ICE spends big on surveillance techImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is on a surveillance spending spree: The agency is using much of its windfall from this summer's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act to fund a major expansion of biometric identification, cellphone tracking and... See More »
Venezuela operation expands in the darkThe U.S. military has killed at least 32 people in seven strikes off the coast of Venezuela without telling Congress or the American people who was killed, or on what evidence, Axios' Dave Lawler and Marc Caputo write. The big picture: The U.S. is... See More »
Remembering Bela LugosiMonday, October 20 would have been Bela Lugosi's 143rd birthday. As many fans know, he was born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi, in Lugos, Hungary. Lugosi began acting on the Hungarian stage in 1902, appearing... See More »
With God On Our SideBy Bob Dylan Oh, my name, it ain't nothin' My age, it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that the land that I live in Has God on its side Oh, the history books tell it,... See More »
No Kings Rally coverageAnyone watching the big, beautiful, nationwide No Kings Rally on Fox News? Of course you aren't. They are ignoring them! Haven't seen Newsmax or OAN coverage to any degree. C-Span is covering the DC rally live, while CNN, and MSNBC are covering... See More »
Meet your new on-site Pentagon press corpsMeet your new on-site Pentagon press corps: The Washington Post obtained a list of the 15 journalists who agreed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new restrictions. They include two journalists from One America News, one from the Federalist and... See More »
Israel Air Strikes In Lebanon, Despite Ceasefire DealMore than 20 Israeli airstrikes hit southern Lebanon overnight in under 30 minutes, destroying a quarry, a concrete plant, and a stone-cutting factory used to rebuild war-damaged towns, with explosions heard as far as Saida. Lebanon’s Health... See More »
The Genocide in Gaza/Ceasefire Updates/Killings in West BankSource: Drop Site News Oct. 17, 2035 The Genocide in Gaza The Israeli military shelled a minibus carrying approximately 10 people in the Zaitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City on Friday, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. One injured boy was... See More »
GOP Rep Says Rural Areas Will Just Have to Deal With Hospitals ClosingRepresentative Mike Flood isn’t worried about the fact that Donald Trump’s bill will force hospitals to close. During an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday, Nebraska Representative Mike Flood didn’t deny co-host Joe Scarborough, who told him... See More »
Ceasefire UpdatesSource: Drop Site News The Egyptian Red Crescent said at least 400 trucks carrying food, fuel, and medical supplies were headed for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the branch of the... See More »
The Genocide in GazaAt least two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on Wednesday, and Israeli tanks fired on Palestinians in the town of Bani Suheila and the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood, east of Khan Younis—despite... See More »
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) did not allow lawmakers to consider the Democrats’ alternative funding measureThe Senate on Tuesday evening — for the eighth time — failed to advance the House-passed “clean” funding stopgap bill championed by congressional Republicans. The vote ended in a 49-45 margin, with the only difference being Sen. John Fetterman... See More »
things to know about the health care fight behind the shutdown.October 12, 20257:02 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday By Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR Democrats say extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits is urgent. Republicans say there's plenty of time to figure it out. As the government shutdown goes... See More »
Trump officials reportedly consider selling student loan debt to private investors.Experts say the move could eliminate the federal government’s power to cancel educational loans By Marina Dunbar/The Guardian Sun 12 Oct 2025 07.00 EDT Officials in the Trump administration are reportedly weighing the possibility of selling... See More »
Trump Goes On Tariff Rage! /STrump announces 5000% tariffs on inflatable Frog Costumes. Cows, giraffes, and dinosaurs are next!
Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protestsBy Erik Neumann (OPB) Oct. 11, 2025 8 a.m. Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies. Benny Johnson, a pro-Trump social media... See More »
Thousands of Palestinians Return to Gaza City to Find a Wasteland of Rubble. “There’s nothing left for them to destroy.”By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous Oct 11, 2025/Drop Site News GAZA CITY—Nizar Daghmash, the 56-year-old head of the Daghmash family council, stood in front of the ruins of his family home in Gaza City on Friday after making the... See More »
ICE isn’t hiring the best people It’s getting harder and harder to tell “law enforcement” from the criminals they claim to protect us from.Oct. 11, 2025, 5:00 AM CDT By Julian Sanchez, author of the politics and technology newsletter, "Non-Content" and co-host of the podcast, "WatchCats" As federal agents swarm American cities on the orders of President Donald Trump, it’s getting... See More »
What's Happening In Chicago Right Now Should Terrify EveryoneChicago is the warning sign the nation cannot afford to ignore. By Mike Nellis/Substack News Oct 9, 2025 I’ve gotten into a bad habit lately—waking up every morning and checking to see what new horror ICE has unleashed on the people of Chicago.... See More »
How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games.If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms. Oct. 8, 2025, 9:50 AM CDT By Richard L. Hasen, professor at UCLA School of Law With President... See More »
ICE blamed me for assaults on agents — rather than the agency’s own recklessness.Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos. Oct. 8, 2025, 3:11 PM CDT By David J. Bier, immigration policy scholar at the Cato Institute This weekend,... See More »
Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse.The political world is overdue for a conversation about the severity of the conflicts between the Republican administration and the faith community. Oct. 8, 2025, 11:56 AM CDT By Steve Benen On the first full day of his second term, Donald Trump... See More »
Democrats proved the insiders wrong on the shutdown.The conventional wisdom was that a shutdown was a losing fight. Oct. 9, 2025, 5:00 AM CDT By Symone D. Sanders Townsend, co-host of "The Weeknight" The conventional wisdom is always right until it’s not. In Washington, the conventional wisdom on g... See More »
Some Bats Sing Love SongsSome bats sing love songs. Animals & Nature by Michael Nordine/Interesting Facts A bat flying toward the moon Anyone who’s ever serenaded their sweetheart has more in common with bats than they might think. In 2009, researchers at the University... See More »
Danger Lurks As CBS Capitulates To Right Wing ExtremismAs corporate media and the White House blur into one unholy entity, we must be intellectually armed and ready to fight the increasing disinformation war. By Qasim Rashid, Esq./Substack News Oct 09, 2025 Once upon a time CBS was the home of Walter... See More »