Happy Friday from the country where ICE is tripling orders to private companies paid to locate immigrants, Texas reportedly suspended more than a million voter registrations before the midterms, and a Florida grand jury found $10 million intended for healthcare was misappropriated into political activity without finding enough evidence to criminally charge anyone. Meanwhile, an ICE agent allegedly left a gun in an airport bathroom, HHS released a report linking support for transgender rights with political violence, and a woman says immigration detention denied her appropriate pregnancy care before she suffered a stillbirth. Nothing screams government efficiency quite like losing the gun while finding the pregnant woman.
Top RK News Stories
Minnesota Officials Say Evidence Could Support Charges in the Renee Good Case
Minnesota authorities are signaling a major development in the investigation into Renee Good’s death, saying investigators now believe the available evidence could support criminal charges. The exact potential charges and who could face them need to be confirmed from the official announcement, but if prosecutors move forward, this would mark a major escalation in Minnesota’s effort to hold federal immigration personnel accountable.
A Woman Says ICE Detention Denied Her Pregnancy Care Before Her Stillbirth
The Intercept reports that a pregnant immigrant repeatedly sought medical attention while detained, was later hospitalized, and suffered a stillbirth before facing deportation proceedings. The case raises grave questions about medical care inside immigration detention, because pregnancy should not become a punishment administered by fucking bureaucracy.
ICE Tripled Orders to Private Companies Paid to Find Immigrants
ICE placed $57.1 million in new orders with fourteen private skip tracing companies that use commercial databases, public records, online information, physical address verification, and photographs to locate immigrants. Apparently bounty hunting got a software subscription and a federal procurement number.
Texas Reportedly Suspended More Than 1.2 Million Voter Registrations
Raw America reports that Texas suspended more than 1.2 million voter registrations roughly two months before the midterms, while election disputes and federal monitoring continue escalating nationwide. Whether every suspension is justified matters enormously, which is why voters should check their registration now instead of discovering the problem while standing at a polling place.
A Federal Judge Blocked Trump’s New Mail Voting Rules Again
Federal Judge Indira Talwani ruled Trump’s new mail voting requirements likely unconstitutional and practically impossible to implement before voting begins, temporarily blocking them after the Supreme Court had earlier allowed the administration to proceed. Democracy has once again activated parental controls because somebody keeps touching the election settings.
A Florida Grand Jury Found $10 Million Was Misappropriated
A Florida grand jury concluded that $10 million from a Medicaid settlement was misappropriated through Hope Florida and ultimately reached political committees and the Republican Party of Florida, although it found insufficient evidence to criminally charge anyone. Money intended to help poor children obtain health insurance apparently took the scenic route through Florida politics.
An ICE Agent Reportedly Left a Gun in an Airport Bathroom
An ICE agent reportedly left a firearm unattended inside a restroom beyond security at San Francisco International Airport and returned for it after police responded. The incident occurred one day before another ICE operation at the airport, because apparently airport security applies differently when you bring your own badge.
HHS Published a Report Linking Trans Support With Political Violence
A new HHS report claims support for transgender rights correlates with left wing authoritarianism and greater acceptance of political violence, while LGBTQ advocates condemn the research as ideologically driven junk science. Government agencies manufacturing sweeping political narratives about marginalized communities deserve considerably more scrutiny than a twenty page PDF and a press release.
A Sexual Assault Lawsuit Was Dismissed as a Workers Compensation Matter
A federal judge dismissed civilian engineer Elsie Dominguez’s lawsuit alleging she was raped aboard a Navy transport ship after determining her claim belonged within the federal workers compensation system. If being sexually assaulted in your own bed aboard a ship counts as an occupational injury, perhaps the workplace safety manual needs considerably more fucking pages.
Nevada’s Governor Backed Data Centers Days After a $1 Million Political Donation
Three days after an AI investor and his wife donated $1 million to a PAC supporting Governor Joe Lombardo, Lombardo publicly championed Nevada’s data center expansion, and another $1 million arrived from a developer’s wife a week later. The timing does not prove a quid pro quo, but it certainly deserves a calendar, a highlighter, and several uncomfortable questions.
Susan Collins’ Attack on Maine Schools Leaves Out a Huge Piece of the Ranking
A Collins campaign ad blames Troy Jackson for Maine ranking last in a national high school ranking, but FactCheck.org found missing Advanced Placement data significantly depressed the state’s position. Political advertising remains the magical art of finding a technically real number and removing everything that makes it understandable.
The Backlash Against Always On Tech Is Growing
Communities resisting AI data centers, Flock cameras, and Meta’s camera equipped glasses are increasingly converging around concerns about surveillance, resource consumption, and technology imposed without meaningful public consent. Silicon Valley spent years asking whether it could put cameras everywhere and is discovering that people occasionally answer, “Get that fucking thing away from me.”
Closing RK Thoughts
Today’s news is about consent.
Consent to surveillance. Consent to government tracking. Consent to medical treatment. Consent to technology recording public life. Consent to political systems quietly changing the rules governing whether your vote counts.
Power loves pretending consent is unnecessary when compliance is easier.
That is why registration checks matter. Court challenges matter. Medical records matter. Contract databases matter. Campaign finance records matter. People willing to say no matter.
Check your voter registration. Read the contracts. Follow the money. Protect the people whose rights are easiest for government to treat as administrative inconveniences.
And when somebody insists the system is working exactly as intended, ask who the fuck it was intended to work for.
Stay Ungovernable Kittie! Claws out. Receipts ready.
Featured Resisters and Resources
- Standards Not Force is a civic advocacy initiative focused on lawful, disciplined, and nonviolent public action. The organization promotes transparency, institutional accountability, community safety, and informed civic participation. Its approach encourages citizens to establish clear public standards, document institutional conduct, submit formal grievances, and organize peaceful responses when public institutions or private organizations fail to meet those standards.
- Stop AAPI Hate is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to tracking, addressing, and preventing anti Asian American and Pacific Islander discrimination, harassment, violence, and hate incidents. The organization was founded in 2020 in response to rising reports of anti Asian racism and has since become one of the leading sources of data, research, advocacy, and community resources related to hate incidents affecting AAPI communities across the United States.
What We Are Watching Today
- 9:35 AM EDT
U.S. Senate Candidate Michael Whatley (R-NC) Speaks to Reporters on Border Security - 10:00 AM EDT
Fed Chair Warsh Speaks at 2026 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium - 10:30 AM EDT
Rev. Al Sharpton Holds Rally on 63rd Anniversary of MLK’s March on Washington Live - 11:00 AM EDT
Pres. Trump Awards the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Live - 11:30 AM EDT
Sen. Raphael Warnock Data Center News Conference - 1:30 PM EDT
U.S. Senate Candidate Michael Whatley (R-NC) Holds Border Security Roundtable in Raleigh
Today’s Call to Action
1. Read Today’s Resistance Survival Guides
2. Sign these Petitions and Send These Pre Written Letters
- Sign if you agree: It’s time for Congress to formally investigate Trump family self-dealing on government contracts.
- Sign the petition: Investigate, and potentially disbar, Jeanine Pirro for carrying out Donald Trump’s political motivated prosecution of Democrats.
- Sign if you agree: Cognress should investigate Donald Trump’s election-monitoring program.
- Sign if you agree: It is long past time for Congress to take back tariff power from Donald Trump and put an end to his nonsensical, destructive trade war.
- Add your name to the petition: No taxpayer dollars for Trump’s White House ballroom vanity project.
- Sign the petition: Investigate ICE violence and hold the Trump administration accountable!
- Sign the petition: It is long past time for Congress to take back tariff power from Donald Trump and put an end to his destructive trade war.
3. Verify your voter registration status and help at least one other person check theirs
4. Save contact information for local legal aid and voting support organizations
5. Attend an Event
- A CareWins Virtual Town Hall with Care Candidates JoAnna Mendoza and Manny Rutinel
- Join Organized Power in Numbers’ weekly Workers Over Billionaires Mass Call to hear from organizers on the frontlines and find your way into the organizing machine: workers.fyi/masscall
- Join Hip Hop Caucus for a national organizing call for the Respect My Vote campaign, now in its 18th year of getting our people registered, informed, and to the polls.
- March on Washington: Defend the Vote Friday, August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Gathering begins at 8:00 a.m. ET, and the program begins at 9:00 a.m. The march will defend voting rights, civil rights, and economic justice.
6. Contact Your Lawmakers Directly
- Demand Public Testimony on the Epstein Files: “Hello, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY]. I am asking you to demand public testimony from Attorney General Todd Blanche about the missing Epstein records, redaction failures, and the treatment of Ghislaine Maxwell. Survivors and the public deserve answers. Please support subpoenas and full congressional oversight.”
- Reject Another Blank Check for the Iran War: “Hello, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY]. I am asking you to oppose the proposed $73 billion in additional Iran war funding. Congress must debate and vote on any authorization for war before approving more money. Please invest those resources in health care, housing, food assistance, and communities here at home.”
- Stop the Escalating Trade War With Canada: “Hello, my name is [NAME], and I live in [CITY]. I am asking Congress to block the threatened 50 percent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, parts, and steel. These tariffs could raise prices, disrupt American factories, and cost workers their jobs. Please reclaim Congress’s authority over trade and demand a negotiated solution.”
7. Who Are We Boycotting This Week?
- Chevron and Texaco: Avoid Chevron and Texaco gas stations. A coordinated boycott action on August 29 is protesting Chevron’s involvement in Israel’s energy industry and its environmental record.
- Target: The American Federation of Teachers has called for a nationwide Target boycott over the company’s response to aggressive ICE operations in Minnesota. Skip Target for back to school shopping and support local or union friendly stores instead.
- Palantir: Palantir provides surveillance and data technology used by ICE, police departments, and military agencies. Do not invest in Palantir, accept its sponsorships, or support institutions that purchase its technology.
