Saturday Covfefe: Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸
Olivia of Troye
Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸
A quick public health advisory before we celebrate: if you’re planning to attend President Trump’s massive Fourth of July fireworks display scheduled to begin at 11:30pm ET on the National Mall, in Washington, DC, the National Park Service and health experts are recommending you consider wearing an N95 mask because the smoke could create unusually hazardous air quality.
Nothing says "Happy Birthday, America" quite like needing respiratory protection to watch the fireworks. If that’s not the most 2026 sentence you’ve read all week...
1. Quietly. Systematically. At Scale.
If you thought the immigration crackdown had slowed down, think again. This week, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 10,000 people in just five days, roughly doubling its daily arrest rate. Unlike the highly publicized raids that dominated cable news earlier this year and last, this enforcement surge is happening much more quietly and it’s barely being discussed on national media outlets.
People are being arrested during routine immigration check-ins, traffic stops, outside courthouses, and in everyday encounters. Internal documents obtained by the New York Times report that ICE has been directed to target 2,000 arrests every day, with approximately 80% of enforcement personnel focused on arrest operations. Meanwhile, the agency’s detention population has climbed above 63,000 people, reflecting the scale of the administration’s expanded immigration effort.
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