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Trump administration to retroactively vet refugees already resettled in US
The memo, signed by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow, said that refugees who are found to have failed to meet the standards for resettlement would have their legal status revoked. “Given these concerns, USCIS has determined that a comprehensive review and a re-interview of all refugees admitted from January 20, 2021, to February 20, 2025, is warranted,” the memo stated.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/25/trump-administration-to-retroactively-vet-refugees-already-resettled-in-us
https://archive.ph/gHZtp

California is considering cutting power company profits to historic lows, but bills will barely drop
In a proposed decision, the California Public Utilities Commission recommended dropping the “return on equity” by 0.35% each for Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric. If approved, shareholders of all three companies would see a potential return next year of just under 10%. Such returns for PG&E and Edison haven’t dipped below double digits in at least 20 years.
https://apnews.com/article/pg-e-corp-sempra-california-utilities-taxes-0f985b7ea71e29b04f48eb6589f7c7b2

US Education Department investigates University of California, Berkeley over Turning Point USA protest
The department's Office of Federal Student Aid will investigate whether UC Berkeley violated the Clery Act, which requires higher education institutions that receive federal funding to collect, report, and disseminate crime data to the public, support victims of violence, and publicly outline their policies and systems for improving campus safety.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-education-department-investigates-university-california-berkeley-over-turning-2025-11-25/

New York public housing bribery case ends with a milestone 70 convictions
The city’s huge and aging public housing system is the largest in the nation, home to one in 17 New Yorkers in 335 developments citywide. Tenants have complained for decades about dangerous or unsanitary conditions, including rodents, mold, and heat and hot water outages.
https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-corruption-arrests-18eb4a5e5899001238838166fa461bab

TikTok hires Ziad Ojakli as new head of public policy for Americas
Ojakli previously served in senior policy roles at Ford, SoftBank and Boeing. He is a former official in the George W. Bush administration. Beckerman, who had been in the role for over five years, announced in April his decision to step down from the role at the end of the year.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/tiktok-public-policy-ziad-ojakli
https://archive.ph/0eHgg

Where does the RCP stand on ‘Your Party’?
In July, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced the formation of a new political party. That provoked a wave of enthusiasm, with 800,000 people signing up for a left-wing alternative to Starmer’s hated Labour. At that time, the potential for this new party was enormous. It could have given political expression to the pro-Palestine movement and all the strike action erupting across the country. Corbyn and Sultana could also have coordinated opposition to Trump’s state visit to the UK, and to Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ demonstration in September. They could have attacked the rich and the capitalist system as the cause of the crisis in Britain, instead of allowing Farage to dominate with his anti-immigrant rhetoric. They could have raised millions in small donations, like Mamdani in New York, to hold rallies and conferences all over the country. Starting with 800,000 people, if Corbyn and Sultana had connected with the mood that exists in Britain today, they could have been at the head of a movement of millions by now. Unfortunately, we couldn’t be farther from that today.
https://communist.red/where-does-the-rcp-stand-on-your-party/

You Can’t Just Wish Away Jeffrey Epstein’s Israel Ties
It’s not hard to imagine what would happen if the Jeffrey Epstein saga had any other country at its center. If the well-connected billionaire sex trafficker was rumored to have ties to the ruling elite and intelligence agencies of, say, Thailand; if emails showed him repeatedly hosting a Thai intelligence officer at his house; if they showed him doing secret, back-channel work for the Thai government through his friendship with a former Thai prime minister; if in private messages, he claimed that he had been involved in that former prime minister’s return to politics in a recent Thai election, aimed at toppling the country’s sitting leader from power — if any of this happened, it would obviously be a massive scandal that would prompt many more questions about that billionaire’s exact relationship to Thailand and its intelligence agencies, particularly given how close he was with various members of the US elite, including one former president and the one currently in office. It would also no doubt be a major scandal in Thailand itself, if it turned out that a character as unsavory as Epstein was not only remarkably close with one of its leading political figures, but that he claimed he had been meddling in its elections from behind the scenes. But this is not what has happened in the reality we inhabit, in which Epstein’s links are not to Thailand but to Israel. In the world we live in, mainstream news has all but ignored Drop Site’s constant drip of major disclosures about Epstein’s work for the Israeli government, which show him brokering arms deals between it and other states, acting as a back-channel diplomat, sourcing funding to help it develop new weapons, and, on three different occasions, hosting an Israeli intelligence officer for up to multiple weeks at a time at his Manhattan town house. This is all thanks to Epstein’s relationship with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, which turns out to have been far closer and more intimate than Barak claimed to the public. And now, Jacobin’s report last week that Epstein privately claimed he had been involved in the 2019 Israeli elections has triggered a firestorm in Israel — not because of that bombshell claim, but because Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for some reason decided to share it on X.
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-israel-media-barak-netanyahu

“Left-Wing” Childishness by Vladimir Lenin
The publication by a small group of “Left Communists” of their journal, Kommunist (No. 1, April 20, 1918), and of their “theses”, strikingly confirms my views expressed in the pamphlet The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government. There could not be better confirmation, in political literature, of the utter naïvete of the defence of petty-bourgeois sloppiness that is sometimes concealed by “Left” slogans. It is useful and necessary to deal with the arguments of “Left Communists” because they are characteristic of the period we are passing through. They show up with exceptional clarity the negative side of the “core” of this period. They are instructive, because the people we are dealing with are the best of those who have failed to understand the present period, people who by their knowledge and loyalty stand far, far above the ordinary representatives of the same mistaken views, namely, the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/may/09.htm

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