Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan

“We have been a brutal deportation nation long before our Trumpian 21st Century gambit. What’s different now, it seems to me, are four things: the sheer scale of it; the frantic pursuit of quantity over quality; the relative paucity of resources for courts and judges; and the fact that the enforcers are anonymous, masked, and unknowable — and will soon be on every street in America. ICE will now have more resources than all but 15 countries’ military budgets, and is set to grow from an annual budget of $10 billion to $150 billion over four years. This is a ramp up of mind-boggling size and speed. Some of it will be helped by deputizing the military to some tasks, including, as we saw in Los Angeles this week, performative acts of intimidation.” (07/11/25)

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/trumps-deportation-stormtroopers-925

Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley

“I wrote recently about the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has drawn the ire of colleagues in opinions for her rhetoric and extreme positions. Many have expressed alarm over her adherence to what has been described by one as an ‘imperial judiciary’ model of jurisprudence. Now, it appears that Jackson’s increasingly controversial opinions are serving a certain cathartic purpose for the far-left Biden appointee. ‘I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do,’ Jackson told ABC News. Her colleagues have not entirely welcomed that sense of license. The histrionic and hyperbolic rhetoric has increased in Jackson’s opinions, which at times portray her colleagues as abandoning not just the Constitution but democracy itself.” (07/11/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-justice-jackson-plays-pundit-dismay-scotus-colleagues

Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut

“These are ‘Alice in Wonderland’ times, where limited-government conservatives often defend big-government policies, big-government progressives regularly support deregulation and everyone else is left scratching their heads. ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,’ said Alice in the 1951 Disney version of the story. Everything in this world does seem nonsensical, especially as we consider the issue of land-use regulation and California’s efforts (led by progressives) to jump-start housing construction by — yes, you heard this right — reducing the role of government in dictating what we can do with our property. Meanwhile, many conservatives have dug in their heels as they defend ham-fisted progressive-era rules that are anathema to our freedoms. It’s curiouser and curiouser.” (07/11/25)

https://archive.is/srrw9

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“The narrative about an ‘antisemitism crisis’ in our society has two main components: 1) Redefining ‘antisemitism’ to mean ‘criticism of Israel,’ and 2) Pretending not to see a connection between rising incidents of ‘antisemitism’ as it’s been redefined and Israel perpetrating an active genocide. … ‘Antisemitism’ means criticism of Israel. That’s just what it means now. It used to mean something else, but years of bad faith actors using that word in the most dishonest ways imaginable to defend the most horrific things you’ve ever seen has changed the definition. It is no longer possible to separate that word from this sustained campaign of mass deception.” (07/12/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/12/genocide-summer-camp-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/

Source: Racket News
by Eric Salzman

“Back in the ‘good old days’ of subprime mortgage-mania, the business of making loans and securitizing them took on the appearance of the proverbial tail wagging the dog. The participants in the business of making the loans, securitizing them, selling them and managing them could not care less who was actually getting the loan. There seemed to be an endless supply of global capital that ‘needed’ to be put to work in subprime. Wall Street was making billions and the only thing that mattered was creating a loan, no matter how ridiculous, to feed the subprime structured-product market. We know how all that turned out. I get the strong feeling this is what has been happening in the Private Market (Private Equity and Private Credit) investment sector.” (07/11/25)

https://www.racket.news/p/one-more-wafer-thin-mint