“A Maine principals’ group is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks the names of all students playing interscholastic sports in the state as the DOJ attempts to ban transgender athletes from participating. President Donald Trump’s administration sued Maine in April for not complying with an executive order barring transgender athletes from sports. The Justice Department followed up with a subpoena of the Maine Principals’ Association, a nonprofit that oversees school sports in Maine, seeking a host of information. The full scope of the subpoena isn’t public because a judge sealed it. However, in a Sept. 4 legal filing, the principals’ association said the subpoena included ‘requests for the production of all athletic rosters for the state,’ and would require providing ‘personally identifiable information of students, many of whom are unrelated to the underlying controversy.'” (09/11/25)
“America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money, and a half-century long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.” (09/10/25)
“In what Utah’s governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as he engaged students in a question and answer-style debate. The killer remains at large, but Gov. Spencer Cox vowed that federal and state law enforcement officials would capture the shooter, even as President Donald Trump and other world leaders condemned the attack and the angry divides plaguing the country. … Kirk was in the middle of answering politically charged questions about mass shootings in America when he was murdered, said Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, who together with Deseret News reporter Eva Terry was covering Kirk’s campus rally and each witnessed the shooting.” (09/10/25)
“If all goes as planned, hundreds of South Koreans in Georgia will voluntarily fly to their home country on Wednesday. They were detained last week by federal agents at a Hyundai construction site for allegedly living and working illegally [sic] in the United States. What makes the exodus so remarkable is that it represents a case of mass obedience to American sovereignty among those in the U.S. illegally [sic]. Instead of being forcibly deported in handcuffs, the Koreans will depart in contrition. The choice to honor the law may even improve their legal opportunities to return. This reflects a large shift in voluntary outmigration nine months into the Trump administration’s tough – and sometimes unconstitutional – crackdown on illegal [sic] migration.” (09/09/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals. The IDF bombed a Doha residential building on Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss US-Israeli ceasefire proposals, reportedly killing a Qatari security officer and four Hamas aides, as well as the son of the acting Hamas political bureau chief. President Trump publicly criticized the Israeli attack, but Middle East Eye reports that according to US and regional officials the president had actually ‘blessed’ the strike in advance. These would be the same Hamas officials who Trump had just been aggressively threatening to accept his ceasefire proposal or face severe consequences.” (09/10/25)
“It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached ‘good news’ to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression. Instead, they put forward unethical and ahistorical (mis)interpretations and (mis)appropriations of biblical texts to prop up American imperial power and punish the poor in the name of a warped morality. Three decades later, the Trump administration and its theological apologists are working overtime, using Jesus’s name and the Bible’s contents in even more devastating rounds of immoral biblical (mis)references.” (09/10/25)
“After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. It was a sharp contrast from a January misdemeanor arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled when he ate, talked or walked. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Brown, 34, with causing death on a mass transportation system last month when he allegedly killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in what has become the latest flashpoint for the White House’s efforts to paint Democratic-led cities as havens for violent criminals.” (09/10/25)
“When it comes to pesticides, the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, Commission has a serious problem: The Commission’s newly released strategy for addressing childhood chronic disease is better for the pesticide industry than for people. Ignoring growing public calls for action, the strategy lays out a milquetoast approach that would protect industry profits at the expense of children’s health. Back in May, a first report from the MAHA Commission correctly identified exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals as one driver of the childhood chronic disease epidemic. The US currently uses over a billion pounds of pesticides annually on our crops, about one-third of which is chemicals that have been banned in other countries. Many have been linked to serious health problems from cancer to infertility to birth defects.” (09/10/25)
“The United States is set to increase its manufacturing of amoxicillin — a widely used prescription antibiotic that recently faced a national shortage — after Walmart and medical supply and distribution company McKesson inked a deal with the nation’s lone manufacturer of the drug. ‘We are thrilled to work with Walmart and McKesson to bring domestically manufactured antibiotics directly to American families,’ Patrick Cashman, president of USAntibiotics, said in a press release of the announcement on Monday. ‘We extend our deepest gratitude to Walmart and McKesson for their leadership in supporting U.S. manufacturing of critical generic medicines. This collaboration represents more than a business relationship — it’s a commitment to America’s health security.’ USAntibiotics is located in Bristol, Tennessee, and expects to produce ‘enough amoxicillin products to meet 100 percent of the nation’s demand for these essential medications’ under the deal.” (09/10/25)
“The polls say Mayor Eric Adams is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out of the race or leaving City Hall early to take a job in the Trump administration. He tells me neither is true and that he has never spoken to the president about a job. My impression after a fast-paced interview with him Monday is that quitting and defeat truly are far from his mind. ‘I will finish my term,’ he said emphatically, and insists he still has a chance at re-election. ‘I feel strong and I’m not giving up,’ he added. ‘It’s too early to throw in the towel.’ He barely flinched when I asked what he would do differently if he could rewind the clock to 2022, when he took office.” (09/09/25)
