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Bulwark: The ‘Parasites’ and the ‘Good Immigrants’
Meet more of the worst people in the world.
I’ve been listening to Robert Evans’ podcast series on Adolf Eichmann and one of the things Evans mentions is that throughout the Holocaust, many Nazis had in their lives a “Good Jew.” Some Jewish person who they liked and wished to save.
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One of the hallmarks of Trump’s mass deportation regime has been the emergence of Good Immigrants from certain MAGA communities. We saw these people in the small Missouri town which rallied to Carol, a beloved member of their community who was arrested by Trump’s secret police because her papers were not in order.
These MAGA diehards whined and complained until the administration relented and let Carol go. It seems to have occurred to precisely none of the townfolk that America is full of Carols.
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Jay Kuo: The ICE Men Cometh
LAWdork: Evidence challenging the Trump admin’s immigration moves is now out in the open
The question now is what courts will do to hold the administration accountable for its lawless actions regarding the Alien Enemies Act and other immigration moves.
TNR: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn
Trump’s bill gives him vast new law enforcement resources. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on what the coming wave of militarized arrests will do to America—and how Democrats should fight it.
TNR: Stephen Miller Rages Wildly at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a Big Trump Scam
As Miller’s demands for more arrests demoralize ICE agents, a shrewd immigration observer explains why MAGA’s sadistic anti-immigrant fantasies are undermining Trump’s own arguments and political standing.
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Steven Beschloss: Hope Is a Discipline
This hateful regime wants to exhaust us and convince us that victory will be theirs. We have the individual and collective power to prove them wrong.
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But let’s zoom out for a moment to keep in mind this truth: Our large and diverse country is inexorably becoming a white minority country and the goose-stepping march by a tyrannical minority to dismantle our liberal democracy is motivated by their belief that they cannot let America achieve its egalitarian promise. There may be no words that they fear more than “all men are created equal.” Their war on America is not a sign that they are winning, but in fact a response to the reality that they are losing in their hunger to ram a white nationalist future down our throats.
(Steven Beschloss more…)Jess Piper: Pockets of Resistance
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Mary Geddry: Burning Hats and Broken Promises
Inside Trump’s chaos economy: MAGA’s Epstein meltdown, vaccine sabotage lawsuits, Texas flooding deaths, and a president who can’t stop embarrassing himself on the world stage
…Nothing quite says “diplomacy” like telling the President of Liberia, “Wow, your English is so good,” as if Liberia’s official language isn’t, well, English. Then, when the President of Sagal (whose name Trump didn’t bother remembering) tried to pitch building a golf course in his country to attract U.S. investment, Trump perked up like a toddler offered an ice cream cone. “Nice, that’s a long trip to show off my skills, but that’s really nice,” he cooed, proving once again that foreign policy under Trump boils down to whether someone flatters him or not.
(Mary Geddry more…)BBC Mundo: 5 cosas que Trump debería saber sobre Liberia (y la razón por la que hablan tan bien inglés en el país africano)
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 10, 2025
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Meanwhile, FEMA’s acting director, David Richardson, has been nowhere to be found, making no public appearances, statements, or postings on social media since the disaster, and not visiting the site. Former FEMA officials told Thomas Frank of Politico that Richardson’s absence suggests Noem is controlling the FEMA response. Trump appointed Richardson after his team fired his first appointee, Cameron Hamilton, for telling Congress he did not think FEMA should be scrapped.The day after he took office in May, Richardson, who has no experience with emergency management, told staff: “Don’t get in my way…because I will run right over you. I will achieve the president’s intent…. I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA,” he said.
Even as rescuers were still at work today in Texas, DHS cancelled a $3 million grant that had been awarded in New York to make sure the NWS can communicate effectively with local officials.
Tariffs are back in the news as Trump’s postponement for his high tariff has ended. They are as chaotic and as problematic as ever.
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Daily Beast: ICE Barbie Lashes Out at ‘Trash’ Who Revealed Her Delay to Texas Flood Response
‘FAKE NEWS’
CNN reported that Kristi Noem’s demand to sign off on FEMA decisions held up the sending of a top rescue team.
Daily Beast: ICE Barbie Delayed Texas Aid While Asking Instagram Which Portrait to Order
LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE GUYS!
She signed off aid on Monday, a full four days after the floods—but Sunday was for Instagram about herself.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem waited four days to sign off crucial aid for the Texas floods—but did find time to post on social media about her official portrait.
Four officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which falls under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security, told CNN that a newly introduced requirement for Noem’s signature on any contract and grant over $100,000 delayed their response to the flooding in Texas, where 120 people have died and a further…
(Daily Beast more…)TNR: Trump Backs Kristi Noem’s Disastrous Texas Response for Dumbest Reason
Donald Trump really is the reality TV president.
Donald Trump said that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s disastrous response to the deadly flooding in Texas was good, actually, because she had been quick to get in front of a camera.
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NY Times: Some of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says
The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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Verge: A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump
Missouri’s AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn’t censorship.
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James Eagle: Trump hits Harvard hard
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Guardian: ‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees
Scientists have been scrambling to discover what happened; now the culprits are emerging. A research paper published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), though not yet peer-reviewed, has found nearly all colonies had contracted a bee virus spread by parasitic mites that appear to have developed resistance to the main chemicals used to control them.
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Your Local Epidemiologist: It’s not just about measles
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Measles is a canary in the coal mine
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Time: I’m a Climate Scientist in Texas. Here’s What the Floods Tell Us
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This trend underscores an important truth. Climate change isn’t creating new risks: rather, it’s amplifying existing ones.
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NPR: When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
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Wired: Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.
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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