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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, July 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM EDT The New York Times Editorial Board says President Donald Trump has derailed countless investigations on his road to turning the F.B.I. into an "enforcement agency for MAGA's priorities." "Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration," the Times writes. "Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public," obliterating "decades of experience in national security and criminal matters." July 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM EDT One hundred years after the Scopes monkey trial author Amanda Opelt tells Religion News we're still trying to win debates by abusing our opponent. July 10 will mark the anniversary of the prosecution of educator John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in public schools in violation of Tennessee's Butler Act. This was a case defined by Baltimore Sun writer and atheist Henry Louis Mencken, who not only coined the term 'Bible Belt' and 'monkey trial,' but also described the community putting Scopes on trial as "hillbillies," "halfwits," "peasants," "yokels from the hills" and "gaping primates from the upland valleys of the Cumberland Range." July 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM EDT Critics can't seem to stop being astounded by the amount of backtracking holdout Republicans did on Trump's controversial budget bill this week. "The contortions they made before they voted for it were funny," said Sam Stein to Bulwark Podcast Host Tim Miller. -- They just continued to draw lines in the sand that they knew they were going to flagrantly violate. " [Rep.] Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said $500 billion in Medicaid cuts is my red line. And I'm like, 'no. You voted for $1 trillion.' " But the one that killed me was [Rep.] David Valadaeo (R-Calif.) " You can't put out a statement like 'I will never vote for the Senate version, and then""three days later""be like, 'alright. I'm ready to ride." July 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM EDT Donald Trump set a deadline of July 9 2025 for trade deals to be made before he hits some of the world's biggest economies with his controversial tariffs. It's impossible to predict what will happen on the day, but it is already clear that his economic policies are damaging American interests. Just look at the state of US government debt for example. Currently it stands at US$36 trillion ( ?26 trillion). And with total economic output (GDP) worth US$29 trillion per year, that debt is 123% of GDP, the highest it has been since 1946. July 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM EDT The Lamp Editor Matthew Walther tells the New York Times that President Donald Trump does not deserve to be taken seriously by whatever historian gets stuck writing his book chapter. "We have been advised to take Mr. Trump, if not literally, then at least seriously. I do not think we should extend him even that courtesy," wrote Walther. July 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-214 on Thursday to pass President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America's social safety net and the decimation of the country's only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while all but two House Republicans supported it. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. July 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM EDT Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate. In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, under criminal processes constrained by the US Constitution at all times. Starting with probable cause (which brown skin is not); then arrest (you have the right to remain silent ); followed by voluntary pleading (coerced confessions are thrown out ); leading to formal trial (bench or jury, defendants' choice ), based only on admissible evidence (hearsay/unsupported opinions are not admissible ), Constitutional constraints apply at every juncture. If they falter, appellate courts are watching. July 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM EDT On multiple occasions, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of deporting naturalized U.S. citizens, including during a recent visit to a Florida detention camp for immigrants. But that policy could end up being used against his own family. That's according to former MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid, who recently interviewed Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on her YouTube podcast. The Daily Beast reported that Jayapal joined Reid to discuss, among other things, Trump's new "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in the Florida Everglades. They both pointed out to listeners that Trump said during his visit to the prison camp earlier this week that even native-born U.S. citizens could one day find themselves in federal custody. July 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM EDT Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now in a bitter back-and-forth with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, after the world's richest man announced his intent to follow through on his plan to launch a new third party to compete with Republicans. According to a Friday report in the Daily Beast, Bannon tore into Musk over his proposed "America Party," which is Musk's chosen name for his new far-right political party. The MAGA podcaster also openly questioned his immigration status (Musk is a naturalized U.S. citizen). July 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT According to one analyst, only two groups are celebrating H.R. 1 -- President Donald Trump's massive new budget law -- on July 4: Republicans, and the Chinese Communist Party. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote Friday about how H.R. 1 will effectively "kneecap America's renewable energy industry" and give China a monopoly on the renewable energy industry for decades. One of the major components of the law is the stripping of billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits for solar, battery and wind energy. This comes at the same time China is rapidly restructuring its energy grid to include larger portions of electricity from renewable sources. Friedman wrote that Chinese President Xi Jinping likely views July 4 as "American Electricity Dependence Day." July 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM EDT President Donald Trump's administration withholding federal money Congress appropriated to blue states can present a unique opportunity for Democratic-controlled state governments, according to two Democratic state legislators from blue states. In a Friday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country. July 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM EDT In April, President Donald Trump promised 90 trade deals in 90 days after he rolled out his so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs. But even though Trump has only secured one agreement so far (a tentative framework with the United Kingdom) with that 90-day window closing next week, he's shown no signs of concern. One unnamed White House aide recently confided to Politico that Trump views international trade more as gamesmanship rather than an earnest attempt to get concrete policy signed and put in place. That aide hinted that Trump views tariffs as a means of getting leverage on trade partners, and that he believes that his tariff policy is "the most interesting part of his presidency." |
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