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US Senator Sanders favors Trump plan to take stake in Intel, others
The unusual alignment between Sanders and President Trump on government ownership stakes in private companies highlights a marked shift by Trump toward policies of state intervention in the economy that are typically associated with the left.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-sanders-favors-trump-plan-take-stake-intel-others-2025-08-20/

Medicaid effort to target undocumented immigrants may create enrollment hurdles
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin providing states with "monthly enrollment reports identifying individuals whose citizenship or immigration status could not be confirmed through federal databases," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. The reports will draw on data from sources including the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. HHS emphasized that states are responsible for reviewing cases, verifying the immigration status of individuals on the CMS' reports, and "taking appropriate actions." All states will receive these reports within the next month, per the HHS.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-medicaid-chip-undocumented-immigrants
https://archive.ph/Z6QMy

MAGA erupts after Israeli official charged in child sex ring flees U.S.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the handling of the case was "standard," and the State Department denied that the U.S. government intervened. But acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah, whose jurisdiction covers Nevada, posted on social media: "The individual who fled our country should have had his passport seized by the state authorities. He must be returned immediately to face justice." Chattah said that Attorney General Pam Bondi was "outraged" and placed calls to both her and FBI Director Kash Patel.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/israel-maga-child-sex-ring-alexandrovitch
https://archive.ph/DWA8Z

2 Harlem construction workers sue contractors they blame for Legionnaires' outbreak
Duane Headley and Nunzio Quinto, both from Nassau County in Long Island, allege in court papers they contracted Legionnaires’ disease while working construction sites at or near Harlem Hospital Center, in the Central Harlem community at the center of a deadly weekslong outbreak. "This medical tragedy… was a completely preventable outbreak," the plaintiffs’ attorney Ben Crump told reporters Wednesday in Harlem. "When corporations cut corners, tragedies like this happen."
https://gothamist.com/news/2-harlem-construction-workers-sue-contractors-they-blame-for-legionnaires-outbreak
https://archive.ph/8x4dt

DoJ says voting machine maker funneled LA county money into slush funds used to pay bribes
The justice department is alleging in a new court filing that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred money from a 2018 voting machine contract with Los Angeles county into slush funds that were originally set up to pay bribes to election officials in Venezuela and the Philippines between 2012 and 2016 to obtain and retain lucrative election contracts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/smartmatic-voting-machines-bribery

'Educating, Not Evangelizing': Court Rules Against Texas Ten-Commandments-In-Every-Classroom Law
As reported by local news station KSAT, US District Judge Fred Biery of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction, ruling that the state's law crossed the line from education to proselytizing on behalf of a specific sect of Christianity.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas-ten-commandments-law

Feds move to restrict funding for Virginia schools, punishing support for transgender students
Arguing that the schools are violating federal civil rights laws by accommodating students based on their gender identity, rather than their sex assigned at birth, the department says it will require the districts to pay their expenses upfront and then request reimbursement in order to receive over $50 million in grants and other funding. The department said it’s also “commencing administrative proceedings seeking suspension or termination of federal financial assistance.”
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-donald-trump-es-linda-mcmahon-glenn-youngkin-gender-75a8b773a435f25690b34d267d607d26

Oregon city that tried to ban homeless encampments agrees to ensure 150 camping spaces
Under the settlement, Grants Pass must ensure that at least 150 camping spaces are available in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act for the next 12 months. Drinking water and hand washing stations must be available on-site. The city must also provide $60,000 in grant funding to a non-profit for homeless services.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/oregon-grants-pass-homelessness-settlement-camping-spaces

CP of Venezuela, 88 years after the First National Conference of the PCV: We continue to stand up with class consciousness and revolutionary dignity
Today, as yesterday, we true Venezuelan communists face the immense challenge that was taken up 88 years ago by that generation of forgers and builders. It is not a question of starting over, but of identifying and learning from the historical experience contained in our struggles, from the moral and ethical lessons present in the heroic example of those first communists, which should strengthen us for the new times and struggles ahead. This implies strengthening the link between our cells and the militancy with the social organizations of the people, especially those that fight for just rights and challenge the power of the bourgeois state, its authoritarian government, and its repressive apparatus; in addition to promoting permanent collective study and reflection, relying on the works of our classics for the scientific analysis of reality and the problems we face as exploited, excluded, and persecuted. In short, it is a matter of returning to social life fully armed ideologically and politically with the strength of our history, our organizational forms, and our practices of struggle, forged over nearly a century of existence. This legacy, the inalienable heritage of the PCV-DIGNIDAD, is at the service of workers and the people in their struggle to overcome the backwardness of dependent Venezuelan capitalism and its collapsed model of rentier accumulation. The Venezuelan people are not condemned to endure the inhuman conditions of dependent capitalism or the renewed and crueler forms of economic exploitation based on neoliberalism, which privatizes resources that belong to the entire nation. Nor should they submit to the domination of a corrupt, inept, and authoritarian bureaucratic elite that exploits power for its own benefit, violating rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and laws, and dragging the country toward a dangerous abyss.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-88-years-after-the-First-National-Conference-of-the-PCV-We-continue-to-stand-up-with-class-consciousness-and-revolutionary-dignity/

The Frustrations and Resentment of Working-Class Russians Review of Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Rebellion by Jeremy Morris (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
On August 5, a Telegram user named Arseniy wrote in a group chat: “Good morning. Today is day 1259 of the criminal war,” followed by a quotation by Albert Camus on how war distorts human nature. He was posting in an old group chat for a grassroots environmental group, created in 2019 to coordinate action and to spread information during a wave of protests. I had joined back then as a researcher doing ethnography on environmental mobilizations in the Russian periphery. I spoke with most of the group coordinators, both at the time and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I don’t remember how many members the group chat had back then. Now there are a few hundred. Looking back to 2019, it’s clear that most of the Telegram accounts that ever joined it have since been deleted. To follow these groups in 2025 is a weird experience. My research now has a different agenda. Nonetheless, I still check these groups from time to time. I want to peek into the ordinary lives of people who I know were not supportive of the government to try and follow the arc of their lives amid major geopolitical disruptions and increasing state repression. While it is often possible to catch glimpses of the everyday reality of Russian citizens, connecting the dots is far more difficult. Jeremy Morris’s new book, Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Rebellion, is an effort in this direction. It asks: What is actually going on in Russia?
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/russia-working-class-neoliberalism-resentment

ENVER HOXHA The Tragic Events in Chile: A Lesson for the Revolutionaries of the Whole World
In Chile the counter-revolutionary storm continues to rage against the working masses, the patriots and fighters of that country. The rightist forces which seized power as a result of the September 11 coup d’état have established a reign of terror which even the Hitlerites would have envied. People are being ruthlessly murdered and massacred everywhere, in the streets or at work, without trial, and on any pretext. The sports stadiums have been transformed into concentration camps. Progressive culture is being trampled underfoot. Marxist books are being burnt in bonfires in the squares, nazi style. While the democratic parties, trade-unions, and democratic organizations have been outlawed, mediaeval obscurantism is spreading over the whole country. The most fanatical, ultra-reactionary forces of darkness, the agents of American imperialism are strutting on the political stage. The democratic freedoms which the people had won through struggle and bloodshed were wiped out within one day. The events in Chile affect not only the Chilean people, but all the revolutionary, progressive and peace-loving forces of the world, therefore, the revolutionaries and the working people not only of Chile, but also of other countries, ought to draw conclusions from these events. Of course, we are not talking of an analysis of purely national details and aspects, or of specific actions, shortcomings or mistakes of the Chilean revolution, which do not go beyond the internal framework of this revolution. We are speaking of those universal laws which no revolution can avoid and which every revolution is obliged to apply. The problem is to examine and assess in the light of the events in Chile which views proved correct and which distorted on the issues of the theory and practice of the revolution, to verify which theses are revolutionary and which are opportunist, and to determine which attitudes and actions assist the revolution and which assist the counter-revolution.
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/albania/chile.html

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