CURE NEWS for July 7th
Mark David
CURE NEWS July 7th
1) BREAKING: Trump Loses in Court Again on Immigration, a Plot to Take Federal Control of the Midterms, Kevin McCarthy's Terrible Take on the Maine Scandal, and more...Top Stories for July 7, 2026.by Adam Kinzinger
Our top story today: The courts just handed President Trump yet another loss on one of his key immigration efforts. A federal judge ordered the administration to stop freezing green cards and work permits for people who are already here legally. These are people who did everything we asked them to. Filled out every form, paid every fee. And the government just stopped answering. Some of them lost their jobs and their legal status while they waited. It is a reminder that this President’s crackdown does not stop at the border. It reaches people who follow the rules and call America home. Thankfully, the courts keep stepping in. Because this administration is not going to stop on its own.
We will also get into the Trump ally pushing him to declare a national emergency and seize control of the midterms, a scandal that just blew up the Maine Senate race and how Republicans responded, the new helipad going up on the White House lawn, and a NATO summit where the President is ready to hand Turkey our most advanced fighter jet.
2) WTF is Kristi Noem Doing? Andy Borowitz The BAROWITZ REPORT Jul 07, 2026
found myself thinking about our erstwhile DHS secretary/puppy exterminator over the weekend during Donald Trump’s incoherent commie-bashing mixtape at Mount Rushmore. Six years ago, with the granite landmark as his backdrop, Metamucilini gave a speech that was widely roasted for being racist and divisive. (Foreign Policy went with the headline “Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech Is the Closest He’s Come to Fascism,” little suspecting how much closer he was yet to come.) In an act of superhuman suction that would eventually qualify her for membership in his Cabinet, then-South Dakota Governor Noem presented Trump with a grotesque gift: a replica of Mount Rushmore with his head grafted on. In this mini-monument, Abraham Lincoln appears to be strenuously avoiding eye contact with the host of “The Apprentice.”
3) Donald Trump’s Hidden Allies at the NATO Summit: Ranked Editors NEWSWEEK July 7th
As NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7 for a two-day summit hosted by Turkey, most of the U.S.-led alliance has a clear overarching mission: keep President Donald Trump inside the tent by proving that Europe and Canada can carry more of their own defense costs.
It’s easy to see Trump's best NATO allies as the fellow leaders who flatter him or share his politics. But Trump's real allies are often hidden from view.
4) Gallery | Champaign County celebrates America’s 250th birthday
By Adam Edwards, Staff Photographer • Jul 6, 2026
5) McConnell’s health emergency sparks questions on whether he will return to Senate by Alexander Bolton - 07/07/26 6:00 AM ET For THE HILL
Emergency dispatch audio indicating that someone at Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) home in Washington, D.C., suffered “cardiac arrest” earlier this month has raised questions about when the former GOP leader will return to the Senate or whether he will return at all.
McConnell’s office has provided few details about his health status but reported a few days ago that he “appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5955865-mitch-mcconnell-senate-health-status/
6) Democratic socialists aren’t the only young, progressive Democrats dividing the party Published: July 7, 2026 8:18am EDT by Charlie Hunt Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University for THE CONVERSATION
A number of recent high-profile congressional primaries in the Democratic Party have resulted in the nomination of unexpected candidates. Many of these winning candidates have unseated entrenched incumbents, as 29-year-old Colorado attorney Melat Kiros did to U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has been serving in the House for three decades.
Some of these candidates are explicitly running under the banner of the Democratic Socialists of America, known as the “DSA,” a far-left organization known for standard-bearers such as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. New York City’s charismatic mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won his election as a DSA member in 2025 and has since marshaled political support for fellow progressives running for other offices in the city he runs.
7) Stephen Miller Was Never Radicalized. He Was Revealed. By Kristoffer Early for LINCOLN SQUARE
Trump's sniveling henchman has spent his entire career preaching strength while revealing weakness.
Let’s start with the obvious: this is a man who is disgusting on the inside and, we will get to it, not exactly working with much on the outside either. On the inside, we’re talking about a body of public record that includes leaked emails showing him recommending that Breitbart write about “The Camp of the Saints,” a novel so nakedly white-genocide-obsessed that it’s basically scripture for the people who show up to rallies with tiki torches. We’re talking about him fuming to a Breitbart editor that retailers had the nerve to stop selling Confederate flags after a white supremacist murdered nine Black parishioners at a Bible study in Charleston, and getting misty about how many Confederate soldiers died for a cause that was, again, keeping human beings as property. This is the interior of Stephen Miller. It is not a warm place.
8) Investors brace for a glut of oil by Matt Phillips for AXIOS
The oil market is shifting quickly from a focus on war-related shortages to an emerging supply glut.
Why it matters: Oil prices drive inflation expectations, which, in turn, drive the interest rates that have been closely correlated to the stock market.
The latest: Spot prices for Brent crude oil — the global benchmark — and U.S. West Texas Intermediate have tumbled over the last three months.
- WTI is down roughly 39% to less than $70 a barrel, and Brent is about 33% to under $73.
- The fine print: Those spot prices, which measure the cost of buying oil for near-term delivery, are now lower than the costs of buying futures for delivery over the next few months.
- Such a state of affairs, with lower prices today and futures prices that rise over time, is known as "contango" and is considered normal for oil markets.
9) Trump’s attacks on Democrats as ‘communists’ only show he’s out of touch
The president’s new narrative is desperate and likely doomed.
Trump pegs Democrats as communists in speeches July 5, 2026 / 13:08
President Donald Trump has a new favorite midterm strategy: painting the Democratic Party as a band of godless communists. It’s not going to pan out the way he wants.
During his speech Friday at Mount Rushmore, on the eve of Independence Day, Trump warned of a “resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success.” The line was an unsubtle reference to the election of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in 2025 and successful left-wing candidates in recent House primaries, including a Mamdani-backed trio that won contests in New York City.
10) UPDATE: Kalshi, CNBC, and CNN respond
By Judd Legum POPULAR INFORMATION Jul 07, 2026
On Monday, a joint investigation by Popular Information and Public Notice revealed that Kalshi has been heavily promoted by CNN and CNBC since Kalshi inked a financial partnership with both networks in December. The existence of this financial relationship, however, is inconsistently disclosed to viewers.
CNN’s response was included in the initial article. But after the story was published and spread rapidly on social media, Kalshi and CNBC also weighed in.
All three responses had one thing in common: they argued that Kalshi prediction markets are newsworthy, like other data included in journalism. CNN said that Kalshi data is “a complement to other reporting and data sources.” CNBC said that Kalshi data is “part of the broader set of market indicators.” Kalshi said, “in a world of echo chambers and clickbait, wisdom-of-the-crowd data can add additional context and perspective.”
11) America Celebrates its Birthday, while Trump Celebrates Himself
Commemorating our 250-year commitment to human freedom, dignity, and unalienable rights means doing so without Mr. Trump.
By Edwin Eisendrath for LINCOLN SQUARE Jul 07, 2026
his week, our democracy turned 250 years old and celebrated with its back turned to its president. He couldn’t make himself relevant to our anniversary, even with his fireworks display or his Great American State Fair, because he has done nothing, at home or abroad, to further the cause of freedom.
At home, Mr. Trump attacks the institutions that protect our freedoms and deploys his troops to round people up. He regularly coerces businesses, bullies universities, attacks journalists, and undermines judges. Lying to America, he says he targets dangerous criminals to make us safe. In fact, his troops are on our streets taking nurses, farm workers, daycare center employees, drivers, and restaurant employees. They are taking men and women who entered the country legally and regularly showed up for court hearings to determine validity of their requests for asylum. Ten thousand people a week are now being captured, held in private prisons, shipped around in shackles on leased buses and chartered jets, and shipped off to any country that our tax dollars pay to take them. This is the antithesis of our long commitment to human freedom and dignity.
12) The Graham Platner Story Reveals the Difference Between the Parties
CIVIL DISCOURSE WITH JOYCE VANCE Joyce Vance Jul 06, 2026
I am not a Maine voter. And Mainers have made it clear that they want people who aren’t to stay out of their elections. I respect that, and I intend to. But I will say one thing.
Graham Platner, the Democrats’ nominee to run for the U.S. Senate against Susan Collins, has been credibly accused of sexual assault. He denies it but says he is taking time to “reflect.”
“The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.”
13) Damage Out of Control DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY July th
Soccer, NATO, and Mount Rushmore
As is often the case, Donald Trump will attempt to direct the news in ways that benefit not the country, but him. The latest example involves the president interfering in the world’s biggest sporting event, soccer’s World Cup.
Trump put his thumb on the scale for the reinstatement of an American soccer star who was disqualified from playing an upcoming match.
While the outrage from that move reverberates around the world, giving people more reasons to hate the American president and lose respect for our country, another story involving international maneuvering begs for your attention. It may not get as many headlines or internet clicks, but its potential for long-ranging consequences is far greater.
14) Celebrating America Doesn’t Have to Mean Erasing Our History
How historians, academics, and creatives shifted my perspective on the semiquincentennial.
By Jeffrey Kelly for MOTHER JONES
In the lead-up to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems “divisive,” from DEI to critical race theory. As a reporter and fact-checker, I’ve examined this attack on our history closely. I’ve interviewed historians about how our past shapes our current moment, observed the spectacles put on by administration, and chronicled an organization’s fight to preserve local historic memorials.
Through this work, I’ve realized how much my own personal relationship to patriotism and history has evolved. As a kid in school, learning about the disproportionate amount of violence marginalized people faced throughout history made me pessimistic about the future. It was bizarre to read textbooks that minimized and dehumanized those moments of oppression along with the moments of achievement by anyone who wasn’t a white man. In American history, marginalized people’s stories are often asides or relegated to stereotypes— if mentioned at all. Over time, I became almost desensitized by the erasure as a way to focus on the ever-changing present moment.