Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say

Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.

Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancún when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children and counselors at a camp.

The Greece trip, first reported by the Daily Beast, ended in time for Cruz to appear at the site of the disaster on Monday morning to decry the tragedy and promise a response from lawmakers.

“There’s no doubt afterwards we are going to have a serious retrospective as you do after any disaster and say, ‘OK what could be done differently to prevent this disaster?’” Cruz told Fox News. “The fact you have girls asleep in their cabins when flood waters are rising, something went wrong there. We’ve got to fix that and have a better system of warnings to get kids out of harm’s way.”

The National Weather Service has faced scrutiny in the wake of the disaster after underestimating the amount of rainfall that was dumped upon central Texas, triggering floods that caused the deaths and about $20bn in estimated economic damages. Late-night alerts about the dangerous floods were issued by the service but the timeliness of the response, and coordination with local emergency services, will be reviewed by officials.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/ice-canary-mission-student-deportations.html

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified in federal court on Wednesday that his office had used opaque pro-Israel blacklisting websites to help target international student activists for investigation and possible deportation.

The admission by Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, appeared to be the first time that an administration official had acknowledged taking cues from the shadowy groups behind the sites, including Canary Mission, which has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in pro-Palestinian activism.

Mr. Hatch’s testimony came during the third day of trial proceedings in a case that has emerged as a major challenge to the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students.

Lawyers representing the academic associations that sued the administration called Mr. Hatch as a witness to bolster their argument that detaining prominent critics of Israel was part of an official policy to chill political speech unaligned with President Trump’s agenda.

The government has denied that any official policy exists. Mr. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other administration officials have consistently referred to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that swept across college campuses in response to the war in Gaza as detrimental to American interests. Mr. Rubio has denounced the campus protests as displays of support for Hamas, whose attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, set off the Israeli campaign in Gaza. The United States considers Hamas a terrorist organization.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/12/trump-immigration-race-based-order-california-arrests

The White House says it plans to appeal a federal order requiring the Trump administration to stop immigration arrests without probable cause after a suit alleged it targeted California residents based on race, language and work.

The big picture: Residents of Latino descent have been stopped, detained or asked to prove citizenship in communities throughout the U.S. amid President Trump's push for mass deportations.

What they're saying: White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement emailed to Axios on Saturday: "No federal judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy – that authority rests with Congress and the President.

"Enforcement operations require careful planning and execution; skills far beyond the purview or jurisdiction of any judge. We expect this gross overstep of judicial authority to be corrected on appeal."

Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong concluded in an order on Friday that those who brought the suit were likely to prove "the federal government is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers".

The judge ordered Homeland Security to craft guidance to determine "reasonable suspicion" and provide accused residents access to counsel on holidays, weekends and weekdays.

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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/a-day-after-grand-opening-flooding-concerns-grow-at-alligator-alcatraz/3650757/

> Just a day after the grand opening of a detention center in the Everglades, concerns grow over flooding in the area.

> Transportation workers were seen digging holes Wednesday as a sign went up calling this detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz.”

> During and since President Donald Trump's visit on Tuesday — as expected in summer months — those afternoon thunderstorms easily created flooding, and in swampy areas, plenty of mud.

> There were already reports of flooding inside the facility, despite what the head of Florida’s Emergency Management said.

> "It is a fully aluminum frame structure rated for winds of 110 miles and hour or a high-end Category 2 for those people who don’t think that we are taking that into consideration," Kevin Guthrie said.

> A spokesperson for Florida’s Emergency Management told NBC6 on Wednesday that vendors went back and tightened any seams at the base of the structures that allowed water intrusion during the heavy storm, which was minimal.

> "There are over 13 different vendors that came together to get this solved in eight days," Guthrie said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nigeria-says-us-pressuring-africa-accept-venezuelan-deportees-2025-07-11/

LAGOS, July 11 (Reuters) - Nigeria's foreign minister said the United States was pressuring African countries to accept Venezuelan deportees, some straight out of prison, but Africa's most populous country could not accommodate them due to its own problems.
President Donald Trump's administration this week asked five African presidents visiting the White House to take in migrants from other countries when deported by the U.S., two officials familiar with the discussions told Reuters.

Yusuf Tuggar, the Nigerian foreign minister, told local Channels TV late on Thursday that Nigeria could not accept that.

"You have to also bear in mind that the U.S. is mounting considerable pressure on African countries to accept Venezuelans to be deported from the U.S., some straight out of prison," he said from Brazil where he was at a BRICS summit.

"It will be difficult for a country like Nigeria to accept Venezuelan prisoners into Nigeria. We have enough problems of our own," noting his nation's 230 million strong population.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Hundreds of pajeets dead in Air India plane crash.

Majority of them have Hindu names, only a minority are Muslim

The citizens of Britain, Canada and Portugal on the plane were pajeet dual nationals and not white people.

Even more Indian Hindu pajeets were killed when the plane hit a hostel for medical students.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/ahmedabad-air-india-flight-crash-full-passenger-list-released-includes-ex-cm-vijay-rupani/articleshow/121801719.cms

This took place in Gujarat, hone to some of the nastiest Hindytva pajeets.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/federal-forecast-concerns-surface-in-texas-deadly-flooding-debate/

KERR COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts and staff shortages plague the National Weather Service and other emergency management agencies nationwide.

Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd told reporters Friday original forecasts from the National Weather Service predicted 4 to 8 inches of rain in that area, “but the amount of rain that fell in this specific location was never in any of those forecasts.”

“Listen, everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service, right?” Kidd said. “You all got it, you’re all in media, you got that forecast. It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.”

Kidd added TDEM “worked with our own meteorologist to finetune that weather statement” but did not elaborate on any updated interpretation that would have led to more urgent warnings for evacuations.

The area actually received a much more significant amount of rain that night, with NWS observed totals exceeding 10 inches just west of Kerrville, near where dozens were killed or remain missing – including several children at a summer camp.

Localized LCRA rainfall totals in the region have exceeded 18 inches in some places.

The Guadalupe River in Kerrville measured just under a foot on Thursday, leading up to midnight. At about 4 a.m. Friday, the river rose over 30 feet in less than two hours, according USGS data.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-christians-church-bombing-mar-elias-alsharaa-minorities-c5d25e10231f700495286d61324ea640

>Among the groups enjoying wide influence in post-Assad Syria are the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria, who are mostly Uyghur Muslims; Junud al-Sham, mostly ethnic Chechen gunmen; and Ajnad al-Qawqaz, mostly Muslim fighters from the former Soviet Union.

>Al-Sharaa has said many foreign fighters are now married to Syrian women and could end up getting citizenship, and has given no indication whether any of the fighters will be asked to leave the country.

Baghdad Iraqi Arab Sunnis have been raped and sacked by Turks, Mongols, Armenians, Georgians, Han Chinese, Timur I Lang (Tamerlane) (Timurlane), Safavid Qizilbash Turkmen Twelver Shia Alevis.

>Siege of Baghdad (812)
>Siege of Baghdad (1136)
>Siege of Baghdad (1157)
>Siege of Baghdad (1258) by Mongols
>Siege of Baghdad (1401) by Tamerlane
>Siege of Baghdad (1534) by Safavids
>Siege of Baghdad (1624)
>Siege of Baghdad (1638)
>Siege of Baghdad (1917)
>Siege of Baghdad (2003)

Same with Syrian Sunnis who got raped

>Siege of Aleppo (994–995) by Manjutakin
>Siege of Aleppo (1240) by Khwarezmians
>Siege of Aleppo (1260) by Mongols
>Siege of Aleppo (1271) by Mongols
>Siege of Aleppo (1280) by Mongols
>Siege of Aleppo (1299) by Mongols
>Siege of Aleppo (1400) by Tamerlane

>Siege of Damascus (970) by Kutama Berbers
>Siege of Damascus (1260) by Mongols
>Siege of Damascus (1300) by Mongols
>Siege of Damascus (1401) by Tamerlane

>Siege of Hama (1400) by Tamerlane
>Siege of Hama (1982) by Alawites

These cities are defenceless in a completely flat plain, begging to be sacked and raped

Why do Sunnis keep rebuilding and living in these rape zones when they know they are just waiting for the next invaders? Do they have a cuck fetish?

Meanwhile minorities like Druze, Maronites, Alawites, Assyrians and Yazidis stay in the mountains

Why do Sunnis of Syria and Iraq keep getting conquered and raped?