July 2025

July 25, 2025

Trump Sets Multi-Murderer Free in the US

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The Best of the Week’s News

An American slaughtered three strangers in Spain and set the building on fire. Donald Trump brought him home and set him free. (NYT)
Trump-appointed judge tosses White House lawsuit aimed at ending collective bargaining in large parts of the federal civil service. (Politico)
Too racist to get paid? IRS considers eliminating tax services in multiple languages. (WaPo)
In Iowa, heaps of rotting swine emit deadly gasses as “digester” tech goes awry and hundreds of meatpackers get their visas revoked. (Sentient)
The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence and that time is running out to save their lives. (CPJ)
How the Trump administration botched their review of the Epstein files. (NYT)

July 18, 2025

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The Best of the Week’s News

It’s not just the masked agents, ICE lawyers are hiding their names in court. (Intercept)
Republicans vote to defund PBS and NPR. (NYT)
The US will incinerate 500 metric tons of emergency food aid rather than distribute it to starving children. (Atlantic)
Justice Department hits states with broad requests for voter data and two thirds of the lawyers defending the Trump administration in court have quit. (WaPo)
A proposed Trump policy could leave 1.4 million poor renters homeless. (AP)

July 11, 2025

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The Best of the Week’s News

Trump threatens a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports unless they stop trying to hold their former fascist president accountable for his failed coup. (Prospect, NYT)
Aid to Texas flood victims was delayed because Kristi Noem has to personally sign off on all expenditures over $100,000. Plus, the head of warning coordination at the National Weather Service was pushed out by DOGE. (WaPo, NYT)
Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling critical workplace protections. (EPI)
Benjamin Netanyahu dragged out the war in Gaza in order to stay in power. (NYT)
Lawsuits allege Eric Adams created a culture of cronyism at the NYPD, including selling promotions. (Gothamist, Hellgate)

July 4, 2025

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The Best of the Week’s News

The horrors of the Republican budget in 10 charts. (NYT)
“Free fall”: A public health crisis looms as RFKjr attacks vaccines. (TNR)
Camera catches ICE agents urinating in a California schoolyard. (NYT)
Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms’ futures uncertain. (Reuters)
Putin bombards Ukraine in one of the most intense attacks of the war after call with Trump. (WaPo)