Tuesday, July 21st, 2026 - Kash Is Going to Russia, DOJ Targets Journalists’ Family, FBI Won’t Probe ICE

Tuesday, July 21st, 2026 - Kash Is Going to Russia, DOJ Targets Journalists’ Family, FBI Won’t Probe ICE

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July 21, 2026 · 8 min

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The episode discusses various headlines including Kash Patel's trip to Russia, DOJ's targeting of journalists, and the FBI's decision regarding ICE investigations.

Today's Headlines: Kash Patel scheduled a trip to Russia in October with no disclosed agenda or meeting list, which is a perfectly normal thing for the FBI director to do while leading an agency that investigates Russian interference. In tariff news, Trump dropped new tariffs on Canada — specifically cars, alcohol, cheese, and hockey sticks — on products covered by the USMCA trade deal he negotiated himself in 2020 and called "the best deal ever," though they don't kick in for 30 days so this is probably a stunt. Meanwhile, the cyclospora lettuce saga got weirder when the FDA announced the positive test on Taylor Farms lettuce was a "false positive" — conveniently after Taylor Farms donated a million dollars to Trump's super PAC in 2025, six days after the FDA delayed food traceability rules that would have applied to companies like Taylor Farms, and one day after Taylor Farms executives met with senior FDA officials before issuing their voluntary recall and blaming Taco Bell, so the whole thing smells like something other than lettuce. On ICE, the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations between ICE agents and civilians — essentially eliminating the only oversight ICE was…

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Organizations: FBI, DOJ, FDA, Taylor Farms, Trump, New York Times

Products: cars, alcohol, cheese, hockey sticks

Places: Russia, Canada, Taco Bell

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