Evening Roundup, July 27
Harrowing truth about ICE detention centers, the Congressional members who funded ICE, Trump hits local broadcast, how did Republicans get here?, intelligence reports across oceans, and The Movement
Spotlight Story
‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’
A pair of ICE shootings in the streets of Texas and Maine have refocused Americans on the wanton cruelty of the Trump administration’s immigrant roundups. At the same time, a new joint report by Human Rights Watch and the ACLU offers a harrowing look at abuses inside America’s largest immigrant detention facility, in El Paso, Texas.
Hot Mic
Every Member of Congress Who Funded ICE (So You Can Vote Them Out)
Two weeks ago, I shared a list of every congressperson seeking re-election who voted to give ICE tens of billions of dollars. Since then a few members have lost their primaries, announced their retirement, or died (or might have died? Check Kentucky). Thirty-nine members of Congress fit those categories, leaving 206 ICE-funding members still on the ball…
Trump’s Fascist Power Play Threatens Chicago’s Favorite Local TV Station
Donald Trump’s latest political retribution scheme against the news media hits home for me. I used to produce newscasts at Chicago’s ABC7. I’m proud of the work we did reporting the news and impressed by what the station continues to do today. ABC7 was the
Retrospective Republicanism
Intelligence Community
Transatlantic Intelligence Sharing Is Under Pressure
The 2026 NATO summit in Ankara took place amid friction between Washington and its European allies over defense spending and the Iran war, and the alliance found itself at a crossroads. The U.S. president’s frequent criticism and threats to leave NATO, along with announced U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe and a review of the U.S. military presence on…
I swear, just the list of funders, the piece on the concentration camp, and the "how the GOP took the system" article are worth the annual subscription. (Not that I don't love everything else.)
Any country that relies on the United States are intelligence is relying on something we have an extremely short supply at this point. And we are unreliable and why would they trust anything we say anyway.