Private prison giants now hold 90 percent of detained immigrants and aim to triple capacity for $1.5 billion in revenue.
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Immigration Detention Has Become a Booming Business for Private Prison Giants Read Post »
The Trump administration is planning citywide sweeps of dozens of homeless encampments in DC starting tonight, according to city workers and advocacy groups briefed on the plan. In anticipation of the raids, organizations that assist the homeless are hurriedly working to get homeless individuals out of tent encampments before they can be detained or arrested. […]
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Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say Read Post »
Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have brought a more reputable politician down. The third-term Texas attorney general is a law enforcement official whose own staff reported him to law enforcement; a former state representative who was later impeached […]
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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom Read Post »
On the 26-mile motorcade ride from the White House to his private golf club in Northern Virginia (one of 18 in his collection), President Donald Trump observed a few tents on public land and some garbage under an overpass. Perturbed by the imagery, he issued a sweeping demand via his social media site, Truth Social: […]
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DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail. Read Post »
A federal appeals court tossed out a lower court’s order temporarily barring DOGE’s access to people’s information.
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Federal Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data on Millions of Americans Read Post »
One woman bled for days before she was taken to a hospital, where she miscarried alone in a room.
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Children, Pregnant Women Mistreated in Immigration Detention, Sen. Ossoff Says Read Post »
Facing militaristic consolidation in US cities, it is up to all of us to define the politics of opposition.
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As Trump Turns DC Into a Fascist Laboratory, We Must Mount Our Own Defenses Read Post »
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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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives Read Post »
This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency in the nation’s capital, despite violent crime numbers hitting a 30-year low. But the announcement also illustrated something else: The way the country approaches homelessness […]
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Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work. Read Post »
On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his new pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after firing the previous commissioner and baselessly alleging that recently released poor jobs numbers were “rigged.” Trump’s pick for the post is EJ Antoni, a conservative economist at the Heritage Foundation and a longtime critic of the […]
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Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Who Wants to Do Away With the Jobs Report to Run BLS Read Post »
During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the […]
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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records Read Post »
Trump’s pick has already said that he wants to suspend the BLS’s monthly jobs reports.
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Trump Taps Project 2025 Contributor to Lead Key Labor Statistics Agency Read Post »
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