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Warrantless Spying Report Signals Expansion of Domestic Surveillance
The report, which discloses surveillance actions undertaken during the last year of the Biden administration, details a marked uptick in querying of terms associated with U.S. persons, a decrease in the number of persons queried by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and most notably, an expansion of the 702 authority to include the war on drugs.
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-05-12-warrantless-spying-report-signals-expansion-of-domestic-surveillance/

Tlaib Backs Primary Challenger McKinney Over Democratic Incumbent Thanedar
Tlaib (D-Mich.) endorsed 32-year-old state Rep. Donavan McKinney (D-11), who last month announced he is seeking to oust pharmaceutical magnate-turned Congressman Shri Thanedar, who has represented Michigan's 13th Congressional District since 2023.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donavan-mckinney

Trump signs executive order to bring down prescription drug prices
The US leader also seemed to say that US pharmaceutical companies were not ultimately to blame for the difference in prices. Trump instead framed those high prices in the familiar terms of a trade imbalance with partners such as the European Union and said the US has been “subsidising” lower drug prices in other nations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/12/trump-signs-executive-order-to-bring-down-prescription-drug-prices
https://archive.ph/3xXvF

Trump administration welcomed white Afrikaans while ending Afghan protections
Over 9,000 Afghans could face deportation after the Department of Homeland Security announced the revocation of their temporary protected status on Monday. DHS said last month that it would not renew TPS status for Afghanistan refugees, but said Monday that termination is slated for July 12. Permitting Afghans to remain temporarily in the U.S. "is contrary to the national interest" of the country, the department said in its release.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/12/trump-afghanistan-south-africa-refugees

Trump reportedly fires head of US copyright office after release of AI report
The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US copyright office over the weekend – within days of the dismissed official having published a report about how the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could run afoul of fair use law.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/trump-fires-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter

Dalton drops charges against college student now facing deportation
All charges against 19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal were dropped after video evidence showed she was not the driver who committed the traffic violation during a May 5 stop in Dalton. Arias-Cristobal remains in ICE custody and faces deportation, despite being cleared of the traffic charges that led to her arrest.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dalton-drops-charges-against-college-student-now-facing-deportation

Newsom urges California cities to clear homeless encampments
The governor called upon every local government to implement policies without delay, stressing that such efforts are backed by billions of dollars in state funding and were affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which reversed a ban on clearing encampments in June 2024.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5295837-newsom-california-homeless-camps/
https://archive.ph/OWlN6

Pharmacy giant to gut hundreds of California stores as it shutters nationwide
Pharmacy giant Rite Aid could close every last one of its California stores after filing for bankruptcy for a second time last week and announcing plans to shutter all of its locations and distribution centers nationwide over the next few months, a representative for the drugstore chain confirmed with SFGATE. The company has approximately 1,240 stores spanning 15 states, and of the 347 California locations, at least 15 stores could be gutted in the Bay Area if they aren’t sold or transferred to a new owner.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/rite-aid-pharmacy-california-closures-20321737.php
https://archive.ph/RB3AO

Germany’s New Chancellor Is a Man Without Qualities
There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in 2022, Friedrich Merz was gifted a copy of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by his conservative colleague Wolfgang Schäuble, the veteran former finance minister and then president of the German parliament. A dismayed Merz is said to have handed back the book shortly after, exclaiming: “But this is a novel — what am I supposed to do with this?” The novel in question, narrated by the last aristocratic ruler of a remote island principate in Sicily, revolves around the old social order’s attempt to contend with the threat of rapid political change, encapsulated by its most famous phrase: “If we want things to remain as they are, things will have to change.” On the surface, this isn’t too dissimilar from the situation in which Merz finds himself. The new German chancellor, sworn in on Tuesday after a shaky confirmation vote in parliament, was once dubbed “the prince of neoliberalism” and is very much an unreconstructed representative of a system whose time has come.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/germany-merz-chancellor-cdu-neoliberalism

In May Immortals Week: The Main Thing On The Path Of Fhe Immortals is Organization And The Struggle! — DKP/BÖG
The struggle for revolution and socialism has always been carried to the present day by paying a great price in the lands we live in. It is not possible to be revolutionary without paying a price in the geography we live in. We are also representatives of a political tradition that has paid a great price for the freedom struggle of the working class and the oppressed based on the needs of the class struggle. Our Party Founding Leader, Commander and Teacher Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu, who played a great role in bringing us to this day, was immortalized on May 9, 2017. Our immortals will always continue to lead and guide us in our march to the future. On this occasion, we consider it our duty to state once again that we will walk with the most determination in the revolutionary march opened by our immortals in the person of our Commander, Leader and Teacher Comrade Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu (Mehmet Kurnaz), which is the beginning of the Immortals Week.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/19057/

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
In the two revolutionary years of 1848-49 the League proved itself in two ways. First, its members everywhere involved themselves energetically in the movement and stood in the front ranks of the only decisively revolutionary class, the proletariat, in the press, on the barricades and on the battlefields. The League further proved itself in that its understanding of the movement, as expressed in the circulars issued by the Congresses and the Central Committee of 1847 and in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, has been shown to be the only correct one, and the expectations expressed in these documents have been completely fulfilled. This previously only propagated by the League in secret, is now on everyone’s lips and is preached openly in the market place. At the same time, however, the formerly strong organization of the League has been considerably weakened. A large number of members who were directly involved in the movement thought that the time for secret societies was over and that public action alone was sufficient. The individual districts and communes allowed their connections with the Central Committee to weaken and gradually become dormant. So, while the democratic party, the party of the petty bourgeoisie, has become more and more organized in Germany, the workers’ party has lost its only firm foothold, remaining organized at best in individual localities for local purposes; within the general movement it has consequently come under the complete domination and leadership of the petty-bourgeois democrats. This situation cannot be allowed to continue; the independence of the workers must be restored.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

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