The Supreme Court just made millions of people legally defenseless Four rulings in one day dismantled asylum rights, shielded corporations from cancer lawsuits, and converted legal status into cond… https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-25-supreme-court-hands-trump-administration-big-win-with-ruling

A scientist says a brain scan can spot a criminal. Much of his field disputes it - yet it shows up in ~25% of death-penalty trials, cutting both ways: mercy for the defense, danger for prosecutors. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-a-scientist-says-he-can-scan-prisoners-brains-for-signs-of-e

Guards shaved a Rastafarian man's 20 years of dreadlocks after he handed them the ruling that said they couldn't. SCOTUS, 6-3: he can't sue. A right with no remedy is one the state breaks for free. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-us-supreme-court-blocks-rastafarian-mans-lawsuit-over-forced

The Supreme Court killed a suit accusing Cisco of building the system China used to surveil a banned religious group. It didn't call the claim false - just ruled the harm too 'foreign' to touch. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-us-supreme-court-ends-lawsuit-alleging-cisco-helped-china-pu

A judge blocked the government from banning soda and candy on food stamps. Behind the 'health' framing: an agency tried to rewrite what 'food' legally means via waivers to 23 states. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-trump-administration-can-t-block-snap-recipients-in-5-states

A US appeals court just let the government deport people from anywhere in the US with no hearing before a judge. Can't prove 2+ years on the spot? Fast-tracked out. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-appeals-court-allows-trump-to-fast-track-deportation-process

Texas anti-ICE protesters got 50-100 years. One shot a cop; the others - some acquitted of the shooting - got 50, on 'material support to terrorism' charges. Longer than the Jan 6 ringleaders got. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-23-texas-anti-ice-protesters-convicted-of-terrorism-charges-sen

Powerful governments get a takedown button Israel asked Facebook to delete posts supporting Iran in the war — Meta grants ~94% of its requests. A few powerful governments decide what billions see. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-israel-asked-facebook-to-censor-iran-war-content-internal-do

Your medical records, or your life The US offers African nations HIV and malaria aid — but only if they hand over citizens' health data. Take the deal, you're exploited; refuse, you die. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-digital-colonialism-u-s-demands-to-access-africans-data-rais

What an ICE 'surge' actually does to a city During the ICE crackdown on Minneapolis, suicide-helpline calls doubled and kids stopped going to school. 64% of those arrested had no record; cost: ~$700m. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-ices-unseen-toll-in-minneapolis-suicide-helpline-calls-more

Arrested at a protest? The FBI wants you to inform. Half the people arrested protesting an ICE jail in Newark got an FBI call asking them to inform on fellow protesters. The point isn't intel — it's fear. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-fbi-tried-to-flip-anti-ice-protesters-into-informants

Four billionaires vs. one AI safety bill A NY lawmaker wrote a modest AI safety law. Now $8m in attack ads from four tech billionaires aim to end his career — half of all US AI PAC money on one race. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-new-york-city-house-primary-emerges-as-key-battleground-in-a

Fire the Fed governor, control the money Trump tried to fire a Fed governor on a mortgage pretext; fighting back cost her $1.3m. SCOTUS now decides if a president can gut the bank built to resist him. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-fed-governor-lisa-cook-faced-1-3m-in-legal-and-security-fees

Congress said spend it. The White House just won't. Congress voted billions for HIV & malaria care, signed into law — 8 months on, only 5% moved, frozen till it expires. Who controls the checkbook? https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-22-a-huge-grab-of-power-trump-is-defying-congress-on-foreign-ai

A school bus killed 5-year-old Lens Joseph — but the crash isn't on the company's safety record. It's filed under 'City of Boston.' Of Transdev's ~60 fatal crashes in a decade, only 18 list its name. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-a-school-bus-killed-a-5-year-old-the-crash-is-among-dozens-m

A crypto super PAC that backed an all-GOP slate just spent $300K on safe-seat Democrat Ritchie Torres, who helps write crypto's rules in the House. Its top funder: the Commerce secretary's firm. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-trump-loving-crypto-super-pac-finally-backs-a-democrat-ritch

A rural Georgia town where 75% voted Trump just blocked a 10,000-bed ICE detention center — by cutting the warehouse's water and suing the feds. Washington paid $128M for a building assessed at $29M. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-revolt-in-small-georgia-town-appears-to-ward-off-ice-detenti

A dairy linked to 233 illnesses — many of them hospitalized kids — still sells. The health secretary meant to regulate it is a fan, customer; his department dropped the case and softened the warning. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-he-profits-off-raw-milk-thats-making-people-sick-the-governm

Review of 1,200+ lawsuits: 93% of ICE street arrests in the NY area hit Latinos — who are 66% of the undocumented. They grab people first, justify it later. A judge: 'grossly abused their authority.' https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-they-have-all-the-power-investigation-finds-that-93-of-ice-a

SpaceX's IPO made Musk the first trillionaire. For years the real owners of pieces of it hid behind offshore shells and a fee-skimming middleman — names pried loose only by a court fight. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-before-spacex-ipo-investors-in-china-secretly-acquired-stake

A firm that runs ICE detention is barred from political giving. It still funneled $250K in dark money to a PAC tied to Jim Jordan — days after a vote tripling ICE's budget enriched it. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-20-trump-loyalist-jim-jordan-linked-to-group-that-received-dark

Government analysts warned ICE's recruiting posts — borrowed from neo-Nazi memes — could draw violent extremists into its ranks. DHS didn't investigate; it called the warning a 'conspiracy theory.' https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-ice-should-show-it-hasnt-been-infiltrated-by-violent-extremi

Ordinary immigrants get held for ICE. A pardoned narco ex-president got his detainer lifted and a tactical escort to a 5-star hotel — on your dime. The rule to ban it just died on a party-line vote. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-lawmaker-pushes-for-ban-on-special-treatment-for-convicted-d

One of DC's most powerful lobbies moves money to shape votes on Israel. A watchdog is making that money toxic — and driving it underground. Now Ro Khanna's gone from target to its first endorsement. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-once-a-target-of-trackaipac-ro-khanna-gains-its-endorsement

Federal immigration agents have harmed 79 kids with tear gas since 2025 — most far from any protest, at home or walking to school. A judge ordered it stopped; an appeals court erased the order. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-what-you-need-to-know-about-how-tear-gas-harms-kids

They promised the food-stamp cuts wouldn't touch kids. A year later, 776,000+ children are off SNAP — pushed out not by name, but by cost shifts that reward states for thinning the rolls. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-more-than-770000-children-are-no-longer-receiving-snap-benef

The FBI director allegedly turned the bureau's bonus fund into a loyalty payroll — $1M+ to inner-circle agents, ~$8K biweekly atop maxed salaries, until reserve checks bounced. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-kash-patel-accused-of-directing-1m-to-slush-fund-to-pay-bonu

House Democrats helped kill the renewal of a warrantless spying law — but only after Trump put a loyalist in charge of it. Advocates warn: changing who holds the power isn't the same as fixing it. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-hakeem-jeffries-finally-finds-a-spine-dem-leaders-rallied-ag

15 people face felony conspiracy charges for protesting ICE raids — and the indictment alleges no officer was hurt. The agents who killed two people during those same raids? Charged with nothing. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-fifteen-people-charged-over-alleged-interference-in-minnesot

On July 1 the cheapest repayment plan for 7M student borrowers disappears. The replacements cost more and forgive less — and if you don't actively pick one, you're defaulted into the priciest. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-us-student-debt-repayment-system-is-being-overhauled-heres-w

In Texas, failing ratings at one school let the state seize a whole elected district — and a law bars that district from spending public funds to fight it. Eight seized so far; Austin may be next. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-texas-state-takeover-of-local-school-districts-expands-raisi

An agency built in 1964 to stop job discrimination is now suing on behalf of white men. Trump's EEOC chair wants to delete the 50-year-old rule that let employers fix past discrimination. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-trump-admin-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-white-men-to-sue-for

The US spends $15B a year on 'affordable' housing — but pegs the rent near market rate. The result: $1,400 one-bedrooms the poorest can't afford, and nearly 2,000 sitting empty in Portland. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-a-low-income-housing-program-is-pouring-billions-into-housin

A billionaire oil donor gave Trump millions. Now his company's former lobbyist runs the EPA office rewriting the methane rules — his leaking wells get a pass, and the public eats the climate cost. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-17-trump-plans-to-protect-methane-leaking-stripper-wells-this-b

ICE took a mentally ill asylum seeker from her cell, drove her 25 miles, and left her at a bus stop in winter. She froze to death — ruled a homicide. ICE has stopped reporting deaths after release. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-15-womans-hypothermia-death-after-her-release-by-ice-is-ruled-a

Trump opened tens of millions of acres of public land to off-road vehicles. He erased 50-year-old protections by order — critics say they can't even sue. The commons, handed off without a vote. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-15-critics-say-trumps-opening-of-public-lands-to-off-road-vehic

No law ended DACA. The waiting line did. Renewals that took weeks for 14 years now drag for months. Work permits lapse while Dreamers wait, and they lose their jobs — one's now selling burritos. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-15-dreamers-are-losing-their-jobs-waiting-for-renewals-under-tr

The government is quietly handing life-and-death calls to AI. A federal list names 3,611 AI uses — including software that flags inmates for harsher confinement and monitors veterans' crisis calls. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-15-ai-use-by-the-us-government-is-ballooning-and-the-lack-of-tr

Trump is spending $75M to force coal on the city that banned it. Oakland banned coal in 2016 and the project died. Trump used wartime powers to revive it, beside a neighborhood choking on pollution. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-15-trump-wants-to-put-a-75m-coal-terminal-in-this-liberal-calif

States banned cities from protecting workers from the heat As the World Cup hits 90F+ stadiums, Florida and Texas have outlawed local heat rules — and Trump's OSHA gutted the federal backstop. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-its-going-to-be-extremely-hot-workers-imperiled-as-swelterin

Trump country is revolting against the data centers next door Rural Georgians are forcing a rare vote on an 800-acre AI data center after the county rezoned conservation land to clear it. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-theyre-fighting-datacenters-in-rural-georgia-and-hope-to-ins

How one party rewired a swing state to keep power For a decade NC's legislature stripped the governor's powers, hid judicial discipline, and let a justice rule on his own father's cases. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-north-carolina-democrats-propose-changes-to-block-gop-power

He moved to kill the inspection his own planes failed Sen. Tim Sheehy pushed to end federal checks on firefighting aircraft — the same month one found a crack in a wing of his old company's plane. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-a-u-s-senator-pushed-to-cut-firefighting-aircraft-inspection

'Pencils down': DOJ killed a probe of a senator's coal empire Prosecutors had a strong pollution case against Sen. Jim Justice's mines. Trump's DOJ shut it down — law for enemies, mercy for friends. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-trump-administration-killed-criminal-investigation-of-gop-se

A tariff target paid Trump's son — then got his wins Reliance was hit with 50% tariffs over its Russian oil. It put $100M into a Trump Jr.–backed startup. Then came the trade deal and oil waivers. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-14-an-indian-billionaire-was-targeted-by-trump-then-he-poured-m

Even the governor has to sue to see inside this ICE jail Delaney Hall is run by a private company. It and DHS deny any problem — while NJ sues for access and a credentialed reporter gets arrested. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-13-were-doing-it-all-for-them-radio-jornalera-nj-exposes-condit

The plan: erase slavery from the parks. The judge: put it back. A 2025 order pulled park signage on slavery and civil rights that didn't fit its 'preferred narrative.' A court called it censorship. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-13-judge-orders-restoration-of-national-park-plaques-removed-un

A judge protected her from Iran. ICE flew her to a war zone. A US court barred her removal to Iran. So the US flew her to the Central African Republic — a country it warns Americans never to enter. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-13-u-s-deports-migrants-from-afghanistan-iran-other-countries-t

125 federal agents, one voter-registration group Weeks before the midterms, the FBI searched the group and went to volunteers' homes — even following kids to school. The process is the punishment. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-13-ohio-voting-rights-group-facing-criminal-fraud-investigation

$70B for mass deportation, oversight switched off Congress funded ICE for 3 years, not 1 — past the end of the term, so it can't easily be reined in. Every accountability guardrail was stripped. https://oturu.online/cycles/2026-06-13-ice-borders-and-dhs-whats-in-trumps-70bn-immigration-crackdo