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Democrats in tight Midwest US races split on trans rights strategy
After being caught flat-footed on transgender issues in the last US election, Democrats in tight midterm races are pursuing different strategies, with some adopting more conservative stances and others trying to deflect, according to a Reuters review of campaign messaging and interviews with nine ​party strategists and insiders.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/democrats-tight-midwest-us-races-split-trans-rights-strategy-2026-10-08/

Trump donor accuses ‘grifter’ Kimberly Guilfoyle of $100,000 quid pro quo
A Trump donor accused Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece and Trump family ally, of engaging in a “quid pro quo” by asking him to pay off her $100,000 debt in exchange for access to administration officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/kimberly-guilfoyle-donor-wire-marco-rubio

Bronx residents will be exempt from new Medicaid work rule, state officials say
Because of high unemployment in the borough, Bronx residents will be exempt from Medicaid work requirements when new federal rules take effect in January, the New York state's health department confirmed on Thursday. State health officials told a meeting of hospital leaders this week that Bronx residents qualify for a federal hardship exemption that gives a pass to people living in areas with high rates of unemployment, Politico first reported.
https://gothamist.com/news/bronx-residents-will-be-exempt-from-new-medicaid-work-rule-state-officials-say
https://archive.ph/ebDqM

Microsoft suspended from applying for green cards for H-1B workers, JD Vance says
Microsoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa program for high-skilled workers, JD Vance announced on Thursday. The US vice-president accused the tech company of abusing the H-1B system, which allows those on the visa to work while they apply for and are in the process of obtaining a green card.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/jd-vance-microsoft-visa-workers-green-card-suspension

Trump voters are not pumped about voting in the midterms, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
The six-day poll, completed Monday, also found that men were more enthusiastic ‌about voting and more certain to cast ballots than women, and that male voters showed signs of shifting toward Democrats. That could signal erosion in Republican support among a demographic that was a pillar of Trump's 2024 victory.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-voters-are-not-pumped-about-voting-midterms-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-10-08/

Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump’s midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there
In addition, the president recently joked that he would cut off money to North Carolina, which is still healing from Hurricane Helene two years ago, if Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley lost. And the day before an Ohio campaign rally with Sen. Jon Husted last Saturday, Trump approved a disaster declaration for the state while leaving 15 other requests pending.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fema-disaster-funds-midterm-campaign-7d0d770802c995075e5a162b96999577

Thailand’s Anti-Israeli Protest Wave Isn’t About Palestine
On a hot and humid morning in early September, hundreds of people gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. While a few carried familiar symbols of Palestinian solidarity – a flash of red, black, white and green here, a watermelon there – a far greater number came carrying Thai flags. For every placard demanding an end to the genocide, or a boycott of Israel, many more bore nationalist statements, from “Thailand is not for sale” to the openly antisemitic “You Jewish folks don’t understand Thai culture, so get out”. Thailand has been awash with anti-Israeli sentiment over the past few weeks, resulting in unprecedented mobilisations in the capital and on the country’s largest and most touristic island, Phuket. While Palestine solidarity has played a small part in these protests, they have mostly been organised by prominent rightwing agitators calling on supporters to “take Thailand back”. Unlike in other parts of the world, where protests condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank have become a mainstay of progressive politics, until recently, few Thais seemed interested. Palestine solidarity was the quiet work of Muslim communities, a handful of student and left activists, and a small number of campaigning organisations.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/thailands-anti-israeli-protest-wave-isnt-about-palestine/

Statement by the Tudeh Party of Iran on the Fourth Anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising: The Struggle for Freedom, Social Justice, and the Liberation of Women from the Chains of Medieval Despotism, for the Establishment of Peace and the Preservation of National Sovereignty in the Face of Foreign Aggression, Continues!
This year, the fourth anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising comes at a time when our homeland faces extremely difficult economic conditions and the continuing danger of war and foreign aggression. Two hundred days after what the statement describes as the criminal aggression against Iran by U.S. imperialism and Netanyahu’s Zionist regime, the killing of thousands of our compatriots, and the infliction of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage, tens of millions of Iranians continue to struggle with extremely difficult economic circumstances to secure the bare necessities of life. Meanwhile, through repressive policies—including the widespread execution of young protesters, young people who courageously resisted the regime’s machinery of repression in Dey 1404—the regime is seeking to exploit the people’s patriotic sentiments and their resistance to foreign aggression in order to consolidate its own position. The struggle against the “profiteers of war and sanctions” and those forces within the establishment that believe the continuation of the regime of the rule of the Supreme Leader can be made possible through the continued state of “neither war nor peace”; the struggle against the wave of repression and executions by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary; and efforts to organize widespread popular protests to force the regime to retreat and accede to the people’s demands—including the achievement of an honorable and lasting peace—are tasks that cannot be delayed.
https://www.tudehpartyiran.org/en/2026/09/20/statement-by-the-tudeh-party-of-iran-on-the-fourth-anniversary-of-the-woman-life-freedom-uprising-the-struggle-for-freedom-social-justice-and-the-liberation-of-women-from-the-ch/

When history accelerates: Maricarmen's eviction
…. Let’s consider an eviction like Maricarmen’s. The eviction, viewed in isolation, might seem like a specific conflict between an individual and a vulture fund, a legal matter, or a particular housing claim. But certain conditions may already exist surrounding this event: organised groups, solidarity networks, prior experiences of struggle, social unrest, conflicts with institutions, and a shared awareness of a broader problem. The eviction can then become something more than the specific case that triggered it. In the words of a colleague, fires are unpredictable, but it is our duty to stockpile flammable material for when one appears. It is not about denying the particularity of each conflict, but about understanding how it can relate to other conflicts and how it can contribute to building a collective force and, of course, one capable of exceeding the predictable. A concentration of power can produce a primary network of affinities. This network can enable further mobilisation. The institutional response can generate outrage. Outrage can increase participation. Participation can lead to a convergence of forces. Organisation can connect the conflict with other conflicts. And these conflicts, in turn, can modify other sectors’ perceptions of their own possibilities for action. In this process, feedback occurs: an acceleration of conditions and conflicts, an intensification of repression, and a primary awakening of consciousness among much broader segments of the population. There is not necessarily a straight line between the initial event and the final outcome. It is a concatenation of events that interact dialectically. One struggle modifies the conditions of another; a partial victory can generate confidence for a subsequent struggle; a defeat can produce demoralisation or, conversely, new forms of organisation; a repressive response can contain a movement or provoke a broadening of solidarity. In short, a regime of acceleration in which each event ceases to be merely an event and begins to modify the conditions of subsequent events. And that is precisely where the organisational problem arises. Getting organised when time speeds up During periods of stability, the need for a revolutionary political organisation may seem abstract. If struggles develop slowly, are subject to inertial bureaucracies, conflicts are absorbed by institutional mechanisms, and demands appear isolated from one another, it may seem sufficient to intervene in each specific conflict.
But when the political clock speeds up, a different question arises: What do we do with the strength we’ve managed to accumulate? How do we make the fire spread? “Because mobilising is not the same as organising” (Jane McAlevey). And winning a specific demand does not necessarily mean having built a political force capable of transforming the social relations that produce that demand.
https://libcom.org/article/when-history-accelerates-maricarmens-eviction

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are you really newsanon3.0? why you you make your posts earlier than you used to?