Tag: Trump administration
Inside ICE Air: Flight attendants on deportation planes say disaster is...
For migrants who have spent months or years trying to reach this country and live here, it is the last act, the final bit of America they may experience.
ICE agents accused of ‘kidnappings’ after snatching Tufts PhD student and...
Arrests of international student and labor organizer spark accusations of political repression and unconstitutional ICE tactics.
The first 50 days
While there are already all too many examples of that very sort of perversification, let me just focus on several that could prove crucial when it comes to the future of our imperiled democracy.
White House orders Social Security shutdowns and service cuts as Trump...
Millions of beneficiaries face office closures and phone service cuts as Trump’s Social Security pick, Frank Bisignano, refuses to commit to reversing policies.
It’s time for Americans to fight like hell against the fascists...
Even though it and our Constitution are still intact and working, they are under constant attack by these forces of evil.
US denies French scientist entry over anti-Trump text messages
Trump administration, free speech, academic freedom, border security, France, scientific research, political censorship, U.S. immigration, CBP, FBI, diplomatic relations.
Trump orders crackdown on law firms challenging his administration
Trump directs DOJ to target law firms that challenge his administration, sparking backlash from legal advocacy groups.
Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.
Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back $14 billion in climate...
Judge Chutkan said the government’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient.”
Israel’s renewed blockade and airstrikes leave Gaza’s children starving as Trump...
Human rights groups warn that these actions constitute grave violations of international law and could amount to war crimes.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.