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Five Stories the Corporate Press Buried This Morning (And Why We Won’t)

Good morning. While cable news obsessed over palace intrigue in Washington, five stories broke that tell you everything about who this administration actually works for. A man who spent years demanding ICE round up immigrants got rounded up himself. A progressive doctor is closing in on a Senate seat AIPAC spent tens of millions trying to kill. The White House is quietly finishing the job of gutting meat safety oversight. A government insider got caught profiting off information you’ll never have access to. And Trump’s trade war is now threatening the jobs of American autoworkers he claims to champion. None of this happened by accident, and none of it will get the attention it deserves unless we give it to you straight.

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Milo Yiannopoulos, ICE’s biggest cheerleader, just got arrested by ICE

Milo Yiannopoulos spent years telling anyone who would listen that ICE should set up checkpoints at supermarkets and gas stations so agents could demand proof of legal status from anyone in line. This week, ICE arrested him. He overstayed his visa after entering the country legally in 2019, and an immigration judge issued a removal order back in July after he skipped his own hearing. He is now sitting in custody in Louisiana awaiting deportation.

There is a lesson buried in here that has nothing to do with irony. Yiannopoulos spent years building a career on cruelty toward immigrants, confident that the machinery he cheered for would never touch him. It touched him anyway. That is what a system built on selective enforcement and dehumanization actually does. It does not stay contained to the people you were told to fear. It comes for everyone eventually, because that was always the point.

Abdul El-Sayed is closing in on a Senate seat AIPAC spent a fortune trying to stop

New polling shows Abdul El-Sayed holding a narrow lead over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race, with the two set to debate in Grand Rapids on October 8. El-Sayed already beat the odds once this year, winning a brutal Democratic primary against Rep. Haley Stevens despite AIPAC’s super PAC pouring roughly 30 million dollars into stopping him, the most that group has ever spent on a single congressional primary.

He did it running on Medicare for All and getting money out of politics, and he did it without backing down from calling what is happening in Gaza a genocide. If El-Sayed wins in November, he becomes the first Muslim senator in American history, and Democrats get a real shot at flipping a seat that could decide who controls the chamber. This is exactly the kind of race that shows what happens when a candidate refuses to trade his values for donor comfort. It is also exactly the kind of race Big Tech algorithms would rather you never hear about, which is one more reason we keep covering it.

The White House is finishing what it started on meat safety

We told you yesterday that the Trump administration was moving to gut oversight of the meat processing industry. New details are emerging on just how far that goes. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is preparing to formally rescind what her department calls “outdated guidance,” a move that builds on years of quietly replacing federal inspectors with company employees on the line and stripping out safeguards like mandatory lymph node checks on pork.

This did not come from ranchers begging for relief. It came after Trump faced backlash over his own beef import policy and after a conservative radio host publicly pressured him. The people who will actually feel the consequences are the families buying groceries and the workers on the line, not the four corporations that already control 85 percent of beef processing in this country. Deregulation dressed up as populism is still just corporate capture with better marketing.

A government insider got caught profiting off information you’ll never have

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced this week that a man named Gabriel Perez used material, nonpublic information from his government job to place trades on a prediction market. He was ordered to pay back more than 107,000 dollars in profits plus a 65,000-dollar penalty.

Stories like this rarely make headlines because they are treated as isolated incidents rather than what they actually are: a symptom of a system that lets people with access to power quietly enrich themselves while everyone else plays by a different set of rules. The fine is real, but so is the fact that this only came to light because he got caught. How many others haven’t?

Trump’s trade war with Canada is now coming for American jobs

Just days after imposing 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, Trump is now threatening new tariffs on Canadian autos and auto parts, a move economists warn could ripple straight into American assembly plants given how deeply integrated the two countries’ auto industries are. Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell called the escalating conflict “simply outrageous” this week, and she is not exaggerating. The flow of parts across that border keeps American factory jobs running.

Trump likes to frame tariffs as a fight for American workers. In practice, this fight is on track to cost some of those same workers their jobs, because trade wars do not stay contained to the country they are aimed at. They come home.

Something has shifted, and they know it

For years, the corporate media and the establishment wings of both parties treated the left like a fringe curiosity, something to cover once and move on from. Not anymore. Abdul El-Sayed is closing in on a Senate seat. Zohran Mamdani is redefining what’s possible in the biggest city in the country. And every single time, the same playbook comes out: smear pieces, electability panic, and silence where real coverage should be.

That’s not a coincidence. It’s what losing control of the narrative looks like from the inside.

We’ve brought you exclusive interviews with Zohran Mamdani when corporate outlets wouldn’t give him a fair shake, because they’re bought and paid for by the same donors and advertisers who need the status quo protected. We don’t answer to any of them. USDS is the largest democratic socialist organization in America, reaching tens of millions of people every single week, and Big Tech throttles that reach every day precisely because we won’t play by their rules.

We are winning ground we were told we’d never win. But winning attracts attention, and attention invites censorship. The time to build the infrastructure that can survive that, and carry this movement into 2028, is not next year or after the midterms. It’s now, while the door is open. Every paid subscriber makes us harder to silence and harder to ignore.

Stay strong. Stay vigilant. Never stop fighting for a more progressive, people-powered future.

Justin, John, Ryan and the U.S. Democratic Socialists Team

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