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Some 277 students at Royal Oak High School conducted a walkout/sit-in last Wednesday, after news got around that a Turning Point club had been established at their school.

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The US military has carried out at least 15 lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific since Trump’s September 2 order for the summary execution of supposed drug smugglers. All the attacks are war crimes under international law.

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The department dismissed the complaint of Will Lehman, a socialist Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW president in 2022, documenting mass disenfranchisement in the government-supervised election.

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The attacks killed 46 children and 20 women and injured over 200 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

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The massive social crisis that could be unleashed in two days shows that the social content of Trump’s dictatorship is a war on the working class, imposing the costs of the mounting crisis of US capitalism by throwing conditions back decades.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is being restaffed with corporate poisoners and climate change deniers.

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Neither the Democratic nor the Republican candidate offers solutions to the 22 percent jump in electricity prices.

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One worker from the Endeavor mine said he didn’t know when or if it would reopen. He said conditions there were not safe, adding, “even if it does open there’s a lot of people who will not go back.”

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While Berlin’s public schools are falling apart, social institutions are on the brink of collapse, and ruthless cuts are being made in hospitals, care services, universities and public infrastructure, the Berlin state administration is pouring millions into expanding the apparatus of state repression.

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Merz and his government, a coalition of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, are preparing for ferocious conflicts with the working class.

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The exposure and discrediting of the Times is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness.

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The acute shortage of air traffic controllers and antiquated equipment has created dangerous conditions for both passengers and workers.

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On September 24, security forces opened fire on unarmed protestors opposing the Indian central government’s oppressive rule of the region, killing four and wounding more than 150.

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The Brazilian president raised the subject of Venezuela with Trump, not to confront, but rather to collaborate with US imperialism.

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Florida stands out nationwide for its execution process, largely due to the extraordinary power vested in the governor, who holds the sole authority to select and set the execution dates for death row inmates.

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In Ankara, the capital of Turkey, a group of fascists armed with knives attacked university students in front of the police.

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In creating his Little Tramp character, Chaplin took a social type that was reviled by official bourgeois society—the vagrant, the unemployed man, the person without property—and turned him into arguably the most beloved character in the world.

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Soyinka, 91, has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration over its inhumane treatment of immigrants.

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Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo does not appear to want President Donald Trump's endorsement.

During a Monday interview flagged by MeidasTouch, Cuomo was asked by WQHT morning show host Ebro Darden about Trump giving the former New York governor a backhanded endorsement over his top rival, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

"Your boy was just on '60 Minutes,' Cuomo, saying you're his guy," Darden informed Cuomo.

"No," Cuomo responded.

Darden, however, pressed the issue.

"Trump said you're his candidate!" he said. "If he had to pick a bad Democrat or a... communist, he's picking you!"

There were then several seconds of silence after this before Darden's co-host, Peter Rosenberg, concluded that he had left the interview.

Co-host Laura Stylez lamented that Cuomo never answered Darden's question about the Trump endorsement.

"I really wanted to hear that answer!" she said.

Rosenberg then said that he heard a "click" on Cuomo's end, which indicated that he had apparently ended the call.

"Wow!" exclaimed Stylez. "OK!"

"Oh well!" said Darden.

Ebro: Your boy was just on 60 Minutes, Cuomo, saying that you're his guy!

Cuomo: No.

Ebro: Trump said you're his candidate.

Cuomo: *ends call* pic.twitter.com/GuwgIId5hU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 3, 2025

During an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News' "60 Minutes," Trump said that he was "not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other," before adding that he would nonetheless prefer him to Mamdani.

Mamdani, a Democratic state Assembly member who has represented District 36 since 2021, immediately pounced on Trump’s remarks and sarcastically congratulated his rival for winning the endorsement of a Republican president who is deeply unpopular in New York City.

“Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!” he wrote in a social media post. “I know how hard you worked for this.”

A leaked audio recording from a Cuomo fundraiser in the Hamptons in August included comments from the former governor about help he expected to receive from Trump as he ran as an independent in the mayoral race, following his loss to Mamdani in the Democratic primary. Cuomo and Trump have reportedly spoken about the race, which will be decided at the ballot box on Tuesday.

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A majority of Americans in a new poll think ICE has been “too tough” in trying to enforce Trump's immigration policies.

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After President Donald Trump's administration announced Monday that it would partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for November to comply with a federal court order, congressional Democrats unveiled a resolution demanding full funding for the SNAP benefits of 42 million Americans during the US government shutdown.

"Trump is using food as a weapon against children, families, and seniors to enact his 'Make Americans Hungry Agenda,'" declared Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who is spearheading the measure with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

"It's unbelievably cruel, but Trump cares more about playing politics than making sure kids don't starve," he continued. "Kids and families are not poker chips or hostages. Trump must release the entirety of the SNAP funds immediately."

The government shut down at the beginning of last month because the GOP majorities in Congress wanted to advance their spending plans, while Democrats in the Senate—where Republicans need some Democratic support to pass most legislation—refused to back a funding bill that didn't repeal recent Medicaid cuts and extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Then, the Trump administration threatened not to pay out any SNAP benefits in November and claimed it couldn't use billions of dollars in emergency funding to cover even some of the $8 billion in monthly food stamps. Thanks to a pair of federal lawsuits and Friday rulings, the US Department of Agriculture on Monday agreed to use $4.65 billion from the contingency fund to provide partial payments. However, the USDA refuses to use Section 32 tax revenue to cover the rest of what families are supposed to get, and absent an end to the shutdown—nearly the longest in US history—there's no plan for any future payments.

"The Trump administration should stop weaponizing hunger for 42 million Americans and immediately release full—not partial—SNAP benefits," Schumer said in a statement, after also speaking out on the Senate floor Monday. "As the courts have affirmed, USDA has and must use their authority to fully fund SNAP. Anything else is unacceptable and a half-measure. The Senate must pass this resolution, and Trump must end his manufactured hunger crisis by fully funding SNAP."

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The resolution, which Merkley threatened to force a vote on as early as Monday night, states that the Trump administration "is legally obligated" to the use of the contingency fund for the program, "has the legal authority and the funds to finance SNAP through the month of November," and should "immediately" do so.

The resolution—backed by all members of the Senate Democratic Caucus except Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania—stresses that "exercising this power is extremely important for the health and wellness of families experiencing hunger, including about 16,000,000 children, 8,000,000 seniors, 4,000,000 people with disabilities, and 1,200,000 veterans."

Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) plan to introduce a companion resolution in the House of Representatives. Hayes noted Monday that "never in the history of the program has funding for SNAP lapsed and people been left hungry."

Bonamici said that "the Trump administration finally agreed to release funding that Congress set aside to keep people from going hungry during a disruption like this shutdown, but it should not have taken a lawsuit to get these funds released. Now the House Republicans need to get back to Washington, DC and work to get the government back open."

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They are anticipating that vast structural changes will ultimately keep them in power, regardless of how they legislate.

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General Motors on Wednesday announced a new wave of job cuts at its US electric-vehicle and battery operations, part of a mounting assault on jobs throughout the American and global economy.

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