“When people can’t get their #SNAP, they’re going to go to the #food banks. There isn’t enough food in the food pantries to handle this need. I mean, they’re all saying we’re going to run out of food. There’s no way we can replace everybody’s SNAP benefits.” https://www.texasobserver.org/snap-benefits-shutdown-will-leave-hungry-students/
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#Bovino carries out #Halloween #arrests. 'They showed up here to terrorize people,' alder says
The agents swept through the #Chicago Albany Park & Edison Park neighborhoods, & suburban #Evanston, #Skokie & #Niles Friday morning & afternoon after [dog killer] #DHS Secy #KristiNoem said *enforcement* [terrorist] operations would continue on Halloween despite #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker asking they pause for the holiday.
#Trump #law #CivilRights #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/2-detained-pepper-balls-fired-by-federal-agents-in-albany-park-it-happens-so-fast
#Trump must release millions in #grants meant to address the shortage of #MentalHealth workers in #schools, a federal judge ruled.
#Congress funded the program after the 2022 #Uvalde #SchoolShooting. The grants were intended to help schools hire more #counselors, #psychologists & #SocialWorkers, & focus on rural & underserved areas. But Trump’s admin opposed #diversity considerations used to award the grants & told recipients they wouldn’t continue past Dec 2025.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-mental-health-dei-ruling-8cb195602cffff3ee20724a9fbcd1bb1
Border Patrol’s #Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he & federal judge talk #BodyCams, #TearGas, IDs
The top #US #BorderPatrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to US District Judge Sara Ellis’ concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detained, #protesters & #journalists.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-federal-court
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the #Trump administration from firing #FederalWorkers during the government #shutdown.
US District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction [#PI] that bars the firings while a lawsuit challenging them plays out. She had previously issued a temporary restraining order [#TRO] against the job cuts that was set to expire Wednesday.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab
https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-layoffs-judge-trump-fdcb16f91c94d7bf73977e8968210b0e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Breaking+News
#Harris campaign's new $90M in battleground ads aims to sharpen contrast with #Trump
“Harris' team said the ad campaign will focus on the vice president's personal narrative, her career as a prosecutor in California, her commitment to standing up to powerful interests, and a contrast with what it termed Trump's “dangerous, extreme agenda.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/harris-campaigns-new-90-million-battleground-state-ads-112825281
The #Trump family raked in more than $800 million from sales of #crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from #foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons have touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
This is why you need to go to #Congress to attack other nations!
As #US ramps up the pressure, #Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help
Documents show #Maduro drafted letter asking #Russia for missiles, radars & upgraded aircraft as US forces amass in the #Caribbean.
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Donald #Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/trump-fundraiser-recording?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that the #Trump admin must continue to fund #SNAP, the nation’s biggest #food #aid program, using contingency funds during the government #shutdown.
The rulings came a day before the #USDA planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
#law #FoodStamps #poverty
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-31-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
#Chicago's #children are getting caught in the chaos of #Trump’s #immigration crackdowns
The 2-year-old boy was so frightened, he stuttered.
“Mommy, mommy, mommy,” he repeated, clinging to her.
His mother, Molly Kucich, had been grocery shopping when her husband called, panicking. She heard “immigration raid.” Then: “tear gas.”
#law #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-trump-crackdown-school-children-c9a19835cac13c0fbbebcc9f4bf4f0a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Immigration+and+kids
Legal experts called DHS’ move to use driver’s license data for citizenship checks more evidence of federal overreach.
“The administration wants to get as much data as it can, however it can, whenever it can.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DHS #Immigration #Data #Privacy #Security #Law #Trump
#NYAG #LetitiaJames, is seeking to block a #DOJ investigation into her office’s civil #fraud case against #Trump by challenging the legitimacy of the #USattorney in Albany, according to 2 people with knowledge of the matter.
James’s effort marks the fifth time the appointment of a top federal prosecutor installed by Trump has been challenged. The US attorney, John A. Sarcone III, declined to comment through a spox.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/letitia-james-investigation-subpoenas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.Ntcp.-eURhCdEz64J&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
#Trump directs #Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing #US #NuclearWeapons
US president references #China & #Russia in Truth Social post shortly before meeting with President #Xi Jinping
In a Wednesday post to Truth Social, Trump said that, “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”
#kakistocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/trump-pentagon-us-nuclear-weapons
The #Trump #DOJ has placed 2 federal prosecutors in Washington on leave a day after they filed a document in court that referred to the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the #US Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” 2 people familiar with the matter said.
Imagine if they’d called it what it actually was, an #insurrection carried out by #insurgents.
#law #history #facts #SeditiousConspiracy #coup #whitewashing #gaslighting #propaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/29/trump-jan-6-prosecutors-suspended/
New #Pentagon policy undercuts #trans troops' ability to ask to stay in the #military, AP learns
The Pentagon has rolled out a new policy that will severely undercut the ability for #transgender troops who have been banned from the #ArmedForces by the #Trump admin to turn to boards of their peers to argue for their right to stay in the military, according to a memo obtained by The AP.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-troops-ban-military-trump-9c3018034a2608a28f6146fe17f0fe4b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
#US to withdraw some troops from #Romania, #NATO's eastern flank
The decision was expected given changes in Washington's priorities, but roughly 1,000 U.S. troops will continue to be stationed in Romania, the country's defense ministry said.
#Trump #allies #alliance
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/us-troops-nato-eastern-flank-romania-russia-war-ukraine-rcna240436
So
The elected #President of the #UnitedStatesofAmerica may attempt to coerce the elected #VicePresident of the United States to overthrow an election at the #ElectoralCollege and that is now considered an official act of the #Presidency
Got it
#SCOTUS #DonaldTrump #Trump #Treason #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #FedSoc #GOP #RepublicanParty #Republicans
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Via Klasfeld:
Good morning from Ft. Pierce, Fla.
Later this morning, Judge #Cannon will hear the second part of #Trump’s challenge of #JackSmith’s constitutional authority to prosecute him — this time, targeting the special counsel’s funding.
No electronic devices in court. Updates later. #legal #documents #TrumpIndictment
Millions of people go onto the street in protests against a President who acts like a king and what does South Korea do..
..give the orange clown dictator a gold crown 
How about we stop reinforcing this lone ruler behavior and put the fcker in his place, like jail
Via Klasfeld:
Judge #Cannon gave #Trump’s prosecutors a rough reception at today’s hearing on the special counsel’s funding, even doing an on-the-spot line item review of their recent disclosures.
#JackSmith was on hand in court to watch it.
Court is in recess. More soon.
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EPA #Environment #Pollution #Industry #Pittsburgh #Trump
As reported in August (see boosted thread)
#Pentagon orders states’ National Guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train >20,000 #NationalGuard members across the US to carry out #Trump’s order on *subduing# civil *unrest*
#law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces