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Judge rules Trump administration cannot continue to detain Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
The judge is staying his injunction until 9:30 a.m. Friday. The timing gives the Trump administration about 40 hours to appeal the decision before Khalil must be released, his attorneys said. The preliminary injunction will go into effect once Khalil posts a "nominal bond in the amount of $1," the judge's order said. Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, has been held in a Louisiana detention facility since ICE agents arrested him in the lobby of his apartment building in New York City on March 8.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-rules-trump-administration-cannot-continue-detain-mahmoud-khalil/story?id=122750911

US immigration officials raid California farms as Trump ramps up conflict
Immigrant advocacy groups reported multiple actions across the state, where an estimated 255,700 farm workers are undocumented, and said agents pursued workers through blueberry fields and staged operations at agricultural facilities. The raids have been sharply criticized by advocacy groups and local officials, who said they were “outraged and heartbroken by Ice activities targeting immigrant families”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/la-los-angeles-police-mass-arrests-overnight-curfew

US immigration raid of Omaha meat plant cuts staff, fuels food production worries
ICE agents detained about 74 to 76 workers out of roughly 140 at the Glenn Valley Foods plant, President Chad Hartmann said. Other workers did not show up on Wednesday because they felt afraid or traumatized, he said, adding that the facility's production dropped to about 20% of normal.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-immigration-raid-omaha-meat-plant-cuts-staff-fuels-food-production-worries-2025-06-11/

David Hogg to exit Democratic National Committee after months of turmoil
“I came into this role to play a positive role in creating the change our party needs,” Hogg said in a statement, announcing that he was withdrawing from the race. “It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair – and it’s okay to have disagreements. What isn’t okay is allowing this to remain our focus when there is so much more we need to be focused on.” He continued: “Ultimately, I have decided to not run in this upcoming election so the party can focus on what really matters.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/david-hogg-dnc-democrats

Worker who leaked plans to build golf courses in Florida parks files whistleblower suit
James Gaddis alleges that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection retaliated against him for sharing details of the proposals, which caused bipartisan outrage and sparked protests. Ultimately the plans were scuttled.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-state-parks-whistleblower-lawsuit-desantis-5a97d29b7e11131f7c0868ee73decef0

Denmark cucking themselves into oblivion.

>>2313958
>David Hogg to exit Democratic National Committee after months of turmoil
Genuinely hilarious to watch this guy win and then immediately allow himself to be ousted by the most spineless geriatrics imaginable. All these people out to reform the Democratic party are the most incompetent people in US politics right now. HOW DO YOU GET OUTMANEUVERED BY THE PARTY THAT ONLY EVER GETS OUTMANEUVERED?!

Britain’s left can come back stronger than ever: 10 years ago this month, Corbyn saved Labour from its right-wing problem, and then the party machine turned on him. But all is not lost yet for the left, says KEITH FLETT
IN 2025, discussion on the left is about how to shift a Labour government towards pursuing a more left-wing or at least social democratic agenda. For example, a clear break from austerity, a wealth tax, an end to cuts on benefits and a clear anti-racist position. Alternatively another focus is whether it’s possible to create an alternative left-wing political structure to challenge Labour on this basis. The media is highly unlikely to remember it or feature it but 10 years ago this month, June 2015, a potential answer to these points arose. Ed Miliband had lost the 2015 general election, with an unexpected win for Tory leader Dave Cameron. Miliband had led Labour mildly from the left but at the election the party had not decisively broken from Tory austerity, or developed a clear anti-racist policy. In fact on the party’s EdStone — a series of modest demands suggesting no clear break from the previous five years of Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition — it pledged the reverse. On May 8 2015 Miliband resigned as Labour leader, and Harriet Harman became interim leader. Nominations from MPs for a new leader opened on June 8 and closed on June 15. Thirty-five MPs needed to nominate a candidate for them to make the ballot. Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper easily cleared the threshold. Two others also did so. Liz Kendall from the Labour right, whose campaign manager was the then unknown Morgan McSweeney, and Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn just got over the line with 36 nominations. A number of MPs, including my own, David Lammy in Tottenham, made it clear that while they did not fully agree with the Islington North MP, they felt it was important that there was a voice from the left on the ballot. This idea of Labour as a broad church of left and progressive views has since been abolished by Keir Starmer.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/britains-left-can-come-back-stronger-ever

Israel’s War Is Florida’s New Investment
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is set to quietly ban any financial-risk standards when local governments use public money to invest in bonds funding Israel’s government – just months after a major credit rating agency warned the bonds were at risk of default and a potential “junk” rating. By creating the special carveout and allowing unrestricted investments into a foreign country on the brink of regional war, Florida politicians now threaten to funnel an even greater share of local governments’ savings to the Netanyahu regime’s war efforts. The legislation also introduces a new financial model enabling local governments around the country to invest virtually limitless sums in the Israeli war effort, despite the mounting financial risk of doing so. The Florida bill was brought to the legislature by one of the state’s wealthiest counties and home base of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort: Palm Beach, which is facing a lawsuit from its own residents for sinking 15 percent of its savings portfolio in debt-issued Israeli bonds, making the county the world’s largest investor in Israel bonds. The only foreign bonds that localities in Florida can invest in by law are from Israel. Outside of direct military assistance to Israel from the federal government, bond purchases have become a key node for U.S. states and localities to provide billions of taxpayer dollars to Israel, particularly during the Israel-Hamas war following the Oct. 7 attacks. The main broker for Israel bonds, which operates on behalf of the Israeli government, lobbied for the first-of-its-kind legislation, according to records reviewed by The Lever.
https://www.levernews.com/israels-war-is-floridas-new-investment/

Zionism: False Messiah
When they embarked on their campaign for a Jewish homeland, the Zionists didn’t let any ideological attachment to Palestine stand in their way. In fact, in the first years after Herzl formed the World Zionist Organization, Zionists debated a number of alternative targets for colonization: Uganda, Angola, North Africa. In 1903, Herzl accepted a British government proposal to colonize Jews in Uganda, a decision which proved controversial in Zionist ranks. Herzl’s death in 1904 put an end to colonization schemes outside of Palestine. Yet the debate on alternative sites for the Jewish state exposed the Zionist enterprise in two respects. First, it showed that political Zionism placed the colonizing project ahead of any 2,000-year longing for Jewish people to “return” to Palestine. Second, it showed that, from its inception, Zionism depended on European powers’ sponsorship of its colonial-settler aims. Early Zionists made no secret that they hoped the Jewish state to be what Herzl called: “a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” [13] Herzl’s writings abound with praise for the leading imperialist powers in Europe. Herzl admired the German Kaiser’s dictatorship: “To live under the protection of a strong, great, moral, splendidly governed and thoroughly organized Germany is certain to have most salutary effects upon the national character of the Jews.” [14] In 1902, he wrote to Lord Rothschild, a British Zionist with connections in the highest reaches of the British state: “So far, you [the British empire] still have elbow room. Nay, you may claim high credit from your government if you strengthen British influences in the Near East by a substantial colonization of our people at the strategic point where Egyptian and Indo-Persian interests converge.” [15] Zionism’s founders exuded pro-imperialist racism against what they considered the “backward peoples” of Asia and Africa. When it came to seeking imperialist sponsors, the Zionists had no scruples about dealing with any regime, no matter how rotten or anti-Semitic. Herzl himself negotiated for increased Jewish emigration to Palestine with Vyacheslav von Plehve, the Russian Tsar’s Interior Minister and architect of one of the worst pogroms in history at Kishinev in the Russian Empire in 1903. During the First World War, leading Zionists ingratiated themselves to British imperialism. They hoped that Britain would reward them after it defeated the Ottoman Empire, which controlled Palestine. They achieved their goal with the 1917 declaration by Tory politician Lord Balfour. The Balfour Declaration proclaimed British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” under British protection. That Balfour had sponsored legislation to bar Jewish immigrants from Britain in 1905 didn’t faze the Zionists.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/selfa/1998/xx/zionism.htm

>>2314046
>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/selfa/1998/xx/zionism.htm

This is pretty good. It echoes a lot of what Zionism in the Age of Dictators says.