Premium increases notices will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Americans all over the US. The average increase? 114%. For some, the numbers are even higher: A couple making $129,000 with two adult children at home in Savannah, GA, will pay $3,150 more per month for insurance.

Antifa to get same treatment as drug cartels. "...Pam Bondi... on Wednesday... said the Trump admin. is going to take the ‘same approach’ to Antifa as it has to drug cartels.... Trump [has] signed an [E.O.] designating... [it]... as a domestic terror organization." www.commondreams.org/news/antifa

Progressive candidates poll better when running as independents. "In a randomized, controlled trial, respondents were shown hypothetical candidates with identical economic populist platforms. ...some were labeled Democrats, while others were labeled independents." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Professor who published book on Antifa gets threats, is blocked from leaving U.S. "Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book ‘Antifa’, and has taught courses on anti-fascism..., was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

78th Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody since October 2023. "Several outlets and agencies have reported severe and ubiquitous abuse in Israeli detention facilities that could amount to torture, including Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Haaretz." libertarianinstitute.org/news/78-pale...

Senator: Almost ¼ of FBI agents rounding up migrants. "[Sen. Mark] Warner’s communications director told Axios agents ‘have been pulled from their jobs fighting terrorists, spies, drug traffickers & violent criminals in order to carry out Trump’s immigration agenda.’" www.axios.com/2025/10/08/t...

Zendesk hackers may have obtained IDs of Discord users. “Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesperson Nu Wexler tells The Verge." www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Senate Republicans block bill restricting Trump’s use of deadly force against drug smugglers. "Wednesday’s vote was brought under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which was intended to reassert congressional power over the declaration of war." apnews.com/article/trum...

Employers tell International Court of Justice that workers don’t have a right to strike. "[The International Organisation of Employers] told the judges that ‘Convention 87 was never intended to protect the right to strike’..." www.courthousenews.com/workers-turn...

Families & advocacy groups want independent probes into deaths involving Cleveland area deputies. "Stanley Jackson, an attorney for the three families, said relatives fear they’ll never know the truth if the sheriff’s department investigates its own cases." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/07/c...

At a time when we should be guaranteeing health care to all Americans as a human right, President Trump and his Republican colleagues are threatening to make our broken system even worse by doubling premiums for more than 20 million Americans.

Gaza flotilla member: We were treated like terrorists. "We were kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded & sent to an internment camp... without access to food, water or legal support. ....People were... regularly beaten, handcuffed, ankle-cuffed & left in solitary..." jacobin.com/2025/10/flot...

Democrats ask Trump to justify strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats. “‘Congress has the sole constitutional responsibility to declare war and to authorize the use of force. You have failed to secure such authorization for these strikes,’ the letter states." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-l...

U.S. military support for Israel since 2023 has cost taxpayers more than $31 billion. "Israel has received over $21 billion in military aid from the US and.... the US has spent between $10 and $13 billion helping Israel wage wars across the Middle East...” news.antiwar.com/2025/10/07/t...

Tesla driver dies in fiery crash after collision. "Julie Eibinder, 24, was driving along a six-lane road in North Miami Beach last week when she was cut off by an SUV.... The vehicles collided before Eibinder’s Tesla struck a pole and erupted into flames..." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Pueblo, CO police officer kills armed shoplifting suspect by hitting him with police car. "Chilling dashcam footage has emerged of a police officer saying ‘I’m going to hit him’ before fatally running down a shoplifting suspect who was fleeing the scene on foot." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Biden got CIA to drop item about his visit to Ukraine from Obama’s 'Daily Brief'. "Ukrainian officials were left ‘bewildered & disappointed’ by V.P. Joe Biden’s December 2015 trip to Kyiv... accusing the US of a ‘double standard’ given Biden’s family ties to... Burisma..." nypost.com/2025/10/07/u...

Democrats and aligned groups planning nationwide protests against Trump on October 18th. "October 18 protest organizers say they will focus on the president’s ongoing threats to deploy National Guard troops into cities, and his continued mass deportation agenda." www.wlrn.org/government-p...

Private economic reports suggest low or no job growth in September. "The monthly jobs report from payroll-processing firm ADP showed the U.S. shed 32,000 private-sector jobs in September. However, that likely ‘understates the decline’, [Moody's Mark] Zandi noted..." thehill.com/business/554...

More power now generated using solar, wind or water than with coal. “Renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel boards and seizes 9 more aid ships bound for Gaza. "The FFC said the Israeli military had intercepted all nine of the convoy’s ships as of just after 6 a.m. local time, roughly 120 nautical miles from Gaza. ....Eight of the passengers are US citizens..." edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...

AG dodges questions, attacks Senators at hearing. "[Sen. Mazie] Hirono... pressed [Pam] Bondi over the [DoJ's] removal of... prosecutors who worked on investigations involving Pres. Trump and the Jan. 6 attack.... ‘I’m not going to discuss personnel matters with you.’” abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

Furloughed federal employees may not be paid for shutdown days. “The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is arguing that federal workers who are furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown are not entitled to back pay." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. flights delayed due to air traffic controllers calling in sick. "Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere." edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/u...

Pastor: Feds shot me with chemical pellets. “Rev. David Black of the Presbyterian Church of Chicago said he was peacefully protesting... at Broadview last month when he was shot seven times... with ‘exploding pellets that contained some kind of chemical agent’." www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

UK police can ban 'intimidating’ repeated protests. "[The Home Office] said police forces would be given new powers under... the Public Order Act, to put new conditions on ‘repeat protests’ and allow... authorities to relocate or ‘to ban protests outright’..." www.commondreams.org/news/uk-poli...

Women & minorities under-represented after ‘indirect’ Syrian election. "6 new lawmakers are women, according to a Reuters count verified by election observers. ....10 seats in total went to religious and ethnic minorities, including Kurds, Christians &... Alawites..." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Texas officer suspended after knock-out punch against restrained teenager. "The woman, who weighed 100 pounds, was intoxicated and uncooperative. She was appropriately handcuffed and seat-belted with her legs restrained in a RIPP Hobble in a patrol vehicle.” www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2...

Researchers claim they’ve found what looks like ‘alien DNA’ in humans. "The scientist... analyzed 581 complete families from the 1,000 Genomes Project, discovering ‘large sequences’ of DNA in 11 families that didn’t appear to correspond to either family." nypost.com/2025/10/06/s...

Client gets refund for errors in AI-generated report. "Deloitte Australia will partially refund the... $290,000 paid by the... government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment..." abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Journalists, unions & protesters in Chicago sue Trump administration over attacks by federal agents. “The suit describes violent incidents involving agents, journalists and protesters, alleging the ‘acts of brutality by federal officers are too numerous to catalogue’." www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

Attorney: Agent rammed woman’s car before shooting her 5 times. "[Attorney Christopher] Parente said the video shows an agent turn a federal vehicle left into [Marimar] Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent.... exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez." chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration mobilizes about 700 National Guard troops. "Hundreds of National Guard troops, including 300 from Illinois & 400 from Texas, are being called into service effective ‘immediately’ for an initial period of two months..." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Portland's attorney: Feds violating Constitution. "‘We appear to be witnessing the federal govt. engaging in unconstitutional uses of force in violation of the 4th Amendment against... peaceful demonstrators exercising their 1st Amendment rights,’ wrote Robert Taylor." www.opb.org/article/2025...

Judge who blocked Trump’s demand for SC voter records had death threats before house burned down. "The fire at the home of Diane Goodstein... erupted on Saturday, sending three members of her family to the hospital, including her husband, a former state senator." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Greta Thunberg: Flotilla activists abused in Israeli custody. "‘I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story,’ Thunberg said during a press conference [in] Athens..." www.commondreams.org/news/greta-t...

GOP using government to fight culture war. "This phenomenon started in the states, [especially in] Florida & Texas.... Now this style of governance—using criminal law, mass surveillance, tip lines & the threat of police violence to wage the culture war—is going national." reason.com/2025/10/06/c...

Wealthy Americans control the system. "...even amid all the economic instability, the stock market has only continued to grow. This growth has largely benefited just a small number of Americans; [the] 10% of the population [that] owns 93% of stock market wealth." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

492 arrested at protest in London against ban on protest group Palestine Action. "The first arrest took place shortly after 1 pm as the seated protesters took out pens and wrote signs showing support for Palestine Action." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Public won’t get to vote in Syria’s ‘election’. "...[Pres. Ahmad] Sharaa... will appoint 70 of the 210 parliament members. The remaining 140 will be elected by subcommittees of Syria’s Supreme Committee for People’s Assembly Elections, which Sharaa also appointed..." thecradle.co/articles/Ele...

Comet approaching our solar system is huge and mysterious. "...the ‘mass of 3I/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons’, per a blog post by [Prof. Avi] Loeb. ....Loeb & Co. also found that the diameter of its solid-density nucleus must be larger than 3.1 miles..." nypost.com/2025/09/29/s...

California accuses Tesla insurance of ‘willful unfair claims settlement practices’. "‘In 2025, the Tesla Companies have already had more complaints, more justified complaints & committed more violations than in the three previous years combined,’ the regulator wrote." techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/t...

Gen Z protests spread to Morocco, Madagascar and Peru. “...the throughline is clear: Growing inequality and marginalization is destroying young people’s hopes for the future – and the only way forward is to confront a broken social contract head on." edition.cnn.com/2025/10/04/w...

Church of England appoints first female archbishop. “Bishop of London Sarah Mullally shattered a stained-glass ceiling Friday when she was announced as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the Church of England’s spiritual leader." apnews.com/article/angl...

Portland protesters say federal agents pushed them blocks from ICE building, seemed like a provocation. "‘What I saw is that they wanted us to fight,’ said one protester, who called herself Rainbow. ....‘They just kept pushing us back and there was nowhere we could go.’" www.opb.org/article/2025...

Trump can’t send troops from other states to Portland. "In the more sweeping order on Sunday evening, Judge Karin Immergut... [asked] how the decision to send troops from California & Texas to Oregon could not be seen as anything other than circumventing her order." www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Protesters in republic of Georgia attempt to storm govt. building after election loss. "Police in Georgia used water cannons & pepper spray... to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace…. smashing the gate before being driven away...” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gaze flotilla detainees claim abuse in Israeli custody. "‘They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her & forced her to kiss the Israeli flag.' ....an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from dehydration." www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Large number of Europeans protest war in Gaza. “Tens of thousands of people have marched in major cities across Europe to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, with mass rallies taking place in urban centres across the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Portugal." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago accused of ‘boxing in’ their vehicles. "‘Our understanding of part of the incident this morning is that ICE’s car collided with a civilian car and then agents shot 5 bullets,’ said Brandon Lee, a spokesperson for [ICIRR]." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/04/i...