Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s ominous ICE security state www.ft.com/content/b6a5...

The Trump administration is increasingly targeting unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record as it ramps up arrests www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move which city officials and attorneys blasted as “utterly unlawful.” www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/02/i...

ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App Donald Trump’s administration is claiming that the number of assaults against immigration enforcement officers has skyrocketed, but when pressed, even they can’t keep their phony numbers straight. newrepublic.com/post/197544/...

It does seem like Germany leading up to 1933: Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism. newrepublic.com/post/197523/...

Cute: The Senate postponed implementing Medicaid stuff till January 2027--so it don't be felt till after the midterms. They know what they're doing.

Some government scientists in the United States will no longer have easy access to papers in more than 3,000 journals published by Springer Nature, Nature’s publisher. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

International Corruption: Donald Trump is threatening to withhold U.S. funding for Israel—unless the nation lets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk away from his corruption charges. newrepublic.com/post/197436/...

No surprise: Trump’s DOJ issued a directive making it a priority to strip some Americans of their citizenship. newrepublic.com/post/197422/...

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential. newrepublic.com/article/1970...

President Trump has ratcheted up his rhetorical battle over recent US airstrikes in Iran by having an attorney send legal letters to CNN and The New York Times demanding retractions of accurate reports. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

The whistleblower alleged that Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer, stressed that deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act had to take off no matter what. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Taking into account previously allocated funding, we’re looking at some $200 billion in spending on immigration enforcement, far above what’s allocated to any other federal law enforcement function and more than has ever been spent on immigration enforcement. newrepublic.com/article/1967...

A Fox News poll shows that a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance by an eight-point margin. The poll, regarded as one of the best in the industry, found that a majority of voters are still feeling pessimistic about the state of the economy. newrepublic.com/post/196998/...

You’ve heard Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and Laughing Kamala, but now get ready for … Weird Stephen. “And even Trump calls him ‘Weird Stephen.’ Because he is weird, by the way. I mean, you can’t spend a moment with him and not say, ‘Oh, something’s off here.’” newrepublic.com/post/196955/...

Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

At least 24 people sent to CECOT have had their immigration cases dismissed in their absence. ... many cases have pending requests that have not received rulings from immigration judges, who are DOJ employees rather than members of an independent court system. www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

Two years ago, reporting about how the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, I discovered something surprising about Justice Amy Coney Barrett. In a secret internal vote about whether to hear the case, she had voted no. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

My article, "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities," forthcoming in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, is now up in a penultimate version as a preprint on PsyArXiv at osf.io/preprints/ps...

Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill. newrepublic.com/article/1966...

What Trump has wrought: Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk www.science.org/content/arti...

Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. newrepublic.com/post/196684/...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“We’re celebrating big on Saturday … if there’s any protest that wants to come out they will be met with very big force.” ... This is the president saying that he will crush anyone who dares to use their First Amendment right to speak out against a display of power. newrepublic.com/post/196672/...

A new poll finds double-digit disapproval of Trump’s decision to send in the Marines. newrepublic.com/post/196374/...

Trump's decision to send in the troops is elevating a protest movement that was already mobilizing against him. Search for "No Kings" on Google News and you'll see page after page about anti-Trump, anti-autocracy protests already planned for this Saturday. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/174...

"[S]ince the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“[Does] everyone that has been arrested by ICE agents have a criminal record like you’ve described?” an MSNBC host asked Homan on Monday. “Absolutely not,” Homan replied. As of June 1, there were 7,781 people in ICE detention with no criminal record. newrepublic.com/post/196292/...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

Now, a study published Thursday in the academic journal Science has found that dehorning rhinos has led to a large reduction in poaching in game reserves in and around the Kruger National Park in northern South Africa apnews.com/article/rhin...

Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...

The U.S. DOGE Service and its allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel set up Starlink satellite internet service this year, www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on with one that fought it in court. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Women who miscarry in West Virginia should be prepared to face potential criminal charges, a county prosecutor warned a local news outlet last week, saying other law enforcers have raised the possibility with him. www.huffpost.com/entry/west-v...

A powerful video circulating on social media is reminding some that “there are more of us than there are of them.” www.huffpost.com/entry/neighb...

Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...

ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting Federal immigration agents bust up a birthday party on grounds that it was a Tren de Aragua gathering. They still have no evidence for their claims. newrepublic.com/post/196138/...

SO MUCH FOR CUTTING A DEAL WITH TRUMP: White House Threatens Columbia’s Accreditation Over Protests Columbia University no longer meets accreditation standards after violating antidiscrimination laws, the US says mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ta...

People should expect Trump to pick “even more bold and fearless nominees” this time around. “He will look beyond the garden-variety Federalist Society choices and install a new generation of judicial titans who will change the landscape for generations to come.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

‘Disbelief and Shock’: An Immigration Attorney Fighting ICE Disappearances in Lower Manhattan Speaks About What She’s Seen hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...

After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Ukraine Just Blew Up a Third of Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Fleet. With Drones. On Russian Soil. www.theconcis.com/p/russias-pe...

We know Murrow’s story — exposing the red-baiting demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy — as history. But Murrow’s success was not preordained. It required hard work. It required guts. It required journalists to risk personal ruin and some to experience it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/a...

An interventional cardiologist explains the research on plastics found in arteries and its connection to cardiovascular disease. healthmatters.nyp.org/understandin...

Immigrant advocates say the threat of new criminal penalties has left those migrants with a perilous choice: register and risk deportation or refuse and face possible criminal charges — and eventual removal from the country anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...