https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/fbi-agents-reassigned-ice-immigration

Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns.

Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump administration has moved 45% of FBI agents in the country’s 25 largest field offices to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown. Across all of the FBI’s offices, 23% of the roughly 13,000 total agents at the bureau are now working on immigration, according to Warner, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.

Warner’s office said the FBI agents now deployed alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent have been taken away from their work tackling cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, espionage, violent crimes, counterintelligence and other efforts that are part of the bureau’s mission – some areas that Trump has claimed are White House priorities.

The data, first reported by the Washington Post, suggests the FBI is dramatically shifting its objectives in an effort to back Trump’s increasingly aggressive immigration raids, with the administration targeting 3,000 daily arrests and seeking to expand its detention capacity to detain more than 100,000 immigrants.

The data is understating the scale of the reorganization, as the FBI only provided counts for agents who are now spending more than half of their job doing immigration enforcement, according to Warner. The senator’s office said it was likely that more than a quarter of FBI agents’ total hours were now dedicated to immigration, and that in some field offices, more than half of the agents had been redirected to DHS.

Day 12 of making a thread everyday until trump TACOs and your poor Grandma doesn't die in the street like a dog.

Day 12 Updates:
- Panicked Republicans Beg Trump to Ditch His Shutdown Plot https://www.thedailybeast.com/panicked-republicans-beg-taco-donald-trump-to-ditch-his-shutdown-plot/
- Why some Republicans are getting cold feet about Trump’s shutdown layoff threats https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/republicans-trump-shutdown-layoffs-analysis
- Republicans in disarray over how to end their shutdown https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/8/2347555/-Republicans-in-disarray-over-how-to-end-their-shutdown
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Having failed to successfully threaten the lives and families of enough representatives to force them to withdraw support from a bill that would compel the DOJ to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has elected to prevent the House of Representatives from reopening for another week.
Informed readers will note that there is nothing preventing Speaker Johnson from reconvening the House during the shutdown, and that as Speaker he would be capable of blocking any bills put forth by lawmakers attempting to negotiate and end the shutdown.
They will also note that keeping the House from reconvening allows Speaker Johnson to delay swearing in newly elected representative Adelita Grijalva, who has pledged to be the final signatory of a petition that would compel Speaker Johnson to bring Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's Epstein transparency bill to a vote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5549384-johnson-house-closed-government-shutdown/

>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he won’t call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends.

>“We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, as the lapse in funding stretched into a 10th day. “That’s the fact. That’s where we are.”

>Johnson had canceled previously scheduled House votes on Sept. 29 and 30 — the last two days before the shutdown — and then again for the entirety of this week. The move was designed to maximize the pressure on Senate Democrats to support the GOP-led stopgap spending bill, which passed through the House last month.

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-says-he-will-impose-additional-100-tariffs-on-china/a-74315664
US President Donald Trump has announced new 100% tariffs on all Chinese goods, in addition to already existing tariffs on Beijing, after China placed export controls on rare earths.

The US president claimed the tariffs, which will go into effect on November 1 "or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China" were reciprocal.

Trump plans to impose export controls on "any and all critical software."

"It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them," Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

"It is absolutely unheard of in international trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations".

Trump then announced the new punitive measures in retaliation. The new 100% tariffs come on top of 30% US duties which were already in place on Chinese imports, summing up to a whopping 130% tariff rate on Chinese goods.

The new tariffs threaten to restart a trade war first launched earlier this year shortly after Trump took office, with both nations exchanging exponentially high tariffs which were later paused after several rounds of negotiations.

Earlier on Friday, Trump threatened to cancel a meeting planned with Chinese President Xi Jinping in nearly three weeks in South Korea.

The US president had said there was no reason to hold the meeting after China announced its dramatic expansion of its rare earth element export controls.

On Friday evening however, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he has not cancelled the meeting.

Beijing dominates the market for rare earths, which are essential for tech manufacturing.

Day 11 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 11 Updates:
- Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/republicans-democrats-us-government-shutdown
- Americans are feeling the impact of the Democrat Shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html
- Trump: Funds have been identified to pay troops https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-government-shutdown-news-10-11-25

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

Day 11 of posting a thread every day until Republicans gain a soul and restore healthcare to Americans.


Day 11 Updates:
- Marjorie Taylor Greene blames GOP leadership for shutdown https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/greene-blames-gop-leadership-shutdown
- Democrats win momentum over GOP in shutdown fight https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5545981-shutdown-momentum-democrats/
- MSNBC bursts out laughing as host cheers MAGA lawmaker for slamming GOP leadership https://www.rawstory.com/government-shutdown-2674175892/
- GOP 'dysfunction' blamed as millions of American families could soon go hungry https://www.rawstory.com/gop-shutdown-2674171331/
- Poll finds more Americans blame Trump, GOP for shutdown than Democrats https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-finds-americans-blame-trump-gop-shutdown-democrats/story?id=126162507

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-ag-letitia-james-indicted-in-virginia-after-investigation-by-trumps-doj/

A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, according to the clerk of court in the Eastern District of Virginia, marking the second Trump foe to face federal prosecution in recent weeks.

The indictment came exactly two weeks after a grand jury in the same Virginia courthouse voted to indict former FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress.

Last month, Mr. Trump publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into Comey, James and a third longtime Trump antagonist, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California.

James has drawn Mr. Trump's ire for years. Her office sued the president and the Trump Organization for fraud in 2022, leading a judge to issue a nine-figure judgment against the company. Mr. Trump has referred to James as "scum," "corrupt" and "racist."

CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department and James' office for comment.

The charges against James are unclear. In May, CBS News reported that the Justice Department had launched a criminal probe into James around alleged mortgage fraud. Three months later, the Justice Department expanded its investigation into James for her office's handling of its Trump Organization probe.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangiones-lawyers-push-dismissal-federal-charges-assassination-u-rcna237057
Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive.

In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and ammunition were found.

They said Mangione was not read his rights before he was questioned by law enforcement officers, who arrested him after Brian Thompson was fatally shot as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference.

They added that officers did not obtain a warrant before searching Mangione’s backpack.

Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for his company’s annual investor conference.

The killing set off a multi-state search after the suspected shooter slipped away from the scene and rode a bike to Central Park, before taking a taxi to a bus depot that offers service to several nearby states.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/11/donald-trump-and-abdel-fattah-al-sisi-to-chair-gaza-peace-summit
Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.

The meeting would take place on Monday afternoon in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh “with the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries”, the Egyptian presidency said.

It will aim “to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security and stability”.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said he would attend, as will Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, and Pedro Sánchez of Spain. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has also confirmed his attendance.

There was no immediate word about whether Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu would be in Sharm el-Sheikh. Hamas has said it will not take part.

On Saturday, three Qatari diplomats were killed in a car crash at the Red Sea resort, two security sources told Reuters. Two diplomats were also wounded, the security sources said.

The summit was arranged after Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire and prisoner-swap deal after intense indirect negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh in recent days. More than 67,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza. The war began after a Hamas-led incursion into Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.

The negotiations, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, and involving the US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, precipitated the truce and subsequent increase of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

The announcement came as thousands of Palestinians journeyed along the north of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, car and cart back to what was left of their homes.