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Still No Kings: Millions To Protest Trump on Saturday

Whitney Curry Wimbish The American Prospect
A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

MIT Says ‘No’ to Trump Extortion Pact

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams
"This offer looked like an invitation, but it wasn't," said Ariel White, vice president of MIT's American Association of University Professors chapter. "It was a ransom note."

This Week in People’s History, Oct 15–21, 2025

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Charlie Chaplin impersonating Adolf Hitler Chaplin’s Timeless Attack on Dictatorship (1940), U.S. Anti-War Rally Was Record-Big, but Not for Long (1965), Revolutionary Stirrings in Manhattan (1765), Permission to Come Aboard, Who Needs It? (1960), Is the C.I.A. Is a Law Unto Itself? (1975)
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