Apologies for not having this out with the print edition this morning, but logistics (ie, houseguests who had been watching our doggo while we were away) made even writing it tough without being too rude so, it had to wait til this evening.
Hamas agreed to disarm, but the document that says so still has more blanks than answers. The Iran war never actually ended, and Washington is bracing to escalate it again this weekend. And ICE just made it easier to hide how many people are dying in its custody, at the exact moment more people than ever are dying in it, and children keep intersecting with all of it.
Hamas signed a disarmament document, Israel didn’t, and the parts that matter most still aren’t written.
The US-Iran ceasefire quietly failed. New strikes could come this weekend, and the Senate just declined to have a say.
Zelenskyy fired his army chief and pushed out his defense minister amid nationwide protests, even as his relationship with Trump warms.
ICE narrowed its own death-reporting rules while people kept dying, and separate, documented patterns tie the agency to sexual violence against children.
A federal contract expired Friday, and 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children now face immigration court with no lawyer.
Ms. Rachel keeps getting attacked for the same thing: caring about children whose suffering is politically inconvenient.
“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
Sources: Al Jazeera (Qatar, state-funded/editorially independent — full text of agreement, disarmament sequencing, Mladenov quote); Euronews (European, broadly centrist — Israeli reaction, officials’ inability to specify timeline); CNN (US — Ghazi Hamad confirmation); Jerusalem Post (Israel, centre-right — Israeli demilitarization demand, Ben-Gvir reaction)
Al Jazeera (Qatar, state-funded/editorially independent — Qeshm Island strike, IRGC retaliation, Trump quote); CNN (US — new strikes planned this weekend); Democracy Now (US, independent — Senate War Powers Resolution vote, Fetterman); Trading Economics (market data — Brent crude pricing, tanker traffic)
Al Jazeera (Qatar, state-funded/editorially independent — Trump meeting context, Iran-Ukraine bandwidth framing); Euronews (European, broadly centrist — Kyiv protests, domestic reaction); CNBC (US — Trump-Zelenskyy meeting details, Patriot deal); Time (US — casualty figures, missile and drone count)
NPR/KOSU (US — Sendukas quote, win-rate statistic, contract expiration); Washington Post (US, centre-left — contract expiration reporting); ABC News (US — funding memo, contract terms, prior rescinded termination, 2023 representation rate)
Times of Israel (Israel — advocacy background, backlash); Jewish Chronicle (UK — Hamas condemnation statement); Washington Post (US, centre-left — Capitol Hill visit, Dilley advocacy); Fox News (US, right-leaning — El-Sayed donation, critical framing); KTAL/KMSS (US — Nolan Wells statement)
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