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UK jails Chinese crypto scammer
Nov 12, 2025

UK jails Chinese crypto scammer

Qian Zhimin bought bitcoin using funds stolen from 120,000 Chinese people, mainly pensioners, before fleeing China for a London mansion in 2017.

On Veterans’ Day, Remember James Kutcher, Hero of the Red Scare
Nov 11, 2025

On Veterans’ Day, Remember James Kutcher, Hero of the Red Scare

When President Donald Trump announced his suspension of collective bargaining rights for federal employees, his reasoning elicited feelings of déjà vu. Trump’s March Executive Order justified busting the unions representing workers at the Veterans Administration, Treasury Department, and several other agencies with a flimsy justification of “national security.” Trump’s actions not only reveal his administration’s conception that organized labor is an enemy within, they also recall one of the most trying times for civil liberties in the United States, and the truly heroic efforts made to fight off a right-wing purge of the federal government. Now, on Veterans’ Day, we ought to look back on that history, and remember one of its principal heroes: a man named James Kutcher. 

Then They Came for the Dreamers
Nov 11, 2025

Then They Came for the Dreamers

On the morning of August 13, Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira was pulling up to his mother’s house in Horizon City, Texas, when three unmarked cars blocked the driveway. Seven officers in plain clothes—some wearing masks, at least one armed—surrounded Gamez Lira’s truck. They ordered him to turn off the engine and step out of the […]