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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:truthout="http://www.truthout.org/"> <channel> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <atom:link href="https://truthout.org/articles/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <description>Fearless Independent Journalism</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:24:53 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3</generator> <image> <url>https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Truthout-T-logo-sq-1200x1200-e1521532408148-60x60.png</url> <title>Articles – Truthout</title> <link>https://truthout.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height></image> <item> <title>Mamdani Ignited NYC’s Political Imagination. Grassroots Work Can Make It Real.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/mamdani-ignited-nycs-political-imagination-grassroots-work-can-make-it-real/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Kang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[debt relief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Free child care and buses will take collective action to achieve -- and a grassroots movement is gaining momentum.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral victory on November 4 created a political earthquake both inside and outside New York City. With bold policies aimed at challenging the status quo in the U.S., a once obscure, long-shot democratic socialist candidate has become a celebrated new star of the Democratic Party — a party whose leaders continue to remain reluctant to endorse him. As the dust from…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/mamdani-ignited-nycs-political-imagination-grassroots-work-can-make-it-real/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Susan Kang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245176012-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='115435' /> </item> <item> <title>With Big Tech Talking Government Backing, Has OpenAI Become “Too Big to Fail”?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/with-big-tech-talking-government-backing-has-openai-become-too-big-to-fail/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:07:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[OpenAI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333139</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hype around artificial intelligence, or AI, could be about to collide with reality. Watchdogs are blasting the sense of “corporate entitlement” displayed by the OpenAI leaders as they make public gaffes and investors grow increasingly wary that the AI bubble propping up the economy could burst. In a social media post on November 6, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar appeared to walk…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/with-big-tech-talking-government-backing-has-openai-become-too-big-to-fail/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2194584986-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='71774' /> </item> <item> <title>As SNAP Crisis Continues, Trump Whines About Americans’ “Affordability” Concerns</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/as-snap-crisis-continues-trump-whines-about-americans-affordability-concerns/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[affordability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump economy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333142</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump denied that voters’ concerns about the economy played a role in the GOP’s losses in this week’s elections.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, President Donald Trump rejected the premise that voter concerns about “affordability” and his administration’s failure to address rising consumer costs played a role in the Republican Party’s election losses earlier this week. Exit polling data indicates that Americans are indeed upset about the state of the economy. In two gubernatorial races that were won by Democrats this week…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-snap-crisis-continues-trump-whines-about-americans-affordability-concerns/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1107-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='149032' /> </item> <item> <title>SCOTUS Is Behaving Like “Arm of the MAGA Trump Presidency,” Says Legal Expert</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/scotus-is-behaving-like-arm-of-the-maga-trump-presidency-says-legal-expert/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:52:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Emergency Powers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Roberts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=333138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with plaintiffs arguing that his unilateral levies on imported goods violate the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to impose taxes and regulate foreign commerce. The Trump administration has justified his unprecedented use of tariffs under a 1977 law known as the International…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/scotus-is-behaving-like-arm-of-the-maga-trump-presidency-says-legal-expert/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG2_Tariffs3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='102880' /> </item> <item> <title>SCOTUS Sides With Trump on Gender Marker Passport Restrictions for Trans People</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-sides-with-trump-on-gender-marker-passport-restrictions-for-trans-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:05:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nonbinary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[passports]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333133</guid> <description><![CDATA[Legal experts warn this ruling could open the door to a broader assault on trans identification policies nationwide.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a ruling issued from the shadow docket, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with the Trump administration on an emergency request on transgender passport restrictions — a process historically reserved for true national crises but increasingly deployed to fast-track administration policies. In the unsigned decision, the majority asserted that banning transgender people’s correct…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-sides-with-trump-on-gender-marker-passport-restrictions-for-trans-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Erin Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin In The Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245398144-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='46265' /> </item> <item> <title>Caribbean Leaders Call for Unified Latin American Resistance to US Attacks</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/caribbean-leaders-call-for-unified-latin-american-resistance-to-us-attacks/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Fox]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:35:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barbados]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boat Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333129</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US has now struck 18 vessels and killed 70 people in its ongoing onslaught in the Caribbean and Pacific.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tiny Caribbean island nation of Barbados — with a population roughly the size of Anchorage, Alaska, or Lincoln, Nebraska — might not be the country one would first imagine taking the lead to stand up to U.S. military actions and ambitions in the region. But as the Trump administration continues to attack boats, first in the Caribbean Sea and now in the Pacific, leaders in Barbados have been…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/caribbean-leaders-call-for-unified-latin-american-resistance-to-us-attacks/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Michael Fox]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243612875-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='79355' /> </item> <item> <title>Gaza Group Asks for Help Recovering Over 10,000 Palestinians Buried Under Rubble</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-group-asks-for-help-recovering-over-10000-palestinians-buried-under-rubble/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass grave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mass graves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333122</guid> <description><![CDATA[UN experts estimate it will take seven years for 100 trucks to remove all debris across Gaza.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A civil society group in Gaza on Thursday appealed for international assistance to help recover the bodies of more than 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces who remain buried beneath the rubble of the flattened strip. Referring to Gaza as “the world’s largest mass grave,” Aladdin Al-Aklouk, a spokesperson for the National Committee for Missing Persons in the Genocide Against Gaza…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-group-asks-for-help-recovering-over-10000-palestinians-buried-under-rubble/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2240199233-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='150330' /> </item> <item> <title>DC “Sandwich Guy” Who Threw Sub at CBP Agent Acquitted on Fed Assault Charges</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dc-sandwich-guy-who-threw-sub-at-cbp-agent-acquitted-on-fed-assault-charges/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeanine Pirro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sandwich Guy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sean Dunn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Washington D.C.]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333125</guid> <description><![CDATA[The immigration agent claimed that the harmless sub had “exploded” on his bulletproof vest.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted Sean Dunn, the man who was accused of assaulting a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officer by throwing a “sub-style sandwich” at him. The case was handled by the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host and staunch ally of President Donald Trump. Her office had originally sought to have Dunn charged with felony assault…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dc-sandwich-guy-who-threw-sub-at-cbp-agent-acquitted-on-fed-assault-charges/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1107-sandwich-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='89210' /> </item> <item> <title>US Citizenship and Immigration Services Is Hiring “Homeland Defenders”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-is-hiring-homeland-defenders/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CBP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Citizenship and Immigration Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USCIS]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333117</guid> <description><![CDATA[Applicants are asked: “How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it’s received more than 35,000 applications for the position of “Homeland Defender” since it began its hiring campaign in September. “USCIS is cutting bureaucratic red tape to hire fiercely dedicated, America-first patriots to serve on the front lines and hold the line against terrorists, criminal aliens, and bad actors intent on…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-is-hiring-homeland-defenders/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Carceral Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2200143361-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='124752' /> </item> <item> <title>Layoffs in 2025 Second-Highest Since 2009 in Potential Sign of Looming Recession</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/layoffs-in-2025-second-highest-since-2009-in-potential-sign-of-looming-recession/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:38:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Layoffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mass Layoffs]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333115</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report's authors said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new report examining worker layoffs in the United States this year finds that the numbers through October closely resemble those seen during recessions in the past. The report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a private firm that tracks workplace hirings and firings across the country, found that there were 153,074 layoffs reported last month alone, a 183 percent increase from September.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/layoffs-in-2025-second-highest-since-2009-in-potential-sign-of-looming-recession/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1106-layoffs-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='99547' /> </item> <item> <title>FIFA Announces New “Peace Prize,” Weeks After Trump Fails to Win Nobel Award</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fifa-announces-new-peace-prize-weeks-after-trump-fails-to-win-nobel-award/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FIFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gianni Infantino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soccer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333107</guid> <description><![CDATA[The award comes as FIFA is under fire for refusing to sanction Israel and Saudi Arabia for their human rights abuses.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The International Federation of Association Football, commonly known as FIFA, announced this week that it is creating its very own “peace prize” and will declare its first recipient next month in Washington, D.C. Given that FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, is a close ally and friend to President Donald Trump, it’s likely that Trump will be the winner of the inaugural prize…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fifa-announces-new-peace-prize-weeks-after-trump-fails-to-win-nobel-award/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1106-trump-infantino-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='95537' /> </item> <item> <title>Illinois Mayor Launches Investigations of Federal Agents Amid Violent Raids</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/illinois-mayor-launches-investigations-of-federal-agents-amid-violent-raids/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:42:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CBP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=333106</guid> <description><![CDATA[“My community is under invasion from our own federal government. It has got to stop,” says Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/illinois-mayor-launches-investigations-of-federal-agents-amid-violent-raids/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG1_Chicago3-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='112537' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump SNAP Plan Will Cut 61 Percent of Aid for Many, Others Will Lose All Aid</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-snap-plan-will-cut-61-percent-of-aid-for-many-others-will-lose-all-aid/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:41:32 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333104</guid> <description><![CDATA[Around 5 million people will receive nothing this month because the cut is larger than their typical monthly benefit.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The average recipient of federal food aid will see a massive 61% benefit cut this month — and millions will lose November benefits entirely — under the Trump administration’s plan to only partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as the government remains shut down. That’s according to an analysis published Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-snap-plan-will-cut-61-percent-of-aid-for-many-others-will-lose-all-aid/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244793726-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='104553' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-white-house-ballroom-is-being-bankrolled-by-genocide-and-ice-profiteers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:41:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BlackRock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cryptocurrency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palantir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333102</guid> <description><![CDATA[The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Money has always distorted U.S. politics, but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers while enriching him and his family. Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations to shower his administration with donations to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-white-house-ballroom-is-being-bankrolled-by-genocide-and-ice-profiteers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2242668198-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='136298' /> </item> <item> <title>DHS Falsely Labels Journalist a “Terrorist Sympathizer” After Wife’s Op-Ed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-falsely-labels-journalist-a-terrorist-sympathizer-after-wifes-op-ed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:35:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristi Noem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sami Hamdi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soumaya Hamdi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333100</guid> <description><![CDATA[The detention of Sami Hamdi “is about silencing political dissent to create a chilling effect,” his wife wrote.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) taunted the wife of a British journalist who is being detained by immigration agents on social media on Wednesday, after she publicly urged her husband’s release and warned that he was suffering a health emergency in custody. U.K. journalist Sami Hamdi, a 35-year-old father of three and outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-falsely-labels-journalist-a-terrorist-sympathizer-after-wifes-op-ed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1106-noem-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='74204' /> </item> <item> <title>What Does It Feel Like to Be Older and Hungry? Trump Doesn’t Care.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-older-and-hungry-trump-doesnt-care/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Beverly Gologorsky]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elderly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[elders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333098</guid> <description><![CDATA[Living on a fixed income is hard enough without having to worry about what Trump and his cronies plan to take away next.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aging in a Trumpian world brings fear and destruction as strand by strand of the safety net is plucked away until it’s shredded. And Donald Trump doesn’t care. Seniors make up an ever larger American demographic that’s being made ever more unsafe in the richest country in the world. Social Security, healthcare, even access to food, not to speak of general well-being are all under threat.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-older-and-hungry-trump-doesnt-care/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Beverly Gologorsky]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[TomDispatch]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1396753284-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94709' /> </item> <item> <title>When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/when-everything-is-criminalized-we-must-unlearn-the-language-of-innocence/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brit “Red” Schulte]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:31:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Excerpt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Criminalization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fascism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex Work]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333089</guid> <description><![CDATA[No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I ’ve been an organizer for half of my life now. What a strange thing to write. I’ve been involved with struggles to abolish the death penalty, worked to kick racists and war criminals off campuses, to fund and expand abortion access, to form unions and strike committees; I’ve slept on concrete during youth rebellions, navigated supporting criminalized survivors of gender based violence…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/when-everything-is-criminalized-we-must-unlearn-the-language-of-innocence/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brit “Red” Schulte]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[AK Press]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243832491-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='245705' /> </item> <item> <title>New DHS Proposal Expands Biometric Surveillance Program to Include DNA Sex Test</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-dhs-proposal-expands-biometric-surveillance-program-to-include-dna-sex-test/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[S. Baum]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:18:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trans Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333091</guid> <description><![CDATA[Experts and civil rights advocates are denouncing Trump’s biometric power grab.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric surveillance program — which also includes retinal scans, voice capture, and more. In addition to the obvious human rights violations posed by the changes — which, among other things…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-dhs-proposal-expands-biometric-surveillance-program-to-include-dna-sex-test/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[S. Baum]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Erin in the Morning]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243643678-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='161743' /> </item> <item> <title>California Republicans Sue to Overturn Voter-Backed Prop 50 Redistricting Vote</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/california-republicans-sue-to-overturn-voter-backed-prop-50-redistricting-vote/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2026 midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333086</guid> <description><![CDATA[Proposition 50 received support from 63.8 percent of California voters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>California Republicans are suing state officials in hopes of invalidating a ballot initiative that passed on Tuesday, which is aimed at combating the effects of a nationwide Republican gerrymandering scheme. The initiative, known as Proposition 50, seeks to temporarily suspend California’s independent redistricting commission in order to craft maps that would likely give Democrats an…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/california-republicans-sue-to-overturn-voter-backed-prop-50-redistricting-vote/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1105-prop50-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='117562' /> </item> <item> <title>Frey Wins Third Term as Minneapolis Mayor Against Democratic Socialist Fateh</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/frey-wins-third-term-as-minneapolis-mayor-against-democratic-socialist-fateh/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:17:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacob Frey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Omar Fateh]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333082</guid> <description><![CDATA[City election officials declared incumbent Jacob Frey the winner after tabulating second- and subsequent-choice votes.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey fended off a challenge from democratic socialist Omar Fateh to secure a third term by winning enough support in the second round of the city’s ranked-choice voting system. City election officials declared Frey, a Democrat, the winner Wednesday morning after tabulating second- and subsequent-choice votes. Frey won 42% of first-choice votes, followed by Fateh with…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/frey-wins-third-term-as-minneapolis-mayor-against-democratic-socialist-fateh/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244567366-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='64021' /> </item> <item> <title>Lawsuit Charges That CA Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/lawsuit-charges-that-ca-law-illegally-muzzles-students-and-teachers-on-palestine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AB 715]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden National Strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[due process]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333078</guid> <description><![CDATA[The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715, which amends the California Education Code to police what teachers can teach and what…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lawsuit-charges-that-ca-law-illegally-muzzles-students-and-teachers-on-palestine/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/8.19.25_AB-715-Rally-1200x900.webp' type='image/webp' length='1791076' /> </item> <item> <title>What Can Mamdani Do to Combat Trump’s Threats of a National Guard Deployment?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/what-can-mamdani-do-to-combat-trumps-threats-of-a-national-guard-deployment/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabelle Taft]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:29:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333079</guid> <description><![CDATA[The mayor-elect could bolster efforts at both the state level and the grassroots level to stymie federal incursions.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If President Donald Trump makes good on his threats, Zohran Mamdani may become the first New York City mayor forced to navigate an uninvited federal deployment of the National Guard. Last month, Trump insinuated that he’d send troops to “clean up” the country’s biggest city if Mamdani won the election, as he did decisively Tuesday night. Trump administration officials have also threatened to ramp…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/what-can-mamdani-do-to-combat-trumps-threats-of-a-national-guard-deployment/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Isabelle Taft]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[New York Focus]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2228950390-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='78521' /> </item> <item> <title>Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/colorado-passes-measures-to-feed-all-public-school-kids-by-taxing-the-wealthy/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:59:03 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2025 elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballot Initiatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[school lunch programs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[School meals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333076</guid> <description><![CDATA[Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools. Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually. The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/colorado-passes-measures-to-feed-all-public-school-kids-by-taxing-the-wealthy/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1105-lunches-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='88498' /> </item> <item> <title>In Voter Rebuke to Trump, Democrats Win Races Across the US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/in-voter-rebuke-to-trump-democrats-win-races-across-the-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:48:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mississippi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Omar Fateh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=333072</guid> <description><![CDATA[Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts, gives an overview of Tuesday’s elections.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We get an overview of how Democrats won big across the United States in Tuesday’s elections, with Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts. Democratic Congressmember Mikie Sherrill won New Jersey’s governor’s race, and Abigail Spanberger flipped Virginia’s governorship. In California, voters approved a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/in-voter-rebuke-to-trump-democrats-win-races-across-the-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/seg-Daniel-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='96311' /> </item> <item> <title>Government Shutdown Is Straining Many Tribes’ Already Thin Reserve Funds</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/government-shutdown-is-straining-many-tribes-already-thin-reserve-funds/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amelia Schafer]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:29:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Insecurity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indigenous Rights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333070</guid> <description><![CDATA[Along with SNAP, federal funding for the Low Income Heating Assistance Program has also taken a hit.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2025 government shutdown has reached a new record, and tribal leaders are beginning to run out of patience and funds, with many dipping into their own already strained reserve funding with no promise it’ll be reimbursed. The 35-day shutdown has violated countless trust and treaty agreements between the United States and tribal nations. With a reduction of monthly Supplemental Nutrition…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/government-shutdown-is-straining-many-tribes-already-thin-reserve-funds/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amelia Schafer]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ICT]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1361778515-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='64193' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin Signals It May Not Pay Furloughed Workers After Shutdown Ends</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furloughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:35:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[furloughed workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Employee Fair Treatment Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shutdown]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333068</guid> <description><![CDATA[A 2019 statute signed into law by Trump himself requires furloughed workers to be compensated when shutdowns end.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new message to federal workers sent from several government agencies suggests that the Trump administration may not give back pay to furloughed workers once the shutdown ends, violating a statute that President Donald Trump himself signed into law six years ago. The message doesn’t explicitly state that furloughed employees — those who have been told to stop working during the federal…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furloughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1105-workers-furlough-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='158678' /> </item> <item> <title>Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-taxes-will-barely-slow-inequality-so-why-do-the-super-rich-resist-them/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:43:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wealth Tax]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333063</guid> <description><![CDATA[A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory for the working class in the financial capital of the world is a reflection of the growing appeal of bold platforms that attack extreme inequality and oligarchy and move toward a more equitable and just society. Inequality, to be sure, is one of the biggest social problems facing many countries across the globe. The gap between haves and have-nots has grown to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-taxes-will-barely-slow-inequality-so-why-do-the-super-rich-resist-them/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[C.J. Polychroniou]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1231526147-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='173942' /> </item> <item> <title>“I Think That Protest Is a Healthy Part of Any Democracy,” Says Mamdani</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/i-think-that-protest-is-a-healthy-part-of-any-democracy-says-mamdani/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Honan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:04:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NYPD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rikers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333062</guid> <description><![CDATA[The mayor-elect discusses the New York City Housing Authority, a possible Department of Community Safety, and more.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The night before Election Day, Zohran Mamdani — who was elected New York City’s 111th mayor on Tuesday — hopped on the W train from 34th Street-Herald Square to Queens for an event with canvassers at Dutch Kills Playground. We took the ride with him, and this is what we saw: Some gasped when they saw who it was, with one man grabbing a selfie on the platform with the then-candidate before the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/i-think-that-protest-is-a-healthy-part-of-any-democracy-says-mamdani/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Katie Honan]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[THE CITY]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245082681-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='69234' /> </item> <item> <title>Zohran Mamdani Wins Decisive Victory in NYC, Triumphing Over Billionaire Onslaught</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdani-wins-decisive-victory-in-nyc-triumphing-over-billionaire-onslaught/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:50:16 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Islamophobia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333053</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mamdani's win is a historic victory for the left over a powerful, moneyed coalition of forces that aimed to defeat him.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him. The race was called by the Associated Press just 34 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday night, with Mamdani nine points ahead of the next runner up…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdani-wins-decisive-victory-in-nyc-triumphing-over-billionaire-onslaught/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_11-04-zohran-mamdani-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='77228' /> </item> <item> <title>Top DOJ Lawyer Claims Trump Doesn’t Need Congressional Approval for Boat Strikes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/top-doj-lawyer-claims-trump-doesnt-need-congressional-approval-for-boat-strikes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boat Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333043</guid> <description><![CDATA[A DOJ lawyer told Congress that the strikes — which Trump says are in “self-defense” — don’t put troops in harm’s way.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Trump administration blows past a key congressional deadline, a top lawyer in the Department of Justice has claimed that the executive branch does not need the approval of Congress to continue conducting boat strikes in and around the Caribbean — an assertion outside experts say is patently false. Last week, Office of Legal Counsel T. Elliot Gaiser told a small group of members of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/top-doj-lawyer-claims-trump-doesnt-need-congressional-approval-for-boat-strikes/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_11-4-trump-air-force-one-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='35484' /> </item> <item> <title>DOT Secretary Duffy Threatens to Close Airspace Amid Ongoing Shutdown Standoff</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dot-secretary-duffy-threatens-to-close-airspace-amid-ongoing-shutdown-standoff/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[air traffic controllers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Transportation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sean Duffy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333049</guid> <description><![CDATA[“You may see us close certain parts of the airspace” if the shutdown continues into next week, Duffy warned.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Tuesday, Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to close airspace across portions of the United States unless Democrats agreed to end the standoff over the government shutdown. “If you bring us to a week from today, Democrats, you will see mass chaos, you will see mass flight delays,” Duffy warned. “You’ll see mass cancellations, and you may see us close…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dot-secretary-duffy-threatens-to-close-airspace-amid-ongoing-shutdown-standoff/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1104-duffy-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='44321' /> </item> <item> <title>From the Coasts to Rust Belt, Progressive Candidates Take On Dem Establishment</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/from-the-coasts-to-rust-belt-progressive-candidates-take-on-dem-establishment/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:38:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacob Frey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Omar Fateh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333048</guid> <description><![CDATA[“What is being pushed by the corporate wing of the party is increasingly unattractive to voters,” said an organizer.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With President Donald Trump threatening to flood their communities with federal troops and immigration police, and the Democratic Party struggling in the national polls, voters in major U.S. cities head to the polls today to choose between establishment Democrats and progressives focused on affordability and upending the status quo. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/from-the-coasts-to-rust-belt-progressive-candidates-take-on-dem-establishment/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244963243-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='151303' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Demands Filibuster’s End, Claiming It Will Help GOP Win Midterms</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-demands-filibusters-end-claiming-it-will-help-gop-win-midterms/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:35:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2026 midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Filibuster]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333044</guid> <description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated that GOP leadership doesn’t have the votes needed to abolish the rule.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the second time in less than a week, President Donald Trump has demanded that Senate Republicans end the filibuster, suggesting that doing so would help the GOP in the midterm races next year. The filibuster is a Senate rule that allows lawmakers of the minority party to block legislation from passing. Cloture on a filibuster occurs when it obtains 60 votes — meaning that nearly every…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-demands-filibusters-end-claiming-it-will-help-gop-win-midterms/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1104-trump-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='55739' /> </item> <item> <title>War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/war-criminal-dick-cheney-dead-at-84-with-blood-of-millions-on-his-hands/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:34:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War On Terror]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333029</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former vice president and defense secretary Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. Cheney’s family said he died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday, November 3. He passed in peace, surrounded by his family, who lauded him as a “good man” and a “noble giant.” In reality, Cheney’s legacy will far outlive him as the man…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/war-criminal-dick-cheney-dead-at-84-with-blood-of-millions-on-his-hands/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_11-4-dick-cheney-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='29440' /> </item> <item> <title>New Report Warns Fossil Fuel Expansion Is Accelerating Far Beyond Global Limits</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-warns-fossil-fuel-expansion-is-accelerating-far-beyond-global-limits/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:17 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COP30]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fracking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LNG]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oil and Gas Drilling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Petrobras]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333041</guid> <description><![CDATA[As global leaders prepare to convene in Brazil for COP30, experts say the industry is “racing toward climate breakdown."]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fossil fuel industry is “racing toward climate breakdown with its foot on the accelerator,” said one official at the German environmental rights group Urgewald on Tuesday as the group released its Global Oil and Gas Exit List. The report shows that as world leaders prepare to meet in Brazil for the annual United Nations climate summit, any discussion they have there regarding a green…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-warns-fossil-fuel-expansion-is-accelerating-far-beyond-global-limits/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2179786486-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='199974' /> </item> <item> <title>How Biden’s Justice Department Failed to Investigate Trump’s First Term Crimes</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/how-bidens-justice-department-failed-to-investigate-trumps-first-term-crimes/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Justice (DOJ)]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[election interference]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electoral fraud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[January 6]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Merrick Garland]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=333037</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two journalists trace how excess caution led the DOJ to refuse to prosecute Trump allies' 2020 election interference.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis on the day they publish their new book, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department, which looks at how the DOJ during the Biden administration was overly cautious in pursuing cases against Trump and his allies over 2020 election interference, the January 6 riot and more.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/how-bidens-justice-department-failed-to-investigate-trumps-first-term-crimes/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG3_Injustice-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='94972' /> </item> <item> <title>New Prison Mail Policies Threaten Newsletters by and for Incarcerated People</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/new-prison-mail-policies-threaten-newsletters-by-and-for-incarcerated-people/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamanika Ferguson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:48:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Bans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333031</guid> <description><![CDATA[States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On September 3, Illinois prison officials moved — by emergency rule — to replace most physical mail with scanned copies, though a key legislative panel has already pushed back. At the same time, New York is installing mail scanners in prisons, raising alarms about privacy and attorney-client privilege. Texas has already shifted to “digital mail,” where letters are scanned and delivered on tablets…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/new-prison-mail-policies-threaten-newsletters-by-and-for-incarcerated-people/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Tamanika Ferguson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1983629696-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='85991' /> </item> <item> <title>After Decades of Resistance, a West Bank Village Faces Israeli Demolition Orders</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/after-decades-of-resistance-a-west-bank-village-faces-israeli-demolition-orders/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassidy Klein]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:43:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Displacement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Home demolitions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[masafer yatta]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Bank]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333030</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Palestinian community of Umm al-Khair has called for international support in their struggle to stay on their land.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the hills of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, a small Bedouin community in the village of Umm al-Khair has fought for decades to remain on their land, a rocky landscape dotted with olive trees, where they farm and raise livestock. As a community with a steadfast commitment to nonviolent struggle, they document and fight back against increasing settler violence and land annexation for…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/after-decades-of-resistance-a-west-bank-village-faces-israeli-demolition-orders/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Cassidy Klein & Ashley Ver Beek]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Waging Nonviolence]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244446563-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='151623' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Appears Ready to Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Funds Until Dems Budge</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-fund-only-half-of-snap-benefits-leaving-millions-short-on-food/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:46:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food costs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Stamps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333025</guid> <description><![CDATA[“There is no excuse that justifies” not utilizing “every resource available” to fund SNAP, one critic said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will provide only half of the usual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in November after money for the program officially ran out on Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown. More than 42 million Americans, amounting to around 1 in 8 families overall, depend on the program, sometimes known as food stamps…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-fund-only-half-of-snap-benefits-leaving-millions-short-on-food/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1104-snap-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='141083' /> </item> <item> <title>Judge Pauses Annual Fees Imposed on Asylum Seekers by “One Big Beautiful Bill”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/judge-pauses-annual-fees-imposed-on-asylum-seekers-by-one-big-beautiful-bill/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[One Big Beautiful Bill Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333022</guid> <description><![CDATA[Under Trump's budget, the US became one among very few countries that impose fees on asylum seekers.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A judge has ruled that, for now, asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP). The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025, instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system, including asylum seekers.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/judge-pauses-annual-fees-imposed-on-asylum-seekers-by-one-big-beautiful-bill/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Carceral Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2226092106-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='138021' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Says ICE Hasn’t “Gone Far Enough” in Its Violent Enforcement Methods</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-ice-hasnt-gone-far-enough-in-its-violent-enforcement-methods/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE agents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333018</guid> <description><![CDATA[A majority of Americans in a new poll think ICE has been “too tough” in trying to enforce Trump's immigration policies.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an interview on Sunday, President Donald Trump said he fully supports his administration’s violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids of immigrant communities across the U.S., adding that he believes ICE agents “haven’t gone far enough.” During an interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” program on Sunday evening, correspondent Norah O’Donnell asked Trump to respond to criticisms…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-says-ice-hasnt-gone-far-enough-in-its-violent-enforcement-methods/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1103-tear-gas-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='78452' /> </item> <item> <title>Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign Mobilizes New York City’s South Asian Working Class</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/mamdanis-mayoral-campaign-mobilizes-new-york-citys-south-asian-working-class/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:13:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=333013</guid> <description><![CDATA[If Mamdani wins, progressive groups could find themselves collaborating with the administration to govern the city. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat reports on working-class South Asian support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. South Asian voter turnout increased by 40% during the Democratic primary, contributing to Mamdani’s upset victory against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now running as an independent candidate. “We’ve had several South Asian or Indo-Caribbean candidates…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/mamdanis-mayoral-campaign-mobilizes-new-york-citys-south-asian-working-class/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG3_Mamdani-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='97720' /> </item> <item> <title>Amid Government Shutdown, Republicans Are Showing Us What Autocracy Looks Like</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/amid-government-shutdown-republicans-are-showing-us-what-autocracy-looks-like/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Taya Graham]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:12:57 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autocracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[federal workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mike Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333016</guid> <description><![CDATA[They are anticipating that vast structural changes will ultimately keep them in power, regardless of how they legislate.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There’s a popular and recurring chant that echoed throughout the recent No Kings protests several weeks ago: “This is what democracy looks like.” But on Capitol Hill over the past four weeks, during a protracted government shutdown, Republicans have been displaying the opposite. The quiet, moribund center of American government looks anything but like a democracy.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/amid-government-shutdown-republicans-are-showing-us-what-autocracy-looks-like/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Taya Graham & Stephen Janis]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Real News Network]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2239340095-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='53690' /> </item> <item> <title>Russia’s Invasion Has Hollowed Out Higher Education in Ukraine</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/russias-invasion-has-hollowed-out-higher-education-in-ukraine/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sonya Mukhina]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ukraine War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333009</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ukrainian students and faculty have spent years contending with air raids, financial strain, and martial law.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Yulia Berg was in her second year at Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University in Odesa, a strategic port city in Ukraine, her university life, once defined by lectures, was suddenly rewritten by war. “Everyone experienced the beginning of the war in their own way, but for me, it meant missing out on student life,” Berg told Truthout. Berg graduated in May 2025 with a degree in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/russias-invasion-has-hollowed-out-higher-education-in-ukraine/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sonya Mukhina]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1244033468-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='87167' /> </item> <item> <title>CBS News Guts Climate Team as New Conservative Management Takes Charge</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/cbs-news-guts-climate-team-as-new-conservative-management-takes-charge/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:51:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bari Weiss]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CBS News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricane Melissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paramount Skydance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333010</guid> <description><![CDATA[The staff cuts came following a push by the climate team's lead producer to accurately report on Hurricane Melissa.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CBS News has fired most of its climate crisis production staff as part of the company’s dozens of news staff layoffs last week. The decision to lay off the climate desk comes after Paramount, parent company for CBS News, merged with Skydance. Following the merger, David Ellison, a pro-Trump billionaire, became chief executive of the new Paramount Skydance company…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/cbs-news-guts-climate-team-as-new-conservative-management-takes-charge/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1103-cbs-climate-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='126809' /> </item> <item> <title>Supreme Court Tariffs Case Will Test Limits of Presidential Emergency Powers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-tariffs-case-will-test-limits-of-presidential-emergency-powers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Goitein]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:37:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Emergency Powers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Emergencies Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Separation of Powers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariffs]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333007</guid> <description><![CDATA[The decision could shape whether the use of emergency powers to bypass Congress becomes a tool of routine governance.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On November 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case testing the limits of presidential emergency powers. At issue is whether a president may use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from countries around the world. The stakes of this case reach far beyond trade policy. The Court’s decision could shape whether the use of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-tariffs-case-will-test-limits-of-presidential-emergency-powers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Goitein]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Brennan Center for Justice]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2236095384-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='92974' /> </item> <item> <title>10 Richest People in the US Gained Nearly $700B in Wealth Since Trump Reelection</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/uss-10-richest-people-have-gained-nearly-700b-in-wealth-since-trump-reelection/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:29:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tax Cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333005</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 2025, the share of total US assets owned by the wealthiest 0.1 percent reached its highest level on record.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New research published Monday shows that the 10 richest people in the United States have seen their collective fortune grow by nearly $700 billion since President Donald Trump secured a second term in the White House and rushed to deliver more wealth to the top in the form of tax cuts. The billionaire wealth surge that has accompanied Trump’s return to power is part of a decades-long…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/uss-10-richest-people-have-gained-nearly-700b-in-wealth-since-trump-reelection/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2217853041-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='164095' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Push to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing Rests on Falsehoods</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-push-to-resume-nuclear-weapons-testing-rests-on-falsehoods/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:21:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333002</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump has baselessly asserted that other countries are testing weapons — a claim contradicted by monitoring groups.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past week, President Donald Trump called on the Department of Defense (DOD) to restart nuclear weapons testing “immediately,” citing false claims about other countries’ nuclear arsenals and testing. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday and an interview that aired on Sunday, Trump was vague regarding the extent of the future nuclear weapons testing, including whether he would push for…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-push-to-resume-nuclear-weapons-testing-rests-on-falsehoods/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1103-trump-nuclear-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='83148' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Still Controls Over Half of Gaza — Including the Rubble of My Home</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-still-controls-over-half-of-gaza-including-the-rubble-of-my-home/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahad Ali]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:10:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333000</guid> <description><![CDATA[For thousands of Palestinians, the war hasn’t ended; it will only truly end when we can return to our lands.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first phase of the ceasefire agreement, signed by Hamas and Israel in early October after weeks of intense negotiations mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States in Sharm El-Sheikh, resulted in the withdrawal of Israeli forces to what officials referred to as the “Yellow Line.” This initial pullback included areas of Gaza City that the Israeli army had occupied during its military…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-still-controls-over-half-of-gaza-including-the-rubble-of-my-home/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shahad Ali]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2239965595-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='157861' /> </item> <item> <title>USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can’t Give Discounts to SNAP Recipients</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/usda-tells-grocery-stores-they-cant-give-discounts-to-snap-recipients/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Insecurity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Stamps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hunger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332999</guid> <description><![CDATA[The move is a “perverted interpretation of a rule that stops grocers from price gouging SNAP recipients,” said a critic.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Trump administration continued its illegal freeze on food assistance, the US Department of Agriculture sent a warning to grocery stores not to provide discounts to the more than 42 million Americans affected. Several grocery chains and food delivery apps have announced in recent days that they would provide substantial discounts to those whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/usda-tells-grocery-stores-they-cant-give-discounts-to-snap-recipients/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243684078-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Lawmakers Warn Trump Lacks Authority for Military Strikes Inside Venezuela</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/lawmakers-warn-trump-lacks-authority-for-military-strikes-inside-venezuela/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:26:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ro Khanna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332996</guid> <description><![CDATA[Reports say Trump identified airstrike targets in Venezuela despite no congressional authorization.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US Rep. Ro Khanna on Friday demanded urgent congressional action to avert “another endless, regime-change war” amid reports that President Donald Trump is weighing military strikes inside Venezuela. Such strikes, warned Khanna (D-Calif.), would be “blatantly unconstitutional.” “The United States Congress must speak up and stop this,” Khanna said in a video posted to social media.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/lawmakers-warn-trump-lacks-authority-for-military-strikes-inside-venezuela/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Black Communities Across the US Refuse to Be Sacrifice Zones for Data Centers</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/black-communities-across-the-us-refuse-to-be-sacrifice-zones-for-data-centers/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Mahoney]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:50:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big tech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[data centers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racial Justice]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332924</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Texas to Virginia and everywhere in between, Black residents are confronting these projects in different ways.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When word spread through Bessemer, Alabama, earlier this year that a tech giant was eyeing hundreds of pine-covered acres at the city’s edge, Benard Simelton’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The longtime NAACP leader had fielded calls about toxic air and shuttered steel mills before, but this, he said, was new to him. At first, the renderings looked like progress for the majority-Black town…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/black-communities-across-the-us-refuse-to-be-sacrifice-zones-for-data-centers/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Adam Mahoney]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital B]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>This $470 Million Surveillance Program Is Watching Immigrants Across the US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/this-470-million-surveillance-program-is-watching-immigrants-across-the-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Thomassaint Joseph]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ankle Monitors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electronic surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GEO Group]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Migrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332900</guid> <description><![CDATA[There are no established standards for how long immigrants can be monitored or what data ICE can collect or share.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diallo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization in December 2023, with hopes of escaping the violence and injustice he experienced back home in Guinea, Conakry. He traveled from Guinea through Turkey, then through South America and Central America, and finally to the United States. After arriving in New York, he filed for asylum within the required one-year deadline.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/this-470-million-surveillance-program-is-watching-immigrants-across-the-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ralph Thomassaint Joseph & Paz Radovic]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Documented]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1076270390-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Months After LA Wildfires, Disabled Residents Still Struggle to Find Safe Housing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/months-after-la-wildfires-disabled-residents-still-struggle-to-find-safe-housing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniella Lake]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:19:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disabilities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LA fires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332992</guid> <description><![CDATA[Advocates say California’s disaster response has failed to protect people with disabilities.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When wildfire tore through Los Angeles County’s Altadena community in January, Retha De Johnette never expected the disabled residents of the assisted-living facility she runs to remain displaced across the Southland nearly a year later. “They’re spread out all over, in all kinds of random places right now, and it’s pretty devastating,” she said. After disasters — natural or otherwise…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/months-after-la-wildfires-disabled-residents-still-struggle-to-find-safe-housing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Daniella Lake]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital & Main]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>In Prison My Diagnosis Gave Me Access to Meds — Others Were Denied Care Entirely</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/in-prison-my-diagnosis-gave-me-access-to-meds-others-were-denied-care-entirely/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Devin A. Giordano]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Incarceration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solitary Confinement]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332921</guid> <description><![CDATA[Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“There’s nothing wrong with him. If there were, it would say so in his file.” I heard a licensed mental health counselor say those words to a correctional officer as they stood side by side, watching a man through a large plexiglass window that took up most of the wall of an observation cell, a cell used for people deemed a threat to themselves or others. Inside, the man was visibly…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/in-prison-my-diagnosis-gave-me-access-to-meds-others-were-denied-care-entirely/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Devin A. Giordano]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[In Prison My Mental Health Diagnosis Gave Me Access to Meds — Others Were Denied Care Entirely]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1092401410-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/repression-of-palestine-solidarity-on-campus-enabled-anti-migrant-escalation/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[October Krausch]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:49:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Divestment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[palestine solidarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332959</guid> <description><![CDATA[Faculty are forming support networks to connect with each other to protect students and end the genocide in Palestine.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photos of Palestine solidarity encampments have disappeared from the news, replaced by pictures of immigration agents kidnapping university students and community members, but the campus-based battle to force universities to divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing is still underway. This a long-term, smoldering battle. “The campuses are definitely as active as they were a year ago from…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/repression-of-palestine-solidarity-on-campus-enabled-anti-migrant-escalation/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[October Krausch]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Trump Administration Defies Court Orders to Resume Food Aid for 42 Million Americans</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-defies-court-orders-to-resume-food-aid-for-42-million-americans/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Insecurity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332983</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two judges ordered the USDA to use contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing during the shutdown.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two federal judges have said the Trump administration cannot use the government shutdown to suspend food assistance for 42 million Americans. But hours into Saturday, when payments were due to be disbursed, President Donald Trump appears to be defying the ruling, potentially leaving millions unable to afford this month’s grocery bills. A pair of federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-defies-court-orders-to-resume-food-aid-for-42-million-americans/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Stephen Prager]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>DHS Seeks to Combine State Driver’s License Records With Citizenship Data</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-seeks-to-combine-state-drivers-license-records-with-citizenship-data/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jen Fifield]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Data]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Driver's License]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SAVE Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Security]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332981</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics warn the DHS database could wrongly flag citizens as noncitizens, risking voter access and trust.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. The plan, outlined in a public notice posted Thursday, is the latest step in an unprecedented Trump administration initiative to pool confidential data from varied sources that it claims will help identify…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-seeks-to-combine-state-drivers-license-records-with-citizenship-data/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jen Fifield & Zach Despart]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Jamaican Americans Mobilize for the Island’s Recovery After Hurricane Melissa</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/jamaican-americans-mobilize-for-the-islands-recovery-after-hurricane-melissa/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Mahoney]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricane Melissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricanes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[international aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332970</guid> <description><![CDATA[Power lines, roads, and bridges were damaged, and more than half a million people were left without electricity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Out of many, one people. Kimisha Simpson says she’s confident that Jamaica’s national motto will rally the diaspora and others to help rebuild the island that was battered by Hurricane Melissa earlier this week. “We like to say, ‘We’re the heartbeat of the Caribbean,’” Simpson said. “Jamaica is an island that has given so much to the world — entertainment, the arts, the culture…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/jamaican-americans-mobilize-for-the-islands-recovery-after-hurricane-melissa/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Adam Mahoney & Victoria St. Martin]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Capital B]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>Trump Is Punishing Blue States by Defunding Their Infrastructure Projects</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-punishing-blue-states-by-defunding-their-infrastructure-projects/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clean Energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Federal Funding]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Project 2025]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russell Vought]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332938</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump is cancelling billions of dollars in federal funding for congressionally approved projects already underway.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the federal government shutdown drags on, the Trump administration has doubled down on a tactic of dubious legality that it has been pursuing since January: cancelling federal funding for already congressionally approved projects in blue cities and states. Back in the summer, the administration pulled $4 billion from the California high speed rail project. It followed up a month later by…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-punishing-blue-states-by-defunding-their-infrastructure-projects/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sasha Abramsky]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>State Department Office Finds “Hundreds” of Possible Israeli Rights Violations</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-office-finds-hundreds-of-possible-israeli-rights-violations/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:42:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arms embargo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leahy Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[State Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332974</guid> <description><![CDATA[The State Department has a bespoke process for probes into Israel that is deferential to its military.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A classified State Department report released just days before the current ceasefire agreement went into effect found that Israel has committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations in Gaza that would render it illegal to continue sending weapons to many Israeli military units, reporting finds. According to The Washington Post, officials say that the possible violations were…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/state-department-office-finds-hundreds-of-possible-israeli-rights-violations/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-31-israeli-tank-gaza-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Urges Senate GOP to Use “Nuclear Option” on Filibuster to End Shutdown</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-urges-senate-gop-to-use-nuclear-option-on-filibuster-to-end-shutdown/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:04 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Filibuster]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332972</guid> <description><![CDATA[Progressives have long warned that Republicans would scrap the filibuster if it interfered with their agenda.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US President Donald Trump late Thursday urged Senate Republicans to scrap the legislative filibuster to end the prolonged government shutdown without Democratic support — the kind of scenario progressives warned about when imploring Democrats to eliminate the 60-vote threshold during former President Joe Biden’s term. In an all-caps post to Truth Social, Trump wrote that “THE CHOICE IS CLEAR…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-urges-senate-gop-to-use-nuclear-option-on-filibuster-to-end-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243690947-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Katie Miller Threatens Cenk Uygur With Deportation During Heated Debate</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/katie-miller-threatens-cenk-uygur-with-deportation-during-heated-debate/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:09:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cenk Uygur]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katie Miller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Miller]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332973</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miller also accused Uygur of being antisemitic toward her, despite Uygur making no mention of her faith or ethnicity.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During a heated debate on Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” YouTube program, Katie Miller, a far right former Trump administration official and wife to current Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, suggested that her co-panelist on the show, progressive commentator Cenk Uygur, should be deported. During the program, Uygur accused Miller and her husband of spreading myriad falsehoods in order to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/katie-miller-threatens-cenk-uygur-with-deportation-during-heated-debate/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1031-millers-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>DHS Is Funneling $10 Billion to the Navy to Build a Network of Immigration Jails</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/dhs-is-funneling-10-billion-to-the-navy-to-build-a-network-of-immigration-jails/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:49:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asylum Seekers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fort Bliss]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gregory Bovino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristi Noem]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332968</guid> <description><![CDATA[The new jails are expected to look like the tent camps built at Fort Bliss, an immigration policy expert says.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/dhs-is-funneling-10-billion-to-the-navy-to-build-a-network-of-immigration-jails/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG1_ICE3-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Israeli Lawyer Resigns for Leaking Video of Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Prisoner</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-lawyer-resigns-for-leaking-video-of-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoner/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:33:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sde Teiman]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332960</guid> <description><![CDATA[The arrest of the guards in the video launched protests from far right Israeli groups last year.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel’s top military lawyer has resigned after taking responsibility for the leak of a horrific video showing the sexual abuse of a Palestinian prisoner by Israeli guards, after the military launched a investigation into the leak this week. The military announced on Wednesday that it was opening a criminal probe into the leak in order to seek out and punish those responsible…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-lawyer-resigns-for-leaking-video-of-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoner/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-31-sde-teiman-prison-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Drastically Cutting Refugee Admissions to 6 Percent of Biden Levels</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-drastically-cutting-refugee-admissions-to-6-percent-of-biden-levels/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:56:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Afrikaners]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alex Padilla]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamie Raskin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pramila Jayapal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[refugee cap]]></category> <category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332966</guid> <description><![CDATA[The administration said the lowest-ever refugee cap of 7,500 would primarily be allocated to white South Africans.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After months of reporting, President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday officially announced that it is restricting the number of refugees for this fiscal year to 7,500, with most spots going to white South Africans — a policy swiftly denounced by human rights advocates and Democrats in Congress. “This decision doesn’t just lower the refugee admissions ceiling. It lowers our moral…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-drastically-cutting-refugee-admissions-to-6-percent-of-biden-levels/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jessica Corbett]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243665608-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Pentagon Admits to Striking Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Drug Links</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-admits-to-striking-boats-without-identifying-victims-drug-links/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boat Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Defense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pentagon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sara Jacobs]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332961</guid> <description><![CDATA[The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them. The Trump administration has targeted more than a dozen boats, mostly in the Caribbean Sea but some in the Pacific Ocean, killing at least 61 people…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-admits-to-striking-boats-without-identifying-victims-drug-links/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>SNAP Benefits for 42 Million People Could Still Be Saved During the Shutdown</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/snap-benefits-for-42-million-people-could-still-be-saved-during-the-shutdown/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Becker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:47:54 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Insecurity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332957</guid> <description><![CDATA[The critical safety net program has never been disrupted since it began in its current form in the 1960s.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the ongoing government shutdown extends into Saturday — and there is every indication that it will — funding will lapse for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps or SNAP, which helps feed some 42 million lower-income Americans. It will be the first such disruption to the federally funded but state-administered safety net program that disproportionately feeds…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/snap-benefits-for-42-million-people-could-still-be-saved-during-the-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amanda Becker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The 19th]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2244230638-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Fired for “Crime” of Speaking at Socialism Summit, Texas Professor Speaks Out</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/fired-for-crime-of-speaking-at-socialism-summit-texas-professor-speaks-out/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Smith]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:19:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[academic freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Far Right]]></category> <category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[McCarthyism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332951</guid> <description><![CDATA[Professor Tom Alter is appealing to Texas’s Board of Regents after being temporarily reinstated and then fired again.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing government, corporate, and institutional bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers for exercising their First Amendment rights across the country. In one of the worst instances, Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/fired-for-crime-of-speaking-at-socialism-summit-texas-professor-speaks-out/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ashley Smith]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/554296574_18389964235122178_5010869027772072010_n-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/gop-wants-to-mandate-fetal-development-education-its-anti-abortion-nonsense/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Rankin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:40:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public Schools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332871</guid> <description><![CDATA[Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion, so they’re trying to brainwash kids instead.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this month, Ohio State Rep. Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) introduced legislation that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about “Baby Olivia,” inaccurately detailing fetal development, to students as young as the third grade. Abortion rights group Reproaction notes that the “Baby Olivia” video claims that fetuses experience hiccups at seven weeks gestation…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/gop-wants-to-mandate-fetal-development-education-its-anti-abortion-nonsense/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lauren Rankin]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2148733848-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Admin’s New Rules Seek to Ban Affirming Care for Trans Youth Across US</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admins-new-rules-seek-to-ban-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-across-us/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:44:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bans on gender-affirming care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Health and Human Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gender-Affirming Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trans youth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332948</guid> <description><![CDATA[One proposed rule would stop medical groups that offer gender-affirming care to youth from receiving Medicaid funding.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New proposed federal rules from the Trump administration aim to make it nearly impossible for transgender youth to receive gender-affirming care in the United States. One proposed rule within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would prohibit any medical organization that promotes or provides such care from receiving federal Medicaid funding. It would also forbid the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admins-new-rules-seek-to-ban-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-across-us/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1030-trans-ban-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Expert Says US Boat Strikes Are “Crime Against Humanity,” With 61 Killed</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-expert-says-us-boat-strikes-are-crime-against-humanity-with-61-killed/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:39:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boat Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crimes Against Humanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332937</guid> <description><![CDATA[Amnesty International USA said the strikes are nothing more than a “murder spree.”]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The U.S. military’s strikes on boats in the waters surrounding Central and South America, which have targeted and killed dozens of civilians, constitute some of the most serious violations of international law and must lead to prosecutions of those responsible, a UN human rights expert has said. Ben Saul, the UN Special Rapporteur for the protection of human rights while countering terrorism…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-expert-says-us-boat-strikes-are-crime-against-humanity-with-61-killed/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-30-trump-navy-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Senate Republicans Vote to Gut Arctic Protections</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/senate-republicans-vote-to-gut-arctic-protections/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:38:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Big Oil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environmental protections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332946</guid> <description><![CDATA[This comes after Trump’s Interior Department wrenched open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republican-controlled US Senate voted Thursday to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling, even as the government shutdown continued with no end in sight. The final vote on the resolution, led by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), was 52-45, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the only Democrat to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/senate-republicans-vote-to-gut-arctic-protections/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2188869178-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Pentagon Orders States to Train Hundreds for “Quick Reaction Forces”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-orders-states-to-train-hundreds-for-quick-reaction-forces/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:47:26 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Defense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump militarization of U.S. cities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump National Guard deployments]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332940</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics call the order an escalation of Trump's militarization of cities across the country.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A newly released Department of Defense (DOD) memo calls for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories to form “quick reaction forces” within the National Guard that will be trained in “riot control” procedures — the latest indication that President Donald Trump is set to escalate his militarization of cities across the country. The October 8 memo was signed by Major General Ronald…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-orders-states-to-train-hundreds-for-quick-reaction-forces/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1030-nationalguard-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War in Venezuela</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-gunning-to-illegally-attack-venezuela-and-change-its-regime/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:09:48 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boat Strikes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[extrajudicial killing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Organization of American States]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Regime Change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tren de Aragua]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN Charter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category> <category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332935</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats on the high seas and mounts the largest U.S. military buildup in decades in the Caribbean, it is moving inexorably toward an all-out, illegal attack and forcible regime change in Venezuela. Despite Team Trump’s feeble attempts to legally justify its ocean strikes, which have now killed 57 people since early September…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-gunning-to-illegally-attack-venezuela-and-change-its-regime/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Marjorie Cohn]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1214995960-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/us-urged-to-end-arms-sales-to-uae-as-it-backs-genocidal-paramilitary-in-sudan/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chris Van Hollen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rapid Support Forces]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rashida Tlaib]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332932</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US has provided the UAE with billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, even as it’s funneled weapons into Sudan.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after reports of horrific slaughter in Sudan this week by the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF). On Sunday, the paramilitary force took control of el-Fasher, which was the Sudan Armed Forces’s (SAF) last major outpost in Darfur. The forces stormed the city, displacing tens of thousands and killing an…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-urged-to-end-arms-sales-to-uae-as-it-backs-genocidal-paramilitary-in-sudan/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-30-trump-uae-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Condemns US Embargo on Cuba for 33rd Year as Hurricane Batters Island</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/un-condemns-us-embargo-on-cuba-for-33rd-year-as-hurricane-batters-island/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cuba blockade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricane Melissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricanes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[UN]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332927</guid> <description><![CDATA[The US embargo and other economic sanctions make it much harder for Cuba to respond to disasters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, including the United States, Israel and Ukraine. The vote came as Cuba was battered by Hurricane Melissa, causing widespread damage. We get an update from the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba with Liz Oliva Fernández…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/un-condemns-us-embargo-on-cuba-for-33rd-year-as-hurricane-batters-island/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> </item> <item> <title>In These Times, We Need Consciousness Raising — and Radical Unlearning</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/in-these-times-we-need-consciousness-raising-and-radical-unlearning/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lewis Raven Wallace]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:48:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Op-Ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti-Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the South]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332859</guid> <description><![CDATA[We must unlearn fear, individualism, and the inability to act in order to confront the threats of this moment.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eight years ago, I attended a gathering on my family’s farm in South Carolina on the day of the total solar eclipse. That same week, my grandmother, Sarah Graydon McCrory, went into the hospital with an infection from which she never recovered. In October of that year, just past her 96th birthday, Sarah died — and I got to stand by her on her deathbed as she grappled with connection and liberation…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/in-these-times-we-need-consciousness-raising-and-radical-unlearning/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Lewis Raven Wallace]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1336533041-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Blames Obamacare for Premium Hikes His Own Policies Created</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-blames-obamacare-for-premium-hikes-his-own-policies-created/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medicare For All]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332930</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trump is calling for a cheaper, more effective health care system. Medicare for All fits both of those criteria.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Wednesday, President Donald Trump made an unusual plea for a bipartisan replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as the program announced drastic increases in premiums this month. “We have to fix health care, because Obamacare is a disaster,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight this week to South Korea. Trump has frequently attempted to repeal the health…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-blames-obamacare-for-premium-hikes-his-own-policies-created/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1030-trump-healthcare-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapons Testing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-orders-resumption-of-us-nuclear-weapons-testing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332925</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics warned that even underground testing carries huge risks to the public while accelerating a dangerous arms race.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, an announcement made in a frighteningly vague social media post that threatens to shred decades of global progress and heighten tensions with China and Russia. Trump mentioned both of those nations in his post, which was published to Truth Social just ahead of the US president’s…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-orders-resumption-of-us-nuclear-weapons-testing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jake Johnson]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1227836528-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Feds Indict Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Over Protesting</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/feds-indict-congressional-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-over-protesting/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Repression]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332922</guid> <description><![CDATA[“This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights,” Abughazaleh posted on X.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Department of Justice is charging Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five others with conspiracy to impede a U.S. law enforcement officer and impeding a U.S. law enforcement officer. Abughazaleh is running in the Democratic primary against incumbent Rep. Jan Schakowsky. Oak Park Trustee Brian Straw and 45th Ward Democratic committeeperson Michael Rabbitt were also charged in the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/feds-indict-congressional-candidate-kat-abughazaleh-over-protesting/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[The Carceral Report]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2235825840-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times</title> <link>https://truthout.org/audio/resisting-ice-building-worlds-care-and-survival-in-fascistic-times/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:42:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anishinaabe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Water]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_audio_post&p=332920</guid> <description><![CDATA[“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In this episode of Movement Memos, Simpson and host Kelly Hayes discuss lessons from Simpson’s book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead and the ongoing struggle against ICE in Chicago, where Hayes is involved in rapid response efforts. Music: Son Monarcas and Leanne…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/audio/resisting-ice-building-worlds-care-and-survival-in-fascistic-times/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Kelly Hayes]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/MM-10-30-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Living Amid Bombs and Bloodshed, Painters in Gaza Hold Steadfast to Their Craft</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/living-amid-bombs-and-bloodshed-painters-in-gaza-hold-steadfast-to-their-craft/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:04:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[War]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332863</guid> <description><![CDATA[Israel killed one painter as she worked on her canvas. Another painter survived the destruction of all her life’s work.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite the horror and brutality of life under the relentless torture of occupation, the world is astonished that Gazans still hold on to hope. We create hope for others when we insist on believing that Gaza can rise again from the rubble, even as we hear the sounds of bombardment destroying our homes, snatching the lives of our loved ones, and shattering our dreams. Painter Frans Al-Salmi…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/living-amid-bombs-and-bloodshed-painters-in-gaza-hold-steadfast-to-their-craft/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Dalia Abu Ramadan]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/photo-1-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Michigan Republicans Want to Share Full Voter Roll With Trump Admin — Unredacted</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/michigan-republicans-want-to-share-full-voter-roll-with-trump-admin-unredacted/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hayley Harding]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:20:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voter Rolls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332914</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michigan is one of several states being sued by the DOJ for refusing to share unredacted voter rolls with the agency. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly two dozen Michigan House Republicans have signed on to a resolution calling for Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to share the state’s complete voter rolls with the Trump administration, without redactions of potentially sensitive identifying information. Michigan is one of several states being sued by the U.S. Justice Department over their refusal to share unredacted voter rolls in…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/michigan-republicans-want-to-share-full-voter-roll-with-trump-admin-unredacted/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Hayley Harding]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Votebeat]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2170653319-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>460 Killed in Horrific Massacre in Sudan Hospital, WHO Says, Amid RSF Takeover</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/460-killed-in-horrific-massacre-in-sudan-hospital-who-says-amid-rsf-takeover/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:52:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rapid Support Forces]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rashida Tlaib]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332903</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rapid Support Forces fighters stormed the hospital and killed everyone inside, Sudan Doctors Network said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) this week. The casualties are among the 2,000 people estimated by Sudanese officials to have been killed since the paramilitary group’s takeover of the city on Sunday.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/460-killed-in-horrific-massacre-in-sudan-hospital-who-says-amid-rsf-takeover/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-29-sudan-woman-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Attorneys General Sue Trump for Using Shutdown to Disrupt Food Aid for Millions</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/attorneys-general-sue-trump-for-using-shutdown-to-disrupt-food-aid-for-millions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Stamps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Work Requirements]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332913</guid> <description><![CDATA[Critics say Trump is exploiting the federal shutdown to unilaterally slash the safety net and cause unnecessary pain.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Trump administration is facing a flurry of legal challenges to policies that could leave 42 million low-income people without food assistance as soon as November 1 while fast-tracking funding cuts and work requirements targeting veterans, unhoused people, and other vulnerable groups that rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as SNAP or food stamps).</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/attorneys-general-sue-trump-for-using-shutdown-to-disrupt-food-aid-for-millions/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Mike Ludwig]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <truthout:fullTitle><![CDATA[Attorneys General Sue Trump for Using Shutdown to Disrupt Food Assistance for Millions]]></truthout:fullTitle> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243471615-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Approval Rating Sinks to Lowest Point of His Second Term, New Poll Shows</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-approval-rating-sinks-to-lowest-point-of-his-second-term-new-poll-shows/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:20:49 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[No Kings protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump approval rating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[YouGov]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332904</guid> <description><![CDATA[The president polls negatively on issues like immigration, inflation, education, jobs, and more, the survey found.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New polling shows that President Donald Trump’s approval rating is at its lowest level in his second term so far, rivaling the lowest points he reached during his first term. The Economist/YouGov poll is published weekly and asks respondents whether they approve or disapprove of whichever president is in office. In its latest findings, which were published on Tuesday, the poll found that only…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-approval-rating-sinks-to-lowest-point-of-his-second-term-new-poll-shows/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1029-trump-polls-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Israel Kills 104 in Gaza Ceasefire Violation After Accusing Hamas of Killing Soldier</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/israel-kills-104-in-gaza-ceasefire-violation-after-accusing-hamas-of-killing-soldier/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza Ceasefire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332895</guid> <description><![CDATA[The barrage of airstrikes killed at least 46 children, Gaza health officials reported.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel killed at least 104 Palestinians in a barrage of airstrikes on Gaza overnight on Wednesday, in a major violation of the ceasefire agreement that Israel has said is back on after the strikes. At least 46 children were among those killed by the strikes, which also wounded 253 Palestinians, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said. Gaza’s Civil Defense teams were forced to use small tools and their…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-kills-104-in-gaza-ceasefire-violation-after-accusing-hamas-of-killing-soldier/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Sharon Zhang]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_10-29-israeli-strike-gaza-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Claims He Can Send “Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines” Into US Cities</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-claims-he-can-send-army-navy-air-force-marines-into-us-cities/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:06:02 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Army]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insurrection Act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Military]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332898</guid> <description><![CDATA[“I’d be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn’t get involved,” Trump said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Donald Trump alarmed many critics this week when he once again mused about deploying the military on the streets of US cities. As reported by The New York Times, Trump told a group of American troops stationed in Japan on Tuesday that he could send the military into US cities under the pretense of fighting crime. “We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-claims-he-can-send-army-navy-air-force-marines-into-us-cities/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Brad Reed]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2220182207-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Executives, Climate Activist Says</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/hurricanes-should-be-named-after-fossil-fuel-executives-climate-activist-says/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:41:39 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricane Melissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hurricanes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332893</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not yet known because communication remains limited. Mikaela Loach, a Jamaican British climate justice activist, says the hurricane was “caused by the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/hurricanes-should-be-named-after-fossil-fuel-executives-climate-activist-says/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG2_Melissa2-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>The Real Bill de Blasio Says Mamdani’s “Vision Is Both Necessary and Achievable”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-real-bill-de-blasio-says-mamdanis-vision-is-both-necessary-and-achievable/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill de Blasio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Billionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332888</guid> <description><![CDATA[The former New York City mayor spoke out after an impersonator fooled a UK journalist at The Times of London.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real Bill De Blasio is down for Zohran Mamdani and his economic vision for New York City. After an individual impersonating De Blasio successfully duped a journalist with The Times of London into believing the former Democratic mayor was lashing out against the current Democratic nominee’s proposals in an article published Tuesday, the real De Blasio, a consistent ally of Mamdani…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-real-bill-de-blasio-says-mamdanis-vision-is-both-necessary-and-achievable/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Jon Queally]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243392216-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Trump Tells GOP Lawmakers to “Get Smart” and Eliminate Early Mail-In Voting</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/trump-tells-gop-lawmakers-to-get-smart-and-eliminate-early-mail-in-voting/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2020 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2026 midterms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[absentee voting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[early voting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mail-in Voting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voting Rights]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332891</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms,” one journalist wrote in response to Trump’s comments.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a Truth Social post over the weekend, President Donald Trump continued to rehash the outcome of the 2020 presidential election — and appeared to lay the groundwork for calling the results of the upcoming 2026 midterms into question. For years, Trump has been unwilling to admit defeat in the 2020 election, wrongly alleging that President Joe Biden won the race as the result of widespread…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-tells-gop-lawmakers-to-get-smart-and-eliminate-early-mail-in-voting/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1029-trump-mail-voting-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>UN Climate Progress Report Ahead of COP30 Is “a Warning Siren”</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/un-climate-progress-report-ahead-of-cop30-is-a-warning-siren/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:11:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1.5 degrees warming target]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Climate Crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COP30]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fossil Fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Greenhouse Gas Emissions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332882</guid> <description><![CDATA[Countries pledged just a 10 percent emissions cut; breaching 1.5°C warming is now “inevitable,” said António Guterres.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahead of the United Nations’ global summit on the climate emergency in Belém, Brazil, a report on countries’ climate plans released Tuesday served as both “a progress update and a warning siren,” one campaigner said. According to the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Synthesis Report, governments have submitted plans to the UN that would reduce fossil fuel emissions by just 10%</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/un-climate-progress-report-ahead-of-cop30-is-a-warning-siren/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Julia Conley]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Common Dreams]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2241797487-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Shutdown Threatens Head Start Access for Tens of Thousands of Kids</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/shutdown-threatens-head-start-access-for-tens-of-thousands-of-kids/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shauneen Miranda]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:43:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Health and Human Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Early Child Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[head start]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332879</guid> <description><![CDATA[Children may lose access to healthy meals, families may lose affordable child care, and Head Start staff may lose jobs.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Washington, D.C.— Funding for scores of Head Start programs hung in the balance as the government shutdown continued Monday without an end in sight. Unless a deal is reached to end the ongoing funding lapse that began Oct. 1, more than 65,000 children in 140 local Head Start programs across 41 states and Puerto Rico will not get their federal grant funding come Nov. 1…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/shutdown-threatens-head-start-access-for-tens-of-thousands-of-kids/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Shauneen Miranda]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[News From the States]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2210530396-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>The Future of Palestine Solidarity in US Labor Will Come From the Rank and File</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/the-future-of-palestine-solidarity-in-us-labor-will-come-from-the-rank-and-file/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:42:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Settler Colonialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332877</guid> <description><![CDATA[Palestine has always been a labor issue — but until recently, many top US union leaders have been on the wrong side.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Israel’s genocide in Gaza intensified in late 2023, a small number of U.S. labor unions began calling for a ceasefire. Others soon joined in, and many also started calling for a halt of military support to Israel. For many union members, statements didn’t go far enough, so they formed new national networks or pushed their unions to divest from Israel. Some even went on strike.</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/the-future-of-palestine-solidarity-in-us-labor-will-come-from-the-rank-and-file/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Derek Seidman]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2233869765-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums If ACA Subsidies Aren’t Extended</title> <link>https://truthout.org/video/millions-face-soaring-health-insurance-premiums-if-aca-subsidies-arent-extended/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Goodman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Subsidies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health insurance industry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[premiums]]></category> <category><![CDATA[universal health care]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_video_post&p=332874</guid> <description><![CDATA[Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double for some 20 million people unless Congress acts.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire this Saturday. Without an extension of those subsidies, health premiums could more than double for millions of people across the country. The enhanced subsidies were first put in place during the…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/video/millions-face-soaring-health-insurance-premiums-if-aca-subsidies-arent-extended/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amy Goodman & Juan González]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Democracy Now!]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/SEG2.5-healthcare-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Tylenol Maker Over Unverified Links to Autism</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/texas-ag-ken-paxton-sues-tylenol-maker-over-unverified-links-to-autism/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[acetaminophen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332872</guid> <description><![CDATA[Numerous studies note there is no causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism in children.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol, an acetaminophen-based medication that the Trump administration has baselessly claimed is responsible for a rise in autism rates in the U.S. in recent years. Paxton, who is running for U.S. Senate next year, issued a press release alongside the lawsuit claiming that his litigation is in line with…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/texas-ag-ken-paxton-sues-tylenol-maker-over-unverified-links-to-autism/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1028-tylenol-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>This Isn’t the First Time Chicago’s Been Used as a Laboratory for Policing</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/this-isnt-the-first-time-chicagos-been-used-as-a-laboratory-for-policing/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Vogel]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:15:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abolition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago Police Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deportations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[palestine solidarity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Policing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332862</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ilā Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Trump administration turbocharges the growth of a nonstop dragnet, turning daily life into a data trail ready to be weaponized, Chicago is serving as one of its most visible targets. The city has long been a flashpoint for the oppressive expansion of digital surveillance. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), universities, and local police have all deployed powerful new technologies to…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/this-isnt-the-first-time-chicagos-been-used-as-a-laboratory-for-policing/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Ed Vogel]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2239254780-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>USDA Website Uses Transphobic Messaging to Blame Dems for Government Shutdown</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/usda-website-uses-transphobic-messaging-to-blame-dems-for-government-shutdown/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Department of Agriculture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Food Stamps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Transphobia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332868</guid> <description><![CDATA[USDA could continue funding food stamps during the shutdown by using an available contingency fund, Democrats said.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website features a new header message that informs users of the current shutdown and blames Democrats, immigrants and transgender people for prolonging the stalemate on funding the federal government — specifically the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. Several other government websites…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/usda-website-uses-transphobic-messaging-to-blame-dems-for-government-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Chris Walker]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[Truthout]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_1028-usda-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> <item> <title>Tribes Are Bracing for Potential SNAP Loss</title> <link>https://truthout.org/articles/tribes-are-bracing-for-potential-snap-loss/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Amelia Schafer]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:36:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[indigenous communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lakota]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mutual Aid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://truthout.org/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=332861</guid> <description><![CDATA[But Indigenous advocates are working to ensure families are fed via mutual aid meal trains and education on foraging.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rapid City, S.D. — For many tribes, access to food is a treaty right, meaning the potential loss of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Nov. 1 is yet another violation of trust and treaty obligations during the second-longest government shutdown in history. But Indigenous advocates in cities across the country are taking steps to ensure there are ways for affected…</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/tribes-are-bracing-for-potential-snap-loss/" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p>]]></content:encoded> <truthout:authors><![CDATA[Amelia Schafer]]></truthout:authors> <truthout:source><![CDATA[ICT]]></truthout:source> <enclosure url='https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2180789201-1200x900.jpg' type='image/jpeg' length='0' /> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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