Mike Elk

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

Love the headline!!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

Former Harris supporter, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, has gone total Trump. He wants troops patrolling San Francisco. Incredible account by the NYT's
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Search After Tennessee Explosion Finds No Survivors, Officials Say

18 dead in Tennesse plant explosion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

#OtD 11 Oct 1941 the Macedonian uprising against fascism during WWII began with an attack by communist partisans on a police station in Prilep, then Yugoslav territory, which had been occupied by German, Italian, Albanian and Bulgarian forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8349...

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

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I love October baseball so much!

A flotilla reporter detained by Israel. “One of the port authority people or naval people put their foot on my head and told me to sit on my knees: Don’t move.”

A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. Read Aida Alami. www.cjr.org/news/reporte...

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Air Traffic Controller "Sick Out" in Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville Air Traffic Controller sick outs grow around the United States

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

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Air Traffic Controller "Sick Out" in Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville Air Traffic Controller sick outs grow around the United States

Air traffic controllers are enaging increasing sickouts around the United States to protest the government shutdown

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Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor La Fenice’s musicians and staff claim Beatrice Venezi lacks experience and was picked because of government ties

Venice opera house staff to strike over hiring of Meloni-linked conductor
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Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat To Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

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NABET-CWA on X: "NABET-CWA Bulletin: NBCUniversal/Versant (MSNBC) https://t.co/GW3ugRe43w" / X NABET-CWA Bulletin: NBCUniversal/Versant (MSNBC) https://t.co/GW3ugRe43w

NBCUniversal ending MSNBC union agreement in place since 2007

Union busting in the Trump Era

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N.J. professor says he’s moving to Europe after death threats over antifa research Mark Bray said right-wing influencers have been targeting him on social media. Turning Point USA wants him fired.

Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8

YouTube video by Warner Bros. One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

OMG, go see “One Battle After Another”, it starts with leftists raiding an ICE camp in a fictional US & the movie just gets deeper and deeper from there.

Its like “Battle of Algiers” meets “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

I’m shocked that a studio was able to make this youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk?...

YouTube video by Warner Bros. One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

OMG, go see “One Battle After Another”, it starts with leftists raiding an ICE camp in a fictional US & the movie just gets deeper and deeper from there.

Its gonna inspire leftists in the way that “Battle of Algiers”

I’m truly shocked that a studio was able to make this youtu.be/kQUPdVxZNPk?...

Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…

The deportation of Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara isn’t only a story of attacks on immigrants in Georgia; it highlights another trend: By August, assaults on journalists in the U.S. had already reached a four-year high. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
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Charlie Brown and the Futility of Positive Thinking A celebration of "Peanuts" at 75

75 years ago today, the first "Peanuts" strip was published in a mere seven newspapers. It's been the chief artistic influence of my career, and I wrote yet another piece about the strip and how it relates to today's power relations in my new newsletter. lepplin.substack.com/p/charlie-br...

I just saw the Battleship Potemkin w/ experimental jazz trio accompanying it at this 1892 historic labor site in Homestead.
It was so powerful and roaring in a rustic site like that where 7 striking steelworkers were killed.

A WNBA player wearing a black T-shirt with the words: Pay Us What You Owe Us

From @theathletic.com: The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on Oct. 31. Revenue sharing and player salaries have been hang-ups in negotiations. Players have said they are prepared for the possibility of a work stoppage.
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Remember when the Teamsters backed Trump’s Department of Labor pick?

Scrapping NYC's 'Modern-Day Slave Ship' The prison barge's sale to a Louisiana scrap metal company closes a grim chapter of New York City history. And more news to start your Wednesday.

Morning Spew for Night Owls—New York City's floating dungeon—a towering symbol of our deadly municipal carceral system that has sat off the Bronx coast for more than 33 years—will soon be turned into scrap metal.

Another win for the people: Gavin Newsom signed AB288! The law states that if the NLRB fails to respond to petitions to vindicate the rights of workers, then the CA Public Employment Relations Board can take up the matter - this is particularly important for ULPs!

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