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The Best of the Week’s News

• Trump regime erects roadblocks for breast cancer treatment for male vets who get the rare but deadly cancer (ProPublica)
   

• Trump slashes refugee quotas and prioritizes white South Africans fleeing an imaginary genocide. (NYT) 

   

• Former Trump golf course employee wrongly deported to Mexico. (NYT)
   

• Germany’s far-right AfD party gains influence and deepens ties to Trump administration. (Reuters)
   

• Undocumented workers in Michigan could win the right to worker’s compensation. (Sentient) 
   

• Hillman Prize-winner Phil Williams asked why a local sheriff jailed and pressed felony charges against a liberal activist for posting a meme, and the charges were mysteriously dropped the next day. (NewsChannel 5)
   

• Tucker Carlson is mainstreaming antisemitic MAGA host Nick Fuentes. (Bulwark)

The Best of the Week’s News

• ICE ramps up surveillance of “antifa,” a catchall term for their critics and political opponents (WaPo)
   

• A 17-year-old asylum-seeker and her mom were thriving in the US, but ICE deported her back to Guatemala and disaster. (NYT)
   

• Trump considers overhaul of immigration to favor white people. (NYT)
   

• Sec Def Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend host, criminalizes routine reporting at the Pentagon. (CNN)
   

• Starbucks closes Capitol Hill Roastery and hundreds of other stores with no notice. (Seattle Collegian)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• White House threatens to bankrupt nine universities unless they change programs that “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” (CBS)
   

• New research reveals exactly how heat kills workers. (WaPo)
   

• On a junket to New Zealand, FBI director Kash Patel modeled law and order by presenting his hosts with illegal replica guns. (AP)
   

• MAGAs are dragging Starbucks baristas into the culture war. (NYT)
   

• Student journalists sue to stop Trump’s deportations of students for their political speech. (Press Freedom Fnd)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Project 2026: Trump’s plan to steal the midterms (MoJo)
   

• Donald Trump threatens to yank the licenses of TV networks that criticize him as his FCC commissioner mulls action against The View. (Bloomberg, HR)
   

• Two Hillman judges, Jamelle Bouie and Ta-Nehisi Coates, take stock of Charlie Kirk’s sinister legacy. (NYT, VF)
   

• Starbucks baristas may strike. (ITT)
   

• Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria. (AP)

The Best of the Week’s News
 

• A Turkish immigrant became the fourth person to die in New York City custody in a week. (NYT)
   

• Trump’s tariffs are hurting the workers who voted for him. (WaPo)
   

• Uber and Lyft drivers can now join a union in California. (Prospect) 
   

• Howard Lutnick’s family stands to profit off refunds if Trump’s tariffs are declared illegal. (TPM)
   

• Trump ends defense aid to European countries that border Russia. (NYT)