In his speech to the Department of Justice, Trump baselessly accused the media of “illegal” behavior. On Friday, President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters, originally intended to address immigration and drug trafficking. However, he quickly shifted focus, using the platform to air grievances about the judiciary, his...
After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials — currently “stalled just...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing mounting calls to step down after he voted in favor of the Republicans’ spending package Friday. The Republican bill has been described as a “blank check” for the White House to keep defunding and dismantling government services and agencies. Calls have been mounting for New York Congressmember Alexandria...
A cinema house in Miami Beach, Florida, is urging city residents to oppose the city’s attempt to terminate their lease agreement after the theater screened an Oscar-winning documentary on Israel’s apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. City leaders, including Mayor Steven Meiner, have accused the theater, O Cinema, of promulgating “pro-Hamas” and “terrorist propaganda” by...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A behind-the-scenes legal effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping President Donald Trump in his push...
Exhaustion is a strategy. What looks like collective fatigue is actually the consequence of a carefully engineered mechanism designed to rob us of our power — our power to resist, to imagine, to protect each other and to create sustainable change. Burnout is many things, including an effective political tool for our oppressors. According to...
This story was originally published by The New Lede. American families will face increasing rates of environmental-related illnesses and premature deaths, including lung and cardiovascular diseases, due to the Trump administration’s sweeping rollbacks of air quality regulations, health professionals warn. The moves to slash roughly two dozen environmental and public health protections weaken rules dealing...
Ten Senate Democrats handed Republicans a critical victory, voting in favor of cloture on a budget that will allow the Trump Administration to continue wielding budget cuts as a political weapon — targeting the administration’s opponents, including trans and queer people. The budget slashes Medicaid, dealing a direct blow to vulnerable constituents, while further entrenching...
Even before U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday publicly revealed that he was invoking the Alien Enemies Act, legal groups took action, which led to a federal judge temporarily blocking the administration from using the 1798 law for deportations. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued “a classwide,...
When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged “inroads with the incoming Trump administration,” abandoned Meta’s founding ethos of open innovation, and dramatically realigned how the tech giant will now do business, as critics like Bärí A. Williams, former...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Universities have long been pivotal hubs of the global solidarity movement with Palestine. During Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza and its annihilation campaign against Palestinian educational institutions, students across the world transformed universities into sites of protests and encampments. A central demand united this...
The Social Security Administration (SSA), an irreplaceable lifeline for 73 million people, is only the latest venerable U.S. institution to be hit with a campaign of media falsehoods and startling internal sabotage efforts, all on the orders of Trump and the reactionary right. This has taken its most visibly outrageous form in the bureaucratic pillaging...
This story was originally published by The New Lede. A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, critics fear, particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors. The decision to cut the committees, which brought together academics, industry...
Editor’s Note: The following statement was originally published on Helyeh Doutaghi’s account on the X platform on March 12, 2025. Last week, Doutaghi was placed on administrative leave by Yale Law School following an AI-generated article falsely accusing her of being a “terrorist” over connections to Palestine advocacy organizations. My name is Helyeh Doutaghi. I...
This story was originally published by The 19th. Republican state legislators unveiled a new effort on Friday to derail the health care network that has helped people in Texas continue accessing abortion years after the Lone Star State banned the procedure. The 43-page bill targets tech companies that allow patients to order abortion pills online...