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  ‘Invasive and extreme’: doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes For Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls “invasive and extreme”: all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams would have to undergo genital exams. “I tell my kids and patients that my No 1 job is...

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  ‘What are you implying?’: El-Sayed confronts critics head-on as attacks ramp up As a candidate positioned at the center of what researchers say are the worst Islamophobic attacks seen since the aftermath of 9/11, many would expect Abdul El-Sayed to simply defend himself and move on. Instead, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan has repeatedly demanded those who question his positions on Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and his faith, explain the premise of their inquiry. Rather th...

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  DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud Voting by noncitizens is extremely rare, and election experts have raised concerns that the justice department’s crackdowns could disenfranchise US citizens. The arrests came days after the justice department sued California, demanding the courts block the state from tabulating certain ballots in the high-stakes November midterms. The justice department had previously sent Los Angeles county election officials a thumb dr...

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  Hegseth church allies backed plan for ‘public’ execution of Fort Hood shooter Hegseth announced last week that the US public would be able to see the execution of Nidal Hasan, which is set for 3 December at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, a former army major and psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. A military court sentenced him to death in August 2013. “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said. “It was a radical Islamist attack...

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  Melting Ron DeSantis statue unveiled to call out his inaction on climate crisis A life-sized statue of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was unveiled and promptly began melting in front of an audience in Tallahassee in a symbolic protest at his rejection of action on the climate crisis. The silvery statue, revealed to an audience of onlookers last week, melted away to show a skull under DeSantis’s face. The structure was cast from solid gallium, a metal that melts at 85.6F (29.8C), which is...

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  ‘Totally Beyond the Pale’: Angry Judge Shuts Down Trump Administration’s Mass Destruction of DC Trees the projected cost to taxpayers for President Donald Trump’s vanity projects has soared to more than $1.8 billion.

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  A California town’s beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide? San Clemente is one of southern California’s most picture-perfect beach towns – a capital of American surf culture since the 1950s. In two years, 2028 Olympic surfers will compete at Lower Trestles, a world-class surfing beach. But the town’s longtime cultural and economic driver, its beaches, are now under threat. As pounding waves driven by late-summer storms in the Pacific devour chunks of the California coastli...

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  Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Reckless global militarisation including a threat at the UN to annihilate Iran, a litany of sexual misconduct allegations against the commander in chief...

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  ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza. The Norwegian Nobel committee said Pillay, who is serving as a judge at the international court of justice (ICJ), has “shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence”. “Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal lega...

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  Contractor says he was told Stephen Miller wanted facilities to be "cruel" “Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I’ve never been in that position before."

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  Indonesia fights fire with dry ice as toxic haze spreads across region As fires ravage Indonesia, emitting a toxic smoke that has drawn the ire of regional neighbours, the government is testing an unusual new approach to tackle the haze: dry ice. Having tried cloud seeding, water bombing and sending in army personnel to fight the fires, Indonesia’s coordinating security minister said dry ice would be dropped on the province of South Sumatra on Thursday.

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  Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests The underwater landscape here was once dominated by towering kelp forests. Often described as the redwoods of the sea, kelp can grow taller than a 10-story building at rates of up to 2ft per day. These dense aquatic canopies form a critical habitat for thousands of marine species and contribute to the ocean’s ecological engine that produces ro...

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  When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now “Just as Germans who backed Hitler and the Nazi Party after 1933 were fully aware of what they were joining, so Christians who have backed Trump and the MAGA movement a second time know and bear responsibility for what they are now endorsing… “This dehumanising language, talking about immigrants as vermin, and this racial purity language, like they’re ‘poisoning the blood of our count...

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  ICE abductions surge in Washington state ICE is in the middle of what may be its largest surge in Seattle and King county, but local media seems to be ignoring the situation because it’s happening quickly and quietly.

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  'Historic': Seattle Passes First City Ban on AI-Enabled Surveillance Pricing Seattle became the first city in the country to ban surveillance pricing on Tuesday afternoon after the City Council voted 7-2 to approve a measure co-sponsored and championed by progressive Mayor Katie Wilson.

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  Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: What Dr. King said was true nearly 60 years ago, and it is even truer today, as our country, the United States of America, is now spending over a trillion dollars a year on the military, while some 800,000 Americans are homeless, 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, and millions of people cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

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  'Incredible Story of Corruption': Bombshell Report Puts Susan Collins at Center of Massive Bribery Scheme Of all the politicians Navatek courted under Kao’s leadership, [Senator Dusan] Collins was its most important patron,” the investigative outlet reported. “The senator’s office steered government contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping Kao and his network for donations, according to emails seen by ProPublica. Sometimes they cut checks within 24 hour...

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  ‘Massive Betrayal’: Fury at Newsom and Bonta Over Merger Deal With Paramount | Common Dreams The deal, which is set to be formally announced later Monday, will pave the way for the creation of one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, helmed by the son of a billionaire megadonor to [Trump]…

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  Show us your damn Nazi tats, low T Pentagone Peter Brian!

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  U.S. House of Representatives Votes to End War on Iran for a Third Time …Iranian strikes have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at U.S. military bases across the Middle East, causing about $184 million worth of damage.

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  Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter The oil that governments fight over is also the carbon pollution that is warming our climate. The bad air quality in Delhi, the high price of fuel in Vietnam, the cost of electricity in the United States, the terrifying floods in the Himalayas – they all connect back to fossil fuels. Until we end that dependence, we’ll never be able to address the climate emergency and stop fighting these endless o...

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  The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben …there is one solitary (and very literal) ray of sunshine amidst this gloom: the steady rise of solar, wind and batteries. That clean energy trinity has broken out of its Chinese base and over the last few years expanded quickly across the planet – from Karachi to California to Cuba, solar panels are going up faster than any energy source has ever grown. It’s even begun to demonstrate that it can drive emis...

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  “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis If you add up the gas that all these data centers are going to burn, U.S. data centers are going to be burning more gas than any country except the U.S., Russia, China and Iran. It’s as if Donald Trump is helping invent a whole new country to burn fossil fuel, precisely at the moment when our system is about to break. So, whether it’s, you know, gross beef or disgusting natural gas or whate...

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  'Nothing Short of Torture': Critics Decry Abuse Affirmed by DHS Alligator Alcatraz Probe …the OIG reported on September 11 that staff at the facility, which was operated by the state of Florida and private contractors, “confined 79 detainees in small metal enclosures—each offering about 18 square feet of floor space—for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours.” “Facility staff described the small metal enclosures as ‘calming areas’ for detainees to de-escalate and hav...

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  The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The spirited, disruptive “No Space for Bezos” campaign tapped into wells of outrage against billionaires, climate breakdown and militarism – and it also gave the organizers a megaphone to broadcast ideas for different, less lethal ways we could choose to live together

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  ‘I needed an IV’: shoes melt as turf temperature reaches 157F in Eagles-Titans game “I’ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it’s [synthetic] turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,” Mailata said. “[The union] have got to bring it up. This is why we want all grass fields, to create a standard of play in the league where we’re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don’t have to.”

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  Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets: Report A handful of the world’s wealthiest people are traveling aboard some of the planet’s most polluting vehicles while receiving substantial public subsidies, according to a new report documenting how taxpayers and commercial airline passengers are funding billionaires’ private jet lifestyles due to corporate lobbying, tax breaks, and other policies.

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  Guess What Happened After New York Raised Taxes on the Rich? More Millionaires Moved In | Common Dreams Lindsay Owens, president and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative, said the new data makes clear that “tax flight is nothing more than a myth, and should be given as much credence as flat-earthers.” “If there was any merit to the myth that tax increases on New York’s wealthy drive them away, the new IRS data should show it,” said Owens. “It doesn’t—New York’s millionaire population kept climbing...

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  Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money …part of Trump’s love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal. Because to him, part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their executives are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries, and these forms of energy consumption, as more manly.

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  124 Land Defenders Killed in 2025 Amid Trump-Driven Lawlessness and Aid Cuts Indigenous people remain especially vulnerable to violence, as over three-quarters of the people killed in 2025 were either Indigenous, Afro-descendant, or small-scale farmers. “For Indigenous peoples, land is life,” said Joan Carling, executive director of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International, in the report foreword. “Any threat to our lands, territories, and resources is a threat to our very existence—our cultu...