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Avila Chevalier was on the front lines of Thursday’s protest, and videos circling social media showed her being knocked to the ground by a police officer. She says she “felt a hand grab and then throw [her] down to the ground”.

“At some point, I felt like my feet were not touching the ground. I felt like I flew,” she said, adding that she is “thankfully OK” but was “in some pain” the day earlier. Avila Chevalier had said she was trying to convince police that adding barricades was escalating the situation: “They were literally in a tug of war with people over these barricades,” she said. “People were being hurt and pushed back.”

The police arrested five protesters and said demonstrators “agitated and pushed over barriers” and “repeatedly refused verbal commands to disperse”. The NYPD also said that Avila Chevalier was pushed back by officers in an attempt to prevent the crowd from trampling the captain.

Darializa Avila Chevalier criticizes NYPD’s ‘inaction’ in protecting Marble Hill protesters after ICE shot a man Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier believes that the New York police departments’ conduct towards protesters after an ICE agent shot and wounded a man in the district she is running to represent violated “the spirit, if not the letter” of the city’s sanctuary laws. These rules ban local police from helping federal immigration authorities in civil immigration enforcement ...

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Donald Trump came to Syracuse hoping to energize Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. Instead, one of the defining images of his visit may be the furious reception waiting for him outside.

New York Times: Sources: the US DOJ is probing whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News violated antitrust law by briefly suspending their White House pool coverage of Trump  —  Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.

Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

The post As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones appeared first on ProPublica.

Bernie was on Kimmel the next day

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When Massachusetts-based musician and activist Ben Grosscup (@BenGrosscup) learned his mother had Alzheimer’s, he turned to Cuba for help.

He traveled to Havana to obtain NeuralCIM, a groundbreaking Cuban medication that has had remarkable results in slowing the progression of Alzheimer's.

The treatment was developed by Cuban scientist Dr. Teresita Rodríguez, whose work Belly of the Beast documented in Teresita’s Dream: https://peertube.world/w/12Ys6gA19mfGA8Li574VY5

Grosscup has long opposed his government’s economic war on Cuba. But as intensified sanctions and an oil blockade limit the island’s ability to produce medicines like NeuralCIM, U.S. policy became more personal.

“The blockade is harming my own family,” he says.

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

Trump sparked a wave of bipartisan shock and anger on Friday when he announced he was lifting sanctions on Russian diesel in a bid to lower prices

The post ‘Morally Wrong’: Trump Sparks Anger on Left and Right By Lifting Russian Sanctions first appeared on Mediaite.

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

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Oct. 4, 2026

Also:

• ‘The Gaza Holocaust won’t be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void
• On Israeli campuses, Palestinian students are guilty until proven innocent
• ‘I’d rather die than go back’: A Palestinian teen’s 10-month nightmare in Israeli jail
• Palestinian MKs in Israel have long faced election bans. This time is different

Hegseth's announcement triggered triggered widespread condemnation spanning GOP lawmakers, Democrats and pundits across the spectrum in media.

The post Pete Hegseth’s Execution Livestream Plan Sparks Avalanche of Bipartisan Fury: ‘Government-Backed Snuff Film’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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The post Federal court sides with Common Cause and voters, ruling DOJ data demands violate voter privacy, states’ election authority appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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.

Technically, Ukraine was not and is not directly supporting Al Qaeda. The movement for an independent Azawad, which is older than JNIM, has actually fought against the Islamist organization. But right now, Ukraine's Tuareg proxies are helping Al Qaeda capture and hold territory in Africa, using the same tactics that Ukraine had honed fighting Russia. It is a strange, unexpected case of foreign policy blowback.

The dilemma over Ukrainian support for Azawad echoes some other uncomfortable moments in U.S. foreign policy. In the 1980s, the U.S. supported Cambodian anticommunists led by former Prince Norodom Sihanouk and former Prime Minister Son Sann—who happened to be allied with the recently overthrown Khmer Rouge. Although the U.S. government "scrupulously avoided" contact with the Khmer Rouge itself, Sihanouk laughed to journalists that "the devils, they are there with Sihanouk and Son Sann."