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Trump Tyranny Tracker | Day 600: Sept. 15, 2026
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Welcome to today’s Trump Tyranny Tracker…
Trump’s efforts to exert control over the midterms, DOJ’s expanding investigations of his opponents, and the mounting military and economic costs of the Iran war are among today’s top stories.
Today at a Glance
Election Interference — FBI Director Kash Patel refused to rule out sending agents to polling places during the midterms.
Weaponization — DOJ is continuing investigations of former officials involved in investigations of Trump, including former CIA Director John Brennan.
Iran War — The war has cost the Pentagon about $38 billion and is continuing to drain U.S. missile defense inventories.
What We Need to Pay Attention To
Patel Suggests F.B.I. Agents May Be Sent to the Polls
What Happened: Kash Patel refused to rule out sending agents to polling places during the midterms, telling senators the FBI has election crime coordinators in all 56 field offices and would not “shy away” from election enforcement. Federal law generally prohibits armed federal officers from being deployed at election sites.
Why It Matters: Armed federal agents at polling places are meant to intimidate voters. Using federal law enforcement around voting is an authoritarian tactic designed to make people afraid to exercise their rights.
Source: New York Times
Corruption
Papa Johns, Propaganda and Putin: How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
What Happened: Trump appointed venture capitalist Thomas Dans to chair the U.S. Arctic Research Commission despite having no formal scientific background. Dans has longstanding business ties to Russia, has promoted closer U.S.-Russia relations and pro-Kremlin content, and used his government position to champion a Dutch shipbuilder while his consulting firm was helping the company pursue a federal icebreaker contract.
Why It Matters: Dans has access to sensitive government information while his financial interests remain hidden from the public. Trump put a man with longstanding Russian business ties and overlapping private interests in a position to shape U.S. policy in one of the world’s most strategically important regions.
Source: ProPublica
Power Consolidation
Trump’s push to restrict mail ballots has failed. Other efforts to reshape the midterms are ongoing
What Happened: The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s plan to overhaul mail voting before the midterms, but other federal election efforts are continuing. DOJ is demanding sensitive voter data and preserving 2024 election records, DHS is investigating voter rolls for noncitizens, and Trump officials have asked the Supreme Court to restore a federal voter verification system blocked by a lower court over privacy concerns.
Why It Matters: One of Trump’s election schemes was stopped, but the larger push continues. Trump is using multiple federal agencies to expand federal control over elections just weeks before the midterms.
Source: Associated Press
Trump Threatens to Block Kennedy Center Renovations Over Naming Dispute
What Happened: A federal judge again blocked the Kennedy Center from putting Trump’s name on the building or grounds without congressional approval. Hours later, the Trump-chaired board voted to close the center, and Trump said the $257 million renovation will not proceed unless the ruling is overturned and his name is added.
Why It Matters: Trump is holding the future of a national institution hostage to whether it bears his name. Using presidential power to turn public institutions into monuments to the leader is a classic authoritarian tactic.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Weaponization of Institutions
‘Grand conspiracy’ probe of Trump foes goes on after prosecutor’s departure
What Happened: DOJ is continuing its mass investigation of former officials who investigated Trump. Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in October, and multiple grand jury investigations remain active despite the resignation of the prosecutor overseeing the probe.
Source: The Washington Post
DOJ seeks to revive cases against Comey, James a year after dismissals
What Happened: DOJ is asking a federal appeals court to revive criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James that were thrown out after a judge ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the Trump-appointed prosecutor who secured the indictments, had been unlawfully serving as interim U.S. attorney.
Source: The Washington Post
DHS agents allegedly directed to ‘misrepresent’ themselves to access state voter rolls, whistleblower claims
What Happened: A federal whistleblower alleges DHS ordered immigration officers to pose as individual voters to access state voter databases as part of its “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” Officers were given less than two hours of training and told to review up to 40 people a day using DHS data that the whistleblower says can conflict with state records.
Source: ABC News
Media Suppression & Authoritarian Tactics
Democracy indicators in US at lowest levels for 50 years, data shows
What Happened: International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy report found key U.S. democracy indicators have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years. The organization pointed to expanding executive power, retaliation against perceived enemies, and the weakening of the rule of law.
Why It Matters: The erosion of American democracy is now measurable across decades of data. Trump and Republicans are attacking judicial independence, press freedom, elections, and checks on government power, and the data shows the damage.
Source: The Guardian
Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth Speech
What Happened: The Pentagon is asking commanders to handpick troops for Pete Hegseth’s Sept. 30 “State of the Force” address who meet fitness and waist-to-height requirements and have “impeccable” grooming and uniforms.
Why It Matters: Handpicking troops based on appearance turns the military into political theater, using service members to project an image of strength and conformity around political leadership.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Human & Civil Rights Abuses
Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
What Happened: A DHS inspector general investigation found detainees at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz were confined for up to nearly two hours in small metal cages staff called “calming areas.” Investigators said the cages violated standards for humane treatment. They also documented overcrowding, insect-infested showers, insufficient access to showers and recreation, and inadequate access to legal information.
Why It Matters: The U.S. is putting people in cages and subjecting them to inhumane conditions. This is more evidence of human rights abuses being carried out by the Trump regime.
Source: Washington Post
Government Disruption
Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
What Happened: Federal agencies spent an estimated $9.5 billion paying employees on administrative leave in 2025, six times the 2023 level, according to the Government Accountability Office. About $6.7 billion was tied to DOGE’s deferred resignation program as part of an effort to dismantle federal agencies. The program paid workers who agreed to leave the government while they stopped working.
Source: New York Times
FEMA Could Still Lose More Jobs Despite Court Ruling
What Happened: A federal judge ruled that DHS officials illegally planned to cut FEMA’s workforce roughly in half and improperly deleted Signal messages about the plan. The ruling does not reverse thousands of earlier departures or prevent future cuts as Trump shifts more disaster response responsibility to states. FEMA now has nearly 4,000 fewer deployable workers than it did at the start of 2024.
Source: New York Times
Iran war has cost the US more than $38B, budget office says
What Happened: Trump’s Iran war cost the Pentagon more than $38 billion through August 1 and is costing up to another $3 billion a month, according to the Congressional Budget Office. CBO estimates disruptions to oil and shipping will push inflation about half a percentage point higher in early 2027.
Why It Matters: Americans are paying for the war twice: tens of billions in military spending and higher prices at home. Trump’s war is also depleting key missile defense inventories that will take years to rebuild.
Source: Associated Press
Pennsylvania measles-associated deaths climb to four as outbreak grows
What Happened: Pennsylvania reported two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the state’s total to four. All four people were unvaccinated, and Pennsylvania has recorded 693 cases across 38 counties as U.S. cases have climbed above 3,200 this year.
Source: Reuters
Air pollution spiked after the Trump administration stopped embassy monitoring
What Happened: Trump shut down a State Department program that publicly monitored air quality at more than 80 U.S. embassies and consulates in March 2025. A new study found pollution increased 24% to 33% across 46 cities after the monitoring stopped, with the largest increases in places with few alternative sources of air quality data.
Source: NPR
Imperial & Geopolitical Watch
The U.S. Is Burning Through Its Supply of Interceptors to Counter Iran’s Attacks
What Happened: U.S. forces fired 60 to 70 Patriot interceptors and more than a dozen THAADs against roughly 20 Iranian ballistic missiles targeting a U.S. base in Jordan last week. Some missiles still struck American aircraft at the base.
Why It Matters: Trump’s Iran war is burning through limited U.S. missile defense stockpiles at an astonishing rate. Dozens of interceptors are being fired against individual Iranian attacks, draining weapons the U.S. needs to defend its forces and prepare for other conflicts.
Source: Wall Street Journal
US Republican lawmaker seeks Hegseth’s impeachment over Iran
What Happened: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, accusing him of abusing his office by carrying out military action against Iran without congressional authorization. Massie filed the resolution as privileged, requiring the House to address it within two legislative days.
Source: Reuters
More than 300 South Korean workers are challenging the Trump administration over its Georgia immigration raid
What Happened: More than 300 South Korean workers detained during last year’s raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia have begun filing claims against nine federal agencies, alleging unlawful detention and mistreatment. The raid detained 475 people even though the search warrant identified just four targets, none of whom were the Korean workers.
Source: CNN
Far-Right & Russian Influence Watch
Unmasking RussiaWho Were the Russians at Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding?Yesterday, ProPublica published an excellent in-depth investigation revealing that Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman close to Putin who runs the International Boxing Association, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars helping pay for Donald Trump Jr.’s intimate wedding in the Bahamas earlier this year. Kremlev attended the wedding alongside a group of Russians whose presence reportedly left some of the 50 guests wondering who they were…Read more7 days ago · 418 likes · 25 comments · Olga LautmanUnmasking RussiaA Very Active Day Across Europe as Russia EscalatesToday has been such an active day across Europe that I wanted to do a quick post to document it. I will also be doing a Substack Live with Julie Roginsky today at 5:30 pm ET to discuss. There is a lot happening and every time I check the news another incident is being reported…Read more7 days ago · 235 likes · 26 comments · Olga LautmanEconomic News
Iran war expected to cause a spike in US inflation, according to budget watchdog
What Happened: The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Iran war will add 0.5 percentage points to U.S. inflation in early 2027 as disruptions to oil, natural gas, and shipping drive up energy costs. The war had already cost the Pentagon about $38 billion through August 1.
Source: CNN
US-Canada trade war further taxes small businesses as costs rise during the Iran war
What Happened: U.S. and Canadian tariffs cover about $20 billion in goods on each side, with some products facing taxes as high as 50%. Small businesses report canceled orders, lost customers and higher costs for equipment, materials and shipping as Trump’s Iran war drives up fuel and transportation expenses.
Source: Associated Press
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By the Numbers
$38 billion — Estimated Pentagon cost of the Iran war through August 1
0.5 percentage points — Estimated increase in U.S. inflation in early 2027 from disruptions caused by the Iran war
60–70 — Patriot interceptors fired against roughly 20 Iranian ballistic missiles in a single attack
$9.5 billion — Estimated amount federal agencies spent paying employees on administrative leave in 2025
$257 million — Kennedy Center renovation Trump said would not proceed unless his name is put on the building
4 — Measles-associated deaths reported in Pennsylvania
693 — Measles cases reported across 38 Pennsylvania counties
3,200+ — Measles cases reported nationwide this year
80+ — U.S. embassies and consulates previously covered by the air quality monitoring program
300+ — South Korean workers challenging their detention during the Georgia immigration raid
$20 billion — Approximate value of goods subject to tariffs on each side of the U.S.-Canada trade dispute
50% — Tariff rate imposed on some U.S.-Canada goods
56 — FBI field offices with election crime coordinators, according to Kash Patel
What to Watch Next
Trump’s push into elections is continuing — How much further will federal agencies go in seeking voter data, scrutinizing voter rolls and expanding federal involvement in elections before the midterms?
DOJ’s investigations of Trump’s former investigators are continuing — Who else will be targeted as multiple grand jury investigations remain active?
FEMA is already operating with thousands fewer workers — Will Trump push ahead with further cuts despite the court ruling, and what will that mean when the next major disaster hits?
The Iran war is draining U.S. missile defenses — How long can the Pentagon continue burning through limited Patriot and THAAD interceptors faster than they can be replaced?
The economic costs of the Iran war are reaching Americans at home — How much further will energy, transportation and consumer prices rise as the war continues?
Key Takeaways
Election Control — Trump’s mail ballot order was blocked, but multiple federal agencies are still taking actions involving voter rolls, election records and voter verification.
Weaponization of DOJ — DOJ continues investigating former officials involved in investigations of Trump while seeking to revive cases against Comey and James.
Government Hollowing — Federal workforce cuts have left FEMA with thousands fewer deployable workers while taxpayers spent billions paying other federal employees not to work.
Iran War — Trump’s war has cost tens of billions of dollars, driven up energy costs, and rapidly depleted critical U.S. missile defense inventories.
Rising Costs — Trump’s Iran war and U.S.-Canada tariffs are hitting Americans and small businesses through higher energy, transportation, material and shipping costs.
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Trump made over 1,000 July stock trades worth up to $270m, filings reveal
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Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July, according to a Guardian analysis of his latest financial disclosure released Tuesday.
His two largest sales were of Amazon and Microsoft stock, selling between $5m and $25m each on 20 July. That same day, he also sold up to $5m worth of Oracle and Costco stock, $500,000 to $1m in Nvidia, and bought up to $5m worth of shares in Intuit and Salesforce, among dozens of other transactions.
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Claude Opus 5.5 et GPT-6 Sol sortent le même jour : Anthropic et OpenAI ont du mal à « ralentir » l’IA
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Quelques jours après avoir appelé à ralentir la course à l'IA, Anthropic lance Claude Opus 5.5 et OpenAI complète sa gamme GPT-6 avec GPT-6-Sol et GPT-6-Luna. La bonne surprise vient des prix : les deux entreprises baissent les tarifs de leurs API.
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And the Ban Played On
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US President Donald Trump takes a question from NBC reporter Kelly O’Donnell in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2026. Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images.For the insecure tyrant, “all questioning is a forcible intrusion … like a knife cutting into the flesh of the victim,” the writer Elias Canetti once wrote. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of fascism and authoritarianism at NYU, invoked that line to describe President Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Trump has insulted and excluded individual journalists throughout both of his terms, Ben-Ghiat noted, but banning entire news organizations marks an escalation. She places the latest move inside a recognizable pattern of autocratic behavior, noting that “such leaders very rarely course correct. Instead they double down: aggressions increase as their legitimacy decreases, and the mania to control the narrative grows.” She calls it “autocratic backfire” and ties it to Trump’s sinking numbers ahead of the midterms.
It began, as many things do with the 47th president, with a Friday afternoon Truth Social post, perhaps with help from his aide and confidante, Natalie Harp. “I am banning [CNN, MS NOW and Politico] from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” Trump wrote, adding that the ban was “effective immediately.” He continued, “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” warning that “other Fake News Media Outlets” would follow. He gave no indication of how the ban would be enforced, and some White House staffers were reportedly caught off guard by the announcement, as has become quite common of late.
On Saturday morning, security stopped reporters and a cameraman from MS NOW at a West Wing entrance, and Secret Service officers confiscated their press badges. CNN’s Betsy Klein and Politico’s Cheyenne Haslett were denied entry the same morning. By Sunday night, the White House had also pulled CNN from Monday’s pool television rotation, an assignment that would have had CNN crew members traveling with Trump to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Asked whether the ban was meant to intimidate the press, Trump denied it. “No, no, no, no. I dislike dishonest press, like you. I think you’re terrible,” he responded to a Bloomberg reporter, adding that the outlets “purposely write negative news” to “diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration.”
Monday evening, the White House’s official account teased an announcement. “Something’s coming. Stay tuned,” it declared over footage of an old television set. Then it launched “Trump TV: The Essentials Station” at 7 p.m., a 24/7 stream described as covering “the Trump Administration’s biggest moments all in one place.” It went live the same day the television pool went dark. A handful of pro-Trump accounts moved to fill the coverage gap within hours, declaring themselves a replacement White House pool. But as legal analyst Joyce Vance pointed out, they lacked the technical capacity, meaning the equipment, staffing and control-room infrastructure pool duty requires.
Propaganda, Ben-Ghiat wrote, needs both “noise and silence.” The ban supplied the silence, and the White House supplied the noise: a 24/7 in-house stream, “Trump TV,” launched from whitehouse.gov the same evening. But the audience did not follow. According to reporting by The Daily Beast, the stream, hosted on the White House’s YouTube channel, drew about 8,000 viewers at its 7 p.m. launch; 90 minutes later, viewership had fallen below 4,000, and by 9 p.m. it was down to roughly 3,000 — a fraction of what the major networks draw in the same prime-time hour. By 10:40 p.m. only 2,425 people were watching, a sliver of the channel’s 3.18 million subscribers, and it bottomed out overnight at barely 1,000 viewers during a rerun of a year-old Trump speech alongside Britain’s King Charles.
Trump TV may have failed right out of the gate, but the ban is in place for now. So will it be struck down by the courts? This should be an easy yes, but there are some nuances. To understand where things stand and how we got here, we need to rewind to Trump 1.0.
The ban as a pattern, not an aberration
This is, of course, not the first time Trump has tried to silence his critics with an outright ban. During his first term, in November 2018, we got a clear view of the autocrat-to-be when Trump suspended CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials, following a heated exchange over the midterm elections. CNN sued, arguing the revocation violated both Acosta’s First Amendment right to report and his Fifth Amendment right to due process.
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, whom Trump had appointed to the bench the year before, granted CNN a temporary restraining order. But he did so only on the due process claim. He found the White House’s decision-making “so shrouded in mystery” that no one could explain who had pulled Acosta’s pass or why. Kelly was explicit about the limits of his ruling. “I have not determined that the First Amendment was violated here,” he wrote. Rather than litigate further, the White House permanently restored Acosta’s press pass, and CNN dropped the suit. The First Amendment question went unanswered.
Fast forward to Feb. 11, 2025, when Trump banned the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One after it declined to adopt “Gulf of America” in place of “Gulf of Mexico” in its stylebook. That was a particular level of petty, and the AP understandably sued. The case went before U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, another Trump appointee.
On April 8, 2025, McFadden granted a preliminary injunction, writing: “under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists — be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere — it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints. The Constitution requires no less.” He added that the AP was not asking for “extra special access” — “all the AP wants, and all it gets, is a level playing field.”
The White House appealed, and on June 6, 2025, a divided three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit stayed McFadden’s order as to the Oval Office, Air Force One and other small spaces. Judge Neomi Rao, writing for the panel’s conservative majority, reasoned that “these restricted presidential spaces are not First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion” and that “the White House therefore retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted.” But the panel drew a line at the Brady Briefing Room, where reporters work daily. “When the White House opens its facilities to the press generally... it cannot exclude journalists based on viewpoint.” The full D.C. Circuit declined to rehear the stay en banc on July 22, 2025. The same three-judge panel heard oral argument on the underlying merits on Nov. 24, 2025. Ten months later, it has still not ruled.
The networks answer
Following the White House’s latest blanket ban on three news outlets, CNN responded within hours of Trump’s post, before the ban had even taken effect. “We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do our reporting without hindrance or interference from the government,” the network wrote, “and this ban is an illegal assault on this fundamental right.” Politico’s global editor-in-chief, Jonathan Greenberger, told his newsroom on Saturday that reporter Cheyenne Haslett had been turned away at the gates. “We stand by her and all reporters here covering the White House. As we said yesterday, we will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights.”
By Monday morning, those statements had gelled into court filings. CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed a joint lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, naming as plaintiffs the outlets themselves along with three of the barred reporters. The case, Cable News Network v. Trump, also names as defendants White House communications director Steven Cheung, Secret Service Director Sean Curran and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
“This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” the outlets said in a joint statement. “Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists’ credentials because it objected to our reporting. Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public’s right to independent journalism free from government interference.” The complaint named the harm directly. “This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles.”
The Associated Press, which fought its own yearlong access battle with the administration, issued a statement of solidarity. “No news organization — or person — should be retaliated against by the government over the words they use.” The White House Correspondents’ Association, led by Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, called for a reversal of the decision, warning that the exclusion set a standard that “could be applied to any outlet in the future” and declaring, “The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably.” The New York Times and The Washington Post joined the boycott by withholding even still photographs of Trump’s events that day.
ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC — the five networks that make up the White House television pool — announced Monday that they would suspend pool coverage of the president entirely in solidarity with the banned outlets. In a rare joint statement, the five declared, “The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.” C-SPAN noted that it could not broadcast White House events without the pool feed.
The Find Out portion arrived within hours. Monday afternoon, Trump held a ribbon-cutting for a new White House helipad. He declined to take questions shouted at him before he boarded Marine One but, without a pool camera or microphone present, his remarks were unintelligible over the noise of the parked helicopter. Newsmax, one of the few outlets still covering the event, acknowledged the problem on air. “There’s no microphone because the pool cameras aren’t there,” anchor Bianca de la Garza said, adding: “Obviously the ramifications are right here. Can’t hear what the president’s saying.” Axios called the moment “a remarkable and immediate ramification of Trump’s attempt to limit pool access.”
Later Monday, asked about the boycott after a meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Trump insisted he was not worried. “They said they were going to boycott me, but they never boycott me, so I wasn’t very worried about that.”
Veteran journalist and longtime anchor Dan Rather called the ban a test Trump is failing on his own terms. “Journalism has survived dictators, despots, and others who have tried to control the Fourth Estate. It will survive Donald Trump too.” He noted that the ban was announced without consulting the president’s own staff — “his chief of staff wasn’t even in Washington” — and argued that Fox’s participation in the boycott, more than anything else, “may be an indicator that even they are sensing that he has gone too far.”
Trump, the courts and the judge he already knows
Monday’s lawsuit drew an immediate reply from Trump himself. In a second Truth Social post, he complained about the assigned judge directly and previewed his own expected outcome: “The Judge’s name is Tim Kelly, and he was, sadly, appointed by ‘TRUMP.’ In other words, almost without question and, as usual, we’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown ‘sources,’ shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World.” He added: “With such a Crooked and Corrupt Press, how did I win in such a LANDSLIDE?” and called “FAKE NEWS ... A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
Kelly is the same judge who ordered Acosta’s credentials restored in 2018, a fact Trump volunteered along with his own prediction of the outcome. But Kelly’s docket includes another irony Trump has not mentioned. In 2023, Kelly handed down a 22-year sentence to former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio for seditious conspiracy. It was the longest sentence given to any Jan. 6 defendant. But Trump pardoned Tarrio on his first day back in office.
Reporters seeking comment on the lawsuit were directed by the press office to Trump’s own Truth Social post rather than given a formal statement. The White House is still without a press secretary since Karoline Leavitt’s departure. Fox News did obtain an unattributed line from “the White House” defending the ban. “The Fake News has no place demanding a spot in the President’s Oval Office. The lies they smear are a disservice to the American public and tear at the very fabric of our Democracy. They’re completely capable of reporting from directly outside.”
Vice President JD Vance offered the most substantive on-record defense so far, explaining to Breitbart that the banned outlets retain plenty of access short of White House credentials: “They can still report on the Trump White House. They can still get the public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration.”
The First Amendment quicksand beneath the ban
Legal takes on Trump’s position have reached a rare consensus: they are uniformly against it. Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck called the ban “overtly viewpoint-based” and said flatly that “this is just not a close case” — that hand-picking three outlets for exclusion because of the president’s disagreement with their coverage is “about as close to a textbook violation of the existing precedents as it comes.” He added that the outlets “should (and almost certainly will) win.”
Vladeck’s conservative counterpart, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who has been sharply critical of the banned outlets’ coverage and stresses that the White House “is not without good-faith arguments,” reaches the same conclusion, writing that “viewpoint discrimination has long been viewed as not a reasonable basis for exclusion.”
Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, explained that the ban’s legal exposure stems partly from where the outlets were banned from. “If President Trump means to expel these news organizations from the White House press pool, his action is doubly unconstitutional because the press pool is a ‘public forum’ under the First Amendment, which means the president can’t exclude journalists from it on the basis of their viewpoints.” Katie Fallow, the institute’s deputy litigation director, made the same point about the briefing room specifically, noting that “the courts have said repeatedly the government is not allowed to kick people out of that forum based on their viewpoint.”
Case law backs their confidence. Sherrill v. Knight is the leading precedent. In 1977, the D.C. Circuit considered the case of Robert Sherrill, a Nation correspondent denied a White House press pass on Secret Service security grounds. The court held that denying a pass to a bona fide journalist “violates the first amendment unless it furthers a compelling governmental interest identified by narrowly and specifically drawn standards,” and separately required notice, an opportunity to rebut, and a written decision before any pass could be revoked. The court did not find a freestanding constitutional right to White House access. But it found that once the government establishes that access, it cannot arbitrarily take it away.
The government is not entirely without an argument, but it rests on forum doctrine rather than any claim of unlimited discretion. Under Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1985), government property that has not been opened to general public discourse — a “nonpublic forum” — need only be governed by restrictions that are “viewpoint-neutral and reasonable.” That’s a far lower bar than the “strict scrutiny” courts apply to a public forum.
As Turley notes, the D.C. Circuit has already ruled for the White House on this theory. In Ateba v. Leavitt, the court upheld the denial of a permanent hard pass to journalist Simon Ateba, treating the White House press area as a nonpublic forum. And in the AP litigation, Justice Department lawyers pressed a version of the same argument to defend the Oval Office and Air Force One exclusions specifically because those spaces are not press facilities like the Brady Briefing Room but rooms intended for the president’s personal use, where he retains “personal autonomy” to decide whose questions he answers. Judge Rao’s stay in the AP case adopted that reasoning, finding the government likely to succeed as to those spaces specifically because they are not “First Amendment fora opened for private speech and discussion.”
The trouble for the White House is that this new ban does not target the Oval Office or Air Force One. It targets general grounds access, hard passes and pool duty. This is the White House’s general-purpose press infrastructure, the very part of the nonpublic-forum spectrum that Ateba and Rao’s own opinion treat differently. Even a nonpublic forum’s restrictions must be viewpoint-neutral; Sherrill, Ateba and Rao’s AP ruling all say so.
The government’s strongest argument, then, would have been to argue not that it can exclude CNN, MS NOW and Politico because of their viewpoints (which the ban clearly does, based on Trump’s own Truth Social posts) but that the exclusion represents a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral reallocation of limited space, unconnected to the content of the outlets’ coverage.
But nothing in the record so far suggests the regime intends to make that argument, or that it could do so credibly given Trump’s own statements.
I didn’t want any stupid press coverage anyway!
Given the law’s protection of open fora from viewpoint discrimination, and the White House’s very likely loss in this battle, we shouldn’t be surprised if, in a pique of spite, Trump decides to bar every member of the press from the White House. That’s admittedly a truly absurd and bad outcome for our democracy, even if it would feel like a welcome reprieve for many. But it would also be a self-own that would starve him of the very attention he craves and thrives on.
After all, “Trump TV,” with its few thousand die-hard viewers, isn’t going to get him the ratings he needs.
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Guardian political editor asks Trump about Iran war economic consequences – video
Reply sourceGuardian political editor Pippa Crerar asked Donald Trump if he had any sympathy for allied countries suffering from the devastating economic consequences of his war in Iran. The US president said he was confident prices would be lower after the war and that talks were under way
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Des agents IA dans votre smartphone ? C’est le pari de Qualcomm, qui y voit le futur de l’expérience utilisateur
Reply sourceComme à l’accoûtumée, c’est à Hawaï que Qualcomm présente sa nouvelle puce premium pour smartphones. Ou plutôt ses deux puces. Annoncées ce 22 septembre, elles se nomment Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 et Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
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Motorola se positionne sur les smartphones très haut de gamme avec son Motorola Signature 27
Reply sourceC’est à l’occasion du Snapdragon Tech Summit de Qualcomm que Motorola a choisi de lever le voile sur son nouveau “flagship” : le Motorola Signature 27. Il s’agira du premier smartphone équipé du Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, également annoncé ce 22 septembre.
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Trump praises Burnham despite tensions over AI, Chagos Islands and Iran
Reply sourceUS president calls UK prime minister ‘a natural businessperson’ as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York
Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is “more up” with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos Islands and the war in Iran.
At their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a “natural businessperson”, saying he thought he had “lots of assets on his side” and would be a “great” prime minister.
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Détection des violences sexuelles: la loi intégrale privée de sa mesure phare en commission
Les députés ont adopté, mardi 22 septembre en commission, un amendement supprimant l’entretien obligatoire destiné, à l’école, à repérer les enfants victimes. Ce qui revient à «accepter que ça continue», s’indigne la Coalition féministe et enfantiste à l’origine du texte.Reply source -
Hausse des prix des carburants: le gouvernement risque l’accident
Pour lutter contre la hausse des prix à la pompe, le gouvernement prolonge les aides existantes et continue de miser en premier lieu sur le plafonnement des prix dans les stations-service de Total. Il refuse toujours d’envisager le blocage des prix ou la taxation des superprofits des énergéticiens.Reply source -
Call it a win: boredom but no temper tantrums in Burnham’s first face-to-face with America’s King Baby
Reply sourceMeeting at the UN in New York, the UK prime minister showed signs he can handle trash-talking President Trump
How do you deal with a problem like The Donald? The simple answer is that you don’t. You can’t. The normal rules of political engagement don’t apply. The US president is like a five-year-old child with the world as his set of toys: a King Baby.
Nothing is ever constant or predictable. What’s agreed one day can be forgotten the next. Any deal can be interrupted with a temper tantrum at any time. Trying to second-guess Donald Trump is a fool’s errand.
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Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map
President Trump's enormous gains among Hispanic voters in the last election propelled him to victory in the national popular vote and prompted talk of a political realignment. Two years later, that talk is over. In an average of high-quality national polls over the last month, Democrats led Republicans among Hispanic likely voters by 35 percentage points, 64-29, on the generic congressional ballot, which asks voters which party they will support for Congress. That would mark an extraordinary reversal since 2024, when the same pollsters found Kamala Harris leading Donald J. Trump by an average of only seven points among Hispanic voters in their final surveys.Reply source -
First Thing: News outlets suspend coverage of Trump in escalating media access row
Good morning. The row over media access to the presidency has deepened, with major US television news outlets agreeing to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds. The president had abruptly announced his ban against CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying he had had enough of "purposely negative stories" about him. On Monday the ban against CNN meant no broadcaster was covering Trump's midday ribbon-cutting for a new White House helipad. The White House provided its own livestream but the president's remarks were inaudible over the sound of a helicopter's engine.Reply source -
[Nantes] Goûter de rentrée et permanence de la bibliothèque féministe autogérée Les Dévoreuses
Reply sourceC’est la rentrée des Dévoreuses !
La bibliothèque tient sa prochaine permanence le mercredi 30 septembre de 18h à 20h30, à Pol-n, 11 rue des Olivettes à Nantes, au fond de la cour.
Viens donc pour renouveller ton stock d’ouvrages féministes, anti-racistes, anti-validistes, anti-carcéraux, et toujours des livres pour enfants, de la science-fiction, des romans graphiques à lire sur place ou à emprunter ;)
Il y aura un goûter vegan et boissons à partager (tu peux ramener quelque chose si tu veux, vegan ou pas, tant que c’est précisé).L’adhésion est à prix libre, prends du cash si tu souhaites/peux nous soutenir et pour financer l’impression de l’infokiosque (des brochures à ramener chez toi, diffuser, et en faire ce que tu veux).
Prix libre aux Dévoreuses ça veut dire à partir de 0€, et l’adhésion et l’emprunt nécessitent juste un blaze (le nom de ton choix) et un numéro de téléphone ou un mail (pour les actus et surtout les relances quand les livres mettent du temps à revenir).
Pour rendre les livres en dehors de la permanence : on a une boîte de retour qui est dans l’entrée de Pol-n, juste sous le présentoir à prospectus dans l’entrée, accessible quand Pol-n est ouvert (c’est à dire à peu près tout le temps en semaine « horaires de bureau » et quand il y a des évènements – voir la prog de pol-n).
Pour nous aider à installer et désinstaller : rdv à 17h30 et après 20h30.
Si tu veux faire des propositions d’arpentages, de lectures, d’atelier collage/badge/écriture,… pendant les permanences cette année, ou sur d’autres temps, si t’as des questions, que tu veux t’inscrire à la mailing liste, c’est par là : les-devoreuses@tao.herbefolles.org -
Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him
Reply sourceUS president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state
Donald Trump has a habit of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations general assembly. But this year, he may have upstaged the ghost of Nikita Khrushchev by openly contemplating the annihilation of a fellow UN member state.
Eleven minutes into a 40-minute address, the US president announced he had “a big decision to make” over Iran, which has staged a much more determined resistance than Trump anticipated when he decided to go to war against the country in February.
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Ella Baron on Andy Burnham’s visit to the United Nations – cartoon
Reply sourceDonald Trump has praised the UK prime minister as a ‘natural businessman’ after their first meeting at the UN general assembly
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Les rendez-vous de la rentrée des luttes : vers un automne agité ?
Reply sourceAprès un été 2026 suffoquant, place aux luttes avec les prochains rendez-vous de ce début d'automne. Ça risque de secouer : avis de tempête !
L’article Les rendez-vous de la rentrée des luttes : vers un automne agité ? est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque.
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En Allemagne, démocratie chrétienne et social-démocratie accélèrent leur déclin
Les derniers scrutins régionaux l’ont confirmé: la CDU et le SPD ne sont définitivement plus les partis de rassemblement autour desquels s’était structuré le gouvernement de la République fédérale. Face à une extrême droite qui prétend à ce statut, des nouvelles configurations politiques apparaissent déjà.Reply source -
Another Florida Republican distances himself from Donald Trump before midterms
Reply sourceGOP nominee for governor Byron Donalds removes multiple mentions of president from his campaign website
Another prominent Florida Republican has publicly distanced himself from Donald Trump, days after María Elvira Salazar called out the US president’s immigration-enforcement policy targeting law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor in November’s US midterm elections, launched an updated campaign website on Tuesday that was stripped of almost every mention of Trump and removed a photograph of the congressman and his wife, Erika, posing with the president, the Miami Herald reported.
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Trump v the media: US networks unite in boycott - The Latest
Reply sourceIn what is probably one of the biggest battles yet between the press and Donald Trump, major TV networks have united in a boycott of pooled coverage of his administration. It comes after three news organisations – CNN, MS Now and Politico – were denied access to the White House because of Trump’s concerns about their coverage. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s international news editor Paul Owen
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Donald Trump praises ‘natural businessperson’ Andy Burnham after first meeting
Reply sourceUS president says British PM has a ‘lot of assets on his side’ as pair meet at UN in New York
Donald Trump has praised Andy Burnham as a “natural businessperson” and said the UK was “more up” than under Keir Starmer. But he berated the UK for its decision to give up the Chagos Islands.
In their first face-to-face meeting, Trump gave a warm assessment of the relationship, saying he thought Burnham had a “lot of assets on his side” and would be a “great prime minister”, adding: “We talked about everything from Rolls-Royce to energy to immigration – we covered a lot.”
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Le féminisme encore bouté hors des réseaux sociaux
Reply sourceMeta a refusé des messages de promotion d’une adaptation théâtrale de "Une chambre à soi" de Virginia Woolf. Enième épisode d’invisibilisation « d’avancées qui ont mis des siècles à se concrétiser »... Pendant que des contenus bouffis d'incitation à la haine des femmes prospèrent.
L’article Le féminisme encore bouté hors des réseaux sociaux est apparu en premier sur Les Nouvelles News.
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Trump defends US interventions abroad ahead of 'big decision' on Iran: 'Settling years of unfinished business'
President Donald Trump issued a stern warning Tuesday for Iran to make a deal soon or face severe consequences for its pursuit of a nuclear weapon. "I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before – maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?" Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in his morning address.Reply source -
Trump, Greenland, Denmark sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff
US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger US military presence on Greenland and may resolve a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island. The agreement, signed during Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly in New York, stops short of Trump's demand that the US adopt Greenland as a US territory to head off the growing Arctic presence of Russia and China.Reply source -
Trump warns Iran at UN he may 'drive them into hell,' says US 'settling years of unfinished business'
President Trump called on United Nations members to support the US war effort against Iran as he floated a dramatic military escalation that would "drive them into hell." Trump received applause from foreign dignitaries for his pledge to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon after delivering the shocking threat, saying he was "settling years of unfinished business." "I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world?" the president said in his 38-minute address.Reply source -
Vance-led task force set to remove 750K Obamacare enrollees, citing fraud
The Trump administration is removing close to 750,000 people from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage due to allegedly fraudulent enrollment, Vice President Vance announced Tuesday. The cancellations would save an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds.Reply source -
Donald Trump scolds CNN anchor for covering him at the UN
Reply sourcePresident chided Kaitlan Collins for asking him question at UN after White House ban on CNN, MS Now and Politico
Donald Trump has scolded a CNN anchor for covering him at the UN in New York after banning the network and two other media outlets from the White House.
Kaitlan Collins asked the US president on Tuesday when the Iran war would end, citing a poll that claims two-thirds of Americans don’t think the US is winning.
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Trump calls on allies to enforce ‘complete economic isolation of Iran’ in UN speech
Reply sourceUS president threatens to ‘annihilate’ Tehran and dismisses threat from AI as a ‘hoax’ in bellicose address
Donald Trump has called on nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices, as he gave a bellicose defence of his administration’s foreign policy and decision to strike Iran.
“I call on all nations to help to enforce the complete economic isolation of Iran,” Trump said in a speech to the UN general assembly on Tuesday. “If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51-year menace of Iranian terror … and oil prices will come plummeting down even lower than they were at the start of the conflict.”
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Trump v the media – The Latest
Reply sourceIn what is probably one of the biggest battles yet between the press and Donald Trump, major TV networks have united in a boycott of pooled coverage of his administration. It comes after three news organisations – CNN, MS Now and Politico – were denied access to the White House because of Trump’s concerns about their coverage. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s international news editor Paul Owen – watch on YouTube
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Budget, hausse des prix: le débat Éric Coquerel (LFI) – Chloé Ridel (PS)
L’heure est encore à l’austérité dans le budget présenté par Sébastien Lecornu. Pendant ce temps, les prix augmentent et les salaires stagnent. Que faire? Débat entre l’insoumis Éric Coquerel, président de la commission des finances de l’Assemblée nationale, et l’eurodéputée socialiste Chloé Ridel.Reply source -
Donald Trump says he could 'annihilate Iran' if no deal is reached – video
Reply sourceThe US president spoke about the war with Iran during the UN general assembly on Tuesday, threatening to 'annihilate' the country and 'drive them into hell' if the regime didn’t agree to a deal with the United States
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Affaire Bendjaballah : la mise en examen pour crime raciste attendra
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Avocats et associations tentent de faire entrer le droit dans les locaux de rétention administrative
Dans les locaux de rétention administrative, espaces prévus pour isoler temporairement des personnes en situation irrégulière, l’accès au droit est quasi inexistant. En juillet, des associations ont obtenu la suspension d’un marché public de la préfecture de police de Paris y prévoyant une assistance juridique au rabais.Reply source -
Incendies en Gironde: des victimes portent plainte à Bordeaux
Un collectif de victimes de la commune du Porge a déposé plainte contre X mardi 22 septembre, dénonçant «l’absence d’ordre d’évacuation de la population par les autorités compétentes»" "et les «manquements» dans la gestion de l’incendie.Reply source -
Comprendre et agir dans la complexité. Pour une théorie de la situation
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Le 23 septembre de 20h30 à 22h30Où ?
CICP 21 ter, rue Voltaire, 75011, ParisPremier séminaire de cette année ! Le Collectif Malgré Tout, en partenariat avec le Cedetim et Rencontres et Débat Autrement, relance son cycle de séminaires mensuels. Nous poursuivrons cette année notre étude théorique et pratique de la situation, comprise comme socle organique minimal de l'agir.
Présentation des axes de la saison 2026/2027 :
Avec la fin de l'époque de l'homme - sujet autoproclamé face à un monde réduit au statut d'objet - se pose une question centrale : quelle instance multiple peut encore penser, sentir et agir dans le chaos contemporain ?
La crise actuelle produit un vécu quotidien marqué par la dispersion, l'impuissance et l'angoisse devant un monde qui échappe à nos grilles de lecture. Le travail que nous proposons repose sur un pari : faire de la situation le dispositif à partir duquel il devient possible d'affronter cette dispersion sans céder à la tentation d'un nouvel ordre disciplinaire.
Une telle exigence suppose de rompre avec l'imaginaire occidental de la fixité, qui n'a cessé de chercher l'être du côté de ce qui demeure, se conserve et résiste au devenir. Notre époque appelle au contraire une réconciliation avec le devenir, non comme abandon à la dispersion, mais comme condition d'une éthique situationnelle du présent.
Comme nous l'avons précédemment montré, la complexité ne relève ni d'une théorie ni d'une simple interprétation. Elle constitue un mode objectif et concret du monde qui exige un changement de paradigme, capable de renouer avec la puissance d'agir.
Infos pratiques :
La séance de rentrée aura lieu le 23 septembre de 20h30 à 22h30 au CICP, 21 ter, rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris - métros Rue des Boulets, Avron ou Nation - dans la grande salle verte. Présenté par Miguel Benasayag et Bastien Cany.
La participation est libre et sans inscription. Nous demandons simplement aux personnes intéressées de nous faire parvenir, avant ou pendant chaque séance, leurs éventuelles questions, demandes et propositions, afin de nourrir un véritable processus de travail collectif.
« On connaît tous l'utilité de l'utile, mais qui connait celle de l'inutile. »
« Si tout est possible, rien n'est vrai »
« S'engager, c'est être happé par la vie. »Les séminaires du collectif sont disponibles chaque mois, dans les jours suivants le séminaire, sur notre site ainsi que sur YouTube et Spotify. YouTube et Spotify
© 2026 - Collectif malgretout.net- Voir aussi Lien Zoom de la réunion à distance. ID de réunion : 839 5380 1493. Code secret : 337471
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Mesurer l'intensité de l'écoanxiété pour prévenir le mal-être et les risques pour la santé mentale
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Repas à un euro, effectifs au rabais : les agents du CROUS de Montpellier en grève
Reply sourceCe mardi 22 septembre, des salariés du CROUS Montpellier-Occitanie se sont mis en grève devant leur siège de Boutonnet, dans le cadre d’une mobilisation nationale. Les syndicats (CGT, Force Ouvrière, CFDT) réclament des embauches, des moyens et des hausses de salaire, alors que la généralisation du repas à un euro a fait exploser la fréquentation des restaurants universitaires
Pas de plateau ce midi au restaurant universitaire de Boutonnet : l’établissement est fermé pour cause de grève. « C’est malheureux pour les étudiants, mais on n’a pas d’autre choix que de se mettre en grève pour se faire entendre », explique Mohammed, magasinier du CROUS syndiqué à la CGT.
Personne ici ne remet en cause le repas à un euro, étendu à tous les étudiants en mai. « On pense que c’est une bonne mesure, mais nous ne sommes pas assez nombreux pour assumer cette hausse de fréquentation », résume Luc, secrétaire départemental de FO Enseignement supérieur et recherche. Selon lui, la fréquentation des restaurants universitaires a bondi de 44 %. À la brasserie de Boutonnet, Mohammed donne ses chiffres : « Avant, on faisait 600 couverts. Là, on peut monter jusqu’à 3 000 le midi et 2 300 le soir. Les locaux ne sont pas adaptés, il faut recruter. » Au niveau national, FO réclame 500 emplois supplémentaires. Luc parle d’une « charge de travail énorme » et d’arrêts maladie qui « s’enchaînent ». Il demande aussi du matériel : plus de frigos, des locaux redimensionnés.
Côté recrutements, le compte n’y est pas non plus pour Jacques Carceller, élu CFDT responsable du personnel. « 20 personnes ont été recrutées ici depuis la mise en place du repas à un euro, mais il en faudrait le double », estime-t-il. Il réclame aussi de nouveaux points de distribution pour désengorger les files d’attente. Et la surcharge fait fuir les nouveaux venus : « Des CDD abandonnent au bout d’une semaine. On ne peut plus s’occuper des étudiants comme on voudrait. »
Le syndicaliste s’inquiète aussi pour la suite. Le coût des matières premières « explose », et le financement du dispositif lui paraît fragile : « Avant, les étudiants payaient 3,50 euros. Maintenant, l’État compense les 2,50 manquants, mais jusqu’à quand ? » Dans un contexte de coupes budgétaires annoncées, il craint que le CROUS doive puiser dans ses fonds propres, « ce qui voudrait dire moins de primes pour les agents, moins d’aides pour les étudiants ».
Les étudiants voient la différence dans leur assiette. Raoul, membre du Syndicat de combat universitaire de Montpellier (SCUM), venu soutenir les grévistes, observe depuis la rentrée des portions qui diminuent et des accompagnements qui manquent parfois en fin de service. Certains, dit-il, ont peur d’arriver en retard en cours à cause de l’attente devant les restaurants universitaires.
Les grévistes demandent des recrutements de personnel et des moyens pour le CROUS. (“Le Poing”)
Pénurie de logements
Le logement suit la même pente. « On a ouvert deux résidences étudiantes en plus, ça reste insuffisant, et notre masse salariale n’a pas augmenté », souligne Luc. Le sujet a déjà mobilisé les étudiants ce mois-ci. Le 2 septembre, la Fédération syndicale étudiante (FSE) alertait devant les services centraux du CROUS sur le cas d’une dizaine d’étudiants boursiers sans logement, dont deux risquaient de se retrouver à la rue. Le CROUS mettait alors en avant une demande exceptionnelle et un parc sans aucune disponibilité depuis le 27 août. Le 7 septembre, la FSE et le Réseau universités sans frontières (RUSF) revenaient devant le CROUS de Boutonnet : les cas signalés au syndicat étaient passés à une vingtaine, et un responsable de la direction de la vie de l’étudiant reconnaissait le manque de places.
Montpellier : la colère monte face à la crise du logement étudiant
Reste la question des salaires, que tous les syndicats présents mettent sur la table. « Après 25 ans au CROUS à faire le ménage, on gagne 1 500 euros par mois, ce n’est pas suffisant », rappelle Jacques Carceller. Pour Luc, « le CROUS n’est plus attractif en termes de rémunération ». Si la grève est reconductible, le syndicaliste attend de voir : « Les fins de mois sont déjà difficiles, c’est dur de se mettre en grève sur la durée… »
Contacté, le service communication du CROUS Montpellier n’a pas répondu à nos questions à l’heure où nous publions cet article.
L’article Repas à un euro, effectifs au rabais : les agents du CROUS de Montpellier en grève est apparu en premier sur Le Poing.
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Découverte d'une nouvelle espèce de chat : « Désormais, le véritable défi concernant le Leopardus tilcayo est de le protéger » (Espagnol)
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Édito : mon “capital culturel” fait-il de moi un bourgeois ?
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Allemagne : les nazis sont-ils de retour ?
Aux dernières élections régionales allemandes, en Saxe-Anhalt, Mecklembourg-Poméranie et à Berlin, l'AfD a augmenté considérablement ses scores. En Saxe-Anhalt il pourrait même gouverner. Ce parti d'extrême droite, l'un des plus radicaux d'Europe est en…Reply source -
Le Rampart, la nouvelle arme anti-drones de la Marine nationale, repéré sur le Mistral avant son départ pour l’Afrique
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Un nouveau lanceur d'armes, baptisé Rampart, a été repéré sur le porte-hélicoptères amphibie Mistral, juste avant son départ pour le golfe de Guinée. Sa promesse : abattre des drones bon marché sans gaspiller de missiles hors de prix.
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Robotique : Exotec consolide son implantation au Japon avec la mise en service de systèmes Skypod chez deux distributeurs
Reply sourceExotec étend sa présence à l’international. La scale-up spécialisée dans les systèmes robotisés d’automatisation pour entrepôts annonce ce 22 septembre la mise en exploitation à pleine capacité de deux systèmes Skypod chez le distributeur alimentaire Mitsubishi Shokuhin et le distributeur de produits industriels Trusco Nakayama. Elle s’est dans ce cadre associée à l’intralogisticien IHI Logistics Industrial Systems.
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'You shouldn't be here,' Donald Trump tells CNN at UN general assembly – video
Reply sourceThe US president remarked on CNN's presence at the UN general assembly on Tuesday, telling reporters he was 'surprised' the news network was covering him and that it 'shouldn't be here' after he banned the outlet along with MS Now and Politico from the White House last week
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La crise de la RAM fait grimper les prix, mais la Kobo Libra Colour baisse de 40 €
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[Deal du jour] La Kobo Libra Colour, première liseuse couleur de la marque, tombe à 232,40 € au lieu de 269,99 € chez Joybuy. De quoi lire ses BD et ses mangas sur un écran E Ink, sans passer par une tablette.
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Jon Stewart on Trump’s White House media ban: ‘authoritarian crackdown’
Reply sourceLate-night hosts respond to Trump’s removal of outlets such as CNN and Politico from the White House press pool over ‘negative stories’
Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s dramatic White House media ban and casual disregard of the first amendment.
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Dassault Aviation fait voler ses premiers systèmes d’intelligence artificielle à bord d’un Rafale
Reply sourceL’intelligence artificielle commence à quitter les laboratoires de Dassault Aviation pour prendre place à bord du Rafale. L’avionneur annonce avoir testé en vol deux algorithmes d’IA, dont l’un a été développé par ses propres ingénieurs et l’autre avec Thales, via son accélérateur d’intelligence artificielle cortAIx. Le groupe ne précise pas, à ce stade, les fonctions exactes assurées par ces deux algorithmes.
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Republican calls for Senate investigation of Trump Jr wedding paid for by Russian oligarch
Reply sourcePutin ally helped cover cost of renting private island in the Bahamas for wedding of Trump Jr and Bettina Anderson
A Republican senator has accused Donald Trump Jr of corruption and demanded a Senate investigation into revelations that a Russian oligarch bankrolled part of his recent wedding in the Bahamas.
John Curtis, of Utah, wrote to the leaders of the US Senate judiciary committee on Tuesday, urging them to subpoena Trump Jr over his business dealings, his relationships with foreign individuals, gifts he has received – and any occasions where his connection to his father, Donald Trump, “was invoked or understood to provide value”.
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Lettre ouverte d'avocats au bâtonnier après l'invitation du député d’extrême droite Charles Alloncle
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US warns Australia that imposing digital duty of care on big tech would be seen as censorship
Reply sourceTrump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm optout would infringe Americans’ free speech
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The Trump administration has warned the Australian government that its plans to boost online safety through digital duty of care laws risks becoming a mechanism for “viewpoint-based censorship” and called for American platforms to be exempted.
Restating strong opposition to measures the White House considers “extraterritorial censorship of protected speech by Americans online”, the US has used a submission to the Albanese government’s public consultation process to express serious concerns about Australia’s communications minister having legal powers to declare “foreseeable harm”.
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Non, cette vidéo ne montre pas des élus finlandais réaliser une danse « pour apprendre aux migrants à ne pas violer les femmes »
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Source :Compte Facebook, le 14 septembre 2026
Etiqe :Faux
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Quelques pas de danse suffisent parfois à provoquer une polémique. Dans une vidéo relayée dernièrement sur les réseaux sociaux, cinq personnes exécutent une chorégraphie au son de « Stop, don’t touch me there, this is my no-no square ! [Arrête, ne me touche pas là, c’est ma zone interdite !, en français] ».
En légende, certains internautes affirment que ces images montreraient des politiciens finlandais « réalis[er] une vidéo de danse pour apprendre aux migrants à ne pas violer les femmes ».
Mais, si cette vidéo est authentique, elle a été réalisée pour sensibiliser les mineurs et non dans le but d’apprendre aux personnes migrantes à ne pas commettre d’infractions sexuelles.
Une vidéo destinée aux personnes mineures
Grâce à une recherche d’image inversée, Les Surligneurs ont retrouvé plusieurs occurrences de cette vidéo… qui date de 2020. À l’époque, les images avaient également fait le buzz.
Comme le relate un article de presse de l’époque, cette vidéo a été réalisée par des travailleurs sociaux dans le cadre du projet « Safe Oulu », à Oulu, en Finlande. « L’objectif de la vidéo était d’expliquer aux jeunes comment fixer leurs propres limites en matière de sexualité », et non de pointer du doigt les migrants, expliquait la directrice du projet, Kati Kaarlejärven, au média Yle. Le clip s’inscrivait dans une tendance musicale sur TikTok dont le but était de sensibiliser les jeunes au respect de leur intimité et de leur consentement par le biais de chorégraphies réalisées sur une mélodie entêtante, comme l’a déjà vérifié le média de fact-checking croatien Faktograf.
Prévenir les crimes sexuels
Plus largement, le projet « Safe Oulu », qui s’est déroulé de 2019 à 2022, avait pour objectif principal de « prévenir les crimes sexuels contre les mineurs à Oulu », selon un document officiel. Loin de se limiter à cette vidéo comme certains internautes ont pu l’insinuer, le programme prévoyait plusieurs dispositifs, dont « une équipe de soutien psychosocial pour les enfants et les jeunes » visant à les assister en cas de traumatisme, de danger, ou s’ils sont victimes de crimes, détaillait Kati Kaarlejärven auprès d’Yle.
Il était aussi prévu de « renforcer le rôle des enfants et des jeunes en tant que membres actifs de la communauté » ou encore de « soutenir et améliorer les connaissances des familles afin de prévenir les délits sexuels ».
Le projet « Safe Oulu » devait enfin « renforcer l’intégration des immigrés au sein de la communauté ». Pour autant, il n’était pas question d’ « apprendre aux migrants à ne pas violer les femmes » mais plutôt, par exemple, de traduire les supports pédagogiques du projet pour les principaux groupes linguistiques minoritaires d’Oulu.
Une affaire d’infractions sexuelles sur des filles mineures
Le lien erroné entre les migrants et la vidéo de danse trouve ses origines dans le contexte dans lequel le projet « Safe Oulu » a été créé.
Fin 2018, la ville est secouée par plusieurs affaires d’infractions sexuelles sur des filles mineures. Selon le média Kaleva, la police recensait 29 accusations, dont la majorité à l’encontre de personnes d’origines étrangères, pour des faits qui auraient été commis entre 2017 et 2018. Les forces de l’ordre s’étaient même fendues d’un communiqué pour prévenir la population, et la couverture médiatique de l’affaire avait été particulièrement importante.
Après coup, le blog « Migrant tales », qui se présente comme antiraciste, avait critiqué une surmédiatisation de ces affaires de violences sexuelles par rapport à celles impliquant des individus finlandais.
L’auteur de la chronique avait notamment comparé la couverture médiatique de cette affaire avec celle, jugée plus laconique, de la découverte d’un réseau pédophile responsable de l’abus sexuel de jeunes garçons. D’après des informations du média Yle, la police s’était elle aussi demandé si « la communication n’était pas allée trop loin ».
Si le projet « Safe Oulu » est né en réaction aux affaires d’agressions sexuelles qui ont touché la ville en 2018, ce contexte ne permet pas pour autant d’affirmer que la vidéo de danse partagée sur les réseaux sociaux avait pour but d’« apprendre aux migrants à ne pas violer les femmes ». Elle était en réalité destinée aux personnes mineures afin de les sensibiliser au respect de leur intimité et de leur consentement.
Auteurs :
Autrice : Maylis Ygrand, journaliste
Relecteur : Nicolas Turcev, journaliste
Liens d’intérêts ou fonctions politiques déclarés des intervenants à l’article : aucun
Secrétariat de rédaction : Maylis Ygrand, journaliste
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