Plus: Steve Bannon is terrified; Trump’s increasingly lawless moves; science needs defending; and much more.
| Early Sunday evening in Los Angeles, as the city was under siege by federal anti-immigration forces, aided by local law enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass was holding a press conference. Out in the streets, a reporter noted, it appeared that the Los Angeles Police Department was “cooperating” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and “using flashbangs and less-lethal munitions” to push people engaged in “peaceful protest” away from a federal building being used as an ICE detention center. The reporter asked if Mayor Bass would comment on this cooperation, which is against city policy. “What happened there,” Bass began, “is that when one branch of law enforcement says they need help, another branch of law enforcement is going to respond.” In this case, she said, LAPD’s aim was to control the protest. She distinguished their actions from the department’s “coordinating with ICE in terms of raiding workplaces or arresting people who are undocumented.” |
| In today’s newsletter: Steve Bannon is terrified; Trump’s increasingly lawless moves; science needs defending; and much more. |
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| Sponsored by Environmental Action |
| The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is advancing plans to let hunters kill 44 wolves across the state. |
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| On America’s northern border, Trump’s trade war is already causing devastation in communities like Point Roberts—and the economic and cultural damage may be permanent. |
| Smug assertions of “believing in science” have only contributed to the problem. We’ve got to make a better pitch. |
| Call it “Make America Dead Again”: If it’s a peaceful anti-ICE protest, send in the Marines. If it’s a hurricane, no disaster aid for you! |
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| With so many major decisions coming down—with implications for the role of religion in public life, efforts to restrict gender-affirming care, gerrymandering—not to mention the serious threat to our Constitution, there’s a lot to unpack. Join us on July 2 to analyze and discuss the end-of-session Supreme Court rulings and their legal and political ramifications. |
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| As Trump’s talk about unleashing the military on American streets grows more menacing in its specifics, a former federal prosecutor explains why his moves are increasingly lawless—and how he can be stopped. |
| By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent |
| What the world’s richest man doesn’t get about universal health care |
| He thinks what’s happening in a small pocket of Los Angeles is “World War III.” |
| It is flagrantly illegal, of course. He’s doing it anyways. |
| Brad Bondi wasn’t anywhere close to winning this election. |
| By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
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| Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how to screw over poor and working people more effectively. |
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