curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Heather Delaney Reese:
Things are going to get better
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Dear MAGA,
I am not writing this to mock you or ridicule you. I am writing this because somewhere underneath all the chaos, I believe most of you still care about this country the same way I do. So I am asking you to stop for a moment. Not to listen to me. To listen to yourself. Look at your own life. Not the entertainment the other side is bringing you. Just your life.
Is it better? …
If you are starting to see what is really happening to our country, you do not have to go public or post about it or even tell a single person. You don’t have to admit anything to anyone. But when you look at what is in front of you and decide whether this is really what you want, it’s okay to know it isn’t. This country is headed somewhere very dark. But it does not have to keep going there. We still have a Constitution and elections. And the midterms are less than four months away. That can be your moment to let your voice be heard.
And if you are the one who has been quietly questioning, who has been wondering whether this is what you signed up for, you are not alone. More people are stepping back from this than any of us can see. Many are doing it the same way you are: quietly to themselves or to a small group of others who are also deciding this has gone too far. Every single person who decides they do not want to take the country on the path Donald Trump is taking us changes the math in the next elections and the trajectory of our country after.
(Heather Delaney Reese more…)
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Sean Hollister @ Verge:
The US government can’t enforce its own drone banThe US tried to ban Chinese drones. Brendan Carr can’t keep them grounded.
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Brody Ford @ Bloomberg: How AI Halted IBM’s Great Comeback Story
A decline in sales of the mighty mainframe spooks investors.
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Evan Vorpahl @ Truthout:
Kansas Amendment Battle Highlights Billionaires’ Efforts to Capture State CourtsCharles Koch and Leonard Leo’s hands are all over a ballot measure to change how judges get on the Kansas Supreme Court.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white. As Philip Kennicott reported in the Washington Post yesterday, more than two dozen experts have sued to stop the plan, saying paint could irreversibly damage the stone and would be a “taxpayers’ nightmare” as the building would have to be repaired and repainted regularly.
But on Monday, deputy assistant to the president Heather Martin filed a declaration saying the White House Office of Administration was beginning preparations for the paint job. As Kennicott points out, the administration is using the case to give the president the ability to “erase the nation’s physical culture, its man-made, natural and cultural wonders.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Riya Misra @ Politico: Trump orders content warnings installed outside Smithsonian history museum
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 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- 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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