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Slingshot News: ‘They Are Phony Crime Stats’: Trump Makes Desperate Attempt To Justify His Federal Takeover Of Washington D.C. During Remarks At The White House [Video]

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During his remarks in the Oval Office in August, President Trump made a desperate attempt to justify his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. Trump claimed, “They are phony crime stats.”

‘They Are Phony Crime Stats’: Trump Makes Desperate Attempt To Justify His Federal Takeover Of Washington D.C. During Remarks At The White House
During his remarks in the Oval Office in August, President Trump made a desperate attempt to justify his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. Trump claimed, “They are phony crime stats.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-are-phony-crime-stats-trump-makes-desperate-attempt-to-justify-his-federal-takeover-of-washington-d-c-during-remarks-at-the-white-house/vi-AA1P5Bmb

Guardian: Democratic senators call on education department to stop ICE raids by schools

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Cory Booker, Ed Markey and others urge Linda McMahon to step in amid violent crackdowns near Chicago schools

A group of Democratic senators have demanded that the Department of Education stop immigration enforcement activities from taking place close to schools, following several violent crackdowns near school grounds in Chicago.

Although the raids are conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the senators are making an appeal directly to the education secretary, Linda McMahon.

They said aggressive actions were affecting the safety of students.

“Federal agents continue to use unwarranted, excessive levels of force around Chicago, demonstrating an alarming lack of care or regard for the health and wellbeing of children, particularly by conducting unfocused, inflammatory operations within close proximity of school grounds,” the senators wrote, according to NBC News.

“We demand you pressure your colleague, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem, to reinstate restrictions on federal immigration enforcement operations in and around places of education.”

Democratic senators call on education department to stop ICE raids by schools
Cory Booker, Ed Markey and others urge Linda McMahon to step in amid violent crackdowns near Chicago schools

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/democratic-senators-ice-raids-schools

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-senators-call-on-education-department-to-stop-ice-raids-by-schools/ar-AA1P7vQK

MSNBC: ‘Power and joy’: How protestors are rejecting Trump’s fear tactics [Video]

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Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin joins MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff to discuss why laughter and ridicule, not fear, are driving the movement’s fight against Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.

‘Power and joy’: How protestors are rejecting Trump’s fear tactics
Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin joins MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff to discuss why laughter and ridicule, not fear, are driving the movement’s fight against Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/power-and-joy-how-protestors-are-rejecting-trump-s-fear-tactics/vi-AA1P0Rk4

MSNBC: Lessons from Argentina raise red flags for U.S. democracy under Trump [Video]

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Author Haley Cohen Gilliland joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber on The Beat to discuss her new book, “A Flower Traveled In My Blood,” and the lessons it draws from Argentina and democracy under President Trump.

Lessons from Argentina raise red flags for U.S. democracy under Trump

Author Haley Cohen Gilliland joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber on The Beat to discuss her new book, “A Flower Traveled In My Blood,” and the lessons it draws from Argentina and democracy under President Trump. (The Beat’s daily podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/lessons-from-argentina-raise-red-flags-for-u-s-democracy-under-trump/vi-AA1P3rP8

The i Paper: Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

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The deputy chief of staff’s power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear

If civil war begins in the US – and with Donald Trump’s commitment to deploying troops on the country’s streets, there is every possibility that it might – Stephen Miller will probably view it as his own personal, signature achievement.

No figure in Trump’s inner circle exhibits more zealotry than Miller – the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – about the revolutionary ambitions of the “Make America Great Again” movement. Nor more of a willingness to lay waste the country’s constitutional guardrails in an effort to supercharge the President’s powers, disregard Congress, and ignore court rulings that fail to go the administration’s way.

Last week, even Trump acknowledged the extremism of the Rottweiler in his midst.

Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats
The deputy chief of staff’s power at the White House appears to know no bounds, and his voice is one of the most influential in the President’s ear
Stephen Miller is Trump’s Rottweiler. Now he wants to dismantle the Democrats

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/stephen-miller-is-trump-s-rottweiler-now-he-wants-to-dismantle-the-democrats/ar-AA1P2ev6

San Francisco Chronicle: Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base

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During the fracas at the Coast Guard base, federal agents deployed apparent flash-bang grenades to disperse the crowd and fired a pepper round that struck a clergyman near the chin. The impact caked his face and clothing in orange powder.

The Rev. Jorge Bautista, pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ in San Mateo, said an agent shot him in the face with the projectile from about 5 feet away.

“I’m in a lot of pain,” Bautista texted the Chronicle from an emergency room in Oakland. “He clearly was aiming for the face.”

Protest of Bay Area immigration crackdown met with apparent stun grenades at Coast Guard base

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/federal-immigration-action-operation-protest-21115746.php

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Slingshot News: ‘Talk About How Biden Let Us Down’: Trump Scrambles, Orders Cabinet Member To Somehow Blame Biden When Pressed On His Tariffs Destroying Farmers

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During a cabinet meeting earlier this month, Donald Trump scrambled for a way out when a reporter pressed him on the soybean farmers who are currently suffering because of his tariffs. Trump ordered Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to somehow blame it all on former President Joe Biden. 

‘Talk About How Biden Let Us Down’: Trump Scrambles, Orders Cabinet Member To Somehow Blame Biden When Pressed On His Tariffs Destroying Farmers
During a cabinet meeting earlier this month, Donald Trump scrambled for a way out when a reporter pressed him on the soybean farmers who are currently suffering because of his tariffs. Trump ordered Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to somehow blame it all on former President Joe Biden.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/talk-about-how-biden-let-us-down-trump-scrambles-orders-cabinet-member-to-somehow-blame-biden-when-pressed-on-his-tariffs-destroying-farmers/vi-AA1P20AV

Daily Beast: The One Thing Trump’s Impeachment Hangs On⁠ [Video]

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In our first members-only Q&A, Joanna Coles is joined by Nico Hines and Farrah Tomazin to discuss how Trump can still be impeached, the likelihood of this happening, and whether he would remain in office if it did.⁠

The One Thing Trump’s Impeachment Hangs On⁠
In our first members-only Q&A, Joanna Coles is joined by Nico Hines and Farrah Tomazin to discuss how Trump can still be impeached, the likelihood of this happening, and whether he would remain in office if it did.⁠ ⁠

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-one-thing-trump-s-impeachment-hangs-on/vi-AA1P3Gqa

The Hill: Reporter feuding with Leavitt: ‘The president lies’

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Dáte, who authored a book about Trump titled “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus,” defended what he characterized as his responsibility to call out Trump for misleading statements.

“I routinely say that the president lies. He does … What can I do? I mean, that’s who he is, and so I don’t apologize for that at all,” the reporter said.

Reporter feuding with Leavitt: ‘The president lies’

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5567128-huffpost-reporter-white-house-feud

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reporter-feuding-with-leavitt-the-president-lies/ar-AA1OYIcM

Independent: Trump’s ‘election integrity’ chief claimed president has future powers to declare voting emergency

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Heather Honey’s statements follow president’s aggressive effort to radically reshape elections before 2026

Trump says FBI and Tulsi Gabbard ‘working on’ elections plan as he repeats bogus claims

It was clear from the outset that Donald Trump’s administration would include high-ranking government officials who either endorsed his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, or refused to publicly admit he lost.

The president continues to hammer a baseless narrative that the election was rigged against him, vowing publicly that it must never “happen again” as he deploys officials to prepare for midterm elections with the balance of power in Congress — and his agenda — at stake.

Before she was tapped as Trump’s “election integrity” official at the Department of Homeland Security, Heather Honey reportedly told a group of right-wing activists in March that the president could declare a “national emergency” to effectively take control of local election administration.

She said the move would follow an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election, if it revealed “manipulation” of the results, according to The New York Times, which had a recording of the call.

“We have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” she said. “[W]e can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.”

Trump’s ‘election integrity’ chief claimed he could declare voting emergency
Heather Honey’s statements follow president’s aggressive effort to radically reshape elections before 2026

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-election-emergency-heather-honey-b2850270.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-s-election-integrity-chief-claimed-president-has-future-powers-to-declare-voting-emergency/ar-AA1OZeFE

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