Trump the “peacemaker”? After his Alaska sit-down with Putin, Trump hosted Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House, pitching himself as the man who can broker a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting. The optics were warm, even “very good,” but substance was thin: no ceasefire, no real plan, just Trump eyeing a Nobel and Ukraine still under fire.
TB festers in ICE camps. Tuberculosis is spreading inside Trump’s detention centers, where neglect, overcrowding, and filth are fueling outbreaks. Doctors warn it’s a public health disaster spilling beyond the walls, but ICE is cashing $45 billion budgets into private prison profits while shrugging off the dead and sick.
Newsmax coughs up $67 million. Dominion Voting Systems landed another settlement, this time from Newsmax, for spreading 2020 election lies. It’s a fraction of Fox’s $787 million payout, but proportionally worse for a much smaller network. Newsmax, of course, still insists it did nothing wrong—while writing the check.
EPA gut punch. Trump’s move to erase the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases has corporate America spooked. Even oil lobbyists want national rules to shield them from lawsuits. Kill that federal shield, and companies could drown in litigation. It’s less climate policy than culture war theater—with business caught in the crossfire.
Killing mail-in voting (again). Trump says he’ll ban mail-in ballots with an executive order, despite the pesky fact that the Constitution gives that power to states. He’s railing against the very system he uses himself, and quoting Putin as validation. Courts will block it, but the narrative keeps his base foaming.
Hamas edges toward a ceasefire. Mediators say Hamas has agreed to a Qatari-Egyptian plan for a truce, hostage swaps, and humanitarian aid. Israel previously accepted a similar deal, but Netanyahu’s far-right partners are already denouncing it. Meanwhile, civilians starve in Gaza as leaders haggle over coalition politics.
