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Monday, July 7, 2025
ICE’s $175 billion windfall: Trump’s mass deportation force set to receive military-level funding
President Donald Trump’s budget, which passed the Senate Tuesday, allocated some $175 billion towards his mass deportation campaign, more money than almost any country spends on its military, and many times the estimated yearly cost it would take to end world hunger. more
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Stateless Palestinian Woman Details 'Very Traumatizing' Abuse Suffered in ICE Detention
A newlywed Palestinian woman from Texas released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention earlier this week says she was shackled for long periods, denied food and water, and subjected to other human rights abuses during nearly five months in ICE custody—all because she is a stateless person. more
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Pam Bondi sues Los Angeles alleging discrimination against ICE agents
Pam Bondi announced that she is suing the city of Los Angeles, claiming that it's discriminating against ICE agents. MORE
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Local Photographer Guido Maniscalco
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -R. Tagore
Florida AG Threatens to Remove Key West Officials After ICE Vote
City officials this week put Key West in the ever-growing crosshairs of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier by voiding the immigration enforcement agreement signed by the city's police chief in March. more
This GOP bill is the mother of all attacks on the American people
With President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline looming, Republicans are set to sell out working class families by passing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — all to please their billionaire backers. Inside this devastating bill are a host of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, paid for with cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs. It would also effectively eliminate the middle class in America as we know it. MORE
Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side
I don’t mean that we are trapped in an inflexible pattern of endlessly repeating historical cycles, as in the more esoteric propositions of Vico and Nietzsche. (“Time is a flat circle,” as some lowlife says in the first season of “True Detective,” moments before getting murdered by cops.) But too many of us, including a large proportion of liberals who ought to know better, are indeed trapped in the delusional one-way narrative of progress known as American exceptionalism, leading us to announce in horrified tones, with every new outrage of the Trump administration, that this is “not who we are.” more
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Jan. 6 federal prosecutor fired by Pam Bondi quotes Theodore Roosevelt in passionate farewell letter
One of three career federal prosecutors fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi last week has written a passionate goodbye to his colleagues, praising them for their willingness to “enter the arena” and encouraging them to not be timid amid ongoing threats to their work. more
Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.
When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks leading up July 4, 1776, he wanted to not only rely on just high-falutin enlightenment ideals to justify the case for separation from Great Britain. His aim was also to present a slam-dunk indictment of King George III—to prove that the royal was a “tyrant” and that he and Parliament had forfeited their right to rule the Americans by breaking their own laws and trampling on the rights of their people. This is why about half of the Declaration is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against the King and his regime. MORE
'Authoritarian Theater' Meets 'Pure F*cking Idiocracy' as Trump Promises White House UFC Match
"Americans, you won't have healthcare, Medicaid, public schools, nursing homes, rural hospitals, or SNAP," said one critic. "But, you'll get UFC fights on the White House lawn. America F-Yeah!" MORE
“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts
On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. more
What July 5th Taught Me That July 4th Never Did
The U.S. celebrates independence while denying it to others; Venezuela fights for sovereignty while being punished for it. more
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