Stephen Miller got his way with keeping the arrests and deportations unmitigated after what appeared to be a softening stance by Trump to try to mitigate damage to farms and businesses that depend on undocumented workers. Stephen Miller and ICE Barbie in Bitter West Wing Civil War Over Round-Ups excerpt: "Miller, the architect of many of Trump’s hardline immigration policies, had been pushing for ICE to detain at least 3,000 migrants a day and was especially opposed to any industry-specific exemptions. Miller, Noem and other hardline anti-immigration officials then sought to change the policy back to where it was before Rollins got in Trump’s ear, reported Axios. Agriculture Brooke Rollins is said to have persuaded Donald Trump to pull back on hitting farmworkers with immigration raids. That pressure campaign seemed to work. On Sunday, Trump ramped up his rhetoric and urged ICE officials to “achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history,” including targeting Democratic-led cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. By Monday, the Department of Homeland Security reversed course, notifying staff that the previous guidelines were scrapped and that ICE would resume raids on agricultural businesses, hotels, and restaurants, The Washington Post reported."
Is This How ICE Barbie Got Her $50,000 Rolex? Timothy Noah July 1, 2025 Is This How ICE Barbie Got Her $50,000 Rolex? | The New Republic
Hope is not lost. Behold. Trump says he's sending Noem (ICE Barbie with her $50,000 Rolex) to Texas. Trump to Texas: 'Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will be there shortly'
...to shoot and kill dogs and any other lifeforms that she considers unusable that were distressed by the floods.
Trump cut funding for weather forecasters – now dozens have died in Texas floods excerpt: "Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Doge – which is unaccountable to Congress and not a real US government department – cut 600 staff members at the weather bureau, equivalent to just over 12 per cent of its total workforce. A hiring freeze was also instituted, leaving previously vacant positions unfilled."
Trump cut funding for weather forecasters – now dozens have died in Texas floods excerpt: "Budget cuts to the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ordered by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), combined with the unwillingness of local taxpayers to fund a flood emergency warning system, appear to have contributed to the appalling loss of life that occurred in the early hours of Friday morning."
Kandiss Taylor again. MAGA Congressional Candidate Calls Texas Floods ‘Fake’: It’s ‘Murder’ excerpt: “So the dead bodies floating in Texas are fake too? The homes ripped apart? The kids being pulled out of floodwater?” asked commentator Thomas Mix. “You’re a clown. Sit the hell down and stop embarrassing the human race. I guess not even Republicans care when Republicans are hit with natural disasters.” Taylor, whose X bio reads: “Christian. Georgian. MAGA. Jesus, Guns & Babies,” also notes that she’s a candidate for Congress in 2026.
MAGA Congressional Candidate Calls Texas Floods ‘Fake’: It’s ‘Murder’ excerpt: A MAGA congressional candidate is facing backlash after spreading conspiracy theories about the deadly flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas. Kandiss Taylor, who is running to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, posted on X Saturday: “Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake.”
She ran for governor of GA and lost by about 70 points to Kemp. Her campaign slogan was, "Jesus, Guns, and Babies. I'm the one you've been waiting for." image:
Taylor lost badly to Kemp by 70 points and later claimed election fraud. Trump loyalist who lost Georgia governor primary with just 3.4% of the vote is refusing to admit defeat excerpt: "It is my opinion that our elections in Georgia have become a travesty spearheaded by the corrupt, organized, willful assault that Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Attorney General Chris Carr, and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams have inflicted on our election process," the press release continued. "I do not concede," she wrote.
Trump says he's not sure if he can ever stop Putin's war on Ukraine. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/05/trump-russia-ukraine-war-00440027 excerpt: “I told you I was very unhappy with my call with President Putin,” he continued. “He wants to go all the way, just keep killing people, it’s no good.”
It took Trump 10 years to figure out what everyone else has already known since Putin came to power in 2000.
Karl Rove thinks the GOP should go on the offensive to try to convince Americans that the Medicaid cuts caused by the new budget bill are supposedly only targeting able-bodied people who supposedly refuse to work and who are supposedly living off Medicaid. Rove remark to Fox: “Medicaid was meant for poor seniors, for children in poor families, and for the disabled, and we should not be paying for health care for people who are able-bodied, and can work, and are refusing to work. This is why they got to go on the offense. But yeah, it’s going to be a big impact.”.
Trump Gloats About Turbocharged ICE After Signing Megabill excerpt: “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE,” she wrote on social media Thursday. “This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion—making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.”
Yeah--that'll work---a new party run by billionaires? They'll be sure to look out for working people. They wouldn't think of further enriching themselves.