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Strong-arm tactics led by Border Patrol’s Bovino are the new norm in Chicago as ICE leadership gets sidelined

Strong-arm tactics led by Border Patrol’s Bovino are the new norm in Chicago as ICE leadership gets sidelined

Chicago Tribune reports: Cameras rolling, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino sailed down the Chicago River in a convoy of government boats. His men held rifles as videographers filmed the stunt later posted to their social media. The Trump administration had just launched an operation in the city to pursue “the worst of the worst” criminal undocumented immigrants. Homeland Security used the footage for a music video set to Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” ending with Bovino smiling into the distance. In…

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Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel announced never existed

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel announced never existed

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI Director Kash Patel’s allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. Announcing their arrests on Friday, Patel said more information would be coming soon, however the FBI and Michigan authorities have offered few details about the case. Spokespersons for the state and national FBI and the U.S. Attorney in Detroit did not immediately respond to messages…

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Nick Fuentes is entering the MAGA mainstream

Nick Fuentes is entering the MAGA mainstream

Ali Breland writes: Tucker Carlson slapped his nicotine-pouch container down on the table and got straight into it: “Nick Fuentes, thank you for doing this,” he said. “I want to understand what you believe, and I want to give you a chance, in a minute, to just lay it out.” The two were sitting in Carlson’s barn turned podcast studio at his home in Maine. In a more-than-two-hour-long episode of The Tucker Carlson Show that aired earlier this week, Carlson…

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ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants

ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants

The Intercept reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country, according to a procurement document reviewed by The Intercept. Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE. According to the document, which solicits information from interested contractors for a potentially forthcoming contract opportunity, companies hired by ICE will be given…

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ICE has powerful Clearview AI facial recognition app that Illinois cops are barred from using

ICE has powerful Clearview AI facial recognition app that Illinois cops are barred from using

Chicago Sun-Times reports: The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from selling to Illinois law enforcement agencies. The ban was the result of a lawsuit filed in Cook County that alleged Clearview AI’s massive database of photographs pulled from across the internet violated a landmark state law protecting people’s personal information. But a settlement of the case didn’t apply…

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Andrew should answer Epstein questions in Congress, Democrats say

Andrew should answer Epstein questions in Congress, Democrats say

BBC News reports: Members of a US congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case have intensified their calls for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to answer questions about his links to the late sex offender. King Charles stripped his brother of his “prince” title on Thursday, following months of pressure over Andrew’s ties to Epstein. Andrew has always denied wrongdoing. At least four Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee have since renewed their calls for Andrew to testify – although the…

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Harrison Ford on Trump: ‘I don’t know of a greater criminal in history’

Harrison Ford on Trump: ‘I don’t know of a greater criminal in history’

The Guardian reports: Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history. In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status…

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Trump holds Gilded Age Halloween party as 42 million Americans lose food aid

Trump holds Gilded Age Halloween party as 42 million Americans lose food aid

Raw Story reports: As 42 million Americans missed their first food assistance payment Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown, President Trump attended a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago resort — sparking outrage from critics who described the event as ‘tone deaf.” “Trump and Rubio at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween Party, on day 31 of the shutdown,” wrote Danny Kemp, the White House correspondent for AFP, in a social media post on X Friday night. “Official theme is Gatsby and…

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More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

Politico reports: It’s one of the most thorough legal rebukes in recent memory. More than 100 federal judges have now ruled at least 200 times that the Trump administration’s effort to systematically detain immigrants facing possible deportation appeared to violate their rights or was just flatly illegal, according to a POLITICO review. The rulings come from judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan, including 12 appointed by President Donald Trump. One of those appointees took the bench just last…

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U.S. pressure on Venezuela won’t bring about rapid collapse of Maduro – in fact, it might boomerang on Washington

U.S. pressure on Venezuela won’t bring about rapid collapse of Maduro – in fact, it might boomerang on Washington

A man rides past a poster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and an anti-tank barricade in Caracas on Oct. 28, 2025. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images By Robert Muggah, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University The U.S. military buildup along South America’s northern rim is, Washington insists, aimed at “narco-terrorists.” A growing chorus of analysts aren’t convinced; they suspect what the Trump administration is really after is regime change in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro, the country’s leader since 2013, is taking no chances….

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Epstein: JPMorgan alerted U.S. to potentially suspicious transfers involving Leon Black, Alan Dershowitz et al

Epstein: JPMorgan alerted U.S. to potentially suspicious transfers involving Leon Black, Alan Dershowitz et al

The New York Times reports: Weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase filed a report alerting the U.S. government to tens of millions of dollars of potentially suspicious transactions involving him and prominent Wall Street and business figures. The so-called suspicious activity report that JPMorgan filed identified transactions with Leon Black, the co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management; Glenn Dubin, a well-known hedge fund manager; the lawyer Alan…

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Jasmine Crockett on Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Democratic Party

Jasmine Crockett on Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Democratic Party

  Politico: For liberals who lament the Democratic Party’s ongoing struggle to break through with their messaging, the emergence of Rep. Jasmine Crockett represents a rare jolt of good news. Here, finally, is a Democrat who’s eager to tangle with Republicans on Capitol Hill and gets plenty of media attention for doing it. Someone who gets invited onto Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show to talk about President Donald Trump and his cognitive tests. And Crockett is game. Now, not every member…

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Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Will Sommer writes: Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.” The right-wing internet has been in turmoil ever since. Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace. That amounts to a catastrophe for more traditional conservative media figures. Breitbart’s Joel Pollak declared that the claims Fuentes made that Carlson left unchallenged amounted to…

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Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

Political prosecution of Kat Abughazaleh: ‘Today it’s Kat. Tomorrow it could be any one of us’

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win. pic.twitter.com/szOSZa1h3z — Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) October 29, 2025 Evanston Now reports: The indictment charges all six individuals, including an Oak Park trustee, a Democratic committeeperson from Chicago and a Cook County Board candidate, with impeding a federal officer stemming from the Sept. 26 incident….

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Bunkered: Stephen Miller and other top Trump officials move onto military bases and hide from the public

Bunkered: Stephen Miller and other top Trump officials move onto military bases and hide from the public

The Atlantic reports: The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It…

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Wajahat Ali talks to Mike Madrid: Trump voters are turning and the MAGA collapse has begun

Wajahat Ali talks to Mike Madrid: Trump voters are turning and the MAGA collapse has begun

  Something is shifting inside the MAGA movement, and it’s not good news for Donald Trump. New polls reveal a growing number of Trump voters are losing faith, raising questions about whether his once-iron grip on the Republican base is starting to break. In this video, Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid and I do a deep dive into the latest data and voter sentiment to uncover what’s really happening inside the MAGA world — and what it could mean for…

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