MER Roundtable: Immigration Under Fascism

Zachary Woodman , Alex McHugh, and Nathan Goodman join Cory Massimino for a panel on Trump’s authoritarian actions on immigration, the history of immigration control and regulation, and what you can do to resist the administration’s authoritarian xenophobia.

https://youtu.be/7Th0ClGnQYk

Kelly Wright on Grand Juries and How the State Attempts to Control Information

Today we are joined by Kelly Wright. Kelly has written for the Center on topics ranging from the history of anarchist thought, transgender liberation, and police militarization. Kelly also served as Chelsea Manning’s Campaign Manager for her run for U.S. Senate in the Democratic Primary in Maryland in 2018 and is a member of Chelsea’s support committee providing material support for Chelsea as she defies a federal grand jury. Our topic today is on the legal tools the US Government has to target whistleblowers and dissenters and restrict the civil liberties of every day Americans. Today we cover the legal ground surrounding grand juries, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and other examples of legal overreach by the state. Kelly is able to draw from a wide variety of examples from the history of state overreach.

https://youtu.be/gIspzAPVtG4

Summaries of 2003 and 2004 Congressional acts authorizing HHS Secretary to declare emergencies justifying 'emergency use' authorization for introducing EUA products into interstate commerce
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/summaries-of-2003-and-2004-congressional

Common law, statutory law and administrative law preclusion of judicial review of government acts allegedly undertaken for disease surveillance and control.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/common-law-statutory-law-and-administrative

On vaccination as a psychological and physical port
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/on-vaccination-as-a-psychological

False communicable disease threat indoctrination programs, and product research, development, liability indemnification, approval, procurement and use programs
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/false-communicable-disease-threat

Repel the Collective Machine with Shane Ross

For the 12th installment of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson (@NalevoA3) met with Shane Ross (@taocuck) to discuss their article titled Malicious Faux-Individualism and Market Anti-Capitalism. Shane is a Taoist, anarchist, and mutualist writer based in the twin cities.

https://youtu.be/7hd0P6NkC_8

Let the (intentionally?) confusing fear porn begin

So we have a person coming from El Salvadore;
'...involved a patient who returned from travel to El Salvador...'

Oh wait, its Guatemala;
'...confirmed a case of New World screwworm in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United States from Guatemala....'

Or they just don't care to even keep their bullshit straight;
'Nixon did not address the discrepancy on the source of the human case.'

Exclusive: U.S. confirms nation's first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-confirms-nations-first-travel-associated-human-screwworm-case-connected-2025-08-25/

Emma Goldman and Mutualism Co-Op with Shane Ross

For the 26th installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Shane Ross (@taocuck) to discuss their article Emma Goldman and Individualist Anarchism which is part of Center for a Stateless Society's Mutual Exchange Symposium on egoism.

https://youtu.be/oCglYI2tkg0

No Bosses, No Landlords, No Bureaucrats with Kevin Carson

In this first episode of The Enragés, host Joel Williamson sits down with Kevin Carson to discuss Kevin’s recent piece on the Center for a Stateless Society website “The Myth of the Private Sector, Part I: Why Big-Small and Vertical-Horizontal Trumps ‘Public-Private’”—a conversion that spans from the role of government interference in the scale and structure of economic institutions to the definitions of “large” and “small” to possible right-libertarian objections to Kevin’s argument and beyond.

https://youtu.be/AnaGU9m7ecY

The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family

With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. From her media baron father, who acted as a high-level spy for Israel, her sister, working to push Tel Aviv’s interests in Silicon Valley, her brothers, who founded a dubious but highly influential anti-Islamic extremism think tank, and nephews in influential roles at the State Department and White House, the Maxwell clan have wide-ranging ties to U.S. and Israeli state power. This is their story...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/

Convenient timing

Mpox Death in Mice Prevented by Antibodies Targeting A35 Protein
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/infectious-diseases/mpox-death-in-mice-prevented-by-antibodies-targeting-a35-protein/

When Owning the Libs Trumps Fighting Fascism

'In stressing the unique level of the fascist threat today, we do not deny that it is an outgrowth of strong racist, patriarchal, and authoritarian currents which have existed throughout the country’s history. If anything, the fact that this new level of authoritarianism has grown out of the previous American culture makes it clear that we cannot go back to the status quo ante. Once Trumpism is defeated, we can never return to “normal.” We must finish the work of Reconstruction that was never more than half-heartedly begun after the Civil War, and ended before it was fairly started with the Great Betrayal of 1877; we must reckon with the toxic political, social, and economic culture of our society, and all its structural injustices, on a scale greater than the denazification of postwar Germany, in order to make sure this never happens again.'

https://c4ss.org/content/60609

Even more convenient

NIH starts trial of Moderna's mRNA Nipah virus vaccine
https://pharmaphorum.com/news/nih-starts-trial-of-modernas-mrna-nipah-virus-vaccine

Gotta have some scary bat pictures

Nipah virus infects 4 in India hot spot as officials probe source
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-virus-infects-4-india-hot-spot-officials-probe-source

Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and genetic diversity of Nipah virus strains from Bangladesh: 2016-2023
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971225002346

And in a 'simulation scenario' from THE NATIONAL BLUEPRINT FOR BIODEFENSE (2024)

CHAIR: I call this first hearing of the Joint Inquiry to order. Nine weeks ago, some
nation or terrorist group—we still do not know who—attacked the Nation’s Capital
and other US cities with biological weapons...

...Laboratory tests confirm that Nipah virus caused the disease...

https://biodefensecommission.org/reports/the-national-blueprint-for-biodefense/

https://biodefensecommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/National-Blueprint-for-Biodefense-2024_final_digital.pdf

And no specific pathogen mentioned, but also this

DARPA to simulate disease outbreaks: model lockdown, vaccination & messaging strategies
https://sociable.co/military-technology/darpa-simulate-disease-outbreaks-lockdown-vaccination-messaging-strategies/