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Trump's Second Term

Trump is ramping up his war on children vaccines.

The Guardian said:
July 28: Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Trump regularly posted on social media about debunked links between vaccination and autism as early as 2014, and his posts on Truth Social have recently advocated for breaking up shots into individual components and delaying some childhood vaccines for more than a decade.
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Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively

White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’
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ICE fails to comply with a court order regarding a detention facility in California.

The Guardian said:
July 28: California’s largest immigration detention center has failed to comply with a judge’s orders to provide adequate healthcare, according to a court-appointed monitor who found the facility was struggling to meet a wide range of medical standards. The California City detention facility was out of compliance with all eight areas identified by the judge, said the monitor.
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California’s largest ICE facility neglected detainees’ medical needs, monitor finds

Court-appointed investigator finds California City facility failed to comply with judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare
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Trump’s Spy Chief Spends Final Hours in Job Boasting of Mass Firings [The New York Times]

The New York Times said:
July 28: Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has spent his final days on the job celebrating his efforts to terminate employees in his office. “Good News! In addition to the Historic DECLASSIFICATIONS (Transparency!) by the President, we are, this morning, Executing a 5th and Near Final Round of TERMINATIONS, an approximately 30% Staff Reduction from Weeks Ago,” Mr. Pulte wrote in an X post. But Mr. Pulte’s office has provided no details or explanations of the purported cuts, sowing doubts on Capitol Hill. Several former U.S. intelligence officials expressed disbelief about the claim of reductions.
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US Senate confirms Trump nominee Clayton as nation's top spy [reuters.com]

Reuters said:
July 28: U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, to be the nation's top spy, despite opposition from Democrats following an angry confirmation hearing. During his hearing, Clayton repeatedly refused during his confirmation hearing to directly acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Some ICE agents are demonstrably racist.

The Guardian said:
July 28: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deployed last summer to the Los Angeles area referred to the subjects of their immigration operations with racial slurs, according to newly released court documents.
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ICE agents used racial slurs during Los Angeles crackdown, court files show

Agents accused in lawsuit of using anti-immigrant slurs and denigrating undocumented Mexicans
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case [The New York Times]

The New York Times said:
July 28: President Trump asked the Supreme Court to step in and overturn an $83.3 million jury award against him for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of a decades-old sexual assault in a Manhattan department store. The president urged the justices to reject the jury’s award, asserting that the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision granting presidents sweeping immunity for actions they take in office shielded him from liability in the case. In late June, the Supreme Court rejected a separate request from Mr. Trump that the court review a $5 million judgment against him from a previous 2023 jury finding that he had sexually abused and defamed Ms. Carroll.
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Rand Paul goes full fascist: the constitution does not apply when he's asking the questions. Fortunately for Fauci, it's not a Nazi People's Court.

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-led US Senate COVID hearing [reuters.com]

Reuters said:
July 29: Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination and accusing Republican Senator Rand Paul of an "unhinged" campaign to see him imprisoned. Paul said Fauci was not allowed to plead the Fifth Amendment right to refrain from answering senators' questions, that a pardon from former President Joe Biden would not protect him, and that there would be consequences for refusing to answer. He said the committee had scheduled a vote for next week to hold Fauci in contempt.
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Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing Says [The New York Times]

The New York Times said:
July 29: Secret Service agents who questioned the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey were told to quickly send a written summary of the interview to President Trump on Air Force One, according to a new court filing by Mr. Comey’s lawyers seeking to dismiss criminal charges over a social media post. The disclosure, included in internal government documents turned over to Mr. Comey, is one of the most glaring examples to date of the degree to which Mr. Trump now directs federal law enforcement actions.
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Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Sweeping New Tariff Powers [The New York Times]

The New York Times said:
July 29: The sanctions legislation that moved forward in the Senate this week goes beyond enacting new financial restrictions on Russia and Iran. It also gives President Trump broad new powers to impose tariffs on imports from some of the world’s largest economies. The measure would restore some of the trade authorities that the Supreme Court stripped away when it ruled against Mr. Trump’s use of tariffs on national security grounds earlier this year. The bill represents the latest move by Congress to cede more of its authority over trade policy to Mr. Trump.
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LiteBright said:
Its been suggested that Clayton was only confirmed because he wasn't as wildly unqualified as the first nominee Bill Pulte.

I wonder if this is a deliberate strategy now. Nominate a 10/10 nut job so you can pull him and get your real pick confirmed who is only an 8/10 nut job by comparison. Seems like this isn't the first time this has happened.
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He's made it pretty clear he's gonna be devoting resources to the 2020 election. And Pulte just got rid of 30% of employees. Is there a prediction market for terror attacks?
 
Trump’s DOJ charged hundreds with assaulting officers. Many cases were dropped, but the damage was done [reuters.com]

Reuters said:
July 30: The Trump administration has aggressively pursued ICE (immigration enforcement) protestors accused of assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The Trump administration has brought criminal charges against at least 851 people accused of attacking or impeding federal officers, only to abandon them at an unusually high rate. A Reuters review of federal court records found that 31% of these cases that have been completed so far have ended in dismissal. That compares to 8% of all federal criminal cases that typically end in dismissal, according to records compiled by the Federal Judicial Center. The DOJ's charges have imposed a steep cost on some people, even when the cases are dropped. Reuters interviewed a half dozen people who, despite the abandoned charges, reported lost jobs, legal fees and in some cases a flurry of online threats that arrived after federal officials publicized their arrests.
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Trump administration defunds bike lanes because they're DEI.

The Guardian said:
July 30: The Trump administration’s plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation advocates say.
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US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say

Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets
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U.S. Revives Obscure Court in Bid to Deport Afghan Woman [The New York Times]

The New York Times said:
July 30: The Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a court set up 30 years ago to expel immigrants accused of acts of terrorism from the country, will hear the case of an Afghan woman, who is a legal resident in the US., following a request from the Dept of Justice (DoJ). Nazira Haji Zada has been accused of being an ISIS supporter, as she is the mother of a convicted ISIS supporter. This case is an early test of the court where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected, and is the first time of its use by the Trump adminstration.
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DoJ admits the obvious!

Reflecting pool damage was the result of botched work, not vandals, DOJ says​

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Someone at the DoI will be in Trump's sights though.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, in a motion to dismiss charges against former Olympian David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the reflecting pool, wrote that previously undisclosed problems with the installation of its blue lining make proving a felony destruction of government property charge difficult.Furthermore, her office blamed the Interior Department for failing to share information about the status of that work that would have dissuaded the government from seeking an indictment in the first place.“Had DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment,” the filing stated.
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DOJ admits reflecting pool renovation was flawed, drops charges (CNN on YouTube, Aug 1, 2026 – 10 min.)
The Justice Department is admitting that a President Donald Trump-prompted $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
0:00 DOJ drops charges, admits pool renovation was flawed
3:13 Elie Honig: “A real embarrassment for the Justice Department”
5:45 More from the DOJ’s new court documents
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Jeanine Pirro to a reporter about David Hearn:
Oh, he damaged it!!!
He damaged the pool!!!
He damaged this pool!!!
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'BAD and EMBARRASSING': DOJ admits 'botched installation’ on Reflecting Pool (MS NOW on YouTube, Aug 1, 2026 – 9min.)
Prosecutors in Jeanine Pirro's office say the government received new evidence indicating that "damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor." Harry Litman, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, joins Chris Hayes to discuss.
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0:23-> Trump: We have a i think 290-300-foot slit right through it, probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind. They cut it up with a box knife and tried to destroy it. And it's in great shape now. They're terrible, the vandals. They took a cutter, a box cutter or something very sharp. And, can you imagine, what do these people come up
with this? And they cut, and then they started ripping it up. You know why? Because they're sick people.
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