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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Trump’s Targeting of ‘Narcoterrorists’ Is a Crime in Itself Shoot first, ask questions when?

"The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Ag Sec Rollins said that the SNAP payments suits were "frivolous." In the meantime, administrative law experts were clear that there were not just meritorious but likely to win, easily. Today, two courts ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. Now Rollins says she will ignore their orders.

Ethnic cleansing by Russia.

NBC and CBS cuts hit race and culture verticals On Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount — newly merged with Skydance — began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari…

In a post on TikTok, former CBS News producer Trey Sherman said CBS laid off all the people of color on his production team while white staff were reassigned. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-...

Last night, Russia struck Ukraine with over 650 drones and 50 missiles of different types - Zelenskyy

This is all that remains of now occupied Toretsk. Not a living soul. Just dead ruins. Russia destroys everything.

Breakfast in Kharkiv.

So many Ukrainian children have become so accustomed to explosions during the years of war.

Sound on, if you can.

📹: Yekaterina Vershynina/Facebook

If SNAP food aid is cut off, small grocery stores also will feel the pain If Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are disrupted, analysts say it could mean more pressure on the already shrinking number of small independent supermarkets.

If Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are disrupted, analysts say it could mean more pressure on the already shrinking number of small independent supermarkets.

Donald Trump and Peter Hegseth have now murdered 57 human beings on their boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history

Where is The Hague?

💔 Vinnytsia governor deputy Nataliya Zabolotna could barely hold back tears telling about death of 7-years-old girl, who passed away in hospital after today's Russian missile strike on 2-story apartment building.

Four more wounded. And it's only Vinnytsia.

Russian army shelled a children's hospital in Kherson,the city's regional military administration reported

4 people were injured:a 9-yr-old girl & 3 medical workers

The child suffered a mine-blast trauma and a shrapnel wound to her lower leg, while the medical workers suffered blast injuries

Vance: "If you can actually cause suffering to an innocent animal, you're  probably the kind of person who doesn't worry about suffering in people… If you mistreat dogs, that's a 100% sign that you're gonna be a really terrible person."

Kristi Noem famously shot her own dog.

Last week, Trump partially approved 4 requests for major disaster declarations.

Trump praised AK, ND, & NE—states he's won multiple times—when announcing his decisions.

Meanwhile, Trump rejected requests from IL, MD, & VT—places he's lost.

Many more red flags in the 🧵⬇️

WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

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...

⚡️Ukrainian troops rescued a camel left behind by retreating Russian forces after overrunning their position.

Moscow’s troops had been using pack animals to haul ammunition under drone fire.

Federal Judge Skewers Top Trump Officials Over ‘Troubling’ Statements Against Abrego Garcia Read more here.

A federal judge censured top Trump administration officials for making several out-of-court statements against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who the government wrongly sent to a Salvadoran megaprison before returning him to the U.S. to face immigrant smuggling charges in Nashville.

There are many reasons why federal prosecutors typically avoid making extrajudicial comments about an ongoing prosecution.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Trump plans to install Border Patrol officials to lead a more aggressive migrant crackdown The White House has approved a list of ICE leaders to be replaced by Border Patrol officials in coming days amid disappointment with arrest numbers.

NBC has a story on this as well already, and they've got an indicative quote as to how things will go:

"'The mentality is CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE isn’t getting the job done,;' one of the DHS officials said. 'So CBP will do it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

How Delivery Destroyed American Restaurants We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.

I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

ICE GOONS forcibly abduct an elderly man from a Walmart in Portland, OR, as he cries out for help.

In a Global First, Renewables Overtake Coal

For the first time, renewables are generating more power globally than coal.

But in the U.S., where the Trump administration is dismantling support for clean energy, renewables are expected to grow half as fast as previously thought.

Dozens of Clean Tech Projects Cancelled in U.S. This Year, Costing More Than 20,000 Jobs

Clean tech firms have scrapped $24 billion in planned projects across the U.S. this year, from solar farms to battery plants to EV factories.

The canceled projects would have created more than 20,000 jobs, most of them in Republican districts.

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Laugh Factory Chicago night manager taken into custody by federal agents outside club The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory was taken into custody by federal agents outside the North Side comedy club Friday.

The manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory, a US citizen, is arrested outside of the studio by Trump's secret police. The offense? Telling jokes about ICE that they don't like. This is what fascism looks like. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...