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: This article contains spoilers. Despite its otherworldly setting, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s new science fiction epic, Mickey 17, bears some uncanny echoes of life today in the United States. The country’s working and (to a lesser extent) middle class are sure to recognize themselves in its titular hero, Mickey Barnes (played by...
The official said “we would have never let [Mahmoud Khalil] into the” US if he said he would participate in protests. In a chilling interview on Thursday, a top Trump administration official refused to answer a question on whether or not he believes protesting U.S. actions is grounds for deportation — instead deflecting by labeling...
Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed suit to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education. Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education, arguing that firing approximately 50 percent of the department’s workforce significantly impairs its ability to fulfill its legal...
Three separate district courts have placed injunctions on Trump’s order, which seeks to redefine the 14th Amendment. The White House has filed a request to the U.S. Supreme Court for justices to block several stays issued by federal court judges relating to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine the birthright citizenship clause of...
Police arrested around 100 participants in the protest, which was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City to protest against the Trump administration’s arrest and attempted deportation of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who is currently being detained by Immigration...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation As Donald Trump looks for new methods to crush the Palestine solidarity movement some groups allied with his cause are suggesting potential targets. A coalition of 45 pro-Israel organizations, led by the Zachor Legal Institute, have sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department,...
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are waging a multi-front war on nutrition benefits for children, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture moving this week to end programs that provided over $1 billion in funding for schools and charity organizations to buy food from local farmers as GOP lawmakers simultaneously take aim at school...
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is planning to impose a 200 percent tariff on European countries’ alcoholic products sold to the U.S., responding to a much smaller tariff imposed by the European Union (EU) that was itself was in response to tariffs by Trump earlier this month. The EU announced on...
On March 6, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a meeting with nearly 40 representatives of Mexico’s national bourgeoisie to discuss her government’s plans in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Sheinbaum would later confess that the meeting was set up to share what her government was planning on doing should her phone...
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump expressed little remorse over his administration’s firing of thousands of government workers through Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), baselessly suggesting that the people who have been fired thus far were incompetent at their jobs. Trump offered no evidence to back...
Communist Party General Secretary, Comrade Robert Griffiths, made the following comments in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump: “The empowerment of this megalomaniac and his far-right and billionaire backers poses a grave threat to democratic rights, the environment and peace.” “Trump and his clique’s contempt for women, trade unionists, immigrants and for the...
