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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Graphic for PEN America featuring a quote by author Judith Butler about the arrest of translators in Iran with a call to action to read petitions and sign on at pen.org. The background is red with white and black text.

Judith Butler is one of nearly 300 writers and scholars condemning the Iranian authorities’ recent arrest of several writers, translators, and scholars in Tehran. Even though they have been released on bail, all charges against them must be dropped. pen.org/press-releas...

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

SCOOP: The rightwing extremist group Turning Point USA is holding rallies in Ohio at University of Cincinnati and Miami University in December with anti-ESG zealot Vivek Ramaswamy. Recent polls show Ramaswamy in a tight race with Amy Acton for Governor.

This weekend, the New York Times ran a story claiming Sierra Club’s values have diluted our mission. They couldn’t be more wrong. The list of their errors is too long for one social post, but we go over some examples in these slides.

ALEC Pushes Power Grid “Stability” Bills to Favor Fossil Fuels Over Renewables - EXPOSEDbyCMD This past legislative session, at least 15 “grid reliability” and “grid stability” bills based on ALEC model policies were introduced in statehouses across the country.

PUBLISHED: ALEC Pushes Power Grid “Stability” Bills to Favor Fossil Fuels Over Renewables
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Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time at Jeffrey Epstein's Mansion Leaked emails show Epstein working on a wire transfer to Ehud Barak's top aide, Yoni Koren, who regularly stayed at his apartment.

“Epstein’s personal calendars reveal that a senior Israeli intelligence officer, with personal ties to former CIA Director Leon Panetta, lived at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment for multiple stretches between 2013 and 2016.”

🟢 Hamas senior official Mousa Abu Marzouk reacts to the U.S. draft resolution to establish a UN Security Council–mandated security force in Gaza: “If it is not a peacekeeping force but a security force operating inside Gaza, then it effectively becomes an occupation force—a substitute for the Israeli military. That was never part of the mediators’ discussions nor of Trump’s initiative. What Washington wants is international legitimacy—UN authorization—but under American command. This was not what Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt had in mind. They wanted a genuine UN mandate: authorization defining the mission, size, arms, and authority. The U.S. wants the UN’s cover while keeping control itself. That’s a major problem. I don’t believe this draft will pass the Security Council in its current form. There are too many objections, including from within the Council itself. The core question remains: What does the U.S. really want? Does it want stability, peace, and reconstruction—or does it want to perpetuate the conflict so it can manage it? Because managing conflict, not resolving it, has long been U.S. policy. That’s what happened with the Oslo Accords—supposed to last five years, now thirty years later they’ve achieved nothing. Washington is once again applying the same failed formula to Gaza.” Video: @ajmubasher

🟢 Hamas senior official Mousa Abu Marzouk reacts to the U.S. draft resolution to establish a UN Security Council–mandated security force in Gaza:

“If it is not a peacekeeping force but a security force operating inside Gaza, then it effectively becomes an occupation force—a substitute for the...

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Chris DeMuth - the former president of the American Enterprise Institute & Conference Chairman Emeritus of the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference—has resigned from the Heritage Foundation. Ouch. 11/4/25 1/ www.nationalreview.com/corner/chris...

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock

www.404media.co/flock-logins...

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, but we supposedly have no money to feed the poor or for health care subsidies.

This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.

🔔 Today: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

🕒 Noon EST/9 a.m. PST

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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

"Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.

We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South.

Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.

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The MAGA coalition is imploding over its antisemitism problem, Tucker Carlson’s recent interview of Nick Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’ statement supporting Tucker after the backlash from the Fuentes interview. 1/

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...

Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong??

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2

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Who's the man behind President Trump's dismantling of the federal government? In a New Yorker article co-published with ProPublica, reporter Andy Kroll describes Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, as a "shadow president" with oversized influence.

NEW: I spoke with the inestimable Terry Gross (!) on @nprfreshair.bsky.social about my year-long investigation of Russ Vought, the "shadow president" of Trump's second presidency.

Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history

“Roberts is at the helm of this captured court, and he is using the judicial power not like a fair umpire but like a Republican operative — a ‘Trumpire’ — determined to aid Trump wherever possible by bending, breaking and rigging the rules.” - @thelisagraves.bsky.social

Customs and Border Protection searched a record number of phones and electronic devices at U.S. border ports of entry over the past fiscal year, according to Wired.

Through the end of September, border agents conducted over 55,000 searches of electronic devices without a warrant — a spike of 17%.

The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.

NEW: A right-wing campaign based on a conspiracy theory aims to eliminate the algorithmic process that keeps everyone's identity private in US census data. If successful, it would likely discourage marginalized people from participating. @telliotter.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/republ...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Inside Israel’s deal with Google and Amazon To secure Project Nimbus, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and tip Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.

To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the Google and Amazon agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.