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Chuds on Parade 2: Trump’s Homeland Security Advisory Council
President Donald Trump has made his appointments to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), so Unicorn Riot started looking into their backgrounds. The list is a who’s who of troublesome and generally bigoted individuals, not unlike Trump’s cabinet. A failed political candidate who founded Bikers for Trump, a venture capitalist who promotes racist and fascist ideas, and a sheriff who denies systemic racism exists are just a few of those sitting on the newly minted council. Representatives from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the cop brotherhood with a long history of racism, didn’t make the cut for Trump’s HSAC like they did under Biden. The council, which advises Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is already problematic: it meets periodically, makes recommendations, and provides advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security, but is made worse by the people who have been part of it.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/chuds-on-parade-2-trumps-homeland-security-advisory-council/

Israel’s war on the truth
Reporters Without Borders has warned that, “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”. Gaza has become the deadliest place for journalists in the world. Over 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since 7 October 2023. This is unprecedented compared to previous conflicts. Research from Brown University shows that “the war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.” During the Iraq war, which lasted from 2003 to 2011, 228 journalists were killed; the genocide in Gaza has exceeded this number in less than two years. The massacre of journalists by Israel isn’t just an unfortunate byproduct of war or a careless mistake. It is a deliberate policy and an extension of Israel’s genocide. Israel is silencing those who dare to reveal its atrocities. It does this with the assistance of its imperialist allies and establishment media, wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump Threatens to Jail CodePink Protesters Who Disrupted His Dinner With Chants for Gaza
On Monday, as Trump and his administration continued to map out a sweeping crackdown against left-wing speech following the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, the president suggested that the women of CodePink should also be punished for their peaceful display of dissent, referring to them as “professional agitators” and “total phonies.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-jail-codepink

Trump targets Antifa movement as 'terrorist organization'
It was not clear what legal weight Trump's proclamation carried. Antifa is a loosely organized ideological movement without a clear leadership structure or hierarchy, experts said. A day after Utah prosecutors unveiled formal charges against the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, no evidence has emerged connecting 22-year-old Tyler Robinson with any outside group. Questions also remain about his precise motives.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-targets-antifa-movement-terrorist-organization-2025-09-18/

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria
Khalil’s lawyers suggested in a filing that they intend to appeal the deportation order, but expressed concern that the appeal process will likely be swift and unfavorable. The order from the immigration judge, Jamee Comans, came despite a separate order in Khalil’s federal case in New Jersey blocking his deportation while that court considers Khalil’s legal argument that his detention and deportation are unlawful retaliation for his Palestinian advocacy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/17/mahmoud-khalil-immigration-deportation-order-00569769
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US Treasury Sec Bessent accused of contradictory mortgage pledges: Report
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Venezuela communists condemn US military incursion, call for people's mobilization
"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) condemns the U.S. military incursion in the Caribbean, presented under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, but really aimed at threatening and militarily pressuring Venezuela. In this context, the PCV denounces the attacks against two boats in Caribbean waters, which so far have resulted in 14 deaths, carried out by summary execution and without evidence supporting their supposed association with drug trafficking networks. These extrajudicial and extraterritorial executions represent a crime against humanity that must be investigated urgently. This aggression, initially irresponsibly denied by spokespeople of the government leadership, represents a dangerous provocation and an open violation of international law. Added to this are espionage flights over Venezuelan territory, part of the intimidation and military control strategy deployed by the United States in the region. The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have historically been victims of U.S. interference under the “Monroe Doctrine.” Washington has considered the region its “backyard,” with the objective of seizing its resources and maintaining geostrategic control, at the expense of the sovereignty, unity, and development of our peoples.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/09/venezuela-communists-condemn-us-military-incursion-call-for-peoples-mobiliza.html

Zillow and Redfin May Be Steering Homebuyers Into Bad Deals
Log on to real estate sites like Zillow or Redfin, and you’ll discover the era of one-click homebuying has arrived. You can search real estate listings, determine property values, and even buy or sell homes directly on the platforms. Now even the task of securing a mortgage, which used to take weeks of paperwork and phone calls, can be completed on the site just as easily as scrolling through a property’s photo gallery. But experts warn this apparent efficiency is masking a system designed to steer homebuyers to the platforms’ own mortgage lenders, squeezing out competition and discouraging buyers from finding cheaper options. It’s part of massive consolidation and rePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

GOP lawmaker pulls measure to allow Marco Rubio to revoke US passports
A committee spokesperson did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on Mast’s decision to remove the provision. Among other provisions, the bill package also includes a proposal to create a new “state sponsor of unlawful or wrongful detention” designation to penalize foreign governments that detain US nationals and require stronger accountability measures in those cases.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/brian-mast-marco-rubio-revoke-passport-measure

A Black student was found hanging from a tree. Police say no sign of foul play
Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state's history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The campus police chief said there are no signs of foul play in the death of the 21-year-old student, whose body was discovered by a staff member early Monday near the campus pickleball courts.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/black-student-found-hanging-tree-police-sign-foul-125638449

ICE increases use of ankle monitors on immigrants with cases under review
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has intensified its use of electronic ankle bracelets in recent weeks to target thousands of immigrants with pending cases. The latest data released by the federal agency indicates that 29,089 migrants nationwide are currently wearing a device on their ankles. The Trump administration’s intention is to maintain intense monitoring of both detained migrants—58,766 as of the first week of September—and those who remain at large.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-16/ice-increases-use-of-ankle-monitors-on-immigrants-with-cases-under-review.html
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After 32 Years of Its Political Disasters, It Is Time to Free Ourselves from the ‘Oslo Accord’ and Return to the National Program: DFLP
On the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accord on 13 September 1993, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement saying: this is an occasion through which our people recall the damage and political disasters it has inflicted, especially the Oslo Accord’s betrayal of the national program and the Declaration of Independence, in favor of a negotiating project that transformed our people’s cause from a struggle for liberation from occupation and settlement into a mere negotiating issue; whose keys and course were held by the occupying state and its biased American mediator. This included exploiting its terms to complete the zionist settler-colonial project, leading to the explicit proclamation of “israel’s” Talmudic state project, and tireless work by all means to undermine the foundations of the national project, the latest being the declaration by the head of the “israeli” fascist junta that there is no place for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Democratic Front stated that the Oslo Accord burdened the national situation with a wide range of restrictions.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21432/

‘Dot-Com Bubble 2.0’ could burst at any time
With AI mania driving unprecedented investment in the tech sector, Wall Street punters are racing to get a piece of the gold rush. Speculation on the NASDAQ is rampant, tech stock is being inflated well beyond actual profitability, and a horde of crypto-addicted zombie companies has been unleashed upon the markets. A colossal correction is only a matter of time. As we have commented many, many times: capitalism’s organic crisis, which came to a head in the 2008 recession, forced governments to hurl trillions of dollars at the system, followed by trillions more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overproduction restricted profitable avenues of investment in the real economy (industry, manufacture and so on), meaning much of this capital was left sloshing around with nowhere to go. Combined with ultra-low interest rates, this fed an orgy of speculation on the stock markets, particularly in tech. Investors chased megaprofits by trading shares in loss-leading companies likPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TikTok ban in flux as White House announces China-US framework deal
The White House declined to outline the terms of the deal, which was negotiated during trade talks between the two countries in Madrid. The two-day meeting, which wrapped up on Monday, was the latest in a slew of negotiations that began in May. “We’re not going to talk about the commercial terms of the deal. It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters. Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who was also part of the trade delegation in Madrid, said China wanted concessions on trade and technology in exchange for agreeing to divest from the popular social media app.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/9/15/tiktok-ban-in-flux-as-white-house-announces-china-us-framework-deal
https://archive.ph/szZIJ

Over half of US healthcare workers plan to switch jobs by next year, survey finds
More than half of U.S. healthcare workers are actively looking to leave their current jobs, according to a new survey, underscoring mounting pressure on an already strained system. The Harris Poll, commissioned by education services company Strategic Education, surveyed 1,504 frontline healthcare employees and 304 employers between June 26 and July 21 this year and found widespread burnout, dissatisfaction and a high attrition risk.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/over-half-us-healthcare-workers-plan-switch-jobs-by-next-year-survey-finds-2025-09-15/

Republicans plan bill to consolidate government-funded broadcasters
The bill aims to consolidate three USAGM broadcasters — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks — into one unified broadcaster that receives government funding through a State Department-distributed contract, according to draft text reviewed by Axios.
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Tbh just a bit. Trying to find good websites that have a lot posters and art besides the booru.

assembly.org.ua: Good Night Ukrainian Pride. The Partial Victory of Feet Voting in Ukraine: What Is Behind This?
On August 28, the government decree of August 26, 2025 No. 1031 came into force in Ukraine on permission to travel abroad for men between the ages of 18-22. Previously, since the beginning of the war on 24 February 2022, only men under 18 and over 60 were allowed to leave the country. At the border they need to present a passport and a document with their latest military registration data in paper or digital form. The majority of the remaining male population aged 23-60 remains hostage to the state. There are different versions of reasons for releasing some of the hostages now: from the possibly approaching elections to, on the contrary, the desire to get rid of pro-Western students, which have been a central social base for mass anti-corruption protests a month ago, and to prevent the holding of elections. A certain role was also played by the fact that men under 25 are not subject to mobilization, so it is much easier for them to approach the border with a backpack through checkpoints and raids of territorial recruitment centers (TRCs). Moreover, the political situation in the country, which appeared stagnant for some time, has now entered a new, tumultous period. Perhaps for the first time since 2019, there is a whiff of a thaw in the air, against the backdrop of such a regular tightening the "tie of freedom" on the people's neck.
https://libcom.org/article/good-night-ukrainian-pride-partial-victory-feet-voting-ukraine-what-behind

Performative Politics Is a Dead End
After losing his seat in Canada’s spring election, where his party collapsed in the polls and failed to achieve official party status, former leader Jagmeet Singh stepped aside as head of the New Democratic Party (NDP). Now, Canada’s nominally social democratic party has launched a leadership race. Contest rules released two weeks ago include a stipulation for signature collection that doubled as a rage-baiting giveaway to right-wing culture warriors and enjoyed the dubious distinction of turning the NDP into a lightning rod on social media for a day or two. Leadership candidates will require five hundred signatures for their nomination, with at least half cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
The provision, sponsored by Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., as part of a larger State Department reorganization, is set for a hearing Wednesday. Mast’s legislation says that it takes aim at “terrorists and traffickers,” but critics say it could be used to deny American citizens the right to travel based solely on their speech. (The State Department said it doesn’t comment on pending legislation.)
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/
https://archive.ph/lfbLq

Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies
Democrats are threatening to vote to shut down the government at the end of the month if Republicans don’t extend the subsidies, which were first put in place in 2021 and extended a year later when they controlled Congress and the White House. The tax credits, which are slated to expire at the end of the year, go to low- and middle-income people who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-health-care-tax-credits-obamacare-shutdown-f1ee636ddba7f65baa5234c55cb0c96e

Kirk suspect's transgender roommate "aghast," may be key to motive
Axios' sources said investigators initially wanted the information about the roommate's gender identity kept quiet because that person is being "extremely cooperative" with authorities. The roommate was "aghast" at the slaying when speaking to investigators and shared electronic messages sent by Robinson, one of the sources said. "That's what happened? Oh my God, no," the roommate said, according to the source. "Here are all the messages." The phone messages indicated a sender listed as "Tyler" had mentioned that after the shooting, he had wrapped his rifle in a towel and stashed it in some bushes near Utah Valley University, where the shooting occurred, Gov. Spencer Cox said Friday during a news conference.
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Marxism-Leninism on Individual Terror: A Response to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah has been immediately seized upon by the bourgeois press and state as a national tragedy, a “political assassination” that must unite society against “radical left extremism.” Yet while the ruling class floods the airwaves with solemn denunciations of violence, it continues daily to unleash far greater violence upon the working class and oppressed peoples — through war, police repression, and the slow violence of exploitation. Marxist–Leninists must respond to this event with clarity. We do not share the crocodile tears of the bourgeoisie. But neither do we glorify or endorse the method of the assassin. On the contrary: individual terrorism and political assassination are alien to proletarian struggle. They serve only to strengthen the hand of the bourgeois state, while misleading the people away from the true path of emancipation. Kirk was not a “neutral” political commentator. As the founder of Turning Point USA, he built a career mobilizing youth behind the most reactionary currents of U.S. politics: the defense of capitalism, the glorification of U.S. imperialism, and the culture-war demonization of workers’ movements, migrants, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and anti-racist struggles. From a Marxist–Leninist standpoint, Kirk was a petty-bourgeois demagogue in the service of finance capital. Antonio Gramsci described such figures as “morbid symptoms” of the crisis of bourgeois hegemony, when “the old is dying and the new cannot yet be born.”¹
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/09/marxism-leninism-on-individual-terror-a-response-to-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk.html

Carney stole his policy book. So Pierre Poilievre is going full anti-immigrant
With Prime Minister Carney borrowing much of the Conservative policy book, what has Pierre Poilievre decided to do? Go even more extreme on immigration. As the Liberals have shifted rightward—not just on immigration but also on military spending, climate policy, and public safety—the federal Conservative leader appears to have gone looking for an issue on which to distinguish himself. He is now signalling that scapegoating immigrants andPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Boeing workers reject their latest contract offer, extending strike at three Midwest plants
The vote on Friday refusing the latest proposal sends the workers back to the picket lines, according to the union representing the 3,200 striking workers who build fighter jets, weapons systems and the U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based unmanned aircraft. Fifty-seven percent of members voted against the proposal, the union said.
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-defense-workers-strike-midwest-3c6bd207536edf02c52fc15447fa24d1

CEO whose comments sparked Trump’s Memphis action also pitched him on a big rail merger
Union Pacific Railroad confirmed Friday that its chief executive, Jim Vena, had mentioned the safety “of all Americans” during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday that was mainly aimed at winning approval for the company’s proposed merger with Norfolk Southern. Trump offered a sparse account of that conversation when announcing the Memphis deployment earlier Friday on “Fox & Friends.” In his Fox News appearance, Trump said Union Pacific’s CEO — whom he did not name — had told him recently that crime in Memphis was so bad that the executive needed an “armored vehicle with bullet proof glass” just to go a block down the road.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/12/trump-memphis-union-pacific-00560868
https://archive.ph/akqEI

ICE agent fatally shoots man authorities say dragged officer in Franklin Park
The person shot was later identified as Silverio Villegas Gonzalez – he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Video footage captured by Sky 5 showed a gray Subaru sedan pinned underneath a semi as authorities shut down a half mile stretch of Grand Avenue in Franklin Park, the northwest side Chicago suburb where the deadly encounter occurred.
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Salvador Allende Last Words to the Nation
Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the towers of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police]. Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history. Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector which will today be in their homes hoping, with foreign assistance, to retake power to continue defending their profits and their privileges.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/allende/1973/september/11.htm

September 11 in Chile: How Reformism Disarmed the Working Class in the Face of CIA-Backed Coup
Chile’s September 11 marked the end of an experiment that had begun three years earlier when Allende was elected president. As a democratic socialist, he promised a peaceful and democratic “transition towards socialism” in the framework of the country’s institutions. The governPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US officials plan to punish foreigners ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death
The statement comes in a wider context of an aggressive crackdown on free speech and dissenting views in the US under the second Trump administration, especially when it comes to campus protests sparked by Israel’s war on Gaza. In a post on X on Thursday morning, the deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, wrote that “foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country” and said he had directed consular officials to “undertake appropriate action” against those deemed to be “praising, rationalizing, or making light of” Kirk’s death on social media.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/christopher-landau-charlie-kirk-foreigners

Politicians and activists cancel events after Kirk killing
GOP leadership is working with the Sergeant at Arms on potential security upgrades, multiple sources told Axios. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Thursday morning that leadership is expediting a planned review of member security. "We have got to protect people running for public office or nobody will," Johnson said. … Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) postponed a Raleigh rally set for Sunday, citing both respect for Kirk and security concerns.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-hbcu-threats-ben-shapiro
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House GOP—and 11 Democrats—Pass Bill to ‘Supercharge’ Trump Anti-Migrant Agenda
Introduced by Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), HR 3486 would increase sentences for undocumented immigrants who repeatedly enter the United States illegally or enter the country and then commit a felony. The bill still needs Senate approval to reach the desk of Republican President Donald Trump, who supports it.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-immigration-policy

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Nepal Turmoil
"The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish over the loss of 20 precious young lives during the GenZ protests in Nepal. These protests reflect the widespread anger stemming from the growing grievances of the people, particularly the youth, against the repeated failures of successive governments to resolve their genuine problems and meet their aspirations.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/09/communist-party-of-india-marxist-on-nepal-turmoil.html

Doha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising Israel
Every time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tries to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, it ends in humiliation for Israel. The first time was back in 1997. Mossad agents acting on orders from the Israeli prime minister entered Jordan, posing as Canadian tourists. Two of them waited at the entrance to Meshaal’s office in Amman, and when their target walked in, one held a device to his left ear that transmitted a fast-acting poison. Meshaal’s bodyguards chased the two agents down, and others in the team fled to the newly installed Israeli embassy for refuge. At first, it was thought that the attack had failed. Meshaal described the attack as a “loud noise in my ear” and “an electric shock”. But as the poison began to take effect, his condition deteriorated. Meshaal was a Jordanian citizen at the time, and King Hussein was angry. He demanded that Israel turn over the antidote, and threatened both to put the Mossad agents on trial and pull out of the historic peace agreement he had signed three years earlier in Wadi Araba, recognising Israel. Former US President Bill Clinton forced Netanyahu to comply. Humiliatingly, Danny Yatom, then the head of Mossad, flew to Amman with the antidote. Meshaal, who was by then in a coma, survived. Not only that, but Hussein had only released the two Mossad agents that Hamas bodyguards had caught. Six other members of the team were holed up in the Israeli embassy, and the king would only let them go if Israel released from prison Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, along with a large number of other Palestinian prisoners. The whole affair proved a big blow to Israel. The sheikh began a victory tour of the region. Meshaal’s career iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

House Passes NDAA to Push Military Spending Approved This Year Beyond $1 Trillion
Nearly all Republicans and 17 Democrats in the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday evening for a military bill that would push the figure for defense spending approved this year beyond $1 trillion. The final vote for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026 was 231-196, with just four Republicans opposing the bill, which will still need to be reconciled with the Senate's version.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ndaa-2026

Rightwing influencer accompanied Ice agents during raids in Chicago
Usually based in Fresno, California, Bergquam has been traveling to the Illinois city since at least 2019, according to Block Club Chicago, when he falsely accused a local pastor of being part of a transnational group that guided migrant caravans from Central and South America. He is a part of the same rightwing network, Real America’s Voice News, that hosts shows by Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk and other far-right figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/rightwing-influencer-ice-raids-chicago

Senate GOP blocks amendment to release Epstein files
The amendment was stopped despite many congressional Republicans calling for more transparency from the federal government around the Epstein investigation. Schumer introduced the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday. It mirrors a discharge petition in the House led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) The Senate has so far largely avoided getting pulled into the Epstein saga the way the House has.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/10/senate-republicans-schumer-epstein-files
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Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
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Bonus: The Jakarta Method feat. Vincent Bevins Chapo Trap House ( 2020-05-27 )
Will and Matt talk to journalist Vincent Bevins about his new book “The Jakarta Method,” detailing the U.S.’s involvement in the mass killings of leftists in Indonesia in the 60’s, and how it set the stage for American-backed violent anti-communist action throughout the cold war.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-the-jakarta-method-feat-vincent-bevins

Intel Is Laying Off Workers While Raking In Public Largesse
It’s not every day that the president of the United States calls for the head of a major company to be fired. But that’s what happened last August, when President Donald Trump accused Lip-Bu Tan, the new CEO of Intel, of being too cozy with China. Then, in typical fashion, Trump reversed himself and proposed converting the $10.8 billion subsidy Intel had received from the CHIPS Act into an equity stake. Intel accepted the deal, and now the federal government owns a nearly 10 percent nonvoting stake in the company. While much has been written about Intel’s financial and technical challenges, very little has been said about the impact of management’s cost-cutting on the company’s employees. In October 2024, Intel cut 15 percent of its global workforce, eliminating 15,000 positions. Then shortly afterward, the company gave its fired CEO, Pat Geisinger, a $7,853,450 severance package. Thus far, it has laid off 7,500 workers across four states. But Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, isn’t suffering any pain. He’s getting $1 million a year and is eligible for bonuses of up to $2 million. His long-term stock options are valued at $66 million.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/09/intel-is-laying-off-workers-while-raking-in-public-largesse/

David Sandberg Chile: The Gorillas Are Amongst Us
THROUGHOUT its brief period in office, the Popular Unity government claimed it was making ‘irreversible’ changes in Chilean society. The role of the state had been transformed with the ‘socialisation’ of large areas of industry and the elimination of landholdings over 80 hectares (150 acres)Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Teamsters Rally in NYC After Amazon's 'Illegal' Firing of 150 Unionized Drivers
Teamsters and their supporters rallied outside a New York Amazon facility Monday in protest of what they said was an "illegal" firing of over 150 unionized drivers. According to the union, the fired workers were employed by the delivery service provider Cornucopia, one of thousands of providers the company contracts with to deliver packages. These workers joined the Teamsters last year as the union went on strike in nine cities across the US.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/amazon-fires-unionized-workers

Oil and gas lobby sees AI boost for 2025 permitting overhaul
AI's energy needs and rising household power bills could lower political hurdles to passing a major permitting bill this year, American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers said. The powerful oil and gas group on Tuesday is unveiling a policy framework it hopes will inform sweeping, bipartisan legislation. It's part of API's wider lobbying and ad push to ease what many industries call undue barriers to infrastructure.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/power-bill-prices-cost-oil-lobby-ai-energy
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Advocates Rally Against Bill to Jail and Fine Homeless People in DC
Timmons' bill, which is scheduled to be marked up by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, would further the criminalization of homelessness by codifying it into federal law. It would ban people in the District of Columbia from setting up or "making preparations" to set up temporary structures to sleep outside. It would also make it illegal to sleep inside a car. Those found in violation will be subject to fines up to $500 or up to 30 days in prison.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-bill-dc-homelessness

Alleged "fake electors" in Michigan avoid criminal trial
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'The Act of Killing' exposes bloody history of the Indonesian regime
As revolutionary events rock Indonesia, we wish to bring to the attention of our readers a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, the 2012 film The Act of Killing. This documentary is truly a unique and harrowing watch. It is also invaluable as an insight into the nature of the regime that the youth of Indonesia are rising against today. In 2011, director Joshua Oppenheimer travelled to Indonesia and managed to convince perpetrators of the 1965 massacre of 3 million communists and their supporters, not only to brag about their crimes, but to reproduce those crimes before a film crew in the most surreal manner. In 1998, Indonesia experienced a revolution that overthrew the dictator Suharto who oversaw those crimes. But the revolution didn’t go all the way. That is why the butchers of 1965 who Oppenheimer interviews and works with can laugh and joke about their crimes. They enjoy complete impunity, and continue to be celebrated as national heroes, because the New Order regime is still essentially in power, the butchers are still in place. In 1998, the regime merely gave itself a superficial lick of ‘democratic’ paint in the so-called process of Reformasi. All that is brought to the fore in this marvellous documentary, in which we see the ‘democratic’ Indonesian state in all its glory: intertwined with gangsterism, with corruption, and basing itself on a thick atmosphere of fear and oppression. The documentary can be viewed on Youtube, and we re-publish a full review from 2013 below.
https://marxist.com/review-the-act-of-killing.htm
[vod] :https://archive.org/details/2012-the-act-of-killing

The 100-Word Ceasefire “Proposal” Trump Sent Hamas
A five-point summary outlining U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for a Gaza ceasefire was delivered to Hamas by mediators over the weekend. Trump has characterized the ultimatum as the final offer to the Palestinian resistance movement before Israel accelerates its campaign to enact the total destruction of the Gaza Strip. The brief, approximately 100-word document, presented in Arabic and obtained by Drop Site, is titled, “The Main Proposal.” The full text and English translaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US union membership declining in ‘right-to-work’ states, report reveals
The right-to-work states, concentrated in the south and central US, have a union density of 5.1%, compared with 14.2% for states with collective bargaining rights, concentrated on the coasts and in the north. Workers in right-to-work states earn about 7% less in wages, accounting for local differences in the cost of living.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/08/us-union-membership-report

Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens
The majority did not explain its reasoning, as is typical on the court’s emergency docket. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the lower-court judge had gone too far in restricting how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can carry out brief stops for questioning. “The prospect of such after-the-fact judicial second-guessing and contempt proceedings will inevitably chill lawful immigration enforcement efforts,” he wrote in a concurrence.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles-trump-57cc1f85ceafda0f11052b326c8b7173

DHS launches immigration crackdowns in Chicago, Boston
The agency said in a post on X that the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement's "Operation Midway Blitz" is in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman it says was killed in January in a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident involving a man who is an undocumented immigrant in Illinois.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5534338/ice-chicago-boston-immigration-raids

Mamdani says he will keep New York City pension fund out of Israel Bonds
Lander, who took office in 2022, decided not to purchase new Israel Bonds when $30m of the bonds matured in early 2023, citing a city policy of avoiding foreign sovereign debt and a desire not to give Israel preferential treatment over other countries in the pension portfolio. After Lander’s revelationPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

LEAKED: Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned an American polling firm to perform a sweeping battery of surveys and focus groups, coupled with message-testing, aimed at rehabilitating Israel’s image in both the United States and Europe. The work remains ongoing, but a preliminary report from the firm was leaked to Drop Site News by a source with direct access to it. The work is being performed by Stagwell Global, a firm founded by notorious political operative Mark Penn, who serves as the company’s chairman and CEO. Penn donated $100,000 to AIPAC after October 7, 2023, and his ties to Likud date back to his work on Menachem Begin’s 1981 campaign for prime minister. Stagwell is also on the verge of getting a no-bid contract from the Trump administration to study American attitudes toward vaccines. The survey and focus group work attempts to discern what the public knows about the ongoing assault on Gaza and what its various attitudes toward Israel currently are. It is unclear how much the research is costing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), but the combination of focus groups and surveys make it the type of project that is usually a pricey endeavor. The MoFA was recently gifted an historic increase of an additional $150 million for its budget, with the aim of improving Israel’s image worldwide amid the ongoing genocide. The study also includes a “Phase 3,” in which research subjects in Europe and the U.S. are shown videos with different messages to test which propaganda is most effective at moving the dial. For instance, one propaganda video they showed research participants involved a “college student with a ‘Free Palestine’ sign who lowers it as she hears more messages about Israel and the conflict until she throws it away,” according to the report.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell

Communists of Serbia support the popular uprising led by students against the corrupt Vučić regime
For months now, the people's justified rebellion against the corrupt and criminalized government, embodied in Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS, has been going on. Of course, we should not forgePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Washington, DC, residents protest against Trump's troop deployment to the city
With Trump vowing crackdowns in other Democratic-led cities as well, he appeared to threaten Chicago with migrant deportations in a social media post with an image that parodied the 1979 Vietnam war movie "Apocalypse Now." Protesters at the "We Are All D.C." march, including undocumented immigrants and supporters of Palestinian statehood, chanted slogans denouncing Trump and carried posters, some of which read, "Trump must go now," "Free DC" and "Resist Tyranny."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/washington-dc-residents-protest-against-trumps-troop-deployment-city-2025-09-06/

U.S. considers banning Iranians from shopping at Costco during U.N. meeting
Potential travel and other restrictions could soon be imposed on the delegations from Iran, Sudan, Zimbabwe and, perhaps surprisingly, Brazil, which has held a traditional place of honor during the high-level leaders gathering at the U.N. General Assembly that begins Sept. 22, according to an internal State Department memo seen by The Associated Press. While the potential restrictions are still under consideration and the circumstances could change, the proposals would be another step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on visas, including a wide-ranging review of those already holding legal permissions to come to the U.S. and those seeking entry to head to the U.N. meeting.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-considers-banning-iranians-shopping-costco-un-meeting-rcna229231

Surveillance, privacy concerns raised in debate over Flock cameras in Oakland
Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom called for installing about 480 cameras. Almost 300 on Oakland surface streets. The remaining to be placed along highways in the East Bay. The goal is to allow Oakland police, CHP and other law enforcement agencies to identify vehicles by more than just the license plate. And, to be able to search for vehicles linked to crimes in real time.
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Israel Slaughters Thousands of Palestinians Through Weaponized Aid
Gaza, Palestine — As international scholars have finally come to officially define Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last 23 months as genocide, we look at how Israel is using starvation to weaponize humanitarian aid in the strategy of further killings. Over the summer of 2025, Unicorn Riot heard firsthand accounts from dozens of witnesses in Gaza who describe Israel’s new aid mechanism as a death trap, see the video below — for more Palestine, visit here. After banning UNWRA from operating in Gaza and all occupied Palestinian territories starting in February 2025, Israel systematically criminalized and dismantled the rest of Gaza’s network of civilian aid that was in place for decades. Around the same time that Israel’s ban on UNWRA’s went into effect, Israel violated a fragile ceasefire with Hamas and then fully stopped allowing the entry of aid into Gaza in March — Israel controls all access points into Gaza. In late May 2025, the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) began distributing limited aid rations at four military-controlled stations in the Gaza Strip. This led to over 1,300 unarmed Palestinian civilians being killed by Israeli forces while trying to obtain aid at sites run by GHF from May 27 to Aug. 31, 2025. “I consider this the invention of a new mechanism for killing the Palestinian people,” said Ahmed Refaat, who called GHF a “security agency” that’s working with “the Zionist enemy to lure Palestinians into these traps, and then giving the signal” to kill Palestinians.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/israel-slaughters-thousands-of-palestinians-through-weaponized-aid/
https://vimeo.com/1115973688?fl=pl&fe=sh

Amazon’s Shameless Union Busting Shouldn’t Be Forgotten
Two and a half years ago, thousands of workers at one of Amazon’s giant warehouses, known as JFK8, voted to unionize. Their victory generated huge amounts of attention across the country, and suddenly, one of the leaders of the organizing drive, Chris Smalls, was everywhere. Smalls became an overnight celebrity, and he even met with President Joe Biden at the White House. The Amazon warehousePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Healthcare Giants Have Raked in 'Sick Profits' From Trump Tax Cuts While Stiffing Patients: Report
The report, by the advocacy groups Americans for Tax Fairness and Community Catalyst, found that "seven of America's biggest healthcare corporations have dodged over $34 billion in collective taxes since the enactment of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law that Republicans recently succeeded in extending."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sick-profits-trump-tax-cuts

The labor market is cratering
Once again, the real stunner came in the revisions, which showed the economy's 53-month-long streak of jobs growth ended in May. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that employers shed 13,000 jobs in June — the first employment contraction since December 2020. It was a downward revision from the data that showed a gain of roughly as many jobs. With those revisions, the economy has added an average of 29,000 jobs over the past three months — a stall-speed pace compared to the three-month average of 111,000 in March.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/bls-jobs-report-trump-immigration
https://archive.ph/uOHYJ

Cannabis workers strike to form union in Ann Arbor
UFCW says an Exclusive Brands worker who was recently fired had been supporting the unionization effort and also claims the company tried to block a union election. UFCW filed a complaint with the state cannabis agency and an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board in late August. An Exclusive Brands spokesperson declined to comment to Axios. The Livonia-based retailer and grower has seven dispensaries in Michigan.
https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2025/09/04/cannabis-workers-strike-union-exclusive-brands-dispensary

Hundreds of South Koreans detained in massive ICE raid at Hyundai plant
The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC that agents executed a search warrant due to allegatioPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

La Guardia: A Liberal Myth, Not a Model for the Left
If you’ve kept up with mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, you’ve probably heard him refer to Fiorello La Guardia as “the greatest mayor in our history.” As speculation grows about what a future left-leaning mayor of New York City might accomplish, authors Joshua B. Freeman and Kim Phillips-Fein are reviving La Guardia as a progressive precedent. According to these writers, La Guardia, mayor from 1934 to 1945 (12 years across three terms), was a reformer who modernized the city and improved aspects of working-class life. La Guardia (1882–1947) was born to immigrant parents in Manhattan and grew up in Arizona. Before his tenure as mayor, he became a lawyer at NYU and served as a congressional representative. As a Republican with progressive leanings, La Guardia built a broad, cross-class base of support through the Fusion Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and even the Socialist Party. In Jacobin, Freeman praises his tenure as “successful” and calls him an “ambitious New Dealer,” while Phillips-Fein, writing in Jewish Currents, calls him a “good-government politician, bent on reform and on transparent governance.” Both celebrate his accomplishments in building roads, tunnels, subways, parks, markets, and schools, as well as founding the New York City Housing Authority and other social services. These infrastructure projects have not been free from criticism. La Guardia’s commissioner Robert Moses took on these tasks, becoming a symbol of classist, technocratic, and undemocratic urban planning.
https://www.leftvoice.org/la-guardia-a-liberal-myth-not-a-model-for-the-left/

Wyatt E. Jones: Rafts in Troubled Waters: Anarchism, Anti-Immigrant Protest, and the Rise of Reform UK
Every system in decline leaves wreckage in its wake. When the state fails to provide for basic needs, such as housing, health care, security, dignity then people improvise. They lash together whatever scraps remain of political traditions, cultural myths, and collective memory, hoping to build something that floats. These makeshift vessels are what we might call rafts of resistance. They are provisional, fragile, and often contradictory. Some rafts are built for survival; others for conquest. Some set out toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

‘Slap on the wrist’: critics decry weak penalties on Google after landmark monopoly trial
A judge ruled on Tuesday that Google would not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or the Android operating system, saving the tech giant from the most severe penalties sought by the US government. The same judge had ruled in favor of US prosecutors nearly a year ago, finding that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly with its namesake search engine. … Judge Amit Mehta did order Google to share data from its search engine with its rivals. He also enjoined the company from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of its products including Chrome, Google Assistant and the Gemini app. That penalty will not, however, prevent it from paying distributors such as Apple and Mozilla, which use Google as the default search engine for their respective browsers.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/03/google-monopoly-case-ruling

US drops Biden plan to require airlines to pay compensation for disrupted flights
The Trump administration has taken other steps to reverse Biden airline consumer efforts. In May, the Justice Department dropped a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines filed by the Biden administration in its final days that accused the carrier of illegally operating chronically delayed flights.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-drops-biden-plan-require-airlines-pay-compensation-disrupted-flights-2025-09-04/

US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
Airline employees in the US are covered under the Railway Labor Act, which does not mandate direct hourly pay, unlike the Fair Labor Standards Act, which covers most other public and private sector workers. For a generation, flight attendants for most airlines across North America have not been paid for their work during boarding of planes. Delta Air Lines became the first big carrier to change this in 2022, in the midst of a union organizing drive.
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder this kind of repression? In this anonymously submitted text, one affinity group explores how they address these questions. Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years. If you are new to demonstrating, do not be intimidated by all of these considerations. The more people take the streets, the safer it will be for everyone—and nothing could possibly be more dangerous than remaining isolated and passive, letting the police state come for all of us one by one. This guide simply outlines how to maximize your safety while engaging in protest activity.
https://crimethinc.com/2025/08/28/a-demonstrators-guide-to-operational-security-fighting-back-staying-free

KKE: Using the “multi-polar world” to whitewash capitalism: Comment by the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit meeting was used to foster new illusions among the peoples. Certain forces see imperialism merely as the “empire” of the USA and on this basis they salute the promotion of new emerging capitalist powers in global affairs, such as the emergence of new inter-state unions (BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Collective Security Treaty Organization, ALBA etc.), which are formed by capitalist states, with an economic–political and military content. These developments are saluted as the beginning of the emergence of a new “multi-polar world”, which will “reform” and will give “new life” to the UN and the other international organizations that will escape the US “hegemony”. These hypotheses conclude that peace will be ensured in this way. It is argued that the “new” inter-imperiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

'A Test Case to See How Far They Can Go': Federal Indictment of Anti-ICE Protesters Raises Alarm
On June 11, 35-year-old Spokane, Washington resident Bajun Mavalwalla—a former Army sergeant who according to The Guardian survived a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan—heeded a Facebook call to action from former City Council President Ben Stuckart to intervene after a pair of legal asylum-seekers were apprehended by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives at the local Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bajun-mavalwalla

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time. That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

Crash victims’ families prepare to make what could be their final plea for Boeing’s prosecution
Families who lost loved ones in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners may get their last chance to demand the company face criminal prosecution Wednesday. That’s when a federal judge in Texas is set to hear arguments on a U.S. government motion to dismiss a felony charge against Boeing.
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-court-hearing-criminal-charge-dismiss-65b71e3304bc5ec21e060b0cbe76096c

Labor Day "Workers Over Billionaires" protests held across U.S.
Several leading Democrats joined the rallies, driven by the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S. — including Chicago Mayor Brandon JohPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Indonesia: the wheel of revolution has turned
Within a week, what began as demonstrations with a semi-insurrectionary character have turned into an open revolutionary uprising which shows no sign of stopping. It is not only tearing down government buildings and police stations, but more importantly, it is shattering the mass stupor that has kept the people in chains. A revolution has begun. Louis XVI: “Is this a rebellion? La Rochefoucauld: “No, Sire. This is a revolution.” Scenes of burned parliamentary buildings, government offices, and above all, police stations have flooded the media. But most striking are the countless live broadcasts from the millions of demonstrators, which truly capture the revolutionary spirit of the moment. These images call to mind the scenes of the 1998-99 revolutionary period. The first provincial parliamentary building to be set ablaze by the people was in Makassar, the day after the police killed a 21-year-old ride-share driver, Affan Kurniawan. This was quickly followed by similar scenes in Tegal, Solo, Surakarta, Bandung, and West Nusa Tenggara. In Pekalongan, the action began as a peaceful vigil where people mourned and laid flowers for Affan Kurniawan. But it immediately turned into a conflagration, as the furious anger of the masses burst forth. The list grows longer by the day, as more demonstrations and escalations unfold. As we write these lines, the masses have already added Brebes, Pekalongan, Cilacap and Kediri to the list – we are struggling to keep up with the rapid developments, which are the very essence of a revolution.
https://marxist.com/indonesia-the-wheel-of-revolution-has-turned.htm

CVS Strangled, Then Swallowed, Rite Aid
Just days after CVS Caremark was slapped with a $290 million fine for defrauding Medicare, bankruptcy trustees representing Rite Aid sued the pharmacy benefit manager for nearly twice that amount for allegedly operating an unlawful and anticompetitive prescription drug profit “scheme.” The new complaint filed this month asserts that CVS Caremark “devastated” Rite Aid by overcharging an estimated $500 million in fraudulent “clawback” penalties — fees that CVS Caremark demanded long after drug prescriptions were filled. This comes as Rite Aid, once the third-largest pharmacy chain in the UnitePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders
The United States has suspended visa approvals for nearly everyone who holds a Palestinian passport, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions go beyond those Donald Trump’s administration had previously announced on visitors from Gaza. They would prevent Palestinians from traveling to the United States for medical treatment, attending college and business travel, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified officials. The state department said two weeks ago that it was halting all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza while it conducts “a full and thorough” review, a move that has been condemned by pro-Palestinian groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/palestine-passport-visa-approval-suspension

1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows
Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce and that data shows 45% of workers in farming, fishing and forestry are immigrants, according to Pew senior researcher Stephanie Kramer. About 30% of all construction workers are immigrants and 24% of service workers are immigrants, she added.
https://apnews.com/article/labor-day-immigration-trump-9a40f9e371209cc1d145e4a7f157a499

California’s Democratic governor leads the charge in expanding state repression
Under the guise of public safety and compassion, the Democratic governor has placed the California Highway Patrol (CHP) at the center of two major new enforcement regimes: a statewide “crime suppression” expansion and a “homeless encampment clearance” task force. These measures are being marketed as alternatives to Trump’s deployments of federal forces into major U.S. cities, but in substance, they mirror their basic functions. Far from opposing the authoritarian measures emanating from Washington, Newsom’s actions mimic them, signaling a growing alignment between the Democratic Party and the Trump administration on the fundamental issue: the use of state repression to deal with the social crisis created by capitalism.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The struggle for democratic change is linked with winning lasting peace in Iran: Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
What is the role of the US sanctions regime in this situation?: US sanctions have undoubtedly played a massive role in deepening the plight of the Iranian people, as the country’s economy has already been hollowed out by a parasitic financial and mercantile elite and three decades of unrestrained neoliberalism. This top echelon, whose interests are safeguarded by the regime in a relationship of mutual dependency, has made Iran’s weak and corruption-riddled economy even more vulnerable — essentially rendering it easy prey to crippling US sanctions. The main impact of this has been felt by working-class Iranians.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/struggle-democratic-change-linked-winning-lasting-peace-iran

Camila Azeñas of the Communist Youth of Bolivia: Preliminary Analysis of the General Elections in Bolivia
The general elections in Bolivia, held on August 17, have yielded a result that traditional political science and superficial analysis attribute exclusively to the internal fracture of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP). According to their conclusions, the struggle between the factions led by Evo (without a presidential candidacy, who officially campaigned for the null vote and achieved 19.78%, from which 5% average null vote from recent elections must be substracted), Arce (the current president, represented in the elections by Eduardo Del Castillo, his ex-Minister of Government with 3.17%), and Andrónico Rodríguez with 8.51% (current president of the Chamber of Deputies) would have divided the pro-government vote, allowing the victory of an 'outsider'. However, this explanation is insufficient because it mystifies the underlying class reality. The triumph of Rodrigo Paz and Edman Lara with the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) is not a conjunctural accident, but rather the result of the structural convergence between the exhaustion of social-democratic reformism, which ideologically disarmed the working cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Deal to restructure Puerto Rico power company debt crumbles as some bondholders walk away
On Monday, bondholder groups that had opposed the board’s proposals filed a document noting that BlackRock and others were joining them in a deal that would become effective on Oct. 1. The enlarged group now holds or insures nearly 90% of outstanding bonds issued by Puerto Rico’s power company, according to a court filing. Experts have said the dismissal of almost the entire board could lead to the appointment of new members who might be favorable to hedge funds seeking full repayment.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-power-company-debt-board-blackrock-620450990cfc0f867a5332894272bf6c

1,400 school workers strike Evergreen Public Schools in Washington state
On Tuesday, August 26, more than 1,400 classified staff in the Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, Washington, walked out, launching the first strike in the district’s history. The strike by members of the Public School Employees of Washington (PSE SEIU Local 1948) forced the district to postpone the start of the 2025–26 school year until September 2.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/30/hppd-a30.html

California lawmakers reach deal with Uber, Lyft that would allow drivers to unionize
The agreement includes a bill for collective bargaining backed by the Service Employees International Union along with a measure sponsored by Uber and Lyft that would significantly reduce the companies’ insurance requirements for accidents caused by underinsured drivers.
https://apnews.com/article/uber-lyft-drivers-union-gig-worker-california-transportation-74ea0034d3b1d7211e4a0fbc43e98ebf

Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim
The teenager, a US citizen with disabilities, was in a vehicle with his mother outside Arleta high school in Los Angeles on 11 August when masked immigration agents surrounded tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Daughter of the Revolution
While the famous and infamous inevitably attract admiration and attention in abundance, a very particular strain of curiosity is reserved also for their offspring. Children of the Revolution is a well-received 2011 documentary by Shane O’Sullivan about two women whose mothers were leading figures in radical leftist politics in, respectively, West Germany and Japan: Bettina Röhl, daughter of the Rote Armee Fraktion’s Ulrike Meinhof, and Shigenobu May, daughter of the Japanese Red Army’s Shigenobu Fusako. O’Sullivan’s film struggles under the sheer weight of the historical legacy and complexities of the movements in West Germany and Japan, but makes the savvy decision to focus on the personal reflections of the two women, whose lives were indelibly shaped by the ideologies and underground activities of their mothers. Though I’m His Daughter is a recently released documentary by Nagatsuka Yō about one of the daughters of Asahara Shōkō, the infamous leader of the Aum Shinrikyō doomsday cult who was executed in 2018 for orchestrating fatal sarin gas attacks in Tokyo and Matsumoto in the mid-1990s. The daughter, Matsumoto Rika, has faced discrimination and stigma due to her father and her putative status as heir to Aum’s successor group, which is closely monitored by police (officers raided the home of Asahara’s widow and son earlier this year, finding huge sums of cash allegedly donated to them by the group). Matsumoto was denied admission to a university due to her family background and had to fight a legal battle to win the right to attend.
https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/daughter-of-the-revolution/

Elections in Bolivia: tectonic shifts in the political landscape
For the first time in 20 years, Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism (MAS) has lost the presidential election – and it was not just any defeat. Having won almost 55 percent of the votes in 2020, MAS now barely reached 3 percent. In second place, with 26.7 percent of the valid votes, is Tuto Quiroga, a right-wing establishment candidate with ties to former dictator Hugo Banzer. Victory – with more than 30 percent of the vote – went to Christian Democratic candidate Rodrigo Paz and his vice president, former police officer Edman Lara, who has gained prominencePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Nearly 1,000 'Workers Over Billionaires' Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Unions and progressive organizations are planning nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" demonstrations across the United States this Labor Day to protest President Donald Trump's assault on workers' rights. The day of national action has been organized by the May Day Strong coalition, which includes labor organizations like the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, and National Union of Healthcare Workers, as well as advocacy groups like Americans for Tax Fairness, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and Public Citizen.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/workers-over-billionaires-protests

Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’
The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami’s Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge’s order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for “freedom” after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/alligator-alcatraz-uprising-florida-immigration

'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' For-Profit Insurance Practices to Medicare
As reported by The New York Times on Thursday, the pilot program will hire private firms to deploy AI to make what are known as "prior authorization" decisions regarding whether Medicare should pay for certain procedures, including spinal surgeries and steroid injections. The program is set to run first in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ai-medicare-program

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The DSA Voted Against Zionism — But Will It Break from the Democrats?
Every rupture carries its shadow. In Chicago, the same convention that declared support for anti-Zionism also codified loyalty to the very party arming Israel. Resolution 7, “Principles for Party-Building,” reaffirmed DSA’s surrogate strategy, stating outright that an independent ballot line “is not the primary goal or an indication of political independence.” Resolution 18, adopted unanimously, pledged a massive push in the 2026 midterms on the Democratic ballot line and even created a committee to explore a DSA-backed campaign for the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries. This is no longer inertia about the “dirty break” — which is the term used to describe the DSA’s self-evidently “dirty” decision to stay in the Democratic Party for now and break at some undetermined point in the future. What was once justified as a temporary tactic has now hardened into the DSA’s long-term strategy — a consolidation made explicit in Resolution 18, which commits the organization to remain within the Democrats through 2028. The contradiction could not be sharper: even as the convention voted to strip Zionism from the organization’s politics, the leadership secured resolutions that bound the DSA more tightly to the very party financing genocide. Today, some sectors of the DSA’s leadership wrap themselves in more radical, anti-imperialist rhetoric than in 2023 — but beneath the new language lies the same reformist strategy: to keep the socialist Left tethered to the Democratic Party, one of the main pillars of imperialism. This debate over strategy isn’t abstract — it’s unfolding through real campaigns and real figures. Nowhere is that clearer than in the phenomenon of Zohran Mamdani. His mayoral campaign in New York electrified millions. For the first time in decades, a Democrat running for high office said “Free Palestine,” called Israel an apartheid state, and endorsed boycotts against Israel. And crucially, his campaign showed that Palestine is not separate from so-called “bread-and-butter” issues. People rallied to him because his campaign has fused the fight against genocide abroad with the fight against skyrocketing rents, precarity, and exploitation at home. The link is not rhetorical but material: the same state that sends billions to fund Israel’s bombs is the one slashing housing, healthcare, and education; the same ruling class that justifies ethnic cleansiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump administration announces a $825 million arms sale to Ukraine
The State Department announced Thursday that it had notified Congress of the sale of extended-range attack munition missiles and navigation systems for Ukraine. The sale will cover 3,350 ERAM missiles, 3,350 GPS units, along with components, spare parts and other accessories, as well as training and technical support.
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-weapons-sale-trump-russia-74e01123c0067d5fc160141e0cabf207

State DFL chair's text fueled tension after Fateh endorsement reversal
For some Fateh supporters, the message reinforces a belief that top party officials were eager to intervene on incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey's behalf after his convention defeat. That suspicion is at the heart of an intra-party feud that has erupted since the state party's rules committee revoked Fateh's endorsement. Carlbom told Axios the text "was purely about procedural mistakes that we would need to address, not a preference for or against any candidate."
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/27/dfl-carlblom-text-fateh-endorsement

Former Memphis police officers granted new trial in Tyre Nichols killing
Three former Memphis police officers who were convicted on federal charges related to the beating death of unarmed Black motorist Tyre Nichols have each been granted a new trial. U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman on Thursday ordered the new trials after finding that another judge held communications with federal prosecutors without defense lawyers present, giving the appearance of possible bias.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-memphis-police-officers-granted-new-trial-tyre-nichols-killing-2025-08-29/

Top Human Rights Group Makes Case for Countries to 'Break Up' Big Tech
A report published Thursday by Amnesty highlights five tech companies: Alphabet (Google), Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, whichPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

On the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Secretary-General, Commander Abu Ali Mustafa: PFLP
“With the unity of our people, our resistance, and by harnessing the energies of the Arab nation, we can stop the genocide and thwart the ‘Greater Israel’ plan.” “If I fall, take my place, my comrade in the struggle.” O valiant masses of our people in the homeland and the diaspora Sons of our Arab nation and the free people of the nation and the world, We commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the martyrdom of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the great national and pan-Arab leader, Abu Ali Mustafa. He was assassinated by treacherous zionist aircraft while performing his national duties in his office in the occupied city of Ramallah, in a perfidious zionist crime. He left behind an honorable legacy of sacrifice and giving, immortalizing his presence in the record of the great and eternal figures. The enemy tried to assassinate the idea by assassinating its holder, but Abu Ali’s blood turned into a flame that illuminates the paths of resistance and fighters. His immortal testament, “We returned to resist, and on the principles, we do not compromise,” remains alive among the generations of our people. The national leader dedicated his life to Palestine and returned to the occupied homeland believing that resistance and unity are the only path to freedom and return. He was a living symbol of a resistant Palestine, a voice for the poor and the toilers, a conscience for the unity of our people, and an example of revolutionary steadfastness and resolve that knows no compromise.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/21112/

Greedflation With A Side Of Gaslighting
A new study shared exclusively with The Lever details how corporate media has routinely downplayed the effects of corporate greed on price increases, often citing industry talking points or providing no explanation at all for crippling inflation over the past few years. Lawmakers then parroted these anti-greedflation narratives as they slashed pandemic aid, blocked spending, and abandoned efforts to increase the national minimum wage. Now, with greedflation making a comeback as companies use President Donald Trump’s tariff threats to justify jacking up prices, the study’s co-author warns thatPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Five current and ex-Microsoft workers arrested at sit-in over Israeli military ties
At least two current and three former Microsoft employees – as well as two other tech workers – were arrested at the company’s headquarters after staging a sit-in demonstration at the company president’s office urging that Microsoft cut ties with the Israeli government. Police placed the protesters in full-body harnesses and carried them out of the building, according to Abdo Mohamed, a former Microsoft worker and who helped organize the demonstration. “No arrests, no violence, will deter us from continuing to speak up,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/microsoft-employee-sit-in-israeli-military-ties

Israeli official Alexandrovich skips US court hearing on child sex charges
On Wednesday, Chesnoff suggested that he had a deal with prosecutors relating to Alexandrovich’s court appearances going forward. “My client is not here. We have an agreement with the state, and I informed your staff earlier that he was not going to be here,” the lawyer told the court.But Schifalacqua said the district attorney’s office has “no authority to waive appearances” at a felony arraignment. “Nobody got a waiver from my court,” Schifalacqua said. Eventually, Chesnoff and the court agreed that Alexandrovich would appear remotely before the court next week, on September 3, for his arraignment – a hearing where he would be formally presented with the charges and enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/27/israeli-official-alexandrovich-skips-us-court-hearing-on-child-sex-charges
https://archive.ph/Ro9MW

Judge questions if Spanish-language journalist can stay in immigration detention without charges
DeKalb County prosecutors within days dismissed all charges Guevara faced related to the protest, which included unlawful assembly and obstruction of police. The sheriff’s office in neighboring Gwinnett County then took out warrants charging Guevara with Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Disaster Capitalism in Haiti
Senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington D.C., Jake Johnston, is the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti (Saint Martin’s Press, 2024). He was the premier analyst for the center’s “Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch website since 2010, just weeks after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti.” Originally from Portland ME, and now residing in Washington D.C., Johnston has contributed to the New York Times, The Nation, The Boston Review, and The Intercept. Journalist and author Naomi Klein praised Johnston for his “stubborn commitment to tracking Haiti’s struggles for a just recovery and real democracy — and his deft narrative and investigative skills.” Yale historian Greg Grandin remarked that “Aid State is a harrowing journey into the heart of modern neocolonial darkness, revealing the thick network of international organizations, including The United Nations, that have occupied Haiti for decades.” And professor of French and African American studies at Yale, Marlene L. Daut, stated that the book “should be required reading for all world leaders before they even think about meddling in Haitian politics — challenging popular notions of what it means to best support Haiti and with decades-long experience reporting on Haitian affairs to support his shrewd analysis, [the author] dismantles the idea that aid after disaster has anything to do with humanitarianism.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/22/disaster-capitalism-in-haiti/

In the UK, Poverty Is Driving Mental Illness Among the Young
If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life in the UK. Videos with captions like “Why is everything so expensive?” “Why is rent so high?” “Why can’t I get a doctor’s appointment?” are going viral every day. With no clear answers, let alone solutions, to any of these questions, many are opting to leave the country altogether. Now more than ever, young people feel as though they are facing these challenges alone. Without the social and community infrastructure that was destroyed by austerity, they have nowhere to go for support. And the hypercompetitive culture created by nePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Protesters confront U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell at town hall about his support of Israel
The condemnation from some in the crowd at the Post Building in downtown St. Louis largely drowned out support for Bell. Attendee Saul Glist said he was unimpressed with the congressman’s response to some questions and to the crowd’s criticism.
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-08-20/wesley-bell-st-louis-town-hall-israel-protest

Chinese scientist at University of Michigan enters “no contest” plea despite Fifth Amendment violations
In a Detroit federal courtroom on August 19, Chengxuan Han, a 28-year-old Chinese doctoral student at the University of Michigan (U-Mich), entered a plea of nolo contendere, or “no contest,” to politically motivated federal charges. This decision comes just days after Han’s defense team filed a motion to suppress statements obtained through egregious violations of her Fifth Amendment rights.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/26/djdb-a26.html

Judge rejects Cuomo’s attempt to make texts in harassment lawsuit public as he runs for NYC mayor
The decision comes more than a month after New York agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit from Brittany Commisso, an ex-aide who alleged Cuomo sexually harassed and groped her while he was in office. Cuomo, who has denied the allegations, resigned as governor in 2021 after a report from the state attorney general determined that he had sexually harassed at least 11 women.
https://apnews.com/article/cuomo-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-commisso-new-york-b66c59c7de22c283e87b75ed6cd723d1

DNC Votes Down Resolution Calling for Israeli Arms Embargo to Halt US Complicity in Gaza Genocide
NOTUS reports that, in the wake of the resolution's failure, DNC Chairman Ken Martin announced that he "was forming a task force to continue discussion of the issue, indicating that the committee planned to consider a new resolution about Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Latin American Communist Parties denounce US imperialist aggression against Venezuela
The Communist Party of Mexico condemns the military threat of US imperialism against the people of Venezuela. Under the guise of combating drug trafficking, the US has deployed three destroyers and more than 4,000 troops to the coasts of Venezuela. The close ties between the United States and its agencies, such as the CIA and the DEA, and drug trafficking groups are widely documented, as evidenced by the Iran-Contra scandal. This is also the paramilitary and counterinsurgency use of its "war on drugs" strategy. Its current use is a pretext to escalate imperialist aggression against Venezuela, with a view to securing control of Venezuelan oil fields and combating the positioning of Chinese and Russian capital in the region. We denounce this interventionist maneuver, as well as any attempt at imperialist intervention in Venezuela. We express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and working class, who must independently decide their future, as well as our solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela, which is fighting under difficult conditions for Venezuela's sovereignty and the concrete and historic rights and objectives of the working class.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/08/latin-american-communist-parties-denounce-us-imperialist-aggression-against-venezuela.html

The Uncommitted Movement, a Year Later
In Chicago last August, the Democratic Party staged the version of itself it prefers: lights on cue, music in major keys, speeches polished for unity. For those of us who organized the Uncommitted campaign, the absence onstage told the real story. In the fall of 2023, I was pitching stories to mainstream media outlets about antiwar protests and how Muslim, Arab, and young voters were souring on the Democratic Party over Joe Biden’s Israel policy. Meanwhile, at Thanksgiving, several of my own relatives told me outright this would be the first election where they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the Democrat at the top of the ticket. Around the same time, a producer at a major network told me that soon I’d have a harder time getting Gaza stories on air, because by January “everything will be about the election.”Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Judge halts Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García for now
Xinis, who was appointed by former president Obama, told justice department lawyers that the government is “absolutely forbidden” from deporting Ábrego until she holds an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Friday. Xinis further instructed that Ábrego must remain at his detention center in Virginia. She then asked deputy assistant attorney general Drew Ensign whether her order was sufficient for the justice department to follow, which he agreed it was.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/kilmar-abrego-garcia-uganda-deportation-trump

Millions in Harris campaign expenses still weigh on the DNC
Democrats have asked Harris and her team to hold more fundraisers and call more donors to solicit contributions to help pay off the expenses, but her team believes she's done her part. Harris has allowed the DNC to continue using her email list to help raise money and has held a few small fundraising events. But the total money raised from the events has been disappointing, according to two people familiar with the matter.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/25/kamala-harris-campaign-expenses-dnc
https://archive.ph/jZpwN

Trump signs orders aimed at ending cashless bail policies
U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday that aimed to limit no-cash bail in the nation's capital and threatened to revoke federal funding for other jurisdictions that use it, part of a White House effort to push crime-fighting to the top of the national agenda. "Cashless bail, we're ending it," Trump said during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-orders-aimed-ending-cashless-bail-policies-2025-08-25/

Philadelphia’s mass transit cuts foreshadow possible similar moves by other agencies across US
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( TrueAnon) Episode 483: Brandy Melville Cattle Prod
We’re joined by Ezra Marcus to discuss his new article in NY Mag (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/william-duplessie-john-woeltz-nyc-clubs-crypto-soho-torture.html) about two Bitcoin guys alleged to have gone nutty and kidnapped an Italian, torturing him in a house filled with Brandy Melville employees.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/brandy-melville-cattle-prod

Critique of the Florence Program: On Democracy & Mediation - Leon V (2025)
In the aftermath of the most recent convention of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the organization stands in a precarious situation. Conflicts between the “Left” and “Right” of the DSA threaten to dismantle, or at the least disrupt, the current activities of the organization. However much the Left and Right disagree on issues, such as Palestine, the American national question, etc., they have found themselves united in the meditation of class conflict instead of its escalation. Many are familiar with “the largest socialist organization in the country” (in their own words), and many more will certainly become more familiar with their name following the primary election of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor and other minor campaigns, such as those of Omar Fateh. This is where both wings of the DSA unite together into a single organization that has seemingly shifted its dedication towards putting up candidates for public office. If this everlong, and ultimately futile, quest to obtain any modicum of political power was only sought after by the liberal elements of the DSA, we would have nothing to say as we are not liberals nor have any interest in opining on what tactics and strategies liberals take. Our issue comes when some of the most ardent defenders and proponents of electoralism are coming from the “Communist” camp of the DSA, those of the neo-Kautskyite Marxist Unity Group or the post-Trotskyist Bread and Roses (just to name a few). We have prepared some criticisms of a draft program written by Marxist Unity Group called The Florence Program, and while this specific draft program is slightly out of date (written in FePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs
The exemption, known as the “ de minimis” exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free. A total of 1.36 billion packages were sent in 2024 under this exemption, for goods worth $64.6 billion, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency. It is set to expire on Friday. On Saturday, postal services around Europe announced that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid confusion over new import duties.
https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspension-85c7b36b9e92c0e640dfe2ac418cd907

Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine
“Let’s be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people,” Vermont’s politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. “Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu’s [sic] war machine.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-bernie-sanders-famine-gaza

Trump administration seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda
The court filing on Saturday said the idea of sending Abrego Garcia to Uganda came after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/trump-administration-seeks-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-uganda
https://archive.ph/Lb2xn

Insurance companies using drones to inspect homes without alerting owners. Here's what you should know.
Insurance companies are using drones to fly over and photograph properties that they insure without homeowners knowing. In some cases,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Far-Right Protest Vote in Romania
Romania’s recent elections saw surging support for “ultranationalist” candidates — especially after a breakthrough for the eccentric Călin Georgescu. The December 2024 cancellation of the initial first-round results over claims of Russian interference soon plunged the race into turmoil, heightening the sense of mounting pressure on the country’s institutions. The eventual rerun this May handed victory to former Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan, a pro-European candidate, albeit not without a strong showing for Donald Trump admirer George Simion. Despite Dan’s victory, Romania’s far right is within touching distance of the successes of its Polish and Hungarian counterparts. In these elections, we got a sense of what its base of support looks like. Andrei Țăranu is one of the most insightful political analysts in Romania. In an interview with Pablo Castaño in Bucharest, he examines the roots of the rise of Romanian ultranationalism.
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/romania-far-right-ultranationalism-elections

Bagong Pilipinas, Same Old Story
The 2025 State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. was, as expected, a circus of illusions and empty promises meant to deodorize the rotting carcass of a state in deep crisis. Marcos Jr. touted supposed economic growth, foreign investment inflows, and infrastructure projects as signs of a “Bagong Pilipinas.” But beneath the rhetoric lies the enduring reality of a semicolonial and semifeudal state, ruled by a corrupt and fascist regime fully subordinated to US imperialist interests. More than anything else, Marcos Jr.’s SONA was a report card to his US masters and to the local ruling classes, signaling that the Philippine reactionary state remains open for plunder and repression, and that the US-Marcos regime remains committed to its historic role as a puppet of US imperialism.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20976/

The funeral of the so-called “21st century socialism” in Bolivia
The results of Sunday's elections in Bolivia were devastating for the leftist “Movement of Socialism” (Movimiento al Socialismo), known by the acronym Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from Tennessee jail so he can rejoin family in Maryland to await trial
The release order from the Tennessee court requires Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he will be in home detention with his brother designated as his custodian. He is required to submit to electronic monitoring and can only leave the home for work, religious services and other approved activities.
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-jail-release-deportation-trial-6eb8e95da3bfb7b7ed89dc156702b295

CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study shows
As executive remuneration ballooned, the average CEO-to-worker pay gap across the 100 companies in the S&P 500 with lowest median worker pay – dubbed the Low-Wage 100 by the Institute for Policy Studies – widened by 12.9% between 2019 and 2024, from 560 to 1 to 632 to 1. “Median pay increased only modestly, whereas CEO pay really skyrocketed,” said Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of the report.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/ceo-worker-salaries

Immigrant dairy workers strike to stop Wisconsin cheese company from violating their basic rights
W&W Dairy, a producer of Hispanic-style cheeses, was purchased recently by DFA, which gave all employees until August 30 to provide proof of legal status through the E-Verify online system. While roughly half the nearly 100-strong workforce resigned immediately, the remaining 43 workers—some with decades of service—refused to comply without receiving three weeks of severance pay per year worked. The company not only denied this demand but reportedly threatened to call ICE should workers engage in legally protected strike action.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/21/jily-a21.html

Crumbling dam reveals potential risks of private hydroelectric ownership
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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/

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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.
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961 - The Dogs of War feat. Seth Harp (8/18/25) (Chapo Trap House)
Journalist and author Seth Harp returns to the pod to talk about his horrifying and expansive new book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We talk with Seth about America’s forever-war machine and the global drug empire it empowers, with a special focus on the case of Delta Force officer William Lavigne, who killed his best friend before turning up dead near Fort Bragg in a still-unsolved murder. We also discuss the rise of JSOC, the third Iraq War and its ongoing ramifications, the US military’s ties with the brutal Los Zetas cartel, and the eternal shadow war waged in the name of empire.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/961-the-dogs-of-war-feat-seth-harp-81825

There is no Revolution Without Revolutionary Consciousness
Haiti is plunged into insecurity in all its forms: poverty, arms trafficking and trade, organ and drugs trafficking and a lack of transportation, all of which have plunged the country into total financial insecurity. For many, Haiti has never experienced such a chaotic situation in history. This critical situation is not without consequences for society. It forces the population to adopt a different understanding of life; many essential sectors in the society, including the universities, the media, organizations and political parties, etc, have suffered an unprecedented state of discouragement. These sectors have lost their true mission, which is to support the people by sharing a set of emancipatory values. The proper transmission of these customs and principles can help build hope in this total despair. Without this preventive education and movement, any group has a free field to approach the people and give them bad directions. This disengagement prompts anyone, including those in the most reactionary group in the country, to chant a series of words that sound as if they carry a series of emancipatory values; but very often, the practices and activities of these people are not in line with these values. Let us take some examples: a criminal gang leader who claims he is “doing social work” or “fighting for the people,” while others even say his group is conducting a Revolution. This creates great confusion because, in the context, the word “revolution” seems to have lost its Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Senior Israeli official flees US after paedophilia arrest, sparking debate over Israeli impunity
According to police statements, Alexandrovich was one of eight individuals apprehended as part of the sting. He was charged with the felony offence of “luring a child with a computer for sex acts” and later released on $10,000 bail. He subsequently returned to Israel, prompting questions about how and why a foreign national accused of such a crime was allowed to leave the US before facing trial.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250818-senior-israeli-official-flees-us-after-paedophilia-arrest-sparking-debate-over-israeli-impunity/

US to ‘root out anti-Americanism’ in reviewing immigration applications
The latest guidance on immigration decisions said that authorities will also look at whether applicants “promote anti-Semitic ideologies”. … Under the new measures, US diplomats are directed to review applicants’ social media profiles to look for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States” before issuing visas.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/immigration-social-media

Kilmar Abrego accuses US government of 'vindictive prosecution'
Federal law allows for the dismissal of criminal charges if a judge determines they were brought to punish someone for exercising their due process rights. Such requests rarely succeed. "Even as government officials recognized both publicly and privately that Mr. Abrego's removal to El Salvador had been a serious mistake, the government responded not with contrition, or with any effort to fix its mistake, but with defiance," the motion stated.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kilmar-abrego-accuses-us-government-vindictive-prosecution-2025-08-19/

Katherine Clark backs off Gaza ‘genocide’ comments
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Serbia: the revolution has outgrown its naïve phase
Since the collapse of the canopy that killed 16 people last November, Serbia has seen massive mobilisations, including the largest in the country’s history on 15 March. They have continued down to the present yet still no justice has been had for the victims. Patience has run out. Instead of justice, the regime has met the masses with continuous violence that has added to the bubbling anger in society. Back in January, members of the ruling party, the SNS, emerged from their party offices and broke the jaw of a female student. Other students attempted to enforce restraint by cordoning the offices to prevent violence from escalating. Since then, the culprits in that attack have been pardoned by Vučić. And we’ve seen more attacks by thugs and car ramming attacks on students. Still, throughout it all, the official stance of the students was that the violence of the Vučić regime should be met with restraint and dignity. But now things have reached their limits. Fatigue had been setting in without justice being achieved, and many began to feel that the students did not have a way forward. The blockades of the university faculties were slowly falling apart. It had become clear that the students’ attempts to peacefully achieve justice were ineffective. It was in this context that, on the national Vidovdan holiday, 28 June, the students gave the green light for the masses to use any form of civil disobedience. Until this point, only the restraint of the students themselves, whose authority had provided the leadership of the movement, has held the masses back. In a speech, the students have now given the “green light” to the masses not to hold back any longer in the face of a regime that clearly will not refrain from using violence.
https://marxist.com/serbia-the-revolution-has-outgrown-its-naive-phase.htm

The Alternative: Zarah Sultana interview
Zarah Sultana is among Britain’s most prominent socialist leaders. Born in Birmingham in 1993, she became politically active in the student movement and later in the upsurge of Corbynism: serving on the national executive of Young Labour, working as a community organiser for the party and eventually running for parliament, where she now represents Coventry South. Her electiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US pipeline protester’s obstruction conviction overturned by appeals court
Vialard was charged after attaching herself to a 25ft bamboo tower erected to block a pumping station in Aitkin county in August 2021, as part of a crackdown on non-violent Indigenous-led protests opposing the expansion and re-routing on Line 3 – a 1,097-mile tar sands oil pipeline with a dismal safety record that crosses more than 200 bodies of water from Alberta in Canada to refineries in the US midwest.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/18/mylene-vialard-pipeline-protester-conviction-overturned

Draft of new 'MAHA' report suggests RFK Jr. won't target pesticides
The draft's language, if left unchanged, would constitute a win for the agriculture industry and a potential setback for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) allies, who have railed against the use of chemical additives in America's food supply, arguing that they harm children.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/draft-new-maha-report-suggests-rfk-jr-target/story?id=124714523

Private-equity backed prison health companies continue despite decade of alleged constitutional violations
Since 2014, in eight cases involving these two private equity-backed healthcare companies examined by the Guardian, investigators from the Department of Justice, New York City department of investigation and other local investigators, have found their negligence so severe that it violated inmates’ eighth amendment rights protecting them from substantial risk of harm, including preventable death. Staff shortages are often a contributing factor – a 2023-24 Santa Barbara county grand jury investigation into Wellpath-managed jails found that staffing shortages led to delays in care.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/us-private-prison-healthcare-industry

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