🇺🇸 US TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation. It’s mind-boggling.” The Trump effect. 🤷🏼 www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Imo the next administration should raze every ICE detention facility to the ground except for the two worst. Make the worst one a museum like Auschwitz, and use the second-worst one to imprison these ghouls.
Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoMarkwayne Mullin on conditions at ICE facilities: "We're not providing Holiday Inns. These people broke the law."
Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
theguardian.com
Fetterman joined nearly every Republican senator in voting against a resolution that would have required the Trump administration to produce an unclassified report on Israeli abuses in the illegally occupied West Bank, including the imprisonment and killing of Palestinian Americans.
Fetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank
The measure would’ve required the State Department to issue a report on Israeli human rights practices in the West Bank.
truthout.org
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
sfchronicle.com
Excellent !!. Ken Paxton said that "Everybody’s numbers dropped" when Trump did that recent convention for them. #ETTD
Sarah Posner@sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h agoTrump says he is embarking on 32 days of campaign travel before November elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · yesterdayHere's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children: theatln.tc/j6Df5aTI
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Nothing to see here? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin shares a D.C. home with a Republican congressman
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago.
advocate.com
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.
BREAKING: The Federal Reserve's independent watchdog said it found no reasonable grounds to believe there was a violation of federal law — despite Trump's claims — in that multibillion-dollar renovation project Jerome Powell led that drew short-lived scrutiny from prosecutors.
BREAKING NYT: Ken Paxton told a group of conservative donors and lobbyists last week that Trump's midterm convention in Dallas had hurt Paxton politically, according to an audio recording obtained by The Times. "[W]hen we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody's numbers dropped."
Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
nytimes.com
WSJ Exclusive: The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV. The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
wsj.com
Meta Claims Billions in Tax Credits by Calling AI Data Centers Experimental.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 10h agoNew reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s. The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
Pete Kegbreath doing more performative bullshit.
End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...
End of the world
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UK household energy bills forecast to rise 16%, or £276, in January. Household energy debt expected to hit £7bn soon. Heating v Eating dilemma. 120,000 a year die in poverty. Companies profiteer, fuelling costs, inflation, poverty. Public ownership gives govt more policy options.
Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years
A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.
bbc.co.uk
Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jordan Klepper and Daily Show writer Randall Otis discuss tech CEOs trying to project a "cool guy image"
You can always count on Susan Collins to be "troubled" by the policies her votes have enabled