Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Immigration agents killed a Houston father and a Fox News host moved instantly to justify the killing, pushing revolting lies to defend the violence. Simultaneously, the administration advanced an asylum rule change that could fast-track deportations, a procedural shift that turns immigration courts into expulsion assembly lines. The message is clear: migrant lives are disposable and the legal architecture is being rewired to make removal automatic.
In Seattle, a 15-year-old opened fire at a food festival with an untraceable ghost gun equipped with an extended magazine, killing and wounding festival-goers. Police recovered the loaded weapon at the scene and continue searching for a possible third suspect, police said Tuesday. The proliferation of unserialized, privately assembled firearms — fueled by lax regulation and industry profit — puts working-class communities in the crosshairs while politicians offer only rituals of grief.
At the United Nations Security Council, U.S. diplomats staged a walkout during a session on the Ukraine-Russia war after France criticized the country's human rights record under Trump, refusing to sit through the rebuke. Before delivering a eulogy Tuesday, Trump held separate White House meetings with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy, amid a complex, often tense relationship with the Israeli prime minister, meeting both leaders before the service. Imperial diplomacy proceeds as a series of personal transactions between strongmen, indifferent to the bodies piled up in Gaza and the Donbas.
Trump, having already paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million defamation award a jury imposed in 2024. The move exemplifies how capital uses the highest court as a shield against accountability, converting judicial review into a privilege of the powerful. While borrowers crushed by student debt reduced payments by about $40 a month in anticipation of relief, a billionaire litigates to erase a jury's judgment — two sides of a system built to protect wealth and punish the poor.