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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AND NOW THE NEWS
plus memes and
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#533
JULY 6, 2025
TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US
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
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
DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment

AND ALSO
Disposable e-cigarettes more toxic than traditional cigarettes

HORRID, HORRID PEOPLE
Republican lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote
“I voted for cruelty, but never thought they’d be cruel to people like me!

OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS

EYE ON AI
Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

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
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
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Mitchipedia, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, Weantuniverse, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
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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