Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

Donald Trump was president on January 6

China warns US of countermeasures if Trump doesn’t walk back 100% tariff threat | CNN Business Beijing has vowed to take countermeasures against Washington if US President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to impose new 100% tariffs on Chinese goods.

China warns US of countermeasures if Trump does not walk back 100% tariff threat https://cnn.it/4obv9yR

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown Trump said that the Pentagon would repurpose money to make payroll, as military service members were poised to miss paychecks on Wednesday. Most other government workers will not be paid.

Glad the troops are getting paid but the president should not have the power to do this. This is another usurpation of Congress’s power of the purse. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

“No Speaker Johnson, The No Kings rally October 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a love America rally.” - Sen. Bernie Sanders

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas (Gift Article) Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is a slow learner but a slow learner is better than a “no learner”

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

www.wired.com/story/as-coa...

Pritzker needs to find a way to force the impoundment of these vehicles

Years and years ago, I knew an attorney who needed to buy an extra day or two for briefing, and the 2d Cir., which is notoriously stingy about extensions, would automatically bounce a brief with incomplete tables and order that it be refiled w/in 48 hours. You can see where this went.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

The entire premise is bonkers too. The president deserves a "cut" for brokering the FORCED sale of a company to his allies after illegally freezing legislation banning the company's operation to facilitate it's sale to his allies...when he championed the ban in the first place.

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois The appeals court weighed in after a federal judge, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest, ”barred the president from deploying troops in and around Chicago.

A federal appeals court said that it will not allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois, largely preserving a ruling that had suspended his administration’s campaign to send troops into the Chicago area.

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Calley Means studied political science and economics at Stanford then got an MBA at Harvard - no medical training at all. He is one of RFK’s MAHA buddies

Listening to a fascinating audiobook this weekend: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll.

It’s a free one through my Audible account so I didn’t have to use a credit to get it.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together. Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police. The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities. But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Illegal Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump The program financing ER care for illegal immigrants has been around for four decades, and not even Trump wants to take it away.

To the extent that it is true that federal money covers healthcare for illegal immigrants, it's because Congress and Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s understood it would be monstrous for it not to.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

If the next pandemic hits during this administration it will be much worse than COVID 19 because we won’t have the staffing to address it.

Astoria the Wild Turkey spreads her wings in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

And also, this headline? Inadequate