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New York officials among dozens arrested at anti-ICE demonstration

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.

Found on mainstream news.

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

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

**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

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.

Found on mainstream news.

Two Actions Against the New York Times

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

    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

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