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<\/a>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
Rebecca Solnit: Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning<\/a><\/h2>\nThe United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn’t making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase–“what if they had a war and no one came?” What if we were in a war and no one noticed? Obviously all the people under direct attack have noticed, along with all the scientists and federal employees who’ve been fired, the foreign students afraid to come back, the medical professionals who understand what’s happening to public health, the economists who see the wrecking ball swinging, the university administrators whose institutions are under attack. I think most of us feel it and see it and know it. But too many of the powerful voices in this country are downplaying the crisis we’re in, and that tamps down the reactions that could save us.
\n…<\/p>\n
Two things under attack are the rule of law and the separation of powers, but the impact is largely downplayed. This year we’ve all heard a lot about the three co-equal branches of government. But Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who, after the Big Brutal Bill (BBB) passed, literally handed his gavel to Trump in a horrifying gesture of surrender, is clearly and openly taking orders from him. Johnson is not interested in defending Congress’s powers, and so important powers Congress has, namely the power of the purse, the power to control the allocation and flow of federal funds, have been surrendered.
\n
\n(Rebecca Solnit more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBulwark: Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy: Felons First<\/a><\/h2>\nThe pattern is clear\u2014he\u2019s using American power not to help Americans but to shield foreign authoritarians from justice.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Rubin: Stopping Trump isn\u2019t Enough<\/a><\/h2>\nIt\u2019s time to hold lawbreakers accountable<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
Closer to the Edge: George Retes was abducted. ICE is hiding him.<\/a><\/h2>\nThey didn\u2019t arrest George Retes \u2014 they abducted him. Let\u2019s call it what it is. On July 10th, 2025, ICE agents smashed through the window of his car, pepper-sprayed him in the face, tackled him to the ground like an enemy combatant, and then vanished him. George Retes is a 25-year-old disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is a U.S. citizen. But that didn\u2019t matter. Not to the badge-wearing cowards who swept through Camarillo, California like thugs on a purge night, armed with the full force of a government that no longer feels bound by law, reason, or humanity.
\n
\n![\"George](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/George-Retes.webp\" "\\"George")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\nAnd now? George Retes is missing. His family has no idea where he is. The local sheriff has no clue, the city police can\u2019t help, the county officials pretend their hands are tied. Every institution that is supposed to keep citizens safe and accounted for is shrugging its shoulders, as if a man can just be snatched off the street and dropped into some Kafkaesque black site without consequence. This is what state-sponsored kidnapping looks like when it wears a federal badge.
\n(Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law & Chaos: Judge Orders ICE Goons To Stop Racial Profiling And Start Following The Constitution<\/a><\/h2>\nReasonable suspicion requires more than being Hispanic at Home Depot.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
KTLA5: Labor union says California university professor was taken during Camarillo immigration raid protest<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"Jonathan](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Jonathan-Anthony-Caravello.jpg\" "\\"Jonathan")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(KTLA5 more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: I Triggered Another Federal Investigation<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Army\u2019s keystone cops are on the case
\n…
\nMy report detailed the Guard\u2019s Operation Excalibur<\/a> in Los Angeles\u2019 MacArthur Park. The article revealed \u201cunclassified\u201d documents leaked to me showing how uncoordinated and ridiculous the mission was in support of ICE and other homeland security brownshirts.<\/p>\nBrownshirts, of course, is not the right word. Many in the military who are on the ground in Los Angeles think that ICE and others from homeland security dressing up in Army green and using armored vehicles on the streets of an American city undermines the reputation of the armed forces. At least in the field, they don\u2019t want to be part of any Trump crusade, and are hesitant about being mixed in theatrical shows of force, which the MacArthur Park operation was.
\n(Ken Klippenstein more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Business Insider: Revolt of the female execs<\/a><\/h2>\nMusk, Bezos, and Zuck are going full alpha male. Women are fed up.
\n
\n![\"Bull](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bull-and-a-woman-dancing.jpg\" "\\"Bull")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Business Insider more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Sunday Times: The tiny African kingdom brought to its knees by Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nThe US president insulted Lesotho, the continent\u2019s denim capital, and hit it with the most punitive tariffs of any trading partner
\n
\n![\"Factory](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7e8018cf-606c-4696-af22-ddf1b9650d23.webp\" "\\"Factory")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nTrump viewed that figure against the $3 million in US exports to Lesotho as an injustice, rather than a sign of Agoa\u2019s success. Calculating that the kingdom was effectively slapping a 99 per cent tariff on American goods, he responded with a \u201creciprocal\u201d 50 per cent. The blow has been worsened by the dismantling of USAid<\/a>, which had funded the jobs and health programmes that kept many alive in a country where one in four adults is HIV positive.
\n(Sunday Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health news, 7\/13\/25<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
AZFamily: Dragon Bravo Fire destroys 50-80 structures at Grand Canyon; historic lodge gone<\/a><\/h2>\nGov. Katie Hobbs seeks independent investigation into handling of Dragon Bravo Fire
\n…<\/p>\n
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has called for an independent probe into the management of Dragon Bravo Fire because, despite the blaze being lightning-caused, the feds decided to manage it as a controlled burn \u201cduring the driest, hardest part of the Arizona summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling for the federal government to conduct a comprehensive, thorough, and independent investigation into the management of the Dragon Bravo Fire, and to produce a report detailing the decisions that led to this devastating outcome,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Excerpts From The Times\u2019s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions<\/a><\/h2>\nThe former president said he \u201cmade every single one of those\u201d decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because \u201cthey\u2019ve done so badly\u201d and wanted to shift the focus.
\n
\n![\"Toward](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/00dc-biden-interview-vqlw-superJumbo.jpg\" "\\"Toward")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Times: The Tesla leaks: what it\u2019s really like to work for Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\nOliver Moody reports on the whistleblowers who lifted the lid on the \u2018cultlike hell\u2019 of the electric car giant\u2019s gigafactories \u2014 and the safety record it tried to keep secret
\n
\n![\"Musk](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Musk-Tesla.webp\" "\\"Musk")
<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Texas Tribune: Why Greg Abbott refuses to release his emails with Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\nThe governor\u2019s office said some of the correspondence with the billionaire and his companies contains \u201cintimate\u201d information that isn\u2019t of \u201clegitimate concern to the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nThis weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.
\n…<\/p>\n
For the first time ever, Trump got ratioed on his own platform, meaning that there were more comments on his post than likes or shares, showing disapproval of his message. According to Jordan King of Newsweek, by 10:45 this morning (Eastern Time) it had more than 36,000 replies but only 11,000 reposts and 32,000 likes.<\/p>\n
Trump sounds panicked, not only over the Epstein issue itself, but also because he cannot control the narrative his followers are embracing. After stoking the fire of his followers\u2019 anger against what they seemed to see as powerful men getting away with crimes against children, he is now being burned by it. His reflex is to return to his greatest hits, accusing Democrats of writing the Epstein files and then, as he always, always, always does, snapping back to the Russia scandal and calling it a hoax.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, attendees at a conference held by the right-wing Turning Point USA booed the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein case. MAGA influencers kept up the drumbeat; Matt Walsh called the administration\u2019s about-face on releasing information \u201cobvious bullsh*t.\u201d Natalie Allison of the Washington Post<\/em> reported that even the Fox News Channel warned this morning that \u201c[t]here has to be some explanation\u201d and that questions about the way the administration is handling the Epstein files were \u201cvery valid.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Judd Legum: How QAnon and Epstein sparked Trump’s political crisis<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Gil Duran: Epstein, Thiel, Trump and the Danger of Conspiracy Theory<\/a><\/h2>\nReality has become more conspiratorial than any conspiracy theory<\/p>\n
\n
\n![\"elon-has-a-point\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/elon-has-a-point-v0-4i7ai4itcocf1.webp\" "\\"elon-has-a-point\\"")
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated citations to news sources Rebecca Solnit: Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn’t making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase–“what if they had a war and no one came?” What if we were in a war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n…<\/p>\n
\n
\n(Rebecca Solnit more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Bulwark: Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy: Felons First<\/a><\/h2>\nThe pattern is clear\u2014he\u2019s using American power not to help Americans but to shield foreign authoritarians from justice.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Rubin: Stopping Trump isn\u2019t Enough<\/a><\/h2>\nIt\u2019s time to hold lawbreakers accountable<\/p>\n
\n\n- \n
Closer to the Edge: George Retes was abducted. ICE is hiding him.<\/a><\/h2>\nThey didn\u2019t arrest George Retes \u2014 they abducted him. Let\u2019s call it what it is. On July 10th, 2025, ICE agents smashed through the window of his car, pepper-sprayed him in the face, tackled him to the ground like an enemy combatant, and then vanished him. George Retes is a 25-year-old disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is a U.S. citizen. But that didn\u2019t matter. Not to the badge-wearing cowards who swept through Camarillo, California like thugs on a purge night, armed with the full force of a government that no longer feels bound by law, reason, or humanity.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\nAnd now? George Retes is missing. His family has no idea where he is. The local sheriff has no clue, the city police can\u2019t help, the county officials pretend their hands are tied. Every institution that is supposed to keep citizens safe and accounted for is shrugging its shoulders, as if a man can just be snatched off the street and dropped into some Kafkaesque black site without consequence. This is what state-sponsored kidnapping looks like when it wears a federal badge.
\n(Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law & Chaos: Judge Orders ICE Goons To Stop Racial Profiling And Start Following The Constitution<\/a><\/h2>\nReasonable suspicion requires more than being Hispanic at Home Depot.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
KTLA5: Labor union says California university professor was taken during Camarillo immigration raid protest<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(KTLA5 more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: I Triggered Another Federal Investigation<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Army\u2019s keystone cops are on the case
\n…
\nMy report detailed the Guard\u2019s Operation Excalibur<\/a> in Los Angeles\u2019 MacArthur Park. The article revealed \u201cunclassified\u201d documents leaked to me showing how uncoordinated and ridiculous the mission was in support of ICE and other homeland security brownshirts.<\/p>\nBrownshirts, of course, is not the right word. Many in the military who are on the ground in Los Angeles think that ICE and others from homeland security dressing up in Army green and using armored vehicles on the streets of an American city undermines the reputation of the armed forces. At least in the field, they don\u2019t want to be part of any Trump crusade, and are hesitant about being mixed in theatrical shows of force, which the MacArthur Park operation was.
\n(Ken Klippenstein more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Business Insider: Revolt of the female execs<\/a><\/h2>\nMusk, Bezos, and Zuck are going full alpha male. Women are fed up.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Business Insider more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Sunday Times: The tiny African kingdom brought to its knees by Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nThe US president insulted Lesotho, the continent\u2019s denim capital, and hit it with the most punitive tariffs of any trading partner
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n…
\nTrump viewed that figure against the $3 million in US exports to Lesotho as an injustice, rather than a sign of Agoa\u2019s success. Calculating that the kingdom was effectively slapping a 99 per cent tariff on American goods, he responded with a \u201creciprocal\u201d 50 per cent. The blow has been worsened by the dismantling of USAid<\/a>, which had funded the jobs and health programmes that kept many alive in a country where one in four adults is HIV positive.
\n(Sunday Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health news, 7\/13\/25<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
AZFamily: Dragon Bravo Fire destroys 50-80 structures at Grand Canyon; historic lodge gone<\/a><\/h2>\nGov. Katie Hobbs seeks independent investigation into handling of Dragon Bravo Fire
\n…<\/p>\n
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has called for an independent probe into the management of Dragon Bravo Fire because, despite the blaze being lightning-caused, the feds decided to manage it as a controlled burn \u201cduring the driest, hardest part of the Arizona summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling for the federal government to conduct a comprehensive, thorough, and independent investigation into the management of the Dragon Bravo Fire, and to produce a report detailing the decisions that led to this devastating outcome,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
NY Times: Excerpts From The Times\u2019s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions<\/a><\/h2>\nThe former president said he \u201cmade every single one of those\u201d decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because \u201cthey\u2019ve done so badly\u201d and wanted to shift the focus.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Times: The Tesla leaks: what it\u2019s really like to work for Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\nOliver Moody reports on the whistleblowers who lifted the lid on the \u2018cultlike hell\u2019 of the electric car giant\u2019s gigafactories \u2014 and the safety record it tried to keep secret
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Texas Tribune: Why Greg Abbott refuses to release his emails with Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\nThe governor\u2019s office said some of the correspondence with the billionaire and his companies contains \u201cintimate\u201d information that isn\u2019t of \u201clegitimate concern to the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nThis weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.
\n…<\/p>\n
For the first time ever, Trump got ratioed on his own platform, meaning that there were more comments on his post than likes or shares, showing disapproval of his message. According to Jordan King of Newsweek, by 10:45 this morning (Eastern Time) it had more than 36,000 replies but only 11,000 reposts and 32,000 likes.<\/p>\n
Trump sounds panicked, not only over the Epstein issue itself, but also because he cannot control the narrative his followers are embracing. After stoking the fire of his followers\u2019 anger against what they seemed to see as powerful men getting away with crimes against children, he is now being burned by it. His reflex is to return to his greatest hits, accusing Democrats of writing the Epstein files and then, as he always, always, always does, snapping back to the Russia scandal and calling it a hoax.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, attendees at a conference held by the right-wing Turning Point USA booed the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein case. MAGA influencers kept up the drumbeat; Matt Walsh called the administration\u2019s about-face on releasing information \u201cobvious bullsh*t.\u201d Natalie Allison of the Washington Post<\/em> reported that even the Fox News Channel warned this morning that \u201c[t]here has to be some explanation\u201d and that questions about the way the administration is handling the Epstein files were \u201cvery valid.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Judd Legum: How QAnon and Epstein sparked Trump’s political crisis<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Gil Duran: Epstein, Thiel, Trump and the Danger of Conspiracy Theory<\/a><\/h2>\nReality has become more conspiratorial than any conspiracy theory<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated citations to news sources Rebecca Solnit: Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn’t making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase–“what if they had a war and no one came?” What if we were in a war […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s time to hold lawbreakers accountable<\/p>\n
\n
- \n
- \n
Closer to the Edge: George Retes was abducted. ICE is hiding him.<\/a><\/h2>\n
They didn\u2019t arrest George Retes \u2014 they abducted him. Let\u2019s call it what it is. On July 10th, 2025, ICE agents smashed through the window of his car, pepper-sprayed him in the face, tackled him to the ground like an enemy combatant, and then vanished him. George Retes is a 25-year-old disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is a U.S. citizen. But that didn\u2019t matter. Not to the badge-wearing cowards who swept through Camarillo, California like thugs on a purge night, armed with the full force of a government that no longer feels bound by law, reason, or humanity.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\nAnd now? George Retes is missing. His family has no idea where he is. The local sheriff has no clue, the city police can\u2019t help, the county officials pretend their hands are tied. Every institution that is supposed to keep citizens safe and accounted for is shrugging its shoulders, as if a man can just be snatched off the street and dropped into some Kafkaesque black site without consequence. This is what state-sponsored kidnapping looks like when it wears a federal badge.
\n(Closer to the Edge more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Law & Chaos: Judge Orders ICE Goons To Stop Racial Profiling And Start Following The Constitution<\/a><\/h2>\n
Reasonable suspicion requires more than being Hispanic at Home Depot.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
KTLA5: Labor union says California university professor was taken during Camarillo immigration raid protest<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(KTLA5 more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: I Triggered Another Federal Investigation<\/a><\/h2>\n
The Army\u2019s keystone cops are on the case
\n…
\nMy report detailed the Guard\u2019s Operation Excalibur<\/a> in Los Angeles\u2019 MacArthur Park. The article revealed \u201cunclassified\u201d documents leaked to me showing how uncoordinated and ridiculous the mission was in support of ICE and other homeland security brownshirts.<\/p>\nBrownshirts, of course, is not the right word. Many in the military who are on the ground in Los Angeles think that ICE and others from homeland security dressing up in Army green and using armored vehicles on the streets of an American city undermines the reputation of the armed forces. At least in the field, they don\u2019t want to be part of any Trump crusade, and are hesitant about being mixed in theatrical shows of force, which the MacArthur Park operation was.
\n(Ken Klippenstein more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Business Insider: Revolt of the female execs<\/a><\/h2>\n
Musk, Bezos, and Zuck are going full alpha male. Women are fed up.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Business Insider more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Sunday Times: The tiny African kingdom brought to its knees by Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
The US president insulted Lesotho, the continent\u2019s denim capital, and hit it with the most punitive tariffs of any trading partner
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AZFamily: Dragon Bravo Fire destroys 50-80 structures at Grand Canyon; historic lodge gone<\/a><\/h2>\n
Gov. Katie Hobbs seeks independent investigation into handling of Dragon Bravo Fire
\n…<\/p>\nArizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has called for an independent probe into the management of Dragon Bravo Fire because, despite the blaze being lightning-caused, the feds decided to manage it as a controlled burn \u201cduring the driest, hardest part of the Arizona summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling for the federal government to conduct a comprehensive, thorough, and independent investigation into the management of the Dragon Bravo Fire, and to produce a report detailing the decisions that led to this devastating outcome,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n
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NY Times: Excerpts From The Times\u2019s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions<\/a><\/h2>\n
The former president said he \u201cmade every single one of those\u201d decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because \u201cthey\u2019ve done so badly\u201d and wanted to shift the focus.
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Times: The Tesla leaks: what it\u2019s really like to work for Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\n
Oliver Moody reports on the whistleblowers who lifted the lid on the \u2018cultlike hell\u2019 of the electric car giant\u2019s gigafactories \u2014 and the safety record it tried to keep secret
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Texas Tribune: Why Greg Abbott refuses to release his emails with Elon Musk<\/a><\/h2>\n
The governor\u2019s office said some of the correspondence with the billionaire and his companies contains \u201cintimate\u201d information that isn\u2019t of \u201clegitimate concern to the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.
\n…<\/p>\nFor the first time ever, Trump got ratioed on his own platform, meaning that there were more comments on his post than likes or shares, showing disapproval of his message. According to Jordan King of Newsweek, by 10:45 this morning (Eastern Time) it had more than 36,000 replies but only 11,000 reposts and 32,000 likes.<\/p>\n
Trump sounds panicked, not only over the Epstein issue itself, but also because he cannot control the narrative his followers are embracing. After stoking the fire of his followers\u2019 anger against what they seemed to see as powerful men getting away with crimes against children, he is now being burned by it. His reflex is to return to his greatest hits, accusing Democrats of writing the Epstein files and then, as he always, always, always does, snapping back to the Russia scandal and calling it a hoax.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, attendees at a conference held by the right-wing Turning Point USA booed the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein case. MAGA influencers kept up the drumbeat; Matt Walsh called the administration\u2019s about-face on releasing information \u201cobvious bullsh*t.\u201d Natalie Allison of the Washington Post<\/em> reported that even the Fox News Channel warned this morning that \u201c[t]here has to be some explanation\u201d and that questions about the way the administration is handling the Epstein files were \u201cvery valid.\u201d
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Judd Legum: How QAnon and Epstein sparked Trump’s political crisis<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Gil Duran: Epstein, Thiel, Trump and the Danger of Conspiracy Theory<\/a><\/h2>\n
Reality has become more conspiratorial than any conspiracy theory<\/p>\n
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\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
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- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
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