Common Dreams:
"Far-Right Group Sent List of Palestine Defenders to Trump Officials for Deportation. Betar, the international far-right pro-Israel group that took credit for the Department of Homeland Security's arrest of former Columbia University graduate student and permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil for protesting the annihilation of Gaza,
claimed this week that it has sent 'thousands of names' of Palestine defenders to Trump administration officials for possible deportation. ...
Earlier this week, Betar said: 'We told you we have been working on deportations and will continue to do so. Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month. You heard it here first. Those who support jihad and intifada and originate in terrorist states will be sent back to those lands.'
Betar isn't alone in aggressively targeting Palestine defenders. The group Canary Mission—which said it is 'delighted' about Khalil's 'deserved consequences'—publishes an online database containing personal information about people it deems antisemitic, and this week released a video naming five other international students it says are 'linked to campus extremism at Columbia.' "
-->These rightwing hate groups operate freely in the US, despite their funding by a foreign country. In fact, bogus antisemitic charges are the new McCarthy Era. Leave it to the NYT to leave this story about Betar out.
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Common Dreams:
"Report Exposes Musk Operatives Who Have Infiltrated Social Security Agency. ... Despite his pledge of 'maximum transparency,' Elon Musk has gone to great lengths to obscure the names and activities of staffers working for his Department of Government Efficiency—even claiming at one point that it is illegal to publicly identify members of the advisory commission.
That didn't stop Wired from publishing a story on Thursday that names 10 DOGE operatives who have infiltrated the Social Security Administration, which is facing deep staffing cuts that advocates warn could impact the delivery of benefits. ...
'This team appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency,' the outlet noted. 'Many of them have worked or interned at Musk companies such as Tesla and SpaceX, and the majority of them have also appeared at other government agencies in recent weeks, as part of DOGE's incursion into the government.' "
-->Another failure of the NYT. It didn't report these infiltrations of the Social Security Agency. Our newspaper of record has always wanted the Wall Street takeover of this most important of social programs. This despite the fact that workers have paid into Social Security for decades.
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Common Dreams:
"10,000+ Turn Out in Warren, Michigan to 'Fight Oligarchy' With Bernie Sanders.
'We will not accept oligarchy, we will not accept authoritarianism, we will not accept kleptocracy,' the democratic socialist senator said. 'We're gonna fight back, and we're gonna win.'
The Democratic Party may have twice stymied Sen. Bernie Sanders' White House ambitions, but the National Tour to Fight Oligarchy launched last month by the democratic socialist has been drawing crowds that would be the envy of any presidential campaign.
On Saturday, more than 10,000 people turned out to see Sanders (I-Vt.) speak in Warren, Michigan. Not only did they pack the main event space—the gymnasium at Lincoln High School—literally to the rafters, they filled two overflow rooms, with hundreds turned away outside, according to Michigan Advance."
-->The NYT has omitted coverage of Bernie for years. He would have been president now if it weren't for the neoliberal, pro Wall St. NYT.
