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The Trump-Musk Wrestling Match Is Far From Over

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After a public wrestling match that featured ugly insults and Jeffrey Epstein accusations, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk appear to have dialed down their fury in time for the weekend. But tensions still simmer. Late Friday, Musk, one of the Republican Party’s biggest donors, once again backed the idea of a new political party […]

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These Veterans Fought for the US. Now They’re Fighting Trump’s VA Cuts

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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration. Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs […]

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Trump and Musk’s Dramatic Falling Out Displays the Hazards of Billionaire Rule

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Author Quinn Slobodian speaks on how empowering these “titanically sized egos” threatens our collective wellbeing.

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Trump’s Budget Bill Would Gut the Judiciary’s Power to Enforce Court Orders

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By stripping judges’ ability to hold officials in contempt, the law would undermine their power to check Trump’s agenda.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Defying ICE and Charting a New Course for Democrats

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In May, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka made headlines when he was arrested during a protest outside of an immigration detention facility in New Jersey and charged with trespassing. Baraka has staunchly opposed the reopening of the 1,000-bed detention center, called Delaney Hall, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a deal with the private prison company […]

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America’s Gas Pipeline Buildout Is Mainly for Exports—Not Energy Independence

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More than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity under development in the US would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy needs, a new report concludes.  Greenhouse gas emissions tied to that new capacity would be far larger than the current climate pollution from all coal-fired power plants nationwide, according to the […]

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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters

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A new Trump-backed attack on domestic violence services just dropped—and this time, it’s targeting survivors’ pets. Tucked inside the 1,200-page appendix to the White House’s budget request to Congress is a proposal to eliminate a grant program, funded by the Agriculture Department and administered by the Department of Justice, that provides domestic violence shelters with […]

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Trump’s New “Supercharged” Travel Ban

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On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a new travel ban on foreigners, primarily targeting people from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Under the guise of protecting the United States against “foreign terrorists” and national security threats, this executive order amounts to an even more sweeping bar than the infamous travel ban […]

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Trump Wants To Eliminate a 105-Year-Old Office That Supports Women Workers

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When the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer, testified before the House Appropriations Committee last month, she seemed to assure worried lawmakers that the more than century-old, congressionally-mandated Women’s Bureau was here to stay.  “The Women’s Bureau is in statute,” Chavez-DeRemer said in response to a question from Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) about […]

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How the Legacy of the “Bonus Army” Inspired a Modern Protest Movement of Military Veterans

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This story first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. When the promises politicians made went unkept, when they were left without any reasonable alternatives, American veterans took to the streets by the thousands, forced to become their own advocates. The year […]

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