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a WSJ analysis of Trump’s signature on his letter to Epstein showing it matches his signature on other documents

ThAt’a nOt TrUmP’s SiGnAtUrE www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

CBS News Hires Ombudsman From Conservative-Leaning Hudson Institute Kenneth Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, will monitor the newsroom for bias.

So CBS's appointee to identify purported bias is someone that Trump once nominated for an ambassadorship? OK.

Track "Using your talents and resources to help others" across the categories here.

The Supreme Court Just Let ICE Detain Americans Based on Race Indiscriminate immigration raids will expand across the country with the implicit blessing of the conservative supermajority.

Sotomayor: “We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”

But we do. Because the Supreme Court traded the Fourth Amendment for the MAGA Constitution.
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If this sort of language is included in the senate version of this, Democrats have an obligation to filibuster it. This provision would be absolutely massive and hurt trans people of all ages.

Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now! Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...

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Americans will visit Japan and post on social media, “Japan is living in 2075,” and meanwhile they’re just talking about a functioning public transportation system and healthcare not bankrupting people.

Hegseth’s expansive security requirements tax Army protective unit The agency tasked with protecting Defense Department leaders is under significant strain, and the secretary’s atypical needs are becoming untenable, officials say.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth relies on such an unusually large security force for personal protection that it has forced the Army’s protective unit to suspend critical investigative work, according to officials familiar with the operation.

Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro—who claims she’s helping Trump fight crime in D.C.—will no longer charge people for illegally carrying shotguns and assault weapons in public, which is a felony offense under D.C. law.

Washingtonians, do we feel safer yet? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here."

(Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

Opinion | Among wealthy Manhattanites, Eric Adams wins the most-popular vote Affluent New Yorkers are coming together to stop a socialist by trying to reelect the current mayor.

Filing a weekly column for one the nation's premiere media outlets is an enormous privilege. It's a shame to see it wasted like this.

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YouTube video by Andrew Kaczynski Trump admin said ‘many Jewish groups’ support a controversial nominee — some have never heard of him

The Trump admin. listed “many Jewish groups” they said back Paul Ingrassia for Special Counsel. He has a history of racism, and was once spotted at a rally for Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

We contact them, some of those groups said they’d never even heard of him.

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Tracking Devices Were Removed From N.Y.P.D. Vehicles at Chief’s Request

Nothing to see here. Just a top cop, alleged sex predator, and long-time ally of the mayor's trying to make sure his movements couldn't be tracked. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/n...

FOX: A judge says you gotta have a reasonable suspicion before ICE can arrest somebody. Your reaction?

REP. ANDY BIGGS: This is another time where the judge has kinda gotten this wrong for political reasons

Bondi fires 20 DOJ employees from Jan. 6, Trump documents cases It's part of a massive purge of staffers who took part in the prosecution of Trump for Jan. 6 and possessing classified documents unlawfully.

AG Pam Bondi has fired more than 20 Justice Department employees who worked on cases involving the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, sources told Axios.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.

"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage

“Community groups have long tried to address homelessness in the LA park. Workers with a St. John’s Community Health street medicine clinic that was serving homeless people said agents pointed guns at them & instructed them to stop their work & leave.”

Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"

From Punchbowl News.

“CBO estimates that the Republican reconciliation bill that the Senate is considering will increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion between 2025 to 2034.

White House says it will cut deficit by $4.9 trillion over next decade.”

In Sudan, children's lives relied on USAID. Trump's cut have been deadly.

A physician at a Sudanese clinic said basic antibiotics probably would have cured a three-year-old boy’s chest infection. The medicines had been scheduled to be delivered in February.

Then the new U.S. administration froze foreign aid programs. wapo.st/4kgohOr

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."

– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack The officials were heard saying Trump’s strike on Iran proved less devastating than expected. The administration calls the intelligence insignificant.

Breaking news: U.S. intelligence obtained private communication among Iranian officials, discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected.

The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley.

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending