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Trump expands travel ban to Syrians, Palestinians and others
The Trump administration instituted full restrictions and entry limitations against Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as people with travel documents issued by the Palestinian Authority. Trump expanded restrictions from partial to full against Laos and Sierra Leone.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/trump-travel-ban-expanded-december
https://archive.ph/7IMng

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
“I am pissed for the American people. This is absolute bulls—, and it’s absurd,” Lawler said Tuesday. “Everybody has a responsibility to serve their district, to serve their constituents. You know what’s funny? Three-quarters of people on Obamacare are in states Donald Trump won. So maybe, just maybe, everybody should look at this and say, ‘How do we actually fix the health care system?’”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-ditch-vote-obamacare-funding-premiums-rise-2026-rcna249521

US will not release full Venezuela boat strike video, Hegseth says
Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducted briefings on Tuesday for every member of the Senate and House of Representatives, responding to lawmakers' demands for more information about a 3-1/2-month campaign of more than 20 strikes against boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that have killed more than 80 people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-not-planning-release-unedited-boat-strike-video-public-hegseth-says-2025-12-16/

ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Observers said the officers were attempting to arrest a woman in a traffic stop north of Lake Street and Pillsbury Avenue at about 1 p.m. Video shared with MPR News shows agents restraining a woman on her stomach on the icy ground, then dragging her on the road towards their vehicle as bystanders and activists hurled insults and snowballs in their direction.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/15/ice-agents-call-for-backup-during-minneapolis-traffic-stop
https://archive.ph/ETrKF

CEO of self-driving truck company rejects Teamsters demand for human operators
The Teamsters want driverless vehicles to have human operators subject to federal requirements for commercial driver's licenses (CDL). "Allowing the unfettered and unregulated operation of autonomous vehicles — ultimately seeking to replace human drivers with robots — is unequivocally a threat to safety on our roadways and the existence of good jobs in the trucking industry," Teamsters president Sean O'Brien testified before Congress in July.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/texas-aurora-self-driving-trucks-teamsters
https://archive.ph/OqGHx

Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery
Affinity Partners emerged as a key backer of a $108.4bn hostile bid by Paramount Skydance for control of WBD. Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, set up Affinity. Paramount, controlled by the billionaire Ellison family, is attempting to sink a $82.7bn deal WBD struck to sell its storied Warner Bros movie studios, premier HBO cable network and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/16/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-warner-bros-discovery

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
https://archive.ph/VCWZI

Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan Revolution
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution was a watershed moment in the history of the class struggle. It was a ray of light in the dark years following the collapse of Stalinism. Long before the 2008 crisis, Occupy, BLM, or the rise of Sanders or Mamdani, it gave credibility to anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. Hugo Chávez embodied the revolution and expressed the aspirations of the poor masses worldwide. The potential for a regional socialist revolution was evident. Had it succeeded, the planet would be a very different place. Instead of hundreds of thousands of desperate Venezuelan refugees fleeing into the US, the socialist revolution would have spread like wildfire across the border. The terrible conditions and heightened imperialist bullying that Venezuelans suffer today are a direct consequence of the revolution’s failure. It is a law of history: the price for not taking the socialist revolution to its conclusion is reaction and counterrevolution. Incredibly, many so-called Marxists claim it was never a revolution in the first place. But anyone who has watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised will have seen the will to sacrifice and spiritual uplift expressed by the humblest layers of Venezuelan society. This is precisely what it looks like when the masses enter the stage of history, seize their destinies in their hands, and storm heaven.
https://marxist.com/hugo-chavez-and-the-venezuelan-revolution.htm

When the Left manages capitalism, the far right takes power: Lessons from Latin America
Boric’s presidency was born out of the massive social uprising of 2019 and the widespread demand for dignity, social rights, and an end to the Pinochet-era economic model. Yet, despite the radical language and the participation of the Communist Party of Chile in government, the core structures of Chilean capitalism remained untouched. Privatised public services, job insecurity, high living costs, and social inequality continued to shape everyday life for millions. Over time, the gap between expectations and reality became impossible to ignore. Kast capitalised on this frustration. His campaign centred on “law and order,” fear of crime, and hostility toward migrants — classic themes of the contemporary far right. At the same time, his political identity has long been linked to sympathy for the Pinochet dictatorship. He has openly defended its legacy, relativised its crimes, and spoken approvingly of Augusto Pinochet himself. While he softened his rhetoric during the campaign, the ideological roots of his project were never in doubt: authority over rights, repression over social reform, and the defence of the existing economic order. The return of the far right cannot be explained only by conservative mobilisation or media influence. It is also the product of popular disillusionment with governments that called themselves left-wing while limiting themselves to managing capitalism. In Chile, as elsewhere, reformist administrations promised change but refused to confront the power of capital in any meaningful way. When living conditions failed to improve decisively, hope gave way to cynicism — and cynicism opened the door to reaction.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/12/when-left-manages-capitalism-far-right-takes-power-lessons-from-latin-america.html

How parents and workers forced Derbyshire Council to act on Send
WHEN Reform UK won control of Derbyshire County Council in 2024, they inherited a council whose services had been hollowed out by eight years of Conservative austerity. Nowhere was this truer than in the teams that assess children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send). As part of the children’s social services, Send is a speciality within a speciality for social workers. Unlike child protection, which can result in high-profile cases that embarrass local authorities, Send work had previously been low-key and out of the limelight. This made the Send department ripe for cuts when money was tight. Even when a critical Ofsted report found “significant concerns” in the Derbyshire service in September 2024, the issue struggled to get noticed. An action plan was produced by the council, but it contained no significant extra funding. Instead, staff were pressured to work harder, with many going off sick. They contacted Unison Derbyshire for support, but attempts to engage the council though were unsuccessful, and building a collective action was slow, as so many staff — especially experienced staff — were leaving for other councils. As the anniversary of the Ofsted report approached, the only comment on the issue by Reform UK council leader Alan Graves was to tell the BBC that the problem was one of “overdiagnosis,” and that schools were encouraging parents to apply for help they didn’t need. He also said, in a separate statement, that the council was “overstaffed.” Meanwhile, the Send assessment backlog continued.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-parents-and-workers-forced-derbyshire-council-act-send