A day after videos emerged of ICE agents chasing after farmworkers across California, forcing immigrants to hide in fields, President Donald Trump appeared to say, in a Truth Social post, that he would not fully pursue his core policy proposal of mass deportation. He had sympathy, if not for the workers then for the agricultural […]
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The Trump administration is investigating whether former President Joe Biden was so enfeebled that his advisers secretly ran the country on his behalf. House Republicans and Trump’s obsequious new pardon attorney are likewise probing whether Biden’s aides issued pardons without his knowledge. “Although the authority to take these executive actions, along with many others, is […]
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the plaintiff in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and disability rights case on the Court’s current docket. The ruling ensures that families will not have to meet the notoriously difficult standard of proving “bad faith and gross misjudgment” when suing […]
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SCOTUS’ Conservative Majority Rules in Favor of Disability Rights Read Post »
Within days of Donald Trump’s return to office, a chilling message for voting rights arrived. The Justice Department was seeking to dismiss a lawsuit, originally brought forth by the Biden administration, challenging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to purge voter rolls. It wasn’t exactly a surprising move; the new Trump administration would soon back similar voter suppression […]
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How Voting Groups Are Preparing for All Eyes on Virginia Read Post »
Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels. In the wild, hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, get their […]
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Is Your Hummingbird Feeder a Lifeline or a Death Trap? Read Post »
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday warned Americans in a televised address that the country is witnessing the initial phases of American democracy’s slide toward authoritarianism with the president’s deployment of the military to respond to peaceful protests in Los Angeles. “California may be first, but it clearly will not end here,” Newsom said. “Other […]
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Newsom Lays Bare Trump’s Authoritarian Threat Read Post »
In 2020, Marlean Ames alleged that she was denied a job promotion and subsequently demoted by the Ohio Department of Youth Services because she is heterosexual. Her supervisor at the time was gay. Ames sued her employer for discrimination, but lower courts initially dismissed her case. She hadn’t met a legal bar called the “background […]
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On Monday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his decision to “retire” all 17 members of the advisory committee on immunization (ACIP), the group that issues recommendations on vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In advance of his confirmation, Kennedy had assured lawmakers that he had no intention of interfering with […]
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RFK Jr. Fires the CDC Vaccine Experts—and the Anti-Vaxxers Rejoice Read Post »
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency was many things in the first months of the second Trump administration. It was a chain saw, a wood chipper, and “a way of life, like Buddhism,” according to Elon Musk, its fearless leader according to everyone but the president’s lawyers. It was a funnel of disinfo, a conflict […]
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Trump’s Washington Is a Technofascist Fantasy—With or Without Musk Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Energy policy analysts are in broad agreement about one consequence of major legislation that Republicans are currently pushing through Congress: It will raise energy prices for the average American household by hundreds of dollars, once all is said and done. […]
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful” Energy Plan Will Burn Your Wallet Read Post »
Few have felt the whiplash of President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs with China more than American farmers. The US is the world’s largest exporter of agricultural products, from corn to soybeans, wheat, and cotton. And the largest importer of America’s farm products? China. The two countries have engaged in a back-and-forth series of escalating […]
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I’m a Farmer Who Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Are Stressing Me Out. Read Post »
My red carpet interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) at the Saturday premiere of a new documentary on her history-making election as the first openly transgender member of Congress was interrupted by an adoring passerby. “Sarah, I love you!” the man shouted. “I’m a donor and I don’t even live in the district!” (“Thank you […]
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Rep. Sarah McBride on GOP Attacks: “They’re Employing the Strategies of Reality TV.” Read Post »
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