Random News: July 12, 2025

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s July 12, 2025, and it’s a Saturday. Ahhhhhhh… Saturday. That means I slept in all the way until 7am, then threw on my robe and leisurely stumbled downstairs to make coffee, and now here I am with you. Hello.

• Let’s kick things off today with some good news.
• Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Maame E. Frimpong ordered the Dump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.
• Advocacy groups filed the lawsuit last week accusing Dump administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during its ongoing immigration crackdown.
• Good. This needs to be called out from every corner of the nation. We do NOT accept this blatant attempt to turn the USA into some white supremacist nightmare.
• The plaintiffs include three detained immigrants and two U.S. citizens, one who was held despite showing agents his identification.
• The tactics being employed in immigration raids have been 100% unconstitutional. Immigrant advocates accuse immigration officials of detaining someone based on their race, carrying out warrantless arrests, and denying detainees access to legal counsel at a holding facility in downtown LA.
• None of this is legal or acceptable. And I’m starting to think that the government will owe huge restitution to those who were targeted as such. See, that’s something Dumpy understands.
• He will never get empathy or fairness. But tell him that he owes $3 million to each person whose Constitutional rights were violated, and maybe he’ll take notice.
• One more note: Judge Frimpong also issued a separate order barring the federal government from restricting attorney access at a Los Angeles immigration detention facility.
• She wrote in the order there was a “mountain of evidence” presented in the case that the federal government was committing the violations they were being accused of.
• Moving on… to another good news item.
• U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera ruled yesterday that Los Angeles police cannot force journalists out of protest areas or use nonlethal weapons against them after reporters alleged officers targeted them during anti-ICE demonstrations last month.
• Vera granted the Los Angeles Press Club’s request for a 14-day restraining order against the city’s police department after the group said it documented dozens of incidents in which officers forced reporters away from public spaces where protests were taking place, hit them with rubber bullets and nonlethal weapons, and exposed them to tear gas.
• His ruling is an emergency order giving the court more time to consider whether to grant a longer-term block.
• The litigation stems from June, when Los Angeles protests over federal immigration raids captured national attention and prompted Dickhead Drump to deploy the National Guard to Southern California over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
• The press club said some incidents also occurred during the anti-Dump “No Kings Day” protests that took place on June 14, soon after the ICE demonstrations.
• I can promise you: any despair you may be feeling over the current state of the USA is temporary. We are not only going to win, but you will witness the downfall of evil, and it will be fucking glorious.
• This whole era — like that of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia or Khmer Rouge Cambodia — will become a lesson in how fragile our world is, and every one of the people who’ve brought this upon us will be remembered infamously along with the worst examples of humanity.
• And those who support them — with their votes and their actions — will never get forgiveness or sympathy.
• Let’s move on… with a sad note on Dump’s immigration debacle.
• A man is on life support after he was injured during Thursday’s immigration raid at a farm in Camarillo, CA that we reported yesterday.
• The man, Jaime Garcia, was being terrorized by ICE agents when he fell 30 feet off a building. He was taken to the hospital with a broken neck and skull.
• He was not expected to live through the night but is, at least for now, somehow still alive. Must be a strong man. Garcia’s family says he was working at the farm to send money home to his wife and daughter in Mexico.
• Dump and his people told you they’d be going after the most violent criminals and gang members. Instead, they kidnap farm workers, health care workers, construction workers, and other people who are of tremendous benefit to our society and our lives.
• In other news…
• Eight months after voters in Missouri approved a law that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage… their Republican governor Mike Kehoe repealed it.
• Yup. Just like that. So much for democracy, huh?
• The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect August 28.
• And on the same day he released the voter-approved law, Kehoe also signed a package of tax breaks for the state’s wealthiest citizens. Sound familiar?
• And now, Missouri parents will be forced to go to work instead of staying home to care for a sick child, in order to pay for their rent or utilities.
• If you need some expanded context, about one-third of states mandate paid sick leave, but many businesses voluntarily provide it.
• Nationwide, 79% of private-sector employees received paid sick leave last year, though part-time workers were significantly less likely to receive the benefit than full-time employees.
• Voters in Alaska, Missouri, and Nebraska all approved paid sick leave measures last November. But only Alaska’s, which kicked in on July 1, has remained unchanged by state lawmakers.
• Let’s move on.
• At the brand new immigration detention center in Florida that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.
• Which is exactly what Dump and his MAGA base wants. They love cruelty. How hilariously sad is it that many of these people call themselves “Christians”?
• Inside the compound’s large white tents, rows of bunkbeds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees are said to go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. The air conditioners often abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat.
• Who is doing anything about this? A group of Democratic lawmakers sued the DeSantis administration to be allowed in, and officials are holding a site visit by state legislators and members of Congress today.
• Let’s hear a first-hand account.
• A Venezuelan detainee said by phone from the facility, “The conditions in which we are living are inhuman. My main concern is the psychological pressure they are putting on people to sign their self-deportation.”
• The man characterized the cells as “zoo cages” with eight beds each, teeming with mosquitoes, crickets, and frogs. He said they are locked up 24 hours a day with no windows and no way to know the time.
• Detainees’ wrists and ankles are cuffed every time they go to see an ICE officer, accompanied by two guards who hold their arms and a third who follows behind, he said.
• Repeat after me: it’s a fucking concentration camp. And Dump intends to build many more of them with the money that Congress handed him via his Big Bullshit Bill.
• Wake. The fuck. Up.
• Let’s move on.
• Since any schism in the Dump world is a positive direction for the rest of us, I gleefully report on the gossipy news about a major fight between Dumpy’s lieutenants.
• Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's future is uncertain amid the growing fallout over the Justice Department's decision not to disclose any more records from its investigations into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
• Bongino has recently stated in no uncertain terms that he would resign following days of growing outrage publicly voiced by Dump's most vocal supporters over a memo issued earlier in the week that stated the FBI and DOJ planned to make no future public disclosures related to its review of Epstein's case.
• Adding insult to injury for the MAGA world, the review further confirmed Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell in Manhattan in 2019.
• Both Bongino and his boss, FBI Director Kash Patel, had been among the most vocal voices on social media in stoking conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein's death, long before both were brought into Dump’s administration.
• So it’s no surprise that Bongino is in complete conflict with Attorney General Pam Bondi over how the announcement was handled. The juicy story is that Bongino and Bondi had a face-to-face screaming match on the topic.
• And if you need evidence of the extreme disconnect between the messaging and reality, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he personally worked with Bongino and Patel to craft the memo.
• Which is obviously not at all true. Bongino took the day off work yesterday, fueling further speculation about his future.
• Dump Whisperer Laura Loomer is very much on Team Bongino.
• Yesterday, she wrote, “Pam Blondi is very damaging to President Trump’s image. She drags the administration down and the base doesn’t want her as AG. She is harming Trump’s administration and she’s embarrassing all of his staff and advisors by creating a PR crisis for them. It’s incredibly unfair to President Trump and his team.”
• Why would I give a fuck about what this insane person says? To be clear, I do not. Loomer is a fucking psycho from hell.
• But you probably remember that in April, Loomer took credit for Trump’s firing of several National Security Council officials. As someone who is very, very close to Dump on a personal basis, she has met with countless senior administration officials — including Vice President JD Vance — and continues to have sway over the president’s online base.
• Let them all fight each other instead of teaming up to destroy the rest of us.
• In other news…
• A lot of you people reading this news are white people born in the USA. I mean, I don’t need to look at your profile pics to see that you’re white Americans.
• So most of you don’t think you have a very personal stake in being concerned about Dumpy’s plans to deport people he considers undesirable — which, of course, are non-white people regardless of where they were born.
• So maybe you’re interested in the fact that today, Dumpy wrote that he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.
• This man, allegedly the president of the USA, posted on social media this morning, “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
• Just to be clear, Rosie O’Donnell was born on March 21, 1962 in Commack, NY, which is on Long Island.
• And as far as our Constitution says, the president cannot revoke the citizenship of someone born in the U.S., something that legal scholars have long noted.
• The 14th Amendment says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”
• But Dumples the Hitleresque Clown wipes his ass with our precious Constitution daily. Why would he care what it says? Has he ever looked at it, much less read it?
• Can he read? Some say he cannot.
• And now, The Weather: “Lone Wolf” by Sex Week
• From the Sports Desk… 13-seed American Amanda Anisimova had a great run to get to the Women’s Singles finals at Wimbledon. But then today she ran into 5-seed Polish player Iga Świątek.
• And Świątek took just 57 minutes to annihilate Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 this morning. It’s Świątek’s first Wimbledon title and sixth major championship.
• I should note that the last double-bagel was in 1988, when Steffi Graf defeated Natasha Zvereva at the French Open. Before that, a women's final hadn't featured a 6-0, 6-0 score since 1911 Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers won against Dora Boothby.
• Yikes.
• At yesterday’s Men’s semifinals, 5-seed American Taylor Fritz hung in against 2-seed Spaniard phenom Carlos Alcaraz, but ended up losing 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6.
• Alcaraz will face the world’s 1-seed Jannik Sinner in the finals tomorrow after Sinner beat Novak Djokovic is straight sets in yesterday’s semifinal.
• Today in history… The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege (70). Hartmann Schedel's ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published (1493). King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace (1543). Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal (1576). The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario (1812). German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements of all time (1943). The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club (1962). Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey (1967). Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station (2001). 
• July 12 is the birthday of Roman politician/general Julius Caesar (100 BC), potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730), poet Henry David Thoreau (1817), businessman George Eastman (1854), film producer Louis B. Mayer (1884), painter/sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884), architect Buckminster Fuller (1895), stage director/lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), comedian Milton Berle (1908), artist Andrew Wyeth (1917), businessman Roger Smith (1925), pianist/composer Van Cliburn (1934), comedian/convicted rapist Bill Cosby (1937), singer-songwriter/keyboardist Christine McVie (1943), singer-songwriter Walter Egan (1948), actress Cheryl Ladd (1951), actor Charlie Murphy (1959), boxer Julio César Chávez (1962), guitarist/composer John Petrucci (1967), figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (1971), actor Topher Grace (1978), and activist Malala Yousafzai (1997).

Okay then. I think you’re mostly caught up, sort of. At least on the things I think you need to know. There’s always more. Enjoy your day.