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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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ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

ICE wants Texas to become the backbone of a private industrialized deportation machine

Wired reports: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas. The agency envisions a nonstop operation, funneling immigrants detained in 254 counties into ICE facilities and staging locations across the state. 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…

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Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

Paul Newby has turned North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of far-reaching political power

By Doug Bock Clark This story was originally published by ProPublica In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.  The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state. Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to…

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Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

Retired law enforcement officer jailed five weeks for reposting a Facebook meme is freed in Tennessee

The Intercept reports: More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee, on Wednesday, where his wife was waiting to take him home. He wore a weary smile and the same white T-shirt he had on the night he was jailed. A reporter from a local news station, which had previously splashed his mugshot on its website, approached for an interview….

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‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

‘Militarized police force’: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

The Guardian reports: A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian. The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size…

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ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, say lawmakers

Ars Technica reports: Social media videos have confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers patrolling US streets are actively using facial recognition technology to verify citizenship, 404 Media reported. In one video posted on a Chicago-based Instagram account, a self-described teenager and US citizen tells officers that he has no government ID. After he offers to show his student ID instead, the officer turns to another and asks, “can you do facial?” As…

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ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

ICE agent assaults woman who asked if he’s a good Christian

  HuffPost reports: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers forcibly detained a father and his two children in southwest Colorado on Monday while they were on their way to middle school, sparking a mass protest outside the agency’s Durango field office in an effort to get the kids released back to their mom. Video from the protest outside the facility shows masked and unidentified federal officers tear-gassing protesters on Tuesday afternoon as they stood in the street and attempted to…

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FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

FBI says Gabbard counterintelligence push would cause ‘long-lasting damage to the U.S. national security’

The New York Times reports: The F.B.I. informed Congress last week that it “strongly” opposed a proposal to make the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the lead counterintelligence agency for the federal government, bringing into public view a rift among top national security officials. The disclosure, made in a pointed and unusual letter obtained by The New York Times, underscored the broader concern at other agencies, including the F.B.I., over a House bill that would empower Tulsi Gabbard,…

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