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July 13, 2026

The US has few options for extricating itself from Trump’s war on
Iran with conditions better than when it went into the war, or
before Trump tore up the plan of action negotiated by President
Obama, Trump is claiming that he will keep the Strait of Hormuz
open, The administration continues to deny that Congress has any
role in its activities in Iran, despite the clear language of the
Constitution, Trump’s sons have amassed a portfolio of defense
tech startups that are benefitting from what the Pentagon is
doing, In Maine, an ICE agent shot and killed a man from Colombia
who was on his way to work but it appears he was not the man that
ICE and Border Patrol were looking for, Less an a week ago, ICE
shot and killed a man in Houston, who was close to obtaining
legal status who also was not the person ICE was looking for, In
Florida, a judge said that Trump, his lawyers, and lawyers for
the DOJ, had manufactured the settlement of Trump’s $10 billion
lawsuit against the IRS, She said that they launched the lawsuit
to confer legitimacy on a course of action that they did not want
to subject to judicial review, She recommended legal sanctions
against some of the lawyers, She was “extremely troubled” by the
testimony of Todd Blanche, who comes up for confirmation as
Attorney General, on July 15.

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