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Trump Orders ICE Agents to Pick Crops Unharvested by Deported Immigrants “I didn’t sign up for this,” complained an exhausted ICE officer.

“I didn’t sign up for this,” complained an exhausted ICE officer, struggling to breathe through his mask as he picked tomatoes. “I should be kicking some minority’s ass at Home Depot.”

"It is not clear whether the ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas and negotiated by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye will survive its first phase. Since it began, Israeli forces have not stopped killing Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli settlers are still killing them in the West Bank."

UN response to DT's plan to test nuke weapons:
"nuclear testing can never be permitted under any circumstances"

Day 4: UN security officials' sick-out appears to be over (for now)

Sudan's paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say Sudan's paramilitary forces have killed hundreds, including patients, in a hospital in el-Fasher city, Darfur, according to residents and aid workers.

Over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in western Darfur that was taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO chief says.

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UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts - PassBlue UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts - PassBlue

In a rare move, UN security officials stage a sick-out. UN spox says: . . . "what I can also tell you is that the building is very much secure at this point."
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12 Long-Overdue Questions for the Israeli Government

12 Long-Overdue Questions for the Israeli Government passblue.com/2025/10/29/1...

12 Long-Overdue Questions for the Israeli Government

12 Long-Overdue Questions for the Israeli Government passblue.com/2025/10/29/1...

UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts - PassBlue UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts - PassBlue

In a rare move, UN security officials stage a sick-out. UN spox says: . . . "what I can also tell you is that the building is very much secure at this point."
passblue.com/2025/10/27/u...

In a rare move, UN security staff stage a sick-out (aka strike)

UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts

UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts passblue.com/2025/10/27/u...

In a rare move, UN security staff stage a sick-out (aka strike)

UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts

UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts passblue.com/2025/10/27/u...

The big divide in American news consumption is less about “left vs. right” than “active vs. passive” It's an idea I first remember encountering in a 2008 Brian Stelter story in The New York Times. An unnamed college student, asked in a focus group to describe their information consumption habits,…

"You won’t be surprised to learn that passive news consumers also tend to be more passive citizens. Active news consumers were more than twice as likely to be 'very engaged' with politics than passive news consumers." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

UN’s Cost-Cutting Mergers Come Under Scrutiny While Search for Locations Worldwide Continues Faced with a severe liquidity crisis and a hostile Trump administration, the UN continues to merge some of its multiple agencies, and move them out of New York, relocating to Europe, Africa, Asia and ...

Per its severe funding crisis, the United Nations is merging some of its agencies & moving them out of New York. The first to be merged may be UN Women & the UN Population Fund, with some staffers moved to Bonn & others to Nairobi. UNICEF may be next for Nairobi. www.ipsnews.net/2025/10/uns-...

#KeepEyesOnSudan

When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic.

In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life.

(Published Aug. 2024)
By @lisalsong.bsky.social

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Hamas hands over remains of captive as Israeli drone strike kills two The Israeli military says the captive's remains were being transported to its troops by the Red Cross.

Hamas has handed over the remains of another captive to Israel, hours after an Israeli drone strike in southern Gaza killed two Palestinians, in a continued violation of the ceasefire aje.io/y9abmk

Eighty years on, is the United Nations a relevant institution? - Monocle Eighty years on from its inception, the United Nations is in crisis. Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton...

Weekday replug for latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. The at 80 UN, with former UN force commander Major General Patrick Cammaert, Mona Ali Khalil of @passblue.bsky.social, U Thant's biographer and grandson @thantmyintu.bsky.social and. . . John Bolton. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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Sudanese paramilitary enters army’s last stronghold in Darfur El Fashir is the last major city in the western region of Darfur held by Sudan’s military forces. The Rapid Support Forces’ entry raises fears of a bloodbath.

Sudan's war is so far out of sight that it seems like another world, but it is our own. Giulia Chiopris, @doctorswithoutborders.org pediatrician in North Darfur, speaks of thousands fleeing famine. Keep eyes on Sudan. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @khoureld.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

Despite ceasefires, Israel continues attacks around the region Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, but continues to attack its neighbours on multiple fronts.

Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, but continues to attack its neighbours on multiple fronts.

Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb. Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?

"Are you enjoying my favor, or suffering my displeasure?" is the only real throughline in Donald Trump's approach to "governing."

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/totally-br...

The next UN Secretary General, due to start in 2027, was slated to come from Latin America & the Caribbean. on Friday at the Security Council, US Deputy Rep Dorothy Shea dismissed the usual norm of regional rotation & said the US welcomes candidates from any region usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a...

Vote for the next UN secretary-general - PassBlue Welcome to PassBlue's informal readers' survey on the most popular current candidate for UN secretary-general, taking office on Jan. 1, 2027. Expectations are high for a woman to be selected by UN mem...

As US suddenly says geographical rotation is out (sticking it to Latin America/Carib), make your voice heard through our informal poll on who should be next UN SecGen
VOTE ENDS 11:59 PM SUNDAY
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Mixed Signals from Washington Cost Lives in Ukraine Dithering, delaying, and doubting only invite Russian attacks.

We have leverage over Russia in that when we delay or signal doubt on Ukraine's cause, the Russians attack more and harder. In that sense, we are also participating in the killing of Ukrainians. www.thebulwark.com/p/mixed-sign...

The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela Selling the lies of the Iraq War took months. With Trump and Venezuela, there’s no pretense of anything other than regime change.

How is this worse than the buildup to Iraq?

BREAKING: At least four Palestinians have been injured following an Israeli air attack on a car in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, al-Awda Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

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