“Trump had also thrown his weight behind Asfura earlier, but his latest comments went a step further, suggesting that Honduras' future aid depends on Asfura's victory.”…

“The American Nurses Association said the groups most affected by the loan cap will be advanced practice nurses, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives and certified registered nurse anesthesiologists.”

“The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.”

Americans are too passive about their leaders committing war crimes in our names.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

“Ibrahim was arrested in a raid on his family’s West Bank home in February when he was still 15 years old, with Israeli forces allegedly blindfolding and handcuffing him in the middle of the night.”

“[Alcatraz prison], as well as sites associated with the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, would have to be erased to make way for a modern prison. The mere thought reminds Gali of the disproportionate rates of incarceration among Indigenous communities in the US.”

Republicans will respond to this by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the army and the navy and the marines and the royal dragoons and accusing everyone else of being spies and traitors and cowards, which is how they have responded to every single other fucking inconvenience.

the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines

“Trump and his administration targeted at least 46 individuals, businesses and other entities with threats of investigations or penalties, including freezing federal funds for Democratic-led cities such as New York and Chicago.”

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

"McNulty also claimed the policy discriminates against employees based on their ethnicity, gender and national origin — specifically, white American men, according to the court filing."

"The ban on Palestine Action marked the first time in British history that a direct action group has been branded as a terrorist organisation. It is also the first time that a proscribed group has been granted a judicial review."

"Fletcher, who in 2021 testified before Congress about what she went through, joined her younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, and another massacre survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle, in a lawsuit seeking reparations."...

"The session was the board’s first public meeting since the announcement last week that cuts to staff and operations... ...were necessary to deal with a “substantial” budget deficit due, in part, to federal cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

"As of September, THC beverages were legal in 28 states and legal with restrictions in another nine, according to Whitney Economics, an industry consulting firm. Six states have banned them, the group says, while seven others require the drinks to be sold in marijuana stores."

"Republican legislators in Wisconsin have long criticized DEI efforts at the state’s 13 public universities, including UW-Madison. The Legislature blocked millions in funding in 2023 until UW system leaders agreed to restructure dozens of DEI-related positions as part of a wide-ranging deal."

"Across the country, there are 705 Somali migrants with temporary protected status, per a congressional report issued earlier this year. Hundreds of them are in Minnesota. But far more — tens of thousands of Somali Minnesotans — are legal residents."

"The party describes the proposal as a socially just way to finance climate protection and estimates it would generate around CHF 6 billion a year. A nationwide vote is scheduled for 30 November 2025."

For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.

"Part of the reason you see this attraction to Trump is that rural areas in the Midwest are becoming less white for the first time in a long time, with the influx of Hispanic Americans and East African immigrants. So people are thinking, “Well, wait a minute, we thought that this was ours.”"

"“Jails and private prisons that operate immigration detention facilities aren’t super focused or motivated in helping defendants make their scheduled court appearances,” [Kate Drury, a Waupaca-based criminal defense and immigration attorney] said."

"Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back to 5,200 years ago, making it the third oldest canoe discovered in eastern North America, [Tamara Thomsen, the state’s maritime archaeologist] said."...

"[Colombia, Panama and Uruguay] had joined the European Union in demanding that the deal include language on a transition away from fossil fuels, while a coalition of countries, including top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, said any fossil fuel mention was off-limits."

"Set out in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, the yellow line refers to an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the deal came into effect last month." "It has allowed Israel, which routinely fires at and kills Palestinians who approach the line,..."

"Wisconsin’s hemp industry is estimated to be valued at $700 million and accounts for at least 3,500 jobs, according to the Wisconsin State Journal."

"With [land grand trust] funding, advocates are “looking at universal health insurance coverage for every resident in the state” next and planning to use the same playbook to secure that policy, [Allen Sánchez, president of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) St Joseph’s Children)] said."

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

America 2025.

"...(A)s Spain remembers the era's victims and analyses exhumation efforts, it is grappling with the steady recent rise of a far-right party, Vox, and nostalgia for the ideals of the dictatorship among young people who did not endure it."

"Broad legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the “Nuremberg defense” as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazi officials to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn’t absolve troops."

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

With the recognition that there's lots of worthy causes needing funding these days, let me tell you about WisconsinEye. It's CSPAN for Wisconsin. It makes our statehouse affairs accessible to people across the state and nation. Without it, news and democracy will suffer. wiseye.org/news-release...

"Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday, opens new tab shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funneled through multilateral lenders."

"In its 2026 Global Outlook, WFP indicated that by 2026, a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019."

"[The report] said only 0.2 percent of global aid was allocated to programmes focused on preventing violence against women in 2022." "That funding fell even further this year, the report said, as United States President Donald Trump slashed his country’s foreign aid and development contributions."

"The St. Paul action comes days after a highly visible ICE arrest in Northfield on Nov. 11. Video shared online shows federal agents surrounding a vehicle, pointing a gun, and pulling Adan Nunez Gonzalez from the passenger seat before handcuffing him and placing him in an unmarked car."...

"Of the 614 immigrants arrested in the Chicago operation, which began in September, just 16 had significant criminal histories, according to federal data submitted to the court by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of a lawsuit."

In case you missed it - a pardoned J6er has been charged with sex crimes against two children. According to police, he told one victim they could receive a share of the $10 million in J6 reparations he claimed he would be receiving.

I hope people realize that fighting these raids by arguing they "aren't decreasing crime" is a losing battle -- they do not care and will simply change the definition of "crime."

"Currently, there are more than 23,000 adults locked up in Wisconsin’s prisons — making them overcapacity by more than 5,000 people. The state’s prison population is now roughly at pre-pandemic levels, which is more than triple the size of the prison population in 1990."

"Legislation to extend government-provided health care coverage for up to one year for low-income new moms has been passed in 48 other states — red, blue and purple. Not in Arkansas,.... ...And not in Wisconsin, where the limit remains two months. And that’s only because of Vos."

"NEVI (National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure) funding paused after President Donald Trump took office, and Wisconsin was one of 15 states along with the District of Columbia to sue the Trump administration in May for cutting off money for the program."...

"Wisconsin Rep. Ryan Clancy, D-Milwaukee, voted against the proposal in committee. He told WPR it’s “fairly ridiculous” because the bill doesn’t consider low-income residents living in “food deserts” where grocery stores aren’t nearby."

"(José Antonio) Kast is a surprise front-runner who speaks fondly of aspects of the country’s period of dictatorship and broke with the traditional conservative party to found his own Republican Party."

"The vote also comes as the US military conducts a series of air strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats, a divisive policy from President Donald Trump that Noboa has backed."

"“People are nervous just because of the tactics. Even me. I’m brown-skinned and I’m an American citizen and I’m a [military] vet. But here I’m thinking: should I be carrying my passport with me?”" -David Rebolloso

“When the Border Patrol was created in 1924, white supremacists entered the agency, building the culture of xenophobia and impunity that exists to this day … CBP agents are arrested for criminal activity and corruption at a per-capita rate that exceeds any other federal agency.”