CURE NEWS for July 2nd check out the last item #16
Mark David
July 2nd very long CURE NEWS . make sure you ready item #16
1) Why Trump Won't Stop Until He Ends Birthright Citizenship Adam Kinzinger
The pattern is always the same: wrap bigotry in legal language and claim you’re protecting “real Americans.”
Who is an American isn’t a difficult question. Despite what four politicians in black robes tried to tell us yesterday, the 14th Amendment is incredibly clear, written in language anybody can read and comprehend: “Any persons born or naturalized in the United States.” It’s simple: If you’re born here, you’re an American, and entitled to all our country’s blessings. And it used to be pretty widely agreed upon that this was an asset that this set our country above other nations as a beacon of freedom.
When I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, I knew this was part of the deal. And I served in uniform alongside people that would have proudly given their life for their country, even if their parents were born somewhere else.
But since the 14th Amendment’s adoption, there has been a movement trying to weaken this consensus and tear the country apart, which Trump and his allies have weaponized to their own corrupt ends. Yesterday’s ruling was both a relief—that this bedrock principal was upheld—and a travesty, because the four dissenting justices (and you know who they are without looking it up) left the door open for Trump to keep this malignant movement alive.
2) The World Cup Shows What’s Great About America Adam
Kinzinger
Even if the so-called "Pro-America" crowd hates it
Have you been watching the World Cup? I have. And it has been a genuinely moving experience. And while I have marveled at the welcome Americans have shown and the way our friends from around the world have reciprocated, I can’t help but shake the feeling that the world’s biggest sporting event is the biggest advertisement for the very values the Trump Administration opposes.
Sure, the “pro-America” crowd beats its chest to support our team. But it sure hates all the best things about the World Cup – and America.
3) Inside Trump’s takeover of the America 250 celebration by Kevin Frey MSNOW
Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee allege that Trump has not only politicized America 250 but may have also committed fraud.
As President Donald Trump prepares to headline America’s 250th anniversary, Democrats are accusing him of turning what Congress intended to be a bipartisan commemoration of America’s founding into a political celebration of Trump himself.
A new report from Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee, shared first with MS NOW, argues that Trump has turned America 250 into what they dub a politicized “disaster.”
4) Polis defends data centers as Colorado juggles energy demands by Amy Harder for AXIOS
ASPEN, Colo. — Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, defended data centers, touted oil and gas rules and bemoaned climate change in a recent interview in this mountain town.
Why it matters: Colorado has long been a microcosm of the nation's debates on energy, AI and the effects of a warming planet.
- Polis, who is leaving office in January due to term limits, has spent nearly eight years governing through each of those fights.
5) BREAKING: Trump Unleashes His Spy Chief on the 2020 Election, Dems Expose Trump's Shakedown of America's 250th Birthday, The Economy Is Getting Worse, and more.. by Adam Kinziner July 2nd
Our top story today: President Trump is telling his hand picked and temporary spy chief that he is free to declassify, in Trump’s words, almost everything, including all records tied to the 2020 election. This is the President turning the tools of our intelligence agencies loose to relitigate a race he lost more than five years ago. He lost the vote, he lost in court, and he is still at it, claiming there are mysterious documents that need to be declassified.
6) From Augustine to Jefferson, the idea of separating church and state has deep religious and secular roots by Steven K Green Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University for THE CONVERSATION
The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on the state of religious freedom in the United States, declaring it to be under attack.
The commission was established in May 2025 to identify and report on “emerging threats to religious liberty, uphold Federal laws that protect all citizens’ full participation in a pluralistic democracy, and protect the free exercise of religion.” Despite those altruistic goals, from the beginning, the commission faced criticism that the composition and agenda of the body were slanted toward a conservative Christian perspective.
7) Three Votes Short of Decency by Kristoffer Ealy for LINCOLN SQUARE July 2nd
Had SCOTUS Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch gotten their way on birthright citizenship, every maternity ward in America would have become an immigration checkpoint.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that babies born on American soil are, in fact, Americans. Read that sentence again. In the Year of Our Lord 2026, the highest court in the United States had to decide whether babies born here are actually Americans. Not immigration policy. Not asylum law. Not some hyper-technical fight over visa categories that requires three law degrees and a bottle of bourbon to decipher. The question was whether a baby, delivered in an American hospital by an American doctor, taking its first breath on American soil, gets to be an American citizen.
Six justices said yes. Three said no. I suppose I am expected to celebrate because the alternative was a constitutional catastrophe with no visible bottom. Fine. I’ll take the win. But if your democracy needs a 6-3 Supreme Court decision to establish that babies born in America are Americans, you are not watching a triumph. You are watching a five-alarm fire that happened to stop one house short of yours.
8) “Pump and dump”: How Trump made $636 million — and left his supporters holding the bag by Rebecca Crosby for POPULAR INFORMATION Jul 02, 2026
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump released his 927-page financial disclosure. The filing, which reveals the sources of his income, shows that Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year in office.
While Trump is known for being a real estate developer, the filing shows that most of his income now comes from his crypto ventures. According to the report, Trump earned around $1.4 billion from crypto-related businesses. In comparison, Trump “reported over $620 million in real estate, hotel and golf-related income.”
Much of Trump’s crypto-related income is from his most frivolous venture — the Trump meme coin, $TRUMP. Trump launched his meme coin, which is a type of crypto token tied to a celebrity or joke, on January 17, 2025, just days before his inauguration for his second term.
9) The Supreme Court hands Trump — and itself — more power by Andrew Pantazi for AXIOS
The Supreme Court spent its just-completed term sidelining Congress and amassing power for the ascendant branches of government: the presidency and the court itself.
Why it matters: As the court strips Congress of its power, decisions over people's money, jobs, votes and health shift toward the president and nine justices appointed for life.
- After this term, Congress can't insulate regulators from the president, limit political parties' spending or require race-conscious voting districts.
The big picture: For decades, conservative lawyers have argued the Constitution grants all executive power to one person: the president.
- The theory, called the unitary executive, holds that no one who enforces federal law is independent of the president. This term, it won out again and again.
10) Meta stock soars as Mark Zuckerberg explores cloud business by Nathan Bomey AXCIOS
Meta shares soared nearly 9% Wednesday on a report that the company is wading into the business of selling cloud computing services and access to AI models.
Why it matters: The booming AI economy has triggered insatiable demand for data processing power, enriching the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Zoom in: The Facebook and Instagram owner is forming a business to capitalize on the excess computing power it's accumulated via huge investments in data centers and AI infrastructure, Bloomberg reports.
- The plan could include selling access to AI models, similar to how Amazon Web Services provides access via its Bedrock offering.
- "Meta would run the data centers and chips that power the models, including its own Muse Spark models, and charge developers to access them," Bloomberg reported.
- The company is also considering selling excess "raw" computing power to outside customers.
11) AXIOS July 2nd
AI layoff leap
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Data: Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Chart: Ben Berkowitz/Axios Layoffs are falling. But where companies are cutting, AI is driving a greater share of the downsizing, Axios' Ben Berkowitz and Avery Lotz write from a Challenger, Gray & Christmas report out today. 🤖 Stunning stat: Just this year, AI has been blamed for nearly 102,000 job cuts. |
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FROM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CELEBRATINE
250 yrs
This month, America celebrates 250 years of independence! And nowhere does the spirit of America come to life better than in our national parks.
Parks invite us to learn about, connect with, and become inspired by our shared history. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the establishment of the world's first national park, our parks and their trailblazers celebrate the sites and landmarks that represent the best of America.
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12) The 'Phantom' Menace of ACA Fraud | The Waiting Room by Charles Gaba for LINCOLN SQUARE
The Trump administration is blaming "phantom enrollees" for 2.6 million Americans losing ACA coverage. The math tells a completely different story.
13) The Women Who Told Trump "No" CIVIL DISCOURSE with Joyce Vance Jul 01, 2026
When Donald Trump appealed the $5 million dollars the jury awarded to E. Jean Carroll in the first of her two defamation victories against him, he put that money, plus extra to cover interest, into escrow. The money would go to her immediately if the appeal terminated in her favor. Trump stipulated that would be the case if, once he asked the Supreme Court to hear his appeal on a writ of certiorari, they declined to do so, which would finalize the decision in Carroll’s favor. That’s exactly what happened on Monday. That means it’s time for Donald Trump to pay up.
14) Every Republic in History Has Feared the Man Who Put His Face on Their Money
THE HARTMAN REPORT
From Caesar's denarius to Trump's meme coin, the message is always the same: "I am the state and you damn well better both fear me and pay me tribute!" by Thom Hartmann Jul 02,
On Tuesday the Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s annual financial disclosure, and the astonishingly corrupt number that jumps off its 927 pages — a length his team laughingly insists proves his “commitment to transparency” — is $1.4 billion.
That’s what he personally reported earning from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures in the single year of 2025 when he was president for roughly 11 months, dwarfing everything he took in from real estate, hotels, and golf courses combined.
The largest slice, roughly $635 million, were royalties on the $TRUMP meme coin, a “collectible” digital token — basically, a little JPG-style image he sold to the rubes — whose entire “collectible” value rests on one thing, which is his name and face stamped onto what he’s hustling as internet money.
15) Olympian Is Indicted After Arrest at Washington’s Reflecting Pool
David Hearn, a former canoeist, is accused of vandalizing the algae-challenged pool, which President Trump has said he would repair and beautify with fresh sealant. But the algae returned and the paint peeled.
By Campbell Robertson and Alan Feuer NY TIMES
July 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m. ET
A former Olympic canoeist who had been arrested in June on charges that he had vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been indicted, according to court documents. He is charged with “destruction of property $1,000 or more,” a felony.
President Trump blamed vandals for the problems following a quick and costly makeover of the pool, and the canoeist, David Carter Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Md., was among the first to be charged. The U.S. Park Police had arrested Mr. Hearn near the pool on June 19, and accused him of destroying government property. At the time, Mr. Hearn denied the charge in an interview with The New York Times.
In April, President Trump announced that he would be fixing “the once beautiful Reflecting Pool.”
The pool’s problems, including leakage and the routine algal blooms, had bedeviled previous administrations, including Barack Obama’s, but Mr. Trump declared that when he was done, the pool would be “much more beautiful than the day it was built!”
The administration awarded no-bid contracts to drain, resurface and refill the pool at a cost of $16.4 million, but by mid-June it was clear that things were not going according to plan.
The water was turning green, proof that the algae was still present. Chunks of the sealant, which had been recently applied to the pool’s concrete slabs, were spotted floating in the water in early June.
Past administrations have wrestled with keeping the pool free of algae, but experts said some of the current problems were because of decisions made during the pool’s rushed makeover. Mr. Trump blamed vandals, who he said, without citing evidence, had poured fertilizer into the water to nurture the algae.
The area was quickly surrounded by security officers. Federal officials have said that seven people, including Mr. Hearn, have been arrested on charges of vandalizing the pool.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Clarence Williams contributed reporting.
Campbell Robertson reports for The Times on Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former President Donald J. Trump.
16) Thought with the 4th July couple of days away I would share.
Farewell Statement from Senator John McCain
My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,
Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.
I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else’s.
https://www.johnmccain.com/2018/08/farewell-statement-from-senator-john-mccain/