Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1, rattling major US trading partners  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he's levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a move that could cause massive upheaval between the United States and two of its biggest trade partners.

Trump Thinks He Can Take Away Citizenship From Anyone He Doesn't Like  —  The president is now musing about trying to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's birthright citizenship because he doesn't like her  —  Since the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has been trying …

ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds … Thousands of new deportation agents deployed into American cities.  A doubling of detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled.  Miles of new border wall, along with surveillance towers equipped with artificial intelligence.

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI  —  The investor in a private group chat also criticized Stanford and said colleges are biased against Trump voters: “My people are furious.”  —  Influential tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen recently …

Surely, You Are Not Surprised  —  We can be — and ought to be — shocked by the various scenes unfolding before us, but we cannot really be surprised can we?  The chaos and the cruelty were always the point; and what did we expect from an administration crammed full of reductio ad absurdum appointees at every level?

Bondi fires 20 DOJ employees from Jan. 6, Trump documents cases  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired more than 20 Justice Department employees who worked on cases involving the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, sources told Axios.

Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users' ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company …

Contrarians to the Rescue on Birthright Citizenship!  —  Publisher's Roundup 26  —  A couple of weeks ago, when the Roberts Court struck down some nationwide injunctions protecting birthright citizenship in the Casa case, we here at The Contrarian told you not to panic.

Lights Out: U.S. Withdraws Support for Global Media  —  Foreign aid cuts to USAID, other outlets, cast a long shadow over journalism around the world  —  In the 12 years since Radio Rozana's first broadcast, founder Lina Chawaf has worked tirelessly to expand the outlet's coverage of her native Syria.

Senate GOP faces ‘gut check time’ on axing global HIV program  —  Senate Republicans remain wary of eliminating the popular and successful global HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR, as they face down a July 18 deadline to vote on President Trump's first tranche of rescissions requests.