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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more Thursday Afternoon News Updates: Trump's Own CIA Just Called Him a Liar — 5/7/26 Here's the latest... Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network May 7 ∙ Preview Hi all, Ben here. It’s Thursday. We’re almost at the end of the week, and as usual, the news cycle is showing no signs of slowing down. First, the headlines: Trump’s own CIA leaked a devastating assessment contradicting everything he’s claimed about Iran Iran rejects U.S. proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calls it “unrealistic” Iran formalizes new toll rules for Strait of Hormuz transit Project Freedom collapses after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait block U.S. military access Trump cabinet members insist gas prices are great while Americans pay $4.55+ at the pump Trump’s counterterrorism strategy classifies “anti-fascists” and transgender people alongside ISIS Kash Patel allegedly handing out personalized bourbon bottles, transported on DOJ aircraft French prose...

  Hi there, It’s Thursday. New polling shows more than 80 percent of voters want age caps for members of Congress. An argument for including Substacks into a new category for the Pulitzer Prizes. And new analysis shows how much of an abject failure Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge has been, with U.S.-born workers no better off as a result of ICE raids. What was framed as a decisive show of force is revealing itself as a policy that cannot meet its own goals without causing widespread harm. Yet too much media coverage continues to focus on the rhetoric of enforcement—raids, numbers, and political messaging—without examining whether the strategy is actually working. When an administration promotes an aggressive policy that fails to deliver results while creating economic and social fallout, the story is not just enforcement—it is failure. 🖊️ Add your name to call on major news organizations to cover the immigration surge as a failed policy experiment—investigating its r...

LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST KILLING INNOCENT  VICTIMS!  ARMING ISRAEL IS NOT A SOLUTION!  TELL Congress:  Trump declared an "emergency" to bypass Congress and send Israel over 10,000 laser-guided rockets. But support is building in Congress to stop arms sales to Israel.  Sign the petition: Oppose Trump’s "emergency" precision kill weapons shipment to Israel. ADD YOUR NAME Trump is trying to bypass Congress AGAIN to send Israel $1 billion worth of weapons.   This time it's 10,000 laser-guided rockets equipped with the U.S.'s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System. 1,2 The White House declared an "emergency" to skip Congressional oversight and send arms to Israel as the Israeli military commits atrocities in Lebanon and Gaza. 3 Senator Bernie Sanders has helped build historic opposition in Congress to our government's continued funding and weapons support for Israel. 4   Our lawmakers must reject more taxpayer dollars and U.S. arm...

  No. 1,348, May 7, 2026   Elephant Trophy Imports Are Soaring Under Trump A new  Center for Biological Diversity case study  shows the Trump administration allowed the import of more than 300 elephant trophies last year, based on federal records we obtained via the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. The  first  Trump administration, for comparison, reported importing 114 elephant trophies in 2018, following the president’s 2017 tweet calling elephant trophy hunting “a horror show.”   “Why is a president who once decried elephant-hunting rolling out the red carpet for the elitist practice of killing these beloved animals for decor?” said Tanya Sanerib, the Center’s international legal director. “With so many trophy hunters coming from the United States, our government should be helping to police the trophy trade, but instead Trump officials are rubberstamping imports of tusks and heads.”    Help our work to defend elephants and other animals from th...