Liveblog - February 03, 2025

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Updates:

Some migrants arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown have been released back into the U.S.

Space constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested.

The Trump administration aggressively publicized the arrests of more than 8,000 immigrants by federal agents since Inauguration Day, with the promise that those detained would be part of a historic mass deportation. But NBC News has learned that some have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program, according to five sources familiar with the operations.

***This is called: Catch and Release.

Trump and leaders of Canada and Mexico say tariffs will be delayed one month after talks

Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada’s Justin Trudeau announced plans to combat drug trafficking on their borders. New tariffs on goods from China are still set to go into effect.

Days after announcing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump agreed to delay them for one month after leaders from Canada and Mexico announced moves to ramp up security at their borders — averting, at least for now, tariffs that could have driven up prices for U.S. consumers and stalled the countries’ economies.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on social media Monday afternoon that Canada would be spending $1.3 billion on a plan to reinforce its border with new helicopters, technology and personnel, as well as additional resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. 

You Can’t Always Get What You Want:

It's not about fentanyl. It was never about fentanyl. Nothing Canada does about fentanyl will solve this.It's Anschluss.

Simon Little 🇨🇦 (@simonplittle.ca) 2025-02-03T19:07:19.717Z

The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:

State News: Honda’s new EV production revolution begins with $1 billion investment in Ohio

The company’s emerging EV hub in Ohio, including a separate $3.5 billion battery plant, will be the flagship for Honda’s global manufacturing operations.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio — Honda Motor is launching the next generation of its manufacturing in a historically unusual place for the 75-year-old Japanese automaker: Ohio.

Honda is in the midst of completing more than $1 billion in new investments — upped Wednesday from an initially announced $700 million — in the state this year. Upgrades most notably include installing six “giga presses,” which were made well-known by Tesla, and a new “cell” manufacturing system for its upcoming electric vehicle battery cases.

REPORTER: What you said about Ukraine earlier — the rare earth. Do you want them to give the rare earth to the United States?TRUMP: Yeah

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-03T18:56:06.086Z

Trump claims we lose "close to 300,000" Americans annually to fentanyl (this is a lie)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-03T18:47:13.371Z

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T17:44:11.431Z

From the MarKODA Files-So Fucking Dumb:

Trump: "I opened up the water for California. It's a great thing. It's too bad they didn't do it themselves. I had to do it and it was not easy. We did it a very rough way. And I didn't like to do it a rough way, we shouldn't have to do it a rough way."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-03T18:52:41.061Z
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