Wednesday, July 15, 2026

FCC cronies ask why the president should have all the fun of extorting money from people with business before the government, while Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) pockets tens of thousands from the pork industry she moves to deregulate. Meanwhile, Trump dismisses responsibility for the Minab massacre, claiming photo evidence is “AI,” though internal Pentagon investigations acknowledge U.S. responsibility for the strike. The same administration plans to strip commercial licenses from undocumented immigrants and transfer them to veterans, with Trump ranting that illegal alien truck drivers who are just killing a lot of people—they can't read.

Workers who resist the war machine pay the price — and sometimes win. DHL worker and Verdi rep Christopher Tersch won his tribunal on July 8 after being fired without notice for a speech against arms deliveries to Israel at a Palestine protest in Leipzig. Labor Notes argues the movement must organize Amazon — one of the largest employers and most powerful corporations in the U.S. today — to maintain and raise standards. The Venice Biennale’s U.S. pavilion, cultural diplomacy dressed up as art that made no statement — and that's the point.

The assault on bodily autonomy is industrial. At Houston’s Texas Medical Center, a birth plan for the dying has doctors repairing spinal defects before birth and replacing hearts after a mother’s… Media manufactures consent for empire: a FAIR study shows the New York Times, Miami Herald, and Associated Press centered vastly different voices in coverage of the Cuban crisis. As the Trump administration’s xenophobic rhetoric looms over the World Cup and ICE killings continue in Maine, data centers from Maryland to Texas tell residents the same thing: “It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It’s coming for all of us.”