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Content warning Long(ish): the new U.S. National Security Strategy and its quest for regime change - in western Europe

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The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an

is facing federal charges for what advocates say is a clear attack on the .

by Seth Stern, November 23 2025

Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the in , during which a police officer was shot.

"There are numerous problems with the …

People, even in Russia, seem to really have a short-lived memory. To think that sticking with an power and licking its boots would protect them from its constant wrath is really delusional. isn't the «wise dictator», dreamed by Voltaire and his philosophical followers. The idea of a «wise » is , in itself, quite ludicrous. In a , noone is safe. Not even the biggest sycophants.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/putin-repressive-machinery-turns-inward-target-pro-war-figures

In 1971, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart published “How to Read Donald Duck,” a book-length essay critiquing Disney comics as capitalist propaganda for U.S. corporate and cultural imperialism. It became a bestseller throughout Latin America and is still considered a seminal work in cultural studies. It was first published in Valparaiso, Chile when Allende was in power. Pinochet banned it and conducted public book burnings.

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Image of a pissed off Mickey Mouse marching, with an AFL button and a sign that reads: Disney Unfair

The book tells of the really terrible life of a deliveror, victim of an absolutely unregulated Chinese , it resonnates with millions of Chinese readers, who are probably relating in one way or another with the author, as they all live under a wild economic system supported by a terrifying , but all the reviewer can say, is that the style and tone are lacking and that non-Chinese readers might be confused by some terms? Seriously? Get lost!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/21/i-deliver-parcels-in-beijing-by-hu-anyan-review-startling-stories-of-chinas-new-precarity

The people are speaking loud and clear. When will checks and balances via and get past , and jockeying for power, to stop the descent into ?

begins of to pressure in government

The White House budget office said Friday that of federal workers have started to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing govt .

dir , posted on social media that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force firings.


https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-federal-worker-firings-0439e8d0979d9a32e021c5c851fea1cf?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-10-Breaking+News

Gov responds to threat to him & mayor over : 'Come & get me'

Speaking to reporters at a federal workers rally at Federal Plaza later Wednesday, Pritzker responded to Trump’s threat.

“Look, he’s a coward. He says a lot of things. He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come & get me,” Pritzker said.


https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/08/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-truth-social-jail-threat

removes apps after pressure by admin

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed , the most popular ICE-tracking app, & other similar software from its after it was contacted by
Trump's admin, in a rare instance of apps being taken down due to a US federal government demand.


https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration-2025-10-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Today in Labor History October 2, 1937: Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic, resulting in the genocidal Parsley massacre of up to 35,000 Haitians. Trujillo was obsessed with race. He’d use pancake make-up to lighten his own skin color and hide his Haitian roots. And even so, the wealthy Dominicans still snubbed him for his working-class family origins. One week prior to the massacre, he publicly accepted a gift of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, whose racial theories he clearly embraced. He used racism to distract Dominicans from their poverty, which had been exacerbated by the Great Depression, and by Trujillo’s corrupt rule. Edwidge Danticat’s historical fiction, “The Farming of Bones,” takes place during the time of the massacre.

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Dominican cops beating Haitians during the Parsley massacre