Eventually, “someone at the detention center said he had a health issue, and that’s why he wasn’t answering us,” Gamboa’s sister, Greidy Mata, told El País. “But they didn’t give us any more information.” McLaughlin’s statement said “medical professionals diagnosed [Gamboa] with unspecified psychosis and hospitalized him at Valley Baptist Hospital so he could get proper mental health and medical care”. Gamboa’s family described not being able to find him until August, after they were scammed by two attorneys and then actually located him with the help of a third lawyer. By then, Gamboa was bedridden in a vegetative state, and his family’s attorney began the process of having him sent to Costa Rica. An air ambulance paid for by ICE flew Gamboa to Costa Rica on 3 September, El País wrote. Stricken with encephalopathy, the muscle ailment rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own, he was admitted to an emergency room in the Costa Rican capital of San José before being transferred to a hospital in his home town of Pérez Zeledón. Gamboa then died in that hospital on 26 October.

You just know someone working for Krisi Noem pushed his deportation so the death would not be on US soil.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And a class act always.

Thank you.

As a reminder, tear gas is illegal in BOTH the Geneva Protocol AND Geneva Convention against use in war as a chemical agent. Just thought you should be reminded it's too bad for war where napalm is still legal, but tear gas is totes okay to use against your civilian population.

So Trump won’t help the democratic coutry of Ukraine survive but he may send our troops to Nigeria for religious reasons?

technical fixes. Are the tech geniuses not up to the challenge and therefore unable to seek gov't funding for such a purpose? Or do they simply not care?

Sincere question re SpaceXGolden Dome contract - 9/11 exposed a terrifying lack of communication compatibility among all agencies local, state and federal. To my knowledge, Congress has not taken action to fix this. Which do we need more Golden Dome or incredibly boring but critical life saving ...

The last community I’m feeling sorry for are the New York billionaires threatening to leave the city if Mamdani wins on Tuesday because they don’t want to pay more taxes.

We have folks who don’t know how they’re going to feed their kids tomorrow—in the richest country on earth.

Donald Trump is assaulting every institution that stands in his way.

He’s trying to use the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement.

Mea culpa

YouTube video by The Economic Times Trump holds Halloween dinner with family, cabinet members at Mar-a-Lago amid ongoing govt shutdown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjx...

Here it is

evidence that Trump threw the party?

He does:

Destroy every Democratic program

Fire Black people

Erase history

Create an SS

etc

Would someone please provide evidence that Trump threw this party?

not real?

In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP

Good question, Junior!

🚨Graphic🚨 The 🧊 SS who punches this man and drags his face across the asphalt could be recognized by a former victim in his life. All of these people are on the wrong side of a cell door. These are not LEO’s. They are perps.

Please stand strong Senator Schumer. It really matters.

@schumer.senate.gov People advocating for Democrats to cave now are out of their minds IMO. The Democrats would be saying we're just pols. We didn't and don't care about your suffering. Thanks for supporting our position on the shutdown but now it's time to return to allowing Repubs to hurt you.

Is this finally rock bottom for Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? - BBC News And the United States has made Trump king.

The deal Trump cut with China re soybeans must be carefully analyzed. What does Bessent's statement that China agreed to purchase 25mmt over next 3 yrs actually mean? 25 divide by 3 equally roughly 8+ mmt per year or 25mmt per year for each of the next 3 yrs.? Important since 2023-4 was 25 mmt/yr.

Have you read her Avery Keene legal thriller series? She is brilliant

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah “We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

Many of you, I know, receive a lot of national news, but care a lot about local. You also hate paywalls.

If that's you read this detailed story. "The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

Too bad - she was masterful and really got to her until swearing etc.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Workers must pay for grotesque wedding and honeymoon.

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.