Episode Details

Today’s Headlines: Twelve people were severely injured in Boulder, Colorado, after Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, attacked a weekly pro-hostage-release walk with a homemade flamethrower; the FBI charged him with a federal hate crime after discovering he had planned the attack for a year. In Ukraine, officials say they destroyed 40 Russian nuclear-capable bombers in a drone strike, a move some Russian commentators likened to Pearl Harbor. Trade tensions with China are escalating after mutual accusations of violating last month’s handshake agreement, with China vowing retaliation. In Poland, conservative Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the presidency in a record-turnout election. Meanwhile, new reporting reveals the Trump administration is using Peter Thiel’s Palantir to centralize massive amounts of citizen data across federal agencies. Despite this, newly uncovered data shows the U.S. knowingly deported Venezuelans with no criminal records to El Salvador’s CECOT prison under dubious terrorism claims—while quietly admitting more white South African refugees. Lastly, law firms that cooperated with Trump are now losing corporate clients like Oracle and McDonald’s, who question whether these firms can be trusted to defend their interests.

Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode:

• AP News: What we know about the man charged in the attack in Boulder, Colorado

• AP News: Ukraine's drone attack on Russian warplanes was a serious blow to the Kremlin's strategic arsenal

• Axios: China accuses U.S. of violating trade truce, vows "forceful measures"

• Reuters: Polish nationalist Nawrocki wins presidency in setback for pro-EU government

• NY Times: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

• ProPublica: Trump administration knew most Venezuelans deported from Texas to a Salvadoran prison had no U.S. convictions

• AP News: More white South Africans arrive in the US under a new refugee program

• WSJ: The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients

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