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Friday, July 03, 2026
News on the Eve of July 4th, 2026.
Jack Smith gave an interview recently with MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace. This is the first time when he gave a public interview since resigning from the DOJ. Jack Smith was the former special counsel who gave two federal indictments against Donald Trump. Smith said that the rule of law is under a massive attack. That is clearly obvious by Trump attacks on birthright citizenship and other legal principles of the American Constitution. He said that he has investigated cases all through his career, and this is unprecedented. Smith accused Trump of interfering in the 2020 election which Trump did in my view. Smith said that Trump was involved in promoting the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, after he lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Smith has resigned by January 2025. Trump remains the most controversial President of the 21st century and the most racist President since Woodrow Wilson. Trump using overt profiteering is conclusively proving his abhorrent corruption.
The Democrats has seen an increase of democratic socialist candidates winning primaries in mostly blue districts. The Democrats will have spirited debate about many factions of Democrats (who are moderates, progressives, etc.). The Republican Party will try to cancel people who disagree with the policies of Donald Trump. A lot of the democratic socialist candidates rose up in response to the housing crisis, the affordability crisis in general, and the issue of Palestine. There are many issues where most Democrats agree on which are universal health care, liberation for Palestinian people, improving the environment, increasing voting rights (like opposing the SAVE Act), respect shown to women, and an end to the illegal Iranian War. While many DSA members and democratic socialists are right to criticize many Democratic centrist establishment members, many of them have contradictions. Many of them claim to support Palestinian rights, but some of them are silent about Sudan, Congo, and Haiti. They claim to blame Kamala Harris for the issue of Gaza, but Kamala Harris was not the President, and she made it clear to support a ceasefire and condemn the excessive bombings of Gaza lands by the Israeli government before the 2024 election was over. Many of the DSA are class reductionists who want to minimize racial oppression as an excuse to claim to be for the working class, but racial justice and economic justice are intersectional (not separate from the goal of human liberation). Many of the same ones caused Trump to be re-elected in 2024 without remorse while Americans struggle for jobs and many have died because of their indolent action.
The FBI has increased its probe linked to the 2020 election in Georgia. Trump is completely desperate as there is no evidence that the 2020 election was completely stolen. Trump has lied and said that he has irrefutable evidence of fraud, but he hasn't shown that evidence. The FBI is wasting resources which can be better used to protect the American people and other security issues. This policy from the FBI is about historical revisionism, jealousy of progressive views, and hatred of anyone who opposes the MAGA agenda. As high as 2/3 of Republicans believe in the myth of massive fraud involving the 2020 election. This is beyond ignorance by MAGA followers. This is cult-like behavior. Like I have said before, MAGA is the greatest cult of human history. The FBI is trying to look at social media and claimed to research "derogatory information." Analysts look at social media which is totally anti-First Amendment. You must have factual predication of wrongdoing before the FBI investigates these things.
Megyn Kelly issued another xenophobic and in my view racist anti-immigrant rant. She said this nonsense on her podcast where she targeted Haitian immigrants. This comes after the Supreme Court stripped the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants. She said that she wants Haitians to go home and go back to Haiti in profane terms. She omits that Haiti is a warzone now, and if they go to Haiti, they face ultimate death in many cases. She justified her rant by making the racist claims that Haitians in Ohio are drunk driving and killing people and eating the pets. She said that if immigrants refuse to "live like Americans" and stated that their presence "dilutes " American culture and values. First, American culture is not monolithic. American culture readily combines various culturally worldwide from pizza, tacos, kente cloth, and other diverse forms of human expression. Being a true American is not based on blood or ancestry. Being a true American is embracing the principle of justice and liberty for all, irrespective of color or background. Also, Haitian TPS recipients contribute billions of dollars in taxes and legally reside in America. Kelly spews 19th century Know Nothing Party nonsense which is not new. Kelly said that we built America when America was built heavily by black people, immigrants, and other people who don't need to go into a racist, xenophobic rant to feel better about themselves. I'm not shocked by the bigotry of Kelly as she is a lover of the MAGA movement. She is a reactionary extremist.
Trump made $2.2 billion in 2025 driven by crypto revenue. The problem is that Trump has eliminated the crypto task force to try to investigate crypto crimes, and we don't know how he achieved those crypto profits. The crypto industry is blatantly lax in legitimate regulations. The Trump family is known to have made international investments. That amount of money is much larger than his pre-Presidency income. Trump's 2nd term has been filled with economic controversies involving the Trump administration. Now, Trump has turned the DOJ into his personal defense agency instead of a politically independent agency. We live in unprecedented times. On July 1, 2026, former CIA Director John Brennan filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. He wants to preserve records from ongoing investigations targeting him. He believes that the DOJ probes are phantom and part of a vindictive prosecution by the Department of Justice. Some sad news is that Victor Willis of the Village People passed away at 74 years old. Tony Brown of PBS passed away recently. Louis Farrakhan's wife, and Khadijah Farrakhan, passed away at the age of 90 years old. Also, Danny Glover revealed in public that he has Alzheimer's disease, and former NFL legend Chris Johnson has ALS (or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). The lesson here is that life is short. All people have to reject unnecessary bitterness and move forward in life realizing that a kind word or righteous actions will go a long way in helping the human race in general.
By Timothy
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Massive Supreme Court decisions.
On Monday, the Supreme Court has made many monumental decisions on June 29, 2026. First, I will outline the good news of these decisions. The court denied President Donald Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, meaning that Trump must pay $5 million to the former columnist. Carroll accused Trump of sexually abusing her. Justices also denied Alan Dershowitz's defamation appeal against CNN. The Justices also upheld the state laws that count mail in ballots that arrive after Election Day. This is a huge win for democracy and our voting rights in general as all votes should be counted, even if they arrive after Election Day (as these votes are still cast on Election Day at the maximum). Trump is a hypocrite for viciously attacking mail in voting, but he voted by mail before. Trump wants the SAVE Ameria Act which is an authoritarian law that would limit mail in ballots and have strict new ID and proof of citizenship requirements for voting. The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's attempt to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook which increased the FED's independence. The problem is that the court expanded the President's power to fire officials (like Slaughter), overturning nearly the century old precedent of Humphrey's executive. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent said it "promises only chaos." The Trump administration believes in the fascist view of the unitary executive or the executive branch of government has supreme power over all of the two other branches of government. The truth is that the three branches of government (i.e. executive, judicial, and legislative) ought to be co-equal along with having checks and balances among each other. The executive branch has no right to do as it wants whenever it wants to the detriment of the American people. Democracy is on the ballot of November 2026, so we should vote for justice without fear.
After the good Supreme Court decision about mail in voting, we should stay vigilant in defending our voting rights. Trump wants to advance other voter restrictions and deploy ICE agents to polling places. Trump is trying to influence the midterm elections, because he is afraid of Democrats winning more House and Senate seats. We know that voter fraud is very rare in American modern elections. Trump has lied that the 2020 election was stolen, so Trump wants to consider any election where Democrats win as fraudulent which is a lie. Trump wants the SAVE Act to restrict people to register to vote if they don't have a passport or birth certificate. 20 million Americans don't have ready access to a birth certificate. Trump wants to use voter intimidation by desiring federal forces to go to polling places. Trump believes in denying election results if a Democrat won an election. Right now, Trump is a very unpopular President. We should call our elected leaders to promote voting rights protections. Armed federal agents should be banned at polling places. We should check our voter registration status. There is no question that the Republican MAGA movement thrives on fear. Many of them promote hatred and fear of immigrants, black people, women, and other minorities. While this is going on, large corporations are increasing the prices of their goods, the administration has been involved in massive corruption scandals, and we have an unjust war in Iran. Now, Thiel is praising J.D. Vance, who could run for President in 2028. Vance praising Nixon while ignoring Nixon's criminal actions of bombing Cambodia illegally and using obstruction of justice shows Vance as a slick politician who wants a reactionary agenda in American society.
The Supreme Court has shown many consequential decisions involving many important social and political issues. The Supreme Court did the right thing to say in a 6-3 decision that birthright citizenship is affirmed as a constitutional reality. Anyone born in American soil is an American citizen period. Even the three justices' failure to see that are wrong (who are Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) but not shocking, because those three Justices are far right extremists. Therefore, we have one major victory involving that decision. Clarence Thomas believes in the myth that the Fourteenth Amendment only applies to former slaves when the Amendment is clear that it applies to all people born in America. Clarence hypocritically claims to be a textualist, but he believes that any child born to undocumented immigrants aren't true American citizens (which is false). Justice Jackson was right to say that the Constitution was never colorblind despite what Thomas says. Even Justice Kavanaugh (who voted in favor of birthright citizenship) desires Congress to limit or abolish birthright citizenship in a future date. We know that many far-right extremists and racists hate the cultural diversity of America, but our diversity is part of our strength.
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision stuck down a campaign finance federal law that limited the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate for office. The conservative Justices like Kavanaugh claims that such regulations violate the First Amendment. That means that political parties can spend unlimited funds in direct collaboration with candidates which can cause politicians to be brought by corporate interests and special interests unfortunately. Another Supreme Court decision approves state sports ban for transgender youth. Generation Z supports the policy of allowing transpersons in girls' and women's sporting events in a majority. Almost 80 percent of all Americans oppose transgender people competing in women sports categories. The court sided with Idaho and West Virginia. Kavanaugh said that the court wasn't deciding the separate question of whether schools can allow trans people to participate on girls' and women's sports teams. He said that the question could be addressed into the future. In other words, states that allow bans can have bans, and states that don't have bans like Pennsylvania and California are not required to change their policies.
The heatwave continues in the continent of Europe. Us Americans are more used to extreme heat, because we have more air conditioners and culturally, we can adjust to it. Yet, the majority of Northern and Western Europe don't have air conditioners in many places. This is the hottest European heatwave on record being as high as 32.4 degrees Fahrenheit above their seasonal average. Millions of workers are in suffering in the heat from Paris to London, while the super-rich have air-conditioned homes, private lounges, luxury cares, planes, and offices. In this year alone in 2026, over 1,300 excess deaths have been attributed to the heat, especially among the elderly and the very young. This is heavily driven by climate change and neglect by governments. People have warned about climate change for decades (as far back as the 1960s). Globally, the climate has been very high, even daytime temperatures are so high that 79 degrees in the morning is a blessing. Thousands of schools in Europe have been closed or shortened their hours. Over 200,000 poultry were killed in France in the heat involving agriculture. The Italian river of Po has almost dried up. The system of oligarchy is not only archaic and reactionary. It is a danger to the workers and the poor, who make up the majority of the world's population. We must have democracy and true planning to save humanity and the Earth.
By Timothy
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