Source: Truthdig
by Bill Blum

“Just how bad is the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision on birthright citizenship? Among progressive and liberal commentators, the thinking is surprisingly mixed. Some assert that Trump v. CASA ‘couldn’t be more disastrous’ and will leave the Trump administration with ‘blood on its hands’; others see ‘silver linings’ in the ruling. The reason for the diverse reactions is simple: The 6-3 majority decision written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett didn’t address the underlying issue in the case—the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment for the children of undocumented immigrants. Instead, Barrett and the conservative majority produced a complicated and confusing procedural ruling that leaves the executive order in legal limbo, intact for now but subject to further litigation.” (07/10/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship

Source: The Intercept

“The private prison industry saw its influence wane under Joe Biden, but it remains dominant in the business of immigration detention. So when President Donald Trump signed the so-called ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ on July 4, dedicating $45 billion to immigration detention with a goal to double or triple the population behind bars, it was a huge payoff. The victory was in the works for years. A private prison company handed consulting and lobbying gigs to Trump’s allies, its political action committee was the first to max out its donation to Trump, and industry executives had already made plans to reopen shuttered prisons — laying the groundwork for what they promised investors would be an incarceration bonanza.” (07/10/25)

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Marcos Falcone

“Earlier this year, left-wing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hosted a rally in downtown Mexico City to celebrate Donald Trump’s one-month delay in imposing 25% tariffs on her country. To Latin American observers, this was baffling and not just because the victory was meager, but because since when does the left embrace free trade? Yet Sheinbaum’s stance ever since, alongside prior remarks by her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), show that there is a way of committing the Latin American left to free trade: by embracing it in the first place.” (07/10/25)

https://fee.org/articles/how-the-mexican-left-embraced-free-trade/

Source: The Realist Review
by Lucy Komisar

“The Magnitsky Act claims to punish those responsible for or benefiting from the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky. In fact, the Act provided no evidence that his detention was unjustified (see, for example, The European Human Rights Commission report), that he was abused or killed, or that he uncovered a conspiracy. Jonathan M. Winer, a State Department aide to Hillary Clinton who later played a critical role in passing on the Steele disinformation dossier around Washington, acknowledges that he authored the Magnitsky Act. The plan was to get a U.S. law on the books that would in effect block the Russian government from using international law enforcement, particularly Interpol, from going after certain individuals of other countries who had cheated on their taxes.” (07/10/25)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/the-myths-behind-the-magnitsky-act

Source: Orange County Register
by Patrick Eddington

“Texas resident and software developer Joshua Aaron has certainly made a name for himself with his extremely newsworthy app ICEBlock. The app allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity within a certain radius and has allegedly been downloaded at least 100,000 times since going live earlier this year. The Trump administration has not only tried to keep the app a secret, it has threatened news outlets who simply report on its existence. … The fact that Aaron felt the need to create the app in the first place is just another reminder of how much America has effectively morphed into a police state in only months.” (07/10/25)

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/07/10/iceblock-criminal-evasion-tool-or-constitutionally-protected-speech/