Today’s facts 10-09-2025

Today’s facts …

The US healthcare.gov website says: Undocumented immigrants can't get Marketplace health coverage. Congressional Republicans are telling us differently.

John Lennon would have been 85 today.

Marco Rubio gave Trump a note: “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.” An AP photographer caught a pic of it.

On this day in 2009, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s will be announced tomorrow. The nomination deadline was last January.

A priest was hit in the head with a pepper ball by an ICE agent while peacefully protesting outside an Illinois detention center.

Trump held an Antifa roundtable with conservative influencers.

Antifa is not an organization. It is derived from the word anti-fascist, which means opposed to fascism.

Fascism is an ideology defined by a dictatorial leader, the regimentation of society, and the forcible suppression of opposition, with the most prominent example being Adolf Hitler's Germany. 

When asked about suspending habeas corpus, Trump said “suspending who?”

Habeas corpus is a legal protection that requires a court to review whether a person is being held in custody lawfully.

There is no provided evidence that the boats targeted by the US military were carrying drugs.

Columbia says the last boat hit killed civilians, not drug dealers.

Most cocaine is produced and smuggled elsewhere in Latin America, not Venezuela, as Trump claims. Venezuela does not supply fentanyl at all.

The Pentagon is isolating reporters and making it more difficult to communicate with sources.

Florida Publix grocery stores have announced that customers may open carry.

Disney theme park prices have been raised. 

Inflammatory breast cancer is on the rise.

Dolly Parton says she’s “not dying" in a new video.

A former California resident has been arrested for starting the deadly Palisades Fire.

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