Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · Evening Edition

Today

By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Seven people once held by ICE [sued the agency on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal documents and belongings months after their release](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-dhs-aclu-lawsuit-work-papers-property-confiscated) — Social Security cards and employment authorization papers people need to work and live. The confiscation is no aberration but the method of the administration's enforcement machine, and that machine bleeds workers even as it claims to protect them: the same mass-deportation drive is [projected to cut retirees' Social Security by $2,000 a year, having helped push the program's insolvency date up to 2032](https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-mass-deportation-push-may-cut-retirees-social-security-by-2k-annually). The repression reaches Congress too — Representative Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home was searched early Monday morning. Illinois Representative Delia Ramirez is behind a bill to abolish ICE and shut down DHS, moving some functions to other departments.

While Washington pours its energy into enforcement, Pennsylvania recorded its sixth measles-related death on Friday, in the state's worst outbreak. Public health collapses while the government hunts the people it should protect.

The state's appetite for killing and caging is on open display. Florida executed a prisoner who had killed his cellmate hoping for a death sentence — the state's 17th execution this year. Trump officials are now leaning against livestreaming the execution of the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people in 2009, after the Pentagon had said it would be broadcast. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, may be about to make the country's prisons far crueler. And the president reposted graphic footage of a man being attacked by a tiger at a British wildlife park — one of several clips of big cat maulings he pushed to his followers.

At the top, the rot is personal. Kimberly Guilfoyle is [holed up at the ambassador's residence in Athens after Trump asked her to resign, amid allegations she pressed wealthy businessmen to cover a luxury SUV debt](https://www.rawstory.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-2678081421). Trump [called on Governor Hochul to remove Attorney General Letitia James from the investigation into an alleged rape at Cornell](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-13/trump-calls-on-hochul-to-remove-james-from-cornell-investigation). Meanwhile capital presses its advantage on workers directly: six and a half months into a lockout, BP is [appealing its locked-out workers' unemployment benefits, a move that could force union members to repay what they've received](https://inthesetimes.com/article/bp-oil-refinery-workers-lockout-unemployment-appeal-benefits). Out in the country, farmers are squeezed by rising diesel and fertilizer costs under Trump. The bill for all of it lands on working people.