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The Big Beautiful Bill passed...now what? Dr. Tim Peck breaks down the changes you need to know about with this recent law change. Why will rural hospitals probably close? Why will many not be on Medicaid that rely on this insurance for their health? Subscribe to Dr. Tim on Project Next Media to here medical info you need to know without the political spin.

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National Stories

* US Headlines

* CBS Cancels Colbert (and Paramount Settles Suit amid Merger)

* The announcement by CBS on Thursday that it will cancel the show comes against the backdrop of a looming merger between its parent company, Paramount, with Skydance Media.

* comes only days after the comedian called out Paramount for its $16m settlement with Trump. Trump, in a lawsuit, had alleged that 60 Minutes, the flagship news magazine at CBS, doctored an interview during the 2024 presidential campaign with his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.

* Colbert, a longtime critic of the president, called the network’s decision to settle “a big fat bribe” because of the pending merger, which needs approval from the Department of Justice and is valued at $8bn.

* Trump Diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency

* Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when leg veins don't allow blood to flow back up to the heart, causing it to pool in the lower limbs.

* Trump had also been recently photographed with patches of make-up on the back of his hand. The White House has said it is unrelated to the vein condition but is instead bruising as a result of frequent handshaking.

* Trump Pressures Powell, Fed

* Trump — who has repeatedly expressed his anger at the Fed chair for declining to lower interest rates on Trump’s watch — is building [a case to fire Powell] with the help of aides.

* It has nothing to do with monetary policy or interest rate incompetence, but rather an over-budget renovation of the Federal Reserve complex,

* “I was surprised he was appointed,” Trump said at the White House on Wednesday, either forgetting or perhaps fudging about his role in first nominating Powell as Fed chair during his first term.

* DOD Signs $200M Contract with Musk's xAI

* The week after its Grok chatbot identified itself as “MechaHitler” and generated antisemitic posts, Elon Musk’s xAI firm announced a contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) worth nearly $200m. The deal is for developing and implementing artificial intelligence tools for the agency.

* Republicans Look to Gerrymander Way to Victory in ‘26

* are poised to redraw the state’s congressional maps this coming week and devise five new winnable seats for the GOP that would help the party avoid losing House control in the 2026 elections.

* Dems Float Their Own in Response

* Many liberals called on Democrat-led states — like California, Oregon and Illinois — to blunt the impact by conducting redraws of their own.

* “Trump said he’s going to steal 5 Congressional seats in Texas and gerrymander his way into a 2026 win. Well, two can play that game,” [California Governor Gavin] Newsom wrote in a post on X that featured a clip of his “Pod Save America” appearance. “Special sessions. Special elections. Ballot initiatives. New laws. It’s all on the table when democracy is on the line.”

* Salvadoran/Venezuelan Prisoner Swap

* Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for more than 200 Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador, the U.S. and Salvadoran governments said Friday.

* In March, the Trump administration sent about 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, whose government was paid to house them in a maximum security prison, known as CECOT.

* The United States accused many of the men of being gang members and deported them under the Alien Enemies Act, which had not been invoked since World War II.

* Lawyers for the Venezuelan deportees argue their transfer to El Salvador was illegal. Dozens of them were in the middle of asylum cases, and had been held in U.S. detention centers for months.

* Dee’s Story: The Epstein Stuff Just Won’t Go Away

* July 7, 2025: Epstein memo released

* The DOJ and FBI released a memo, in which both agencies said their review determined there was "no incriminating 'client list'" and "no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions."

* The department also released hours of footage as part of its review, which officials say further confirms Epstein died by suicide while in custody in his jail cell in Manhattan in 2019.

* MAGA Personalities Revolt

* [Conspiracy theorist Laura] Loomer called on Bondi to resign "for lying to the American People." Pro-Trump influencers the Hodgetwins also called on Trump to fire Bondi -- as did American conservative political commentator Liz Wheeler.

* Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon questioned if the administration is as transparent as it claims it would be during his popular "War Room" show. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused the Trump administration of being part of a cover-up.

* July 8, 2025: Bondi & Trump Play “Hide the Ball”

* During a Cabinet meeting, Bondi clarified past comments she made regarding the Epstein case in the wake of the memo's release, including regarding the "client list."

* "In February, I did an interview on Fox, and it's been getting a lot of attention because I said I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That's what I meant by that," Bondi said.

* During the same Cabinet meeting, Trump had interrupted prior to Bondi's response, saying, "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking-- we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable."

* July 12 (Last Sat) Trump defends Bondi in Wild Truth Social Post

* Trump defended Bondi in a social media post amid the pushback from some in his MAGA base over the handling of the Epstein probe.

* Gets Ratioed for the first time on his own site.

* July 15 (Tue)

* Rules Committee (including Houchin) Shoots Down Khanna Amendment to Release Epstein Files

* [House Speaker] Mike Johnson says Bondi needs to 'come forward and explain' handling of Epstein files

* Trump says he doesn’t understand ‘fascination’ with ‘boring’ Jeffrey Epstein case at center of MAGA firestorm

* “He’s [been] dead for a long time, he was never a big factor in terms of life,” Trump said of Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

* “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody,” he reiterated. “It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going.”

* “I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.”

* July 16 (Wed) “Raw” Prison Video Was Cooked

* WIRED is reporting that new metadata shows that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the Department of Justice and FBI described as the “full raw” video from the only camera near Epstein’s cell the night before he was found dead.

* July 17 (Thu) WSJ Reports Trump Contributed Lewd Birthday Letter for Epstein’s 50th

* The Wall Street Journal reported that the letter with Trump's name on it contains an outline of a hand-drawn naked woman with typewritten text, describing an apparently imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein. According to the Journal, here is what it said:

* “Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything,” the note started.

* Donald: Yes, there is, but I won’t tell you what it is.

* Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.

* Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

* Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.

* Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

* Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

* Donald: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.

* July 18 (Fri)

* DOJ Asks Federal Court to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts

* A judge would have to approve the release of the grand jury transcripts, and it’s likely to be a lengthy process to decide what can become public and to make redactions to protect sensitive witness and victim information.

* Trump Sues WSJ, Murdoch for $10B

* The suit, filed in federal court in Miami, accuses the paper and its reporters of having “knowingly and recklessly” published “numerous false, defamatory,…

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50501 is a powerful peaceful protest organization that is sweeping the country. Here in Indiana, we have many working to organize local protests. Meet two leaders, Janet Wall-Meyers and Scott Johnson, running the charge of this movement in our state. Why are they doing this? What is the goal? Why should you join the next protest?

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National Stories

* Headlines

* More Trump Tariff Uncertainty

* Earlier this week, Trump sent dozens of letters to a variety of longtime US trading partners informing them that they could soon face tariffs ranging from a minimum of 25% all the way to a whopping 50%. And, in an NBC News interview that aired Thursday, Trump suggested hiking blanket tariffs on most countries. Collectively, the tariffs Trump has threatened to enact on August 1 would mark the highest average tariff rate America has seen in over a century, according to multiple estimates.

* Related: Trump Threatens Brazil With Tariff Over Bolsonaro Trial

* President Donald Trump is framing his threat to slap a bruising 50 percent tariff on Brazil as a quest for justice for his friend and ally, far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.

* But it was his displeasure at a gathering of emerging market nations in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend that tipped the president over the edge, convincing him to send a letter laying out the new levies, according to four people familiar with the situation granted anonymity to share details.

* The White House concluded that other methods of punishing Brazil for its perceived mistreatment of Bolsonaro and its alleged censorship on social media, like sanctions, would take too long or were too complex, according to two of the people. But “BRICS tipped the scale,”

* Musk’s Grok AI Goes Full “MechaHitler”

* Grok's behavior appeared to stem from an update over the weekend that instructed the chatbot to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated," among other things. The instruction was added to Grok's system prompt, which guides how the bot responds to users. xAI removed the directive on Tuesday.

* It's not the first time Grok has sparked outrage. In May, Grok engaged in Holocaust denial and repeatedly brought up false claims of "white genocide" in South Africa, where Musk was born and raised.

* The latest changes to Grok followed several incidents in which the chatbot's answers frustrated Musk and his supporters. In one instance, Grok stated "right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly [than left-wing political violence]" since 2016. (This has been true dating back to at least 2001.) Musk accused Grok of "parroting legacy media" in its answer and vowed to change it to "rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors." Sunday's update included telling Grok to "assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased."

* CEO Yaccarino Resigns

* Linda Yaccarino, who was hired two years ago as chief executive officer of X, said on Wednesday she was stepping down from the social media platform.

* Khalil Sues Trump Admin for $20M

* Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist who was detained by the Trump administration for months, have filed a claim for $20m in damages against the administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.

* The filing – a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act – names the Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the state department.

* Khalil, 30, was released from US immigration detention last month after having been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war on Gaza.

* Trump administration officials had accused Khalil of antisemitism and of pro-Hamas advocacy, although they did not provide evidence at any point during his arrest or detention.

* Measles Cases Reach 33-Year High

* Measles cases have surpassed a recent 2019 record to reach the highest level since 1992, with at least 1,289 cases reported in 39 states.

* There have been 3 confirmed deaths from measles in 2025.

* Measles is one of the most contagious diseases and can spread rapidly among unvaccinated people.

* WHO had declared measles eliminated from US in 2000.

* State Department Lays Off 1300 Employees

* As fired employees packed their belongings, dozens of former colleagues, ambassadors, members of Congress and others spent a warm, humid day protesting outside. Holding signs saying, “Thank you to America’s diplomats” and “We all deserve better,” they mourned the institutional loss from the cuts and highlighted the personal sacrifice of serving in the foreign service.

* FBI Director Patel Polygraph Testing Agents

* Agents have expressed concerns that they are at risk of losing their jobs if found to have said anything even remotely critical about Patel or Bongino.

* Dozens of FBI officials have reportedly been subjected to polygraphs under Patel’s leadership, though it’s unclear how many were interrogated specifically about bad-mouthing the boss.

* TikTok to Create M2 American Version??

* TikTok is pushing back against a Reuters report that claims the company is working on a standalone version of its app for the U.S. market, complete with a separate algorithm and data infrastructure.

* The report said this version would operate independently from the global app, using only U.S. user data to train its recommendation algorithm.

* Reuters framed the effort as part of TikTok’s response to a 2024 U.S. law requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to divest U.S. operations.

* Scott’s Story: Texas Floods

* More than 100 people have died, with hundreds more reported as still missing.

* Who’s to Blame? Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) - “I believe there have been failures at every level of government, from the county to the state and the federal,” to anchor Ali Velshi on MSNBC.

* Trump admin failures

* NWS/NOAA cuts

* “The National Weather Service (NWS), in particular, has lost close to 600 staff at a time when 40 percent of national weather forecast offices are facing significant staff vacancies. Specifically for the Austin/San Antonio forecasting office, which covers areas affected by the Texas floods, the Trump administration’s recent DOGE layoffs included a warning coordination meteorologist position that plays a critical role in communication coordination between forecasters, emergency managers, and the public.”

* “Prior to this past weekend’s events, the National Weather Service had been warning about the coming rains and potential for flash floods for days, but a few key local NWS positions had been vacant since the first round of DOGE cuts and buyouts. The vacant warning coordination meteorologist position, in particular, is “responsible for working with emergency managers and the public to ensure people know what to do when a disaster strikes.” Yet the person who had served in that role for decades was among hundreds of NWS employees who accepted an early retirement offer, leaving the agency at the end of April.”

* Noem’s personal approval needed for any contract over $100K

* Abbott admin failures

* 'Who's to blame?' Know this. That's the word choice of losers. Let me explain one thing about Texas. And that is, Texas, every square inch of our state cares about football. You can be in Hunt, Texas, Huntsville, Texas, Houston, Texas, any size community, they care about football. High school Friday night lights, college football, or pro. Every football team makes mistakes. The losing teams are the ones who try to point out who is to blame. The championship teams are the ones who say, 'Don’t worry about it, man, we got this.' We're going to make sure that we go score again and we're gonna win this game. The way winners talk is not to point fingers. They talk about solutions."

* “The Texas Division of Emergency Management denied Kerr County’s 2017 application, meeting minutes show. Kerr County applied again in 2018, when more federal funding became available after Hurricane Harvey. But meeting minutes indicate that Texas’ emergency authority again did not approve it.”

* Local govt failures

* “Local leaders have talked for years about the need for a warning system. Kerr County sought a nearly $1 million grant eight years ago for such…

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Jonathan Tallman watched his family’s Oregon farm get devalued and ultimately sacrificed for an Amazon powerline, clearing the way for a data center. Despite years of resistance, they were powerless to stop it. Non-disclosure agreements, state-level lobbying, and city politics all played a role in the outcome. Here in Indiana, we face our own battles with big energy at the state level. So let’s take a look at what happened in Oregon — and more importantly, let’s talk about how everyday community members can come together to protect the land we love, so future generations can grow up in places worth calling home.

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National Stories

* Headlines

* Texas Flash Floods kill at least 51 (incl. 15 children); dozens of campers missing

* US Halts Weapons Deliveries to Ukraine as Russia Ups Attacks

* Diddy Convicted on Lesser Charges

* US/China to negotiate Tik Tok sale

* Israeli strikes kill 300+ in Gaza in two days

* Abrego Garcia says he was tortured in Salvadoran Prison

* Musk to form new party amid Trump beef

* Scott’s Story: The “One Big Beautiful Bill”

* Extends Trump Tax Cuts ($3.7T over 10 yr)

* No Tax on Tips or Overtime (with limits)

* Raises Standard and SALT Deductions

* Raises Estate Tax Exemption

* Increases Military Spending by $153B

* $170B Dedicated to Trump’s Immigration & Deportation Goals

* $45B for “detention centers”

* $30B for personnel, transportation, facility maintenance

* $46.5B for border wall

* Makes ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency

* Annual average budget of $37.5B

* nearly 20 years’ worth of detention funding to be spent only in a four-year period

* costing the federal government more than all of the other federal law enforcement agencies combined - DEA, FBI, ATF, the Secret Service and the Marshals Service.

* More than the military expenditures of all but 15 countries

* $1.3T in Health Care & Food Program Cuts

* Medicaid

* 11.8 million people could lose their health insurance coverage over the next decade.

* Adds 80-hour per month work requirement for adults without children or disabilities.

* More frequent eligibility checks

* Program would not fund services at clinics that also perform abortions.

* Tightens rules for payments to states

* SNAP

* Requires states to provide funding for food assistance program.

* Only provided to permanent, legal residents.

* New work requirements for people 55 to 64.

* Requires congressional approval to increase benefits.

* Exempts Alaska and Hawaii from cost sharing.

* If your income falls below $58,000, you’re likely to lose benefits from programs such as Medicaid, health insurance market-places, supplemental nutritional assistance program (SNAP) and students loans.

* If your income is in the top 0.1%, you’ll have an even greater benefit in 2027. You'll save $301,550, or 2.3%—partially because of other changes that will sunset by 2030

* Michelle’s Story: “Alligator Alcatraz”

* Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

* According to Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones, officials claimed the lawmakers couldn’t enter due to “safety reasons,” yet gave no explanation and wouldn’t even say whether those same concerns apply to the migrants held inside. When the legislators pressed the Florida Department of Emergency Management for answers, the agency hung up on them.

* According to Gulf Coast News Now: “The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to us today that the facility is expected to cost about $450 million per year, with each bed costing $245 per day. Officials say they expect to have 5,000 beds…

* …[Gov.] DeSantis has defended the facility and its purpose. He said he’d like to see other states follow Florida’s lead. ‘Don't let Florida be the only state. We've got very red states that should be doing this just as much as Florida is doing, that will increase their numbers,’ DeSantis said during a recent visit to the site.”

* Alligator Alcatraz latest: Lawmakers denied entry, first detainees arrive

* Chelsea’s Story: Citizen Action

* 1. No Kings Protests. Millions came out to take action against poor policy and authoritarianism. Protests were mostly peaceful, police brutality in LA and SLC.

* 2. Direct Impacts we can make locally: Be together, volunteer, organize.

* 3. Future acts: 50501, Indivisible, MADVoters, Cliff Cash & Organizing Indiana (Michelle)

* Michael’s Story: Public Health and the Environment

* 1 Reducing cleanup goals or “Environmental Restrictions”

* 2 Understanding how and what we use from the earth

* 3 Air Quality

Indiana Stories

* Quick Headlines - Around the Corn

* New State Laws Take Effect July 1st

* No more luxury cars for state officials

* Increased speed limit on I-465

* Law also allows state to make any interstate highway into a toll road

* Transgender ban extended to college sports

* there are less than 10 transgender athletes who are active in the NCAA

* Expungement opportunity for red flag records

* No more student IDs for voting

* DEI rollbacks at educational institutions, state agencies, and licensing boards

* Require counties to cooperate with ICE

* Lab-grown meat ban

* Partisan school board elections

* Expansion of lifeline law to intoxicated minors

* Eliminate state funding for public broadcasting

* Cuts to university degree programs

* Indianapolis Church Calls for Death to LGBTQ Community

* Michael’s Story: State University Program Cuts

* Six of Indiana’s public colleges and universities are cutting or consolidating more than 400 academic degree programs ahead of a new state law that takes effect this week, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE) announced Monday.

* Nearly one in five degree programs will be eliminated, suspended or merged across six institutions: Ball State University, Indiana State University, Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue University and the University of Southern Indiana.

* The bulk of the cuts were reported at Indiana University, where 249 degree programs will be affected. Purdue University followed with 83 programs. Ball State submitted 51 programs, and Indiana State reported 11. Ivy Tech, the state’s two-year community college system, is taking action on 10 programs. The University of Southern Indiana reported four.

* Chelsea’s Story: Union School Corp.

* State legislators say they have put Union on the chopping block because of poor performance. But district leaders believe the real reason is so the state can reap the benefits of the Indiana Digital Learning School, a virtual school Union has overseen since 2017 — growing to 7,500 students and paying the district an estimated $3 million in oversight fees annually.

* the district believes the real reason is the millions it receives from the INDLS, which is run by the publicly-traded virtual learning company Stride Learning, formerly known as K12 Inc.

* Union and the Clarksville school districts are the only districts with statewide e-schools. Many other Indiana school districts have created or are exploring online schools that serve local students to bring in more money or to keep them from departing to other online schools.

* Clarksville also partners with Stride/K12 and the Indiana Gateway Digital School, is run by a family with political influence Union lacks. Clarksville’s superintendent Tina Bennett is the wife of Tony Bennett, the former state superintendent of Indiana and Florida. He was also an executive at Stride/K12 before retiring in March.

* Indiana state officials also have little confidence in small districts overseeing large online schools after two virtual charter schools overseen by the 1,000-student Daleville school district were found in 2017 to be defrauding the state with inflated enrollment numbers. State and federal investigators have estimated the schools improperly received between $44 and $154 million and have pursued separate cases, both criminal and to recover money.

* The superintendent of the two schools pleaded guilty early this month to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of the case.

* Citing poor test scores, Indiana’s state legislature voted in April to close the Union schools by 2027 and send its 300 students who attend classes in-person to neighboring districts miles away.

* The online school would then be on its own and either shut down or bring its millions to another partner, either another district, the state or as a charter school

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* Michelle’s Story: Rural Hospital Closures

* Twelve Indiana Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closure

* A July 2, 2025 report from WBIW lists 12 Indiana hospitals that could be imperiled by federal Medicaid cuts

* Daviess Community Hospital in Washington

* Memorial Hospital Logansport in Logansport

* Community Hospital of Bremen Inc. in Bremen

* Ascension St. Vincent Randolph in Winchester

* Ascension St. Vincent J…

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Sarah just got back from a giant New England road trip. Corinne just had a video get over 1 million views. Also, giant scandals in Indiana Dem politics...scary online threats...and Sarah is told she is wrong by a prominent male Democrat. But is Sarah wrong????? We want to know what you think about these issues too! At the end of this show the news came out about the healthcare bill passing the house. Corinne and Sarah discuss this in real time as it happened also.

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This Week’s Rundown

National Stories

* Judicial Overreach

* Court Allows Regime to Deport Migrants to Third Countries

* The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court order that prevented the Trump administration from deporting migrants to countries that are not their places of origin without first giving them the chance to raise fears of torture, persecution or death.

* In a dissenting opinion, Sotomayor accused the federal government of "flagrantly unlawful conduct" and called the majority's decision to intervene at this stage in the case "inexcusable."

* "The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard," she wrote, joined by Kagan and Jackson.

* As part of Mr. Trump's immigration agenda and plans for mass deportations, his administration has approached nations like Costa Rica, Panama and Rwanda about accepting migrants who are not their citizens.

* The administration has also already entered into an arrangement with the government of El Salvador to detain Venezuelan migrants who it claims are gang members, though a "60 Minutes" investigation found most have no apparent criminal records. The migrants have been confined at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT, often under a 1798 wartime law.

* a group of migrants from Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines were being prepared to be deported to Libya and Saudi Arabia, though the deportation flights do not appear to have happened. Murphy then concluded last month that the Trump administration violated his order when it attempted to swiftly deport a group of men with criminal histories to war-torn South Sudan with less than 24 hours notice

* Another Blow to Planned Parenthood

* The Supreme Court delivered a back-door blow to Planned Parenthood on Thursday, ruling that states may cut off Medicaid reimbursements for the organization's non-abortion medical services.

* At issue was a provision of the federal Medicaid law that guarantees Medicaid patients the ability to choose their doctors, or in the words of the statute, they are entitled to "any qualified and willing provider."

* South Carolina, however, maintained that it could disqualify Medicaid providers for "any reason that state law allows."

* Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, writing for the dissenting liberal justices said, the decision "will strip" Medicaid recipients all over the country of "a deeply personal freedom, the ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable."

* Planned Parenthood's president and CEO, Alexis McGill Johnson, in an interview with NPR, said the decision would have widespread ramifications and would allow seventeen states to strip Planned Parenthood clinics of the ability to provide non-abortion medical services to rural and low income people.

* These are undeniably tough days for Planned Parenthood, which also faces the possibility—or likelihood—that the Republican congress will soon cut off all its Medicaid funding in every state in the country.

* Court Upholds Texas ID for Porn Law

* It was the first time that the court has imposed requirements on adult consumers in order to protect minors from having such access.

* Free-speech advocates argued that while the law's goal is to limit minors' access to online sexually explicit content, it is overly vague and imposes significant burdens on adults' access to constitutionally protected expression.

* It did that by requiring every user, including adults, to first provide proof, typically via a government-issued identification, that they were at least 18 years old. The statute applies to all websites that contain content that is one-third or more "sexually suggestive" in nature and "harmful to children."

* Indiana has a similar law that was in limbo waiting on this case.

* Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Ruling a Neoconfederate Nightmare

* With the legal sleight of hand so beloved by the Roberts Court, the ruling doesn’t actually allow Trump to end birthright citizenship. It just makes it incredibly difficult for courts to stop him from ending birthright citizenship. It’s a distinction[...], but one that’s unlikely to make much of a difference if you happen to be born on the Republican side of the tracks. Once you read the fine print, it becomes clear that this decision is a historic, five-alarm catastrophe.

* Trump v. CASA takes away the ability of lower-court judges to issue nationwide injunctions. Instead, lower courts are now limited to issuing rulings that apply only to the litigants who happen to be before them in their local court. Injunctions now must be narrowly tailored to give the active litigants only what they personally need, and nothing more.

* The decision means that some courts, districts, and states will still defend the concept of birthright citizenship, while others will not. That could mean that whether or not a child born in America on or after June 27, 2025, is considered a citizen of the United States will depend on what state, or even county, that child happens to be born in.

* If that setup sounds familiar, it should. It is exactly how this country determined citizenship from June 21, 1788, (when the Constitution was ratified) until July 9, 1868 (when the 14th Amendment was ratified). The idea that citizenship depends on which state recognizes your citizenship has literally been tried before in this country, with Black people and Native Americans having citizenship rights in some states and… not in others. We have already fought over this. It was called the Civil War. We resolved this issue; it’s called the first section of the 14th Amendment.

* It’s fashionable to say that the court’s ruling is not really about birthright citizenship, because the legal question focused on the power to issue nationwide injunctions. But that sanewashing of the court’s opinion does not survive its first contact with reality. By taking away the ability of courts to enter nationwide injunctions in this case, the court is giving Trump carte blanche to violate the constitutional definition of citizenship in any district where a friendly Trump judge will allow him to. And, in practice, this ruling will extend to every other single issue where Trump has been stopped thanks to a nationwide injunction. Right on cue, Trump signaled today that he intends to move ahead with a slew of agenda items “that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis,” including policies targeting trans children, refugees, immigrants, and, yes, birthright citizenship.

* To get to the point where she can return us to the state-by-state determination of citizenship practiced during the enslaver period of this country, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the majority opinion for the Republicans, argues that nationwide injunctions should never be a thing. Her principal reasoning for this is… the High Court of Chancery in England, which existed at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

* Many of the legal fights brought against Trump over these first few months of his fascist reign are now moot and will have to be relitigated.

* Israel/Iran Ongoing Situation

* Ceasefire Holding

* Trump Drops F-Bomb as countries flirt with deadline

* Earlier on Tuesday, both Iran and Israel signaled that the air war between the two nations had concluded, at least for now, after Trump scolded them for violating a ceasefire he announced at 0500 GMT.

* Trump: "Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. When I say okay now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you've got on them ... I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning… We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f**k they're doing."

* DIA: US Strikes Did Not Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities

* May have only set nuclear program back…

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Matt Gleason and Adam Martinez of Hoosiers for Housing (aka YIMBY-ana) explain how we can improve housing availability and affordability in Bloomington and Indiana.

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What is the relationship between LGBTQ people and the Catholic Church? How has it evolved? Can it be different now and in the future?

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