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Trump Under Fire For Diverting Disaster Relief Workers

July 18, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , ,
Floods, storms, wildfires, and other disasters can strike in every state and district, and members of Congress in both parties have incentives to improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the nation’s premier disaster relief outfit. However, current FEMA officials in the Trump administration were notably absent from a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on bipartisan legislation to reform the agency, despite broad support for the bill among Republicans. During the July 15 hearing, Democrats slammed President Donald Trump for politicizing FEMA by denying federal disaster relief to blue states and diverting personnel and resources to bolster his deadly mass deportation campaign.

The Revolt Against US Payment Monopolies

July 17, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
On July 15, 2026, Washington announced a new 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, taking effect July 22 — a punishment aimed at protecting U.S. payment monopolies. Pix, Brazil’s public instant-payment system, cuts Visa and Mastercard out of millions of transactions. In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February 2026, Washington tried again.

Mass Immigration Hearings Inside Crowded Courtrooms

July 16, 2026 Kate Morrissey, Capital and Main. , , ,
The Trump administration has found a way for immigration judges to order dozens of immigrants deported at the same time. Known widely as mega master hearings, the tactic involves rescheduling large numbers of immigration court cases from hearings months into the future to dates in just a matter of days or weeks. A single judge could have more than 100 cases on a given morning or afternoon during a mega master docket. Attorneys around the country have said that many people do not get notice of the hearing date changes in time, and judges then order deported most, if not all, of the people who don’t show up for court.

Washington Launches Campaign To Dismantle, Isolate ICC

July 13, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The White House has launched a sweeping campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a drive to shield officials and soldiers from any prosecution over war crimes committed abroad, US State Secretary Marco Rubio announced on 13 July. Rubio cast the campaign against the ICC as a “defense of US sovereignty,” dismissing the ICC as "a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats" waging "a war against our country... with statutes and compacts and the force of so-called international law." Rubio said US soldiers and border agents would otherwise face prosecution "for the so-called crime of defending their own country," vowing that if the court and its allies "believe they can deprive us of our sovereignty, we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve." 

The FBI Has Deputized Local Cops As Federal Agents

July 12, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , , ,
As the Trump administration widens its crackdown on immigrant communities and progressive activists, federal task forces are playing an important behind-the-scenes role. Organizers warn that institutions like the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) are targeting vulnerable communities and sharing the kind of information that facilitates Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. But some say the current political climate also presents opportunities as appetites grow for local and state agencies to cut ties with the federal task forces endangering their communities.

While Trump Spends Big On America’s 250th, Communities Protest Across Major Cities

July 8, 2026 International League of People's Struggles, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Over 80 organizations protested the 4th of July across 9 major cities as part of a National Week of Action called for by the International League of Peoples' Struggle - US (ILPS-US) to highlight 250 years of resistance to U.S. empire. While the Trump administration has spent over $68 million in taxpayer money on "America 250" and "Freedom 250" celebrations, communities took action to share the real history of the U.S.' violence against the people and the active legacy of communities fighting for justice and freedom.

SNAP Cuts Leave States And Counties Facing Spiraling Hunger Crisis

July 7, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , , , ,
One year after President Donald Trump signed legislation that slashed federal health care and food assistance to pay for tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, officials on the front lines of the nation’s affordability crisis say the costs to state and local governments of filling holes left by Congress in the safety net are unsustainable. Demand for food assistance is rising as children and the elderly go hungry and millions struggle to afford the rising prices, leaving state and local governments in a tight fiscal squeeze.

Trump Era Repression Trickles Down To Student Press Censorship

July 7, 2026 Hank Kennedy, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The well-known quote from George Santayana appears at the top: “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” A bystander observes, “Why does this look familiar…?” Political cartoonists in newspapers across the nation have made similar comparisons over the years, but the Wingspan is different, and its case differs from previous FAIR reports on censorship of cartoons, in that it is a student newspaper.

Syria’s Al-Sharaa Dismisses Trump’s Proposal For Military Intervention In Lebanon

July 5, 2026 Aseel Saleh, Breakthrough News. , , , ,
US President Donald Trump announced mid-June that he discussed with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa the possibility of Syria’s military intervention in Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. Trump claimed that by tasking Syria with this mission, he aims to stop the mass killing committed by Israel during its attempts to dismantle the Lebanese resistance movement. “I’ll tell you what, Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed, and you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses and they are not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you."

Medicaid Work-Rule Fight Grows As New Yorkers Lose Coverage

July 5, 2026 Harris Butler, Nation of Change. , , ,
Nearly half a million moderate-income New Yorkers began losing health insurance on July 1, the first major wave of coverage losses tied to the Republican tax and spending law enacted last year. Days earlier, 25 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over new Medicaid work rules that could strip coverage from eligible people who cannot navigate new paperwork requirements. Together, the two developments show how the health care cuts are moving from Washington policy fights into clinics, enrollment offices, and household budgets.

To Trump’s Chagrin, Supreme Court Narrowly Protects Voting By Mail

July 1, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. , , ,
With the 2026 midterm elections just four months away, the Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by election day and received within five days thereafter. The court’s 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee leaves in place voting procedures in several states across the country. “Good news rarely comes out of this Supreme Court, but [this] ruling is a win for our democracy,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson told the Washington Post. Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón praised the decision because voters “shouldn’t lose their voice because of mail delays outside their control.”

Roundup Wins!

June 29, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. , , ,
MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) just got a poke in the eye as the US Supreme Court narrowed avenues for plaintiff cases against the chemical giant Bayer (formerly Monsanto). Ever since March 2015, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a Group 2A “probable human carcinogen” tort cases exploded up to 170,000 claims of complications from Roundup. The US president had already ‘greased the skids’ for the Supremes by declaring glyphosate as a crucial necessity for National Defense by signing an executive order; Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides d/d February 18, 2025.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Terminate TPS For Haitians And Syrians

June 27, 2026 David Sobelsohn, People's World. , , , ,
Born and raised in Haiti, Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot works in a California laboratory, researching Alzheimer’s disease. Miot has lived legally in the United States for 15 years. Laila Doe, a Syrian citizen, lives in Illinois, where she works as a behavioral technician for individuals with disabilities and cares for her elderly American-citizen mother and her teenage daughter. Doe has lived here legally for 13 years. Donald Trump wants to deport them—Miot to Haiti, Doe and her daughter to Syria. Miot has diabetes. Doe’s daughter knows little Arabic.

Democrats And Trump Are In Sync On Iran

June 25, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
The United States began its latest attempt at regime change against the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28, 2026. The Trump administration bragged about torpedoing an Iranian ship returning from a naval exercise in India and killing more than 80 sailors. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a video of the act of war and added, “They thought they were safe in international waters,” an admission of a U.S. violation of international law. The killing of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and some of his family members and the bombing of an elementary school in the city of Minab were also war crimes.

‘A Huge Grab Of Power’: Trump Is Defying Congress On Foreign Aid

June 22, 2026 Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Pro Publica. , , , ,
After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely. But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spending on food, medicine and lifesaving work around the world. 
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