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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

"Elon Musk has substantial business interests before the Navy...Mark Hertling believes that the installation of Rachel Riley atop the Office of Naval Research could be part of a larger effort to reduce the vendor pool for federal contracting." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

DHS Lied About a Veteran They Wrongfully Arrested (w/ George Retes) Tim Miller is joined by George Retes, a U.S.

George spoke to @timmiller.bsky.social and shared his harrowing story of being surrounded by agents, pepper-sprayed, dragged from his car, locked in a detention center, and even placed on suicide watch—missing his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained."

Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

Kia's Affordable EV4 Sedan 'Delayed Until Further Notice' In The U.S. What could have been Kia's Tesla Model 3 fighter is no longer coming to America—at least for now. And tariffs may be to blame.

What could have been Kia's Tesla Model 3 fighter is no longer coming to America—at least for now. And tariffs may be to blame.

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🚨President Donald Trump’s disaster aid record shows assistance flowing to Republican-led states while Democratic-led states are denied, underscoring a pattern of partisan weaponization of disaster relief.
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Host: An investigation showed that ICE has detained more than 170 US citizens in recent raids. Videos show federal agents tackling people and even telling a group of Latinos, including a US citizen, they have no rights.

ICE admits it has detained 170 U.S. citizens through racial profiling

Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained." - .

FACTS: "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear."

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In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy.

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Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Don’t worry your heads ladies, the menfolk are handling the government shutdown

The Real Worry About Trump’s Deals With China Today he’s resolved little more than a crisis of his own making. What might he trade away later for such negligible gains?

Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping resulted in most of what he wanted—but the agreement does little more than extricate Trump from a crisis of his own making. Michael Schuman on the pattern in Trump’s dealings with China raising long-term concerns:

Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.

HAYES: “The more unpopular Trump & Republicans grow, the harder they try to project strength with lies… As they talk about an unconstitutional third term Trump is as politically weak as he has ever been… Do Americans like the MAGA agenda? The polls are clear: NO.”

D.C. residents speak out against MPD’s work with ICE at D.C. Council Local cooperation with immigration enforcement has become a flash point since the federal surge in D.C.

Yesterday marked the first formal opportunity the D.C. Council has given residents and activists to sound off on increased cooperation between MPD and ICE since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in mid-August.

More than 50 people signed up to speak, the maximum allowed.

Democrats fume at Trump over sidelining on Venezuela strikes The White House gave Republican lawmakers a closed-door briefing on recent military strikes on boats in the Caribbean — excluding Democrats in a move they called “indefensible.”

The White House gave Republican lawmakers a closed-door briefing on recent military strikes on boats in the Caribbean — excluding Democrats in a move they called “indefensible.” @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/democrats-fu...

New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

NEW: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave — just hours after filing a memo accurately describing Jan. 6 as “a mob of rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol.”

Another extreme example of interference with DOJ independence by the Trump White House.

Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be reheard en banc pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 40(c). The order published at ---F.4th---, 2025 WL 2951371 (9th Cir. Oct. 20, 2025), is vacated.

BREAKING

Trump's activation of the troops to Portland remains BLOCKED.

The Ninth Circuit's en banc bench agrees to hear the case, VACATING a three-judge panel's recent decision pausing the lower court's restraining order.

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"Portland is not war-ravaged. There is no rebellion, and the laws continue to be enforced every day."

— The closing lines of Portland's lawyer Caroline Turco's opening statement at trial right now to keep the troop deployment block

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?

TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

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Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway

@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

9YO citizen caught in Idaho FBI raid describes officers breaking car window to detain his father “I felt scared because they were pointing the guns at me. When they broke the window, I had to jump to my mom’s feet. I had glass in my mouth, and I quickly spit it away."
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It really is impressive how much his voters are picked for him.

Prosecutors placed on leave hours after describing Jan. 6 attack as a ‘mob of rioters’ The prosecutors made the description in a sentencing memo for a Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump but is facing prison time for unrelated crimes.

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on administrative leave just hours after describing Jan. 6 attack as a "mob of rioters."

The prosecutors made the description in a sentencing memo for a Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump but is facing prison time for unrelated crimes.

"It’s comforting to imagine that a president feels our pain. But Johnson can’t hide the truth: Trump is a sadist, and his strategy in the shutdown has been to break the Democrats’ will by hurting the people they represent." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...