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DOJ ‘sending a message’ by moving to sanction a lawyer who took pro bono deportation case

DOJ ‘sending a message’ by moving to sanction a lawyer who took pro bono deportation case

Politico reports: The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to punish lawyers whom it sees as obstacles to the president’s agenda. The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to impose “substantial monetary sanctions” on a California lawyer who briefly halted but ultimately failed to block the deportation of an immigrant from Laos who pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the 1990s. Joshua Schroeder, an immigration and intellectual property attorney based in Los Angeles, appears to be the first target…

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The Supreme Court ruling that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone

The Supreme Court ruling that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone

Donald Trump wants to restrict journalists’ ability to publish or broadcast critical stories. Mesh cube, iStock/Getty Images Plus By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press – this time not with fiery rally speeches or by calling the media “the enemy of the people,” but through the courts. Since the heat of the November 2024 election, and continuing into July, Trump has filed defamation lawsuits against “60 Minutes” broadcaster CBS News…

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From Russian interference to revisionist innuendo: What the Gabbard files actually reveal

From Russian interference to revisionist innuendo: What the Gabbard files actually reveal

Renee DiResta writes: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has recently released a series of declassified documents she claims expose a “treasonous conspiracy” by former President Barack Obama and his top intelligence officials to sabotage Donald Trump. Gabbard’s performance—part of an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to retcon “Russiagate”—led to an announcement yesterday by Attorney General Pam Bondi assigning an as-yet-unknown federal prosecutor to convene a grand jury investigation into President Obama and others. Before diving into the barrage…

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Huge cuts to mRNA research trigger fears about future pandemics and national security

Huge cuts to mRNA research trigger fears about future pandemics and national security

The Hill reports: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision this week to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in mRNA vaccine funding will leave the United States unprepared for the next pandemic and other public health emergencies, public health experts warned. “I’ve tried to be objective & non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions—but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives,” President Trump’s former surgeon general, Jerome Adams, said in a post on…

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The White House office for U.S. pandemic policy has been gutted

The White House office for U.S. pandemic policy has been gutted

Nikki Romanik writes: The White House office mandated by Congress to coordinate pandemic preparedness has been gutted, leaving urgent global health security gaps. Six months into the second Trump administration, a critical piece of America’s pandemic defense infrastructure sits dormant. The Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), created in 2022 by congressional mandate through the PREVENT Pandemics Act, has been effectively abandoned—operating without a director since Trump’s second inauguration. This institutional void emerges just as the United States…

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The ADL used to fight for justice for all. Now its focus is on crushing pro-Palestinian activism

The ADL used to fight for justice for all. Now its focus is on crushing pro-Palestinian activism

  Noah Shachtman writes: On June 4, an executive at the Anti-Defamation League, which was founded with a mission to defend the Jewish people and “to secure justice and fair treatment to all,” walked into a room on the fourth floor of the Eisenhower building across the street from the White House. They were there to attend a meeting between Jewish groups and members of the Trump administration. Just a few years before, in the waning days of Trump’s first…

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‘A million calls an hour’: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

‘A million calls an hour’: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

Yuval Abraham reports: The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal. Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied…

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Details on Trump regime’s ‘ideological deportation’ policy filed in federal court

Details on Trump regime’s ‘ideological deportation’ policy filed in federal court

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University yesterday filed and today made public an almost-two-hundred-page brief describing evidence presented during trial in a case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen faculty and students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. The case was filed in the spring on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUP’s Harvard, NYU, and Rutgers campus chapters, and the Middle East Studies Association. Judge William G. Young of the U.S….

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Trumpworld knows Epstein is a problem they can’t solve

Trumpworld knows Epstein is a problem they can’t solve

Wired reports: Privately, some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies have come to a sobering conclusion. There’s simply nothing that can be done, they’ve come to believe, to salvage the ongoing catastrophe that is the MAGA base fraying over the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. People aren’t jumping off the Trump train yet—at least not in significant numbers, though polling shows at least 60 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the Epstein case in recent weeks—but the damage…

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Victims object to ‘public legitimization’ of Maxwell as judge weighs fate of Epstein grand jury transcripts

Victims object to ‘public legitimization’ of Maxwell as judge weighs fate of Epstein grand jury transcripts

CNN reports: Numerous victims of Jeffrey Epstein took aim at the “public legitimization” of his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as they urged a federal judge considering unsealing grand jury transcripts to take their privacy into account when making his decision. Lawyers Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, who represent numerous victims, including a woman who testified at Maxwell’s criminal trial, also questioned the motives of the Justice Department as the Trump administration tries to tamp down criticism from some of his most…

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Trump regime making plans to destroy NASA satellites designed for monitoring greenhouse gases

Trump regime making plans to destroy NASA satellites designed for monitoring greenhouse gases

NPR reports: The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere. The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They…

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The hippocampus may have much wider functions than previously thought

The hippocampus may have much wider functions than previously thought

Natalia Mesa writes: The tiny hippocampus, deep in the brain’s medial temporal lobe, has long resisted easy explanation. Its prominent role in navigation seems at odds with its contributions to episodic memory. It contains cognitive maps of the external world yet also stores abstract relationships between concepts, objects and events. And it actively encodes memories during our waking hours but also replays this information offline during rest. Scientists have long debated how, or even if, the same neural circuits support…

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Netanyahu willing to sacrifice hostages in pursuit of complete conquest of Gaza

Netanyahu willing to sacrifice hostages in pursuit of complete conquest of Gaza

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior security officials on Tuesday to hammer out Gaza war plans, and reportedly came out in favor of the military taking control of the entire enclave, even if it meant that the remaining hostages could be harmed or executed by Hamas. The meeting came amid multiple reports of rising tensions between the prime minister and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir over the prospect of Israeli forces…

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For Trump’s own deep state, ‘his usefulness has expired’

For Trump’s own deep state, ‘his usefulness has expired’

Wajahat Ali talks to Allison Gill of Mueller, She Wrote, who broke the news that someone waived Ghislaine Maxwell’s status as a sex offender so she could move to a minimum security prison camp in Texas. Gill also earlier broke news that Bloomberg confirmed today that the FBI’s FOIA team was asked to redact the names of Trump and other prominent individuals from thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.   The Associated Press reports: The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed…

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