Friday, May 24, 2024

Documenting the struggle against a hedge fund stripping journalism for parts

Journalists are our everyday heroes: exposing secrets, uncovering abuses and giving us better understanding of our communities, our cultures, our politics, our world.

Judge blocks Trump plan to add citizenship question to census, citing ‘smorgasbord’ of broken...

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote that in deciding to add a citizenship question to the census, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated a “veritable smorgasbord” of federal rules and “alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him.”
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Bernie Sanders fights for laid-off worker protections in $2 trillion stimulus with corporate bailout

The bill would massively expand unemployment benefits, providing laid-off workers up to 100% of their salary and health insurance benefits for four months.
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Trump admin moves 100 migrant kids back to “child jail” despite concern over inhumane...

The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and...

‘About time’: Women’s groups applaud resignation of MSNBC host Chris Matthews after ‘decades-long history...

"Matthews had no business being on television for as long as he has been. That was true before Laura Bassett courageously came forward to share her story, and it remains true to this day."

Resisting abortion bans a year after Dobbs

A nurse midwife discusses how health care providers and movements connect in the fight for reproductive justice after the upending of abortion rights.

Paul Manafort accused of witness tampering

Manafort allegedly contacted at least two witnesses by phone, through an intermediary, and an encrypted messaging app.
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‘We never made it to the polls’: Police in North Carolina pepper-spray voting march,...

“We believe that this interaction, this interference from local authorities, has obstructed our marchers from not only lifting up our First Amendment rights to protest, to speak out, but also our rights to vote.”

Meet the “People’s Action 22”: Candidates Fighting For All Of Us

They will work to make sure our democracy is power for those who don’t have it – to hold accountable those who use their power only to maximize their profits.
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Who is Brett Kavanaugh? Inside the right-wing history of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

Kavanaugh has deep ties to the Republican Party and will push the Supreme Court further right if he is confirmed.