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The Zionist consensus among American Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging

The Zionist consensus among American Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging

Shaul Magid writes: It has been two years since the mass murder on 7 October 2023, an event that shook world Jewry more than any event since the creation of the state of Israel. For Jews it was shocking. For the state of Israel, it was deeply humiliating. The entire Zionist project was founded on the presumption that the Jewish state would prevent things like this from ever happening again. A response was inevitable. But the response Israel pursued –…

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‘This is deliberate chaos’: Congress erupts at Trump’s shutdown mass firings

‘This is deliberate chaos’: Congress erupts at Trump’s shutdown mass firings

Axios reports: Members of Congress pushed back Friday against the White House announcing layoffs of federal workers as part of the government shutdown. Why it matters: The blowback includes Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who called the layoffs “arbitrary” and said she “strongly” opposes them. “Regardless of whether federal employees have been working without pay or have been furloughed, their work is incredibly important to serving the public,” Collins said. Members of Congress from the Washington, D.C….

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The Guardian reports: Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of four lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming. Thiel, who describes himself as a “small-o Orthodox Christian”, believes the harbinger of the end of the world could already be…

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MIT is first school to reject Trump’s extortion plan

MIT is first school to reject Trump’s extortion plan

NBC News reports: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration’s education agenda. MIT disagreed with a number of aspects of the administration’s proposal, which was sent to nine major universities last week, arguing that it would restrict the university’s freedom of expression and independence, Sally Kornbluth, president of the Cambridge-based school, wrote in a letter Friday to the Department of Education….

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Wajahat Ali + Mehdi Hasan: Trump wants Nobel Peace Prize for war, insurrection and indicting Letitia James

Wajahat Ali + Mehdi Hasan: Trump wants Nobel Peace Prize for war, insurrection and indicting Letitia James

  A desperate Trump Administration is attempting to distract from the Epstein Files and its disastrous economic policies by indicting Letitia James and declaring war on American critics. As I went live with Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, news broke that a grand jury had indicted Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, who successfully prosecuted Trump for fraud. Even though this is another chilling escalation in Trump’s reckless, dangerous, and cankled march towards authoritarianism, it shouldn’t be surprising.

Qatar pushes to secure Marwan Barghouti’s release in Gaza prisoner exchange deal

Qatar pushes to secure Marwan Barghouti’s release in Gaza prisoner exchange deal

Middle East Eye reports: The Israeli prime minister’s office unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti’s name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, endangering the Gaza ceasefire deal’s implementation, a source close to the prominent Palestinian prisoner told Middle East Eye. Barghouti, who is the most popular Palestinian political figure according to polls, was one of the most valuable names to potentially be traded for the 48 Israeli captives in Gaza. A source close to Barghouti and his family told…

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He wrote a book about antifa. Death threats are now driving him and his family out of the U.S.

He wrote a book about antifa. Death threats are now driving him and his family out of the U.S.

Wired reports: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers who specializes in Spanish history and radicalism, has been a far-right target ever since he published Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook in 2017. But after president Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to designate…

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Opposing anti-fascism = supporting fascism

Opposing anti-fascism = supporting fascism

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa — the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party — as the bad guys. [image or embed] — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) Oct 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. [image or embed] — The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) Oct 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM History's Two Greatest ANTIFA LEADERS 😉 [image or embed] — Fun Puns 24…

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Oklahoma’s Republican governor critical of National Guard deployment in Chicago

Oklahoma’s Republican governor critical of National Guard deployment in Chicago

The New York Times reports: Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.” His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other…

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The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

In a series of cases over the past 15 years, the Supreme Court has moved in a pro-presidential direction. Geoff Livingston/Getty Images By Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University President Donald Trump set the tone for his second term by issuing 26 executive orders, four proclamations and 12 memorandums on his first day back in office. The barrage of unilateral presidential actions has not yet let up. These have included Trump’s efforts to remove thousands of government workers and fire several…

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Retaliation: State violence is targeting journalists

Retaliation: State violence is targeting journalists

David Wallace-Wells writes: Last Friday, the 48-year-old Emmy-winning reporter Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador from an ICE detention facility in Folkston, Ga. He was held in detention there for over 100 days. The state’s filings concerning his detention seem to largely focus on the crime of committing journalism. Guevara was arrested in June at a No Kings rally outside Atlanta, where, while filming the protest for his livestreaming platform MG News, he (clearly wearing a press vest and…

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Labor Department says Trump’s immigration raids are causing a food crisis

Labor Department says Trump’s immigration raids are causing a food crisis

David Dayen writes: The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,” according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week. The document also indicates that American workers are simply not interested in and do not have the skills to perform agricultural jobs, at odds with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s claim that the farm workforce will soon…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is exposing the growing rift between MAGA and the GOP

Marjorie Taylor Greene is exposing the growing rift between MAGA and the GOP

NBC News reports: When the White House discouraged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from launching a Senate bid in Georgia this spring, Greene — a longtime loyal ally of President Donald Trump — agreed to back off her statewide ambitions. But that didn’t mean the firebrand Republican was going to back down from other fights she felt were worth waging — including, or perhaps especially, with her own party. Over the past six months, Greene has made waves in Washington for…

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Chicago Latina activist shot by Border Patrol survives, lawyers up

Chicago Latina activist shot by Border Patrol survives, lawyers up

Pablo Manríquez writes: On Saturday, federal agents shot Marimar “La Maggie” Martinez five to seven times in Brighton Park. Yesterday, she walked out of the hospital—bandaged, limping, but alive—flanked by her lawyer, Christopher Parente, and a crowd chanting her name. That image—a Latina activist standing upright after federal bullets tore through her car and body—belongs to a long ledger of American overreach. CBP called it an “ambush.” Her community calls it what it looks like: an execution that failed. The…

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Federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside ICE facility

Federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside ICE facility

Chicago Sun-Times reports: With an unusually loud bang of his gavel Wednesday morning, a federal magistrate judge agreed to dismiss charges against a Chicago couple found lawfully carrying loaded pistols last month outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. A grand jury on Tuesday returned a “no bill” in the case of Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, a prosecutor explained. In doing so, the grand jurors refused to hand up an indictment in the high-profile case resulting…

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Rubio lied: Starving children scream for food as aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Rubio lied: Starving children scream for food as aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

The Associated Press reports: Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s…

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