Poetic Justice
Buck Banks | Jul. 30, 2025
Trump’s latest environmental proclamation is typically deranged.
Is there anyone on the planet who is, from reality, more estranged?
To Trump, greenhouse gasses
Are as disposable as Epstein lasses,
So now he wants to “revoke” the EPA rule that there exists climate change.
Verbatim
“It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous this moment is. Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies… … It corrodes trust in democratic transitions, chills dissent, and redefines political opposition as criminal subversion.”
— Harry Litman
“Up until now, Democrats have treated our political system like it’s still governed by norms, guarded by limits and rooted in fairness. Rules were meant to be followed. It hurts to say it, but that era has come to an end.”
— New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), writing in the Houston Chronicle.
“The list of reasons why I’m now a Democrat continues to grow. Most importantly, my decision puts me in the best possible position each day to love my neighbor.”
— Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, writing in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, on why he left the Republican party to become a Democrat.
Numerati
450
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing,” the AP reports. DOGE cut 1,300 NOAA employees in March.
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6%
Immigration data obtained by NBC News in June revealed ICE officials have detained just 6 percent of the 13,000 immigrants to the U.S. known to have committed murder, and at most 11 percent of the 16,000 migrants convicted of sexual assault.
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$500 million
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted,” the AP reports. “The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, Covid-19 and H5N1 infections.”
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$4.1 trillion
“Interest rates will be higher over the next decade because of the GOP’s megabill and drive up borrowing costs even for the federal government, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts in a new report released Monday,” Politico reports. “In a final “dynamic” analysis of the bill President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the measure will increase the federal deficit by $4.1 trillion over a decade.”
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+60,000
More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, reports the Associated Press. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, according to health officials. The Israeli offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and fueled a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
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