The deal — a major concession from Democrats — funds DHS and its immigration-related agencies for another two weeks.
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Democrats Cave on Demands for DHS Reforms, Agree to Short-Term Spending Bill Read Post »
“No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE.” That’s the rallying cry behind the campaign for a nationwide general strike on Friday, seeking to galvanize opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. This week, I went to the University of Minnesota, my alma mater, to speak to some of the students behind the effort […]
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Meet the Minnesota Students Behind Today’s National General Strike Campaign Read Post »
Just before being put on board her deportation flight, Melissa Tran’s wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist. It had been more than 10 hours since she’d been given any food or water; for the last seven she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac. There was no company […]
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise—one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars, and artificial intelligence. When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated […]
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Trump’s EPA Protects Big Business, Not People or the Environment, Critics Say Read Post »
In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent toward them. Natasha Henstridge said he forced her to give him oral sex. Olivia Munn said that he masturbated in front of her, then lied to others that they’d had sex. […]
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What Women Said “Melania” Director Brett Ratner Did to Them Read Post »
The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week.
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Rubio Dodges Accountability at Senate Hearing as Deadly Boat Strikes Continue Read Post »
“I said in March, if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed,” said Homan.
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Trump Border Czar: Anti-ICE “Rhetoric” Responsible for DHS’s “Bloodshed” Read Post »
My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis and assaulted her. He sprayed her in the chest with vinegar from a syringe, then was tackled by security and arrested. Omar reacted defiantly, […]
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The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence Read Post »
“Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans,” said Sen. Ed Markey.
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Senator Calls to Abolish ICE, Says Voting to Fund DHS Supports “Murder” Read Post »
Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers should be prosecuted, in both cases citing unsubstantiated claims. Trump’s fixations on going after Obama and Georgia aren’t new, but they now come at a moment of […]
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Trump Is Still Posting About Arresting Obama and Prosecuting Election Workers Read Post »
While the country was still reeling on Wednesday from the killing of two Americans by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, the Trump administration undertook one of its most blatantly authoritarian actions yet, deploying the FBI to seize ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, a heavily blue area in metro […]
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Critics said the action in Fulton County had triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections.
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Experts Sound the Alarm Over FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Read Post »
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