We discuss the shooting of three ICE detainees in Dallas, Trump’s Gold Card and 100k H1B visa fee, soybean tariffs, and reports of the FBI designating trans people “terrorists.”

Sources:
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09-16-2025-Whistleblower-Disclosure-to-Congress-re-Guatemalan-UC-Repatriation-SN.pdf

https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MEMORANDUM-OPINION.pdf

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/the-gold-card/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1970491119831028000

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550915/trump-immigration-judges

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/g-s1-86691/military-lawyers-immigration-judges-jag

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-afpi-tpusa-hillsdale-college-and-over-40-national-and-state-organizations-launch-america-250-civics-coalition#:~:text=Home-,U.S

https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/centers/america-250-civics-education-coalition?__cf_chl_tk=CX4TkwEkLHCaXlh.Fd5SU143s0.XxeWDM.gYxCgS1R4-1758115761-1.0.1.1-PtDspNboVVBLqiywS5GF3.Ns09TzWf.a9IAN86NyplM
https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people

https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-violent-extremists-terrorist

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The gang discuss the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter, texts between him and his roommate, and how the Trump admin is using Kirk’s assassination to attack free speech by labeling Antifa a terrorist organization and promising to target activist groups funding terrorism. We also talk about ICE killing a single father in Chicago and deportations to Ghana.

Sources:

https://x.com/ConsulMexCho/status/1966636249910738951

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09/12/dhs-statement-ice-officer-seriously-injured-line-duty-and-shooting-chicago-during

https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.37.0_2.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773/gov.uscourts.dcd.284773.41.0.pdf

https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/04/calmatters-partners-with-evident-media-on-a-documentary-exposing-truth-behind-border-patrol-raid/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/16/us/tyler-robinson-charges.html

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html

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The gang discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Epstein birthday book, an ICE raid of a Hyundai plant in Georgia, the DOJ's consideration of a trans gun ban, and an update on the Cop City RICO case.

Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/da39f7d0b

Sources:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/873/

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/customs-and-border-protection-settles-federal-lawsuit-american-citizens-racially

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/l.g.m.l.-v.-noem--a-hearing-diary

ttps://qz.com/higher-investment-means-hyundai-could-get-2-1-billion-1850832920

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa

https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-reactions-charlie-kirk-shooting-civil-war/

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news

https://x.com/mkraju/status/1965108206969241953

https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1963635111112446449

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-considering-banning-trans-people-buying-guns-us-media-2025-09-04/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

https://archive.ph/kI2Uo

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/rfk-jr-hhs-to-link-autism-to-tylenol-use-in-pregnancy-and-folate-deficiencies-e3acbb4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yok1fhPICAY

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The gang discuss rumors of Trump’s declining health, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser acquiescing to the federal police occupation, and plans for federal deployment in Chicago. Plus, updates on tariffs and Ukraine.

Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/28/vance-training-president-trump-good-health/85852650007/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/07/memorandum-from-the-physician-to-the-president/

https://x.com/MayorBowser/status/1962951947436032219/photo/2

https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/03/chicago-illinois-crime-immigration-ice-national-guard-donald-trump-jb-pritzker

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/trump-trade-supreme-court-tariffs-appeal.html

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105.159.0_1.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/business/trump-tariffs-appeals-court-ruling

https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/02/donald-trump-national-guard-deployment-chicago-jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-crime

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The gang discuss the school shooting in Minneapolis and the shooter’s obsession with mass killers, how Trump is trying to fire the Federal Reserve Governor, and a possible nationwide National Guard deployment.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-us-lose-trump-tariffs-russia-wins-2025-08-27/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operations/monetary-policy-implementation/repo-reverse-repo-agreements

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_faq.html

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/01/how-the-feds-overnight-reverse-repo-facility-works/

https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html

https://fortune.com/2025/08/09/trump-fed-pick-stephen-miran-existential-threat-central-bank-independence/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-12-trillion-u-s-repo-market-evidence-from-a-novel-panel-of-intermediaries-20250711.html

https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-banks

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/forthcoming/1202mart.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/lisa-cook-fed-governor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.oyr3.s4yYTqcf14ZD

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/prosecuting-burning-of-the-american-flag/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/measures-to-end-cashless-bail-and-enforce-the-law-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/taking-steps-to-end-cashless-bail-to-protect-americans/

https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-guard-mobilizing-19-states-immigration-crime-crackdown

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/additional-measures-to-address-the-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/kennedy-announces-nih-study-into-psych-drugs-after-second-trans-school-shooter

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The gang discuss the Israeli cybersecurity official who bailed out and went home after being charged with sex crimes against children, the IDF's murder of journalists in Gaza, changes in USCIS guidance and Federal Agents opening fire on a California family.

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

https://x.com/IDF/status/1954652255199887516

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/idf-press-releases-israel-at-war/august-24-pr/eliminated-ismail-al-ghoul-a-hamas-military-wing-operative-and-nukhba-terrorist/

https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-calls-for-anas-al-sharifs-protection-in-face-of-israeli-smears/

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/

https://www.icrc.org/en/article/international-humanitarian-law-protect-journalists-armed-conflict

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250819-DiscretionaryFactors.pdf

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1424&num=0&edition=prelim

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-alerts/08.15.2025-Restoring_a_Good_Moral_Character_Evaluation_Standard_for_Aliens_Applying_for_Naturalization-Policy_Memorandum_FINAL.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26054451-20-1/#document/p17/a2667744

https://www.wmtw.com/article/old-orchard-beach-maine-officer-voluntary-departure/65807962?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

https://edsource.org/updates/immigration-agents-alleged-to-have-boasted-of-1500-for-l-a-student-arrest

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/ice-bonuses-immigrants-deportations.html

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The gang discuss the deployment of National Guard and federalization of police in Washington DC, a Heritage Foundation economist being appointed to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a shooting targeting the CDC headquarters.

Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-help-for-bukets-asylum-case

Sources:

https://www.cvesd.org/parents/family-and-community-resources
lausd.org

https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/577/Parent%20Resources/ComResourceGuideEng.pdf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2024/11/21/with-trump-back-in-power-advocates-criticize-gloria-for-shuttering-immigrant-affairs-office

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/trump-bls-ej-antoni.html

https://x.com/AngulusTerrarum/status/1955320816855294169

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/1955041060197114136

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/stephen-miran-federal-reserve-board-e7855877

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bls-appointment-ej-antoni-alarms-economists-2112440

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/bls-nominee-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ej-antoni-trumps-pick-lead-bls/story?id=124579471

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8600x7dnn4o

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-democrats-return-after-governor-ends-special-session/story?id=124592449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5loldo4Vmno

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-gunman-cdc-shooting-fired-500-rounds-officials/story?id=124577732

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-jr-in-interview-with-scripps-news-trusting-the-experts-is-not-science

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

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