After Oklahoma’s wingnut anti-gay Superintendent quits, calls to suicide hotline decrease by 36%
Trump kills another 14 boaters, bringing (known) total to 50 killed
Utah plans 16-acre concentration camp for homeless people
AND NOW THE NEWS
#556
NOVEMBER 1, 2025
the news you need,
plus my brilliant opinions
Excerpt: As of Friday, 10 days after his arrest, Cruz was still not appearing on the online detainee locator system, which is a “direct violation of ICE’s standard to locate detainees who have been in custody for more than 48 hours,” according to the letter.
Secret Police forcibly abduct an elderly man from a Walmart in Portland, as he cries out for help
How a former Trump golf club worker was mistakenly deported to Mexico
It’s almost comical that the New York Times frames this as an accidental oopsie. The only accident is that the Times found out.
People come out of their houses to protect the community
Baton shatters over protester’s head as LAPD’s mounted force charges ICE demonstrators
US-born Houston teen says ICE agents beat him and his father during early-morning stop
ICE goons back into a US citizen’s car, then arrest her for documenting their actions
ICE goons abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week; his whereabouts remain unknown
Secret Police follow mother into a school and aggressively detains her and her children
ICE goons kidnap random person from a bus stop in San Fernando
Portland mother released after 4 months in immigration detention
Noem lies that ICE has never arrested US citizens
Trump threatens to ban rival political ads in truth-twisting meltdown
For dissing Trump, US revokes Nobel Laureate’s visa
Trump calls dementia screening “very hard” IQ test, then brags about result
Texas attorney general sues Tylenol maker over autism claims
This is what Republicans care about.
RFK Jr. orders CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms
And this is what Republicans care about.
White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for Trump’s visit to Navy celebration
Trump tells Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons
New Texas rule allows judges to stop marrying same-sex couples
Hate group wins $885,000 over “conversion therapy” bans
Trump’s DOE will make LGBTQ+ nonprofit workers ineligible for student loan forgiveness
Trump looks to stop gender-affirming care for America’s transgender youth: report
Trump admin’s racist Halo memes are ‘a new level of dehumanization of immigrants’
When it comes out that she’s married to a Nazi, Michigan elected official thinks she’s the victim
House Republicans seek to void Biden pardons, so Trump can prosecute more enemies
The Texas Tribune is a non-profit paper out of Austin, and I’ve long considered it better than average, but then there’s this pop-up as I visited the Tribune website today.
If you can’t read the image, it says, “The Texas Tribune Festival; Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the closing keynote at TribFest; TribFest 2025 is presented by JPMorganChase.”
Dr Sanjay Gupta is a crackpot doctor famous from CNN, and JPMorganChase is one of the most evil corporations in America.
Times are tough all over, and the Texas Tribune needs money, so they’re taking it from Certified Evil. Tickets to TribFest, by the way, start at $350. Fuck that.
AMERICAN POLICE ARE OUT OF CONTROL
IGNORING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
That’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
11/1/2025
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Mitchipedia, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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