On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that constitutes one of the largest transfers of wealth in history — taking money away from working people and giving it to the nation’s elite.

The bill is the culmination of years of giveaways that have allowed corporations and billionaires to tighten their grip on the government. The law triples the budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, slashes taxes for the most wealthy, and pays for it all by cutting health care for as many as 20 million people and gutting funding for public education and meals for school children.

This week on The Intercept Briefing, Lee speaks to host Akela Lacy about what Democrats are doing to meet the moment and how they can break through Republican messaging on the bill.

“ Democrats are screaming into a void,” Lee says. “The reality is that we have been talking about Medicaid, and it’s very hard to break through in a 24-hour news cycle and this big bubble where we are in a sea of red coverage, conservative media, conservative narratives, disinformation, misinformation. And to break through in that moment takes more than just us.”

Two top executives at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s most powerful management consultancies, have been stripped of their leadership roles following revelations that the company helped model the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, a scheme widely condemned as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Internal emails and planning documents obtained by The Financial Times (FT) show that BCG staff helped estimate the cost of forcibly relocating Palestinians from Gaza, a project supported by Israeli and US figures and carried out under the guise of humanitarian reconstruction. BCG also played a larger role than previously admitted in the formation of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a new aid body intended to replace UN-administered support and seen by many as a tool to sideline international law and institutions.

Cultural assimilation to the UK going well

Same parent company as Magic Seas. Multiple ships from the parent company have delivered to Israel within the last year, making the fleet Israeli aligned.

According to Ansarallah it was delivering to Israel instead of its Saudi destination. However that might be a pretense.

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect.

The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedures under the FTC Act during the rule-making process.

“While we certainly do not endorse the use of unfair and deceptive practices in negative option marketing, the procedural deficiencies of the Commission’s rulemaking process are fatal here,” the court wrote, adding that “vacatur of the entire Rule is appropriate in this case because of the prejudice suffered by Petitioners as a result of the Commission’s procedural error”.

War-torn South Sudan has said it is holding a group of eight men controversially deported from the United States.

Only one of them is from South Sudan. The rest comprise two people from Myanmar, two from Cuba, and one each from Vietnam, Laos and Mexico.

The Trump administration is trying to move unwanted migrants to third countries as some nations refuse to accept returnees. Administration officials said the men had been convicted of violent crimes in the US. The decision has been fought in US courts.

Although the sites where GHF distributes aid are monitored by cameras from all angles, it did not publish any video or photo evidence to support its claim that Hamas members threw hand grenades at its staff, a local journalist told Mondoweiss. Had the story been true, the journalist said, such footage would have been widely broadcast.

Mondoweiss spoke with several journalists at the scene, some of whom shared what they witnessed on the condition of anonymity. One said that the incident was originally a fight between an aid-seeker and one of the local Palestinian workers employed by the GHF through private companies like al-Khuzundar or armed groups associated with Israeli-backed gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab.

“Employees of the GHF intervened to break up the fight by using pepper spray,” the journalist said. “When the situation escalated, armed employees of the organization threw stun grenades to disperse the crowd. However, the aid seekers picked up the grenade and threw it back at the American staff — their grenade was returned to them.”

An official in the Gaza government’s security apparatus also told Mondoweiss that no confirmed or credible information from independent sources had been recorded to support the claim of Palestinians initiating the throwing of grenades at aid distribution centers. “These allegations — especially those circulated by the U.S. State Department — lack evidence from the ground and rely on biased narratives from the Israeli occupation, aimed at justifying continued killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians,” the security source said.

Medical personnel in Gaza have told local media that 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since dawn on Tuesday.

Late Tuesday evening, local time, Israel targeted a camp housing forcibly displaced families west of Khan Younis, and also carried out heavy shelling on the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City. Videos shared by local media show several dead and wounded children.