🌎 Around the EMPIRE: Donald Trump’s ICE Raids took in 35 people

Massive ICE raids over the weekend yielded 35 total arrests according to the AP after the initial target was to take in around 2,100 total people.

One potential reason for the ICE and the Trump administration’s massive fail when it came to trying to meet their inhumane numbers is the mass communication and networking that citizens undertook to protect immigrants leading up to and during the weekend.

The AP further reported that immigrants rights activists led massive “know your rights” campaigns in cities like Houston, New York and Chicago who have large immigrant populations.

“To inform the public, they used hotlines, text networks, workshops, social media and promoted a smartphone app that notifies family members in case of an arrest.”

However, this isn’t the end to the Trump administration’s attempts to sow discourse amongst the American public when it comes to immigration and try to stop migrants and asylum seekers from coming over the border altogether.

This past week, the Administration has rolled out plans to limit the number of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America, allow officials to deport more unauthorized immigrants without a court hearing and have reportedly discussed lowering the refugee cap to near zero.

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🇬🇧 The UK has its own blonde problem

As expected, Boris Johnson was elected to succeed Theresa May as British Prime Minister, a role he’s expected to take on Wednesday. Despite his notorious laziness and lack of solution, he’ll be expected to devise a plan to get Britain out of the EU within the next 99 days.

⚖️ Donald Trump files a lawsuit against the Ways and Means Committee

According to Axios, Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit (as a private citizen) against the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York tax commissioner Michael Schmidt in an effort to prevent them from releasing his state tax returns.

🗽9/11 Victims Compensation Fund extended through 2092

In a 97-2 final tally, the Senate today voted to fund the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund through 2092. Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) were the only senators to vote no.

The fund, which helps roughly 93,000 9/11 first responders and victims who are still being monitored and/or treated after the attacks back in 2001 would have seen aid run out by 2020. According to the New York Daily News the total number of people killed as a result of the 9/11 attacks is set to exceed 2,977 people.

📱 Apple in talks to buy Intel’s Smart Phone Modem Chip Business

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is still in talks to buy Intel’s smartphone modem chip business. The reason behind this is looking to develop its own modem capabilities for its iPhone after a recently settled legal dispute with Qualcomm.

🚎 Tom Hanks is a spot on Mister Rogers

The new trailer for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” dropped Monday and featured Tom Hanks nailing the role of the TV icon Fred Rogers.

The movie is set to be released this upcoming Thanksgiving.

🎮 Is GameStop the next to die?

Is GameStop the next retailer to succumb to the online and digital revolution that has killed the likes of Blockbuster and Borders? Not so fast GameStop chief customer officer Frank Hamlin says in a recent interview with GameSpot citing that the physical game business still has a market due to the internet still not being available to everyone and games like Red Dead Redemption II and it’s potential 8K graphics capability pushing a file size of 400 GB.

Still, though, the Company’s share price is hovering right around $4 which is down from the $55 it was back in November of 2013 and the $60 it was back in 2007.

🏈 Mark Sanchez retires from the NFL to take an ABC/ESPN college football broadcasting job

32-year-old Mark Sanchez, a former fifth overall pick of the New York Jets has opted to call it a career after receiving zero offers from NFL teams this offseason. “The Sanchize’s” decision though was essentially made for him after ABC offered him a very lucrative job in which he’ll take over for Mack Brown during the main in-studio televised broadcasts.

Aside from being an epic bust, Sanchez did see some success his first two years in the League but will be most remembered for his epic “butt fumble” against the New England Patriots.

🤣 MTV has released the 2019 VMA nominees

We’re not sure why they’re still doing this.