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The Intercept
Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks
The Trump administration’s new rules grant the Federal Protective Service cops powers to target masks and make arrests off federal property.
Glossary
 A new regulation gave the Federal Protective Service the power to arrest people outside of federal government facilities. I have a feeling it was established to protect against attacks launched by enemies of the US, such as the riot that the bully had launched on 6 Jan 2021. Of course, he now claims that that violent attack was not violent at all, and has pardoned
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the Guardian
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ fo...
 A psychiatrist who has talked with many mass shooters says that they are following a "cultural script", a sort of social trail that was made by the publicity about so many past mass shooters. He responds to this by denying them the sort of publicity that they expect to get if they commit a massacre. It is in the same spirit that I refuse to respond to the mass killer
Al Jazeera
Why has the Israeli army’s top lawyer resigned after leaking rape evidence?
Video of alleged rape of Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman went viral last year. Now the lawyer who leaked it has quit.
 Israeli prison guards were caught on video raping (and beating) a Palestinian prisoner. They were prosecuted but only for a lesser crime. The head army lawyer has resigned in protest.
the Guardian
Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says
Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions
 Journalists in Russia report that commanders are torturing or killing soldiers who refuse suicide missions. I would expect that the reason these commanders are not punished is that they are doing what Putin wants them to do.
the Guardian
The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health
The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural...
 The luxury effect in urban ecology: richer neighborhoods have more diversity of wildlife.
Glossary
The Intercept
Trump DOJ Charges House Candidate Kat Abughazaleh With Conspiracy for Protesting ICE
Abughazaleh is one of six activists facing federal conspiracy charges for actions like blocking an ICE agent’s car in Broadview, Illinois.
 Deportation thugs have charged protesters with "conspiracy" and "intimidation" for a nonviolent protest. One of them is a candidate for the House of Representatives.
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Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
 Beware fast food stores that pressure you to place your order through an app, rather than with a human sales clerk. In addition to snooping on you and gouging you with a personalized price, they may be tricking you into signing away your legal rights through the fine print. If you have adopted the practice of always paying cash, as I have, you're safe from this trick. I've urged my state assembly member to make it illegal to impose
Greg Palast
I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela
You must know three things about Venezuela to understand why Donald Trump has ordered a covert operation to overthrow their government.
Glossary
 Greg Palast writes of repeated US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela to steal its enormous oil reserves. He also compares Maduro, an election cheater like the corrupter, with Chavez, who win honestly.
The wrecker has ordered each state's National Guard to train 500 soldiers to become part of a "national, militarized police force". He might send it to majority-Democrat areas to disrupt elections.
[1/2] https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-data-shows-just-four-global-north-countries-responsible-for-derailing-oil-and-gas-phase-out-progress-since-paris-agreement New Data Shows Just Four Countries Responsible for Derailing Oil and Gas Phase-out Progress since Paris Agreement. They are the US, Canada, Australia and Norway. I omitted fro the title the misleading term "global north", which, like its antonym "global south", tries to squeeze this conflict into an conception of regional