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[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

WSJ, with a tough graphic.

@WSJ

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Under Biden, America built factories.

Under Trump, it's mostly building data centers.

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: The Trump administration has filed an urgent appeal with the Supreme Court seeking permission to immediately implement new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots which critics say impede on states' authority to run elections. https://t.co/mUDXNNMbGQ

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Too many Americans are turning a blind eye to the horrors unfolding right in front of them. The reality is that Trump's fascist, authoritarian regime is moving aggressively toward establishing mass concentration camps across the country — a terrifying echo of Auschwitz that journalists like Rachel Maddow have explicitly sounded the alarm on.

[Keep Smiling @timeflies42]

Unbelievable

[Keep Smiling @timeflies42]

America’s downfall continues.

[Financial Times @FT]

The transfer follows calls from European politicians and lobbyists to repatriate gold reserves from the US, warning that an unreliable American government may otherwise seize them amid growing transatlantic tensions. https://t.co/lbtGqYTSB9

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. https://t.co/0XAevTDyHO

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Trump says Americans have too many holidays and need to work more days to boost his failing economy.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

That thing that doesn’t happen happened again.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

The Netherlands moves 86 tonnes of gold out of US due to 'geopolitical unrest' as experts warn it is 'no longer safe' under Trump https://t.co/NcTYjIAxHv

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

For each baby, child and pregnant woman thrown into the Dilley Trailer Prison, there is an American company—CoreCivic—with American investors profiting from their suffering.

ICE must be disbanded and we must shut down Dilley.

[Keep Smiling @timeflies42]

.@Apple capitulates. Disappointing and embarrassing ☹️

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

If @Apple is weak enough to bend for something like this...

Why should you trust them on device privacy?

This is no longer the Apple that fought to keep phones encrypted.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

The power and professionalism of the US military were huge obstacles for autocrats. Destroying the military is part of creating the conditions to take America down as fast as possible.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A whistleblower inside the U.S. Postal Service is warning that a new delivery system could disrupt the handling of election mail and potentially put the midterm elections at risk.

The disclosure also alleges that the Postal Service continued developing the system despite a federal court order to stop.

@jacobbogage has been covering the story and joins @RealAmnaNawaz with more.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨The Trump Administration said ICE is finding abused, unaccompanied migrant children… but this is what they are doing once they find them…

They’re deporting them to countries where they have no family.

This week in Chicago, 10 children… ages 12 to 17… appeared in immigration court alone. All had been deemed abandoned by state courts.

Six were ordered deported, one child was just 12 years old.

His attorney told the judge he had NO caregivers waiting for him in El Salvador.

Moments later, the judge ordered him to be deported there.

These children aren’t terrorists.
They aren’t violent criminals.

They are children. Some seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status… a federal protection specifically designed for kids who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.

And instead of protecting them, this administration is accelerating their deportation.

That means sending vulnerable children back to places where they may have no safe home, no caregiver, and no protection… leaving them homeless, and at risk of exploitation, trafficking, abuse, or even death.

There are roughly 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children currently navigating the U.S. legal system, including about 1,000 in the Chicago area.

So, when this administration tells you it’s doing all of this to “protect children,” remember what they are actually doing…

They are finding vulnerable children, and then deporting them back into the very dangers that they were fleeing from to begin with.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans
https://t.co/dlmh6k4444

[Keep Smiling @timeflies42]

Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail

Gift article 👇
https://t.co/HOABbtSnlE via @NYTimes

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms, even though the order is currently blocked. https://t.co/7hRCaAoStL

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Whistleblower says U.S. Postal Service system Trump ordered for vetting mail ballots is likely to cause major disruptions this fall if implemented. https://t.co/AXV5IvVkQe

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

“Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months.” - President Trump, August 2024

“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” - President Trump, November 2024

"During every single day of the administration, I will, very simply, put America first." - President Trump, January 2025

"I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now. It’s an American territory." - President Trump, August 2026