John O'Farrell

Wondering how the eager tech enablers of this regime, including some of my former VC friends and partners, are rationalizing this atrocity. Just the latest in a year of horrors. Is all the crypto and AI money in the world really worth this?

Remember this when you do business with the @UAE or fly @emirates: You are supporting a genocide.

Profile in courage.

I asked border czar Tom Homan why ICE agents weren't wearing body cameras in Maine or Texas, given Congress gave DHS $20 million for them back in April.

And a third death.

Rep. Seth Magaziner: "ICE agents shot and killed two more innocent people in broad daylight. In both cases, the people they killed weren't even the people they were looking for. In both cases, they shot and killed people who were on their way to work in front of their families."

Today in America.

Another family left without a father.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi, of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — which also organized Gaza screenings of the matches.

Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented. He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.

The British wife of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been revealed as a central figure in his murderous operation and at the heart of its decision-making. Putin is now harboring the two of them to prevent their prosecution. trib.al/cKHFqMm

I’m tired of people acting like someone’s life matters less because they weren’t an American on paper. He spent 35 years here, raised three American children, and built his life in Houston. He was an American in every way that mattered.

Funny how the people calling @RoKhanna's detention a PR stunt say nothing about settler attacks on Palestinians, Israelis, and even a CNN crew. That's what his visit accomplished: shining a light on the daily state-backed violence. And showing most don't care at all.

What American, European and United Nations officials won’t say openly is that the power behind the R.S.F. is the @UAE. So this is in part on us. Will we find the courage to speak up? Thank you @NickKristof nytimes.com/2026/07/11/opi… via @NYTOpinion

“ it is the arrogance of power, power that has had no accountability.“ @RoKhanna in Palestine.

BREAKING: U.S Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has become the first American congressman in history to be detained by Israeli settlers while on a visit to the West Bank.

@daniel_levine Thank you Dan.

I don’t know @johnofa personally, but one of my favorite follows

From “The Accidental Investment Banker” author Jonathan Knee, interviewed by @andrewrsorkin in today’s @dealbook. He nailed it.

The Trump White House’s ad hoc interference in private business decisions — exemplified by but not limited to its recent meddling in the A.I. industry — has come without congressional sanction. President Trump is planning product releases and choosing customers of a key industry in our ostensibly free-market economy. nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opi… via @NYTOpinion

EU Shouldn’t Cut a Migration Deal With the Taliban, by @HRW's amazing @FereshtaAbbasi hrw.org/news/2026/07/0…

Amen