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Former federal Judge Jeremy Fogel and the Trump admin's attacks on the rule of law A recording from Chris Geidner’s live video

“Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska” NYT: As a Justice Department lawsuit challenging the presence of two U.S. Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot plays out, Democrats have filed a lawsuit in Alaska accusing election officials of failing to properly operate at least… Continue reading The post “Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

'Machinery of death': Dock workers worldwide protest against arms shipments to Israel

This Week in Democracy – Week 93: Trump Targets El-Sayed, California Voters, and a Familiar Foe Ahead of Midterms Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.

[Video] Dr. Jill Stein is facing 18 months in prison by the US regime for protesting against genocide source

Massive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the Polls

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/54243760

For the past six months, President Trump and his allies have declined to rule out possible deployments to voting locations during the midterms, even though they would be illegal under federal law. When asked in May if he would deploy the National Guard or ICE during the midterms, Trump said: “I’d do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections. We have to have honest elections.”

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But for organizations on the ground interacting with voters in communities that have been targeted by ICE during Trump’s second term in office, the reality feels very different. Hundreds of different groups are part of the fight against possible ICE intimidation at the polls, and they are all working in coordination with each other.

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To combat this scenario, groups like 614 ICE Watch in Columbus are organizing patrols in neighborhoods near polling locations. “We send our folks in pairs or in groups. We never want to send anyone alone; we always want to have multiple people there so they can help take control of the situation,” Baiman says, adding that they have trained volunteers in a unique method of de-escalation: “If it starts to get very tense, we teach our folks to hum, to sing, to calm themselves down.”

The goal is not to interact with ICE agents but to document what they are doing so that events can be properly recorded and shared publicly. In January, just days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed in Minneapolis, more than 200,000 people logged into an “Eyes on Ice” Zoom training session, designed to teach people how to properly document ICE activities. Those skills are now being deployed during the midterm elections, Ezra Levin, cofounder of Indivisible, a group founded to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the US, tells WIRED.

On a much smaller scale, Living United for Change in Arizona has been training volunteers to become “constitutional defenders” in person, as the group prepares for next week’s vote. To track ICE activity, the group created a heat map that volunteers use to log and track ICE activity. The map is not available publicly, but WIRED was given access to the website and reviewed hundreds of recorded incidents of ICE activity in Maricopa and Pima counties.

Groups are also using social media to draw attention to what is happening. Last week in Sutter County, California, six ICE vehicles showed up in the parking lot of the Yuba City board of elections building, where a ballot drop box is located. Following a call from a local resident, NorCal Resist, a mutual aid organization, was able to send one of its trained volunteers and post an alert on Instagram.

“They don’t like the attention, [and] when there’s more community attention, they do often leave,” Giselle Garcia, programs director with NorCal Resist, tells WIRED.

Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

ICE Watch: America’s Mass Detention Nightmare Continues Ahead of Midterm Elections Fear of ICE agents at the polls has people on edge. The federal government says federal immigration agents will not be patrolling those locations but also has not ruled it out entirely, both in the Southland and beyond. The post ICE Watch: America’s Mass Detention Nightmare Continues Ahead of Midterm Elections appeared first on L.A. TACO.

Trump Officials Discussing Sanctions Relief for Russian Fund, Russia Acknowledges A Russian official said potential relief for a state investment fund was part of talks. Russia has sought to wring economic benefits from the negotiations on ending the war with Ukraine.

Just In: Judge Warns Trump DOJ to Stop Threatening Election Workers U.S. District Judge David O. Carter of Los Angeles just concluded a 3 1/2 hour hearing (minus recesses) in the…

Jeffrey Toobin Shreds New Comey Charges as a ‘Fiasco’ Fueled by Trump’s ‘Insane Vendetta’ Jeffrey Toobin shredded the DOJ’s latest criminal charges against James Comey as a “fiasco” and a “disgrace,” accusing Trump of waging an “insane vendetta." The post Jeffrey Toobin Shreds New Comey Charges as a ‘Fiasco’ Fueled by Trump’s ‘Insane Vendetta’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Real footage of Lula coming from behind in the race to beat Bolsonaro

Trump announces at a Georgia campaign rally that Audi will build a new auto factory in the state PERRY, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that Audi will build an automobile plant in Georgia as he tries to deliver on his promise to bolster American manufacturing in the final days before the midterm elections. Speaking at a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, where he sought to boost Republican candidates, Trump said Audi — the German luxury brand owned by Volkswagen — would commit $4.2 billion in nearby Macon to begin construction on a plant that will produce 200,000 cars a year. “Think of that. 200,000 cars a year. That’s incredible,” Trump said, crediting his aggressive and unpopular tariff policies for the company’s decision to build the plant. The announcement seemed timed to offer a last-minute boost to Republican candidates in the battleground state, including Rep. Mike Collins, who is trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Trump has spent October campaigning in reliably Republican states as the party tries to hold onto its majorities in the House and Senate. Trump won Georgia in 2024 after losing it in 2020.

Democratic candidate for the senate, Josh Turek, releases an anti-trans campaign ad referring to trans women as "males competing in females' sports." This got removed from politics because “Video links are not allowed” apparently? Pretty weird considering that most politicians say stuff on video nowadays and not really writing articles anymore since the invention of the radio pretty much lol. Hope it’s a better fit here, this is the kind of stuff people should be aware of. cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/73859928 cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/13118934 Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.

Trump Defends Tariffs at Rally as He Says Audi to Build US Plant President Donald Trump defended his decision to wield tariffs during a campaign rally in Georgia, saying they’ve made the US richer as he announced that Volkswagen AG agreed to build a new $4.2 billion Audi plant in the state.

Berlin’s Plan to Take Back Homes Will Cost Europe’s Biggest Landlord £7bn Europe’s largest residential landlord is set to lose €8.4bn (£7bn) as a result of plans by leftwing political party Die Linke to bring more than 140,000 Berlin flats into public ownership. The real estate company Vonovia, which owns roughly 130,000 apartments in the city and 528,000 across Europe, would be the most affected by the plans, with 120,000 of its apartments set to be put into public ownership. Die Linke, which won Berlin’s state elections in September, has agreed to talks with the city’s Greens and Social Democrats as part of plans to transfer ownership of flats from companies that own more than 10,000 apartments, with the legislation scheduled to be brought forward in 2028. Excuse me, but why do we allow companies to own flats at all? Let alone a staggering 10 000 of them? What a joke. Tbh I doubt this legislation will go through. These firms havevtoo much money to not squash it in some way. Still, it’s good they are trying.

This Week in Democracy – Week 92: Trump Asks Court to Block Election Result if Democratic Candidate Wins Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.

[Video] Democrats will have a symbolic break with Israeli by pledging to "end military aid". Then move that funding to support Israeli schools, hospitals etc, so Israel can buy the weapons themselves. source

Why we’re leaving El-Sayed’s spot on the ballot blank | Opinion [from democratic party members] This is what the democratic party members Lon Johnson, a former Michigan Democratic Party chair, and David Kramer, a longtime Democratic strategist who has previously helped elect Democrats to the Senate, say after their candidate lost. Both supported Rep. Haley Stevens (per eu.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…/92269640007/). These are the people that would rally “party unity” to ensure a republican defeat if their zionist candidate had won. Despicable.

Great sign from a Palestine demonstration