Tuesday, July 21, 2026

The administration is restarting its disastrous assault on Iran, White House reporting confirms, while the GOP got some breathing room ahead of the midterms before Trump reignited the conflict and CENTCOM slashes its civilian harm reduction team from 10 to just one. Simultaneously, Marco Rubio publishes a Red Scare blacklist of people for their opinions on Cuba. Trump has signaled he will send in the troops if Democrats appear to be winning in November, pointing to last week's national address to justify the move. Analyst David Rothkopf, citing Trump's Sunday remarks at Joint Base Andrews, says the president displayed evidence of cognitive decline.

The end of Temporary Protected Status and Trump's budget cuts make a bad situation worse, deepening the crisis of care work.

At Kaiser Permanente, bosses are implementing invasive AI surveillance of advice hotline nurses. Interviews with seven current and former nurses found staff are questioned about calls lasting more than 15 minutes and receive monthly scores tracking their speed and activity.

The mythology of Israeli democracy denies the violent displacement of Palestinians in 1948 and frames the June 1967 six-day war as preemptive. The worst of the mythologies deal with whether Palestinians left voluntarily or were expelled.