8 Comments on “Thursday Cartoons: October 33”

1. Mama Lopez says:

   October 2, 2025 at 10:12 am

   I knew those numbers were too high:

   ADP REPORT: NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST WAS REVISED DOWN TO -3,000 FROM
   54,000

   CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

   — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-01T14:10:25.192Z

   • dakinikat says:

     October 2, 2025 at 2:13 pm

     Expected that. The economy is in the shitter. The shutdown is really going to pour gasoline on that fire.

2. dakinikat says:

   October 2, 2025 at 2:13 pm

   The Justice Department eliminated 275 positions and shuttered its Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. The restructuring affects 140 federal employees through elimination or reassignment, marking the largest DOJ reorganization in two decades reut.rs/4nxYuUg

   — Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-10-02T18:30:10.790Z

3. dakinikat says:

   October 2, 2025 at 2:15 pm

   Mississippi has had to declare a public health emergency due to the concerning increase in the infant mortality rate.To put it into perspective, Dr Warren explained that this very concern increase in infant mortality rate translates to about 20,000 infant deaths a year.#Pinks#InfantMortality

   — Miranda 🖤🤍💜 (@doomscroling.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T17:35:07.520Z

4. dakinikat says:

   October 2, 2025 at 2:17 pm

   It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights.This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

   — Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T17:46:49.086Z

5. bostonboomer says:

   October 2, 2025 at 4:06 pm

   I love that cartoon of the generals sneaking up behind Trump with a straitjacket.

6. dakinikat says:

   October 2, 2025 at 6:09 pm

   BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

   — ACLU (@aclu.org) 2025-10-02T22:42:56.660Z

7. dakinikat says:

   October 2, 2025 at 7:33 pm

   ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

   Anti-ICE protesters marched up Michigan Avenue on Tuesday evening.

   CHICAGO (WLS) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

   Residents and neighbors are speaking out at what they call a traumatic event.

   “My building is shaking. So, I’m like, ‘What is that?’ Then I look out the window, it’s a Blackhawk helicopter,” said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.

   Wednesday morning, DHS officials said in a statement, “”In the early morning hours of September 30, 2025, allied federal law enforcement agencies with CBP, FBI, and ATF, executed an enforcement operation in Chicago’s South Shore area, a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates. Some of the targeted subjects are believed to be involved in drug trafficking and distribution, weapons crimes, and immigration violators.”

   DHS said 37 people were arrested.

   ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later.

   “They just treated us like we were nothing,” Fisher said.

   Fisher said she came out to the hallway of her apartment complex on the corner of 75th and South Shore Drive in her nightgown around 10 p.m. Monday only to find armed ICE agents yelling “police.”

   “It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face,” Fisher said. “They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, ‘No,’ I didn’t.”

   Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

   “They, like, piling us all up in the back on the other side, and it wasn’t no room to move nowhere,” Fisher said.

   Citizen app video captured the chaotic scene, and neighbors say there were dozens of ICE agents.

   AND this is coming to my city soon. Guess I’ll keep the birth certificate handy