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Radley Balko: The police militarization debate is over<\/a><\/h2>\nQuaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force
\n…
\nThere has long been an important and consequential discussion about the proper, constitutional role of police, the proper, constitutional role of the military, and the ramifications of blurring the lines between the two. …<\/p>\n
In six months, the Trump administration made that debate irrelevant. It has taken two-and-a-half centuries of tradition, caution, and fear of standing armies and simply discarded it.
\n
\n(Radley Balko more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJohn Pavlovitz: The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings.<\/a><\/h2>\nRNS: United Church of Christ synod denounces ICE raids as ‘domestic terrorism’<\/a><\/h2>\nAtlantic: The Message Is \u2018We Can Take Your Children\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nMore systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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\nWhat was supposed to be happening\u2014according to ORR\u2019s legal mandate, child-welfare experts, and a long-standing bipartisan consensus that all children deserve special protection\u2014was reunification. When a migrant child is unaccompanied, as Brian was, immigration authorities are supposed to refer them to ORR shelters, where caseworkers are supposed to quickly place them with vetted sponsors in the U.S., usually parents or relatives, at which point the child\u2019s advocates often pursue some form of relief from deportation.
\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Democrats Must Lean into Defense of Immigrants<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n\n- \n
Free Press: The Right\u2019s 1939 Project<\/a><\/h2>\nHow a visible faction of the MAGA movement is revising American history, reviving dangerous conspiracies, and erasing the taboo against open bigotry.
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\n(Free Press more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Tucker Carlson\u2019s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Fuels Fresh MAGA Fury<\/a><\/h2>\nAs Tucker\u2019s attack on Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein mess intensifies MAGA\u2019s anger, a historian of the right explains why this particular obsession runs so deep\u2014and why Trump has no easy way out of it.<\/p>\n
Wired: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out<\/a><\/h2>\nMetadata from the \u201craw\u201d Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the \u201cmissing minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
TNR: Only One Republican Voted to Release Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\nHouse Republicans blocked an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the files.<\/p>\n
Democracy Docket: Mike Lindell Said He Regularly Meets With Trump to Talk Election Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 15, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWithout any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court\u2019s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while the issue is in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress\u2014a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.<\/p>\n
This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution\u2019s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.<\/p>\n
President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education because he claims it pushes \u201cwoke\u201d ideology on America\u2019s schoolchildren and that its employees \u201chate our children.\u201d Running for office, he promised to \u201creturn\u201d education to the states. In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum; it disburses funds for high-poverty schools and educating students with disabilities. It\u2019s also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fred Wellman: The “Values” of Pete Hegseth’s DOD<\/a><\/h2>\nTwo stories tell wildly different tales of what the real values of the Department of Defense have become under Hegseth’s woefully incompetent and malignant leadership<\/p>\n
Closer to the Edge: Weaponizing Grok: how the Pentagon just invited an AI clown car into the war room<\/a><\/h2>\nTNR: Trump Asked Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy Shocking Question in Private Call<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nOn Tuesday, The Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that Trump, in a July 4 phone call, asked Zelenskiy, \u201cVolodymyr, can you hit Moscow?\u201d and also inquired as to whether he could hit St. Petersburg, the second-largest Russian city.<\/p>\n\u201cAbsolutely. We can if you give us the weapons,\u201d Zelenskiy is said to have replied. Trump was apparently open to this, reportedly mentioning a strategy to \u201cmake them [Russians] feel the pain\u201d to pressure Putin to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n
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Jay Kuo: Dismantling It All With A Whisper<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cShadow Docket\u201d is letting the Trump White House burn it all down<\/p>\n
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Reuters: Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- Federal Programs Branch loses nearly two-thirds of staff since Trump’s election\n
- Exodus strains unit defending Trump’s policies amid legal challenges\n
- Political appointees fill vacancies\n<\/ul>\n
…
\nThe tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.<\/p>\n
Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n
“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”<\/p>\n
Liz Dye: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ<\/a><\/h2>\nAnd will take generations to put it back together.<\/p>\n
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Atlantic: The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food<\/a><\/h2>\nFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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James Eagle: BRICS reshape world economy<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHere’s what’s stunning: China alone accounts for 70% of BRICS’ economic muscle, making this less a multilateral alliance and more Beijing’s global influence operation with supporting players. Add Indonesia as the newest member and Vietnam joining as a partner, and you’ve got 56% of the world’s population now aligned under the BRICS umbrella. The EU’s share has cratered from 22% to 16% in just two decades.
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Dispatch: Our Four Political Parties<\/a><\/h2>\nElon Musk isn\u2019t trying to start a third party\u2014he\u2019s trying to start a fifth one.<\/p>\n
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\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 Radley Balko: The police militarization debate is over Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force … There has long been an important and consequential discussion about the proper, constitutional role […]<\/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-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","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=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThere has long been an important and consequential discussion about the proper, constitutional role of police, the proper, constitutional role of the military, and the ramifications of blurring the lines between the two. …<\/p>\n
\n
\n(Radley Balko more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
John Pavlovitz: The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings.<\/a><\/h2>\nRNS: United Church of Christ synod denounces ICE raids as ‘domestic terrorism’<\/a><\/h2>\nAtlantic: The Message Is \u2018We Can Take Your Children\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nMore systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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\n <\/p>\n…
\nWhat was supposed to be happening\u2014according to ORR\u2019s legal mandate, child-welfare experts, and a long-standing bipartisan consensus that all children deserve special protection\u2014was reunification. When a migrant child is unaccompanied, as Brian was, immigration authorities are supposed to refer them to ORR shelters, where caseworkers are supposed to quickly place them with vetted sponsors in the U.S., usually parents or relatives, at which point the child\u2019s advocates often pursue some form of relief from deportation.
\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Democrats Must Lean into Defense of Immigrants<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n\n- \n
Free Press: The Right\u2019s 1939 Project<\/a><\/h2>\nHow a visible faction of the MAGA movement is revising American history, reviving dangerous conspiracies, and erasing the taboo against open bigotry.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Free Press more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Tucker Carlson\u2019s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Fuels Fresh MAGA Fury<\/a><\/h2>\nAs Tucker\u2019s attack on Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein mess intensifies MAGA\u2019s anger, a historian of the right explains why this particular obsession runs so deep\u2014and why Trump has no easy way out of it.<\/p>\n
Wired: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out<\/a><\/h2>\nMetadata from the \u201craw\u201d Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the \u201cmissing minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
TNR: Only One Republican Voted to Release Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\nHouse Republicans blocked an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the files.<\/p>\n
Democracy Docket: Mike Lindell Said He Regularly Meets With Trump to Talk Election Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 15, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWithout any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court\u2019s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while the issue is in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress\u2014a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.<\/p>\n
This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution\u2019s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.<\/p>\n
President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education because he claims it pushes \u201cwoke\u201d ideology on America\u2019s schoolchildren and that its employees \u201chate our children.\u201d Running for office, he promised to \u201creturn\u201d education to the states. In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum; it disburses funds for high-poverty schools and educating students with disabilities. It\u2019s also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fred Wellman: The “Values” of Pete Hegseth’s DOD<\/a><\/h2>\nTwo stories tell wildly different tales of what the real values of the Department of Defense have become under Hegseth’s woefully incompetent and malignant leadership<\/p>\n
Closer to the Edge: Weaponizing Grok: how the Pentagon just invited an AI clown car into the war room<\/a><\/h2>\nTNR: Trump Asked Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy Shocking Question in Private Call<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nOn Tuesday, The Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that Trump, in a July 4 phone call, asked Zelenskiy, \u201cVolodymyr, can you hit Moscow?\u201d and also inquired as to whether he could hit St. Petersburg, the second-largest Russian city.<\/p>\n\u201cAbsolutely. We can if you give us the weapons,\u201d Zelenskiy is said to have replied. Trump was apparently open to this, reportedly mentioning a strategy to \u201cmake them [Russians] feel the pain\u201d to pressure Putin to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jay Kuo: Dismantling It All With A Whisper<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cShadow Docket\u201d is letting the Trump White House burn it all down<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Reuters: Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- Federal Programs Branch loses nearly two-thirds of staff since Trump’s election\n
- Exodus strains unit defending Trump’s policies amid legal challenges\n
- Political appointees fill vacancies\n<\/ul>\n
…
\nThe tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.<\/p>\n
Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n
“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”<\/p>\n
Liz Dye: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ<\/a><\/h2>\nAnd will take generations to put it back together.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Atlantic: The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food<\/a><\/h2>\nFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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\n<\/a>
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\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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James Eagle: BRICS reshape world economy<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHere’s what’s stunning: China alone accounts for 70% of BRICS’ economic muscle, making this less a multilateral alliance and more Beijing’s global influence operation with supporting players. Add Indonesia as the newest member and Vietnam joining as a partner, and you’ve got 56% of the world’s population now aligned under the BRICS umbrella. The EU’s share has cratered from 22% to 16% in just two decades.
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Dispatch: Our Four Political Parties<\/a><\/h2>\nElon Musk isn\u2019t trying to start a third party\u2014he\u2019s trying to start a fifth one.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\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 Radley Balko: The police militarization debate is over Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force … There has long been an important and consequential discussion about the proper, constitutional role […]<\/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-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","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=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Atlantic: The Message Is \u2018We Can Take Your Children\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nMore systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n <\/p>\n…
\nWhat was supposed to be happening\u2014according to ORR\u2019s legal mandate, child-welfare experts, and a long-standing bipartisan consensus that all children deserve special protection\u2014was reunification. When a migrant child is unaccompanied, as Brian was, immigration authorities are supposed to refer them to ORR shelters, where caseworkers are supposed to quickly place them with vetted sponsors in the U.S., usually parents or relatives, at which point the child\u2019s advocates often pursue some form of relief from deportation.
\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Democrats Must Lean into Defense of Immigrants<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n\n- \n
Free Press: The Right\u2019s 1939 Project<\/a><\/h2>\nHow a visible faction of the MAGA movement is revising American history, reviving dangerous conspiracies, and erasing the taboo against open bigotry.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Free Press more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Tucker Carlson\u2019s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Fuels Fresh MAGA Fury<\/a><\/h2>\nAs Tucker\u2019s attack on Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein mess intensifies MAGA\u2019s anger, a historian of the right explains why this particular obsession runs so deep\u2014and why Trump has no easy way out of it.<\/p>\n
Wired: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out<\/a><\/h2>\nMetadata from the \u201craw\u201d Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the \u201cmissing minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
TNR: Only One Republican Voted to Release Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\nHouse Republicans blocked an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the files.<\/p>\n
Democracy Docket: Mike Lindell Said He Regularly Meets With Trump to Talk Election Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 15, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWithout any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court\u2019s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while the issue is in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress\u2014a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.<\/p>\n
This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution\u2019s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.<\/p>\n
President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education because he claims it pushes \u201cwoke\u201d ideology on America\u2019s schoolchildren and that its employees \u201chate our children.\u201d Running for office, he promised to \u201creturn\u201d education to the states. In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum; it disburses funds for high-poverty schools and educating students with disabilities. It\u2019s also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Fred Wellman: The “Values” of Pete Hegseth’s DOD<\/a><\/h2>\nTwo stories tell wildly different tales of what the real values of the Department of Defense have become under Hegseth’s woefully incompetent and malignant leadership<\/p>\n
Closer to the Edge: Weaponizing Grok: how the Pentagon just invited an AI clown car into the war room<\/a><\/h2>\nTNR: Trump Asked Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy Shocking Question in Private Call<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nOn Tuesday, The Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that Trump, in a July 4 phone call, asked Zelenskiy, \u201cVolodymyr, can you hit Moscow?\u201d and also inquired as to whether he could hit St. Petersburg, the second-largest Russian city.<\/p>\n\u201cAbsolutely. We can if you give us the weapons,\u201d Zelenskiy is said to have replied. Trump was apparently open to this, reportedly mentioning a strategy to \u201cmake them [Russians] feel the pain\u201d to pressure Putin to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jay Kuo: Dismantling It All With A Whisper<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cShadow Docket\u201d is letting the Trump White House burn it all down<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Reuters: Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- Federal Programs Branch loses nearly two-thirds of staff since Trump’s election\n
- Exodus strains unit defending Trump’s policies amid legal challenges\n
- Political appointees fill vacancies\n<\/ul>\n
…
\nThe tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.<\/p>\n
Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n
“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”<\/p>\n
Liz Dye: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ<\/a><\/h2>\nAnd will take generations to put it back together.<\/p>\n
\n- \n
Atlantic: The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food<\/a><\/h2>\nFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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James Eagle: BRICS reshape world economy<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHere’s what’s stunning: China alone accounts for 70% of BRICS’ economic muscle, making this less a multilateral alliance and more Beijing’s global influence operation with supporting players. Add Indonesia as the newest member and Vietnam joining as a partner, and you’ve got 56% of the world’s population now aligned under the BRICS umbrella. The EU’s share has cratered from 22% to 16% in just two decades.
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Dispatch: Our Four Political Parties<\/a><\/h2>\nElon Musk isn\u2019t trying to start a third party\u2014he\u2019s trying to start a fifth one.<\/p>\n
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\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
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… How a visible faction of the MAGA movement is revising American history, reviving dangerous conspiracies, and erasing the taboo against open bigotry. As Tucker\u2019s attack on Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein mess intensifies MAGA\u2019s anger, a historian of the right explains why this particular obsession runs so deep\u2014and why Trump has no easy way out of it.<\/p>\n Metadata from the \u201craw\u201d Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the \u201cmissing minute.\u201d<\/p>\n House Republicans blocked an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the files.<\/p>\n Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court\u2019s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while the issue is in the courts. The majority thus throws the weight of the Supreme Court behind the ability of the Trump administration to get rid of departments established by Congress\u2014a power the Supreme Court denied when President Richard M. Nixon tried it in 1973.<\/p>\n This is a major expansion of presidential power, permitting the president to disregard laws Congress has passed, despite the Constitution\u2019s clear assignment of lawmaking power to Congress alone.<\/p>\n President Donald J. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education because he claims it pushes \u201cwoke\u201d ideology on America\u2019s schoolchildren and that its employees \u201chate our children.\u201d Running for office, he promised to \u201creturn\u201d education to the states. In fact, the Education Department has never set curriculum; it disburses funds for high-poverty schools and educating students with disabilities. It\u2019s also in charge of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race and sex in schools that get federal funding. Two stories tell wildly different tales of what the real values of the Department of Defense have become under Hegseth’s woefully incompetent and malignant leadership<\/p>\n … \u201cAbsolutely. We can if you give us the weapons,\u201d Zelenskiy is said to have replied. Trump was apparently open to this, reportedly mentioning a strategy to \u201cmake them [Russians] feel the pain\u201d to pressure Putin to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cShadow Docket\u201d is letting the Trump White House burn it all down<\/p>\n … Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump’s administration.<\/p>\n “Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”<\/p>\n And will take generations to put it back together.<\/p>\n Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. … Elon Musk isn\u2019t trying to start a third party\u2014he\u2019s trying to start a fifth one.<\/p>\n <\/center><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated citations to news sources Radley Balko: The police militarization debate is over Quaint disputes about the proper role of police and military have been superseded by a more urgent threat: Donald Trump is creating his own, personal paramilitary force … There has long been an important and consequential discussion about the proper, constitutional role […]<\/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-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","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=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat was supposed to be happening\u2014according to ORR\u2019s legal mandate, child-welfare experts, and a long-standing bipartisan consensus that all children deserve special protection\u2014was reunification. When a migrant child is unaccompanied, as Brian was, immigration authorities are supposed to refer them to ORR shelters, where caseworkers are supposed to quickly place them with vetted sponsors in the U.S., usually parents or relatives, at which point the child\u2019s advocates often pursue some form of relief from deportation.
\n(Atlantic more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Democrats Must Lean into Defense of Immigrants<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Free Press: The Right\u2019s 1939 Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Free Press more…)<\/a><\/p>\nTNR: Tucker Carlson\u2019s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Fuels Fresh MAGA Fury<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out<\/a><\/h2>\n
TNR: Only One Republican Voted to Release Epstein Files<\/a><\/h2>\n
Democracy Docket: Mike Lindell Said He Regularly Meets With Trump to Talk Election Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 15, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFred Wellman: The “Values” of Pete Hegseth’s DOD<\/a><\/h2>\n
Closer to the Edge: Weaponizing Grok: how the Pentagon just invited an AI clown car into the war room<\/a><\/h2>\n
TNR: Trump Asked Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy Shocking Question in Private Call<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nOn Tuesday, The Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that Trump, in a July 4 phone call, asked Zelenskiy, \u201cVolodymyr, can you hit Moscow?\u201d and also inquired as to whether he could hit St. Petersburg, the second-largest Russian city.<\/p>\n
\nJay Kuo: Dismantling It All With A Whisper<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nReuters: Two-thirds of the DOJ unit defending Trump policies in court have quit<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThe tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.<\/p>\nLiz Dye: Pam Bondi is breaking the DOJ<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAtlantic: The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nJames Eagle: BRICS reshape world economy<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nHere’s what’s stunning: China alone accounts for 70% of BRICS’ economic muscle, making this less a multilateral alliance and more Beijing’s global influence operation with supporting players. Add Indonesia as the newest member and Vietnam joining as a partner, and you’ve got 56% of the world’s population now aligned under the BRICS umbrella. The EU’s share has cratered from 22% to 16% in just two decades.
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDispatch: Our Four Political Parties<\/a><\/h2>\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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