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01.11.2025 08:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prioritizing white South Africans, the Trump administration will admit only 7,500 refugees this fiscal year, down from 125,000 during Biden’s last year in office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
Slide into autocracy 26 : The nation is “on a trajectory toward competitive authoritarianism: a system in which elections, courts, and other democratic institutions persist in form but are systematically manipulated to entrench executive control.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 170 US CITIZENS have been detained by immigration agents, “dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Admiral Holsey, who is Black, becomes the latest in a line of more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women, who have left their jobs this year. Most have been fired by Mr. Hegseth or pushed out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Tokyo : see you tonight at HB and Tuesday at the Poor Cow for a live set + DJ's !!!
19.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The government said it is reviewing the status of the more than 55 million holders of visas to enter the US for potential violations of its standards.
Those actions have been criticized by civil rights groups.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The list of airports includes the major airports serving the New York metropolitan area, as well as major airports in Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., as well as several other regional airports.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...
“The companies might be getting a handout, but the miners ain’t getting none,” said Gary Hairston, 71, a retired coal miner from West Virginia who is the president of the National Black Lung Asso., 30 years with black lung disease. "Clean, beautiful coal" - Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...
Nice to see public figures like De Niro and Jack White using their weight righteously. 👍
youtu.be/56B1vHWweKk
Sarkozy entered into a “Faustian pact of corruption with one of the most unspeakable dictators of the last 30 years” to gain election funding from Gaddafi, in the words of the public prosecutor. Would the USA prosecute and convict a president in that situation ?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Some major U.S. airports are refusing to show a new video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in which she blames Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
The Dutch parliament, where the largest party is Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV, passed a resolution, noting the US decision and calling on the government to declare antifa a terrorist organisation in the Netherlands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Ghastly evidence was recorded clandestinely on contraband cell phones: rat-infested cells, piles of human waste, rotting food and blood-streaked floors; routine officer beatings and men carried out in body bags; men near-catatonic on drugs sold by officers.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
US citizen : “ ‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"None of these attacks was authorized under U.S. law and, as explained below, each of them appears to be an unlawful summary execution prohibited by both U.S. and international law." NYC Bar Association
www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
"With the Venezuelan boats, T*P is testing whether he can unilaterally kill people he labels terrorists, without due process." Excellent observation. 👍👍
youtu.be/3nTVzhv5jkI
Senator Durbin accused her of leaving “an enormous stain in American history.” “Clearly, you’re a failed lawyer,” she told Senator Schiff of California, who asked: Would she support the release of the recording? “Will you apologize to Donald Trump?” she shot back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
Coal use has been declining sharply in the United States since 2005, displaced in many cases by cheaper and cleaner natural gas, wind and solar power.
Trump has taken steps to rescue “Clean, beautiful coal.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...
Kyslytsya said the Kremlin was already at war with Europe. He said Russia’s recent drone incursions against several EU countries were well-calculated and an attempt to “move the red lines”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Fonda recalled the “dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs” and warned that “those forces have returned.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
Trump is an AI fan, so they asked the leading chatbots to evaluate some of his frequently repeated claims.
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/wha...
Finally some good news: GREAT new band !!! The ETTERS from the Netherlands. They are on IG but apparently not FB. Thanks Jerry Hormone and Björn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRw...
The US Department of Energy has told employees in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to avoid using the words “climate change” and avoid “any terminology … misaligned with the administration’s perspectives and priorities”.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
The US Department of Justice sued the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department for processing gun licenses too slowly for people who want to carry concealed weapons.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Putin pushes Russian citizens to use a messaging app he controls. And would you trust Truth Social ? TikTok ? Facebook ?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Lyin’” Ted Cruz of Texas called Trump a “sniveling coward,” a “serial philanderer,” a “braggadocious arrogant buffoon” and a “narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.” Later, he said he was “proud to endorse” him.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/u...
