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Secret Service: Meet the Posters Behind Instagram’s Federal Agency Alt Accounts

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Rachel, as she puts it, is the kind of person who rushes in to help. That’s why she used to work at USAID, and why, just 10 days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, she rented a room in a Washington bar for her former colleagues to gather. That evening, Rachel recalls, they shared drinks […]

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How Federal Judges Put a Trans Civil Rights Lawyer under Criminal Investigation

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Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]

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How Federal Judges Put a Trans Civil Rights Lawyer Under Criminal Investigation

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Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a charge might not seem extraordinary. But the case, which targets Carl Charles, a transgender civil rights attorney, is anything but ordinary. Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret […]

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The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the Justice Department’s power to investigate and prosecute criminal wrongdoing. “He absolutely rejects the idea that there should be separation between criminal investigations and […]

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The Supreme Court Says ICE Can Consider Race, But Colleges Can’t.

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On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to reshape American politics by making elected leaders whiter and locking communities of color out of power. The case concerns the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s requirement that minority communities have an equal opportunity to elect representatives of […]

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Supreme Court Blesses Racial Profiling by ICE

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In greater Los Angeles, the Trump administration’s goal of deporting millions of people is being operationalized through often violent raids that target people who appear Latino while waiting for the bus or working in low-wage jobs. A shorter way to say this is racial profiling of low-income people. Today, the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme […]

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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

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Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term. This summer, he asked Republicans in Congress to put their political lives on the line to pass a bill that would hand tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense […]

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The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of August. Better yet, in place of clarity, reference some pages in another document, so that people have to track that down and read it in order to […]

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Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away from ICE Facilities

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Over and over again, Democratic members of Congress have attempted to enter Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to investigate the conditions inside—and again and again they have been turned away, even though federal law guarantees them access to ICE detention facilities in order to conduct oversight. The Trump administration’s decision to keep lawmakers out created […]

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“This is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

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After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push through their own hunger to try to save lives. Journalists are too weak to document the unfolding horrors. There is not enough food or medical supplies entering to protect […]

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The State Department Guts Its Office Combating Human Trafficking

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As President Donald Trump takes a beating from his own MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile and sex trafficker, his State Department pulled a surprising move: It decimated its office combating human trafficking. As part of a downsizing, the Trump administration on Friday cut 1,353 positions at […]

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State Department Employees Brace for Friday Layoffs

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Inside the State Department, employees are packing up their belongings in anticipation of a reorganization and reduction in force that is expected to cut nearly 2,000 jobs. The significant cuts and reorientation of the department’s mission will cripple the agency’s work to promote democracy, combat human rights abuses, and negotiate conflict resolution. Trump officials plan […]

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