump is a Rapist. Forever.
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Mitch Jackson:
ICE Says the Cars Were Weapons. The Supreme Court Says Rewind the Tape.Since September, more than twenty people have been shot during ICE operations. Nearly every shooting involved someone inside a vehicle. Several ended in fatal shootings.
(Mitch Jackson more…)Noah Berlatsky: ICE’s Mission Is Murder
It is a genocidal organization and it will keep killing people.
Jennifer Rubin: ‘Weaponized’ lies
The murder of yet another nonviolent, decent, hardworking American at the hands of ICE thugs operating under the banner of federal immigration law should be grounds for national outrage and termination of all Trump officials involved in the perpetuation of a rogue operation. This is especially the case when agents of that operation kill with impunity and then resort to easily debunked lies to cover their tracks.
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Amy Dominguez @ Sierra Club:
Trump Administration Signs Executive Order to Dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National MonumentsHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 14, 2026
In August 1870 a U.S. exploring expedition headed out from Montana toward the Yellowstone River into land the U.S. government had recognized as belonging to different Indigenous tribes.
…On March 1, 1872, President U.S. Grant, a Republican, signed the bill making Yellowstone a national park.
…Presidents of both parties continued to protect American lands, but in the late nineteenth century it was New York Republican politician Theodore Roosevelt who most dramatically expanded the effort to keep western lands from the hands of those who wanted only their timber and minerals.
…… Since the 1980s, Republicans have pushed to reopen public lands to resource development, maintaining even today that Democrats have hampered oil production although under President Joe Biden it reached an all-time high.
President Donald Trump pushed to return public lands to private hands during his first term. …
…But Project 2025, the blueprint for the second Trump presidency, called for significant increases in drilling for oil and gas and removing land from federal protection and opening it to private development. As Roberts urged, Project 2025 promised to seek a Supreme Court ruling that would permit it to reduce the size of national monuments, saying a second Trump administration “must seek repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906.”
Shortly after retaking office, Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” and yesterday he signed two proclamations. …
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Miles Taylor: I helped oversee election security for Trump. He’s about to swap the “Big Lie” for a Bigger Lie.
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Dean Blundell: TRUMPARRHEA: The Explosive Diarrhea Parasite Ravaging America That MAGA Built With Its Own Two Hands After Trump and RFK Fired The ENTIRE US Diarrhea Dept
Patrick Djordjevic @ NewsNation: Cyclosporiasis could take weeks to cause symptoms: Ex-CDC director
Michele Hornish: Playing Russian Roulette With Romaine
Why we’re flying blind with food safety in 2026
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Beth Mole @ arsTECHNICA: Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on “do-not-board” list, barring return
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Ryka Aoki @ Uncanny:
The Strange Worlds Among Us—of Turing, Trans People, and the Road to LaniakeaIn his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing considers a simple question: “Can machines think?”
However, Turing begins his actual answer not with machines, but with something called “The Imitation Game.” It is basically a texting game in which two players, a man and a woman, chat with a third “interrogator” of unspecified gender.
The object of the game is for the interrogator to determine, through texts alone, which player is a man and which player is a woman. The man seeks to deceive, while the woman is trying to help the interrogator guess correctly, but of course the interrogator is not told which is which.
And so, the first form of what would later be known as the “Turing Test” was not about whether a machine can pass as a human, but if a male speaker can pass as a female.
It is only a few paragraphs later that Turing shifts his focus back to machines.
(Ryka Aoki @ Uncanny more…)
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Jeff Cox: Consumer prices rose 3.5% annually in June, less than expected as energy prices eased
Paul Krugman: the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war
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James Eagle: Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company
(James Eagle more…)
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Teri Carter: McConnell’s Absence
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In the last couple of years, McConnell has had public episodes, on camera, in which he freezes and cannot move or speak. The photo and written statement that were released a couple of days ago are not sufficient, if for no other reason, because of these episodes.If he can speak, why is there no video/audio?
And why has he made no audio or video statement about the sudden death of his longtime colleague, Senator Lindsey Graham?
(Teri Carter more…)
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Borowitz: Mitch McConnell Trounces Trump on Cognitive Exam
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Nate Silver: 12 questions for the center-left
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
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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