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On Tuesday, the United States House voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), in response to an announcement that te body plans to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and another Israeli official. The announcement also included the call for arrest warrants for three senior Hamas leaders.

Earlier this week, the Biden administration officially announced a long-anticipated border crackdown. The executive action—which relies on the same presidential authority former President Donald Trump invoked to enact an entry ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries—circumvents a key provision of US law: The legal right to seek asylum, regardless of where or how a person enters the country. Under Biden’s order, with narrow exceptions, only migrants coming to official ports of entry will qualify for asylum after encounters at the border reach a certain threshold.

Digging for more money to inject into affordable housing, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is considering asking the City Council to refer a sales tax increase to the November ballot, administration officials confirmed to The Denver Post. It’s too soon to say whether an affordable housing tax — the amount so far unspecified — will end up on what promises to be a lengthy Denver ballot in this presidential election year.

Protesters organized by a Colorado State University group staged a “die-in” demonstration over the weekend outside a Fort Collins company. They chanted, held signs accusing the company of having blood on its hands, and displayed fake body bags and red-stained dolls, according to a report by CSU’s student newspaper. What was behind the protest? Demonstrators were motivated by purported connections between the company, Woodward, and a component of a bomb dropped by Israel on a camp in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, in late May. The Denver Post looked into the connections to the Fort Collins-headquartered aerospace and industrial manufacturer.

We get all the congressional representation. You get all the bills.

Death fears, regressive behavior, and mob scapegoating are all of a piece — and the Democrats are exploiting all of them.