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Elon Musk Reinstates DOGE Member Who Resigned Over Racist Posts

In one of Marko Elez’s many disturbing online posts over the past year, he proudly referred to himself as a racist.

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Chris Walker

Judge Rules Trump Officials Are Defying His Order to Reverse Funding Freeze

Some Trump officials have said they may ignore future court rulings, which could result in a constitutional crisis.

yesterday 10

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Chris Walker

Judge Rules Trump Officials Are Defying Order to Reverse Funding Freeze

Some Trump officials have said they may ignore future court rulings, which could result in a constitutional crisis.

yesterday 10

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Chris Walker

Trump Cuts Off South Africa Aid in Push to Further Interests of White Landowners

White South Africans make up about 7 percent of the population but own more than 70 percent of the farmland.

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Amy Goodman

Trump’s Limits on NIH Grants Could Bring Lifesaving Medical Research to a Halt

Rep. Rosa DeLauro warned that limiting grants from the National Institutes of Health will cause “irreparable damage.”

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Julia Conley

States Sue Trump Over Executive Order Halting Trans Health Care Funds

“The order is a cruel and baseless broadside against transgender youth,” the lawsuit says.

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Zane Mcneill

Texas Colleges Rolled Over for Anti-DEI Bill. Now They Face a Broader Attack.

Schools that overcomplied with state bills targeting DEI initiatives are now vulnerable to attacks on curriculum, too.

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Marisol Cortez

FCC Investigates CA News Station Over Reporting on Immigration Enforcement

FCC Investigates CA News Station Over Reporting on Immigration Enforcement

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into a San Francisco radio station after it broadcasted details...

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Chris Walker

Israel Shuts Down Two Palestinian Bookstores in Occupied East Jerusalem

Israel Shuts Down Two Palestinian Bookstores in Occupied East Jerusalem

The leading Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem was among those voicing outrage Monday in response to an Israeli police raid on a pair of...

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Jake Johnson

Competition for Defense Contracts May Drive Divides Within Trump’s Inner Circle

Competition for Defense Contracts May Drive Divides Within Trump’s Inner Circle

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril...

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Michael T. Klare

Altadena Communities Unite to Rebuild as Developers Eye the Ashes

Altadena Communities Unite to Rebuild as Developers Eye the Ashes

Bernardo Osprio, a 60-year-old day laborer from Pasadena, couldn’t believe his eyes as he surveyed the devastation caused by the recent wildfires...

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Michelle Zacarias

Trump DOJ Deleted January 6 Database in Latest Attempt to Make History Vanish

Trump DOJ Deleted January 6 Database in Latest Attempt to Make History Vanish

This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...

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Alec Macgillis

As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers?

As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers?

What can state advocates, state-level labor agencies and state legislatures do to preserve and advance labor protections for workers in the face of...

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Casey Quinlan

Trump Plan for Gaza “Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing,” Says UN Human Rights Expert

Trump Plan for Gaza “Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing,” Says UN Human Rights Expert

Donald Trump’s outrageous plan to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza, assume U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and make it into the “Riviera of...

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Marjorie Cohn

Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast

Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Diane Wilson had heard rumors for months that Exxon...

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Tik Root

Russell Vought Orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Stop Work

Russell Vought Orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Stop Work

The Trump administration’s multi-pronged attack on the CFPB continues. President Donald Trump’s new acting director of the Consumer Financial...

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Jon Queally

On Super Bowl Sunday, Remember Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize the NFL

On Super Bowl Sunday, Remember Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize the NFL

About three score years ago, on a January Sunday afternoon in 1967, some of us gathered in college dorm basement lounges to watch pro football’s...

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Sam Pizzigati

DOGE Ransacks NOAA, Raising Fears About Privatization of Climate Data

DOGE Ransacks NOAA, Raising Fears About Privatization of Climate Data

Under orders from President Donald Trump, unelected tech billionaire Elon Musk and his rogue unit, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),...

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Mike Ludwig

Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Calls Back to Violent Chapters of U.S. History

Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Calls Back to Violent Chapters of U.S. History

Pedro Rios’s paternal grandparents were both born in the United States, yet the government forced them to move to Mexico in the 1930s. They were...

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Kate Morrissey

As Israel’s UNRWA Ban Sets In, Palestinians Worry About Political Repercussions

As Israel’s UNRWA Ban Sets In, Palestinians Worry About Political Repercussions

The fate of the UN agency responsible for providing relief to Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is left uncertain after an Israeli law banning the...

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Qassam Muaddi

Distraught EPA Employees Fear for Their Futures Under Trump

Distraught EPA Employees Fear for Their Futures Under Trump

This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...

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Sharon Lerner

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk’s DOGE Team from Treasury Payment System

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk’s DOGE Team from Treasury Payment System

A federal judge early Saturday morning blocked Elon Musk’s highly controversial Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from further access to...

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Jon Queally

Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True

Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True

Since Donald Trump came to power for the second time in the United States, the attacks on all of our intersecting communities have been raining...

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George Yancy

What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class?

What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class?

Donald Trump’s first month in office has pummeled communities in the U.S. and across the globe with a whiplash-inducing set of illegal actions and...

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Schuyler Mitchell

Judge Places Indefinite Injunction Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

Judge Places Indefinite Injunction Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

A federal judge has placed an indefinite injunction on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine the birthright citizenship...

07.02.2025 2

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Chris Walker

DOGE Member Resigns Over Social Media Posts Promoting Racism and Eugenics

DOGE Member Resigns Over Social Media Posts Promoting Racism and Eugenics

UPDATE: Following reports that DOGE member Marko Elez resigned from his position (after racist posts from him on social media were unearthed), Vice...

07.02.2025 3

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Chris Walker

Netanyahu Gifts Trump a Golden Pager Seemingly Celebrating Lebanon Attack

Netanyahu Gifts Trump a Golden Pager Seemingly Celebrating Lebanon Attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted President Donald Trump a golden pager mounted on a piece of wood in an homage to the horrific...

07.02.2025 1

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Sharon Zhang

Hundreds in Chicago Protest Israel’s Gallant, Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity

Hundreds in Chicago Protest Israel’s Gallant, Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity

Hundreds in Chicago protested against a speaking event by former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday as he and Israeli Prime Minister...

07.02.2025 1

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Sharon Zhang

Communities of Color Hit Hardest as Trump Shutters Environmental Justice Office

Communities of Color Hit Hardest as Trump Shutters Environmental Justice Office

The Trump administration is planning to shutter the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights at the Environmental Protection...

07.02.2025 1

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Amy Goodman

Trump’s Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield.

Trump’s Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield.

Autocracy depends in large part on conformity of thought, which explains Donald Trump’s focus on K-12 education during the early days of his second...

07.02.2025 1

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Lewis Raven Wallace

Students Sue Columbia University Over Suspensions for Pro-Palestine Organizing

Students Sue Columbia University Over Suspensions for Pro-Palestine Organizing

This story was originally published at Prism . Three Columbia University graduate students who were suspended last year for attending protests...

07.02.2025 1

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Nayanika Guha

Life-Saving Domestic Violence Nonprofits Rocked by Trump’s Funding Freeze

Life-Saving Domestic Violence Nonprofits Rocked by Trump’s Funding Freeze

This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani and Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th . Meet Jasmine and Mel and read more of their reporting on...

07.02.2025 1

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Jasmine Mithani

Tribal Colleges and Universities Fear Their Future Amid Trump’s Sweeping Orders

Tribal Colleges and Universities Fear Their Future Amid Trump’s Sweeping Orders

WASHINGTON — The anger, resilience and ready-to-fight energy radiated from tribal college and university presidents and students as they packed...

07.02.2025 4

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Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Trump Admin Twists Civil Rights Law to Enforce Anti-Trans Crackdown

Trump Admin Twists Civil Rights Law to Enforce Anti-Trans Crackdown

The U.S. Department of Education has opened investigations into San Jose State University’s volleyball team, the University of Pennsylvania’s...

07.02.2025 7

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Zane Mcneill

Gaza Is Not for Sale — No Matter What Trump Says

Gaza Is Not for Sale — No Matter What Trump Says

Since the moment President Donald Trump took office nearly two weeks ago, he has signed dozens of executive orders that will hurt each and every...

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Michel Moushabeck

Report: Israel Leveled Entire Blocks in Gaza When Unable to Locate Target

Report: Israel Leveled Entire Blocks in Gaza When Unable to Locate Target

Israeli forces authorized the killings of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza when they were unable to find the exact location of a fighter the...

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Sharon Zhang

Trump Issues Sanctions on Iran, Threatens to “Obliterate” It if He’s Killed

Trump Issues Sanctions on Iran, Threatens to “Obliterate” It if He’s Killed

President Donald Trump issued a threat for Iran to be “obliterated” this week as his administration imposed sanctions on Iranian oil-affiliated...

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Sharon Zhang

Here’s How Chicago Educators Are Defending Their Students From Trump’s Attacks

Here’s How Chicago Educators Are Defending Their Students From Trump’s Attacks

On Monday, Chicago teachers, community members, and some elected officials participated in “walk-in” actions at more than 100 Chicago public...

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Kelly Hayes

Major Unions Sue DOGE to Block Musk Labor Department “Power Grab”

Major Unions Sue DOGE to Block Musk Labor Department “Power Grab”

AFL-CIO and other major unions are suing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in hopes of preventing the rogue agency from...

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Sharon Zhang