Evergreene Digest

07/07/2025

Minnesota sheriff’s departments seek to cooperate with ICE.
https://www.minnpost.com/national/washington/2025/07/minnesota-sheriffs-departments-seek-to-cooperate-with-ice/

Ana Radelat / MinnPost

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - While Minnesota has been derided as a ‘sanctuary’ by the Trump administration, seven counties have agreed to help implement federal immigration law.

Related: The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/immigration-officers-wearing-masks

Sam Levin / The Guardian

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’.

While Minnesota has been derided as a ‘sanctuary’ by the Trump administration, seven counties have agreed to help implement immigration law.

07/07/2025

Making Measles Great Again
https://popular.info/p/making-measles-great-again?utm_medium=ios

Judd Legum / Popular Information

Monday, July 7, 2025 - Before the measles vaccine became widely available in the 1960s, nearly everyone in the United States contracted measles by the timethey were 15. Each year, millions of children were infected, tens of thousands were hospitalized, and hundreds died.

Related: Patients with ultra-rare diseases worry FDA approach will leave them without treatment.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/06/fda-drugs-ultra-rare-diseases

Melody Schreiber / The Guardian

Sunday, July 6, 2025 - Testing is difficult for drugs for rare diseases, and new rules may make it harder for sufferers to obtain life-saving drugs.

Before the measles vaccine became widely available in the 1960s, nearly everyone in the United States contracted measles by the timethey were 15.

07/06/2025

Eugene Debs’s Independence Day Address
https://jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene-debs-independence-day-address-fourth-july

Eugene Debs / Jacobin

July 4, 2020 - On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech: "I like the Fourth of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution." We reprint the fiercely anticapitalist address here in full.

On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech:

07/06/2025

“Nobody is safe”: Ward Sakeik and her attorney Eric Lee speak on Trump’s deportation regime on CNN.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/06/uezz-j06.html

Jacob Crosse / World Socialist Web Site

Saturday, July 5, 2025 - On Saturday morning, CNN hosted 22-year-old Ward Sakeik and her attorney, Eric Lee, in a discussion on the significance of Sakeik’s five-month imprisonment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian, was released on Tuesday.

Sakeik’s powerful testimony exposing the criminal character of her 140-day internment and the brutal, degrading conditions inside US detention centers has sparked outrage among workers in the US and internationally.

07/06/2025

Trump's DOJ Wants To Strip Citizenship From More Americans
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-justice-department-denaturalization_n_686343b4e4b0f166350cf2b6

Li Zhou / HuffPost

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - A new memo urges the department's Civil Division to make denaturalization a key focus.

Related: ‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/ice-trump-administration-immigration-deportations

Ben Makuch / The Guardian

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda

A new memo urges the department's Civil Division to make denaturalization a key focus.

07/06/2025

House GOP Passes Largest Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP In History to Fund Billionaire Tax Cuts
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/house-gop-passes-largest-cuts-medicaid-snap-history-fund-billionaire-tax-cuts/

Press Release / Americans for Tax Fairness

Thursday, July 3, 2025 - Today, President Trump and his billionaire-backed Republican-controlled Congress successfully passed their reconciliation bill, passing the largest cuts in Medicaid and SNAP history while slashing billions from other essential programs to fund massive tax giveaways for billionaires and large corporations. The bill will raise average Americans’ costs by causing 17 million Americans to lose their health insurance and 2 million to lose access to food assistance. Throughout the opaque legislative process, the Republican majority in both houses didn’t hold a single hearing on their legislative proposals, and forced their members to vote under the cover of night and during weekend sessions, reflecting the GOP majority’s pattern of minimizing public attention to a wildly unpopular legislative package.

Today, President Trump and his billionaire-backed Republican-controlled Congress successfully passed their reconciliation bill, passing the largest cuts in Medicaid and SNAP history while slashing billions from other essential programs to fund massive tax giveaways for billionaires and large corpora...

07/06/2025

Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-deportation-police-287g-program-expansion

Rafael Carranza, Arizona Luminaria, and Gabriel Sandoval / ProPublica

Monday, June 9, 2025 - ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such agreements come at a high cost to communities.

Related: Canadian Officials, Family Seek Answers After U.S. Resident Dies In ICE Custody
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/johnny-noviello-canada-died-ice-custody_n_685eb4d8e4b01fe1de0a8c98

Pocharapon Neammanee / HuffPost

Friday, June 27, 2025 - Family members of a Canadian citizen who died awaiting deportation said he had epilepsy and they worked “painstakingly to make sure that he got his meds.”

ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such agreements come at a high cost to communities.

07/06/2025

Texas Officials Face Scrutiny Over Response To Catastrophic And Deadly Flooding.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-texas-floods-warnings_n_6869b518e4b03fde5adbd2a1

Sean Murphy and Jim Vertuno / Associated Press (AP)/HuffPost

Saturday, July 5, 2025 - Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.

Related: Texas flooding latest: 43 dead, including 15 children, as search for some two dozen girls continues – as it happened.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/05/texas-flooding-latest-news-updates-guadalupe-river-flood-camp-mystic

Nadeem Badshah, José Olivares, Christy Cooney and Jane Clinton / The Guardian

Saturday, July 5, 2025 - Girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, are still missing, says city manager.

Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.

07/05/2025

And I’ve got some advice for James Carville: There isn’t going to be a Mid-term election in ‘26. By that time the GOP will have chased all the black, brown, red, and yellow voters out of the country, let alone off the rolls, and rigged the entire system their way.

It’ll be a masterful job of screwing the pooch. And if you think you’re going to vote your way out of this mess, you’re crazy. Nothing less than torches, pitchforks, lanterns, and guillotines is going to work.