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'Germany Is Back' – and That Should Scare Us All In its crackdown on pro-Palestine speech, Germany has normalized racism and state violence in a way that goes beyond any conflict abroad, reminding us this really is the country of the 1920s, again.

"'Germany Is Back' – and That Should Scare Us All"

In its crackdown on pro-Palestine speech, Germany has normalized racism and state violence, reminding us this really is the country of the 1920s, again, writes James Jackson for Zeteo:

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. www.wired.com/story/federa...

Prosecutions Have Never Been This Vindictive—or Meritless Trump threatens the rule of law like it's his job

Trump’s revenge prosecutions against Comey and James could be just the start. Who else will he go after if he feels ‘wronged’?

The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?

As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime | Fortune Public finance expert Linda Bilmes says the “arbitrariness” of who gets paid and who doesn’t during shutdowns exposes the “dysfunction” of the budget approval process.

They found money to pay the ICE thugs, but not to feed the kids…

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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

YouTube video by Reuters LIVE: Anti-Trump protesters rally in South Korea | REUTERS

LIVE: Anti-Trump protesters rally in South Korea

Hundreds of South Korean protesters stage a rally in Gyeongju against US President Donald Trump as he was set to arrive in the city for meetings on the sidelines of the APEC summit.

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North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

Team Newsom @governor.ca.gov is taking bold, concrete steps to reduce dependence on a chaotic federal health landscape.

California is now producing its own insulin through CalRx, an innovative and timely model that leverages their purchasing power to reduce healthcare costs for Californians.

Obamacare Prices Become Public, Highlighting Big Increases

"Ms. Monahan, 61, paid $439 a month for her coverage in 2025.

When she went to shop for next year’s plan, she learned that the monthly cost would jump to $1,059 for the same plan with an annual deductible of $7,100..."

Thanks, GOP congress! Thanks, Trump!

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Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

Rep. Jim Himes: "Fentanyl...comes out of Mexico, from the cartels there. There is cocaine coming out of Colombia, not so much Venezuela. So what we see there is a massive number of military assets deployed for purely performative reasons...It's purely performative."

Consumer Confidence Hits Seven-Month Low—Government Shutdown A ‘Key Concern,’ Survey Says Recent surveys suggest Americans have grown increasingly concerned about inflation, rising prices and a cooled labor market.

Recent surveys suggest Americans have grown increasingly concerned about inflation, rising prices and a cooled labor market.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

North Carolina Joins Bipartisan Suit Over SNAP The coalition of state officials is requesting that a court intervene immediately and release contingency funds to protect SNAP programs.

A bipartisan coalition of state officials, including North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, sued the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), partially funded through November.

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DOJ filed its response to Letitia James's motion today.

It argues that Lindsey Halligan's text exchange with me was appropriate because her comments were made "to protect [her] client from the substantial undue prejudicial effect of recent publicity..."

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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Hurricane Melissa Live Updates: 2025's Strongest Storm Hours From Catastrophic Landfall In Jamaica Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall as a Category 5 storm after already sustaining wind speeds of 175 miles per hour.

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall as a Category 5 storm after already sustaining wind speeds of 175 miles per hour.

Trump on sending troops into American cities: “If I want to enact a certain act, I’m allowed to do it…And I’d be allowed to do whatever I want…And the courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines.”

How to fight unemployment during a recession? - Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination The low and (partly) negative economic growth rates in Germany since the outbreak of the energy crises and growing danger of deindustrialization sparked debates about measures to avoid growing numbers...

Hilft die Kürzung von Unterstützungsleistungen, um Arbeitslosigkeit zu reduzieren? Kurzfristig wirkungslos, langfristig schädlich. Passend zur aktuellen Debatte wurde mein (theoretischer) Beitrag im Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination veröffentlicht. 1/
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More shit Mike Johnson doesn’t know.

Boris Johnson approved China’s London super-embassy proposal in 2018 Exclusive: Former PM gave consent while foreign secretary for Royal Mint Court complex, a project still in limbo seven years later Boris Johnson approved the China’s super-embassy proposal in 2018 and welcomed the fact it would represent “China’s largest overseas diplomatic investment” anywhere in the world, the Guardian can disclose. In a letter to Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, Johnson gave his consent for Royal Mint Court to house a sprawling diplomatic complex in May 2018. The Chinese government bought the 20,000 sq metres site for £255m that same month. Continue reading...

Boris Johnson approved China’s London super-embassy proposal in 2018

This is the third U.S. Attorney found to be unlawfully appointed. The other two are Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba. Their indictments stand because they were signed by other prosecutors. Not true for Lindsey Halligan.

BREAKING: We're suing North Carolina over its congressional map that disenfranchises Black voters in the state.

The newly passed map shifts thousands of Black voters out of their communities of representation.

Opinion | ICE lowered its standards and is still struggling to hire officers DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards. DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.

It looks like most Americans simply don’t want to be ICE thugs.

El-Fasher: Rebel group claims capture of key city in Sudan The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.

“More than 150,000 people have died across the country and about 12 million have fled their homes, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises.”

This is a genocide in Sudan.

Gallego: "You're talking about norms in the time of Donald Trump?"

Hunt: "Democrats have spent so much time arguing about maintaining those norms."

Gallego: "It's all out the window when you're dealing with Trump...We're not going to go back and play by the norms when we know what's on the line."