Donald Trump didn’t like a red card at the World Cup, so he called FIFA president Gianni Infantino and had it overturned, the first World Cup red card reversed like this in over 60 years, for a sport he openly admitted he doesn’t understand.

The player he moved the entire federal government to protect? Folarin Balogun, the birthright-citizen son of Nigerian immigrants, the exact policy Trump is fighting to destroy.

Then he smeared the referee, bragged that Biden wouldn’t have done it, pre-loaded a “rigged” excuse before kickoff, and watched Belgium beat the United States 4-1 anyway.

Everything Donald Trump touches, he breaks, and then loses anyway.

Sources:

https://apnews.com/article/balogun-red-card-uefa-us-belgium-d32fc2e13728cef9317feeb7b72c279b

https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/5954150-fifa-world-cup-folarin-balogun-red-card-trump/

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/7/6/why-fifas-balogun-red-card-suspension-after-trump-call-is-so-controversial

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/07/trump-renews-call-us-take-over-greenland-nato

Harry Sisson Robert Reich

This Week in Tyranny for July 5, 2026.

The Supreme Court overturned a 91-year-old rule and handed Trump the power to fire the heads of independent agencies at will. The commissioners who run the Federal Trade Commission, the labor board, and the agency that recalls dangerous cribs now serve at his pleasure, and he can swap in loyalists for any reason. The Court carved out exactly one exception: the Federal Reserve. The watchdogs that protect consumers and workers are now his to remove. The one that protects the stock market stays untouchable.

Congressman Mike Bost, who chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee, spent the week trying to silence veterans. He’s pushing a bill that cuts disability pay for a million and a half veterans with conditions like tinnitus and sleep apnea. The VFW has been fighting that cut with a protest cartoon it first published in its own magazine in 1933. Bost put out an official statement accusing the VFW of inciting political violence and demanded they take the cartoon down, all while claiming to respect the First Amendment.

Three federal firefighters burned to death fighting a wildfire in western Colorado. Emily Barker, 38, Nick Hutcherson, 27, and Sydney Watson, 27, were overrun by a wind-driven fire near the Utah border. Their deaths put a spotlight on the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service, an agency Interior Secretary Doug Burgum created this year without approval from Congress, and on a revived order to attack every wildfire as fast as possible, everywhere, that fire scientists have long warned gets crews killed.

Trump’s annual financial disclosure shows he made over $2 billion last year, $1.4 billion of it from crypto. He sold supporters a memecoin at $75 that’s now worth $1.66, took a cut of every trade, collected $263 million from a UAE royal four days before the inauguration, and pocketed $86.5 million in legal settlements from companies like ABC and CBS.

In the lightning round: the Justice Department accidentally emailed a sealed report to the defense team for the woman it’s prosecuting for stealing that same report; the Secretary of Defense cut the Pentagon’s weapons-testing office from 126 people to 30, an office Congress created in 1983 after the M16 failed in Vietnam; ICE handcuffed a Nigerian Catholic nun on her way to Mass and confiscated her rosary during a sweep that arrested 10,000 people and brought this year’s ICE-custody death toll to 20; and a federal appeals court cleared the way for the Park Service to keep slavery and civil rights history out of its exhibits.

Sources:

https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump-v-cook-supreme-court-opinion/

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-07-01/lawmaker-vfw-messaging-dangerous-rhetoric-22142203.html

https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/30/colorado-firefighter-deaths/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-took-in-about-1-2-billion-from-crypto-businesses-last-year-financial-disclosure-shows

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108859

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/07/01/pentagons-push-to-field-weapons-faster-risks-outrunning-its-own-oversight-watchdog-finds/

https://www.newsweek.com/list-slavery-signs-trump-can-remove-national-parks-court-win-12154454

The Fucking News Allison Gill The Breakdown On Offense with Kris Goldsmith

The lawyer behind Texas’s abortion bounty laws got caught recruiting convicted domestic abusers to file the suits. When one abuser was barred from suing, he refiled the same day with his own daughter as the plaintiff.

A Texas woman named Lynn Callaway filed a federal complaint against two Austin ERs that turned her away during a miscarriage and left her to nearly die. She’s fighting back under the same law Texas passed after three women died the same way.

The White House floated banning pregnant women from entering the country, and Rep. Andy Ogles introduced the “Anchors Away Act” to do it.

The Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, so he owes her five million dollars. His Justice Department responded by investigating her.

California put the crisis pregnancy center industry on trial for lying about “abortion pill reversal,” a treatment with no evidence behind it.

The Supreme Court ruled states can ban transgender girls from school sports.

Plus: one year of the Planned Parenthood defund, abortion pills reclassified as trafficking in Mississippi and Oklahoma, a Boulder clinic besieged by extremists, and the manosphere turning up in college classrooms.

Sources:

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/22/texas-miscarriage-abortion-ban-hospital-complaint/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-miller-birthright-citizenship-birth-tourism-supreme-court_n_6a446102e4b0aaefe6448c39

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-rejects-trumps-push-to-toss-5-million-verdict-in-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-transgender-athletes-ban-west-virginia-idaho/

https://19thnews.org/2026/07/manosphere-misogyny-infiltrates-college-campus

Abortion, Every Day The 19th News

The Trump administration cut sixty-seven million dollars in teen pregnancy prevention grants and rewrote the federal program that replaced them. The new curriculum, run through Health and Human Services, deletes every mention of birth control, teaches girls their menstrual cycle is the “central event” of their health, and warns teenage boys that masturbation “may affect neural development.”

Jessica Valenti at Abortion Every Day pulled the actual funding documents and broke down what they require. Programs must teach girls about the “disadvantages of ovarian suppression,” which is federal code for discouraging the Pill, while offering “body awareness,” meaning period tracking, in place of contraception.

It lines up exactly with the Heritage Foundation roadmap to push young women into early marriage and motherhood instead of college and careers. And we already know abstinence-only education doesn’t lower teen pregnancy. It raises it. That’s the point.

Credit to Jessica Valenti and Abortion, Every Day for the reporting.

An active-duty Air Force major was arrested on the Capitol steps this week for calling on President Trump to be impeached. His name is Jason Watson, a twenty-year logistics readiness officer on leave from a NATO post in Poland.

Watson asked the group Removal Coalition, founded by Jessica Denson , to organize the event. He stood on the steps in uniform, held a sign reading Impeach Convict Remove, and said the strikes on Venezuela and Iran violated the War Powers Clause and killed thirteen service members.

The Capitol steps are a no-protest zone unless you are accompanied by a member of Congress. Watson was escorted up by Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, who has forced impeachment votes against Trump this term. The moment Green stepped away, Watson lost that protection and Capitol Police arrested him. As they led him off, the crowd chanted “who do you serve, who do you protect.”

The piece sits Watson’s arrest next to the January 6 pardons: the people who violently stormed these same steps walk free, while an active-duty officer who stood on them peacefully with a sign left in handcuffs

Sources

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5951658-air-force-major-arrested-capitol

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/us-air-force-officer-arrested-at-capitol-calling-for-trump-impeachment/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMU5VUlBITzAwMEtJRTRFWg

New records reveal Pete Hegseth ran government business on Signal, a consumer messaging app, with chats rigged to auto-delete, instead of the locked-down classified system built to keep foreign adversaries out. The documents, pried loose by Democracy Forward and reported by The Atlantic, expose 13 previously unseen Signal chats from senior officials.

Signal is a good app, but it is not the government’s classified system. Cabinet officials get hardened equipment and secure facilities so that military planning doesn’t live on the same kind of phone you could drop in an airport. And it’s not hypothetical: a Signal-style archiving tool one of these officials was photographed using, made by TeleMessage, reportedly got breached by hackers.

The chats were also set to auto-delete. One with Hegseth, Rubio, and the Joint Chiefs chairman wiped every 8 hours. A 17-person thread with Hegseth, Vance, and Lutnick wiped every week. Federal law requires the government to preserve these records, and a chat that erases itself three times a day does the opposite.

They were told to stop. In April, in the Oval Office, Trump told The Atlantic’s editor “maybe don’t use Signal.” Ten days later, senior officials were still on it, in chats with names like “Iran/Ukraine Planning.”

When lawyers closed in, the government bought software called LeapXpert, which advertises itself as turning Signal into a “government-grade communication channel,” and switched it on about a day before a court deadline, with four months of messages already gone.

A servicemember who left classified material on an unsecured device would be prosecuted. The Secretary of Defense did it at scale and the White House called it “old news.”

Sources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2026/06/hegseth-rubio-caine-signal-auto-delete/

https://democracyforward.org/updates/signalgate-foia/

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/pete-hegseth-and-marco-rubio-stayed-on-signal-chats-records-show-despite-trump-warning/

Trump’s Interior Department has told National Park Service employees they can no longer release information about serious injuries or deaths on public lands. Everything now routes through the Department’s communications office, which decides what the public gets to know.

So when a 72-year-old man died of heat on a popular Grand Canyon trail on June 12, the rangers who wanted to warn the next hikers were silenced. Four days later, a couple in their late sixties died of heat on that same trail. About 300 million people visit these parks every year, and roughly 350 of them die. The people who know which trail, on which day, have been ordered to keep it to themselves.

Here is where the safety money went. The Park Service could not find $424,000 for a guardrail on a cliff edge in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, a project its own employees flagged in writing as a significant safety hazard for visitors. It did find $689,232 to rip out the White House walkway and replace it with polished African granite, carved in Italy. When a reporter asked Trump who paid for it, he said, “Paid for by me.” He did not. It came out of the National Park Service, the same budget as that guardrail.

The Park Service also spent $347,503 redoing a wall so Trump could hang portraits of past presidents next to plaques of his own opinions about them. And this is bigger than the walkway. Spending across the Washington capital region jumped 92 percent in a year, covering fountains, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and a Fourth of July fireworks show, while parks across the country lost the money to keep visitors safe.

Meanwhile Trump has clawed back funding from more than 900 park projects, some parks losing nearly 70 percent of their approved funds. He has bused rangers off the trails to Washington for his Freedom 250 events. The Park Service has lost almost a quarter of its staff since he took office, and his 2027 budget calls for cutting another 31 percent. He also asked for $10 billion to beautify Washington, nearly eight times what the entire Park Service spent on projects in 2025. Even the Senate took that one back out.

Original reporting by Michael Scherer at The Atlantic. The policy hiding park deaths was reported by Wes Siler and by Jake Spring at the Washington Post.

Sources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/national-parks-trump-white-house-renovations/687700/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/24/internal-memo-tells-staff-stay-mum-deaths-national-parks

Heather Cox Richardson Wes Siler More Than Just Parks @

This Week in Tyranny: the accountability stories that got buried while the country watched Iran.

Trump’s Board of Peace wrote itself blanket legal immunity, can’t be prosecuted or sued for anything it does running Gaza, and gave itself the power to take Palestinian property “free of charge.” The board is Kushner, Witkoff, Wiles, and Rubio.

House Republicans are pushing the “Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act” to gut the Corporate Transparency Act and legalize anonymous shell companies, the same law Trump signed himself in 2021.

Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate the Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots in vote-by-mail states that refuse to hand over their absentee-voter lists. A federal judge separately struck down the administration’s voter database that ran 67 million Americans through it.

Texas voted to make Bible passages required reading for more than 5 million public school students.

An Oregon attorney turned Congress’s own Congressional Review Act theory back on it, threatening 70% of federal oil and gas leasing acreage.

Plus: a farmer arrested at a data center meeting, John Bolton’s guilty plea, and PECO’s first strike in 145 years.

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school

https://www.404media.co/bodycam-footage-video-claremore-oklahoma-data-center-meeting/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ex-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-illegally-retaining-classified-information

https://whyy.org/articles/peco-strike-2026-union-negotiations/

More Than Just Parks Scott MacFarlane

This week every arm of the Republican party gave women the same instruction: go home.

JD Vance won’t say he opposes jailing women for an ab@rt!on, and Texas Right to Life wants to revoke the medical licenses of women who take abortion pills.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth killed the 74-year-old DACOWITS committee and is reviewing women out of ground combat, the same elite schools he never finished.

Tennessee unveiled the country’s first anti-abortion monument on its Capitol lawn, a few feet from the memorials to the Holocaust and slavery.

Plus: the moms.gov data-harvesting update, the Turning Point USA “Women’s Leadership Summit,” and the Heritage Foundation’s 250-year plan to put women back in the home.

https://19thnews.org/2026/02/women-combat-roles-pete-hegseth-pentagon-review/

https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/pete-hegseth-wants-women-out-of-the-military-and-hes-not-hiding-it

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/state-capitol-tennessee-monument-to-the-unborn/article_d10b9a46-6396-4bb8-b625-4edeb222b38f.html

https://theprint.in/feature/tpusa-womens-summit-erika-kirk-texas/2968767/

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/01/28/heritage-foundation-250-plan-to-save-the-family/

Team Steady Abortion, Every Day

Eight people were sentenced this week for a July 4th protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, getting a combined 450 years in prison. Only one of them, Marine veteran Benjamin Song, fired a weapon. The other seven shot no one.

Five defendants got 50 years each for “providing material support to terrorists.” The evidence included wearing black, carrying first-aid kits, using Signal, and belonging to a left-wing book club. Daniel Sanchez Estrada got 30 years for moving a box of zines after a protest he didn’t attend.

The trial judge, Trump appointee Mark Pittman, said the difference between this and January 6th was that this case was charged differently, with a finding of terrorism. The other sentencing judge, Reed O’Connor, called the protest an assault on democracy. For comparison: the longest January 6th sentence was 22 years, and Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 Capitol defendants, including hundreds who assaulted police.

This was the first major test of a new federal playbook for prosecuting protest as terrorism, and it’s already being aimed at activists in Michigan and Minnesota.

Sources:

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/23/prairieland-texas-ice-protest-prison-sentences/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/prairieland_nine

https://truthout.org/articles/prairieland-protesters-sentenced-to-30-to-100-years-for-terrorism-charges/

https://mlfa.org/alleged-antifa-members-get-decades-in-prison-over-violent-ice-protest/