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-Lawmakers distrubed after watching full video of double-tap war crime -Trump, UK negotiators strike deal to sabotage NHS, boost pharma profits -Nominee to lead NASA wants to violate the Moon Treaty -Rich Dick wants to "financialize everything"

-Formal complaint filed accusing Hegseth of murder in the Caribbean -Trump nukes car fuel standards, bails out big oil -FBI Director Kash Patel is the right man for the job (making the FBI sad) -Working Class History: Trinidad and Tobago General Strike!

-Trump launches racist tirade against Rep. Omar, Somali residents in MN -War profiteers rake in all-time high revenues -Government is reopened, but the W.H. is still trying to starve people -Pentagon briefing provides first glimpse into the new clown press corps

-Controversy over blatant war crime admission envelops the Pentagon -Fossil fuel tycoons leave Brazil with profits secured after climate summit -Unionizing wave sweeps the National Park Service -White House lies about suspected D.C. National Guard shooter

-W.H. wants to hang Dems who called on troops to defy illegal orders -Lawmakers slam Ed. Dept. plans to privatize student loan debt -China EVISCERATES U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle -Rich Dick is a spy hawk who's suddenly outraged by spying

-Israel kills more than 20 in Gaza, in latest ceasefire violations -Starbucks Strike expands to Pennsylvania distribution center -Political prosecution of James Comey beset by prosecutorial misconduct -Working Class History: 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz!

-Esptein disclosure bill sails through Congress after months of GOP obstruction -Trump lauds Saudi Crown Prince, while his sons profit off Saudi investments -Starbucks Strike Day 7, union threatens expansion -Republicans revive controversial AI deregulation measure

-Federal deportation thugs take their terror campaign to Charlotte -Trump finds a way to wriggle out of Epstein scandal, for now -U.S. Pentagon suffers a setback in Ecuador -W.H. slashes aid for the homeless as economy tanks

-Bombshell Epstein emails provide more proof the President is a pedo -Largest U.S. aircraft carrier arrives off the coast of Venezuela -Starbucks Strike! Don't cross the picket! Get your bean juice elsewhere -Working Class History: The Swiss Landesstreik!

-GOP Senators set to receive $500k payout thanks to shutdown bill -Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire -SCOTUS takes up case that could restrict mail-in voting -"Mar-a-lago Face" proliferating around D.C.

-A Cowards' Caucus takes the lead, Senate Dems cave on shutdown -Newspaper workers in Pittsburgh declare victory in longest running U.S. strike -Massacre in Rio favelas linked to U.S. State Dept. -Trump tariffs burn pasta-loving Americans

-Senate rejects war powers resolution to stop Trump's boat bombings -Tax-prep vulture win big as IRS cancels Direct File -D.C. sandwich thrower acquitted by a jury -Rich Dicks signed off on giving Musk $1 trillion to build a robot army

-Supreme Court grapples with another Trump power grab -Report: World governments have failed to stop 1.5 degrees C warming -GOP causing havoc in the skies in order to preserve Medicaid cuts -Working Class History: The October Revolution

-With Zohran's win, workers seize control of NYC -Trump claims ballots cast in Calif. are "illegal" -Government shutdown breaks the record for longest ever -Education Dept. wants to cut off loan relief to certain public servants

-Election Day in America: Zohran poised to do it in NYC -Trump threatens a new oil war -- this time, Nigeria -Courts block Admin's plan to starve tens of millions -W.H. ballroom project is a vehicle for mass corruption

-Judge likely to intervene to stop GOP from starving millions -W.H. locks Dems out of briefing on legal memo underpinning boat strikes -RFK repurposes workplace safety office to instead undermine wind energy -Rich Dick melts down on TV

-Pentagon to establish "quick reaction forces" to crush dissent in U.S. cities -Top health care officials oblivious (or lying) about looming insurance crisis -GOP blocks Dem SNAP funding bill -Working Class History: Indianapolis Streetcar Strike!

-Trump threatens to send more than the National Guard to cities -Netanyahu orders airstrikes on Gaza, breaks ceasefire -Pentagon's killing spree in Latin America continues with 4 more boats bombed -States sue to prevent W.H. from cutting off food aid

-For the second time this month, Venezuela warns of U.S. "false flag" attack -British journalist arrested in U.S. for criticizing Israel -U.S. troops paid through a variety of illegal schemes during shutdown -Musk wants to be compensated $1 trillion to build a "robot army"

-Trump won't seek Congressional approval for military strikes in Latin America -Families go hungry as White House slashes food aid programs -Musk's SpaceX on the verge of humiliation -War profiteeering Rich Dick gets approval to start a crypto bank

-Pentagon's illegal boat bombing spree hits the Pacific -UN top court orders Israel to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza -Trump screws over U.S. cattle ranchers as part of Argentine bailout -Working Class History: Black Rhodesian Rail Strike!

-Ecuador releases survivor of U.S. airstrike - no evidence of drug trafficking -VP Vance meets with war criminals as Israel violates Gaza ceasefire -Trump attempts $230 million shakedown of public treasury -ICE expands its arsenal of weapons, including guided missiles

-The Right wants to criminalize upcoming "No Kings" protests -W.H. considers importing German neo-Nazis into the U.S. -Alaskan village flooded after EPA pulls infrastructure grant -Rich Dick is the latest billionaire to endorse Trumpian police states

-Trump authorizes CIA ops in Venezuela, threatens ground strikes -Judge blocks White House's shutdown layoffs -The political right's Nazi problems come into focus again -Working Class History: The Salt of the Earth Strike!

-Trump threatens to violently disarm Hamas -Israel breaks ceasefire deal, restricts aid into Gaza -Feds attack Chicago neighborhood, teargas residents -Pentagon carries out another extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean

-Gaza families welcome home nearly 2,000 Palestinian hostages freed -Trump celebrates ceasefire at Knesset, congratulates war criminals -Shut Down Day 14: Fed workers laid off, Argentina gets bailout -Renewable energy surges in China, India

-Israeli war cabinet approves ceasefire, but keeps bombing Gaza -Judge blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago -Troubling signs in housing market: risky mortgages on the rise -Rich Dick is assembling a media empire

-Gaza ceasefire deal reached, pending approval from Israeli war cabinet -Troops arrive in Chicago, Trump calls for jailing Pritzker, Johnson -Fascist collaborators gather at W.H. to plot against antifa, DSA, Code Pink -Working Class History: 1971 New Mexico Prison Strike!

-Trump cuts off diplomatic talks with Venezuela, war plans drawn up -A.G. Bondi does not deny existence of incriminating Trump/Epstein photos -Furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay, W.H. claims -The U.S. economy is increasingly one giant A.I. bubble

-Fascist Stephen Miller whines about tyranny after courts block martial law -Israel still detaining U.S. citizens involved in aid flotilla to Gaza -Shut Down Day 7: Air Traffic Controllers call out sick -Zionist toady Bari Weiss appointed to lead CBS News

-Trump's gestapo wreaks havoc on residents in Chicago -Israel captures last boat in Sumud aid flotilla to Gaza -Shut Down Day 3: GOP back to protecting pedos -Rich Dick wants to ruin our gamesÂ

-Israel intercepts Gaza aid flotilla, Italian unions declare a general strike -Shut Down Day 2: More lies about immigrants from JD Vance -Conservatives demand ICE raids at the Super Bowl -Working Class History: Nazis get punched on Cable Street

-Shutdown Mode: Trump uses lapse in funding to advance class war -Judge rips admin's "ideological deportations" of pro-Palestine students -Aid flotilla enters "critical zone", arrival in Gaza within hours -War Sec. Hegseth assembles top U.S. generals, calls them fat

-Trump names himself as overseer of Gaza in new "ceasefire" plan -Republicans move to shut down the government to execute more mass layoffs -Oregon sues Trump over Portland troop deployment -White House attempts to link anti-capitalist thought to domestic terror

-Lawmakers near enough signatures to force vote on Epstein files release -W.H. threatens more mass layoffs if government shuts down next week -U.S. lobbies to protect Israel from global football ban -Rich Dick is on a crusade to bust teachers unions

-European nations send warships to protect Gaza aid flotilla -3 immigrants shot at an ICE detention facility in Dallas -DOJ broke court rules in case against suspected CEO shooter Mangione -Working Class History: 1945 NYC Elevator Strike!

-After Trump's U.N. speech, the world must realize: We have a huge problem -Maduro seeks peace with Trump, W.H. pushes for war -U.S. says it will bailout the Libertarian paradise of Argentina -Trump allies in the billionaire class set to take control of TikTok

-Momentum builds behind Palestinian statehood at UN General Assembly -Corrupt "Deportation Czar" walking around with $50,000 in cash from FBI -Trump, RFK Jr. baselessly claim Tylenol causes autism -Stephen Miller channles his inner Goebbels during Kirk memorial

-U.S. is again the lone veto against a Gaza ceasefire at the U.N. -Dems allow GOP to establish a day of rememberance for dead fascist -Multi-billion dollar corruption scheme revelead inside the White House -Rich Dick has advice for the Trump era: Roll over!

-RFK Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine board poised to wreck public health -Kash Patel & GOP spend a 2nd day on Capitol Hill protecting pedos -Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel is taken off the air under pressure from FCC -W.H. declares antifa a terrorist organization

-U.N. commission orders countries to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza -Kash Patel grilled by Senators for protecting pedos in the W.H. -Right decries violence on the left as MAGA rapper releases pro-lynching song -S. Korean workers detail abuse while in ICE custody

-The White House, right-wing media demand forced mourning of dead fascist -Israel launches ground invasion of Gaza City -Artists around the world speak out against the genocide -Trump orders another extrajudicial killing off coast of Venezuela

-Party of Free Speech: GOP seeks to punish people for joking about Kirk's killing -RICO charges dropped against Cop City protesters -Bolsonaro found guilty of coup attempt in Brazil -Rich Dick is a fan of the KKK

-Fascist activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed -Trump promises a crackdown on the left, despite shooter still unknown -House lawmakers move to repeal Iraq War AUMFs -Working Class History: A strike in 1909 that Debs called "the greatest"

-Rogue state of Israel bombs Qatar to sabotage Gaza ceasefire talks -NYT: JP Morgan a "crucial cog" in Epstein's sex trafficking op -Bankers increase financing of dirty energy projects -Trump goes out to dinner in D.C., gets called "Hitler"

-Gaza aid flotilla attacked in Tunisia, likely by Israeli drone -SCOTUS greenlights ICE racial profiling, Trump declares war on Chicago -U.S. military build up continues off the coast of Venezuela -House Committee obtains more incriminating docs tying Trump to Epstein

-Quack Health Secretary RFK proves why he's an asset to the ruling class -DC Grand Jury continues to stymie Trump prosecutors -Admin. strips union rights from NASA workforce -Rich Dicks: Failsons go full crypto

-Court rejects Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations -Hegseth, Rubio, Vance promise more extrajudicial massacres in the Caribbean -W.H. lobbies Congress to block release of Epstein files -Working Class History: The U.S. Textile Strike of 1934

-Trump orders extrajudicial mass killing off the coast of Venezuela -W.H. circulates plan to profit off Gaza's destruction -Court rules federal troop deployment to Calif. was illegal -UAW calls on Ford to recognize union win in the South

-Whistleblower alleges a massive data breach at Social Security by DOGE -Top officials at CDC resign after RFK Jr. restricts covid vaccine -Feds fail to indict D.C. sandwich thrower -Working Class History: Women strike in London!

-U.S. runs influence ops in Greenland, sends more warships to Venezuela -Trump wants to bring back the death penalty as part of D.C. takeover -Republicans panic over admin's new "socialist" tendencies -Yosemite park rangers unionize amid attacks from W.H.