Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”

That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39990892

from The Wire [online publication of Jewish Voice For Peace JVP in USA]

In North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, local campaigns have notched divestment wins totaling more than $27 million.

Across the country, JVP chapters and our partners are organizing to demand their state and municipal fund managers divest from Israel Bonds — essentially investments in Israeli genocide and apartheid — and invest instead in the well-being of our communities.

This organizing targets the engine enabling Israel's violence against Palestinians: material support from our own institutions in the U.S. And the momentum is growing...

Also:

• Defend anti-Zionist students.
• Plug in locally.
• Join Power Half-Hour.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6953530

Since beginning operation “Midway Blitz” – an aggressive push to arrest immigrants with criminal records in Chicago – Trump’s modern brownshirts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), have unleashed a wave of reactionary violence most recently culminating in an attack on a teacher at a pre-kindergarten school, Rayito del Sol. But the people of Chicago are organizing together to fight back, and you can too.

The entirety of I.C.E’s operation in Chicago has been marked with extrajudicial murders, lies to community officials, illegal detainments, unprovoked street brawls against citizens exercising their right to observe, and the tear-gassing of children in residential areas (a war crime).

I.C.E has been particularly brutal in its attacks around schools, as they have targeted both school officials and parents attempting to drop off or pick up their children in recent weeks, a tactic which resulted in the murder of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez in October. Until recently this tactic of targeting individuals on their way to and from schools was limited to off campus grounds, however, on November 6th I.C.E escalated their assaults on education yet again by detaining a Pre-k teacher who was already inside the Rayito del Sol daycare building and was attempting to go to work. I.C.E did this without a judicial warrant to enter the building, and according to parents interviewed at the school, made the arrest at a time of peak traffic of children and parents, traumatizing many already afraid to go to school due to fears of detention. The educator was then reportedly taken to the Broadview detention facility, which, based on the statements of judge ​​Robert Gettleman in a recent trial, currently is forcing detainees to sleep on the floor or in plastic chairs next to overflowing toilets, and is where I.C.E agents have reportedly been Illegally attempting to force individuals to sign “voluntary” deportation orders without legal counsel present.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6952496

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11912

New Orleans, LA – On Thursday December 4, a crowd of 30 people packed the city council chamber to demand that the city stand up against ICE and Border Patrol operations in the city.

Operation “Swamp Sweep” began in New Orleans and surrounding areas this past Monday, December 1. A host of federal agents have descended on the city, including Gregory Bovino, chief of Border Patrol operations, who also made stops in Chicago and Charlotte earlier this year.

During a rally before the meeting, speakers united on the need to challenge city leadership, including Mayor-elect Helena Moreno, not to collaborate with ICE.

“Children are skipping school because they are afraid of ICE, parents are unable to go to the grocery store, workers are losing their jobs and losing their businesses. And our city councilors have not even put immigration on the agenda!” stated Rory Macdonald of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

After the rally, attendees filed into the meeting. They held paper signs reading “No collaboration with ICE/DHS” and sat together in a large clump in the center of the chambers. The much talked about immigration sweeps were not on the agenda, but residents organized public comment on other items to force council members to face the issue.

From Fight Back! News via This RSS Feed.

Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.

The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.

The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6943175

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11743

New Orleans, LA – On Monday, December 1, 100 people rallied in Lafayette Square and marched to City Hall in the pouring rain to oppose Trump’s latest assault on immigrants in Louisiana, dubbed Operation “Swamp Sweep.”

December 1 marked the first day of Swamp Sweep, an anti-immigrant operation that has sent 250 federal agents to Louisiana – specifically to New Orleans and surrounding areas – attempting to make 5000 arrests. This operation mirrors similar federal deployments in cities such as Washington D.C., Memphis and Charlotte. Like other cities, New Orleans showed up to resist the crackdown.

The protest began with a rally featuring speakers from several organizations that are a part of an ad-hoc No Trump, No Troops coalition leading the way in the fight against federal occupation in the city.

“As a New Orleans resident it is my duty to stand up for my undocumented brothers and sisters to fight this terror that is coming down on them right before the holidays. I’ll be damned to have these families broken up in my own city!” said Anthony Franklin, a member of Students for a Democratic Society. Franklin drew direct comparisons between the federal occupation of ICE, Border Patrol, and the National Guard in New Orleans today and repression by the National Guard in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, stating, “We didn’t need the National Guard then, and we don’t need them now!”

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NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed two executive orders that will ensure city agencies continue to make sound financial decisions that protect taxpayer dollars and that protect New Yorkers’ right to practice their religion at houses of worship without harassment, while protecting freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.

Executive Order No. 60 prohibits mayoral agency heads, agency chief contracting officers, and any other mayoral appointees with discretion over contracting from engaging in procurement practices that discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.

The executive order also prohibits the chief pension administrator and mayoral trustees to the city pension system from opposing divestment from bonds and other assets that would discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6932972

On November 19, 2025, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced her decision to accept Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s offer to remain in her post within his administration. We strongly oppose this decision. Retaining Tisch represents a political alignment with the NYPD’s legacy of racialized policing, surveillance, and repression, and a retreat from the values of justice and liberation that Mamdani’s campaign claimed to champion.

Far from being a minor personnel choice, it is instead a political alignment with the world’s largest and most militarized police state whose record of surveillance, racial profiling, repression, and state violence threatens and criminalizes our communities. Mamdani’s decision to retain Tisch effectively endorses the NYPD’s ongoing collaboration with the Israeli occupation at a time when Gaza and the rest of Palestine are facing a genocide. It undermines the commitments made to the Palestinian community in New York City and to our families living under occupation abroad. At home, Tisch’s tenure has revived Broken Windows–style policing that has long terrorized Black and Brown New Yorkers. Since Eric Adams took office and appointed Tisch as NYPD Commissioner, stops of Black and Brown New Yorkers have tripled when compared to the previous administration.

For nearly two decades, Jessica Tisch has been central to building the NYPD’s surveillance state. Beginning in 2008 in the Counterterrorism Bureau, she rose through the department’s intelligence division during the height of the city’s illegal surveillance of mosques, Muslim student groups, and Arab and Muslim neighborhoods. She later helped construct the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System, a multibillion-dollar network that aggregates surveillance footage, license plate readers, social media data, and biometric information.

Tisch’s record is inseparable from the NYPD’s direct collaboration with the Israeli occupation. In 2015 she traveled to occupied Palestine as Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology to train with Israeli Occupation Forces. She later hosted the top brass of Israel’s National Police at NYPD headquarters in November 2024, and marched in the “Israel Day Parade” this past May. In January 2025 Tisch oversaw an NYPD training that labeled keffiyehs and watermelons as antisemitic symbols, turning Palestinian cultural expression into a policing target. And in October 2025 she spoke at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual conference, where she defended the Gaza genocide, condemned pro-Palestine protestors, and equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

On the same day that Mamdani and Tisch announced her reappointment at a joint press conference, twenty-eight Palestinians were massacred in Gaza, a stark reminder that the state violence Tisch oversees at home is directly linked to colonial violence abroad.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6931377

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11379

Since Israel began bombarding Gaza and starving its population of more than 2 million Palestinians in October 2023, the consensus that the Israeli government is committing genocide has steadily grown to include international and Israeli human rights groups, a United Nations panel, Holocaust scholars, and nearly 40% of Jewish Americans, according to one striking recent survey.

But in 10 words, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday waved away the findings of respected groups like Amnesty International and renowned experts like Brown University professor Omer Bartov, when she commented on why young Americans are expressing support for Palestinians.

"They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok," said Clinton.

Without pointing to any evidence, the former secretary of state said young people in the US are "seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that’s where they get their information" about Israel's attacks on Gaza.

She added that "it’s not just the usual suspects"—without naming who those pro-Palestinian "suspects" are.

"It’s a lot of young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand," she said. "A lot of the challenge is with younger people."

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.” https://t.co/rUVXRqK2rK pic.twitter.com/hAwG7Gbhwf
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) December 2, 2025

Her remarks echoed those of former Obama White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, who spoke recently about the challenges Zionists are presented with when they try to defend Israel to young Jewish people who have seen widely available, credible images and news out of Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and is continuing to restrict humanitarian aid despite a ceasefire deal reached in October.

"Anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage," Hurwitz lamented last month, drawing condemnation.

Clinton was speaking at an event in New York City for Israel Hayom, the most widely read newspaper in Israel, which is run by billionaire Miriam Adelson, a megadonor to President Donald Trump. Adelson published an editorial in the Jewish Journal in November 2023 saying pro-Palestinian protesters "are dead to us," and her late husband, Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, said in 2014 that the Palestinians are "an invented people."

Jeremy Slevin, a senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), pointed to the irony of Clinton attending an event associated with the Adelsons and then claiming that "the kids are being radicalized by anti-Israel propaganda."

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Clinton has frequently claimed that pro-Palestinian Americans, particularly students who took part in nationwide campus protests last year as they urged the Biden administration to comply with US law and stop funding Israel's attacks on Gaza, are simply misinformed about Palestine and ignorant of history, particularly pointing to the 2000 Camp David Summit hosted by former President Bill Clinton.

The former secretary of state has repeated the claim that the Palestinians were offered a "generous deal" at the meeting and "walked away"—a "myth" that Camp David negotiator Robert Malley has debunked, warning it's been used by Clinton and others to "justify Israel's genocide."

Robert Malley on the myth of “Palestinians walked away” at Camp David (July 2000):

➤ Malley says the popular story pushed since 2000 – that Arafat rejected a “generous offer” – is contradicted by the actual record. Israeli PM Barak sidelined the Palestinians for a year,… pic.twitter.com/3vlf1Rl4qj
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 28, 2025

"She’s the one getting the history wrong," including at the Israel Hayom event, said Drop Site News on Tuesday.

A number of observers took issue with Clinton's suggestion that anti-Israel sentiment in the US is being driven solely by young people, with Just Security executive editor Adil Haque issuing a "periodic reminder that the biggest shift in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine has been among older Democrats."

In 2022, 43% Democratic voters ages 50 and up had an unfavorable view of Israel. That percentage has risen sharply since Israel began its onslaught in Gaza, with 66% of those voters reporting an unfavorable view in a Pew Research Center poll this year.

Meanwhile, 71% of Democrats ages 49 and under opposed Israel in the same poll, and 62% of them had expressed opposition in 2022, denoting a less extreme shift in opinion.

"Democrats get their news from CNN more than other mainstream sources," said Haque, pointing to the network's recent investigation about Palestinian aid-seekers who were killed by Israeli forces. "If you're a 60-year-old with grandkids and you read or watch CNN's Gaza reporting, you don't need TikTok to know that what's happening is very, very wrong."

Dylan Williams, vice president of government affairs at the Center for International Policy, also suggested Clinton has an inaccurate view of who opposes Israel's ongoing attacks on Palestinians.

"I’m nearly 50. I don’t use TikTok. I listen to NPR 'Morning Edition' and read the Financial Times daily," said Williams. "I’m a lawyer who has worked on Israel-Palestine issues for the last 20 years. The evidence I’ve seen that Israel committed atrocities including genocide in Gaza is overwhelming."

Author Jason Overstreet wondered how Clinton would explain the findings of human rights groups like Amnesty International and Israel-based B'Tselem, which pointed to testimonies by Israeli soldiers and the documented destruction of Gaza's food system when it concluded in a report in July that Israel is committing genocide in the exclave.

"I guess Hillary Clinton also thinks that Amnesty International called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide because they saw some videos on TikTok and just 'did not know history,'" said Overstreet. "Young people’s views on Israel are based on young people knowing that Israel has committed genocide."

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The United States has asked the Lebanese authorities to return an undetonated GBU-39 small-diameter bomb (SDB) that was launched by an Israeli fighter jet during the operation that killed Hezbollah commander Ali Tabtabai earlier this week, according to Lebanese media and a report by The Jerusalem Post.

America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That’s why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into “Trump Accounts.” Twenty-five million kids will get $250 each in a special savings account that they can’t touch for almost two decades. It sounds like generosity. It plays like hope. It sells like opportunity. But it isn’t any of that. It’s a corporate heist dressed up as philanthropy, and America is too exhausted or too desperate to notice.

The Dell announcement isn’t about helping children. It’s about normalizing a future where the only people who can fix failing systems are the same corporations and billionaires who helped break them. The government could’ve built real support for families. It could’ve raised wages, stabilized housing, funded public education, or given parents actual resources instead of symbolic ones. Instead it built a program where kids get locked into market accounts, and then it waited for a billionaire to swoop in and finish the job. That isn’t policy. It isn’t progress. It’s the privatization of the public good.

A one-time $250 deposit isn’t lifting anyone out of anything. At best it turns children into unwilling investors in a financial system that’s already eaten their parents alive. At worst it shifts the entire idea of welfare into something that only functions if wealthy people feel like playing savior for a news cycle. This isn’t social support. It’s a handshake between private wealth and a government that no longer knows how to govern unless the market approves.

The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they’re so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren’t falling apart.

The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state. This is how the social contract dies without anyone calling it what it is. People look at the $250 and say at least it’s something. They say maybe it’ll grow. They say maybe it’ll help someday. They don’t say what’s obvious. They don’t say the quiet part. They don’t say that America now expects the financial markets to raise children because the country has decided it won’t.

There’s also the quiet financialization happening underneath. These accounts invest in index funds. That means millions of new dollars flowing into the same corporate structures that already dominate the economy. Kids become passive capital generators before they can read. Their “gift” enriches the very companies that helped create the inequality this program is pretending to solve. It’s a perfect loop. The wealthy get to look generous while reinforcing the machine that made them wealthy. The public gets a story about hope. The corporations get the money.

The cruelty of it is that it works. It works because people are tired. Everything’s expensive. Everything feels unstable. Families will take whatever crumbs show up because the alternative is nothing. They’re told this is opportunity. They’re told this is investment. They’re told this is how you get ahead. They don’t ask why a country with the wealth of America is giving children numbers in an account instead of conditions they can survive.

The real collapse is right here. It looks like a billionaire being framed as a public institution. It looks like a government outsourcing its responsibilities to private wealth and calling it innovation. It looks like children being turned into financial products. It looks like the normalization of scarcity. It looks like the public begging for symbolic solutions because no one can imagine real ones anymore.

This isn’t generosity. It isn’t progress. It isn’t a path out of inequality. It’s the same old ownership playing out in a new costume. A billionaire writes a check, the headlines glow, the markets smile, and everyone pretends it’s a step forward. But look at the scale of the theft underneath. Look at the stories we tell ourselves to avoid saying the truth out loud. A country that expects billionaires to fund children has already chosen its future. It’s a future where the public good is a privilege and every solution is a product. It’s a future designed to keep people grateful for scraps.

The Dells aren’t giving children a head start. They’re giving everyone a warning. This is what it looks like when a nation forgets how to take care of its own people and starts handing the responsibility to the highest bidder.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6931532

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11393

Just over one year after winning the 2024 election, Donald Trump’s presidency is under severe pressure. The sordid scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is a totemic symbol of this. This one horrifying story has come to be associated with both the hopes and the mounting disappointment in Donald Trump.

For some time, this tough-talking chancer was able to pose as an opponent of the status quo. However, because Trump has not dealt with any of the problems of working-class Americans, he is now losing his popularity. This has not meant a revival of the liberal centre-ground, however, nor the tightening hold of ‘conspiracy theories’ on US minds. It is the latest stage of the development of the consciousness of a layer of the American working class.

In the minds of a layer of the American population, a generalised distrust and hatred of the status quo and those who defend it has become embodied in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. One perceptive New York Times article explains that, whilst Epstein’s contacts seemed to be on opposing sides (the conservative Steve Bannon and the liberal Michael Wolff, for example), they are actually “on the same team. On air, they might clash. They tout opposite policies… But the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things.”

And, indeed, the Epstein files have proven that there is a tight-knit group that runs society, that protects its members, and that regularly engages in conspiracies against ordinary Americans. That Trump has been seen to be engaging in a cover up has clicked something into place for many. It is as if to say, ‘of course he has betrayed his promises, of course conditions are getting worse. He is one of them, he is part of the “Epstein class”’. And, indeed, he is.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39884418

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