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The shooting happened shortly after 3 a.m. in the city’s Tower District neighborhood.

Duration - 5:21 [a video on Peertube about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

The film shatters ‘respectable’ Israelis’ illusion of moral superiority: The most prestigious, highly educated soldiers are the primary culprits of genocide.

The fastest-growing branch of Al Qaeda today is in West Africa. Earlier this week, former rock star Iyad Ag Ghali and his followers, known as JNIM, launched a massive uprising in the African nation of Mali, capturing several cities, killing Defense Minister Sadio Camara, and threatening Bamako, the capital. This lightning offensive by Al Qaeda had an unlikely source of support: Ukrainian-trained drone pilots.

US media says Israel will ‘work in tandem’ with the US in the upcoming attack, which will reportedly include ‘massive bombing’ of Iranian energy

This year has featured a large number of Democrats ceding ground to right-wing narratives about transgender people. Multiple Democratic candidates have released anti-trans ads, taken anti-trans votes, or otherwise staked out positions that would harm the transgender community in their quest for political power. Meanwhile, Republicans continue to push their own anti-trans ad campaign, with Elon Musk’s PAC pouring $100 million into ads, many of them targeting transgender people. Now, Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, becomes the latest Democrat to target transgender people, despite her previous claims of support. In her latest ad, she appears to flip-flop on positions she has previously taken, calling transgender women “biological men” and announcing her opposition to transgender participation in women’s sports. She also says she does not support “gender surgery for minors” and would not overturn the felony youth HRT and puberty blocker ban in South Carolina.

The filing also points to mounting evidence in Minnesota that the prospect of federal immigration agents around voting sites is already changing how voters and election workers behave.

Republicans need trans people as an enemy, having already spent more than $60 million on anti-trans ads in 2026. Without us, they lose a scapegoat to distract from affordability, health care, and the war with Iran. They claim trans people aren’t real, yet blame us for America’s problems.

Trump was discussing the Iran war and the resulting high gas prices that have become a midterm liability for Republicans during his remarks in Nebraska when he mentioned the possibility of an Iranian attack on U.S. soil.

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4 October 2026

A Eugene-based publication requested records about a cop accused of misconduct. The city slapped it with a prohibitive fee.

Oct. 4, 2026

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for 29 November, just days after rightwing parties blocked his minority government’s emergency measures on housing amid widespread protests

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October 4, 2026

There’s an anti-discrimination law. There are “Refugees Welcome” signs everywhere. There are email addresses for reporting it. What I wanted to know is whether any of that holds up once you actually need it.

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In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.

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Oct 01, 2026

Adam McKay Substack

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Democrats block measure they say didn’t go far enough – and was bundled with ‘poison pill’ voter ID rules

Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections.

Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department.

October 1, 2026 [weekly newsletter about Cuba from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

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September 30, 2026

The announcement came just weeks before Election Day on Nov. 3 and with early voting already underway.

AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do.

There were no ties between Durán Guerrero, Arenas-Silva and Coronilla Durán, but within those 24 hours, the three men suddenly became connected as casualties in the latest phase of Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration campaign.

On Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid to protest against the country’s deepening housing crisis, the retired schoolteacher was among a small group who had sought to take the protest one step further.

Benjamin Moser’s new book recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools.

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous PM

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown. Sept. 25, 2026

In a first, a Chinese company has achieved high-parameter hydrogen-boron plasma control, marking a “significant and valuable” advance in research into neutron-free magnetic confinement fusion. ENN Group, based in Langfang, Hebei province, announced on Monday that its EXL-50U spherical device – a compact tokamak that uses a magnetic field to confine charged gas, or plasma, for nuclear fusion research – had successfully achieved hydrogen-boron fusion reactions.

Subaltern orientations do not become dominant by entering elite institutions…they become dominant only when the subaltern group organizes, builds cultural power and forces institutions to change.

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“We must end the terror in our communities created by the fascist administration in Washington and here in Texas—I will never stop standing up and speaking out for our community.”

Duration - 4:14 [a video on Peertube about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Our suffering cannot be the backdrop for an internal Israeli morality tale: Confronting Israel’s crimes in Gaza means taking action to stop them.

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September 25, 2026

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Inspired by Macklemore and Ms. Rachel each donating $1 million in support of Palestine, Doctors Against Genocide is calling on our community to help raise $5 million for Gaza’s children and healthcare.