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Epstein exposes Trump’s relationship with elites

Epstein exposes Trump’s relationship with elites

Peter Rothpletz writes: Democrats must not let Jeffrey Epstein die. They must highlight how this saga exposes the president for who he has always been. In the decade Teflon Don has spent on the national stage, no scandal has stuck to and haunted him quite so viscerally as the Epstein affair. He’s never before appeared so flustered, forced to answer question after question about the women and girls whose lives were destroyed by his former “best friend”. The world may…

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Israeli authorities are trying to silence humanitarian aid workers in Gaza

Israeli authorities are trying to silence humanitarian aid workers in Gaza

Jonathan Whittall writes: Gaza has been held under water for 22 months, allowed to gasp for air only when Israeli authorities have succumbed to political pressure from those with more leverage than international law itself. After months of relentless bombardment, forced displacement and deprivation, the impact of Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s people has never been more devastating. I have been part of coordinating humanitarian efforts in Gaza since October 2023. Whatever lifesaving aid has entered since then has been…

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Why Trump’s meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics matters

Why Trump’s meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics matters

George A. Akerlof writes: Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. The rules are clear, the goal is fair, and one child edges ahead — until, suddenly, another child starts losing. That’s when the trouble begins. “He cheated!” the losing child yells. “I’m the winner anyway!” he declares. And then, like clockwork, he flips the board. In the world of kindergarten conflict resolution, we expect this kind of behavior. We chalk it up to development. We teach better…

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DOJ contradicts White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day

DOJ contradicts White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day

Politico reports: Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. “Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day,” the senior White…

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Trump and Miller are compelling colleges not to enroll international students

Trump and Miller are compelling colleges not to enroll international students

Stuart Anderson writes: The Trump administration is using rules, policies and formal agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students. A controversial immigration clause in the administration’s agreement with Columbia University represents the latest move to decrease international student enrollment. Settlements with other schools could soon follow. Despite what economists and educators view as the benefits of international students, Trump officials, led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, appear determined to reduce the number…

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Laura Loomer attack results in another ‘casualty of casually manufactured outrage’

Laura Loomer attack results in another ‘casualty of casually manufactured outrage’

The New York Times reports: Hours after West Point pulled its offer to have her teach cadets, Jen Easterly posted a short essay in which she laid out what happened to her and what it meant for the country. “This isn’t about me,” she wrote last week. “This is about something larger.” Over three decades, Ms. Easterly, 57, had compiled an impeccable résumé as a West Point graduate, a Rhodes Scholar and an Afghanistan war veteran. She had served as…

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Expect coffee prices to soar as Trump’s tariffs backfire

Expect coffee prices to soar as Trump’s tariffs backfire

Reuters reports: China has approved 183 new Brazilian coffee companies to export products to the Chinese market, according to a social media post of the Chinese embassy in Brazil on Saturday. The measure, a boon to local exporters after the United States government’s announcement of steep tariffs on Brazilian coffee and other products, took effect on July 30. The new Chinese export permits are valid for five years, according to the post. The U.S.’s 50% tariff on some Brazilian products…

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The United States is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise

The United States is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise

Mehdi Hasan writes: Can we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a “war,” a “conflict,” or even a “humanitarian crisis”? Many of the world’s leading human rights and humanitarian groups – including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders – agreed months ago that what is being livestreamed to our phones on a daily basis is indeed a genocide. This week, Israel’s own leading human rights group…

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‘We’re trying to do the best we can before we die’

‘We’re trying to do the best we can before we die’

Claire Porter Robbins writes: George Anton is hungry, but he’s become used to the sensation—the urgent, aching feeling in his stomach, the heaviness of his limbs. He hardly has time to acknowledge the discomfort, given all the work he has to do. He is the operations manager for an aid-distribution program operating through the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, the sole remaining Catholic church in Gaza. Anton lives at the church in a single room that he shares…

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How the Israel inquiry led by ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, was derailed

How the Israel inquiry led by ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, was derailed

  A major Middle East Eye investigation has uncovered extraordinary details of an intensifying intimidation campaign targeting the British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court over his investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes. The campaign has involved threats and warnings directed at Karim Khan by prominent figures, close colleagues and family friends briefing against him, fears for the prosecutor’s safety prompted by a Mossad team in The Hague, and media leaks about sexual assault allegations.

Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Texas?

Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Texas?

Zev Shalev and Lev Parnas join Wajahat Ali to discuss the machinations leading to Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a minimum security prison where the inmates get to play with puppies and take yoga classes.   The Telegraph reports: When Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking underage girls to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in December 2021, her victims rejoiced, no doubt imagining the British socialite under lock and key, wearing orange overalls. But the reality of Maxwell’s life behind bars…

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Trump’s domestic use of the military is set to get worse, leaked memo reveals

Trump’s domestic use of the military is set to get worse, leaked memo reveals

Greg Sargent writes: President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out imagery of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests there—and then sent in the Marines. But an internal…

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Economic fears of investors are here — and stoked by Trump’s reckless reaction

Economic fears of investors are here — and stoked by Trump’s reckless reaction

The Washington Post reports: For months, the U.S. economy appeared to be weathering the disruptive effects of President Donald Trump’s trade and immigration policies. But over the course of 72 hours, that sunny outlook darkened, as the latest government data this week showed the president’s revolutionary remaking of the world’s largest economy had hit a snag. Friday’s disappointing jobs report revealed a labor market that is much weaker than either the White House or Federal Reserve understood. Inflation, the voter…

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Netanyahu is choosing to let starvation consume the children in Gaza

Netanyahu is choosing to let starvation consume the children in Gaza

Alex de Waal writes: Mass starvation is unfolding in and around the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the Sudanese Army and its allies are defending a siege and onslaught by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Both sides are fighting a war of starvation, stealing food from civilians and blocking aid. If the warring parties were to agree to a cease-fire this instant, given the perilous roads and the underfunded aid operation, it would be weeks or months before sufficient…

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As Witkoff and Huckabee staged a humanitarian photo op, dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israelis

As Witkoff and Huckabee staged a humanitarian photo op, dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israelis

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous report: President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee toured an “aid distribution” site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah in southern Gaza on Friday. During the U.S. envoy’s highly stage-managed visit, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave, including 49 people seeking food aid with more than 270 injured. The visit came as the leading international authority on food crises—the…

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Firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

Firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a statement following Commissioner McEntarfer’s removal: Today, President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning. He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting false numbers to reflect poorly on this administration. This baseless, damaging claim undermines the valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month. This escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and…

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