THE BIG PICTURE
Trump’s DOJ went after a reporter's mom to unmask sources. The FBI stopped investigating ICE after three men died in confrontations this month. The Pentagon is hiding U.S. casualties in Iran while Trump brags about a peace deal that doesn't exist.
Meanwhile, a new State Department report just branded Mamdani, the DSA, and a handful of journalists and organizers as fronts for "leftwing terrorism" while a company at the center of a food safety scandal got a break right after visiting the White House.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS
1. Trump's DOJ went after a reporter's MOM to kill the Qatar jet story
The Trump administration sought the phone records of multiple New York Times journalists — and at least one of their relatives — in an attempt to unmask the confidential sources behind reporting on Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One.
The move, revealed in a court document, targets reporters who covered a story Trump found embarrassing enough to lie about publicly. The White House has simultaneously insisted the Qatari plane is "just as safe" as the custom-built Air Force One models it replaced.
2. ICE kills two men, FBI stops investigating, Homan says no mistakes were made
Three separate ICE confrontations. Two men shot dead — Joan Sebastián Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, both killed inside their vehicles. A third man, Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, died fleeing agents — he was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket home.
The FBI, which would normally investigate such incidents, has stopped looking into ICE confrontations after these three deadly cases. Border Czar Tom Homan's response: ICE made no mistakes in Minnesota, and the real problem is people calling ICE agents fascists.
Over 135 communities are planning vigils for July 25. The agency that killed a tourist with a ticket home is the one that gets to decide it did nothing wrong.
3. Trump's Iran war is hiding its own body count
Two more U.S. soldiers have been identified after being killed in an Iranian airstrike on a base in Jordan. The Pentagon has been accused of concealing the true casualty count as the conflict escalates. Meanwhile, the White House is publicly bragging about a peace deal that does not appear to exist, and a new report finds that Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon office responsible for minimizing civilian harm — replacing it with an AI initiative — before the war began.
Democrats are feebly calling on Trump to halt the war, with some saying he has "lost control" of it. A strongly worded letter ought to do the trick.
4. Trump's 50% Canada tariff is a gift to no one except Trump
Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods — autos, alcohol, cheese — claiming Canada "unfairly discriminated" against American products. This comes days after Trump threatened Canada over wildfire smoke, even as U.S. wildfires are currently sending smoke into Canada. Gas prices are already rising, and Doug Burgum is going around claiming Americans have "saved billions" on energy — a claim that requires not looking at a gas pump or any of your bills. The "Freedom Fuel Network" of star-spangled gas stations Trump has been promoting is backed by MAGA supoting businessmen, of course.
5. Trump's foreign income "exploded" in 2025 — and Trump give Taylor Farms a break after donation
A new report reveals Trump's income from foreign businesses surged in 2025, his first full year back in office. Separately, an investigation finds Trump has dramatically expanded the use of no-bid government contracts — the kind that skip competitive bidding and go straight to whoever the administration prefers.
Taylor Farms, the produce company at the center of a food safety outbreak, visited the White House before receiving what's being described as a reprieve from federal scrutiny — and has come under scrutiny for its political donations. The pattern isn't subtle: pay to play, skip the line, Trump keeps the profits.
6. State Department associates Mamdani, Hasan Piker, Ilhan Omar's daughter, and DSA with “leftwing terrorism”
A new 100-page State Department report brands Cuba the "capital of 21st-century communism" and claims a Cuban "campaign of subversion" has reached the highest levels of the US government. It names specific Americans as alleged fronts or fellow travelers — streamer Hasan Piker, Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls, Isra Hirsi (Ilhan Omar's daughter), journalist Amy Goodman, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the Democratic Socialists of America — citing their criticism of US Cuba policy or ties to solidarity organizing.
The report accuses the Cuban government of having “recruited and cultivated generations of American activists [and] backed an unprecedented wave of leftwing terrorism on American soil.”
The report drops days after fresh Rubio-led sanctions on Cuba's tourism sector, and as the island suffers its third blackout in six months under a US oil blockade.
7. Mamdani says he'd arrest Netanyahu — and Trump just confirmed the threat landed
Zohran Mamdani said publicly that he would have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if the Israeli prime minister visited New York City — a direct reference to the ICC arrest warrant issued over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
Trump felt compelled to respond, publicly declaring Netanyahu "will not be arrested" if he visits the U.S.
When the president of the United States has to personally intervene to protect a foreign leader from a mayoral candidate's statement, that candidate is winning the argument. Meghan McCain — not exactly a progressive ally — called Mamdani "brilliant" and "a huge fucking problem for the GOP."
When your opponent's critics are doing your press for you, you're doing something right.
KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
What the algorithm buried:
Mamdani puts his democratic socialist version of DOGE to the test
How Bernie Sanders finally won
Elizabeth Warren just threw her weight behind the candidate fighting $30 million in dark money in Michigan's Senate race
The CDC stopped tracking the parasite behind the current diarrhea outbreak — and Jon Ossoff has some receipts for RFK Jr. to explain himself
Trump's own aides tried to stop him from giving that embarrassing primetime speech — and he did it anyway
Even Murdoch's Wall Street Journal turned on Trump — and the reason why is very on-brand
An Australian broadcaster was caught on a hot mic saying exactly eight words about Trump's World Cup trophy stunt — and they went viral
Canada, after Trump accused them of mismanaging wildfires, launched a new initiative to rake their forests. Its acronym is not printable here but is extremely printable in your group chat
Scientists are in "complete shock and dismay" over an OMB proposal that would redirect $1 trillion in federal grants away from researchers and into the hands of political appointee
Trump's Super PAC is sitting on $400 million heading into the midterms — which is what democracy looks like when you let billionaires run it
NOTICE POLLING
Last week we asked, Should Pete Hegseth go to jail for war crimes?
OVER 97% OF YOU SAID YES:
“Yes, he is a useless piece of trash. He is racist and doesn't want woman in the service.”
- na3k
“Jail? No, no, jail is too easy when he deserves what he has done to others to be done to him, along with his boss and all the accomplices to these atrocities!”
- mewise498
“He is a murderer. He has no regard for human life: our soldiers or innocent school children.”
- v38235829
“What he unleashed on small boats in the Caribbean with no evidence is totally shameful and should be a major embarrassment to every single American.”
- lamakul
“Absolutely he should be in prison. Kegsbreath is not qualified to be in any position of authority; especially concerning life and death situations.”
- b.benda234
“Along with this whole administration and their enablers in congress who won't put a stop to it. It is within their power to stop all of this, but they won't because it lines their pockets - and that is both sides of the aisle. Why do we think they want to stay in power until they die of old age??? Not to help any of us peons, that is for sure.”
- twoasps
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