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![People take part in a demonstration in Paris, France, on October 31, 2026 [Abdul Saboor/Reuters]](https://kewus.net/yesterday/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/demonstrators.webp "People take part in a demonstration in Paris, France, on October 31, 2026 [Abdul Saboor/Reuters]")
Ludivine Bantigny @ Al Jazeera:
No, France is not ‘burning’
It is merely witnessing another episode of unrest that – like many others in its history – has a violent element to it.
For the past few weeks, images of burning buildings and devastated shopping streets have dominated international media coverage of France. “France is burning”, “France in turmoil”, “Chaos in France”, the headlines have declared, focusing on the violent element of an otherwise peaceful student movement demanding better conditions for education.
To understand why this has happened in the past and is happening today, let us start by examining the word “violence”. In today’s context, it is used indiscriminately to refer to a broken shop window, a police officer injuring a demonstrator, a car set on fire, or shots fired at an unarmed crowd.
This confusion tends to inaccurately place material damage and attacks on people, revolt and its repression, on the same level.
James Chater @ BBC:
Shops looted as German cost-of-living protests turn violent
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Marc Elias:
“it won’t be over on Tuesday”Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – November 1, 2026Having seemingly given up on the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump and the officials in his administration are indicating that they intend to steal the 2026 midterm election to maintain Republican control of the Senate.
Trump continues to try to use the power of the government to boost his own popularity. …
But it’s not just in boosting Trump that the administration is corrupting our government. Yesterday, in an astonishing illustration of just how thoroughly Trump and his cronies are weaponizing the government to cement their power, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop threatening local and state election officials with criminal prosecution if they don’t do as the administration demands.
…Central to this effort to keep control of the Senate is the state of Alaska, where Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola has a slight edge over the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Maya Barkin, Wayne Ma, Reyk Knuhtsen @ SemiAnalysis:
The Datacenter Backlash Goes Bipartisan
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Dissent in Bloom:
The Fracture of the New Right and the Birth of Something Far More Frightening
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Robert Reich:
How to close the Muskrat Loophole
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Jason Easley:
Haley Stevens set her career in the Democratic Party on fire on Sunday by jumping aboard a sinking ship and endorsing Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate election.
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD:
COVID rebounds, Flu A surges in the West, LDN fails to beat placebo, 497 new measles cases in 2 weeks, Screwworm in 3 states
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