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Afraid of peaceful protests, Abbott sends National Guard to Austin for No Kings rally

Afraid of peaceful protests, Abbott sends National Guard to Austin for No Kings rally

Politico reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying the state’s National Guard to Austin ahead of this weekend’s planned No Kings rally in the Texas capital, he announced Thursday, as top Republicans around the country vilify the protests as Antifa-linked and led by the radical flank of the Democratic Party. “Violence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas,” Abbott said in a statement Thursday. “Today, I directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas National Guard to deploy…

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Top U.S. media, including conservative outlets, reject new Pentagon press restrictions

Top U.S. media, including conservative outlets, reject new Pentagon press restrictions

  The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. “The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn’t like a governing…

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Tariffs to cost companies $1.2 trillion this year, mostly hitting consumers, study finds

Tariffs to cost companies $1.2 trillion this year, mostly hitting consumers, study finds

Axios reports: President Trump’s tariffs will cost businesses more than $1.2 trillion this year, with most of that cost being passed on to consumers, according to a new study from S&P Global. Why it matters: It’s the latest sign that Americans will end up bearing the brunt of Trump’s trade war. It also contributes to a picture of a much more difficult economy ahead. Driving the news: In the study published on Thursday, S&P Global found that companies are now expected to pay at least $1.2 trillion…

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Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now?

Life in Gaza may go from utter hell to mere nightmare. What happens now?

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley write: Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza demands atonement from Palestinians for the horrific acts of 7 October, not from Israel for the barbarity that followed. It calls for Gaza’s deradicalization but not an end to Israel’s messianism. It micromanages the future of Palestinian governance while saying nothing about the future of Israel’s occupation. It is riddled with ambiguities, devoid of timetables, arbiters or consequences for inevitable eventual violations. If all goes according to plan…

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Nationwide ‘No Kings’ rally has Republicans in disarray

Nationwide ‘No Kings’ rally has Republicans in disarray

The Bulwark reports: The upcoming anti-authoritarian “No Kings” rally, which is scheduled to take place across the country on Saturday, including on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol, has set off klaxons for Republican lawmakers, who are scrambling to mount a preemptive defense. While many GOP lawmakers are describing No Kings as an astroturfed political operation meant to benefit Democrats in the continuing government funding fight, some in party leadership are going further by branding it a pro-terrorism demonstration—an…

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Trump authorizes covert CIA action in regime-change campaign targeting Venezuela

Trump authorizes covert CIA action in regime-change campaign targeting Venezuela

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader. The authorization is the latest step in the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela. For weeks, the U.S. military has been targeting boats off the Venezuelan coast it says are transporting drugs, killing 27 people. American officials have been clear, privately, that the end goal…

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Why Trump’s bombing of alleged drug boats is illegal

Why Trump’s bombing of alleged drug boats is illegal

Asha Rangappa writes: So far, the Trump administration has killed twenty-one people using military strikes in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, President Trump has escalated his attempt to deploy the military in cities throughout the United States, on the heels of the Secretary of Defense informing his military brass that they are no longer going to be bound by “stupid rules of engagement.” And last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi assured Trump that the United States is “going…

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Facebook collaborates with Trump regime by taking down ICE-sightings group in Chicago

Facebook collaborates with Trump regime by taking down ICE-sightings group in Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times reports: At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The group, called ICE Sighting-Chicagoland, has been increasingly used over the last five weeks of “Operation Midway Blitz,” President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign, to warn neighbors that federal agents are near schools, grocery stores and…

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Chicago pushes back against Trump

Chicago pushes back against Trump

Danny Postel writes: Our far North Side neighborhood is one of the most diverse and multilingual, not only in Chicago, but in the U.S. More than 80 languages are spoken here. One of the neighborhood’s high schools, Sullivan, has a long history as a home to immigrant and refugee students, and was the subject of the 2021 book “Refugee High: Coming of Age in America” by the journalist Elly Fishman. My father, a child of immigrants, attended Sullivan in the…

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Christian Right AFD sees Britain as key bridgehead to empower conservative Christianity across Europe

Christian Right AFD sees Britain as key bridgehead to empower conservative Christianity across Europe

The New York Times reports: For nearly three hours, Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s once-fringe populist Reform U.K. Party, commanded an audience in Congress on Sept. 3 as he testified against his own country’s free-speech rules. The presence of Mr. Farage, a longtime Trump ally, as the Republicans’ star witness in Washington was not merely a symbol of his growing political clout or the power of conservative populism. Rather, it was the result of a discreet, monthslong campaign by…

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‘Peace deal’ or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time

‘Peace deal’ or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time

Niamh Ni Bhriain writes: Abdullah Ahmed Jihad al-Hasani, a baby boy, not yet one year old. Masah Mohammad Hamza al-Rifi, a baby girl, not yet one year old. Celine Ahmed Mufid al-Yaziji, a baby girl, not yet one year old… a baby… not yet one year old. Somebody’s whole world, gone in an instant. In Amsterdam, as the first winds of autumn swept through the city, the names of 69,000 people killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza were read…

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Timothy Snyder: ‘Loving your country means showing up’

Timothy Snyder: ‘Loving your country means showing up’

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too. #NoKings snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f… [image or embed] — Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) Oct 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM The American Prospect reports: Millions of people will take to the streets again this Saturday to protest the autocratic regime of President Donald Trump, his government shutdown, and…

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racism and bigotry

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racism and bigotry

Politico reports: Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh,”…

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ICE’s use of straitjackets during deportations endangers lives and may amount to torture

ICE’s use of straitjackets during deportations endangers lives and may amount to torture

The Associated Press reports: The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to their attorney, he said, the officers refused and straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded…

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Trump’s maritime strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean amount to extrajudicial killings, says HRW

Trump’s maritime strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean amount to extrajudicial killings, says HRW

The New York Times reports: The United States killed six men aboard a boat in international waters “just off the Coast of Venezuela,” President Trump wrote on social media on Tuesday, asserting without evidence that they had been transporting drugs. The strike was the fifth known attack by the U.S. military on such boats since Sept. 2. The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. “Intelligence confirmed…

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After 250 years, the beacon of democracy goes dark

After 250 years, the beacon of democracy goes dark

Anne Applebaum writes: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted the Declaration of Independence in full. Edinburgh followed. Soon after that, it appeared in Madrid, Leiden, Vienna, and Copenhagen. Before long, others drew on the text in more substantial ways. Thomas Jefferson himself helped draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of…

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