curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Miles Taylor:
Donald Trump is a communist.
… If Americans are looking for a militant radical who wants the government to control the economy, silence dissent, and glorify the supreme leader, they can find one. He currently works out of the Oval Office. …
Donald Trump himself is a communist, or at least as close to the rulers of past communist regimes as anyone we’ve ever seen hold power in America. I don’t say that in jest. I say it as a former Republican who spent two-and-a-half years inside Trump’s first administration, watching his rule trend away from democracy and toward something darker yet familiar to any student of history. If you strip away the flag pins and look at how Trump actually governs, you find something closer to a Soviet general secretary than to any American president of either party.
Let’s start with what happened this week. …
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Rebecca Schneid @ Time:
Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Peace Plan for GazaIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his country rejects U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest peace plan for Gaza.
The 15-point plan, issued by Trump’s Board of Peace, envisioned a phased peace process. Through it, Hamas would gradually cede its weapons and power to a new Palestinian administration, while Israel would withdraw its troops to the “yellow line” established in the ceasefire deal both sides signed in October 2025.
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Arie Blitz @ Washington Examiner:
Iran cracked Trump’s tell — now the price just went up
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Marcy Wheeler:
The Jimmy Carter Talk Has Started… Donald Trump has a pathological need to avoid being seen as he sees Jimmy Carter, a loser, someone who keeps leeching power over the course of an extended crisis.
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Joyce Vance:
Zorro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump’s Justice DepartmentLast week, New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued DOJ for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that he says the Justice Department has been withholding. He alleges in his lawsuit that in 2019, the Department “directed” the state to pause an initial criminal investigation into Epstein’s activities at Zorro Ranch outside of Santa Fe, and promised “to share relevant information when their work concluded.” That would have been during the first Trump administration.
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Chris Geidner:
Reports of Trump’s catering-truck transfer in Turkey raise big questions about the recent NYT subpoenas“So, you’re saying there wasn’t a security threat,” a reporter asked on July 8. “No, no, why would there be,” Trump replied. Two days later, DOJ went after the reporters who looked into the story.
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Russ Buettner @ NY Times:
Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red FlagsThe curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
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Anne Applebaum:
The Dystopian Future of War
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Jason Sattler:
Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
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Adam Kinzinger:
MAGA Is Suing For My Emails
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Rebecca Plevin, Varsha Bansal @ 404 Media:
The Roboguard Revolution is Short-CircuitingKnightscope and other robotics companies are rethinking automated security following canceled contracts. One pivot? Human guards.
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Marcy Wheeler:
Todd Blanche Is Hiding How SPLC Warned FBI about a Murder-for-Hire Scenario
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
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- 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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