Why are we re-living 2020? THAT YEAR SUCKED
A voters guide to democratic socialism: It isn’t what most people think
Democratic socialism policies have roots in the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, FDR’s “new deal,” LBJ’s “Great Society” and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s crusade for economic, as well as racial, justice. There have even been mayors, known as “sewer socialists,” who “cleaned unhygienic water, built libraries and parks, fortified funding for public schooling.”
Maryland Matters
DHS summoning some Haitians to check-ins, using ankle monitors to track them
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has notified some Haitians in Springfield who previously had TPS status to report to their office in Blue Ash, Ohio, for an in-person check-in.
Temporary Protected Status for Haiti expired on Monday, July 27, 2026, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that DHS had the authority to end it.
WYSO
President Trump says he will order halt to Iran strikes after parameters reached for deal to end war
The emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote in a Saturday evening social media post.
“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.
Chicago Tribune
Sen. Bernie Moreno says former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller ‘should not serve’ in Congress over abuse allegations
“As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help,” Moreno said on X. “He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter.”
CNN
How a wonky reference manual for judges prompted a firestorm over climate change
The president has called for an investigation into the once-obscure scientific manual, and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who wrote its foreword, has faced calls to recuse herself from an upcoming case.
NBC News
Sunday Video: Where Are America’s Trains?
Despite having the largest network of train tracks in the world, the United States has a serious lack of passenger rail services. That’s not by accident, as Rollie Williams of Climate Town explains in this video. America’s dearth of passenger rail was a decades-long project by the freight railroads, and since the nationalization of passenger routes through the formation of Amtrak in 1971, passenger rail has mostly hobbled along. But there have been some areas of improvement and ridership has been booming in recent years.
The Urbanist
Catholic Nun Abducted By ICE Speaks Out: I Cannot Stay Quiet About What Is Also ‘Happening to Others’
Sister Letty did “everything the law has asked of her,” but she was still targeted. She worries about others facing this same crisis. Even Christians aren’t safe under Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
America’s Voice
Obamacare enrollment declines in 49 states
The lone exception was New Mexico, the only state that has used its own money to fully replace the expired aid, according to a new analysis by KFF, a health policy research group.
North Dakota Monitor
String of outbreaks tests US public health system amid funding cuts, vaccine resistance
Less than two years into his tenure at the helm of the department responsible for the health of millions of Americans, a string of outbreaks has repeatedly made headlines. Public health experts interviewed by States Newsroom said the upswing is the result of several factors, but that Kennedy’s decision to cut back the country’s safety net while spreading misinformation about vaccines has aggravated the problem.
“We track serious infectious diseases, and over the last year and a half, the number of diseases we’ve had to put on the list has quadrupled,” said Jennifer B. Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and professor of epidemiology at Brown University.
Arkansas Advocate
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
The Washington Post
What the Cracker Barrel rage spiral was actually about
What exactly were Cracker Barrel’s “radical left-wing politics” and “DEI regime?”: a Facebook post in support of Pride month and typical employee resource groups, including for the 30% of minorities who make up Cracker Barrel’s workforce.
CNN
Thousands of people under evacuation order from wildfires in Spokane, Wash.
The three fires — named the Old Trails, Fairview and Autumn Lane — have been driven by strong winds and low humidity. “I was sitting near an elementary school and saw a wall of flames east of the school and just a cascade of black smoke and a wall of flames coming toward me,” said Alexandra Duggan, a public safety reporter for The Spokesman-Review, a daily newspaper in Spokane.
KUOW
Deadly flooding in West Virginia finds prevention plans unaddressed
Last week, a flood devastated portions of north central West Virginia and killed two people in Upshur County. Lawmakers have done little to fund prevention and recovery as climate change puts more of the state at risk of flooding.
Mountain State Spotlight
5 States Will Vote on Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives This November
The fights are pitting right-wing billionaires against transgender people and allied organizations.
Truthout
What They Want to Hear: The Politicization of U.S. Intelligence
A campaign of firings and clearance revocations is teaching the intelligence community that silence is the only job security.
Lawfare
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
“I honestly don’t believe that it will be any time soon that we are going to revive the Voting Rights Act,” said Harris at the National Urban League conference on Friday. “I don’t believe that is going to be the best use of our energy right now, to try to get that done. Because I don’t know that it’s going to get done right now, the way this Congress is composed and the way they have been treating civil rights issues.”
Democracy Docket
Parting Shot
Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. Then the NRA came to collect.
The Trace
Moore touts friendship with GOP governor as he takes over national association
Governor touts service initiative as signature project for his year leading NGA, announces $10 million in private seed funding
Maryland Matters
More Americans are going bankrupt. What does that mean?
Bankruptcy is a legal last resort for debt relief — and more Americans are using it than they were just a few years ago. While the word “bankruptcy” often conjures up images of failed companies, personal bankruptcies are significantly more common. More than half a million personal bankruptcies were filed last year, a nearly 50% jump from three years earlier, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
NPR
‘I Would Never Do This To You:’ Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
“They didn’t understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”
404 Media
Houston Is Testing Whether Trump’s ICE Is Above Texas Law
After the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, local authorities have struggled to stake their claim on an investigation into a killing within the most populous Texas city’s limits.
Texas Observer
Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate
The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.
ProPublica
What Cyclospora does inside the gut and how it gets there
These parasites rely on the digestive tracts of humans — and only humans — to reproduce. To get there, they’ve likely been hitching rides on crops from places where the parasite is relatively common, to the unwitting mouths of hungry people across the U.S. Their complex biology contributes to why they’re so hard to kick, leading to infections that can last for weeks or months.
NPR
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
The Guardian
Trump Administration Wants Millions More to Pay Off Freedom 250 Events
“It is unacceptable to ask the American people to bail out Freedom 250,” Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said of the request.
NotUs
ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks
Researchers say Jarvis’ story is pretty common. For decades, ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was considered a childhood disease that mostly affected boys – and boys were the focus of most research, says Julia Schechter, a clinical psychologist and co-director of the Duke Center for Girls and Women with ADHD. But ADHD often manifests differently in girls.
NPR
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Israel Is Targeting and Deporting Foreign Activists Resisting Settler Violence
Activists have long provided a protective presence for Palestinians in the West Bank. Now Israel is pushing them out.
Truthout
A suicide bomber strikes an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 14
A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said.
AP News
A decade after Obama’s historic Hiroshima trip, the world edges toward oblivion. Can we step away?
Thursday is the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and as a society we’re still struggling with how to respond to the ability to annihilate ourselves.
Kansas Reflector
Identity beyond citizenship: What remains when the State refuses to recognise you?
For many people, citizenship is an invisible part of everyday life. It is assumed rather than questioned. It provides legal recognition, freedom of movement, employment and education rights, political participation, and a sense of security, among many other rights and protections. Only when citizenship is denied does one begin to understand how profoundly it shapes the relationship between a person and the state.
Global Voices
Israel says it has serious concerns with Hamas disarmament deal
Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said as Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza.
Winnipeg Free Press
Trump’s Brutal Blockade on Cuba Harkens Back to the Days of US Invasions
Cuba’s humanitarian crisis is the latest episode in a 128-year struggle for control over the island.
Truthout
Some women who can’t afford water are often pressured to provide sex for it
In Kenya’s informal settlements — densely populated neighborhoods where residents have no legal title to the land they live on, and which the state has largely left without formal infrastructure like piped water — residents rely on private vendors who control access to water and set prices. Rights groups say that in places like Kibera, this dependence has created conditions in which women who cannot afford water face harassment, assault or coercion — including pressure to exchange sex for water, a practice known as “sextortion.”
NPR
What is Falun Gong and why does the Chinese Communist Party want to suppress it?
An anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners explains the movement’s beliefs and why its followers continue to resist the Chinese government.
Religion News Service
A blaze on an Indonesian passenger ferry leaves at least 5 dead and dozens missing
The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was traveling from Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java to the city of Makassar in South Sulawesi, with 232 passengers and 39 crew members, when the fire broke out between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. in waters off Sumenep regency, according to Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, or Basarnas.
AP News
