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FBI director Kash Patel and UFC CEO Dana White announced:
Mixed martial arts fighters are set to host a two-day "training program" for FBI agents
Current and former UFC fighters will host an “exclusive training seminar”
at the FBI’s Special Agent Academy in Quantico, Virginia, this weekend,
according to a statement released Wednesday.
Academy students and senior FBI staff are expected to attend 🍿

Kash Patel partners with UFC in having MMA fighters train FBI agents, Dana White reveals
The two-day ‘exclusive training seminar’ will be led by former and current UFC athletes

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? | Vox
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I really want a podcast that mixes anarchist academic papers and interviews with their authors with real projects from around the world and interviews with organizers and agitators in a single content stream.
Anyone know if anything like that exists today?

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Governor Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/03/04/…

Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
In a letter to the State Department, the governor mentioned "immediate actions" he wants in place to help U.S. citizens, including a public commitment to use charter flights, military aircraft or both to assist Americans trying to leave the region.

AOC says Trump is willing to
‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack
as #Epstein files distraction
The Progressive Democrat accuses Donald Trump of ‘impulsively’ launching military action overseas
with no exit plan

AOC says Trump is willing to ‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack as Epstein files distraction
Progressive Democrat accuses President Donald Trump of ‘impulsively’ launching military action overseas with no exit plan

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

Noem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…

Noem defends her portrayal of killed Minneapolis protesters as agitators
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended her agency in testimony and under questioning at a Senate hearing. She appeared before the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday as a backlash grows over deadly immigration enforcement actions tied to President Donald Trump's deportation push. It was her first congressional hearing since two protesters were killed in Minneapolis by Homeland Security officers in January. Noem's department sent hundreds of officers to Minnesota. Protesters marched and…

A vow to end wars is left in the dust
For a decade, Trump promised to end what he calls forever wars,
casting himself as a leader opposed to prolonged conflicts in the Middle East and who would rather pursue peace in the world.
Now, early in his second term, Trump is taking military action against Iran that could expand well beyond a limited effort to halt the country’s nuclear program.
In a video posted on Truth Social, the commander-in-chief said American forces also…

Anti-war activists in the '60s and early '70s did not just organize headline-grabbing mass marches.
They patiently worked together to build a vast anti-war infrastructure
– legal groups, GI coffeehouses, alternative newspapers and national anti-war coalitions
– that could sustain a wide range of future actions.
In working towards that goal,
anti-war activists benefited from the rich social fabric of associational life in the US
– a fabric that has…