This Week in Tyranny: Trump Defunded Blue States, Pentagon Buried 100 Wounded Troops, Rubio’s Enemies List

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching gas climb past four dollars a gallon and trying to remember which war did that, the Energy Department admitted in federal court that it cancels grants based on how your state voted, the Pentagon located about a hundred wounded troops it forgot to mention, the Secretary of Defense told the Senate he’s out of war money, Marco Rubio published an enemies list of forty three Americans and Congress subpoenaed one of them the next day, and three hundred fifty thousand Haitians lose the legal right to live and work here on Monday. Let’s start with the confession.Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright told a House committee in June why his department killed seven and a half billion dollars in energy grants. Quote. “No decisions were made on politics. I keep hearing that charge. It’s bullshit. We’re going to say it a million times.” Five weeks later his own deputy general counsel filed a document with a federal judge saying the cancellations were, quote, “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state.” Two hundred eighty four grants, sixteen states, every one of them won by Kamala Harris. His department flagged three hundred forty more in red states and then funded every single one. The criteria was a map. Battery plants, grid upgrades, hydrogen, killed over how the neighbors voted. And when reporters ran it Friday, Energy said the filing was being misrepresented, that the political part referred only to the timing. My dude. You wrote it down and handed it to a judge.Over at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s department admitted this week that nearly a hundred American troops were wounded in two weeks of Iranian strikes. That was news to the Pentagon’s own casualty database, the one it keeps for Congress and the President, which still lists zero Americans wounded in action for the month of July. Nick Turse at The Intercept has been on this alone for months. He documented five hundred twenty injured as of April first, including two hundred sailors treated for smoke inhalation, none of it announced. He watched the official count drop by fifteen with no explanation. A US official gave him the term for it. Casualty cover-up. Leon Panetta, who used to run that building, called the secrecy shameful. Turse is doing the whole job by himself.Two days earlier that same Secretary of Defense sat in front of Senate Appropriations asking for another sixty seven billion dollars, because the war he keeps winning has cost thirty seven and a half billion so far. Democrats pointed out the Pentagon still has seventy five billion sitting unspent from last year. He wants more anyway, and at the end of this month the Navy and Air Force run out of operations money, so he’s cutting training and maintenance to cover it. Readiness. The thing that keeps troops breathing. And the Pentagon does have a spending problem. Last September alone it spent a hundred thirty nine thousand dollars on doughnuts, five hundred eleven dollars a box, plus fifteen million on ribeyes and ninety eight thousand on a Steinway grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s house. Jonathan Larsen at The Fucking News assembled that receipt.On July twentieth Marco Rubio’s State Department published a hundred page report naming forty three Americans and organizations as agents of Cuban subversion. Amy Goodman. Hasan Piker. The mayors of New York and Los Angeles. Three sitting congresswomen. The founder of the Amazon Labor Union. Ben Cohen, of ice cream. And George Floyd, who has been dead six years and is now on a federal enemies list. The report holds up the McCarthy purges of the fifties as a model that worked. Rubio said the time has come to crush this evil once and for all. The next day the House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People’s Forum in New York for its internal communications and its member records. Twenty four hours from list to subpoena. Ken Klippenstein broke it.And Monday, roughly three hundred fifty thousand Haitians lose the protected status that has let them live and work here legally, some of them since the earthquake in 2010. The administration has already told Haiti to expect two deportation flights a week. Haiti’s plan for the people getting off those planes is to hand each of them about seventy seven dollars. Over eighty five percent of the capital is under gang control. Homeland Security says conditions have improved enough to send people back. The State Department has Haiti at Level Four, do not travel, its highest warning, for Americans. Too dangerous for you to set foot in. Safe enough to drop three hundred fifty thousand people into. Are you fecking kidding me. The Haitian Times has the flight schedule almost nobody else is printing.Rapid fire. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked Congress to take Penn off Penn Station and put Trump on it. MyPillow’s Mike Lindell is running for governor of Minnesota and he’s registered to vote in Texas. The man who spent five years insisting people vote in states they don’t live in told the Star Tribune he isn’t sure where he’s registered. The Justice Department’s Chicago office has gone one and fifty nine charging people with assaulting immigration agents. A coin would have won them thirty times as many. A judge ruled the BBC can subpoena Trump’s finances and his inner circle inside the defamation case Trump filed himself. Yes please. Let’s all watch how fast he drops it. And the government is draining the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and repairing the liner while prosecuting a man for damaging it, with the judge warning prosecutors they’re operating at their own peril.That’s your week in tyranny. Welcome to the golden age.Sources:https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2026/07/25/trump-administration-admits-grants-for-clean-energy-were-canceled-only-in-states-won-by-kamala-harris/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-25/energy-department-says-grants-were-cut-because-states-voted-bluehttps://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-pentagon-casualties-injuries/https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-07-21/caine-hegseth-senate-hearing-iran-war-22330260.htmlhttps://truthout.org/articles/house-republicans-subpoena-left-wing-groups-as-trump-admin-assembles-blacklists/https://haitiantimes.com/2026/07/21/us-informs-haiti-of-upcoming-deportations/https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5884947/haitians-protected-status-tpsJonathan Larsen Ken Klippenstein Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe