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New York officials among dozens arrested at anti-ICE demonstration

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September 19, 2025

New York City and state officials were among dozens of people arrested at a demonstration opposing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Downtown Manhattan on Thursday.

It happened at 26 Federal Plaza, an ICE holding facility that has been a source of controversy over the past several months.

Protesters chanted during an outside sit-in in front of a driveway of the building, objecting to the treatment of detainees held there, before authorities moved in to make arrests. Another group also moved in on the 10th floor, demanding to see conditions there before they, too, were arrested.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 71 people, including two state senators and nine state Assembly members, were arrested. DHS also said the building was later placed on lockdown due to a bomb threat.

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Judge drops terror charge against Luigi Mangione as police warn business leaders of rising assassination risks

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September 16, 2025

A New York judge has tossed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s terrorism charges against suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.

The suspected killer appeared court Tuesday morning shortly after the NYPD warned that business leaders and political figures may be at an increased risk less than a week after a sniper shot and killed Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a public event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Mangione faces a slew of state and federal charges after police allege he stalked and ambushed Brian Thompson, the health insurer’s chief executive and a married father of two from Minnesota who was visiting New York City for an investor conference.

“There was no evidence presented of a desire to terrorize the public, inspire widespread fear, engage in a broader campaign of violence, or to conspire with organized terrorist groups,” Judge Gregory Carro found in a 12-page written decision. “Here, the crime – the heinous, but targeted and discrete killing of one person — is very different from the examples of terrorism set forth in the statute.”

The judge declined to rule on other pending motions, including whether Mangione is facing double jeopardy or on the legality of a controversial subpoena to his health insurance provider, Aetna. He’s due back in court on Dec. 1.

There are concerns that he has inspired copycats. He allegedly wrote messages on shell casings found at the scene. The suspected Kirk assassin also allegedly etched memes and anti-fascist rhetoric onto cartridges found in the alleged murder weapon.

Kirk had warned of a rise in “assassination culture” before his murder, which came as he was discussing politicized mass shootings with someone in the audience last Wednesday. Researchers are now also echoing his concern.

The NYPD’s Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau is reportedly warning businesses, political groups and other public figures that the risk of more assassinations remains elevated, [news source] reported Tuesday, citing an internal threat assessment.

“These individuals likely remain vulnerable at open-air speaking engagements and public events, which have been targeted by malicious actors seeking to advance political or ideological agendas and/or draw attention to unique personal grievances through violence,” the assessment reads.

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The 4th issue of the insurrectionary/nihilist anarchist newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been published

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**Download link (PDF):**
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/ENG-Blessed-Is-The-Flame-Issue-4.pdf

In early September, the 4th issue of the international anarcho-nihilist/insurrectionary newspaper “Blessed Is The Flame” has been published.  As always, along whith the counter-information of July and August, we have also collected texts on counter-surveillance, counter-repression and direct action. The newspaper is available in both digital and printed form. If anyone is interested on printing it themselves, the best way is either to print it as simple A4 with a stapler, or as A3 in booklet format.

Note: for printing, we suggest you download the file directly from our website (https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/4o-teychos-tis-exegersiakis-anarchikis-efimeridas-eylogimeni-i-floga/) in case any minor corrections may be made and therefore the download link is renewed.

**CONTENTS**

⚫ Counter-information for July & August 2025
⚫ Challenges of police investigations into anarchist direct actions
⚫ A search for anarchist practices against torture
⚫ Useful information for anarchists of action from the investigation files of Operation Diana
⚫ Responsibility claim with guide for action [arson attack on machinery of Holcim, Switzerland]
⚫ Chile: Black August and solidarity actions for comrades Aldo and Lucas
⚫ Monica Caballero Sepulveda: “Political violence”
⚫ Uprising in Indonesia and calls of solidarity and support
⚫ The authoritaria trap of identity logic
⚫ Greece: Summer news about the “Synergy of Vengeance” case
⚫ Squat evacuations
⚫ About persecuted comrades from USA
⚫ Update and call for solidarity assembly for Alfredo Cospito
⚫ Message to the climate movement
⚫ Why are we being led to our slaughter? We don’t

*Note: Some of the news and responsibility claims for July and August were published after the completion of this issue. All of this will be posted in the next few days on our website.*

**OTHER LANGUAGES:**
The newspaper is currently being published in seven languages. The links for the file of the issue in the other available languages are the following:

English:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/ENG-Blessed-Is-The-Flame-Issue-4.pdf

Español:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/ES-Bendita-Sea-La-Llama-Numero-4.pdf

Français:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/FR-Benie-Soit-La-Flamme-Numero-4.pdf

Deutsch:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/DE-Gesegnet-Sei-Die-Flamme-Heft-4.pdf

Italiano:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/IT-Benedetta-Sia-La-Fiamma-Numero-4.pdf

Bahasa Indonesia:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/ID-Berbahagialah-Nyala-Api-Edisi-4.pdf

Ελληνικά:
https://blessed-is-the-flame.espivblogs.net/files/2025/09/EL-%CE%95%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CE%97-%CE%A6%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%B1-%CE%A4%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%87%CE%BF%CF%82-4.pdf

Feedback for the quality of the translations is very welcome.

Submitted.

Hackensack man charged with setting fire to multiple police cars

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September 3, 2025

Police arrested a Hackensack man on arson charges, accusing him of setting multiple police vehicles on fire in a Hackensack parking lot on Aug. 30, announced the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.

[Name], 78, was arrested on Sept. 2 on charges of aggravated arson and arson among other criminal mischief charges.

At about 8:09 p.m., the Hackensack Police and Fire Department were dispatched to put out a fire at Municipal Parking Lot Area T, located at 78 Trinity Pl. Upon arrival, police found three marked Hackensack Police Department vehicles engulfed in flames.

No injuries were reported and the police vehicles were unoccupied, according to the BCPO.

[Name] is accused of intentionally setting the police vehicles on fire by pouring and igniting an accelerant onto the vehicles before fleeing the scene.

The press release sent from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office did not say why [name] was determined to be the suspect.

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Two Actions Against the New York Times

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July 30, 2025

    NEW YORK TIMES IS STARVING GAZA

    Found on social media.

    August 30, 2025

    JOE KAHN LIES, GAZA DIES

    JOE KAHN LIES, GAZA DIES

    Julius Sebastian Streicher was the first member of the Nazi regime to be convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946. His crime? Founding the newspaper Der Stürmer and publishing vitriolic, racist propaganda that helped incite a genocide. For this, he was executed by hanging.

    Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, is responsible for publishing the single most damaging piece of atrocity propaganda since October 7, 2023: “Screams Without Words,” a famously debunked article that relies on racist tropes and zionist hasbara to smear Palestinian resistance fighters as rapists. Hailed by Kahn as a “signature piece” and entered into multiple journalism competitions, this falsified investigation has been cited by U.S. lawmakers to justify U.S. support for the ongoing genocide. This is the legacy of Joe Kahn: publishing lies that are parroted by imperial puppets in corrupt governments the world over and touted as fact, enabling mass weapons shipments and reinforcing anti-Palestinian sentiment that propels the genocide and mass starvation of Gaza. After the claims of the piece were exposed as false, Kahn directed what the president of the NewsGuild of New York described as a “racially targeted witch hunt,” harassing and intimidating Arab and Middle Eastern employees in an attempt to identify the whistleblowers who revealed their lies.

    The pages of the New York Times drip with the rhetoric of genocide accomplices and apologists. Times editors, executives, and journalists have proven themselves to be the bedfellows of the Zionist regime, benefiting from and profiting off of the atrocities their lies enable. To run media cover for U.S. imperial interests is to support and legitimize genocide, and to serve as a cog in the well-oiled war machine. To publish known lies is to abet the laundry list of Zionist war crimes. Those who commit such malpractice are not journalists; they are genocide propagandists, and their hands are stained red by the crimes that they incite, defend, and obscure.  Words have power, and we will hold the genocidaires of the so-called “free press” accountable.

    JOE KAHN, YOU CAN’T HIDE

    Source: NYC Resists with Gaza

    New text: Challenges of Police Investigations Into Anarchist Direct Actions

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    August 23, 2025

    Hi,

    We’re the No Trace Project, an international anti-repression project.

    Today we publish a new short text, “Challenges of Police Investigations Into Anarchist Direct Actions”. This text aims to address some points that we think have been insufficiently explored in anarchist literature in recent years.

    It is available in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin (Simplified), and Russian, for online reading or to download as a zine, here:

    https://notrace.how/blog/challenges/challenges.html

    Take care,
    No Trace Project

    Submission

    Five envelopes containing suspicious white powder discovered at NYC ICE field office, building evacuated

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    August 15, 2025

    Five envelopes containing a suspicious white powder were discovered at New York’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Manhattan Thursday afternoon – prompting first responders to evacuate the federal building, according to authorities.

    Fire officials responded to 26 Federal Plaza on Foley Square just before 4 p.m. after personnel found the menacing letters containing the mysterious substance in the 9th-floor mailroom of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building, officials said. 

    The historic address, also home to the US Department of Homeland Security, immigration court and other federal agencies, was swiftly evacuated as the fire department’s hazmat teams investigated. 

    There were no reported injuries, officials said. 

    “Right now, no threat remains to any employees or the public at this time,” Christopher Raia, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York office, told reporters during a news conference Thursday night. 

    “Sending threatening letters of this nature, whether real or a hoax… diverts valuable, limited law enforcement resources.”

    Test results are currently pending to identify the white powder. 

    The envelopes will then be sent to the FBI’s Quantico lab in Virginia for further analysis as the agency launches its own probe.

    The shocking incident, seemingly targeting ICE’s 9th-floor offices, comes two days after a federal judge ordered the agency to improve its immigration holding facility following complaints from jailed migrants over inhumane conditions.

    The Lower Manhattan building has become a hub for arrests as the Trump administration continues its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.

    ICE facilities and officers have been targeted by violence since the administration ramped up arrests and deportations.

    Found on mainstream news.

    Vandals Destroy Two More Central New York Golf Courses, Causing Extensive Damage

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    August 4, 2025

    Local golf course owners are reeling after three separate acts of vandalism have left greens destroyed, causing thousands of dollars in damage.

    Authorities are now investigating what they’re calling serious, targeted damage across Central New York.

    The latest incident occurred at Barker Brook Golf Club in Oriskany Falls, where someone drove onto the course, leaving extensive damage behind. From tire tracks on the green to a cart in the pond.

    North Shore Golf Club in Cleveland, New York, was also hit.

    A UTV-sized vehicle tore through the course between 1:00 and 1:30 AM, leaving deep ruts across the 2nd and 4th greens.

    The owner, Rob Caione, said, “These greens cost between 50 to 60 thousand dollars. This is a shame. Very sad.”

    A few weeks ago, someone drove a vehicle onto the Skenandoa Club in Clinton, causing similar destruction, also owned by Caione.

    The vehicle reportedly tore through the fairway and tees on hole 9, ripped through a bunker, and even left tracks across the green on hole 8. “I’m literally sick to my stomach,” Michael Intartaglia said. “We work so hard to keep our course immaculate.”

    Found on mainstream news.

    Finance CEO, cop, security guard, and a real estate employee killed

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    July 28, 2025

    A Blackstone executive who oversaw Blackstone’s real estate fund, an NYPD officer working a paid detail, an employee of real estate firm Rudin Management, and a security officer.

    LePatner joined Blackstone in 2014 after more than a decade at Goldman Sachs, according to Blackstone. While overseeing BREIT, a trust with a real estate portfolio totaling more than $53 billion in property, LePatner was also a member of Blackstone’s real estate investment committee. Blackstone is a global leader in private equity, real estate, credit and hedge funds, with over $1 trillion in assets under management.

    Islam had worked as a police officer in the city for three and a half years and was one of two New York police officers working as paid security detail in the building.

    The NFL told The New York Times one of its employees was seriously injured in the shooting.

    The alleged shooter drove from Las Vegas. He went into 345 Park Ave. in midtown just after the end of business Monday armed with an M4 rifle and opened fire in the lobby and again on the 33rd floor before he eventually killed himself, officials said. Security video showed the shooter get out of a double-parked black BMW while carrying the rifle.

    A former Granada Hills football teammate said he excelled on the field and led mostly by example.

    Found on Mainstream Media

    Source: Unravel

    Columbia will suspend, expel dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters

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    July 22, 2025

    Columbia University informed dozens of students Monday that they are facing disciplinary action for their participation in the takeover and vandalism of the campus library in 2024 during a pro-Palestinian protest.

    The disciplinary measures come as the university negotiates with the Trump administration over alleged civil rights violations and the loss of federal funding.

    Columbia is expected to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement to victims of alleged civil rights violations, implement changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, boost transparency about hiring and admissions efforts, and take other steps to improve security and safety on campus for Jewish students, according to one source familiar with the matter.

    In return, the source said, the school will regain access to over $400 million in federal funding the Trump administration stripped earlier this year.

    On Monday, the university informed more than 70 students that they would be suspended or expelled because of their actions in the May 7, 2024 library disruption and other pro-Palestinian protests that spring.

    Roughly two-thirds of those will be hit with suspensions between one and three years, with the majority being hit with two-year suspensions.

    Those involved were informed of their punishments on Monday following a probe by the elite school’s University Judicial Board.

    On May 7, 2024, pro-Palestinian students took over the Ivy League institution’s library, chanting “Free, free Palestine” and beating drums, according to the report.

    Some of the students vandalized the walls and tables, and two public safety officers reportedly were injured while trying to quell the mob, the report states.

    A month earlier, the university went on lockdown after anti-Israel protesters took over a campus building, and two custodians said the protesters tried to keep them from leaving.

    Police arrested more than 100 protesters after they took over Hamilton Hall, smashing windows, breaking through doors, and barricading themselves inside, while others refused to leave the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on a nearby lawn, the student newspaper Columbia Spectator reported.

    Later, Columbia canceled its campus-wide commencement ceremony in 2024, citing safety concerns.

    Found on mainstream news.