US military doesn’t know who it’s killing in boat attacks
Excerpt: “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said in his remarks. “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
AND NOW THE NEWS
#557
NOVEMBER 4, 2025
the news you need,
plus my brilliant opinions
Trump’s HHS orders state Medicaid programs to help find undocumented immigrants
ICE’s hiring surge is attracting a bunch of unfit & criminal applicants
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
“To protect and serve,” but not you.
On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
Excerpt: In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head. They grabbed workers at an apartment complex in Hoffman Estates, landscapers, house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.
“There’s no due process” — ICU nurse, army veteran among US citizens caught in ICE dragnet
“I don’t feel safe” — Black Memphis residents report harassment by Trump’s police task force
Immigration agents detained a schizophrenic man — then dropped him miles from home
ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law
Why does Google need to see your driver’s license to evaluate whether your app is safe?
Condé Nast kills Teen Vogue‘s progressive political coverage
It was always surprising, but Teen Vogue‘s political and news coverage was among the best, and never dumbed down for the young audience. Now it’s over.
NOAA cancels funding for data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems
Excerpt: Again, I feel the need to repeat this because it is so incredibly stupid. Literally in the same sentence where he says CBS had to pay him “a lotta money” because it edited a 60 Minutes interview, he tells them to edit the interview not to air that section. Then he claims “you can’t have fake news.” Even though what he’s claiming is literally fake news. They didn’t pay him because they changed the answer. They paid him to get their merger done. Everyone knows it.
Israel’s top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
US Rep Nancy Mace curses, berates confused cops in airport meltdown
Vance says he hopes his wife, a Hindu, converts to Christianity someday
For religious people, Religion is important. The only way a marriage of two different religions works is if religion doesn’t matter to at least one of them. That’s Vance, of course, who’s about as religious as I am.
That’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
11/4/2025
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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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