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Remember this shill thread? >>1444890
Turns out its almost completely debunked, and ICE actually was a group of murderous goons trying to turn blue paradises into MAGA hellholes

Bodycam footage shows ICE officers lied about ambush attack in Chicago

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/06/marimar-martinez-anthony-ian-santos-ruiz-border-patrol-shooting-brighton-park

Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times, the woman’s attorney said in federal court Monday.

The video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her late Saturday morning on Kedzie Avenue near 39th Street, her attorney, Christopher Parente, said at a detention hearing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

U.S. District Judge Heather McShain denied a request by the federal government to detain Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, pending trial. Martinez and Ruiz, who wore orange jumpsuits for the detention hearing, were charged Sunday with felony assault of a federal officer.

Parente also offered to play an agent’s body-camera video that shows the shooting, noting prosecutors did not show the video that he claimed disputes the government’s version of the shooting.


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https://cdllife.com/2025/bill-calls-for-end-of-cdl-reciprocity-with-mexico-and-canada/
>See below for more provisions in the Protecting America’s Roads Act:
>Requires CDL applicants to prove lawful status and domicile
>Mandates DHS SAVE verification for all non-citizen applicants
>Limits non-citizen CDLs to the shorter of Form I-94 expiration or one year
>Requires in-person renewals and transfers
>Directs states to revoke licenses when eligibility lapses, and establishes penalties for states that don’t comply
>Authorizes 287(g) agencies to report unlawful CDL operators

I don’t think this is the way to do it, forcing people to renew their CDL every year just to work in the US. Maybe add secondary testing or a basic fucking English test at the border(s) for all CDL holders who have a 18 wheeler. This is only going to make the price of goods on all sides skyrocket even more.

>“It is time to end the danger posed by illegal immigrant and foreign national truck drivers who are not capable of safely operating an 18-wheel commercial vehicle or, in many cases, understanding English language warning signs and road instructions,” said Rep. Van Duyne.

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Republicans, currently keeping the government shut down to stall a vote to release the Epstein files and delay releasing dismal economic numbers for September, are trying to contain yet another brewing catastrophe for the party: their increasingly erratic and uncooperative leader, Donald Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/shutdown-republicans-disarray-00597018

One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats, just barely concealing tensions over strategy that have snowballed behind the scenes since agencies closed last week.

In one stark example, Trump scrambled the congressional leaders’ messaging Monday when he told reporters in the Oval Office he would “like to see a deal made for great health care” and that he was “talking to Democrats about it.”

Within hours, Trump walked it back: “I am happy to work with the Democrats on their Failed Healthcare Policies, or anything else, but first they must allow our Government to re-open,” he wrote on Truth Social hours after his initial comments.

Johnson said Tuesday he “spoke with the president at length yesterday” about the need to reopen agencies first, while Thune told reporters there have been “ongoing conversations” about strategy between the top Republicans.

A White House official granted anonymity to speak about the circumstances behind the president’s statements said the Truth post was “issued to make clear that the [administration] position has not changed” and was not done at the behest of the two leaders.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8wd8938e8o
Illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border have hit the lowest level in over half a century, according to federal data obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS News.

In fiscal year 2025, which spanned four months of former President Joe Biden's administration, US Border Patrol agents stopped 238,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally, the Department of Homeland Security figures suggest.
During Trump's first eight months in office, there have been fewer than 9,000 illegal crossings recorded each month, CBS reported.

It is the lowest number of apprehensions since 1970, when border patrol agents stopped 202,000 people crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully.
"The numbers demonstrate progress on border security," said Jennie Murray, president and chief executive of the National Immigration Forum, adding that both parties and the White House need to work on passing immigration legislation.

Patrol agents made over half of the apprehensions at the border during the first three months of the 2025 fiscal year, which ran from October 2024 to September 2025, during Biden's tenure, according to the preliminary data.
The apprehensions indicate the number of times border police stopped and processed migrants entering the country illegally at official ports of entry, which may include people who attempted to cross the border more than once after being stopped.

US Customs and Border Patrol has said about 11 million border encounters were recorded over the course of Biden's four years in office.

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Day 8 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 8 Updates:
- Key dates regarding the shutdown. Oct 10: Federal employees won't get direct deposits. Oct 11: Museums close. Oct 12: Rural people wont be allowed to fly on airplanes. Oct 31: Women and children will starve. Nov 4: record breaking shutdown. Jan 1: Medicare and Medicaid dissolve. https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/government-shutdown-key-dates-social-security-wic-smithsonian-museums-rcna235198
- IRS furloughing half of its staff https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/government-shutdown-live-updates/?id=126242587
- Troops will continued to be paid https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/trump-could-shift-funds-to-pay-troops-white-house-officials-say-00599072
- Israelis call the shutdown the second American revolution https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-869789
- Stopgap bill fails senate again https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-today-100825

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5543054-colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court/amp/
The Supreme Court appeared open to a Christian counselor’s free speech challenge to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban for minors during oral arguments Tuesday.

Several members of the court’s conservative majority expressed concern about accepting the blue state’s assertion that it is regulating professional conduct, not speech.

“Just because they’re engaged in conduct doesn’t mean that their words aren’t protected,” Chief Justice John Roberts said.

“It looks like blatant viewpoint discrimination,” Justice Samuel Alito quipped at one point.

Not all the conservative justices were so vocal, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second appointee to the court, who remained quiet Tuesday. The court’s liberal wing, meanwhile, questioned whether the counselor had the right to bring the challenge.

The case is set to have national implications, with more than 20 states having enacted similar bans to the one in Colorado. A decision is expected by next summer.

In 2019, Colorado prohibited licensed mental health counselors from engaging in “any practice or treatment” that “attempts or purports to change” a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Violations can carry $5,000 fines, and counselors can be suspended and stripped of their license.


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Day 7 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 7 Updates:
- Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown https://www.npr.org/2025/10/07/g-s1-92251/government-shutdown-health-insurance-premiums
- Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-news-10-07-25
- Government shutdown drags on as health care compromise remains elusive https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-health-care-subsidies-obamacare-congress-10b2ae9648bc5252fc2bd485ddc83493
- Live updates: Senate won’t hold votes to end shutdown on Tuesday; Trump says some furloughed workers ‘don’t deserve’ back pay https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5541602-live-updates-trump-carney-shutdown-bondi-health-next-summit/

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

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> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnTKJ7Cvus

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-police-sergeant-appears-to-criticize-assault-victims-for-antagonizing-anti-ice-protesters

> An email from a Portland police sergeant appeared to criticize three people he described as "counter-protesters" after confronting anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters outside an immigration facility and getting assaulted.

> The email from Sgt. Andrew Braun of the Portland Police Bureau was filed in Oregon federal court in the state's lawsuit against President Donald Trump, and noticed by Andy Ngo, a senior editor at the Post Millennial who frequently covers Antifa and U.S. protests.

> In the email, dated Sept. 21, Braun writes, "these 3 counter-protesters continue to be a chronic source of police and medical calls at ICE."

> The three individuals are listed as victims in the email and identified as Rhein Amacher, 35, Chelly Bouferrache, 56, and Katelyn Daviscourt, 31.

> "Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed," Braun writes of the three individuals in the email. "They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them."

> Amacher describes himself as a "Right-wing Provocateur," according to his associated X account. An X account associated with Bouferrache states she is a "Blue state dissident" and "Anti-Communist." Daviscourt is an investigative reporter with the Post Millennial.

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https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

>The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.

>State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews. Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries.
>According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack.

>“At this time, we do not know whether the fire was accidental or arson. Until that determination is made, [State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel] has alerted local law enforcement to provide extra patrols and security,” South Caroline Chief Justice John Kittredge told FITSNews, adding that the fire appeared to have been caused by an “explosion.”

>The 69-year-old judge had received death threats in the weeks leading up to the fire, multiple sources told FITSNews. Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal and state elections.)

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/trump-judges-ruling-against-him-00595511
When a Donald Trump-appointed judge delivered a stinging rejection of his effort to put National Guard troops on the ground in Portland, the president had some regrets.

“I wasn’t served well by the people that pick judges,” Trump vented Saturday.

His gripe came four months after he similarly sounded off about the “bad advice” he got from the conservative Federalist Society for his first-term judicial nominations — a reaction to a ruling, backed by a Trump-appointed judge, rejecting his power to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners.

“This is something that cannot be forgotten!” he said on Truth Social.

While Trump and his allies have spent all year leveling pointed attacks at Democratic judicial appointees, labeling them rogue insurrectionists and radicals, the president is increasingly facing stark rejections from people he put on the bench — including at least one from his second term.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-talk-doj-about-maxwell-pardon-says-diddy-asked-one-2025-10-06/

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday left the door open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Trump also said that Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison over his conviction on prostitution-related charges, had requested a pardon.

On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction, Trump, when asked whether he would set Maxwell free himself through a pardon, said he would speak to the Department of Justice.

"I haven't heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look," he said. "I will speak to the DOJ."

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-socialist-leader-will-vote-against-pm-lecornu-things-stand-2025-10-06/

PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, in a major deepening of France's political crisis that drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.
The swift, unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government.

The far-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. The hard left France Unbowed said Macron himself must go.

Lecornu, who was Macron's fifth prime minister in two years, stayed in the job for only 27 days. His government lasted 14 hours, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history at a time when parliament is deeply divided and the euro zone's second-largest economy is struggling to put its finances in order.

After weeks of consultations with political parties across the board, Lecornu, a close ally of Macron, had appointed his ministers on Sunday and they had been set to hold their first meeting on Monday afternoon.
But the new cabinet line-up had angered opponents and allies alike, who either found it too right-wing or not sufficiently so, raising questions on how long it could last, with no group holding a majority in a fragmented parliament.

Macron's decision to call a snap parliamentary election last year deepened the crisis by producing an even more fragmented parliament.
But France could now possibly be headed for another snap parliamentary vote.
"I call on the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly ... this joke has gone on long enough, the farce must end," National Rally chief Marine Le Pen said after Lecornu resigned.

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Day 6 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 6 Updates:
- Senate fails again to pass a funding bill https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/government-shutdown-live-updates/?id=126242587
- Trump says he will negotiate healthcare, but demands the government first be re-opened https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-congress-7d7e6f9b4e52d05b692cc40ec6c96cf3
- Schumer says there are no negotiations right now https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/06/donald-trump-national-guard-ice-government-shutdown-us-politics-live-news-updates
- White House contradicts Trump and says that firings have not yet began https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/6/white-house-reverses-trump-claim-firings-have-begun-amid-govt-shutdown

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

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https://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-hospitalized-after-eating-6-6-pounds-of-gummies-in-three-days.html

https://youtu.be/h-bGlNP_BlY?si=d8VgkziPu61ex5qG

>A 33-year-old UK truck driver needed emergency treatment after consuming a large quantity of gummies in a relatively short period of time.
>Nathan Rimington, a truck driver from Yorkshire, reportedly ordered a 3kg (6.6 pounds) container of Haribo Cola Jelly from Amazon after getting a craving for gummy candies. He proceeded to consume the 10,461kcal-worth of gummies in just three days, and started experiencing serious physical symptoms shortly after. He was taken to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain, sweating, high blood pressure, and cold sweat. Initially, the medical staff suspected that the man was suffering from food poisoning, but further tests revealed unusually high levels of gelatin in his digestive tract. After performing several tests, Rimington was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis.

In a video posted to TikTok Monday morning, President Donald Trump said that young Americans who use TikTok "owe" him following the announcement and signing of a new executive order that allows the popular video-sharing platform to continue operating in the United States under restructured ownership.


"To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big," Trump said in the video. "And now you're looking at me in the Oval Office, and someday one of you are going to be sitting right at this desk and you're going to be doing a great job."

The announcement came after lengthy negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials, facilitated by a bipartisan mandate passed by Congress during former President Joe Biden's term that required TikTok’s China-based parent, ByteDance, to divest its American assets to avoid a nationwide ban.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tells-young-people-of-tiktok-you-owe-me-big-10834916