Kevin Carson

Thor, a fluffy grey and white bicolor half-Ragdoll cat, sitting on a beige, tan, and grey faux stone vinyl kitchen floor, with his silky plume of a tail curled around his front feet. He is looking up with an expression of dissatisfaction about the unacceptable quality of his prescription cat food.

“But Möther, I specifically requested the chicken pudding, not the chicken morsels.”

Happy Thorsday!

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DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/post/202813/department-justice-admits-republicans-epstein-files-worse-donald-trump

“Highly Unusual”: Judge Tears Into Trump’s Case Against Comey It looks like Donald Trump’s case against former FBI Director James Comey is in big trouble.

“Highly Unusual”: Judge Tears Into Trump’s Case Against Comey | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/post/202769/donald-trump-department-justice-case-james-comey-trouble

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out of that data selling.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/

Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on “Antifa Materials” As the federal government’s repression of dissent expands, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is increasingly alarmed at the situation evolving in Johnston County, Texas, in relation to the Prairieland Defendants’ July 4 anti-ICE noise demonstration. **On October 15, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office indicted Daniel “Des” Sanchez, a local Dallas artist, for transporting “a box that contained numerous Antifa materials.”** Des was not even close to the noise demonstration but rather was arrested two days later after getting a call for familial support from his incarcerated wife, a Prairieland Defendant.**Des’s****indictment****should shock us all, as all that is alleged is the movement of a box of political “documents and propaganda” from one place to another.** As seen in the case’s criminal complaint, the materials appear to be nothing but zines and pamphlets: U.S. v. Daniel Sanchez Estrada, 4-25-cr-265-O (N.D. Tx. Jul. 7, 2025) [DE 1 at p. 12] **The stakes are even higher for Des, because he is a Legal Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).** The federal government is exploiting this fact, as shown by ICE’s release of Des’s immigration status, photograph, and personal information in its social media accounts. Tellingly, the government prioritized indicting Des, just as it has carried targeted removals of immigrants standing up for a Free Palestine. **Yet ICE’s social media also shows that what Des allegedly moved was nothing but a box of political papers, apparently criminalized for its contents:** U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, X, Jul. 10, 2025. We do not take these developments lightly. The Trump administration is signaling that if you possess political writings in your home or vehicle—such as a “No Kings” anti-Trump poster or a pamphlet critical of capitalism and demanding its end—there is a chance you could get thrown in federal prison and placed in removal proceedings. Similarly, if you attempt to provide care for someone incarcerated and prosecuted for protesting the government, you could be criminalized in an outrageous conspiracy accusation, as is happening with Des. This is all taking place against the backdrop of the ongoing “Antifa Scare,” which paints those who oppose fascism as the problem, instead of fascism itself. NLG is alarmed that if you publicly oppose this federal government, its appointed prosecutors seemingly do not believe you have the right of press, speech, or association. We must keep supporting those who the government tries to make examples out of, recognize our risks, and fight back, while safeguarding our movements against repression. **NLG calls for the immediate release of Des and the Prairieland Defendants.** **We invite immigrant justice advocates to stand in solidarity with Des and all those facing political repression because of their immigration status.** Support Des: https://www.instagram.com/free.des.revol/ ### Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Diaspora (Opens in new window) Diaspora * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to print (Opens in new window) Print *

Someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES.

https://www.nlg.org/alarming-criminalization-of-green-card-holder-based-on-antifa-materials/

I only now found the time to properly read this:

"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

Critical reading to know what we're up against.

(It would be good to explore […]

YouTube Erased 700 Videos of Israeli Human Rights Violations

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

Science Must Decentralize | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/04/science-must-decentralize/

I'm locked out of Bluesky AGAIN because it's falsely flagged me as in Mississippi -- even though I'm in NW Arkansas. And now none of the web proxies work with it.

"...transitional demands must place forward
perspectives that equally insist upon two things. First, economic relief that are not mere illusions and make toilers’ lives immediately better. Second, these must be accompanied by political demands (increasing self-directed power of the grassroots in […]

An R state judge in Minnesota –- whose previous claims to fame included being a Tea Party town councilman, beating his daughter, and wanting to carry a gun in court –- was removed from the bench for "egregious" misconduct. So he tried to change his name to "Judge." […]

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 11 Luis Razeto closes out his theoretical analysis of equilibrium in cooperative enterprises with a consideration of equilibrium in the “new model” worker cooperatives he proposes. Not only do workers’ enterprises of this type overcome, in theory, the limitations to growth and even tendencies to decline argued to be inherent to community enterprises and traditional cooperatives, they turn out to be superior to capitalist firms in terms of efficiency and innovation, operating in ways that more closely approach “perfect competition.”

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 11 | Grassroots Economic Organizing

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-11

Some evangelicals are "quietly quitting" Trump and MAGA

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/evangelicals-quietly-quitting-trump-maga

The Doomers Are Inheriting The Earth

https://badfaithtimes.com/the-doomers-are-inheriting-the-earth/

Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rant Over Cognitive Test Shows His Decline _T_ _he following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 episode of the_ Daily Blast _podcast. Listen to ithere._ **Greg Sargent:** This is _The Daily Blast_ from _The New Republic_ , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. On Air Force One, President Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre, angry, rambling rant about the possibility that he might run for a third term and about the cognitive test he supposedly aced this weekend. Things got even worse when he compared himself cognitively to two Democrats who both happened to be nonwhite women. In addition to the naked race baiting on display here, Trump is clearly very sensitive about perceptions of his mental decline. Yet broadly speaking, mainstream media organizations still refuse to cover what’s obvious. He’s plainly unfit for the job and getting worse daily. Of course, it’s also true that this unfitness hasn’t impacted him politically in the past as much as we think it should. So is there any way to make this issue matter more? What could Democrats do in that regard? Should they do more? We’re discussing all this with writer Meredith Shiner, a contributing editor at _The New Republic_ , who regularly critiques media coverage of the current administration. Meredith, nice to have you on. **Meredith Shiner:** Thanks for having me, Greg. **Sargent:** So let’s start with what Trump said to reporters. The topic was whether he’ll run for a third term. He said there are good Republican candidates for 2028 and then things kind of went awry. The whole thing is worth listening to. **President Donald Trump (voiceover):**_We have JD, obviously. The vice president, who’s great. I think Marco is great. I think ... I’m not sure if anybody would run against those two. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable. I really do. I believe that. I would—I would, I would love to do it. I have the best numbers ever. It’s very terrible. I have my best numbers. If you read it ... am I not ruling it out? You’ll have to tell me. All I can tell you is that we have a a great group of people, which they don’t. They have Jasmine Crockett, a low-IQ person. They have AOC’s low-IQ.__You give her an IQ test. Have her pass the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took—those are really hard. They’re really aptitude tests, I guess in a certain way. But, they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine—the first couple of questions are easy, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions._ **Sargent:** So Meredith, I’m reasonably sure that both AOC and Crockett could do much better on a cognitive test than Trump did. What’s your reaction to what you heard there? **Shiner:** I think that I have a few reactions. First and foremost, Donald Trump is a racist. And so the idea to him that women of color could be smarter than him is unfathomable. And it should be unacceptable for him to state that assertion as fact in the way that he did. I think it’s also troubling that he continues to field these questions about a third term as if that’s normal or that that would be legal and right. I understand that people are trying to get headlines, but in the process of trying to get those headlines, I think that they are corroding our national understanding of what a proper and normal and legal administration is. For him to disparage AOC or Jasmine Crockett’s intelligence, that’s a sign of his racism. But it’s everything that’s happening behind that. It’s what Stephen Miller is doing across this country, where they’re disappearing people from neighborhoods, especially here in Chicago where I live, where Russell Vought is shutting down the government, and that’s disproportionately impacting Black women, who make up a huge share of civil servants. And what we’re seeing from him is sort of the tip of the iceberg. And that’s one of the challenges that I think we’re seeing the national media fail to confront with, is that all of these things have a much broader context. None of them are normal. And everything is undermining democracy and our government as we know it. **Sargent:** Well, just to pick up on your point, it really does seem to me that there’s no coincidence here—that he goes after nonwhite women, specifically AOC, who obviously represents an urban constituency—at the exact same time that he’s sending troops into cities and at the exact same time that he’s kind of lording it over Democrats by saying, my budget chief, Russell Vought—the Grim Reaper, as he presented him—is cutting programs that matter to Democrats. I think all those things are connected in a very, kind of, really virulent way. **Shiner:** Absolutely. When I think about being in Chicago right now, I think about all of our neighbors who are trying to protect other neighbors—the thousands of people across our neighborhoods who are carrying whistles at all times because ICE is attacking children at Halloween parades. They are sweeping parking lots and Home Depots. They are taking landscapers from white, affluent neighborhoods, predominantly white, affluent neighborhoods on the North Side of Chicago. The other day, they detained for hours a night-shift manager at a comedy club because he had the balls to try to intervene with someone being taken from the streets. And when we look at the aggregate impact of that, first of all, this is the state exercising racism to the extreme. But also we have to think about the fertile ground that created the conditions where there are people who think that’s OK. And I think about the way that Fox News has covered our cities and the idea that all urban life, to them, must be corrosive, it must be violent, it must be toxic. And to me, that’s based in a baseline xenophobia and a baseline racism. And there’s this feedback loop between the president, who consumes all of that content and also probably believes those things himself, and how this is being exercised across the country. So when you hear him disparage two members of Congress in that way, that’s reflective of broader views. And it does, as you mentioned, fit part and parcel with the randomized terror we’re seeing in cities across this country right now that should be front-page news everywhere—but that’s not what they’re going to confront him on Air Force One about. **Sargent:** Well, I think there’s also a way to discuss his mental decline through the frame of the, kind of, mad king really gone amok—because that’s really what’s happening right now. Mark Jacob had a good rundown of Trump’s mental decline on his Substack. Here’s a quick list: He posted a fake AI video about right-wing “med beds,” a conspiracy theory that he later deleted. He claimed Portland is burning down and that there aren’t any stores there anymore. He spread nonsense about Tylenol. He keeps talking about cutting prescription drug prices by a thousand percent or more, which is mathematically impossible. He posted, right on Truth Social, his command that his attorney general prosecute his enemies. He claimed a United Nations escalator sabotaged him. **Shiner:** There were a lot of reporters in the national media who, after the 2024 election, really tried to cash in on this idea that they had been duped by Biden administration officials and that he wasn’t really fit for office or competent for office. And I’m not one of those people who loves to engage in the idea of, like, what if Barack Obama had taken a bulldozer to the White House—although Republicans would have lost their minds. And I think the national media would have treated it more seriously and less inevitable. But the contrast between where we are right now, in October 2025, and where we were last year, in 2024, I think is really huge. And when you think about someone like Jake Tapper, who tried to sell a book on this idea that the mainstream media overlooked his unfitness for office, but then now we’re in this place where you’re not exploring that with this president—you can’t really square that circle. **Sargent:** The media knows how to let people know that there’s something to be alarmed about when it wants to. _The New York Times’_ coverage of Joe Biden’s mental fitness really sort of sent a very loud signal to the world that there was something to be alarmed about. It’s a bit of an intangible quality in press coverage. It has a lot to do with the placement of stories, the tone of headlines, the kind of relentless quality of the coverage,  those types of things—which are a little hard to quantify, but they’re clear. If you look for them, you can really see them. **Shiner:** Especially when all of our major outlets get rid of their public editors—so they eliminate that function of transparency and accountability they used to have to the public. That’s the hill I will die on, Greg. So I just wanted to insert that there before you finished your point. **Sargent:** A hundred percent. And I think a public editor at _the New York Times_ could write a big piece essentially saying, look, _The New York Times’_ coverage of Biden’s age really sent a loud signal to the country that there was something really terrible to be alarmed about. Now, in a certain sense, Biden’s age was a problem. And, you know, it turned out to be a bigger political problem than people like me acknowledged at the time. And I regret that, but that doesn’t justify this gap in coverage. You don’t see this kind of alarm in coverage of Trump’s mental fitness that you saw in coverage of Biden’s age. **Shiner:** So I want to attack this question from a reverse angle, which is: for the past several weeks, as Trump’s DHS, and ICE, and CBP have escalated their attacks in Chicago, what we’ve seen here is a commensurate increase in local news coverage that is properly conveying the severity of what we are experiencing—whether it’s _the Chicago Tribune_ , _the Sun-Times_ , WBEZ, a constellation of incredible, incredible independent outlets, from Block Club Chicago to _The TRiiBE_ to _Unraveled Press_. What they are doing is documenting holistically what is happening to our neighbors. When a 40-year-old father is taken away from his 15-year-old daughter, who’s dying of cancer, by the federal government—when he’s disappeared, when that family no longer has a breadwinner and his teenager is on the verge of death—those are stories that are being covered here. And when you look at how many people in Chicago showed up to the No Kings rally, which was probably one of the most significant turnouts of any city in the country—estimates are at 250,000–300,000 people—when you see all of these people out in their neighborhoods, putting up anti-ICE signs, creating systems like whistle systems, with whistles we all keep in our bags to make sure that everyone knows that ICE is present, I actually think that that is a huge reflection not only of the things we are now seeing with our own eyes but of the way the media has covered it. And so, in this little test sample, we’re seeing what happens when quality coverage that expresses seriousness and urgency, that doesn’t create a both-sides issue, informs the public in a way that I think is radically, radically shifting their perspective on what this administration is doing and what it means for our neighbors, our friends, our city, the people who work in our restaurants. And so you’re seeing the power of that in a really positive way. And the coverage in D.C. is completely on a different planet. And so there is agency in the national media. One of my recent essays is actually about  Democratic congressional leadership and how they’re not connecting the dots between the shutdown and all of the illegal activities being undertaken by this administration that are deeply unpopular. And so, for everyone in this ecosystem—this media-industrial complex in Washington, this political media–industrial complex—to really evaluate their priorities, how they talk about things, what they talk about. They do have agency, even in this choose-your-own-adventure media landscape, to start shaping national perception. And they’re just choosing not to do it. **Sargent:** You know, I think that seeps into the coverage in another sense as well. The media is very sensitive to political weakness, generally speaking. The savvy reporters—they know when someone’s really kind of tanking in the polls or losing arguments and stuff—and they’re usually pretty quick to point it out. And yet, in the case of Donald Trump, they really don’t point out his obvious weakness. And Trump, by the way, is super sensitive to this. He unleashed this truly unhinged rant on Truth Social, claiming he has his best polling numbers ever. He raged about ads from the radical left—by which I guess he means Democrats—that talk about his low polling and said these ads shouldn’t be allowed to run. But it’s just true that Trump’s polling is in the toilet. His approval is at a low point, and he’s deeply underwater on major issues—importantly, including the economy. Do you think there’s a presumption of Trump’s strength built into the media that really leads them to refuse to cover the true state of his weak grip on public opinion right now? **Shiner:** I can’t speak for the incentive structure of all of the people who write newsletters for insider D.C. publications. But what I can say is that I feel like so much of the coverage of public policy has been divorced from the “public” piece—that the impacts of policy, that the impacts of actions, aren’t being covered. I think I came on a few months ago and we talked about my DNC piece and the idea of pundit brain, and how when D.C. reporters and the cable-TV apparatus [try] to explain something that looks different from what’s in front of people’s eyes, they’re effectively hurting their own credibility. And so the more extreme this administration gets, the more everyday people will see it—and they’ll see it in their neighborhoods, they’ll see it in a real way. They’ll see some of these clips where he can’t put coherent sentences together. And regardless of the assumptions that the media makes, I think that their actions don’t align with reality in a way that really hampers their credibility, and really puts a roadblock between the average person’s willingness to engage with that sort of content in order to better understand the news. **Sargent:** Yeah, there’s a huge, huge gulf between the reality of our politics right now and the overall picture of it that appears in the media. I think maybe for political reporters and D.C. Democrats alike, there’s kind of a sense that the issue of his mental unfitness is moot—that it’s kind of not worth trying to target Trump with it. Usually the story goes like this: Well, Hillary tried to make an issue of Trump’s mental unfitness, that failed. Trump’s unfitness is “baked in” for many voters—to use that awful cliché, “baked in.” Voters have seen it for years, they don’t care. I think that’s bullshit. But even if you accept it for a sec, we’re seeing his mental unfitness manifest in a different kind of way. He just hiked tariffs on Canada by 10 percent after an ad ran featuring Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. He’s talked endlessly about invading Canada. The tariffs are obviously reflective of a disordered mind, and the impacts of them are hitting people really hard. He posted the imagery of a plane shitting on Americans even as he sends troops into cities. This is the thing, Meredith—he’s really much more of a visible mad-king figure than ever before. Isn’t there a way for Democrats to press that case a little more? **Shiner:** Well, I’m not in charge of Democrats’ messaging. And in fact, they don’t really like most of my thoughts or writing or opinions. So I can’t speak for what’s going on in Chuck Schumer’s or Hakeem Jeffries’s minds. But here’s what I will say—and if I were them, this is what I would think about. It is apparent to everyone that Donald Trump is not the person who is calling the shots and running the federal government in a real way. And the thing that is terrifying about that is that the people who are running the country—the Cabinet he put in place this time—look different from the Cabinet he put in place the first time. Like, I can’t believe I’m wistful for corporate pharmaceutical executives, having seen RFK Jr., right? And so there are no checks, even internally. The people who fill the void are those who have the most hateful, destructive views of this country. The idea that, in Trump’s absence—when he’s focusing on his ballroom or doing whatever he does on social media—that Stephen Miller is getting to exercise his xenophobic fever dreams and terrorize communities, to me, if I were a Democrat, that’s what I would talk about. Because at this point, I don’t really care how Donald Trump does on a cognitive test. I care about what his government is doing to people. And Democrats should care more about that, too. And the people who are making decisions in his absence—the people who are exercising this vision, which I think could even be more extreme than he might have naturally done if he were more present, as he was maybe in the first term—all of those things leave a lot of questions about who’s actually driving this train. If Republicans in Congress aren’t doing anything, if the Supreme Court is completely beholden and basically intends to give the executive unlimited power, and he’s filled the executive with racist stooges—who is designing the policy that is breaking this country in a way that it can’t quickly be undone? There is no bouncing back. There’s no going back. Exploring some of those big questions, calling into question these unpopular people—like, no one elected Stephen Miller. That guy is the least likable guy in the history of the world, and the idea that you aren’t actually highlighting or asking these questions, and connecting them to the destruction people are feeling, that’s the thing that seems like political malpractice to me. **Sargent:** Well, I think that the mad-king question is sort of a window into this, right? Donald Trump is completely out to lunch—he’s indulging his craziest fantasies on a daily basis. And as a result of that fundamental unfitness, that has created this vacuum for really, really serious fascists—basically, authoritarians—to run the place. And I think there’s a way to connect those cases. **Shiner:** Yes. And this goes back to one of the pieces I published earlier this year, just this idea that ever since Ronald Reagan’s election, Democrats have been defensive on the idea that government is good. They’ve talked about, well, if we’re going to have this argument of binary, and Republicans are going to be limited government and we’re a little bit more government at the margins, that that’s going to be significant to people. And in that choice—their strategic choice—they’ve abdicated the field on what the value of government can and should be. And in this moment of absolute failure—I mean, this is, I think, the biggest government failure I’ve seen in at least my lifetime, holistically—to not be telling that story, to not be saying that there’s no one driving this bus, or at least no one elected driving this bus, and we’re driving off the cliff—like, these things should be easy. This man bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, and that is a symbolism for literally everything. And he’s not the one who’s driving the bulldozer—but his lackeys are. **Sargent:** Meredith Shiner, it’s always great to talk to you. Thanks for that big picture look at things. **Shiner:** Thanks for having me, Greg.

Transcript: Trump’s Crazed Rant Over Cognitive Test Shows His Decline | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/202333/transcript-trump-crazed-rant-cognitive-test-shows-decline

The Soccer Mom Who Strikes Fear Into the Heart of ICE Meet Angelica Vargas, one of the most prominent of a new kind of activist: the ICE chaser.

The Soccer Mom Who Strikes Fear Into the Heart of ICE | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/angie-vargas-ice-chaser-los-angeles/#

**Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News.** Sign up ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have protested in recent weeks, from the #NoKings rally to demonstrations in front of immigration detention centers, and protests against ICE in their communities. Neighbors in one Chicago suburb pushed back by yelling and honking car horns when ICE agents descended on their community. Elsewhere they’ve handed out thousands of whistles to neighbors at risk. And people are lifting up their cell phone cameras and their voices, and putting their bodies on the line to foil ICE raids in cities around the country. * * * **BIG NEWS!** This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported. And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way. The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on Spotify**** or****Apple Podcasts. Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. Written and produced by Michael Fox. Transcript There’s this video that’s gone viral. Two unidentified and masked ICE agents are trying to wrestle a man into their vehicle. He’s doing his best not to go. A crowd of people stand around. Cell phones lifted. They shout things — let him go. They do their best to help the man, without technically interfering. The bystanders get close. But not too close. Someone kicks away a pair of handcuffs when they fall to the ground. Cell phone cameras held high, the people follow the melee, as the man yells and shouts and twists and squirms. The officers do their best to contain him. And then… The officers just give up. They walk back to their SUV. Get inside and drive away. If the man were alone, the officers would have found a way. But they knew they were being watched. They knew they were surrounded by people filming the scene. That those videos would be posted. That this scene might go viral. And it has… It’s a sign that despite the kidnapping of U.S. residents, the attack on communities, and the authoritarian backslide across the United States, people are resisting, even in the smallest of ways. And it can have an impact. That day… this one man walked away. So can others. Of course, most detentions like this are carried out by ICE agents. Despite the people surrounding them. And their cell phone raised. And their voices shouting in the defense of the innocent Shouting against the masked and unidentified ICE agents Terrorizing neighborhoods Ripping apart communities. But people are standing up across the country. In the recent #NoKings rally, 7 million people protested across the United States in one day. They say it was the largest national protest in the history of the country. And resistance against ICE continues… People have protested continually in front ICE headquarters. Neighbors in one Chicago suburb coordinated via text message and pushed back on ICE agents in their community by yelling and honking car horns. In another neighborhood, residents have handed out more than 17,000 whistles so people can call for help if they are being attacked or raided. Even this woman, Illinois State Senator Karina Villa, walking through her neighborhood to demand accountability of ICE officials who have arrived to carry out arrests… Local news in Portland, Oregon reported on one resident who boxed in the vehicle of ICE agents after they arrived to carry out an arrest and then lied about who they where and refused to provide a warrant for the arrest. Across the country, in NYC, a crowd of people confronted masked ICE agents who showed up to carry out a raid in Chinatown. “Show your face,” a man yells. “Show your face.” And up and down New York and cities across the country, people have been in the streets… ICE is going to continue to do its dirty work trying to meet its quotas and arresting thousands of innocent people a day. It doesn’t matter if the vast majority of those detained have no criminal record and are upstanding community members. But people are going to continue to stand up. And it seems… the resistance is just getting started. * * * Hi folks, thanks for listening. I’m your host Michael Fox. I think that the stories of everyday people, neighbors, friends, family standing up to defend their communities are some of the most inspiring, powerful and important to remember today in these dark times. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I’ll add links in the show notes to some of the stories mentioned in today’s episode. On another note… folks, I have incredible news… In case you have not heard, this podcast, Stories of Resistance, won a Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast. It’s really exciting. Thank you for listening, sharing and voting to support the podcast. The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner was also in the running for a Signal Award for best episode host. And he also won a gold! Congratulations Marc. So well deserved. I’ll add some links in the show notes to more information. If you don’t already subscribe to the show, please follow us, rate us, like us and help us spread the word. Above all, thanks for listening and caring. As always, if you enjoy this podcast, and you appreciate my reporting, I hope you’ll consider following me on Patreon. You can find me at Patreon.com/mfox. It’s totally free. You’ll get updates every time I’ve posted something new online. And if you like what’s there, I have a ton of exclusive content, only available to my paid supporters. And every supporter really makes a difference. This is the latest episode of Stories of Resistance, a podcast series produced by The Real News. Each week, I bring you stories of resistance and hope like this. Inspiration for dark times. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. Thanks for listening. See you next time. **Resources:** * Community residents stand up against ICE – man goes free * Neighbors confront ICE in Chicago suburb * Chicago residents push back on ICE — October 15 * Illinois State Senator Karina Villa Confronts ICE — September 15 * Video shows neighbors ‘boxing in’ federal agents making ICE arrests in Hillsboro * Protests erupt as ICE agents conduct raids in New York City’s Chinatown * New Yorkers Confront ICE and Homeland Security Agents During Chinatown Raid * New Yorkers Protest ICE – October 21, 2025 * People in NYC protest ICE — October 21, 2025 ## ****Meeting the Moment: Defending Independent Journalism**** Friends, I don’t need to tell you that we’re in the middle of a world-historical crisis. In fact, we are standing now at the point of convergence of multiple crises, and we need to act accordingly. 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We encourage republication of our original content. Please copy the HTML code in the textbox below, preserving the attribution and link to the article's original location, and only make minor cosmetic edits to the content on your site. # Resisting ICE by Michael Fox, The Real News Network October 27, 2025 <h1>Resisting ICE</h1> <p class="byline">by Michael Fox, The Real News Network <br />October 27, 2025</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZYzmKNsliP2s9Aq0vi5Fe?si=5674506023df42f9 </div> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap">ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have protested in recent weeks, from the #NoKings rally to demonstrations in front of immigration detention centers, and protests against ICE in their communities.  </p> <p>Neighbors in one Chicago suburb pushed back by yelling and honking car horns when ICE agents descended on their community. Elsewhere they’ve handed out thousands of whistles to neighbors at risk. And people are lifting up their cell phone cameras and their voices, and putting their bodies on the line to foil ICE raids in cities around the country.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <p><strong>BIG NEWS! </strong>This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported. </p> <p>And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spreaker</a>, or wherever you listen.</p> <p>And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.</p> <p>The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spotify</a><strong> </strong>or<strong> </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Podcasts</a>.</p> <p>Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his <a href="http://patreon.com/mfox" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patreon account</a>: <a href="http://patreon.com/mfox" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">patreon.com/mfox</a>. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. </p> <p>Written and produced by <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mfox" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michael Fox</a>.</p> <details class="wp-block-details"> <summary>Transcript</summary> <p>There’s this video that’s gone viral.</p> <p>Two unidentified and masked ICE agents are trying to wrestle a man into their vehicle. </p> <p>He’s doing his best not to go.</p> <p>A crowd of people stand around. Cell phones lifted.</p> <p>They shout things — let him go.</p> <p>They do their best to help the man, without technically interfering.</p> <p>The bystanders get close. But not too close.</p> <p>Someone kicks away a pair of handcuffs when they fall to the ground.</p> <p>Cell phone cameras held high, the people follow the melee, as the man yells and shouts and twists and squirms.</p> <p>The officers do their best to contain him.</p> <p>And then… </p> <p>The officers just give up. They walk back to their SUV. Get inside and drive away. </p> <p>If the man were alone, the officers would have found a way.</p> <p>But they knew they were being watched. </p> <p>They knew they were surrounded by people filming the scene.</p> <p>That those videos would be posted. That this scene might go viral.</p> <p>And it has…</p> <p>It’s a sign that despite the kidnapping of U.S. residents, the attack on communities, and the authoritarian backslide across the United States, people are resisting, even in the smallest of ways. And it can have an impact.</p> <p>That day… this one man walked away.</p> <p>So can others.</p> <p>Of course, most detentions like this are carried out by ICE agents. </p> <p>Despite the people surrounding them. </p> <p>And their cell phone raised.</p> <p>And their voices shouting in the defense of the innocent </p> <p>Shouting against the masked and unidentified ICE agents </p> <p>Terrorizing neighborhoods</p> <p>Ripping apart communities.</p> <p>But people are standing up across the country. </p> <p>In the recent #NoKings rally, 7 million people protested across the United States in one day. </p> <p>They say it was the largest national protest in the history of the country. </p> <p>And resistance against ICE continues…</p> <p>People have protested continually in front ICE headquarters.</p> <p>Neighbors in one Chicago suburb coordinated via text message and pushed back on ICE agents in their community by yelling and honking car horns. </p> <p>In another neighborhood, residents have handed out more than 17,000 whistles so people can call for help if they are being attacked or raided. </p> <p>Even this woman, Illinois State Senator Karina Villa, walking through her neighborhood to demand accountability of ICE officials who have arrived to carry out arrests…</p> <p>Local news in Portland, Oregon reported on one resident who boxed in the vehicle of ICE agents after they arrived to carry out an arrest and then lied about who they where and refused to provide a warrant for the arrest.</p> <p>Across the country, in NYC, a crowd of people confronted masked ICE agents who showed up to carry out a raid in Chinatown. </p> <p>“Show your face,” a man yells. “Show your face.”</p> <p>And up and down New York and cities across the country, people have been in the streets…</p> <p>ICE is going to continue to do its dirty work trying to meet its quotas and arresting thousands of innocent people a day. It doesn’t matter if the vast majority of those detained have no criminal record and are upstanding community members. </p> <p>But people are going to continue to stand up. And it seems… the resistance is just getting started.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <p>Hi folks, thanks for listening. I’m your host Michael Fox.</p> <p>I think that the stories of everyday people, neighbors, friends, family standing up to defend their communities are some of the most inspiring, powerful and important to remember today in these dark times.</p> <p>I hope you enjoyed this episode. </p> <p>I’ll add links in the show notes to some of the stories mentioned in today’s episode.</p> <p>On another note… folks, I have incredible news… In case you have not heard, this podcast, Stories of Resistance, won a Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast. </p> <p>It’s really exciting. Thank you for listening, sharing and voting to support the podcast. The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner was also in the running for a Signal Award for best episode host. And he also won a gold! Congratulations Marc. So well deserved. </p> <p>I’ll add some links in the show notes to more information. </p> <p>If you don’t already subscribe to the show, please follow us, rate us, like us and help us spread the word. Above all, thanks for listening and caring. </p> <p>As always, if you enjoy this podcast, and you appreciate my reporting, I hope you'll consider following me on Patreon. You can find me at Patreon.com/mfox. It’s totally free. You’ll get updates every time I’ve posted something new online. And if you like what’s there, I have a ton of exclusive content, only available to my paid supporters. And every supporter really makes a difference.</p> <p>This is the latest episode of Stories of Resistance, a podcast series produced by The Real News. Each week, I bring you stories of resistance and hope like this. Inspiration for dark times. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.</p> <p>Thanks for listening. See you next time.</p> </details> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><a href="https://x.com/Out5p0ken/status/1974913132842930491">Community residents stand up against ICE – man goes free</a></li> <li><a href="https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/1980276685238145384">Neighbors confront ICE in Chicago suburb</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N_4WiHmLlhI">Chicago residents push back on ICE — October 15</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ez_l9hOevH4">Illinois State Senator Karina Villa Confronts ICE — September 15</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Y1jS7KzvM">Video shows neighbors 'boxing in' federal agents making ICE arrests in Hillsboro</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyBTHiyBbxE">Protests erupt as ICE agents conduct raids in New York City's Chinatown</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJparDKwFY">New Yorkers Confront ICE and Homeland Security Agents During Chinatown Raid</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T2pomhjJWjU">New Yorkers Protest ICE - October 21, 2025</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aGkF4UmvXNQ">People in NYC protest ICE — October 21, 2025</a></li> </ul> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://therealnews.com/resisting-ice-immigration-stories-of-resistance">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://therealnews.com">The Real News Network</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-TRNN-2021-logomark-square.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://therealnews.com/?republication-pixel=true&post=338060&amp;ga4=G-7LYS8R7V51" style="width:1px;height:1px;"><script> PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: "https://therealnews.com/resisting-ice-immigration-stories-of-resistance", urlref: window.location.href }); } } </script> <script id="parsely-cfg" src="//cdn.parsely.com/keys/therealnews.com/p.js"></script></p> Copy to Clipboard 1

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2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors" Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

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The Growing Schism Between Bible Scholars and Israeli Nationalists It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and Solomon—fruit of an ancient covenant between Abraham and God. “The Jewish people have lived in … what is now the state of Israel, have lived here and have been attached to this place for about 3,500 years,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson on a 2023 podcast. “This is our deed to the land,” former Israeli Ambassador Danny Dannon said in 2019, waving a Bible at the members of the United Nations Security Council. “The Bible paints a consistent picture. The entire history of our people, and our connection to Eretz Yisrael, begins right here.” There’s just one problem—if you actually ask biblical scholars, many will tell you: Israel’s history isn’t nearly so settled as Zionists would like you to think. “I wouldn’t say that there is a consensus,” said Gili Kugler, a senior lecturer of biblical studies at the University of Haifa. “It’s the ideology that drives the interpretation.” For the last century, historians, philologists, and archaeologists have been critically examining narratives about Israel in the Bible, searching for evidence of their historical reality. But the last thirty years or more of critical scholarship have turned up a notable lack of evidence supporting the foundational narratives of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, supposedly in existence for a little over 100 years at the turn of the first millennium BCE. “We have absolutely no evidence about the existence of that kingdom,” said Ambra Suriano, a postdoctoral researcher in politics, philosophy, and religion at Lancaster University. “Very likely, it is a narrative which has been constructed after the return from exile in Babylon … after the sixth century [BCE].” But you wouldn’t know that reading the vast majority of references to ancient Israel outside the niche discipline of biblical archaeology. In the journal _Politics, Religion, and Ideology_ , Suriano collects some of the most egregious examples of celebrated experts in departments of Israel Studies and International Relations treating the existence of an ancient Kingdom of Israel as an accepted fact. “Some of them do not seem fully aware of the history of research in this field or, on the contrary, choose to ignore it, carrying on a nationalist narrative of ancient history, leaning on an outdated reconstruction of the past,” she writes. For some time, the issue of ancient Israel’s existence was a hotly contested one within the field of biblical archaeology, which traces its origins to an evangelical Christian project to prove the historical existence of Jesus Christ. “They [were] not really interested in discovering an ancient civilization,” said Emanuel Pfoh, a researcher in biblical history at the University of Helsinki. “They [were] interested in discovering the origins of their own Protestant civilization.” But with the creation of modern Israel in 1948, that project took on a new ideological significance. With the support of evangelical Christian institutions in the United States and Europe, early Zionist scholars worked hard to build a body of academic literature that asserted an incontrovertible historical connection between the Jewish people, the ancient Kingdom of Israel, and the modern Israeli state. “With the renewal of the homeland and Hebrew independence … we [have] been able to reassess the Bible in its true, full light,” Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, wrote in 1953. The narrative of modern Israel’s inheritance of the ancient Davidic kingdom became a cornerstone of secular Israeli identity, according to Anita Shapira, an Israeli historian at Tel Aviv University, with the Bible stories of Israelite victories supplanting even the Talmud in cultural importance. At the same time, Zionist extremist groups like Gush Emunim, active from the 1970s to the late 2000s, used this narrative as the grounds for a campaign to settle “Eretz Yisrael,” the mythological domain of David and Solomon extending well into modern-day Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt, and erasing today’s Palestinian territories. As evidenced by Dannon’s speech at the U.N., the idea of Eretz Yisrael still holds currency among many Zionists today—despite biblical scholars arguing, since as far back as the 1970s, that there is no evidence to suggest such a kingdom ever existed. “All signs of a large and prosperous capital of the Davidic Solomonic era are completely missing,” the biblical historian John Van Seters wrote, nearly two decades ago. “All indications are that [ancient Jerusalem] was a rather small town of not more than a thousand inhabitants.” Since the 1990s, Pfoh says, those critical perspectives have been expanded upon by a community of mostly European researchers, who have worked to push back on the earlier, ideologically motivated scholarship that took the historical accuracy of biblical narratives for granted. These so-called “biblical minimalists”—today seen as a derogatory term—have been derided as antisemites for questioning the earlier conclusions of American and Israeli scholars. But time has seen many of their positions on ancient history adopted as mainstream within biblical studies. Not so, however, outside their narrow academic circle. Within Israel, the Zionist narrative of ancient history is still widely taught. “[Israeli education] wants to be very progressive … and it is free, and critical, until you get to … the land of Israel,” said Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli philologist and outspoken critic of Israeli education. “There, critical thinking doesn’t work anymore.” Today, she said, “most Israelis don’t believe in God, but they are sure he gave them the land.… They treat it as scientific fact.” This has been the case, too, in the growing body of scholarship referencing the history of Israel emanating from conservative theological colleges and other institutions in Israel and the United States. “Historiography tends to go like a pendulum,” Pfoh said. “Now, the pendulum is going to the right, into a more conservative reading of the Bible. “You find it harder to get critical opinions, or funding, or grants,” said Pfoh, “because the pendulum is back to people want[ing] to know about ancient Israel, not ancient Palestine.” That’s why historians like Suriano are calling for greater dialogue across these many disciplines—and with the public—to make sure the findings of the last 30 years of biblical studies don’t end up buried in a mountain of ideological bullshit. “We cannot read [the Bible] as a historical document,” she said. “[Being] more accurate, when it comes to ancient history, means you are open to questions instead of answers.” Shaul Magid, a rabbi and professor of modern Jewish studies at Harvard Divinity School, was optimistic about the possibility for dialogue. “Israeli scholars are now much more open than they have been … to the idea that we can’t understand this period without other disciplines,” he said. For Magid, that means treating the Bible’s history of Israel as part of a literary corpus, motivated by the concerns of its own time—for example, sixth-century BCE Persia—and not as an accurate chronicle of historical events. But others adopt a less rosy view. Today, the topic of ancient Israel is more heated than ever. Some biblical archaeologists told me that when they present their research at conferences, they are more likely than ever to have to face down angry outbursts. They even find themselves walking on eggshells when discussing the topic within their own departments. Meanwhile, projects are still being funded in partnership with American theological colleges and Israeli institutes with a clear ideological motivation behind their research. Those at the top, my sources told me, would rather not rock the boat. All that means, no matter what the experts say, the Bible’s version of history is likely to hold out a little longer.

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Trump immediately raised concerns when the plastic specter showed up to the White House dressed “very disrespectfully” in filthy, tattered rags and cobwebs.

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Many departments, including the NYPD, came out over the weekend to say in a very public way that no arrests had been made, and that the protests were peaceful. Their words were followed by Austin police, San Diego police, and others. I would argue that this is very good news, too. The reason is not because of some change of heart about police methods, or reforming of department abuses. I’ve mentioned before that while groups can act morally to bring down authoritarian rule, often key parts are played by different factions within a government as they engage in a power struggle with one another. In this case, I’m saying that in various places, police are choosing to thumb their nose at the Trump administration. They are beginning to imagine themselves in an institutional role that might defy the president’s overreach. It’s in part a bet made to protect their own prerogative and authority over state-administered violence in their regions. And it’s in part a bet on which side they think is going to win in the long run. Whatever you think of cops, my sense is that it’s very good news for those opposed to Trump that departments put out these PR bulletins this weekend. I suspect that some part of all this was on the mind of the sergeant I spoke to, as well.

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