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While Gothamist‘s characterization of Friday’s White House meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as “a surprising bromance” was likely an overstretch, the far-right US leader did offer copious praise for the democratic socialist during their amiable encounter. Asked by a reporter if he would feel comfortable living in New York City under Mamdani…
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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Nov. 18, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
Residents in Charlotte, North Carolina are expressing outrage after two local women were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area.
Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn.
Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle.
The two women, who have not been identified, then spent several hours in an FBI facility before being released with citations.
Local resident Shea Watts, who took video of the encounter, told WCNC that he was feeling “somewhere between disbelief and just being really upset that this is our reality now” as he watched the incident unfold.
Watts also discussed his own interactions with the federal officers whom he was filming.
“I was already close to despair and feeling helpless and hopeless,” he said. “But I think just the reminder that if we see something, to document it. I tried to be respectful and ask questions and knowing my own rights, and I was told to back up a couple times, which, that’s fine, but at the end of the day, this all feels a little heavy handed.”
Charlotte has become the latest target of the
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Last week, a jury in Washington, D.C. refused to convict a man who became a folk hero when he threw a sandwich at a federal agent. In New York City, Zohran Mamdani won a brilliantly executed mayoral race against sexual harasser and primary loser Andrew Cuomo. In Chicago, a federal judge called out Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino for lying during a deposition, and again ordered ICE agents to…
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