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THE BIG PICTURE
This week, the bill came due:
ICE had to pause its own tactics nationwide after killing three people in seven days
Elon Musk got referred for criminal charges over his election-buying scheme
Mahmoud Khalil went on offense, suing Trump officials under a law built to stop government conspiracies with vigilante groups
AND: E. Jean Carroll finally got her $5.6 million, in full, from Trump himself.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS
1. ICE killed three people in one week. The agency's response was to pause vehicle stops
Three people are dead in seven days of immigration enforcement operations. In Maine, ICE agents shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero — a legally working Colombian husband and father — in front of his three-year-old daughter. Senator King confirmed agents had the wrong man.
In Texas, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed in a separate vehicle stop. In Florida, a 28-year-old man was struck and killed by a semi-truck while fleeing immigration officials.
ICE waited 12 hours after the Maine shooting to offer an explanation — "fearing for public safety" — that left law enforcement officials across the country baffled. The agency has since been forced to stop vehicle pursuits nationwide.
Congress gave ICE $170 billion last year, then added another $75 billion this summer.
2. Elon Musk has been referred for possible criminal charges over his $1 million voter giveaway
The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has found probable cause that Elon Musk violated state law when he gave $1 million checks to voters ahead of the 2025 state Supreme Court election.
This is not an allegation from Democrats — it's a bipartisan finding from the state's own elections authority.
The scheme, which Musk ran through his America PAC, was always a transparent attempt to buy a judicial seat. The court he was trying to buy ended up flipping liberal anyway. Now he may face legal consequences for the attempt.
3. Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump officials under the KKK Act — and goes on offense
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student detained by the Trump administration for his pro-Palestinian activism, is suing senior Trump officials under the Ku Klux Klan Act — a Reconstruction-era civil rights law designed to protect people from government-coordinated conspiracies to deprive them of constitutional rights.
The suit also names major conservative organizations that have been targeting pro-Palestinian activists. This is not a defensive legal maneuver — it is a direct, named, historically-grounded counterattack that reframes the entire episode: not as an immigration enforcement action, but as a coordinated civil rights violation.
Khalil's legal team is forcing the courts to confront what the Trump administration has been doing to dissidents in plain sight. The KKK Act hasn't been used like this in a long time.
4. Rubio launches campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a U.S. campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court, claiming the tribunal interferes with American military and law enforcement operations.
This comes three weeks after Rubio himself warned against the exact kind of Strait of Hormuz escalation Trump is now pursuing. The ICC is the body that would theoretically hold war crimes accountable.
The timing — as U.S. strikes on Iran continue and tankers come under attack in the Strait — is not a coincidence.
5. E. Jean Carroll FINALLY gets paid. Trump loses again.
Court records confirm E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million from Trump in her sexual abuse and defamation case, after funds were released from escrow following the failure of Trump's efforts to block payment. She immediately took to Twitter to troll him:
Hunter Biden also won a defamation lawsuit, netting $1.7 million from a former Overstock.com CEO who falsely claimed Biden had sought a bribe from Iran.
It’s a good week for karma.
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KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
What the algorithm buried:
AOC told TV stations what to do with Trump's Thursday speech — and she didn't mince words
Jon Ossoff just revealed what Republicans are really saying about Trump when the cameras are off
Trump is blaming "vandals" for the Reflecting Pool damage, but the drained pool just revealed tire marks that look a lot like his motorcade's
Kimmel’s guest host just sent Mitch McConnell the most pointed "get well soon" you've ever heard
Warren Buffett just cut Bill Gates off completely — and the reason involves Epstein
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the country's first statewide moratorium on new large data centers
Dua Lipa just called the six-week Albanian uprising against the Kushner resort "inspiring" — and the flamingos agree
Here's why Trump's immigration numbers just cratered — and CNN's own data guy is the one saying it.
Hakeem Jeffries just told his caucus to vote their conscience on cutting $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel
After the Supreme Court ruled them illegal, the US government has now handed back $81 billion in "Liberation Day" tariff refunds — and counting.
Meta allegedly used AI to flag workers for layoffs right after they took maternity or disability leave
The Treasury secretary made an NSFW joke about his colleagues on Fox News because that’s where we are now
The cyclospora parasite outbreak has surpassed 2,800 cases — and it’s going to get worse before it gets better
And: a MAGA rapper is suing Republicans over a $600,000 Trump pardon that never materialized
NOTICE POLLING
On Monday we asked, Do you believe the photo is real and Mitch McConnell is on the road to recovery?
OVER 99% OF YOU SAID NO — ONLY ONE PERSON SAID YES
“Who do they think they're fooling? Odiferous to the Nth Degree!!!”
- gail.woodman919
“AI generated. He hasn’t looked that great for 40 years!”
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“I think keeping the condition of Mitch McConnell quiet is betrayal to his constituents and to all the citizens of the U.S. Another unlawful move by the republicans.”
- mfgarrett
“If he is truly on the road to recovery, he could speak in a video”
- frazerbrown2651
“I think the photo was from his last hospital visit. I do not trust the republicans one bit. Let someone else see him, an independent journalist or some senators from both sides of the aisle. I do not trust a word the republicans say anymore.”
- twoasps
“The "20 minute phone call" lie was ridiculed, so now we have the "look how healthy I am" phony photo lie. For people who lie consistently, they're not very good at it.”
- capthonb3
That’s all for today — we will see you tomorrow!
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