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Slingshot News: ‘Innocent Americans Are Suffering’: Karoline Leavitt Accidentally Tells The Truth, Admits Trump’s Government Shutdown Is Hurting The American People [Video]

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During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt admitted that Trump’s government shutdown is hurting the American people. Leavitt stated, “Innocent Americans are suffering.”

‘Innocent Americans Are Suffering’: Karoline Leavitt Accidentally Tells The Truth, Admits Trump’s Government Shutdown Is Hurting The American People
During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt admitted that Trump’s government shutdown is hurting the American people. Leavitt stated, “Innocent Americans are suffering.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/innocent-americans-are-suffering-karoline-leavitt-accidentally-tells-the-truth-admits-trump-s-government-shutdown-is-hurting-the-american-people/vi-AA1P3QAp

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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News Nation: NYC woman lives in ‘constant fear’ after monthslong ICE detention

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Larysa Kostak was at a routine court hearing when three masked officers grabbed her, put her in shackles, and dropped her in a crowded holding room at 26 Federal Plaza, New York City’s immigration court. 

She was so frightened, she couldn’t remember her husband’s phone number to call for help.

“That moment, my life stopped and split before and after,” the Brooklyn resident of 20 years told PIX11 News. 

Kostak was held for seven days in one of the building’s widely-criticized holding rooms, then transferred 1,000 miles away to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana. Her story has become all too common as federal agents crawl the hallways of 26 Federal Plaza, constantly and often violently cuffing immigrants who’ve shown up for court, according to advocates who say the Trump administration is acting unlawfully.

Three months later, Kostak is reunited with her son and husband in Sheepshead Bay. But her fight to stay in the U.S. is far from over, as the federal government tries to detain her again, her lawyers said.

“I lost three months of my life. I don’t want to [lose] my life again. I live in constant fear of being re-arrested,” Kostak said. “I don’t want to go back there.”

NYC woman lives in ‘constant fear’ after monthslong ICE detention
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Larysa Kostak was at a routine court hearing when three masked officers grabbed her, put her in shackles, and dropped her in a crowded holding room at 26 Federal Plaza, New …

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/nyc-woman-lives-in-constant-fear-after-months-long-ice-detention/amp

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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

If you thought what happened after the 2020 election was bad,

the worst is yet to come!

ABC News: Trump: Suspected drug smugglers ‘will be hit on land’ [Video]

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The Trump administration is expanding its campaign against alleged drug traffickers, announcing the first strikes against boats in the Pacific Ocean and saying it’s prepared to go even further. 

Trump: Suspected drug smugglers ‘will be hit on land’
The Trump administration is expanding its campaign against alleged drug traffickers, announcing the first strikes against boats in the Pacific Ocean and saying it’s prepared to go even further.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-suspected-drug-smugglers-will-be-hit-on-land/vi-AA1P2Ayn

Washington Post: Democrats warn Trump team against ‘weaponizing’ the IRS

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The Trump administration is pushing to make it easier to launch criminal tax investigations.

Democrats from the Senate’s powerful tax-writing committee demanded Wednesday thatadministration officials drop large-scale changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would make it easier to launch criminal investigations of President Donald Trump’s political opponents.

Democrats warn Trump team against ‘weaponizing’ the IRS
The Trump administration is pushing to make it easier to launch criminal tax investigations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/22/democrats-warn-trump-irs

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/democrats-warn-trump-team-against-weaponizing-the-irs/ar-AA1OZLKL

Associated Press: Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

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After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis.

New enrollment figures from 20 selective colleges provide mounting evidence of a backslide in Black enrollment. On almost all of the campuses, Black students account for a smaller share of new students this fall than in 2023. At Princeton and some others, the number of new Black students has fallen by nearly half in that span.

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

https://apnews.com/article/affirmative-action-college-admissions-race-princeton-8d3c44eb6b01d0689f7c109041735aec

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/black-enrollment-is-waning-at-many-elite-colleges-after-affirmative-action-ban-ap-analysis-finds/ar-AA1P3t3J

Today: ICE Intensifies Crackdowns Despite Mounting Protests Across US

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Chaos and clashes in cities across the United States continue to unfold amid intensifying ICE raids, with videos of arrests going viral. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY. 

ICE Intensifies Crackdowns Despite Mounting Protests Across US
Chaos and clashes in cities across the United States continue to unfold amid intensifying ICE raids, with videos of arrests going viral. NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY.

https://www.today.com/video/ice-intensifies-crackdowns-despite-mounting-protests-across-us-250450501842

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Daily Beast: ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

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Spending went from almost $9 million under Biden in 2024 to $71 million in Trump’s first nine months.

The number of weapons bought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly surged 700 percent under President Donald Trump—and even includes chemical agents and warheads.

Federal purchasing logs show ICE spent $71,515,762 on “small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories,” including military supplies, weapons, and ammunition, in the nine months between Jan. 20 and Oct. 18.

ICE Is Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons
Spending went from almost $9 million under Biden in 2024 to $71 million in Trump’s first nine months.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike

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