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<description>A documentary archive of 4,288 verified events tracing the systematic capture of American democratic institutions from 1142 to today. Court records, government filings, investigative reporting — sourced and indexed.</description>
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<title>Augusta Township, MI: Referendum on Thor Equities $1B Data Center Rezoning Hits August 4 Ballot</title>
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<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>Residents of Augusta Township (Washtenaw County, MI) organized a successful referendum petition against the township board's approval of agricultural-to-industrial rezoning for Thor Equities' proposed $1B, 800-acre data center near Milan. The Planning Commission had recommended d</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Residents of Augusta Township (Washtenaw County, MI) organized a successful referendum petition against the township board's approval of agricultural-to-industrial rezoning for Thor Equities' proposed $1B, 800-acre data center near Milan. The Planning Commission had recommended d</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--augusta-township-mi-referendum-thor-equities-data-center/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Congress Quietly Eliminated ICE Biweekly Detention Data Mandate — New Analysis Finds 16% Undercount</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-detention-reporting-mandate-eliminated-16-percent-undercount/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date><description>ICE released detention data on July 20 for the first time in more than 90 days, showing 65,765 people in custody — but the release was voluntary: the latest appropriations bill quietly removed the 2018 congressional mandate requiring biweekly updates. Research by Austin Kocher an</description><category>ICE</category><category>CoreCivic</category><category domain="tag">transparency-erosion</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">data-manipulation</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE released detention data on July 20 for the first time in more than 90 days, showing 65,765 people in custody — but the release was voluntary: the latest appropriations bill quietly removed the 2018 congressional mandate requiring biweekly updates. Research by Austin Kocher an</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, CoreCivic</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-detention-reporting-mandate-eliminated-16-percent-undercount/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>EU AI Act Full Enforcement Begins August 2 — Facial Recognition Bans, High-Risk AI Rules Binding</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-25--eu-ai-act-full-enforcement-facial-recognition-bans/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-25</dc:date><description>The EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable on August 2, 2026, activating binding requirements for high-risk AI systems, banning real-time public-space facial recognition (with narrow exceptions), and prohibiting police post-incident facial recognition and untargeted facial image scr</description><category>European Union</category><category>Clearview AI</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">biometric-surveillance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable on August 2, 2026, activating binding requirements for high-risk AI systems, banning real-time public-space facial recognition (with narrow exceptions), and prohibiting police post-incident facial recognition and untargeted facial image scr</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> European Union, Clearview AI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-25--eu-ai-act-full-enforcement-facial-recognition-bans/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Escambia County FL Commissioners Vote 5-0 That Data Centers 'Not Permitted' Under Land Code</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--escambia-county-fl-data-centers-not-permitted-vote/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>Escambia County, FL commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 to adopt a resolution declaring data centers "are not permitted under the county's land development code and are not appropriate development in the county," with a formal ordinance codifying the ban scheduled for a public he</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Escambia County, FL commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 to adopt a resolution declaring data centers "are not permitted under the county's land development code and are not appropriate development in the county," with a formal ordinance codifying the ban scheduled for a public he</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--escambia-county-fl-data-centers-not-permitted-vote/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Plans 1,400-Bed Detention Center at Shuttered Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-rivers-correctional-hertford-nc/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>Internal ICE documents obtained by the New York Times show the agency plans to reopen GEO Group's shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford County, NC by the end of 2026 — North Carolina's first dedicated ICE detention facility and one of the largest planned on the Ea</description><category>ICE</category><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">institutional-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Internal ICE documents obtained by the New York Times show the agency plans to reopen GEO Group's shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford County, NC by the end of 2026 — North Carolina's first dedicated ICE detention facility and one of the largest planned on the Ea</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-rivers-correctional-hertford-nc/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Nun Detained by ICE While Walking to Daily Mass in Texas — Speaks Out for First Time</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--nun-detained-ice-walking-to-mass-texas/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>A Catholic nun spoke publicly for the first time about being detained by ICE while walking to daily Mass at her parish in Texas — she is a lawful permanent resident with a valid green card. The account details a multi-hour detention, demands for documents she did not have on her </description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">religious-liberty</category><category domain="tag">wrongful-detention</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Catholic nun spoke publicly for the first time about being detained by ICE while walking to daily Mass at her parish in Texas — she is a lawful permanent resident with a valid green card. The account details a multi-hour detention, demands for documents she did not have on her </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--nun-detained-ice-walking-to-mass-texas/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Police Experts Flag ICE Agent Vetting Failures as Agency Doubles Force Under OBBB Hiring Push</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-agent-vetting-failures-obbb-doubled-force/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>Documented (NY) reports that law enforcement quality experts are raising alarms about ICE's accelerated hiring vetting process as the agency doubled its agent corps from roughly 10,000 to 22,000 under One Big Beautiful Bill mandates ([[2026-07-04--dhs-obbb-year-one-165b-doubled-i</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Documented (NY) reports that law enforcement quality experts are raising alarms about ICE's accelerated hiring vetting process as the agency doubled its agent corps from roughly 10,000 to 22,000 under One Big Beautiful Bill mandates ([[2026-07-04--dhs-obbb-year-one-165b-doubled-i</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-agent-vetting-failures-obbb-doubled-force/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>The Intercept Documents Four ICE Deaths in One Week; Hearing Contradicts DHS Account of Salgado Araujo Shooting</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--intercept-four-ice-deaths-week-salgado-araujo-hearing/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>The Intercept synthesized four ICE-related deaths in a single week as evidence the agency has evolved into an unaccountable paramilitary force, centering the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — shot while driving a Houston construction crew to a job site ([[2026-07-07--ice-kills-lor</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">ice-violence</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Intercept synthesized four ICE-related deaths in a single week as evidence the agency has evolved into an unaccountable paramilitary force, centering the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — shot while driving a Houston construction crew to a job site ([[2026-07-07--ice-kills-lor</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--intercept-four-ice-deaths-week-salgado-araujo-hearing/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ACLU Data-Driven Report Finds ICE 'Too Broken to Be Fixed' Across Eight States in 2025</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--aclu-agents-of-chaos-and-cruelty-ice-too-broken/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-23</dc:date><description>The ACLU released "Agents of Chaos and Cruelty," a data-driven civil rights review of immigration enforcement across eight states in 2025. The report finds ICE so systemically broken — in documentation practices, use-of-force accountability, and detainee care — that the ACLU is c</description><category>American Civil Liberties Union</category><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The ACLU released "Agents of Chaos and Cruelty," a data-driven civil rights review of immigration enforcement across eight states in 2025. The report finds ICE so systemically broken — in documentation practices, use-of-force accountability, and detainee care — that the ACLU is c</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> American Civil Liberties Union, ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--aclu-agents-of-chaos-and-cruelty-ice-too-broken/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Nears 600,000 Deportations as July Sets New Daily Arrest Record</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--ice-nears-600k-deportations-july-arrest-record/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-23</dc:date><description>ICE is approaching 600,000 cumulative deportations since January 2025, with July 2026 arrests averaging 1,593 per day — surpassing June's record of 43,000 monthly arrests, itself the highest single-month total in the agency's 23-year history. As of July 11, ICE held 65,765 people</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE is approaching 600,000 cumulative deportations since January 2025, with July 2026 arrests averaging 1,593 per day — surpassing June's record of 43,000 monthly arrests, itself the highest single-month total in the agency's 23-year history. As of July 11, ICE held 65,765 people</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--ice-nears-600k-deportations-july-arrest-record/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Seven Senate Democrats Kill CLARITY Act Over Trump Crypto Ethics Loopholes — August Recess Deadline Missed</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--clarity-act-ethics-provision-collapse-wlf-loophole/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-23</dc:date><description>Senate Republicans released a CLARITY Act revision on July 22 containing the bill's first ethics language — but enforcement rests solely with Trump's own DOJ, World Liberty Financial's token-fee revenue is left untouched, and the provision expires when Trump leaves office. Seven </description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>World Liberty Financial</category><category>Senate Democrats</category><category>John Thune</category><category domain="tag">crypto-finance</category><category domain="tag">executive-self-dealing</category><category domain="tag">legislative-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Senate Republicans released a CLARITY Act revision on July 22 containing the bill's first ethics language — but enforcement rests solely with Trump's own DOJ, World Liberty Financial's token-fee revenue is left untouched, and the provision expires when Trump leaves office. Seven </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial, Senate Democrats, John Thune</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--clarity-act-ethics-provision-collapse-wlf-loophole/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Together Colorado Sues Town of Hudson Over GEO Group's Big Horn ICE Detention Facility Zoning</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--weld-hudson-county-co-geo-big-horn-zoning-lawsuit/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-23</dc:date><description>Faith nonprofit Together Colorado filed suit July 23, 2026 in Weld County District Court against the Town of Hudson, challenging the 2,700-bed GEO Group "Big Horn" ICE detention facility as not a permitted use under Hudson's Land Development Code — no special use permit was ever </description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">local-democratic-bypass</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Faith nonprofit Together Colorado filed suit July 23, 2026 in Weld County District Court against the Town of Hudson, challenging the 2,700-bed GEO Group "Big Horn" ICE detention facility as not a permitted use under Hudson's Land Development Code — no special use permit was ever </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-23--weld-hudson-county-co-geo-big-horn-zoning-lawsuit/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Community Mobilizes Against GEO Group Plan to Reopen Rivers Correctional as 1,400-Bed ICE Detention Center in Hertford County, NC</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--hertford-county-nc-community-mobilizes-against-rivers-correctional/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>Activists rallied at the NC General Assembly on July 22, opposing ICE's documented plan to reopen the shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, Hertford County as a GEO Group-operated 1,400-bed detention center by the end of 2026 ([[2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-river</description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Activists rallied at the NC General Assembly on July 22, opposing ICE's documented plan to reopen the shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, Hertford County as a GEO Group-operated 1,400-bed detention center by the end of 2026 ([[2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-river</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--hertford-county-nc-community-mobilizes-against-rivers-correctional/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>House Passes SAVE Act via Must-Pass NDAA 217-209 While the EAC That Would Administer It Is Headless</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--house-passes-save-act-via-ndaa-217-209-eac-headless/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>House Republicans passed the SAVE America Act 217-209 on July 22, 2026 by attaching it to the must-pass FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act — requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections and photo ID to vote, with six Democrats crossing over.</description><category>House Republicans</category><category>Election Assistance Commission</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">voter-suppression</category><category domain="tag">legislative-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>House Republicans passed the SAVE America Act 217-209 on July 22, 2026 by attaching it to the must-pass FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act — requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections and photo ID to vote, with six Democrats crossing over.</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> House Republicans, Election Assistance Commission</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--house-passes-save-act-via-ndaa-217-209-eac-headless/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Montgomery County MD: 18-Month Data Center Moratorium Advances to Full Council Vote</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--montgomery-co-md-datacenter-18month-moratorium-vote/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>Montgomery County, MD's Economic Development Committee voted unanimously on July 22, 2026 to recommend an 18-month moratorium on new data centers to the full council, with a second committee advancing the same measure the same day. The legislation includes a zoning text amendment</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-cost-shift</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Montgomery County, MD's Economic Development Committee voted unanimously on July 22, 2026 to recommend an 18-month moratorium on new data centers to the full council, with a second committee advancing the same measure the same day. The legislation includes a zoning text amendment</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--montgomery-co-md-datacenter-18month-moratorium-vote/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>NW Ohio ICE Detention Facility Board Blocks Public Comment, Moves Meetings to Restrict Protesters</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--ccno-northwest-ohio-board-blocks-public-comment/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>The Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO) in Stryker/Defiance County is holding ICE detainees under an active contract while community opposition intensifies. At the July 22 board meeting, the board refused public comment from the Social & Immigration Justice League of Ohio</description><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO) in Stryker/Defiance County is holding ICE detainees under an active contract while community opposition intensifies. At the July 22 board meeting, the board refused public comment from the Social &amp; Immigration Justice League of Ohio</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--ccno-northwest-ohio-board-blocks-public-comment/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Project Delta Hyperscale Campus Rezoning Refiled in Stokes County, NC After Legal Void — Hyperscaler Identity Still Withheld</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--stokes-county-nc-project-delta-rezoning-refiled/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>Engineered Land Solutions refiled a rezoning application for "Project Delta" in Stokes County, NC, seeking to convert approximately 1,845 acres near the Dan River from residential-agricultural to heavy manufacturing conditional use for a hyperscale campus. The original January ap</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Engineered Land Solutions refiled a rezoning application for "Project Delta" in Stokes County, NC, seeking to convert approximately 1,845 acres near the Dan River from residential-agricultural to heavy manufacturing conditional use for a hyperscale campus. The original January ap</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--stokes-county-nc-project-delta-rezoning-refiled/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Residents Sue Guadalupe County, TX Over $500M Tax Abatement for CloudBurst AI Data Center Campus</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--guadalupe-county-tx-residents-sue-cloudburst-tax-abatement/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>A resident group filed suit July 22 challenging Guadalupe County, TX commissioners' $500M tax abatement for CloudBurst Texas's 12-building AI data center campus in New Braunfels. The commissioners court had rejected the abatement 3-2 in February, then reversed and approved it in </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">tax-abatement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A resident group filed suit July 22 challenging Guadalupe County, TX commissioners' $500M tax abatement for CloudBurst Texas's 12-building AI data center campus in New Braunfels. The commissioners court had rejected the abatement 3-2 in February, then reversed and approved it in </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--guadalupe-county-tx-residents-sue-cloudburst-tax-abatement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Shapiro Wins: ICE Withdraws Both Pennsylvania Warehouse Detention Plans — Berks and Schuylkill Counties</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--shapiro-administration-ice-withdraws-berks-schuylkill-pa-warehouses/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-22</dc:date><description>Governor Josh Shapiro's administration confirmed July 22, 2026 that ICE has formally withdrawn permit requests for two Pennsylvania warehouse-to-detention conversions in a single Environmental Hearing Board filing: a 1,500-bed facility in Upper Bern Township, Berks County, and a </description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category><category domain="tag">environmental-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Governor Josh Shapiro's administration confirmed July 22, 2026 that ICE has formally withdrawn permit requests for two Pennsylvania warehouse-to-detention conversions in a single Environmental Hearing Board filing: a 1,500-bed facility in Upper Bern Township, Berks County, and a </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-22--shapiro-administration-ice-withdraws-berks-schuylkill-pa-warehouses/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Charles County, MD Commissioners Scrap Data Center Zoning Amendment After Year of Pushback</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--charles-county-md-scraps-data-center-zoning/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>Charles County, MD's Board of Commissioners voted July 21 to withdraw a pending data center zoning amendment rather than advance or deny it, citing the need for expert guidance and unclear state direction. Any future zoning change must restart from scratch, requiring new Planning</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Charles County, MD's Board of Commissioners voted July 21 to withdraw a pending data center zoning amendment rather than advance or deny it, citing the need for expert guidance and unclear state direction. Any future zoning change must restart from scratch, requiring new Planning</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--charles-county-md-scraps-data-center-zoning/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Arresting Relatives Who Come Forward to Sponsor Migrant Children in Federal Shelters</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--ice-arrests-orr-sponsors-migrant-children-bait/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>ICE is systematically arresting relatives who complete months of Office of Refugee Resettlement vetting to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters — after the Trump administration removed the rule barring ORR from sharing sponsor data with ICE. Attorneys descri</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">family-separation</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE is systematically arresting relatives who complete months of Office of Refugee Resettlement vetting to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters — after the Trump administration removed the rule barring ORR from sharing sponsor data with ICE. Attorneys descri</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--ice-arrests-orr-sponsors-migrant-children-bait/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Has Stopped Publishing Detention and Deportation Data Since April 2026</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--ice-data-blackout-since-april-2026/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>ICE has not released detention or deportation statistics since April 2026, blacking out the public record on the scope of mass deportations at the exact moment enforcement is hitting record pace ([[2026-07-23--ice-nears-600k-deportations-july-arrest-record]]). The Marshall Projec</description><category>ICE</category><category>Deportation Data Project</category><category domain="tag">transparency-erosion</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE has not released detention or deportation statistics since April 2026, blacking out the public record on the scope of mass deportations at the exact moment enforcement is hitting record pace ([[2026-07-23--ice-nears-600k-deportations-july-arrest-record]]). The Marshall Projec</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, Deportation Data Project</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--ice-data-blackout-since-april-2026/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Kent County, DE Levy Court Passes First Data Center Restrictions: Industrial Zones Only, 300-Foot Setbacks</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--kent-county-de-first-data-center-ordinance/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>The Kent County, Delaware Levy Court voted unanimously on July 21 to pass the county's first data center ordinance, restricting facilities to industrial zones with 300-foot setbacks from residential areas, closed-loop cooling requirements, and natural screening buffers. About 200</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Kent County, Delaware Levy Court voted unanimously on July 21 to pass the county's first data center ordinance, restricting facilities to industrial zones with 300-foot setbacks from residential areas, closed-loop cooling requirements, and natural screening buffers. About 200</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--kent-county-de-first-data-center-ordinance/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Livingston County, MI Sheriff Signs 287(g) Agreement With ICE Without Board Vote; Becomes State's 8th Active Jurisdiction</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--livingston-county-mi-sheriff-signs-287g-agreement/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>Sheriff Mike Murphy signed a 287(g) Warrant Service Officer agreement on July 21, authorizing county detention staff to serve and execute ICE administrative warrants. Murphy stated the primary motivation was eligibility for a DOJ grant for immigration investigation equipment; no </description><category>ICE</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Sheriff Mike Murphy signed a 287(g) Warrant Service Officer agreement on July 21, authorizing county detention staff to serve and execute ICE administrative warrants. Murphy stated the primary motivation was eligibility for a DOJ grant for immigration investigation equipment; no </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--livingston-county-mi-sheriff-signs-287g-agreement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Tulare County Fair Board Tables Global Stack Fairgrounds Data Center Lease After 3 Hours of Public Opposition</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--tulare-county-ca-tables-global-stack-fairgrounds-lease/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-21</dc:date><description>The Tulare County Fair board tabled a vote July 21 on leasing 2-5 acres of fairgrounds to Global Stack LLC — a company incorporated in March 2026 pitching 100-year leases for 8-10 MW edge data centers at fairgrounds across California, paired with parking garages and helicopter pa</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-bypass</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Tulare County Fair board tabled a vote July 21 on leasing 2-5 acres of fairgrounds to Global Stack LLC — a company incorporated in March 2026 pitching 100-year leases for 8-10 MW edge data centers at fairgrounds across California, paired with parking garages and helicopter pa</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-21--tulare-county-ca-tables-global-stack-fairgrounds-lease/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers, The Intercept Reports</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-20--google-censoring-ice-detention-center-reviews/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-20</dc:date><description>The Intercept reported July 20 that Google Maps reviews of ICE detention facilities have been removed at a disproportionate rate compared to other businesses subject to Maps reviews, silencing one of the few public-facing channels where detainees, family members, and advocates co</description><category>Google</category><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">transparency-erosion</category><category domain="tag">detention-conditions</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Intercept reported July 20 that Google Maps reviews of ICE detention facilities have been removed at a disproportionate rate compared to other businesses subject to Maps reviews, silencing one of the few public-facing channels where detainees, family members, and advocates co</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Google, ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-20--google-censoring-ice-detention-center-reviews/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DOJ Ultimatum to Milwaukee on ICE Mask Ban Passes Without Resolution; Supremacy Clause Standoff Active</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--doj-milwaukee-mask-ban-standoff-deadline-passes/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-17</dc:date><description>Milwaukee passed an ordinance banning all law enforcement — including federal agents — from wearing masks while working in the city, with $10,000 fines per violation, after ICE agents shot and killed two Minneapolis residents earlier in 2026. DOJ sent a July 10 letter calling the</description><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">federal-preemption</category><category domain="tag">ice-accountability</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Milwaukee passed an ordinance banning all law enforcement — including federal agents — from wearing masks while working in the city, with $10,000 fines per violation, after ICE agents shot and killed two Minneapolis residents earlier in 2026. DOJ sent a July 10 letter calling the</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--doj-milwaukee-mask-ban-standoff-deadline-passes/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GEO Group Employee Arrested After Shooting Woman Protester Outside Aurora ICE Detention Center</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--geo-group-employee-shoots-protester-aurora/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-17</dc:date><description>An employee at GEO Group's Aurora Contract Detention Facility — the same firm awarded the $529M Hudson/Big Horn contract the same week ([[2026-07-09--geo-group-529m-hudson-colorado-big-horn-detention-contract]]) — shot a woman protesting outside the facility on the night of July </description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">ice-violence</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>An employee at GEO Group's Aurora Contract Detention Facility — the same firm awarded the $529M Hudson/Big Horn contract the same week ([[2026-07-09--geo-group-529m-hudson-colorado-big-horn-detention-contract]]) — shot a woman protesting outside the facility on the night of July </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--geo-group-employee-shoots-protester-aurora/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Illegally Shared Medicaid Data on Millions With Palantir ELITE Deportation App</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--ice-medicaid-palantir-illegal-data-transfer/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-17</dc:date><description>Court filings by a coalition of more than 20 state attorneys general revealed that Medicaid officials improperly transferred data on millions of Americans to ICE in January 2026, which ICE then shared with Palantir for its ELITE deportation app — used to surface noncitizen addres</description><category>ICE</category><category>Palantir</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">palantir</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Court filings by a coalition of more than 20 state attorneys general revealed that Medicaid officials improperly transferred data on millions of Americans to ICE in January 2026, which ICE then shared with Palantir for its ELITE deportation app — used to surface noncitizen addres</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, Palantir</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-17--ice-medicaid-palantir-illegal-data-transfer/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs Converge on Mandatory Pre-Release Scrutiny and US-Led Global AI Governance Body</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--ai-labs-ceos-converge-mandatory-scrutiny-governance-body/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date><description>For the first time, the chief executives of OpenAI (Altman), Google DeepMind (Hassabis), and Anthropic (Amodei) converged in writing on the same regulatory framework — all three supporting mandatory external scrutiny of frontier AI models before public release and a US-led intern</description><category>Sam Altman</category><category>Dario Amodei</category><category>OpenAI</category><category>Anthropic</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>For the first time, the chief executives of OpenAI (Altman), Google DeepMind (Hassabis), and Anthropic (Amodei) converged in writing on the same regulatory framework — all three supporting mandatory external scrutiny of frontier AI models before public release and a US-led intern</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, OpenAI, Anthropic</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--ai-labs-ceos-converge-mandatory-scrutiny-governance-body/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Paramount-WBD Antitrust Hearing Scheduled July 16 in Faust Subscriber Suit; Bonta-Led State-AG Coalition Complaint Drafting Concurrent</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--paramount-wbd-antitrust-hearing-faust-subscriber-suit-bonta-ag-coalition-pending/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date><description>**Pre-event entry — research date 2026-06-11.** A hearing in **Faust et al. v. Paramount Skydance Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery** is scheduled for **July 16, 2026** in the **U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Oakland)**. The case is a private subscrib</description><category>Rob Bonta</category><category>David Ellison</category><category>Paramount Skydance</category><category>Warner Bros. Discovery</category><category domain="tag">media-capture</category><category domain="tag">antitrust</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>**Pre-event entry — research date 2026-06-11.** A hearing in **Faust et al. v. Paramount Skydance Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery** is scheduled for **July 16, 2026** in the **U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Oakland)**. The case is a private subscrib</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Rob Bonta, David Ellison, Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--paramount-wbd-antitrust-hearing-faust-subscriber-suit-bonta-ag-coalition-pending/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Primetime Address Pushes SAVE America Act on Unsupported Claims; DC Circuit Reinstates USPS Ballot Barcode Rule</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--trump-election-speech-usps-ballot-barcode-reinstated/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date><description>In a July 16 primetime national address, Trump claimed China had acquired 220 million US voter files, that 250,000-270,000 noncitizens are illegally registered across four key states, and that voting machines are vulnerable — claims immediately rebutted by election officials and </description><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">disinformation</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>In a July 16 primetime national address, Trump claimed China had acquired 220 million US voter files, that 250,000-270,000 noncitizens are illegally registered across four key states, and that voting machines are vulnerable — claims immediately rebutted by election officials and </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--trump-election-speech-usps-ballot-barcode-reinstated/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Venezuelan Man Dies on ICE Transport Bus From Irwin County, GA — 22nd In-Custody Death of 2026</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--arenas-silva-dies-ice-transport-irwin-county-22nd-death/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-16</dc:date><description>Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, a Venezuelan national, was found unresponsive on an ICE transport bus moving him from Irwin County Detention Center (Ocilla, GA) to Folkston ICE Processing Center — four days after his arrest. His family alleges he was denied needed medication; the </description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">detention-conditions</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, a Venezuelan national, was found unresponsive on an ICE transport bus moving him from Irwin County Detention Center (Ocilla, GA) to Folkston ICE Processing Center — four days after his arrest. His family alleges he was denied needed medication; the </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-16--arenas-silva-dies-ice-transport-irwin-county-22nd-death/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ACLU Sues to Block Completed DOJ National Voter Database as August 5 Purge Blackout Looms</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--aclu-sues-doj-national-voter-database-nvra-blackout-deadline/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>The ACLU and Protect Democracy filed suit July 15, 2026 to block a completed DOJ national voter surveillance and purge database — the first federal consolidation of confidential voter registration data from all 50 states and DC into a single record system, now cross-referenced ag</description><category>Department of Justice</category><category>American Civil Liberties Union</category><category>Protect Democracy</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The ACLU and Protect Democracy filed suit July 15, 2026 to block a completed DOJ national voter surveillance and purge database — the first federal consolidation of confidential voter registration data from all 50 states and DC into a single record system, now cross-referenced ag</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Protect Democracy</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--aclu-sues-doj-national-voter-database-nvra-blackout-deadline/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS Halts Most ICE Traffic-Stop Arrests After Three Deaths in a Week; Trump Reverses the Halt Within 24 Hours</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--ice-halts-then-trump-reverses-traffic-stop-arrests/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Following the fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston (July 7) and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine (July 13) — both during ICE vehicle stops — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued internal guidance around July 14 suspending most traffic-stop arres</description><category>Markwayne Mullin</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">executive-power-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Following the fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston (July 7) and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine (July 13) — both during ICE vehicle stops — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued internal guidance around July 14 suspending most traffic-stop arres</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--ice-halts-then-trump-reverses-traffic-stop-arrests/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Emails Show Entergy Arkansas Co-Drafted Pulaski County Moratorium That Exempts Its Own $6B Prospective Customer</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--entergy-cowrote-pulaski-county-ar-moratorium-exempting-own-customer/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporting published July 15, 2026 revealed that Entergy Arkansas executive John Bethel collaborated directly with Pulaski County Quorum Court Justice of the Peace Dianne Curry in drafting a data-center moratorium ordinance — with the resulting version sp</description><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-cost-shift</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporting published July 15, 2026 revealed that Entergy Arkansas executive John Bethel collaborated directly with Pulaski County Quorum Court Justice of the Peace Dianne Curry in drafting a data-center moratorium ordinance — with the resulting version sp</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--entergy-cowrote-pulaski-county-ar-moratorium-exempting-own-customer/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Hamilton County, TN Commissioners Vote Unanimously for One-Year Data Center Moratorium</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--hamilton-county-tn-one-year-data-center-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Hamilton County, Tennessee commissioners voted unanimously on July 15 for a one-year moratorium on new data centers in unincorporated areas of the county. County Mayor Weston Wamp directed the Planning Department to develop permanent data center zoning regulations by March 2027, </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Hamilton County, Tennessee commissioners voted unanimously on July 15 for a one-year moratorium on new data centers in unincorporated areas of the county. County Mayor Weston Wamp directed the Planning Department to develop permanent data center zoning regulations by March 2027, </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--hamilton-county-tn-one-year-data-center-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Hochul Signs EO 62 — First Statewide Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium as 20+ Localities Move in One Week</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--hochul-signs-eo62-first-statewide-hyperscale-moratorium/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 15, 2026, imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers (50 megawatts or larger) for up to one year while state regulators develop energy, water, and environmental rules. The 50 MW threshold</description><category>Kathy Hochul</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-cost-shift</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order 62 on July 15, 2026, imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers (50 megawatts or larger) for up to one year while state regulators develop energy, water, and environmental rules. The 50 MW threshold</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kathy Hochul</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--hochul-signs-eo62-first-statewide-hyperscale-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Agents Carry Real-Time Facial Recognition Smartphones for Street Biometric Checks</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--ice-agents-carry-facial-recognition-smartphones/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>NBC News reported that ICE agents are equipped with smartphones loaded with facial recognition software, enabling them to photograph anyone during street encounters and receive identity matches in real time without prior suspicion. This is a shift from earlier database-query mode</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">biometric-surveillance</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">warrantless-surveillance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>NBC News reported that ICE agents are equipped with smartphones loaded with facial recognition software, enabling them to photograph anyone during street encounters and receive identity matches in real time without prior suspicion. This is a shift from earlier database-query mode</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--ice-agents-carry-facial-recognition-smartphones/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Palm Beach County Rejects 'Project Tango' Hyperscale AI Campus 5-1 After 12-Hour Hearing</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--palm-beach-county-rejects-project-tango-data-center/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Palm Beach County Commissioners voted 5-1 on July 15 to deny the development order for "Project Tango," a proposed hyperscale AI data center campus near Loxahatchee. The project had already been scaled back from 3.7 million square feet to roughly 1 million square feet after the z</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Palm Beach County Commissioners voted 5-1 on July 15 to deny the development order for "Project Tango," a proposed hyperscale AI data center campus near Loxahatchee. The project had already been scaled back from 3.7 million square feet to roughly 1 million square feet after the z</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--palm-beach-county-rejects-project-tango-data-center/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Saline Township MI Caps Oracle/OpenAI Tax Abatement 9x, Then Reverses Under 'Shall Approve' Legal Threat 72 Hours Later</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--saline-township-oracle-openai-caps-then-reverses-tax-abatement/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Saline Township (Washtenaw County, MI, near Ann Arbor) approved a 12-year, 50% tax abatement on July 15, 2026 for "The Barn" — a 250-acre Oracle/OpenAI Stargate-affiliated AI campus developed by The Related Companies — but capped the abatement basis at the project's original $4.8</description><category>Oracle</category><category>OpenAI</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">local-democratic-bypass</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Saline Township (Washtenaw County, MI, near Ann Arbor) approved a 12-year, 50% tax abatement on July 15, 2026 for "The Barn" — a 250-acre Oracle/OpenAI Stargate-affiliated AI campus developed by The Related Companies — but capped the abatement basis at the project's original $4.8</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Oracle, OpenAI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--saline-township-oracle-openai-caps-then-reverses-tax-abatement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Todd Blanche, Trump's Former Personal Defense Lawyer, Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing for Permanent Attorney General</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-15</dc:date><description>Todd Blanche — Trump's personal criminal defense attorney before joining the administration — faces a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing beginning July 15, 2026, for permanent appointment as Attorney General. Blanche was formally nominated June 4, 2026, after serving</description><category>Todd Blanche</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Senate Judiciary Committee</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">executive-power-expansion</category><category domain="tag">systematic-corruption</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Todd Blanche — Trump's personal criminal defense attorney before joining the administration — faces a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing beginning July 15, 2026, for permanent appointment as Attorney General. Blanche was formally nominated June 4, 2026, after serving</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Todd Blanche, Donald Trump, Senate Judiciary Committee</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-15--todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Orders Wilmington, OH to Redo Three Ordinances for Amazon's $4B Data Center — Open Meetings Violation</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--wilmington-oh-court-orders-redo-amazon-ordinances/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>Federal Judge Jeffery Hopkins ordered the City of Wilmington (Clinton County, OH) to redo three ordinances — on generator noise, rezoning, and data centers as permitted land use — before it can consider Amazon Web Services' proposed $4 billion data center site plan. The court fou</description><category>Amazon Web Services</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Federal Judge Jeffery Hopkins ordered the City of Wilmington (Clinton County, OH) to redo three ordinances — on generator noise, rezoning, and data centers as permitted land use — before it can consider Amazon Web Services' proposed $4 billion data center site plan. The court fou</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Amazon Web Services</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--wilmington-oh-court-orders-redo-amazon-ordinances/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds Pour Record $53.9B into US Tech and AI in H1 2026</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--gulf-swf-record-53-9b-h1-2026-mubadala-bitcoin/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>Gulf sovereign wealth funds committed a record $53.9 billion across 108 deals in H1 2026, with nearly half directed into the United States and technology dominating deal activity. Abu Dhabi's Mubadala invested $12.9 billion into AI and digitalization and held 14.7 million shares </description><category>Mubadala</category><category>Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">international-kleptocracy</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category><category domain="tag">ai-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Gulf sovereign wealth funds committed a record $53.9 billion across 108 deals in H1 2026, with nearly half directed into the United States and technology dominating deal activity. Abu Dhabi's Mubadala invested $12.9 billion into AI and digitalization and held 14.7 million shares </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Mubadala, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--gulf-swf-record-53-9b-h1-2026-mubadala-bitcoin/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE/CBP Surveillance Tech Spending Hits $513M in 2026; Palantir Named 'Backbone' With $1B Follow-On Agreement</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--ice-cbp-surveillance-spending-513m-palantir-backbone/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>A joint report from Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab documents ICE and CBP contracts with 11 surveillance firms reaching $513M in 2026, up from $310M in 2025. Palantir is identified as "the backbone of ICE data surveillance," receiving $97M from ICE in 2</description><category>Palantir</category><category>ICE</category><category>Customs and Border Protection</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">palantir</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A joint report from Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab documents ICE and CBP contracts with 11 surveillance firms reaching $513M in 2026, up from $310M in 2025. Palantir is identified as "the backbone of ICE data surveillance," receiving $97M from ICE in 2</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Palantir, ICE, Customs and Border Protection</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--ice-cbp-surveillance-spending-513m-palantir-backbone/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Justices Barrett and Kagan Testify to Congress on Ethics; Kagan Backs Independent Enforcement Panel</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--barrett-kagan-testify-scotus-ethics-enforcement/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan appeared before House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees on July 14, where Kagan expressed support for an independent ethics enforcement panel of retired federal judges, while Barrett said she was "less certain." Democrats used the </description><category>Amy Coney Barrett</category><category>Elena Kagan</category><category>United States Congress</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">institutional-accountability</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan appeared before House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees on July 14, where Kagan expressed support for an independent ethics enforcement panel of retired federal judges, while Barrett said she was "less certain." Democrats used the </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan, United States Congress</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--barrett-kagan-testify-scotus-ethics-enforcement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Leon County, TX Commissioners Reject Crusoe Technologies' $34B Tax Abatement Application — 200+ Residents Oppose</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--leon-county-tx-rejects-crusoe-34b-tax-abatement/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>Leon County, TX commissioners voted July 14 to reject Crusoe Technologies' initial tax abatement application for an AI compute data center, citing an incomplete submission. More than 200 residents attended the meeting in opposition. Crusoe Technologies is an AI compute company — </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">tax-abatement</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Leon County, TX commissioners voted July 14 to reject Crusoe Technologies' initial tax abatement application for an AI compute data center, citing an incomplete submission. More than 200 residents attended the meeting in opposition. Crusoe Technologies is an AI compute company — </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--leon-county-tx-rejects-crusoe-34b-tax-abatement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Merrillville, IN Council Unanimously Tables Rescission of Anti-ICE-Detention Resolution, Defying AG Rokita's $10K Threat</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--merrillville-in-tables-rescission-defies-rokita/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>In January 2026, the Merrillville Town Council passed Resolution 26-02 formally opposing any ICE detention facility within town limits. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a cease-and-desist letter on June 24 threatening fines of up to $10,000 per violation and demanding re</description><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>In January 2026, the Merrillville Town Council passed Resolution 26-02 formally opposing any ICE detention facility within town limits. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a cease-and-desist letter on June 24 threatening fines of up to $10,000 per violation and demanding re</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--merrillville-in-tables-rescission-defies-rokita/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Orange County, NY Town Board Votes to Oppose $35.5M ICE Warehouse Lease; Governor Demands Disclosure</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--newburgh-ny-town-board-opposes-ice-warehouse-lease/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>The Town of Newburgh, Orange County, NY voted July 14 on a formal resolution opposing ICE's use of a $35.5M, 15-year leased warehouse at 800 Corporate Blvd as a detention and processing center, with the town supervisor pledging "all available legal options." Texas-based Leverage </description><category>Kathy Hochul</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category><category domain="tag">warehouse-conversion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Town of Newburgh, Orange County, NY voted July 14 on a formal resolution opposing ICE's use of a $35.5M, 15-year leased warehouse at 800 Corporate Blvd as a detention and processing center, with the town supervisor pledging "all available legal options." Texas-based Leverage </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kathy Hochul</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--newburgh-ny-town-board-opposes-ice-warehouse-lease/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Raskin to Acting AG Blanche: DOJ Pattern of Defying Court Orders 'Strongly Suggests' Prosecutors Ordered to Violate the Law</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--raskin-letter-blanche-doj-systematic-court-defiance/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>Rep. Jamie Raskin, senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat, sent a formal letter on July 14 to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche documenting a pattern of DOJ prosecutors misleading courts and defying lawful orders, stating that the frequency "strongly suggests that DOJ prose</description><category>Jamie Raskin</category><category>Todd Blanche</category><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">congressional-oversight</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin, senior House Judiciary Committee Democrat, sent a formal letter on July 14 to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche documenting a pattern of DOJ prosecutors misleading courts and defying lawful orders, stating that the frequency "strongly suggests that DOJ prose</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Jamie Raskin, Todd Blanche, Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--raskin-letter-blanche-doj-systematic-court-defiance/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Personal Attorney Schwartz Confirmed to Second Circuit 50-45; Total Reaches 281 Article III Judges</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--schwartz-confirmed-second-circuit-281-judges/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-14</dc:date><description>The Senate confirmed Matthew Schwartz — a Sullivan & Cromwell partner who personally handled Trump's legal matters — to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a 50-45 party-line vote on July 14. Schwartz fills the seat of retiring Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston. The </description><category>United States Senate</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">conflict-of-interest</category><category domain="tag">institutional-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Senate confirmed Matthew Schwartz — a Sullivan &amp; Cromwell partner who personally handled Trump's legal matters — to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a 50-45 party-line vote on July 14. Schwartz fills the seat of retiring Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston. The </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> United States Senate</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-14--schwartz-confirmed-second-circuit-281-judges/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Voids Trump's $1.8B IRS Settlement, Finds Bad Faith, Refers Attorney to Bar</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--judge-williams-voids-trump-irs-1-8b-settlement-bad-faith/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-13</dc:date><description>U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a 56-page ruling on July 13, 2026 finding Trump acted in bad faith in an IRS anti-weaponization fund lawsuit and voiding a $1.8 billion settlement the administration had arranged. Williams referred attorney Alejandro Brito to the Flori</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">systematic-corruption</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued a 56-page ruling on July 13, 2026 finding Trump acted in bad faith in an IRS anti-weaponization fund lawsuit and voiding a $1.8 billion settlement the administration had arranged. Williams referred attorney Alejandro Brito to the Flori</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--judge-williams-voids-trump-irs-1-8b-settlement-bad-faith/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Agents Fatally Shoot 26-Year-Old Colombian Man in Biddeford, Maine — No Body Cameras Worn</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--ice-fatal-shooting-biddeford-maine-weaponize-vehicle/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-13</dc:date><description>ICE agents fatally shot Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man, near the intersection of Pool and Hill Streets in Biddeford, Maine at approximately 7:20 a.m. on July 13, 2026, as he was reportedly on his way to work. (Name spelling varies across outlets — "Jo</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Angus King</category><category>Markwayne Mullin</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE agents fatally shot Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man, near the intersection of Pool and Hill Streets in Biddeford, Maine at approximately 7:20 a.m. on July 13, 2026, as he was reportedly on his way to work. (Name spelling varies across outlets — "Jo</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Angus King, Markwayne Mullin</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--ice-fatal-shooting-biddeford-maine-weaponize-vehicle/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Arrests 30+ Kansas City Residents During World Cup Matches, Including Warehouse Raid</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--ice-world-cup-sweeps-kansas-city/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-13</dc:date><description>ICE conducted enforcement sweeps across the Kansas City metro during World Cup matches, detaining at least 30 residents. Operations included a July 9 raid on La Fontanella Foods, a food-manufacturing warehouse, in what KCUR documented as deliberate operations timed to World Cup e</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE conducted enforcement sweeps across the Kansas City metro during World Cup matches, detaining at least 30 residents. Operations included a July 9 raid on La Fontanella Foods, a food-manufacturing warehouse, in what KCUR documented as deliberate operations timed to World Cup e</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--ice-world-cup-sweeps-kansas-city/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Indianapolis Council Committee Advances Data Center Moratorium Through 2027, 10-3</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--indianapolis-committee-advances-data-center-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-13</dc:date><description>A Marion County/Indianapolis City-County Council committee voted 10-3 along party lines on July 13-14 to advance a moratorium on new data center approvals through the end of 2027. Council President Maggie Lewis authored the ordinance; Mayor Joe Hogsett released a statement of sup</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Marion County/Indianapolis City-County Council committee voted 10-3 along party lines on July 13-14 to advance a moratorium on new data center approvals through the end of 2027. Council President Maggie Lewis authored the ordinance; Mayor Joe Hogsett released a statement of sup</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--indianapolis-committee-advances-data-center-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Santa Clara County + California Sue ICE Over Gilroy Detention Facility; Court Approves Construction Halt Through Sept. 9</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--santa-clara-gilroy-ice-facility-construction-halted/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-07-13</dc:date><description>Santa Clara County and the State of California jointly sued ICE over a detention facility under construction near Gilroy on agricultural-zoned land — built without environmental review under NEPA and without local input under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. On July 13, Jud</description><category>Santa Clara County</category><category>State of California</category><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-bypass</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Santa Clara County and the State of California jointly sued ICE over a detention facility under construction near Gilroy on agricultural-zoned land — built without environmental review under NEPA and without local input under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. On July 13, Jud</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Santa Clara County, State of California, ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-13--santa-clara-gilroy-ice-facility-construction-halted/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GENIUS Act's July 18 Deadline Looms: Banks Poised to Enter Stablecoin Market as Trump's WLFI Conflict Intensifies</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-12--genius-act-july18-deadline-banks-enter-stablecoin-market/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-12</dc:date><description>Six federal agencies — OCC, FDIC, NCUA, Treasury, FinCEN, and OFAC — face a statutory July 18, 2026 deadline to finalize GENIUS Act stablecoin rules. Once published, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and other banks that have announced stablecoin readiness can legally issue payment stab</description><category>Office of the Comptroller of the Currency</category><category>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</category><category>World Liberty Financial</category><category domain="tag">crypto-finance</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">executive-self-dealing</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Six federal agencies — OCC, FDIC, NCUA, Treasury, FinCEN, and OFAC — face a statutory July 18, 2026 deadline to finalize GENIUS Act stablecoin rules. Once published, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and other banks that have announced stablecoin readiness can legally issue payment stab</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, World Liberty Financial</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-12--genius-act-july18-deadline-banks-enter-stablecoin-market/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>McConnell Discloses Mid-June Fall Caused Weeks-Long Hospitalization, Cites Post-Polio Condition</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-12--mcconnell-discloses-fall-hospitalization-post-polio/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-12</dc:date><description>Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 84, disclosed July 12, 2026 that a mid-June fall left him briefly unconscious and led to a hospitalization his office had declined to explain for roughly a month. Doctors found no broken bones, no concussion, no heart attack or stroke, and no tumor</description><category>Mitch McConnell</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 84, disclosed July 12, 2026 that a mid-June fall left him briefly unconscious and led to a hospitalization his office had declined to explain for roughly a month. Doctors found no broken bones, no concussion, no heart attack or stroke, and no tumor</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Mitch McConnell</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-12--mcconnell-discloses-fall-hospitalization-post-polio/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Missoula County, MT Adopts Temporary Moratorium on New or Expanding Data Centers</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--missoula-county-mt-data-center-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-11</dc:date><description>Missoula County commissioners adopted a temporary moratorium — up to one year — on new or expanding data center facilities on July 11, citing public health and environmental concerns while the county updates its land-use regulations. The move is part of a national wave of local-g</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Missoula County commissioners adopted a temporary moratorium — up to one year — on new or expanding data center facilities on July 11, citing public health and environmental concerns while the county updates its land-use regulations. The move is part of a national wave of local-g</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--missoula-county-mt-data-center-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>OSINT Investigation Documents ICE Using Vehicle-Containment Tactics Designed for Violent Felons in Routine Civil Stops</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--eyes-on-ice-documents-vehicle-containment-tactic-civil-enforcement/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-11</dc:date><description>Eyes on ICE, a Substack-based OSINT investigation, published a tactical breakdown on July 11, 2026 documenting ICE's use of a coordinated vehicle-ramming and pinning maneuver — which the outlet terms the "Vehicle Containment Technique" (VCT), originally engineered for stopping vi</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Renee Nicole Good</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Eyes on ICE, a Substack-based OSINT investigation, published a tactical breakdown on July 11, 2026 documenting ICE's use of a coordinated vehicle-ramming and pinning maneuver — which the outlet terms the "Vehicle Containment Technique" (VCT), originally engineered for stopping vi</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Renee Nicole Good</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--eyes-on-ice-documents-vehicle-containment-tactic-civil-enforcement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71; SC Governor to Appoint Graham's Sister to Hold Seat</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--senator-lindsey-graham-dies-mcmaster-appoints-sister/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-11</dc:date><description>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died the evening of July 11, 2026 at his Capitol Hill home, one day after returning from an official visit to Kyiv and two days after his 71st birthday. Emergency responders found him in cardiac arrest; the D.C. medical examiner's preliminary finding</description><category>Lindsey Graham</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died the evening of July 11, 2026 at his Capitol Hill home, one day after returning from an official visit to Kyiv and two days after his 71st birthday. Emergency responders found him in cardiac arrest; the D.C. medical examiner's preliminary finding</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Lindsey Graham</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-11--senator-lindsey-graham-dies-mcmaster-appoints-sister/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>5th Circuit En Banc Vacates Panel Ruling, Reinstates Mandatory No-Bond Detention</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--5th-circuit-en-banc-reinstates-mandatory-detention/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>Eight days after a 5th Circuit three-judge panel ruled 2-1 on July 2 ([[2026-07-02--fifth-circuit-90-day-bond-hearing-mandatory-detention-ruling]]) that ICE cannot hold immigrants more than 90 days without a bond hearing, the full 5th Circuit voted en banc on July 10 to rehear th</description><category>Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals</category><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Eight days after a 5th Circuit three-judge panel ruled 2-1 on July 2 ([[2026-07-02--fifth-circuit-90-day-bond-hearing-mandatory-detention-ruling]]) that ICE cannot hold immigrants more than 90 days without a bond hearing, the full 5th Circuit voted en banc on July 10 to rehear th</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--5th-circuit-en-banc-reinstates-mandatory-detention/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Commerce Eases UAE MGX Export Controls Weeks After Tahnoon's $500M World Liberty Financial Stake Disclosed</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--commerce-eases-uae-mgx-export-controls-after-trump-wlf-stake/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>The Commerce Department announced it would "favorably review" export license applications for UAE sovereign wealth firm MGX — chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, who had secretly acquired a 49% stake in Trump's World Liberty Financial and wired $187M upfront. The easing landed w</description><category>Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed</category><category>MGX</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Elizabeth Warren</category><category domain="tag">executive-self-dealing</category><category domain="tag">international-kleptocracy</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Commerce Department announced it would "favorably review" export license applications for UAE sovereign wealth firm MGX — chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, who had secretly acquired a 49% stake in Trump's World Liberty Financial and wired $187M upfront. The easing landed w</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, MGX, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--commerce-eases-uae-mgx-export-controls-after-trump-wlf-stake/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Orders Washington State Health Inspectors Into Tacoma GEO Group ICE Facility</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--tacoma-geo-group-federal-judge-orders-state-health-inspection/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle ruled July 10, 2026 that GEO Group must allow Washington State Department of Health inspectors into the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, one of the largest private ICE facilities in the country. The ruling takes effect in two weeks; G</description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle ruled July 10, 2026 that GEO Group must allow Washington State Department of Health inspectors into the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, one of the largest private ICE facilities in the country. The ruling takes effect in two weeks; G</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--tacoma-geo-group-federal-judge-orders-state-health-inspection/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Nevada Federal Judge Rules ICE Is 'Rebelling' Against Court Order, Forces Release of 17 Detainees</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--nevada-judge-boulware-ice-rebelling-court-order-detainee-release/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>Federal Judge Richard Boulware II issued contempt-adjacent orders in early July 2026 requiring ICE to release 17 people held at the Nevada Southern Detention Center, after DHS refused to comply with his March 2026 ruling vacating mandatory-detention policies under the Administrat</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Federal Judge Richard Boulware II issued contempt-adjacent orders in early July 2026 requiring ICE to release 17 people held at the Nevada Southern Detention Center, after DHS refused to comply with his March 2026 ruling vacating mandatory-detention policies under the Administrat</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--nevada-judge-boulware-ice-rebelling-court-order-detainee-release/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Retired Federal Judges Launch 'Justice in Motion' Bus Tour, Drawing Comparison to Post-PiS Poland</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--retired-judges-justice-in-motion-tour-poland-comparison/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>A coalition of retired federal judges launched a "Justice in Motion" bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania on July 10, speaking in courthouses and public squares in explicit defense of judicial independence. The tour is modeled on a 2021 Polish judicial-independence campaign org</description><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">institutional-accountability</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A coalition of retired federal judges launched a "Justice in Motion" bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania on July 10, speaking in courthouses and public squares in explicit defense of judicial independence. The tour is modeled on a 2021 Polish judicial-independence campaign org</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--retired-judges-justice-in-motion-tour-poland-comparison/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Fires Remaining Election Assistance Commission Members Nine Days After Humphrey's Executor Overturned</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--trump-fires-eac-commissioners-hicks-hovland-after-humphreys-executor/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-10</dc:date><description>Trump fired the two remaining Democratic members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission — Commissioners Hicks and Hovland — on July 10, 2026, nine days after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter overturned Humphrey's Executor and eliminated statutory rem</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Election Assistance Commission</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">executive-power-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Trump fired the two remaining Democratic members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission — Commissioners Hicks and Hovland — on July 10, 2026, nine days after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter overturned Humphrey's Executor and eliminated statutory rem</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, Election Assistance Commission</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-10--trump-fires-eac-commissioners-hicks-hovland-after-humphreys-executor/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Bipartisan Congress Investigates FBI Director Kash Patel Over Jet Junkets, BMW Fleet, and Undisclosed Stock</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--kash-patel-bipartisan-investigation-jets-bmws-stock/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) privately demanded FBI Director Kash Patel account for taxpayer-funded aircraft use and an unexplained armored BMW fleet procurement; on July 9, House Judiciary Democrats Jamie Raskin and Dick Durbin escalated by launching a formal bic</description><category>Kash Patel</category><category>Chuck Grassley</category><category>Jamie Raskin</category><category>Dick Durbin</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">systematic-corruption</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) privately demanded FBI Director Kash Patel account for taxpayer-funded aircraft use and an unexplained armored BMW fleet procurement; on July 9, House Judiciary Democrats Jamie Raskin and Dick Durbin escalated by launching a formal bic</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kash Patel, Chuck Grassley, Jamie Raskin, Dick Durbin</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--kash-patel-bipartisan-investigation-jets-bmws-stock/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act, Extending Federal Anti-Sanctuary Campaign to 21 States</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--doj-sues-maryland-community-trust-act-21st-state/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>The Department of Justice filed suit July 9 against Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown, seeking to block the state's Community Trust Act — which prohibits local law enforcement from honoring ICE detainers and restricts sharing of personal information with immigration aut</description><category>Department of Justice</category><category>Anthony Brown</category><category>Maryland</category><category domain="tag">federal-preemption</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Department of Justice filed suit July 9 against Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown, seeking to block the state's Community Trust Act — which prohibits local law enforcement from honoring ICE detainers and restricts sharing of personal information with immigration aut</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice, Anthony Brown, Maryland</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--doj-sues-maryland-community-trust-act-21st-state/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Fed Chair Warsh Appoints a16z's Marc Andreessen to Co-Lead AI Productivity Task Force</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--warsh-appoints-andreessen-fed-ai-task-force/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh announced five external task forces on July 9, 2026, appointing Marc Andreessen — co-founder of a16z, a major investor in frontier AI companies — to co-lead the Productivity and Jobs panel, whose findings will directly influence Fed rate policy. Warsh ha</description><category>Kevin Warsh</category><category>Marc Andreessen</category><category>Federal Reserve</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh announced five external task forces on July 9, 2026, appointing Marc Andreessen — co-founder of a16z, a major investor in frontier AI companies — to co-lead the Productivity and Jobs panel, whose findings will directly influence Fed rate policy. Warsh ha</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kevin Warsh, Marc Andreessen, Federal Reserve</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--warsh-appoints-andreessen-fed-ai-task-force/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GEO Group Wins $528.6M ICE Contract to Reopen Shuttered Hudson, CO Prison as Big Horn Detention Facility</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--geo-group-529m-hudson-colorado-big-horn-detention-contract/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>ICE signed a five-year, $528.6 million contract on July 9, 2026 with GEO Group to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility in Weld County, Colorado as the "Big Horn Facility" — a 1,200-bed immigration detention center that nearly doubles Colorado's ICE detention capacity</description><category>GEO Group</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE signed a five-year, $528.6 million contract on July 9, 2026 with GEO Group to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility in Weld County, Colorado as the "Big Horn Facility" — a 1,200-bed immigration detention center that nearly doubles Colorado's ICE detention capacity</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--geo-group-529m-hudson-colorado-big-horn-detention-contract/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Builds New Hard-Sided Facility at Batavia, NY After State Bans County Jail Detentions</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--ice-batavia-hard-sided-expansion-after-new-york-jail-ban/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>ICE is constructing a new "hard-sided" detention facility on its Batavia federal property, adding roughly 100 beds to the 650-bed Buffalo Federal Detention Facility — already routinely holding 745+ people — in direct response to a New York state law barring ICE from using county </description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category><category domain="tag">local-democratic-bypass</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE is constructing a new "hard-sided" detention facility on its Batavia federal property, adding roughly 100 beds to the 650-bed Buffalo Federal Detention Facility — already routinely holding 745+ people — in direct response to a New York state law barring ICE from using county </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--ice-batavia-hard-sided-expansion-after-new-york-jail-ban/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trenton, OH City Council Approves 15-Year 75% Tax Abatement for Prologis 250 MW Data Center Campus</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--trenton-oh-approves-prologis-250mw-tax-abatement/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>Trenton, Ohio City Council approved a 15-year, 75% property tax abatement for Prologis to build a 250 MW data center campus — four buildings on 140 acres, including a dedicated electrical substation. Butler County had no prior data-center heat score; this is an emerging site. Pro</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">tax-abatement</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Trenton, Ohio City Council approved a 15-year, 75% property tax abatement for Prologis to build a 250 MW data center campus — four buildings on 140 acres, including a dedicated electrical substation. Butler County had no prior data-center heat score; this is an emerging site. Pro</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--trenton-oh-approves-prologis-250mw-tax-abatement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Fires Top Election Assistance Commission Staff as SAVE Act 'Backdoor' Implementation Advances</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--trump-purges-election-assistance-commission-save-act-backdoor/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>Trump fired the top four staff of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) on July 9, 2026, eliminating the agency's senior technical and operational expertise needed to certify voting systems ahead of the 2026 midterms. Reporting from Miles Taylor (former DHS official, publishin</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Election Assistance Commission</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">executive-power-expansion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Trump fired the top four staff of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) on July 9, 2026, eliminating the agency's senior technical and operational expertise needed to certify voting systems ahead of the 2026 midterms. Reporting from Miles Taylor (former DHS official, publishin</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, Election Assistance Commission</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--trump-purges-election-assistance-commission-save-act-backdoor/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>US Government's Pre-Release Authority Over Frontier AI Becomes Operational; OpenAI's Equity-Stake Proposal Advances in Parallel</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--openai-anthropic-pre-release-government-control-operational/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-09</dc:date><description>The Trump administration's June 2 executive order requiring up to 30 days of pre-release government access to frontier AI models is now operational: OpenAI delayed the full public launch of GPT-5.6 after the government invoked the authority, and Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 w</description><category>OpenAI</category><category>Anthropic</category><category>Trump Administration</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">corporate-capture</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration's June 2 executive order requiring up to 30 days of pre-release government access to frontier AI models is now operational: OpenAI delayed the full public launch of GPT-5.6 after the government invoked the authority, and Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 w</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> OpenAI, Anthropic, Trump Administration</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-09--openai-anthropic-pre-release-government-control-operational/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Clearview AI Pursues FedRAMP Clearance as CBP Expands Facial Recognition to All Non-US Travelers</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--clearview-fedramp-cbp-facial-recognition-all-travelers/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-08</dc:date><description>Clearview AI is pursuing FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) certification, which would streamline procurement of its facial-recognition system by DHS, law enforcement, and national-security agencies by removing a compliance step that has historically slow</description><category>Clearview AI</category><category>U.S. Customs and Border Protection</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">biometric-surveillance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Clearview AI is pursuing FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) certification, which would streamline procurement of its facial-recognition system by DHS, law enforcement, and national-security agencies by removing a compliance step that has historically slow</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Clearview AI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--clearview-fedramp-cbp-facial-recognition-all-travelers/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Lakeland FL 'Project Swan' AI Data Center Draws Bipartisan Opposition, Ratepayer Concerns</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--lakeland-fl-bipartisan-opposition-project-swan-data-center/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-08</dc:date><description>Lakeland, FL residents filled City Hall on July 6, 2026 demanding a moratorium on a proposed AI data center dubbed "Project Swan," with 19 of 20 public commenters opposing the project. Opposition crossed party lines: both the Polk County Republican Party chair and the Polk County</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-cost-shift</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Lakeland, FL residents filled City Hall on July 6, 2026 demanding a moratorium on a proposed AI data center dubbed "Project Swan," with 19 of 20 public commenters opposing the project. Opposition crossed party lines: both the Polk County Republican Party chair and the Polk County</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--lakeland-fl-bipartisan-opposition-project-swan-data-center/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Financial Disclosure Shows $1.4B in Crypto Gains; House Judiciary Democrats Document Foreign Pay-to-Play Pipeline</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--trump-financial-disclosure-1-4b-crypto-house-judiciary-report/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-08</dc:date><description>Trump's annual financial disclosure shows an estimated $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings — over $500 million from World Liberty Financial (co-founded by Trump family members) and over $600 million from Trump-branded meme coin sales. House Judiciary Committee Democrats simul</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>World Liberty Financial</category><category>House Judiciary Committee Democrats</category><category domain="tag">executive-self-dealing</category><category domain="tag">crypto-finance</category><category domain="tag">international-kleptocracy</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Trump's annual financial disclosure shows an estimated $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings — over $500 million from World Liberty Financial (co-founded by Trump family members) and over $600 million from Trump-branded meme coin sales. House Judiciary Committee Democrats simul</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial, House Judiciary Committee Democrats</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-08--trump-financial-disclosure-1-4b-crypto-house-judiciary-report/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Bell County, TX Residents Demand End to Meta Data Center Tax Abatements</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--bell-county-tx-residents-demand-end-meta-data-center-abatements/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>Bell County, TX residents told commissioners on July 7, 2026 that the county's tax-abatement policy is the primary incentive drawing hyperscale data centers — including Meta's Temple facility — into the area, and called for scrapping the policy entirely. One resident noted Meta's</description><category>Meta</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Bell County, TX residents told commissioners on July 7, 2026 that the county's tax-abatement policy is the primary incentive drawing hyperscale data centers — including Meta's Temple facility — into the area, and called for scrapping the policy entirely. One resident noted Meta's</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Meta</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--bell-county-tx-residents-demand-end-meta-data-center-abatements/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DeKalb County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium Through March 2027 After Rejecting Industry-Backed Regulations</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--dekalb-county-ga-extends-data-center-moratorium-march-2027/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>DeKalb County, GA commissioners voted July 7, 2026 to extend the county's data-center moratorium through March 30, 2027, after a June 23 vote unexpectedly rejected proposed industry-backed zoning text amendments and sent regulators back to draft. The extension directs the CEO to </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">environmental-justice</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DeKalb County, GA commissioners voted July 7, 2026 to extend the county's data-center moratorium through March 30, 2027, after a June 23 vote unexpectedly rejected proposed industry-backed zoning text amendments and sent regulators back to draft. The extension directs the CEO to </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--dekalb-county-ga-extends-data-center-moratorium-march-2027/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DOJ Threatens Criminal Prosecution of Election Officials in All 50 States, Deploys Monitors to Democratic Jurisdictions</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--doj-threatens-criminal-prosecution-election-officials-50-states/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>DOJ Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon sent letters to all 50 states and D.C. on July 7, threatening criminal prosecution of election officials if noncitizen voters remain on the rolls — a coercive escalation after courts rejected DOJ's civil legal route in 11+ district-</description><category>Harmeet Dhillon</category><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DOJ Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon sent letters to all 50 states and D.C. on July 7, threatening criminal prosecution of election officials if noncitizen voters remain on the rolls — a coercive escalation after courts rejected DOJ's civil legal route in 11+ district-</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Harmeet Dhillon, Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--doj-threatens-criminal-prosecution-election-officials-50-states/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Douglas County GA Votes 4-1 to Block EdgeConneX's 700-Acre Data Center Campus — Second Denial in Seven Months</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--douglas-county-ga-blocks-edgeconnex-700-acre-data-center-campus/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>Douglas County, GA commissioners voted 4-1 on July 7, 2026 to deny a rezoning request for a 700-acre, 4.4 million-square-foot data-center campus near Villa Rica, along I-20/Liberty Road roughly 30 miles west of Atlanta. Developer East Village Dothan LLC (a subsidiary of EdgeConne</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Douglas County, GA commissioners voted 4-1 on July 7, 2026 to deny a rezoning request for a 700-acre, 4.4 million-square-foot data-center campus near Villa Rica, along I-20/Liberty Road roughly 30 miles west of Atlanta. Developer East Village Dothan LLC (a subsidiary of EdgeConne</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--douglas-county-ga-blocks-edgeconnex-700-acre-data-center-campus/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Kills Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; Agency's Self-Defense Account Collapses Under Witness and Medical Evidence</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--ice-kills-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-houston-narrative-collapse/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years and was in the process of obtaining legal status, as he drove his construction crew to a Houston job site on July 7, 2026. ICE's initial account claim</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years and was in the process of obtaining legal status, as he drove his construction crew to a Houston job site on July 7, 2026. ICE's initial account claim</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--ice-kills-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-houston-narrative-collapse/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>NSPM-7 Operationalized: Local Police Build Antifa Files via Fusion Centers as FBI Offers $200K to Informant-ize Texas Activist</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--nspm7-antifa-fusion-centers-fbi-informant-offer-texas/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-07</dc:date><description>Two Intercept investigations published July 7, 2026 document Trump's NSPM-7 antifa designation being operationalized at the local level. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office sent fusion-center bulletins framing antifa as a domestic terror threat, reproduced in the reporting. Separatel</description><category>Federal Bureau of Investigation</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Two Intercept investigations published July 7, 2026 document Trump's NSPM-7 antifa designation being operationalized at the local level. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office sent fusion-center bulletins framing antifa as a domestic terror threat, reproduced in the reporting. Separatel</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-07--nspm7-antifa-fusion-centers-fbi-informant-offer-texas/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Nashville Mayor Files Eminent Domain to Block DC Blox Data Center Next to City Zoo</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--nashville-mayor-eminent-domain-dc-blox-datacenter-zoo/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-06</dc:date><description>Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell filed late-breaking eminent domain condemnation legislation targeting a 23.5-acre site adjacent to the Nashville Zoo where DC Blox holds a $23M purchase contract set to close in early July. Metro Council votes July 7 on whether to even consider t</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-democratic-bypass</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell filed late-breaking eminent domain condemnation legislation targeting a 23.5-acre site adjacent to the Nashville Zoo where DC Blox holds a $23M purchase contract set to close in early July. Metro Council votes July 7 on whether to even consider t</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--nashville-mayor-eminent-domain-dc-blox-datacenter-zoo/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Prince George's County MD Council Passes 2-Year Data Center Moratorium</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--prince-georges-county-md-2-year-datacenter-moratorium-vote/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-06</dc:date><description>Prince George's County, MD Council Chair Krystal Oriadha said she had the votes — though not unanimously — for a two-year moratorium on new data-center operations. The county's previous AI data-center moratorium expired July 1; County Executive Aisha Braveboy issued an executive </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Prince George's County, MD Council Chair Krystal Oriadha said she had the votes — though not unanimously — for a two-year moratorium on new data-center operations. The county's previous AI data-center moratorium expired July 1; County Executive Aisha Braveboy issued an executive </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--prince-georges-county-md-2-year-datacenter-moratorium-vote/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ProPublica: Deportations of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors Have Tripled Under Trump</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--propublica-unaccompanied-minor-deportations-tripled-trump/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-06</dc:date><description>ProPublica's July 6 investigation documents that deportations of unaccompanied immigrant minors have tripled under the Trump administration, with DHS now removing children who previously held protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). The pi</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ProPublica's July 6 investigation documents that deportations of unaccompanied immigrant minors have tripled under the Trump administration, with DHS now removing children who previously held protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). The pi</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-06--propublica-unaccompanied-minor-deportations-tripled-trump/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS Marks OBBB Year One: $165B Doubled ICE's Force and Added 80,000 Beds; Oversight Has Not Scaled to Match</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-04--dhs-obbb-year-one-165b-doubled-ice-force-accountability-gap/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-04</dc:date><description>DHS published a year-one accounting of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's enforcement buildout on July 4, 2026, documenting $165B in appropriations since the bill's July 4, 2025 signing. ICE's agent corps doubled from roughly 10,000 to 22,000; 80,000 new detention beds came online;</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DHS published a year-one accounting of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's enforcement buildout on July 4, 2026, documenting $165B in appropriations since the bill's July 4, 2025 signing. ICE's agent corps doubled from roughly 10,000 to 22,000; 80,000 new detention beds came online;</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-04--dhs-obbb-year-one-165b-doubled-ice-force-accountability-gap/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>No Kings Stages Nationwide July 4 Demonstrations Linking ICE Enforcement, Court Rulings, and Democratic Erosion</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-04--no-kings-july-4-2026-nationwide-demonstrations-resistance-convergence/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-04</dc:date><description>Tens of thousands of demonstrations under the No Kings banner ran nationwide on July 4, combining Independence Day symbolism with direct protest against ICE enforcement, the Supreme Court's term-end removal-power rulings, and voting-rights erosion. Women's March-affiliated groups</description><category>No Kings Coalition</category><category>Women's March</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Tens of thousands of demonstrations under the No Kings banner ran nationwide on July 4, combining Independence Day symbolism with direct protest against ICE enforcement, the Supreme Court's term-end removal-power rulings, and voting-rights erosion. Women's March-affiliated groups</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> No Kings Coalition, Women's March</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-04--no-kings-july-4-2026-nationwide-demonstrations-resistance-convergence/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>AI Governance Fractures: EU AI Act Enforceable Aug 2 as 19 US State Laws Pass in Two Weeks and Trump EO Guts Federal Oversight</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--ai-governance-eu-act-enforcement-us-state-law-wave/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-03</dc:date><description>Three converging AI-governance clocks are now ticking. The EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable August 2, 2026 — the first binding AI law anywhere. In late June 2026, 19 new AI laws passed across 11 US states plus Congress within a single two-week window, producing a fragmented do</description><category>European Commission</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">federal-preemption</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Three converging AI-governance clocks are now ticking. The EU AI Act becomes fully enforceable August 2, 2026 — the first binding AI law anywhere. In late June 2026, 19 new AI laws passed across 11 US states plus Congress within a single two-week window, producing a fragmented do</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> European Commission, Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--ai-governance-eu-act-enforcement-us-state-law-wave/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ProPublica: Camp East Montana Repeatedly Failed Detainee in Mental Health Crisis Before His Death</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--propublica-camp-east-montana-mental-health-crisis-death/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-03</dc:date><description>ProPublica's July 3 investigation documents how Camp East Montana — the largest U.S. immigration detention facility, operated at Fort Bliss in El Paso — repeatedly failed a detainee experiencing a mental health crisis, denying him adequate care across multiple documented contacts</description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ProPublica's July 3 investigation documents how Camp East Montana — the largest U.S. immigration detention facility, operated at Fort Bliss in El Paso — repeatedly failed a detainee experiencing a mental health crisis, denying him adequate care across multiple documented contacts</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--propublica-camp-east-montana-mental-health-crisis-death/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>The Intercept Documents Trump DOJ's Pattern of Charging Protesters as Terrorists</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--intercept-doj-charges-protesters-terrorism-communist-boogeyman-playbook/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-03</dc:date><description>The Intercept's July 3 investigation documents the Trump DOJ's systematic use of domestic-terrorism charges against protesters and dissidents, framing it as an update of Cold War tactics that labeled political opposition as subversive. An April 30 Raskin letter to DOJ had already</description><category>Department of Justice</category><category>Federal Bureau of Investigation</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Intercept's July 3 investigation documents the Trump DOJ's systematic use of domestic-terrorism charges against protesters and dissidents, framing it as an update of Cold War tactics that labeled political opposition as subversive. An April 30 Raskin letter to DOJ had already</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-03--intercept-doj-charges-protesters-terrorism-communist-boogeyman-playbook/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>5th Circuit Rules Due Process Requires Bond Hearings After 90 Days in ICE Detention, Deepening Circuit Split</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--fifth-circuit-90-day-bond-hearing-mandatory-detention-ruling/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>A 2-1 Fifth Circuit panel ruled July 2, 2026 that the Due Process Clause prohibits mandatory civil immigration detention beyond 90 days without an individualized bond hearing, binding ICE in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The case arose from three long-term U.S. residents — e</description><category>Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A 2-1 Fifth Circuit panel ruled July 2, 2026 that the Due Process Clause prohibits mandatory civil immigration detention beyond 90 days without an individualized bond hearing, binding ICE in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The case arose from three long-term U.S. residents — e</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--fifth-circuit-90-day-bond-hearing-mandatory-detention-ruling/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS Buys CoreCivic's Two Largest CA Detention Centers for $1.5B, Keeps CoreCivic as Operator, Sidesteps Federal Oversight</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--dhs-buys-corecivic-otay-mesa-california-city-1-5b-oversight-shield/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>The federal government closed a $1.5 billion purchase of CoreCivic's two largest California detention facilities on July 2, 2026: Otay Mesa (1,994 beds, San Diego, $739.2M) and California City (2,560 beds, Kern County, $732.6M) — shifting 4,554 ICE beds from private ownership to </description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>CoreCivic</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">corecivic</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The federal government closed a $1.5 billion purchase of CoreCivic's two largest California detention facilities on July 2, 2026: Otay Mesa (1,994 beds, San Diego, $739.2M) and California City (2,560 beds, Kern County, $732.6M) — shifting 4,554 ICE beds from private ownership to </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, CoreCivic</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--dhs-buys-corecivic-otay-mesa-california-city-1-5b-oversight-shield/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Hears Arguments on Howard County MD's Permit Revocation for Elkridge ICE Warehouse Conversion</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--howard-county-md-elkridge-ice-facility-ruling-imminent/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>A federal judge (Adam Abelson) heard over two hours of arguments on July 2 on whether Howard County, MD illegally revoked building permits for a warehouse in Elkridge being converted to an ICE detention facility by Genesis GSA Strategic One LLC. DOJ joined the contractor's side, </description><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">local-democratic-bypass</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A federal judge (Adam Abelson) heard over two hours of arguments on July 2 on whether Howard County, MD illegally revoked building permits for a warehouse in Elkridge being converted to an ICE detention facility by Genesis GSA Strategic One LLC. DOJ joined the contractor's side, </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--howard-county-md-elkridge-ice-facility-ruling-imminent/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>OpenAI Proposes 5% U.S. Government Equity Stake (~$42.6B) as Sovereign-Wealth Vehicle</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--openai-proposes-5-percent-government-equity-stake/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>OpenAI formally proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake — worth approximately $42.6 billion at its roughly $852 billion post-money valuation — framed as a sovereign-wealth-fund vehicle to share AI's "upside" with the public. CNBC, Bloomberg, and Forbes all report th</description><category>OpenAI</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">corporate-capture</category><category domain="tag">sovereign-wealth-fund</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>OpenAI formally proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake — worth approximately $42.6 billion at its roughly $852 billion post-money valuation — framed as a sovereign-wealth-fund vehicle to share AI's "upside" with the public. CNBC, Bloomberg, and Forbes all report th</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> OpenAI, Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--openai-proposes-5-percent-government-equity-stake/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ProPublica: Supreme Court's October 2025 Term First to Decide More Cases by Shadow Docket Than Argued Opinion</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--propublica-shadow-docket-milestone-secretive-votes/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>ProPublica reports that in its October 2025 term, the Supreme Court for the first time decided more cases through secret-ballot, unsigned "shadow docket" orders with minimal or no written justification than through argued cases with signed opinions — a structural milestone in the</description><category>Supreme Court of the United States</category><category>ProPublica</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">shadow-docket</category><category domain="tag">scotus</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ProPublica reports that in its October 2025 term, the Supreme Court for the first time decided more cases through secret-ballot, unsigned "shadow docket" orders with minimal or no written justification than through argued cases with signed opinions — a structural milestone in the</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Supreme Court of the United States, ProPublica</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--propublica-shadow-docket-milestone-secretive-votes/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Santa Fe County NM Passes Unanimous 18-Month Data Center Moratorium at 1 MW Threshold</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--santa-fe-county-nm-data-center-moratorium-18-months/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>The Santa Fe County, NM Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously July 2 to adopt an 18-month moratorium on data-center development. Public comment pushed the power threshold down from a proposed 100 MW to just 1 MW (roughly 1,000 homes) and extended the duration from 12 to</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">environmental-capture</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Santa Fe County, NM Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously July 2 to adopt an 18-month moratorium on data-center development. Public comment pushed the power threshold down from a proposed 100 MW to just 1 MW (roughly 1,000 homes) and extended the duration from 12 to</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--santa-fe-county-nm-data-center-moratorium-18-months/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Washington County MD Votes 4-1 for 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Over Infrastructure Cost-Shift Concerns</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--washington-county-md-datacenter-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-02</dc:date><description>Washington County, MD commissioners voted 4-1 on July 2 to impose a 12-month moratorium on new data-center applications, extending a previously proposed six-month pause after residents raised concerns about water supplies, electric infrastructure, and who bears the cost of bespok</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Washington County, MD commissioners voted 4-1 on July 2 to impose a 12-month moratorium on new data-center applications, extending a previously proposed six-month pause after residents raised concerns about water supplies, electric infrastructure, and who bears the cost of bespok</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-02--washington-county-md-datacenter-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Arizona AG Wins Binding Pause on Surprise, AZ Warehouse-to-ICE-Detention Conversion Pending Environmental Review</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-01--arizona-ag-stipulation-pauses-surprise-warehouse-ice-conversion/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-01</dc:date><description>Arizona AG Kris Mayes announced July 1 a binding stipulated agreement with DHS and ICE pausing all conversion work on the Surprise, AZ warehouse — a 418,400 sq ft industrial facility ICE purchased for approximately $70M in January 2026 ([[2026-01-23--dhs-purchases-rockefeller-sur</description><category>Kris Mayes</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>GardaWorld Federal Services</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">environmental-capture</category><category domain="tag">state-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Arizona AG Kris Mayes announced July 1 a binding stipulated agreement with DHS and ICE pausing all conversion work on the Surprise, AZ warehouse — a 418,400 sq ft industrial facility ICE purchased for approximately $70M in January 2026 ([[2026-01-23--dhs-purchases-rockefeller-sur</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kris Mayes, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GardaWorld Federal Services</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-01--arizona-ag-stipulation-pauses-surprise-warehouse-ice-conversion/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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