
Good morning, and thank god it’s Friday. Democrats are finally proposing term limits for SCOTUS: 18-year terms — with a mandatory retirement. We’ll get into that, plus:
A federal judge blocks Trump's mail-in voting crackdown — again
The Flock CEO who tracks everyone just got tracked
Military journalists sue Pete Hegseth after his latest stunt
And: Ron DeSantis stole $10M from poor kids — and gave it to Republicans
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1. A federal judge blocks Trump's mail-voting crackdown — again — with ballots due in days
For the second time, a federal judge has halted Trump's executive order restricting mail voting, this time with Judge Indira Talwani placing a 14-day hold on implementation — about a week before the first mail ballots are scheduled to go out for the midterms.
The Supreme Court had already overturned Talwani's first block on Monday, which means this case is almost certainly headed back up to the justices, probably on an emergency basis, probably fast.
The administration's strategy is transparent: run out the clock, create enough confusion that voters give up, and call it election integrity.
We are also seeing reports online from people who checked their voter registration to find they are no longer registered. We implore you to check your registration at this link. And, if you use a mail-in ballot, it would be best to drop it off in person if you’re able — assuming you receive it in time.
2. Dem proposes 18-year term limits for SCOTUS — with mandatory retirement at 75
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin just laid out her plan for the Supreme Court — and tied it to the biggest fight in Congress over money in politics. Slotkin wants justices capped at 18 years on the bench, with mandatory retirement at 75, whichever comes first.
Right now, there's no cap at all.
Justices are serving an average of 26 years — more than six presidential terms — which means one administration can lock in a majority that outlasts every president who comes after it.
Almost every state already does this. Forty-seven states cap how long their own top judges can serve. The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the last institutions in the country still handing out lifetime power with no expiration date.
She's tying it to a bigger push — banning corporate campaign spending, forcing dark money donors to disclose, ending partisan gerrymandering.
Her argument: none of it matters if a handful of justices can undo all of it with one ruling.
⚠️ Pass TERM LIMITS for the Supreme Court!
Term and age limits for the Court poll well across party lines. Getting Republicans to actually vote for anything Democrats propose, however, is the hard part.
Tell Democrats to PASS TERM LIMITS for the Supreme Court once they take back power!
3. The Flock CEO who tracks everyone just got tracked
Garrett Langley went on Fox News and told Americans they need to "compromise" on privacy.
Langley runs Flock Safety, which operates over 120,000 license plate cameras across 49 states and sells access to 5,000+ police agencies. The company is valued at nearly $9 billion. Peter Thiel was an early investor — which tells you everything about the vision here.
The Washington Post found nearly 50 cases of cops using Flock to stalk exes and run unauthorized searches.
This isn't a surveillance state. It's a surveillance landlord — your town pays a private company to rent access to your own movement data.
We broke down exactly who's building this, how Wall Street is turning your neighborhood into a revenue stream, and what you can actually do before your city's next contract renewal. It's all on the Notice News YouTube channel.
4. Military journalists sue Pete Hegseth after he fires them
Three Stars and Stripes staffers — publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte — filed a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court yesterday after receiving termination notices from the Pentagon.
Their alleged offense: reporting on deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Hegseth, the Defense Department, and Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell are named as defendants. The suit alleges the firings violated both their constitutional rights and Defense Department procedures.
Pete Hegseth, who spent years on Fox News complaining about cancel culture, is now in federal court defending his decision to cancel the military's independent press.
5. Ron DeSantis stole $10M from poor kids — and gave it to Republicans
A Florida grand jury found that the DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million from a Medicaid settlement meant to provide health insurance for poor children — then laundered it through DeSantis's wife’s charity. The money ended up going to Republican PACs and the Republican Party of Florida and was used to kill a marijuana ballot initiative.
Ashley Moody, then-AG and now running for U.S. senator (after previously being appointed to the seat by DeSantis when Marco Rubio left to join the Trump administration), knew about the diversion and authorized her deputy to sign off, per the report.
She says her office had no idea how the money would be spent.
Remember when the right-wing outrage machine spent months screaming about fake fraud in Minnesota — and used it to kneecap Tim Walz? A Republican governor's family literally funneling Medicaid money for poor kids into his own political machine? Crickets.
DeSantis called the whole thing a "hoax." The report sat sealed for seven months while they others blocked its release.
Moody’s opponent, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, isn't letting Moody walk.
"Ashley Moody has proven she will sell out vulnerable Florida families if she thinks it gives her or her extremist friends more power," Nixon said.
"She has broken the public trust, and she must resign immediately."
5. Trump sends $500k to Nepal amid disaster — after spending $5M on gold horse statues in D.C.
The U.S. government is sending just $500,000 to Nepal after flash floods killed at least 389 people and left 977 missing.
That same government just spent $5.1 million covering four bronze horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial in 23.75-karat gold leaf.
The Nepal money works out to roughly $300 per missing or dead person.
The horse statues, known as the Arts of War and Arts of Peace, got their gold coating via a no-bid contract awarded to a Maryland gilding studio. The Park Service posted the contract notice for just six days before awarding it — citing urgency ahead of July 4th's America 250 celebrations.
Nepal is still pulling bodies from the Bhote Koshi River. The videos are jaw-dropping.
KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
What the algorithm buried:
Fox News found a genuinely bizarre problem with Trump's Lake Ontario rename — and it has to do with Hamas
Trump just ranked every U.S. president in history — one guess where he put himself
Don Jr. is now facing a bombshell probe into ‘almost clairvoyant’ bets
The US Navy is now raiding its own payroll to pay for Trump's war on Iran
A staffer for Jon Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins posted a photo of himself in KKK robes… and is trying to call it "satire."
A Trump-appointed judge rejected the DOJ’s attempt to save Steve Bannon
Trump goes on posting rampage against another rising Dem star
Trump's lawyers accidentally admitted he may have "irrevocably damaged" the Kennedy Center's marble facade — while threatening to demolish it
The CNN panel that laughed in a MAGA pundit's face over his defense of the Trump sons' business deals
An ICE agent charged with shooting a man and lying about it just walked free in Texas
West Point just fired its only climate scientist for teaching future army officers what causes climate change
Hilary Clinton and other leaders are roasting Trump over ‘Lake America’ rename
Karoline Leavitt is not going to be a host on The View
And: check out our new YouTube video: Why Republicans REALLY Want to Destroy Public Schools
NOTICE POLLING
Yesterday, we asked, do you want to see more calls to action included in this newsletter heading into midterms?
76% OF YOU SAID YES:
“Yes - Knowing how an individual can best respond to the current attack on our Constitution, Truth, Ethics, and the Rule of Law is a constant challenge. There are so many "petitions" out there that they are essentially meaningless. I write regularly to my elected leaders, but I doubt that has much of an impact. I hope you will explore other alternatives for us to have an impact.”
- weg
“No - I just need to know what's happening. I know I can write my representatives, with little effect. Nobody listens to us anymore anyways.”
- annaflorin99
That’s all for today — thank you so much for reading. We’ll see you tomorrow!
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