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Good morning. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to outfit officers with electric shock gloves manufactured by Compliant Technologies, which markets the devices as a nonlethal tool to make individuals compliant during arrests. Former DHS officials tell Time the gloves are unnecessary for civilian enforcement and pose numerous risks. The BBC reports the procurement escalates tensions over immigration enforcement. The purchase hands frontline agents a compliance weapon designed to enforce submission at the point of contact, further militarizing the daily work of detention and deportation.
President Trump confirmed he was whisked away from Air Force One in a catering truck at the Secret Service's direction in Turkey. Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the episode showed the system worked. Meanwhile, the administration's economic warfare against Iran has faltered: limited airstrikes failed to shift Tehran's posture, and threats to wipe Iran off the face of the earth produced no breakthrough.
In Minnesota, the Republican primary rejected Trump-endorsed Mike Lindell in the governor's race, a signal former Governor Tim Pawlenty reads as voters pivoting from macroeconomic grievances to household-level concerns. The same electorate handed a decisive victory to progressive challenger Flanagan, rejecting AIPAC and ICE alike. Nationally, MAGA pundit Scott Jennings falsely claimed that left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker advocated for Black lynchings to smear Michigan Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, illustrating the movement's reliance on racist invention to discredit progressive candidates.
Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, reinforcing the case for a rate hold. In Hopkins, Minnesota, a man killed a woman and their child inside the in-home daycare center they owned before taking his own life.