Another dose of bad news

ICE agents deserve no privacy

Kilmar Abrego Garcia details how CECOT is a torture camp

How bad is Trump’s big bad bill? The answer in 10 charts.

a twice-weekly news & meme round-up,
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Me, looking grumpy, reading the news

AND NOW THE NEWS
plus memes and
my brilliant opinions

#533
JULY 6, 2025

TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US

Trump regime declares Harvard in ‘violent violation’ of Civil Rights Act—threatens loss of tax-exempt status and $500 million tax bill

How Trump’s megabill will impact health care

“Impact health care” is a nice way to say “kill people.”

GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM

ICE lies in wait to arrest patients at hospital

Report: Migrants fighting over clean water at ICE detention facilities south of San Antonio

Budget bill massively increases funding for cruelty to immigrants

Excerpt: President Trump has justified his immigration agenda in part by making false claims that migrants are driving violent crime in the United States. As the Brennan Center highlighted, research has found that immigrants actually commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. In fact, 72 percent of people in ICE detention have no criminal record. Further, for those in custody with a criminal record, many have minor offenses, such as traffic violations.

Such lies help to justify the administration’s hostility to immigrants, documented or not. For example, the bill charges unprecedented immigration fees to people seeking Temporary Protected Status ($550 fee) or asylum ($100). Children traveling without an adult will have to pay $250 to obtain protected relief, and the cost of an appeal of an immigration judge’s decision skyrockets from $110 to $900. These fees essentially create a two-tiered system where only those who can afford these application fees can participate in the immigration process in the U.S. or obtain due process.

US deports men from Asia and Latin America with criminal records to South Sudan after legal saga

Military sending 200 Marines to help ICE in Florida

American lawyer goes for a walk in the park and gets arrested by ICE

GOOD NEWS

Social Security rolls back draconian ‘death’ decision, replaces it with merely cruel and false ‘unverified’ status for immigrants

Multiple countries just issued travel warnings for the US

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT

Defense Department stops boat renaming project after only changing the one named for Harvey Milk

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA

Here’s some coverage of the BS-spam every Social Security recipient received, praising Trump and his Big Bogus Sack-of-Shit legislation

DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment

State Dept. tells student visa applicants to set their social media profiles to ‘public’ if they want to come to the US

AND ALSO

Disposable e-cigarettes more toxic than traditional cigarettes

HORRID, HORRID PEOPLE

Republicans monetize “Alligator Alcatraz” with t-shirts and hats, because cruelty is funny to these people

Tennessee man pardoned for Jan. 6 offenses gets life in prison in separate case accusing him of trying in incite “civil war”

Republican lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote

‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

“I voted for cruelty, but never thought they’d be cruel to people like me!

OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS

‘It’s disgusting’: Top Democratic donors rant about Mamdani’s primary win and what it means for future of party

EYE ON AI

Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

After Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, Xbox producer Matt Turnbull suggested affected workers use AI to “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss”

THINGS THAT BARELY MATTER IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS, BUT STILL PISS ME OFF

LA school district demands inquiry after Ice officers filmed urinating on campus

Of all the cruel, illegal, anti-American things ICE is doing, people are pissed because of *this? Piss on that.

American police are out of control

Dead people

Ignoring the climate emergency

The Lord works in mysterious ways

And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives

7/6/2025

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Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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