Notices by Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im), page 22

Israeli politicians cast doubt on government’s commitment to ceasefire

Israel reportedly halts supply of aid into Gaza as it launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live

Following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza earlier today, more senior ministers have made remarks casting doubt on the government’s commitment to the ceasefire deal

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s diaspora affairs minister and a vocal hardliner, said:
“As long as Hamas exists, there will be war.”

Another cabinet member, Avi Dichter, described the situation as “difficult and complex”, accusing Hamas of violating the truce on the assumption that “Israel will not resume fighting.”
He added: “The moment all the living hostages are in our hands, the conditions have changed. Israel will not give up on disarming Hamas.”

From the opposition, Yair Golan, leader of the centre left Democrats party, also called for action, saying on social media:
“Hamas’s attack in Gazarequires a decisive response. Only in this way are the rules of the game set.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/19/gaza-ceasefire-israel-hamas-rafah-hostages-middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68f4c89c8f084a54ffa35000#block-68f4c89c8f084a54ffa35000

The Save America Movement is
putting posters and decals on walls, sidewalks, and streetlights across the Washington power corridor

—and we’re projecting Stephen Miller’s face
(with messages like “Fascism ain’t pretty.”)
onto buildings where the administration, Trump, and Miller can’t miss it.

https://save-am.org/miller-dc

The capture of prisoners presents a major new set of legal and policy problems for the Trump administration in its escalating terror campaign.

https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/115391110182959524

The last few years have seen a veritable onslaught of the Supreme Court overturning major precedent
—precedent that concerned hot-button issues,
spawned huge bodies of law on which lower courts now rely,
stood for 50+ years,
and had been reaffirmed multiple times by previous Courts.

And perhaps most gallingly,
the Supreme Court has claimed that these overturnings were justified by the “correct” readings of history
— expressly paving the way for Trump to do the same in the political arena.

To begin with the most obvious example, there is 2022’s Dobbs,
which overturned not only Roe in 1973 and Casey in 1992, but Whole Woman’s Health in 2016 and June Medical Services in 2020
— meaning that it was overturning not only one decision from 50 years earlier,
but a series of major Supreme Court decisions over the course of those 50 years,
each of which affirmed the central holding of Roe.

What’s more, the conservative majority did this by refashioning the notion of stare decisis to suit their own purposes,
stating that “Stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based,
does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.”

The reason provided?
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”

In other words: Roe doesn’t count because the Court’s current majority never liked it to begin with.

This effectively converts stare decisis from a general need to respect all legal precedent
into a personal principle that you only have to bother respecting precedent that you like.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-scotus-stare-decisis

Molly interviews the founders of @indivisibleteam
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin,

about the origins and evolution of their grassroots political movement,
which emerged in response to Donald Trump's 2016 election.

As former congressional staffers,
they leveraged insider knowledge to empower everyday Americans
—from nurses and teachers to IT workers
—to organize locally and resist authoritarian threats to democracy.

They discuss the explosive growth of Indivisible groups
and the expanding scale of peaceful protests
like the #NoKings March,
which now reach into deeply rural and historically conservative areas.

Highlighting the importance of humor, creativity, and joy in protest
—like frog costumes and tuba music
—the conversation emphasizes how
visible civic engagement disrupts attempts to intimidate the public into silence.

They also touch on victories like the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel after mass outcry,
illustrating the movement’s growing influence.

The episode concludes with a call for continued community action,
determination, and collective defiance
in the face of increasing authoritarianism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rG9kgoNVxJI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

U.S. senators announced plans on Friday to force a vote on a resolution
to prevent military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization,

seeking to rein in Donald Trump's escalation of pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is sponsoring the war powers resolution with fellow Democrat Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,
said he was responding to the repeated U.S. strikes on boats off Venezuela

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-raises-pressure-venezuela-senators-hope-lower-heat-2025-10-17/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68f2622741ccb10001982931&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2

Today's Action: commit to being there

It MUST be important to go to No Kings.
Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go

Local No Kings:
noon 10/18,
Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara St.
#NoKings #indivisiblesb
@indivisibleteam
@renewedresistance

https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblesb.bsky.social/post/3m3fnabxzh42c

The White House plans on shutting down portions of the I-5 freeway
for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle
during No Kings Protests,
triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage amid the government shutdown.
MeidasTouch has learned from several sources that the White House has plans to close major sections of Interstate 5 for this Friday and Saturday.
The Trump administration is apparently finalizing plans for two days of events under the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Sources close to MeidasTouch describe the closure as part of a “vanity parade” that may involve Navy warships shooting live missiles into Camp Pendleton as a “show of force."
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-trump-may-launch-missiles-from-warships-into-california-this-friday-and-saturday-as-part-of-vanity-parade-

Back in the day, Trump told the press: If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy Cohn
Alas, his favorite thug-fixer-lawyer has been dead since 1986 (having perished just six weeks after he was disbarred for fraud).
Now he has Cohn 2.0,
courtesy of slavish Pam Bondi,
who is systematically destroying the credibility of the Justice Department,
converting it into a Trump defense firm,
and spitting venom at anyone with the temerity to ask adversarial queries
https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-found-his-replacement-for-roy-cohn/

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3m33l7jlqv22i

The blueprint – How Lewis Powell’s confidential memo became the secret manifesto for corporate takeover.

The players – From Joseph Coors to Roger Ailes to Leonard Leo—and how they built a machine to dominate politics.

The turning point – The Citizens United case and how a speculative lawsuit became the legal scaffolding for unlimited dark money.

The threat today – Why disclosure laws are crumbling, how dark money came to dictate elections, and how the John Roberts Supreme Court enabled it all.

https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-the-hidden-plot-to-legalize-corruption-in-america/

Dozens of coal miners and their families are protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building,
arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease,
an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust.
They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust,
a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease.
But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
and the Trump administration has paused enforcement while the lawsuit plays out.

Labor unions, Democrats and a growing number of miners accuse the Trump administration of ignoring workers
while using hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies to bolster the companies that operate coal plants and mining operations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/climate/coal-miners-black-lung-protest-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A last-minute plan by Donald Trump to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to a multinational Gaza summit in Egypt
was aborted after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said he would not land his plane in Sharm el-Sheikh if the invitation stood.
The mid-air power power struggle started after it was announced that the Israeli prime minister had accepted a late invitation from Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/13/trump-invite-netanyahu-gaza-summit-aborted-erdogan-warning?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“CDC is over. It was killed.
This administration only knows how to break things.
They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players.
People should be scared,”
said Dr. Demetre ,
former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3m2yqxa44os2l

The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent,
while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent.
On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.
The Trump administration’s assault on diversity programs and cuts to the federal work force will make it even more difficult for Black workers to recover when conditions improve.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/economy/black-unemployment-federal-layoffs-diversity-initiatives.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Dr. Catharine Young, a senior fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, described the layoffs as a “Friday night massacre”
and warned of severe repercussions for both US citizens and the entire world.
“This isn’t streamlining the government
—it’s dismantling our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks before they spread,”
she wrote in a post on X. “You can’t cut your way to safety.”

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a US-born virologist who works at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, wrote that
the CDC “is being eviscerated right now” and painted a dire picture of what that means for public health.
“America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight,” she explained on Bluesky.
“Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity.
It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.”

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and politician who is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Michigan,
said that the layoffs made it much more likely that deadly diseases such as the ebola virus would spread unchecked.
“10 years ago, Ebola ravaged through Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
—it made landfall here,” he wrote on X.
“Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo right now.
What stands between us and Ebola if it keeps spreading?
The folks at CDC who [President Donald] Trump and [Office of Management and Budget Director Russell] Vought are using this shutdown to eliminate.
Dumb shit.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cdc-mass-layoffs

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests
—not be a tool of the federal govt.

Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/10/virginia-senate-leaders-express-unequivocal-opposition-to-compact

https://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3m2unem4sfs2v

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement

https://www.rawstory.com/wyoming-librarian/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68e84ca580da070001f250d1&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump’s building a golf course in Qatar.
He accepted a $400M luxury jet as a gift from Qatar.
His son-in-law got a $1.5B investment from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries.
His top officials like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi worked for Qatar.

And now this.

https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3m2tvwikc2t2v

If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive,
the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president,
a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.

https://theconversation.com/the-supreme-court-is-headed-toward-a-radically-new-vision-of-unlimited-presidential-power-265840