https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs

As the Department of Homeland Security continues to seek the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the agency said Friday it had identified a new country of removal that has agreed to accept the wrongly deported Salvador native: the West African nation of Liberia.

In a court notice filed Friday, Department of Justice attorneys said DHS has received "diplomatic assurances regarding the treatment of third-country individuals removed to Liberia from the United States and are making the final necessary arrangements for [Abrego Garcia's] removal."

According to the notice, DHS expects "to be able to effectuate removal as soon as October 31."

DHS, pressing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, says Liberia has agreed to accept him

A judge, however, has banned his removal while he awaits trial in Tennessee.

^{Laura Romero (ABC News)}

I hate this timeline.

Let’s break this down, because we have to look at how crazy this is.

• They’re saying that these companies are “avoiding or bypassing” Reddit’s TCMs. But, the way they’re doing that is by not scraping Reddit. You cannot claim that it is “circumventing a TCM” to get the same content… from Google. That’s crazy.
• Even crazier is that they’re arguing that the defendants are circumventing Google’s TCM, even though Google isn’t even a party.
• They’re making this claim over content that Reddit holds no copyright over. The copyright remains with the original creator. Reddit holds a license, but a license does not grant Reddit the right to sue over that copyright.

Each one of these ideas is crazy. All three of them together is ludicrous. Reddit is claiming that these companies violated copyright law by (1) avoiding Reddit and (2) getting the content from publicly available Google searches over (3) content that Reddit has no copyright over.

And somehow that’s supposed to be copyright infringement.

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet

When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been…

^Techdirt

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/dod-accepts-anonymous-130-million-donation-to-partially-cover-troop-pay-00622219

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed the West Bank annexation bill on Thursday following international pressure and U.S. President Donald Trump's statements against approving the bill.

The postponement comes one day after the Knesset (the legislative body) approved the bill to apply Israeli law and sovereignty to settlements in the occupied West Bank , a controversial decision that was immediately criticized by Palestine and the international community. According to Israeli coalition leader Ofir Katz, the process was halted on Netanyahu's direct orders, and party discipline was imposed on those who voted in favor.

President Donald Trump made statements on the matter, affirming that the West Bank would not be annexed by Israel and that he would withdraw all support if it were to happen. Despite being classified by these mediators as a threat to the peace proposal developed by the United States, the ceasefire has not been fulfilled and Israel has continued attacks on occupied territory and blocked the passage of humanitarian aid to Gaza , so there has not yet been true peace for the Palestinian people.

The measure, however, is seen as a precautionary measure by the prime minister to lessen pressure from his main international ally and from Arab countries that value the nation's regional impact . Several countries had issued statements hours earlier condemning the law as a violation of international law and calling on the international community to take action against these Israeli attacks.

The bill was approved last Wednesday as a proposal by legislator Avi Maoz of the far-right Noam party, and was approved with 25 votes in favor and 24 against. The annexation idea does not represent a majority in the Israeli parliament, with the prime minister's party being one of those that did not vote in favor of the law.

Palestine made its discontent known through a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it reaffirmed that the occupied territories in the West Bank belong to Palestine and that their sovereignty is the responsibility of the Palestinian people and their leaders . The Palestinian territory continues to be attacked by Israel despite the ceasefire, and hunger has remained a weapon of war , despite statements by Pope Leo XIV during the ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Israel aplaza ley de anexión de Cisjordania ante presión internacional - teleSUR

Trump afirmó que Cisjordania no se anexaría a Israel y que retiraría todo su apoyo en caso de llegar a realizarse.

^{Redactor (teleSUR)}

A new regulation will allow U.S. border authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at airports, seaports, land crossings and any other point of departure, expanding on an earlier pilot program.

Under the regulation, set to take effect on December 26, U.S. authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, it said.
It also allows border authorities to use facial recognition for children under age 14 and elderly people over age 79, groups that are currently exempted.

The tighter border rules reflect a broader effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration. While the Republican president has surged resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also taken steps to reduce the number of people overstaying their visas.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-expands-facial-recognition-borders-track-non-citizens-2025-10-24/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to U.S. Southern Command to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a social media post.

The USS Ford is currently deployed to the Mediterranean Sea along with three destroyers. It would likely take several days for the ships to make the journey to South America.

Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region that has already seen an unusually large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela.

Pentagon orders major naval deployment to Caribbean and South American waters

The Pentagon is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford to South America amid a growing military buildup targeting cartels and illicit activities.

^{AP via Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

Millions of college students could face significant new obstacles paying for graduate school after federal loan limits were signed into law this summer as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Starting July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated. Those loans previously allowed graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance.

New borrowers will be limited to $200,000 for professional degrees like law and medicine. Students in other graduate programs can borrow up to $100,000.

New federal loan limits threaten graduate school access for millions of students

^{Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

When Texas chose a company to roll out the state’s $1 billion private school voucher program, it passed over more established vendors in favor of a four-year-old tech startup that said it could do it for almost half the cost.

Now, Odyssey must execute on its promises to meet an aggressive timeline while avoiding missteps that have dogged other program launches.

The New York-based company has rapidly expanded in recent years, launching programs in eight states that subsidize students’ private education costs with taxpayer dollars.

In Texas, the startup is tasked with advertising the program, running the lottery to choose the students who participate and setting up the online marketplace where families can spend their state funds on private school tuition, tutors, computers and other approved items.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/odyssey-texas-private-school-voucher-contract-21106303.php

Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million ballroom, the historic East Wing has in fact been demolished. The images of the site are so jarring that the Treasury Department has reportedly ordered its employees to stop taking photos of it.

If the destruction of the East Wing is a shock, the money that’s paying for it might be even more of a scandal. The White House, eager to assure Americans that their tax dollars have not been diverted for a vanity project, has emphasized that the ballroom is being financed by individuals and major corporations. Instead of going through a process to obtain and disburse federal funds, Trump simply asked the companies his administration is supposed to be regulating to write checks.

The list of donors released by the White House includes the usual deep-pocketed Republicans, such as casino magnate Miriam Adelson and private-equity mogul Stephen Schwarzman, but also a host of companies whose leaders have huge incentives to maintain good relations with an often vindictive head of state. They include telecom giants and the railroad giant Union-Pacific—which needs the Trump administration’s sign-off on a proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern. (Union-Pacific did not respond to a request for comment.) And then there’s the tech companies—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

The Hill lists them: thehill.com/homenews/administr…

Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

^{Mother Jones}

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties.

The DOJ announced Friday that it is planning to monitor polling sites in Passaic County, New Jersey, and five counties in southern and central California: Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno. The goal, according to the DOJ, is “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”

https://apnews.com/article/doj-election-monitors-new-jersey-california-voting-30d355a9ced990218772eeff1b6642b3

Trump called the Reagan video/speech fake. Here is the entire thing posted 8 years ago to youtube.

It is transcribed here: reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

The nod is coming after months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday.

Jeffries will join Gov. Kathy Hochul and other senior New York Democrats who’ve announced their support for the democratic socialist after keeping him at arm’s length since his surprising Democratic primary victory in June. One of the people who spoke to POLITICO, who’s close to one of the two camps, said the announcement will come Friday afternoon in the form of a statement, rather than an event.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/after-a-lengthy-wait-jeffries-to-endorse-mamdani-00621799

The pace of the strikes has quickened in recent days from one every few weeks when they first began to three this week, killing a total of at least 43 people since September. Two of the most recent strikes were carried out in the eastern Pacific Ocean, expanding the area where the military has launched attacks and shifting to where much of the cocaine from the world’s largest producers is smuggled.

In a 20-second black and white video of the strike posted to social media, a small boat can be seen apparently sitting motionless on the water when a long thin projectile descends, triggering an explosion. The video ends before the blast dies down enough for the remains of the boat to be seen again.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-hegseth-drugs-boat-strikes-6c3316b2852723e26c39dc701bba9d52