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Deputy US marshal and man shot during Ice operation in Los Angeles
During the operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents surrounded and boxed in a man in his vehicle. Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS assistant secretary, said the man used his vehicle to ram the federal agents’ vehicles in an attempt to flee. Officers then fired “defensive shots”. The man was shot in the elbow. The deputy marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, the DHS said. Both were taken to the hospital.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/deputy-marshal-shot-los-angeles

State websites blame Republicans for food stamp cuts as shutdown drags on
States have started to warn that millions of families could go without food aid next month, and some have adopted the Trump administration's more partisan tone. "Because Republicans in Washington, D.C., failed to pass a federal budget, causing the federal government shutdown, November 2025 SNAP benefits cannot be paid," the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services website said. "Federal officials with the Trump Administration have told all states that if the Republican federal government shutdown continues, it won't pay for SNAP (food stamp) benefits in November," the Illinois Application for Benefits Eligibility website said.
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/snap-benefits-trump-democrats
https://archive.ph/9OSg6

Trump nominates new Army vice chief with current general just two years into the role
The nomination and replacement come less than a week after Adm. Alvin Holsey, the Navy admiral who is overseeing military operations against alleged drug boats off Venezuela, announced a surprise, early retirement in December. About a month ago, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, head of the Air Force’s Global Strike Command, also suddenly announced his retirement, citing “personal and family reasons.”
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-army-vice-chief-of-staff-pentagon-07cc8040bd90e4e7a0ccb6be7a476e32

Trump administration plans to distribute farmer aid amid shutdown
The administration plans to open all FSA offices, which will enable farmers to get and cash payment checks, Rollins said in an interview on Fox Business. Rollins said on X that the aid would total more than $3 billion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-plans-distribute-farmer-aid-amid-shutdown-2025-10-21/

CNN Cuts Off Pelosi Primary Challenger’s Discussion of NSPM-7
Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive organizer who is challenging US Rep. Nancy Pelosi for the House seat she has held since 1987, was met with stone-faced stares and laughter on CNN when he spoke during a panel discussion Monday about the Trump administration national security memo that one journalist said amounts to a “declaration of war” on the president’s political opponents.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/left-wing-extremist-groups

Federal agents carry out joint ICE crackdown on NYC's Canal Street: Official
In response to protests, senior administration officials from City Hall went to the scene to monitor the ongoing situation. "We have learned about the federal law enforcement action on Canal Street in Manhattan this afternoon and are gathering more details. We never cooperate with federal law enforcement on civil deportation matters, in accordance with local laws, and have no involvement in this matter," a spokesperson for City Hall said in a statement to ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-agents-carry-joint-ice-crackdown-nycs-canal/story?id=126736264

Catherine Connolly: Ireland’s left candidate
Connolly has brought together the largest grouping of left-wing political parties, trade unionists, cultural and community organisations, anti-war and solidarity groups-in a presidential election since the foundation of the Irish state. But her election is not a forgone conclusion in spite of her polls being high. The October 17 edition of the Irish Times carried a headline in reference to the forthcoming Irish presidential election which read: “Connolly holds commanding 18-point lead entering the final week.” She was on 38 per cent to Heather Humphrey’s 12 per cent. However, while such a headline might be of comfort to Connolly’s supporters some of the more cynical among us would think there could have been an ulterior motive in writing such a headline. Could it have been a sort of clarion call to those who do not desire a left-wing candidate as president to come out and vote for her opponent? We all know of the story of the Trojan Horse and the old saying “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” (No offence to Greeks.) So was there an ulterior motive?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/catherine-connolly-irelands-left-candidate

My Time in Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center: This is an excerpt from The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas by Belén Fernández, now available from Rutgers University Press.
The first time I spoke with survivors of the Darién Gap, I was in jail in Mexico. It was July 2021, and I was serving a brief stint as the token gringa inmate in Siglo XXI, Mexico’s largest immigration detention center, located in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, just west of the border with Guatemala. Over two thousand kilometers to the southeast of Tapachula lies the Darién Gap, known in Spanish as el Tapón del Darién or “the Darién Plug”: a 106 kilometer stretch of territory that straddles Panama and Colombia and constitutes the only roadless interruption in the Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to the tip of Argentina. The Darién Gap encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle that has in recent years become a mass migrant graveyard, as hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers from across the world are forced to contend with its horrors while pursuing the prospect of a better life in the United States, still some five thousand kilometers away. With the blessing of the US government, the Tapachula jail was inaugurated in 2006 during the presidency of former Coca-Cola Mexico CEO Vicente Fox, whose administration had — with either witting or unwitting irony — bestowed the name “Siglo XXI” upon the facility, meaning “twenty-first century.” Having overstayed my Mexican visa during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and then relied on the fake-Mexican-entry-form-mongering services of an immigration official in Mexico City, I was nabbed at Tapachula airport while attempting to board a domestic flight and hauled off to Siglo XXI for a twenty-four-hour glimpse of a twenty-first-century border apparatus designed to thwart the movement of US-bound migrants. Under normal circumstances, journalists are banned from entering the prison — and it’s not hard to see why. The overcrowded, unhygienic conditions reek of human rights abuses, while the space resembles a psychological torture den for folks who have so often risked their lives to get this far and who are given no idea of when they might be released or deported. I met women who had already been held for over a month and heard more than one detainee proclaim matter-of-factly: “I’m going to leave this place traumatized.”
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mexico-darien-gap-siglo-xxi

Creating a Giant Ghetto in Gaza — Uri Avnery December 2006
IS IT POSSIBLE to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer. The laboratory for the experiment is the Gaza Strip, and the guinea pigs are the million and a quarter Palestinians living there. IN ORDER TO meet the required scientific standards, it was necessary first of all to prepare the laboratory. That was done in the following way: First, Ariel Sharon uprooted the Israeli settlements that were stuck there. After all, you can’t conduct a proper experiment with pets roaming around the laboratory. It was done with “determination and sensitivity,” tears flowed like water, the soldiers kissed and embraced the evicted settlers, and again it was shown that the Israeli army is the most-most in the world. With the laboratory cleaned, the next phase could begin: all entrances and exits were hermetically sealed, in order to eliminate disturbing influences from the world outside. That was done without difficulty. Successive Israeli governments have prevented the building of a harbor in Gaza, and the Israeli navy sees to it that no ship approaches the shore. The splendid international airport, built during the Oslo days, was bombed and shut down. The entire Strip was closed off by a highly effective fence, and only a few crossings remained, all but one controlled by the Israeli army. There remained a sole connection with the outside world: the Rafah border crossing to Egypt. It could not just be sealed off, because that would have exposed the Egyptian regime as a collaborator with Israel. A sophisticated solution was found: to all appearances the Israeli army left the crossing and turned it over to an international supervision team. Its members are nice guys, full of good intentions, but in practice they are totally dependent on the Israeli army, which oversees the crossing from a nearby control room. The international supervisors live in an Israeli kibbutz and can reach the crossing only with Israeli consent. So everything was ready for the experiment.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/170.html

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>>2530632
I'm glad the hind rajab foundation is sticking this out. it is disgusting how cowardly the EU is on universal jurisdiction.

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