🔴 OUTRAGE #1 — HE DIED PLEADING FOR HELP ON FACEBOOK. ICE’S OFFICIAL ANSWER: “NOT OUR PROBLEM.”
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at age three. Arrested in Durham, North Carolina in mid-June, he was transferred to the CoreCivic-run Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Within weeks he was seriously ill — family says he waited eight days for medical treatment despite coughing up blood and developing a bruise that wouldn’t heal.
On his birthday, July 10, he posted publicly on Facebook: “This week I’ve been dealing with a severe sore throat, coughing up blood morning and night, and very bad migraines, and I still haven’t been treated or given any medication.” A request for care on July 6 reportedly went unmet until he was finally hospitalized on July 13. He slipped into a coma two days later. Then, on July 16 — while he lay in intensive care, unconscious — ICE released him from custody. He died July 24, of an aggressive leukemia that had gone untreated for weeks inside a federal facility.
DHS’s statement to the press when asked about his death: “When an individual is no longer in ICE custody, ICE is no longer responsible for them.” Advocates are blunt about what that timing accomplishes: releasing a dying man from custody while he’s comatose means his death likely won’t even be officially counted among ICE’s own custody-death statistics. Project South attorney Priyanka Bhatt put it plainly: “He deserved to be with his loved ones as he battled leukemia. He deserved to receive proper, specialized medical care, not to be locked up in an overcrowded and deadly ICE prison plagued by human rights violations and medical neglect.” At least 50 immigrants have now died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office — and this is the case where the agency’s own timing looks designed to keep the number from climbing on paper.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #2 — “VICTORY WILL BE SOON, AND IT WILL BE PERMANENT” — BLANCHE’S SECRET PROMISE TO END ABORTION NATIONWIDE
Acting AG Todd Blanche got on a private call this week with the anti-abortion group Intercessors for America, hosted by the White House Faith Office — and told them the Justice Department is working “hand in hand” with HHS, the FDA, and the White House to make the Dobbs decision “permanent in every single state.” Every single state. Not the states that chose restriction. All fifty.
Blanche also pledged to crack down specifically on mail-order abortion pills — mifepristone, which now accounts for the majority of abortions performed in America. He’d already signaled this direction during his confirmation hearing, and anti-abortion groups have spent the summer pressuring him to settle a pending Louisiana lawsuit against the FDA that could gut the telehealth prescription system entirely. As one close observer of the call put it: you don’t need Congress to pass a national ban if you can strangle access through DOJ enforcement, FDA rulemaking, and a friendly lawsuit instead — no vote, no debate, no public accountability, just executive action delivered on a private call to religious activists while the news cycle is fixed on something else.
Sen. Tina Smith’s response: Blanche “made clear in these secret calls with anti-choice activists” exactly where this is headed. The word “secret” is doing real work there — this wasn’t a policy speech. It was a private assurance to a specific religious advocacy group, only public now because that group posted the recording themselves.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #3 — TRUMP LAUNCHED A PAY-TO-SEE-HIS-POSTS-FIRST SUBSCRIPTION. THIS TIME EVEN SENATE DEMOCRATS CALLED IT WHAT IT IS.
Truth Social rolled out a new tier this past weekend: pay extra, and you get alerts on Trump’s posts — and other top accounts’ posts — before everyone else does. Given how often Trump’s own posts move markets (oil prices on Iran threats, currency moves on tariff announcements, stock prices on tech-company mentions), a paid early-access lane to the president’s own words is a direct, monetized information advantage over ordinary investors.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff didn’t mince words: the subscription “appears to be an outrageous abuse of the President’s office for his personal benefit that undermines everyday investors and the integrity of our markets, while enriching Wall Street and other wealthy insiders.” This is the same pattern as the $TRUMP meme coin and the pay-to-attend White House crypto dinners we’ve covered before — except this time it’s not even crypto speculation. It’s literally selling faster access to official presidential statements, priced for whoever can afford to pay for the edge.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #4 — THE ADMINISTRATION IS BEING SUED FOR TARGETING UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN FOR RAPID DEPORTATION
A new federal lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of deliberately targeting children who arrived in the U.S. without a parent or guardian, pushing to rapidly deport them back to the countries they fled — before those children have any real chance to pursue asylum claims or other legal protections specifically designed for unaccompanied minors. This isn’t incidental collateral damage from broader enforcement. The suit alleges it’s a targeted policy aimed at the single most vulnerable category of people in the entire immigration system: children who crossed the border alone.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #5 — NEW MEXICO IS SUING THE DOJ FOR “STONEWALLING” ITS OWN EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION
New Mexico has filed suit against the DOJ, accusing the department of stonewalling a state-level probe into Jeffrey Epstein — the same DOJ that, under Bondi and now Blanche, has repeatedly promised transparency on Epstein-related records while consistently failing to deliver full release. This adds a state attorney general’s formal legal action to a growing pile of evidence that “full transparency” on Epstein has, in practice, meant selective, incomplete disclosure — controlled entirely by the same federal officials who keep promising otherwise.
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🔴 OUTRAGE #6 — CAPITAL ONE’S CASE AGAINST THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION JUST GOT MORE SPECIFIC
We covered the core of this story before, but the latest headlines confirm the bank has now formally stated it closed the Trump Organization’s accounts following an internal anti-money-laundering probe — a more direct, on-record characterization than the initial court filing language. Meanwhile, the David Hearn case we covered — the Olympic canoeist wrongly charged with vandalizing the Reflecting Pool — has been fully and finally dropped, with Trump’s own DOJ confirming there was no vandal after publicly insisting for weeks there was one.
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FINAL THOUGHT
A man died pleading for medical care on Facebook, and the government’s response was a timing technicality. The Attorney General made a secret promise to end abortion nationwide on a call with religious activists. The president started charging people for faster access to his own words. Children who crossed the border alone are being targeted for rapid deportation. A state is suing the federal government just to get answers on Epstein. Six outrages. Two days late. The news didn’t wait for us, and neither should the accountability.