The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2024-06-28

Domestic

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump meet in Atlanta, Georgia for a memorable debate.

The Supreme Court temporarily blocks the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor Plan” and blocks the multibillion Purdue opioid settlement, finding it inappropriately protected the Sackler family. And the Court sides with the Biden Administration in a challenge to Idaho’s strict abortion ban.

In the most expensive House primary in history, Democratic New York county official George Latimer upsets Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert wins in a crowded primary after swapping districts.

Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/the-news-roundup-domestic-10/ 

International

Bolivia foils a military coup attempt. Army General Juan José Zúñiga is arrested hours after he led troops and tanks to storm the presidential palace in the capital, La Paz.

In Kenya, protests resume a day after President Ruto makes a dramatic U-turn and withdraws contentious tax hikes. On Tuesday, the Kenyan Parliament was partly set ablaze and close to two dozen people are reported killed across the country.

Israel warns it can send Lebanon “back to the Stone Age” as the United Nations humanitarian affairs chief warns a conflict would be “potentially apocalyptic.” And plans for a post-war Gaza continue to cause tension in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s government.

Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/the-news-roundup-international-28/

Abortion is becoming more common in primary care clinics as doctors challenge stigma (NPR)

Integrating abortion into primary care is another way to increase access. Attaie says now, when patients find out they are pregnant, she can counsel them on all their options.

“Some folks end up scheduling for a medication abortion and some folks schedule for an initial prenatal visit — both of them happen in the same clinic at the same time, which is really great,” she says...

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/06/21/nx-s1-4995771/abortion-primary-care-family-medicine

Senate Democrats launch investigation into Jared Kushner's business (Axios)

The big question is if Kushner discussed his plans for Affinity with foreign governments while still serving as senior adviser to former President Trump, or if it was some sort of retroactive quid pro quo...

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/20/jared-kushner-senate-democrats-investigation

A closer look at Harris shows how effective she’s become (Washington Post)

As the election nears, the vice president is connecting policy to lived experience...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/23/harris-voice-abortion/

Coronavirus FAQ: Is the 6-foot rule debunked? Or does distance still protect you? (NPR)

Here’s the thing: Even with this revised understanding of the spread of COVID, the closer you are to the person with COVID, the higher your risk of catching it...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/06/21/g-s1-5705/coronavirus-faw-if-youre-still-trying-to-stay-covid-safe-does-the-6-food-rule-matter

Texas adopts guidance for how doctors should interpret abortion ban (The Texas Tribune)

In that ruling, the court said the legal standard to bring a case against someone who performed an abortion is that no reasonable physician would have said terminating a pregnancy was medically necessary.

Bresnen said this new guidance doesn’t take that ruling into account, and will lead to legal challenges down the road if a doctor is investigated for an improper abortion.

“Meantime, that physician and all the physicians in the state are going to have been tortured because your rule does not change the burden of proof in a case alleging a violation of the prohibition on abortion,” he said...

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/21/texas-medical-board-abortion-guidance/

Weekly Roundup: 10 Commandments in Classrooms, Another Megachurch Sex Abuse Scandal, and the Trump Revenge Train (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad Onishi and Dan Miller delve into several critical issues in this week’s Straight White American Jesus Weekly Roundup. 

They start with a vigorous discussion on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s new law mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms, highlighting the religious and historical contradictions in the proponents’ arguments. They move on to address the disturbing allegations against Robert Morris, former pastor of Gateway Church, scrutinizing the broader systemic issues within Christian evangelical circles. 

Finally, they examine recent incendiary comments by Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, exposing plans for revenge and grievance should Trump secure a second term. 

The episode concludes by reflecting on the broader implications of these events on the American socio-political landscape.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-10-commandments-in-classrooms-another-megachurch-sex-abuse-scandal-and-the-trump-revenge-train/

VIRAL: Buttigieg issues MUST-SEE response to Trump-Biden debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYOdbr5qsE

Supreme Court rules against right to green cards for spouses

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r4uPOp2JFno

The Supreme Court gives the right a huge victory over expertise - The Washington Post

"A rule of judicial humility gives way to a rule of judicial hubris," she wrote. She later added another pointed criticism: "In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue — no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden — involving the meaning of regulatory law." 

"As if it did not have enough on its plate," Kagan continued, "the majority turns itself into the country's administrative czar." 

The decision is unquestionably a function of the business-friendliness of the conservative majority. Revoking Chevron means that businesses frustrated by regulations don't have to appeal to scientists and bureaucrats but can, instead, hire lawyers and talk to judges — terrain where their odds of success are much higher in part because the judges aren't subject-matter experts…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/28/supreme-court-gives-right-huge-victory-over-expertise/

Trump FACT CHECKED for his Debate Lies IMMEDIATELY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kemdd-7iscA

Jiminy Glick’s Musical Salute to Donald Trump

Jiminy Glick steps in as guest host for Martin Short who stepped in as guest host for Jimmy. Jiminy gives us Hollywood Headlines, talks about the presidential debate between Trump and Biden, and he performs a musical salute to the man whose only crime is trying to Make America Great Again. Again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xku08zGdxGA

Trump Threatens To Sue Reporters Who Exposed His Corruption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TR0H6w-EIk

President Joe Biden Addresses Concerns Over His Age and Shares His 2024 Agenda

President Joe Biden addresses the concern American voters have about his age, shares what his agenda for the 2024 election is and discusses the dangers Donald Trump poses to democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxuN3i84FNY

BREAKING: Biden issues MUST-SEE statement after debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWylhLOPk8c

Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRU49GujbT4

Jon Stewart's Debate Analysis: Trump's Blatant Lies and Biden's Senior Moments

Jon Stewart goes live after CNN's presidential debate to unpack Biden's senior moments and Trump's blatant lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJr44m-w1Y

Biden and Trump CLASH at first presidential debate

https://youtu.be/1vc2BVR7T08?si=aoCAVb593x-Go4el

Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most

Studies have found that summers are generally getting hotter, including much warmer night-times which reduces the amount of relief people get from the elevated temperatures. Heatwaves are getting fiercer and are moving more slowly as the planet warms, with heat now the largest weather-related cause of death in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/27/us-summer-extreme-heat-map

Fox News TRIPLES DOWN Using DEI as a Substitute for RACIAL SLUR!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s71RlAPe_PA

Supreme Court's Elena Kagan Targets Samuel Alito In Abortion Case | HuffPost Latest News

"Justice Alito's dissenting opinion requires a brief response. His primary argument is that although EMTALA generally obligates hospitals to provide emergency medical care, it never demands that they offer an abortion — no matter how much that procedure is needed to prevent grave physical harm, or even death," Kagan wrote. 

"That view has no basis in the statute," she said. "EMTALA unambiguously requires that a Medicare-funded hospital provide whatever medical treatment is necessary to stabilize a health emergency — and an abortion, in rare situations, is such a treatment."…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-elena-kagan-samuel-alito-abortion_n_667d7ec2e4b05521a7f1015d

Supreme Court LEAVES Clarence Thomas OUT TO DRY

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok on the Legal AF pod (After Dark Edition), debate whether Clarence Thomas line defense of drug dealing domestic violence abusers and their right to bear arms, means we have found how far they will sink in defense of the Second Amendment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNTFN73jRU

Republicans Want to Revive the Independent State Legislature Theory A Year after already rejected by Supreme Court

A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the radical independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper. Now, Republicans in Pennsylvania and Montana are asking SCOTUS to consider the theory again to give lawmakers unprecedented power in elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTpShKDoDY8

Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud crackdown | CNN

Other cases announced by the Justice Department Thursday accused defendants of unlawfully distributing millions of Adderall pills that weren't medically necessary, establishing phony sober living homes that claimed to provide addiction treatment and other support to Native Americans, and illegally prescribing or distributing opioids...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/health-care-fraud-crackdown/index.html

Rep. Matt Rosendale Is Spoiling Republicans' Messaging On IVF | HuffPost Latest News

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) claims in vitro fertilization, a broadly popular fertility treatment, kills more children than abortion...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ivf-republicans-matt-rosendale_n_667d7163e4b05521a7f0f864

Oklahoma’s top education official orders schools to incorporate Christian Bible into teaching | PBS News

The directive sent Thursday to superintendents across the state by Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters says adherence to the mandate is compulsory and "immediate and strict compliance is expected."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/oklahomas-top-education-official-orders-schools-to-incorporate-christian-bible-into-teaching

Tennessee Republicans CREATE AN INCUBATOR FOR WHITE SUPREMACISTS!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRmJDG35Hg

Convict on Stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkUsOGk6gw

Pro-Kremlin X accounts push fake Fox News articles ahead of debate

Efforts to manipulate social media discussion around the debate underscore warnings from experts regarding the threat that disinformation continues to pose...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/-kremlin-x-accounts-push-fake-fox-news-articles-ahead-debate-rcna159301

"Religious Freedom" is Neither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPFHMQ7L_Ks

Alabama man denied office after winning election reaches proposed settlement to become town’s first Black mayor | CNN

"Most of the Black residents still recognized (Braxton) as mayor …," Wong said. "It is a shame that he had to fight for his right to actually execute his duties for the last four years."…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/us/patrick-braxton-newbern-alabama-mayor-settlement-reaj/index.html

Trump-Biden debate: The truth about Biden's economy - Vox

Recovering from the pandemic was always going to be painful. Covid shuttered entire sectors of the US economy and disrupted factory production the world over. At the same time, consumers suddenly shifted their spending away from in-person services and toward manufactured goods, a development that producers weren't prepared for. 

These disruptions had unavoidable economic costs. We could have paid those costs by immiserating America's most vulnerable workers through a prolonged period of high unemployment. Instead, under Biden, we all chipped in to pay Covid's toll through inflation while protecting the disadvantaged. I think this was a sound decision.

https://www.vox.com/politics/356775/trump-biden-debate-truth-about-biden-record

US supreme court blocks Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement that would shield Sacklers from lawsuits

Controversial deal would have protected billionaire family owners from further liability over US opioid epidemic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/27/us-supreme-court-purdue-pharma-opioids

'Makes my blood boil': Justice Samuel Alito's cancer comment leaves doctor furious - Raw Story

It happened 54 times at St. Luke's in Boise, Idaho, where the case first began. 

In one case, a patient's water broke before the fetus could live outside the womb, but the fetus still had a heartbeat. "You could have infection quickly spread. We've talked about sepsis, which is life-threatening. Without a ban in place, what would happen is the doctor would recommend termination of the pregnancy to avoid sepsis and death or potential death of the mother."…

https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-cancer/

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI0vhQHKD74

'I'm real tired of it': Experts put 'corrupt liar' Alito on notice amid Supreme Court leak - Raw Story

"Sam Alito knows that the EMTALA statute requires stabilizing treatment for a pregnant woman OR her fetus, not a pregnant woman AND her fetus. The statute was amended because hospitals were turning away pregnant patients whose fetuses needed stabilizing care even if they themselves did not. The law doesn't require a physician to prioritize the life of a fetus over the life of a pregnant person. But Sam Alito wants it to. He's singing the personhood blues. So he just lies about what the statute says. Textualist, my shiny Black ass. He's a corrupt liar."…

https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-attacked-corupt-liar/

Where millions of immigrants in the U.S. came from and now live - Washington Post

Economists say the migrants have helped America's post-covid economy to be one of the strongest in the world. But the United States remains tangled in a bitter debate over the costs and benefits of these new arrivals, which has been amplified by this year's presidential campaign. 

Biden tightened border restrictions to curb asylum claims after former president and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump rallied Republicans to defeat a bipartisan bill that would have expanded immigration enforcement. Trump blames Biden for inviting mass migration, and he is pledging to close the border and deploy U.S. troops to carry out deportations if he's elected in November...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2024/us-immigration-where-migrants-live/

Facts GOP gov. 'should’ve looked up' before signing Ten Commandments bill: expert - Raw Story

"Christian Nationalism is un-American," Seidel emphasized. "In fact, this display in public schools is un-American. The first commandment, 'I am the Lord your God … You shall have no other gods before me,' directly conflicts with the principles on which the United States was founded. No law—and this would be a law—can tell an American to worship a god, let alone which god. Americans are free to be godless (as a growing number are), or, if they wish, to worship every god from every holy book. The commandments would prohibit free expression and art by outlawing the creation of graven images. These commandments would prohibit free speech by making it illegal to take the Lord's name in vain."

https://www.rawstory.com/facts-gop-gov-shouldve-looked-up-before-signing-ten-commandments-bill-expert/

House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcement - The New York Times

Republicans put forward a spending bill that would slash funding for federal law enforcement, though they failed to find a way to defund the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/gop-spending-cuts-law-enforcement.html

House votes to prohibit DHS money from funding Mayorkas salary

The DHS appropriations bill, to be sure, has no chance of becoming law in its current form — including with the Mayorkas amendment — amid opposition from Senate Democrats and the White House. Republicans have nonetheless sought to include their priorities in the legislation to put themselves on stronger footing for government funding negotiations with the Senate down the road… 

The vote on Biggs's Mayorkas amendment was largely along party lines, 193-173, with 72 lawmakers not voting. Just one Republican — Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón — voted "no."…

https://thehill.com/homenews/4742179-house-dhs-money-alejandro-mayorkas-salary/

Trump allies test a new strategy for blocking election results - The Washington Post

In five battleground states, county-level officials have tried to block the certification of vote tallies — which election experts worry is a test run for trying to thwart a Biden victory...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/certification-2024-election-results/

Supreme Court says state officials can engage in a little corruption - Vox

Jackson argues that the statute should be read to prohibit "rewards corruptly accepted by government officials in ways that are functionally indistinguishable from taking a bribe," much like the payment at issue in this case appears to be. 

Kavanaugh's majority opinion, meanwhile, relies heavily on policy arguments and other claims that go beyond the statute's text. He does attempt to make a textual argument — Kavanaugh notes that the statute at issue in Snyder, like a different statute that only concerns bribes, uses the word "corruptly" — but his best arguments are atextual... 

It's also notable that neither Justice Clarence Thomas nor Justice Samuel Alito, both of whom have accepted expensive gifts from politically active Republican billionaires, recused themselves from the case. Thomas and Alito both joined Kavanaugh's opinion reading the anti-corruption statute narrowly…

https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption

Ready to Rumble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XaDdB816H8

Trump’s COGNITIVE ISSUES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BERAlXY54BA

Trump Claims He Was TORTURED In Georgia Prison

In a campaign email to his supporters this week, Donald Trump claimed that he was "tortured" in a Georgia prison. The only problem with this claim is that it is completely untrue, as Trump only spent enough time in Fulton County jail to get a mugshot and have his fingerprints taken - a process that he said was pleasant at the time. He even said at the time that some of the jail workers were crying as they processed him. Farron Cousins explains what actually happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMgkZ21Xz4

Republican leaders scramble, hope to keep Steve Bannon out of prison

As right-wing operative/podcaster Steve Bannon prepares to report to prison, House Republican leaders have launched a provocative new effort to rescue him...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-leaders-scramble-hope-keep-steve-bannon-prison-rcna158990

The Great Arizona Water Grab (Reveal podcast)

A surprising group of investors is fueling a global scramble for water in the most unlikely of places – the Arizona desert.

For years, a Saudi-owned hay farm has been using massive amounts of water in the middle of the Arizona desert and exporting the hay back to Saudi Arabia.

The farm’s water use has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskandarajah first broke this story more than eight years ago.

Since then, the water crisis in the American West has only worsened as megafarms have taken hold there. And it’s not just foreign companies fueling the problem: Halverson uncovers that pension fund managers in Arizona knowingly invested in a local land deal that resulted in draining down the groundwater of nearby communities. So even as local and state politicians have fought to stop these deals, their retirement fund has been fueling them.

Since we first aired this story in July, our reporting has spurred Arizona’s governor and attorney general into action.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-great-arizona-water-grab-update-2024/

New Rule: What's the Matter with Grandma? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNNhflDg2oM

'Saving grace': Expert says MAGA is turning on Trump — and it could cost him the election - Raw Story

While it's not entirely clear what the anti-Trump MAGA flank wants, part of what they seem to be suggesting is that Trump needs a QAnon-level maniac like former general Mike Flynn to be his running mate — or to replace him as the presidential nominee entirely...

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maga-extremism/

Clarence Thomas signals his intent to blow up the entire federal tax code: analyst - Raw Story

"Thomas' dissent is a masterwork of partisan historical revisionism, manipulating reality so seamlessly that an unsuspecting reader might actually think he is telling the truth," wrote Stern. "He isn't, not even close: Thomas' goal in Moore is to eviscerate the 16th Amendment, which legalized the federal income tax in 1913. And, as is so often the case, the justice marshals his argument by diminishing a progressive constitutional amendment as some illegitimate affront to the Framers' original, divinely inspired design...

https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2668604492/   

Why Trump Is Partnering With Christian Nationalists | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XsORP-VuRI

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce

But Willett's argument relies on the idea that "women are either property or that somehow men's liberty is restrained by not allowing them to stay in a marriage with someone who does not want to be married", said Wehle, who also wrote about it in the Atlantic. "I disagree with the idea that women are somehow property interests of their husbands. That is an arcane relic of law that has no place in modern society."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce

Why Speaker Johnson suggested CNN will 'rig' the debate for Biden

Johnson is also suggesting that any poor performance on Trump's part at the debate will be merely due to CNN's trickery, not a reflection of his own lack of knowledge or preparedness…

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-johnson-cnn-debate-trump-biden-rcna158626

Arizona Republican leader threatened to ‘lynch’ top county election official

In a video, Busch said if Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer "walked into this room, I would lynch him."…

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4739891-arizona-republican-leader-threatened-to-lynch-top-county-election-official/

Here’s what right wing media is saying about the upcoming debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZAT4vfOB3c

Trump takes on the Pentagon's (nonexistent) electric tanks - POLITICO

Hybrid and electric vehicles offer distinct battlefield advantages and are an essential piece for building the fighting force of the future, said John Conger, director emeritus of the Center for Climate and Security and senior adviser to the Council on Strategic Risks. It's important to remember the military is not going to use or accept any climate technology that reduces its capabilities and operations in any way, he said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/trump-criticism-pentagon-climate-policy-00164458

Once Again, Originalism’s Hollow Core Is Revealed - The Atlantic

Rahimi shows that it is silly—not to mention dangerous—to limit constitutional law in the 21st century to the understandings of those in the late 18th century...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/failure-originalism-supreme-court/678783/

Trump’s Truth Social stock is valued ‘absurdly out of the realm of normal,’ LinkedIn billionaire says | CNN Business

"Trump Media is probably more appropriately valued close to $40 million rather than several billion," Hoffman said. "Truth Social is burning through hundreds of millions of dollars with nothing to show for it in user engagement, user growth or even potential revenue."… 

Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, who sits on the boards of Expedia, Coca-Cola and MGM Resorts International, told CNBC that Trump Media is a "scam" and people buying its shares are "dopes."…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/business/trump-media-technology-group-value/index.html

Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down ‘unconstitutional’ taxpayer-funded Catholic school | The Independent

On Tuesday, the state's highest court said the contract violates the state constitution as well as the First Amendment of the Constitution. 

"The framers' intent is clear," the court's majority wrote. "The State is prohibited from using public money for the 'use, benefit or support of a sect or system of religion.'"… 

"Now Oklahomans can be assured that our tax dollars will not fund the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism," he said in a statement…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-supreme-court-catholic-school-b2568728.html

Garland decries House GOP proposal to cut DOJ funding by $1 billion - The Washington Post

The attorney general said the funding plan could risk undermining progress in reducing violent crime nationwide...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/25/justice-house-republicans-garland-funding/

Trump flunks the Ten Commandments test

Since 1947, the court has held that the prohibition against establishing a state religion applies to state governments, not just to the federal government. In 1980, the court struck down as unconstitutional a Kentucky law that required posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom. And in 2005, the court ruled that two Kentucky counties unlawfully required posting the Ten Commandments in every courtroom. 

Case settled? Not for Gov. Landry. He knows that the law he signed has already been declared unconstitutional three times. But, as he told a Republican fundraising dinner four days after signing the bill, "I can't wait to be sued."…

https://thehill.com/opinion/4738000-trump-flunks-the-ten-commandments-test/

Jack Smith DROPS BOMBSHELL EVIDENCE in Trump Case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVIezvetjE

Pressure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpqKhITY38

We must change our national priorities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPv5rWM7mn0

TX woman who testified on abortion: Maybe Ted Cruz skipped hearing because he's a coward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8C66v2sQow

TERRIFIED Trump Tries to RUN AWAY from Debate AGAIN…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frITDgNulUw

Trump’s TERRIFYING PLAN — Project 2025— gets EXPOSED on Live TV

The head of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, says that the goal of project 2025 is to “institutionalize Trumpism as a new version of conservatism.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTI68eF2b-Q

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/rising-sea-levels-flooding

40 Acres and a Lie Part 2 (Reveal podcast)

Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly White residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks and marsh grass alongside golf courses, swimming pools and other amenities.

In 1865, the island was a thriving Black community, started by freedmen who were given land by the government under the 40 acres program. They farmed, created a system of government and turned former cotton plantations into a Black American success story.

But it wouldn’t last. Within two years, the government took that land back from the freedmen and returned it to the former enslavers.

Today, 40 acres in The Landings development are worth at least $20 million. The history of that land is largely absent from day-to-day life. But over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists at the Center for Public Integrity have unearthed records that prove that dozens of freed people had, and lost, titles to tracts at what’s now The Landings.

“You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak,” said Linda Brown, one of the few Black residents at The Landings.

This week on Reveal, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, we also show a descendant her ancestor’s title for a plot of land that is now becoming another exclusive gated community. And we look at how buried documents like these Reconstruction-era land titles are part of the long game toward reparations.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-2/

Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XtsvIEglg

Young voters back President Joe Biden over Donald Trump by 23-point margin: Poll

President Biden has a comfortable lead over former President Trump among voters under the age of 30, according to a new poll…

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4736410-biden-trump-young-voters/

Exercise and Aging: How to Build Strength - The New York Times

Declines in muscle and bone strength start earlier than you might think. Build a smart workout habit now...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/well/move/strength-exercises-aging.html

Yale Business Expert Uses ‘Telling Data Point’ To Shred Trump CEO Spin | HuffPost Latest News

Sonnenfeld said "the most telling data point on corporate America's lack of enthusiasm" for Trump, who last month was convicted on all 34 charges in his hush money trial and who remains indicted in three other criminal cases, is that "not a single Fortune 100 chief executive has donated to the candidate so far this year." 

Sonnenfeld, citing his own role leading the institute and frequent contact with CEOs, acknowledged that chief executives could be wary of a second term for President Joe Biden but are downright fearful of Trump winning back the White House…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yale-business-expert-donald-trump-ceo-spin_n_667915bae4b07e40fd2c621c

Opinion | Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Support of Corporate America - The New York Times

As such, it was hardly surprising that just as when Mr. Trump faced a chilly reaction from hundreds of top executives when he spoke at my Yale Chief Executive summit in 2005, he appeared to face a similarly frigid reception when he spoke to the Business Roundtable this month, with no noticeable applause at any point during his "remarkably meandering" remarks, according to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, and with Mr. Trump assuming a subdued, if not hostile, posture. Chief executives are not protectionist, isolationist or xenophobic, and they believe in investing where there is the rule of law, not the law of rulers...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/opinion/ceo-trump-republican-support.html

Texas abortion ban linked to increase in infant deaths, new study finds

The study found a 23% jump in infant deaths due to congenital anomalies – the kind of conditions that are often identified in utero and lead to abortions in states where the procedure is legal, since they can be incompatible with life. But that choice is no longer available to pregnant Texans…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/texas-abortion-ban-infant-deaths

Leonard Leo-Linked Group Is Funding Anti-Trans Legislation | HuffPost Latest News

Do No Harm has also filed a host of lawsuits to block programs aimed at diversifying the medical profession. 

In addition to receiving $750,000 from Leo's network, Do No Harm paid Leo's consulting firm $231,185 for "public affairs" services. The consulting firm, CRC Advisors, and other for-profit firms in which Leo has a financial stake have been paid millions of dollars over the years by various nonprofits in Leo's orbit, resulting in a liberal watchdog calling on the IRS to investigate whether the payments violate rules on charitable giving…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/leonard-leo-transgender-rights-do-no-harm_n_6679bd3fe4b09762019914a8

🚨 UNHINGED Judge Cannon Acts LIKE A LUNATIC at Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-z1XG43x0Y

Louisiana parents sue over placing Ten Commandments in schools

The families, who are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious, alleged in court papers filed in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana, that the new law "substantially interferes with and burdens" the parents' First Amendment right to raise their kids in whatever religion they want...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-parents-sue-placing-ten-commandments-schools-rcna158639

Meta will start using your data to train its AI next week, but you may be able to opt out - 9to5Mac

Since the United States has no overarching national data privacy and protection law similar to the European Union's GDPR, there is no foolproof way to keep Meta from using your data to train its AI...

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/23/security-bite-meta-will-start-using-your-data-to-train-its-ai-next-week-but-you-may-be-able-to-opt-out/

Death Toll in Dagestan Church and Synagogue Attacks Rises, Officials Say - The New York Times

Despite the dearth of details, the Dagestan attacks have contributed to a sense of the Kremlin's slipping ability to keep a lid on the ethnic and religious tensions that have long festered in the Northern Caucasus. Mr. Putin suppressed the violence two decades ago at the cost of empowering brutal strongmen, abusing human rights and showering it with outsized federal subsidies. 

The challenge is further complicated now, with a draining war in Ukraine taxing the economy and the efficiency of Russia's security apparatus...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/world/europe/russia-attack-dagestan.html