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7+ min ago (456+ words) The scene laid bare the tactics of the landlords and the capitalist class. De Frutos, alternating between hurling ad-hominem attacks and blasting an emergency siren through a megaphone, was flanked by individuals holding color-printed signs with allegations against CTTU leaders. Many in his group appeared confused about their role; some wandered off before the confrontation ended. "One of them was our service coordinator, Karen," said a tenant from Capital Realty's Park Ridge complex, who was present in solidarity. "This was 2:30, 3 p.m. She was on the clock. Who was at our building? No one when we got back." In the face of this provocation, the tenants' union did not retreat. A contingent of union members met the disruption with pro-union chants. "Who's got the power? We've got the power! What kind of power? Union power!" they shouted, their voices rising above the…...

17+ min ago (258+ words) (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) George Will blasted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a seeming "war criminal" without a war in a scathing op-ed. Will wrote in a Washington Post op-ed on Tuesday that Hegseth has seemingly turned himself into a "war criminal" based on strikes on alleged drug boats leaving Venezuela. According to a report from The Washington Post, citing sources familiar with the situation, Hegseth ordered everyone aboard the boat to be eliminated, prompting critics to question whether he is guilty of a war crime. "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement," Will wrote in his op-ed, which was highly critical of President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Will argued in his op-ed that Hegseth had no justification for the alleged order, which would have reportedly…...

18+ min ago (247+ words) The effort to punish Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election ended last week with a whimper. While most Americans were focusing on Thanksgiving with their families, Trump's political allies were completing the greatest escape from criminal justice in the nation's history. Pete Skandalakis, a state official standing in for the disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, blended political polemic and practical considerations in his motion rationalizing an end to the case. What he did not do is suggest that the plot perpetrated by Trump and his co-defendants was legal. This shell game, in which justice is never at hand but only off in some other court or jurisdiction, where prosecuting the most serious crimes ever committed by an American president and his political allies is somehow not worth it, is sadly familiar. Like the dismissal of…...

19+ min ago (1814+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth absolutely lost it Tuesday as he scrambled to shirk responsibility for reportedly murdering the survivors of a September 2 drone strike on an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean." Sitting beside a drowsy Donald Trump during a lengthy Cabinet meeting, Hegseth claimed that while he had been perfectly happy to take responsibility for the dozen extrajudicial executions of people who the government couldn't prove were drug traffickers, he wouldn't dare claim credit for that one Pentagon decision. Instead, the war chief continued to redirect responsibility for the strike onto Commander Frank "Mitch" Bradley, and even the president himself." "I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine at the Department of War we got a lot of things to do, so I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the…...

20+ min ago (511+ words) Forget smart watches. Oura Rings are all the rage online, praised for their fashionable, 24-hour, accurate health-tracking features. But can they sense life-threatening emergencies? This handy dandy device is a smart ring that measures a person's sleep, activity, recovery, heart rate, and health using sensors that capture pulse signals, according to their website. The longer the user wears the device, the more it adapts to their body signals. From there, the ring will generate daily reports through the app. Oklahoma-based TikTok creator Shayla (@shaylatalei) lies in a hospital bed. "If you're ever thinking about getting an Oura Ring, I'm in the hospital for Sepsis," she says, pointing at the smart ring on her index finger. "This thing told me that my body was struggling days before I was in the hospital." As proof, the corner of her screen shows her…...

24+ min ago (208+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder President Donald Trump's recent pardon of an international drug kingpin has ruffled feathers among members of his own party, according to a new report. "I hate it. It's a horrible message," Tillis said. "From what I've read about the Honduran president's role in funneling cocaine to the United States, he does not seem like a good candidate for a pardon to me," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told the National Review. "It's hard to reconcile that pardon with the repeated emphasis on drug trafficking as a rationale for our Venezuela interest " period," said Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Last weekend, Trump defended his pardon of the former two-term Honduran leader, calling his sentence a "setup" by former President…...

25+ min ago (310+ words) NATO accuses Russia of targeting Europe with "hybrid warfare." Moscow'condemned'on 1 December comments made by NATO"s most senior military officer, threatening that Brussels might conduct a possible "pre-emptive strike" against Russia. "We see in it a deliberate attempt to undermine efforts to overcome the Ukrainian crisis," Zakharova said. "The people making such statements should be aware of the risks and possible consequences, including for the alliance members themselves." Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone'told'the'Financial Times'(FT) on Monday that NATO could respond to Moscow"s "hybrid warfare" with a "pre-emptive strike." "We are studying everything " On cyber, we are kind of reactive. Being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about," Dragone told FT. Dragone claimed a pre-emptive strike could be considered a "defensive action" in response to what he claims is a string of…...

30+ min ago (333+ words) The former president of Honduras was convicted of trafficking cocaine. Why did Trump pardon him? Welcome to The Logoff: The former president of Honduras, who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking huge amounts of cocaine into the US, was freed from prison on Tuesday following a pardon from President Donald Trump. What happened? Trump promised to pardon Juan Orlando Hern'ndez late last week after receiving an ingratiating letter from the former Honduran president, who described himself as a fellow victim of "political persecution" by the Biden administration. What did Hern'ndez do? Hern'ndez, who served two terms as president of Honduras, was convicted on drug trafficking and firearms offenses last year by a federal district court in New York; prosecutors said he abused his powers as president to help deliver more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States and…...

33+ min ago (314+ words) Since the 1980s, defending the right to political expression has increasingly meant challenging the use of counterterrorism powers to stifle political speech. In 1999, we published'Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. Written by two eminent legal scholars, David Cole and James Dempsey, it analyzed how counterterrorism laws and mandates were being used to abridge core rights to political expression. This work was necessitated by continuous revelations throughout the 1980s and 1990s as to how in the U.S. counterterrorism authorities were used to monitor domestic political speech, as well as the dramatic implementation of new counterterrorism laws in the 1990s that criminalized speech and humanitarian activities formerly understood to be protected by core expressive rights. The post Defending Rights And Dissent Weighs In On Terrorism Definition appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. The following was submitted by Chip Gibbons on behalf…...

34+ min ago (207+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's chances of becoming the first member to leave President Donald Trump's cabinet have doubled in recent days, according to a new analysis by CNN's Harry Enten. The Pentagon chief has become embroiled in another scandal after sources told the Washington Post he directed Adm. Frank Bradley to leave no survivors in a missile attack on an alleged drug smuggling boat, and Enten dug into new polling on public attitudes toward Hegseth on "CNN News Central." "Every single poll has found that the American people are more likely to dislike than like him, and the first poll that was taken found that the plurality of Americans said that the United States Senate should not confirm him to the post of secretary of defense." "No polls " zero, zero, zero, zero, zero," Enten added. Secretaries of defense get so…...