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ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street Today. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses.

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  ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street Today. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses. No video. No independent witness. Just ICE's word — the same word that didn't hold up the last three times. Pablo Manríquez Jul 7 WASHINGTON — Lorenzo Salgado Araujo bled out on Canal Street in Houston’s East End before 7 a.m. Tuesday, shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during what the agency is calling a routine “targeted enforcement operation.” His family has not yet had the chance to call it anything at all. ICE says Araujo tried to flee a traffic stop, rammed an agency vehicle and attempted to run over an officer — the same justification the agency has offered in at least three other fatal or near-fatal shootings by immigration agents since Trump’s second-term deportation push began. In every one of those cases, video or the paper trail eventually cut against the government’s version. As of Tuesday night, no video of the Araujo shooting has...
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 412

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                                        DUE TO HEAT, HOLIDAY DELAYS, IT'S ALWAYS PREFERENTIAL TO                     SUBCRIBE TO RON FILIPKOWSKI'S PEARLS OF WISDOM TO RECEIVE IN                     A TIMELY MANNER !     This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 412 Ron Filipkowski Jul 5 … Despite a brutal heat wave gripping Washington, DC that sent many to emergency rooms on Friday with even worse weather forecasted for the 4th, Trump was determined to press forward and deliver his anti-communism speech to the MAGA faithful after a long series of military flyovers before a massive arsenal of fireworks were launched. This Bulletin is going to be different than my traditional Weekend Bulletin. As I said on Friday, since it is the Sunday after a holid...
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Dear America

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Meidas+ cross-posted a post from Katie Phang Brett Meiselas Jul 5 · Meidas+ Katie Phang’s letter to America is worth a read Dear America A Love Letter to My Country Katie Phang Jul 5 Dear America, I love you. I don’t say that with blind devotion nor do I say it for purposes of performative patriotism because it’s your birthday. I truly mean it. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’m telling you this because I’m reading articles about how so many people doubt you. So I want you to hear directly from me why you’re so great and why I will always fight for you. So where do I begin? Let’s start with your food. Honestly, America? It’s unhinged. And I mean that as the highest compliment possible. Your airports — places of chaos and anxiety — can smell like heaven because somewhere there is an Auntie Anne’s pretzel calling out to the hurried masses yearning for their flight to just be on time for once. Drip...
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