ICE's nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability… As people testified before Congress yesterday about the brutality and violence they'd suffered at the hands of ICE, that massive paramilitary organization was shopping for giant warehouse-style facilities they can retrofit into what they euphemistically call "detention centers." Cable news people call them "prison camps" or "Trump prison camps," but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is: "[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes." Jails are where people accused of crimes but still waiting for their day in court are held, as Merriam-Webster notes: "[S]uch a place under the jurisdiction of a local government for the confinement of persons awaiting trial or those convicted of minor crimes." But what do you call a place where people who've committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is "concentration camp":

Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump's behavior makes sense only when you realize he's been in Putin's pocket for years… The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report, the result of a long collaboration between columnists Glen Owen and Dan Hodges, along with Mark Hookham (Assistant Editor Investigations), and Daisy Graham-Brown (Investigative Reporter). It's shocking in its detail and its implication that Putin has basically owned Trump for years, even before he ran for president in 2016. They note of last week's partial (about 50%) Epstein document release: "The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow. Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution." Essentially, they're arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein's New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Is this how a free press dies in America, with Don Lemon in handcuffs? — New Trump act may lead to the takeover of elections. — Trump's New Grift: A $10 Billion Demand for "Reputational Harm" After his Income Tax Avoidance Was Exposed. — Trump building 'white supremacist army' inside government that will outlast him. — Is Minneapolis now a "papers please" city for non-whites? — Mark Carney stood up for democracy, and Trump is pissed. — DOJ busted for removing Epstein files accusing Trump of child rape.

Under Trump, tax giveaways to the wealthy and soaring debt replaced economic stability and sacrificing the nation's future for short-term political gain… America's economic system has never been fair or perfect, but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those guardrails are now being stripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability and long-term stability. For over a hundred years, the United States has been the cornerstone of international economic stability. The independence of our central bank (the "Fed") has been a part of it, as has the strength of the dollar, which comes about in large part because the rest of the world relies on our currency as the default for international trade. And now Trump and the GOP are threatening it all.