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ACLU Exposes Trump Admin’s Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Jail System

ACLU Exposes Trump Admin’s Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Jail System

Trump has reportedly sought proposals for a $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention.

12.04.2025 20

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SCOTUS Orders Trump Admin to Return Man Wrongfully Deported to Salvadoran Prison

SCOTUS Orders Trump Admin to Return Man Wrongfully Deported to Salvadoran Prison

Advocates for Kilmar Abrego García welcomed the order and demanded that Trump comply.

11.04.2025 2

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VP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash

VP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash

The visit came a day after Donald Trump said his administration will “go as far as we have to go” to acquire the island.

29.03.2025 3

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Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate

Israel has already killed at least 700 Palestinians since it ended the ceasefire this week, including 200 children.

22.03.2025 1

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Teams Up With DOGE to Gut USPS

A planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that the US Postal Service is on a path toward privatization.

15.03.2025 8

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Women’s Day Marches Flood the Streets to Oppose Trump and Project 2025

Women and allies took to the streets from coast to coast Saturday for a “Unite and Resist” national day of action.

09.03.2025 2

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Trump Nixes Collective Bargaining for Transportation Safety Administration Union

The Department of Homeland Security claimed that collective bargaining for TSA security officers “constrained” the agency's chief mission.

09.03.2025 5

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Trump Approves $3B in Arms to Israel as Freed Palestinians Recount Torture

The package includes nearly $2.716 billion in bombs and weapons guidance kits, as well as $295 million in bulldozers.

01.03.2025 3

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Commercial AI Has Become a Key Enabler of Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinians

Israeli forces are using artificial intelligence and cloud services sold by OpenAI, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

19.02.2025 10

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Report: ICE Is Expanding Surveillance of Its Critics on Social Media

It cites “an increase in threats” as the reason for seeking a contractor to monitor the public's social media activity.

13.02.2025 50

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15 Democratic State AGs Vow to Protect Access to Gender-Affirming Care

The joint statement comes as Trump signs an executive order targeting trans athletes in women’s sports.

06.02.2025 1

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Musk’s DOGE Accused of Seizing Sole Control of Essential Federal Databases

“Congress famously has the power of the purse,” wrote one analyst, “but it looks like DOGE is trying to snatch it.”

01.02.2025 9

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Civil Rights Defenders Slam Trump’s Order to Deport Pro-Palestine Students

Jewish Voice for Peace says the order follows the Heritage Foundation's broader plan to dismantle US civil society.

30.01.2025 5

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Continuing Rightward Shift, Zuckerberg Cancels All Diversity Programs at Meta

The move is the latest of the Meta CEO's seeming efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump and reactionary forces.

12.01.2025 3

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Advocates Demand Tenant Protections as LA Landlords Use Fires to Price Gouge

Tenant groups are calling for an eviction moratorium and rent freeze as landlords seek to profit from the crisis.

12.01.2025 3

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Oregon Healthcare Workers Launch Largest Medical Strike in State History

Around 5,000 workers walked off the job at Providence hospitals Friday, demanding better pay and working conditions.

11.01.2025 10

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Israeli Lawmakers Call for Even More Violent “Complete Cleansing” of North Gaza

At least seven far-right members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, are calling on the country’s defense minister to order the total destruction...

05.01.2025 3

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Trump Condemns Biden’s Commutations, Vows to “Vigorous Pursue Death Penalty”

Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that his administration will “vigorously” use capital punishment as part of his “make...

25.12.2024 10

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Biden Allows Ukraine to Use Long-Range Missiles for Deep Strikes Inside Russia

While neocons from both sides of the proverbial political aisle welcomed what some described as President Joe Biden’s “long overdue” decision...

18.11.2024 30

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Trump Picks Fracking Company CEO Chris Wright to Head the Department of Energy

In a move that alarmed green groups, Republican President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday tapped Chris Wright — the CEO of a fracking company who...

17.11.2024 2

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Sanders Plans Floor Vote on Joint Resolutions Blocking US Arms Sales to Israel

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday his intention to bring a floor vote on resolutions aimed at blocking a series of proposed arms sales...

14.11.2024 3

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Trump’s Promise of Mass Deportation Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring

The chairperson of a leading U.S. private prison corporation on Thursday gushed over the “unprecedented opportunity” presented by the prospect of...

09.11.2024 6

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Climate Scientists and Environmental Groups Alarmed Over New UN Climate Report

The world’s nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a “catastrophic” rise in global...

25.10.2024 6

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Israeli Massacre of Palestinian Family in Gaza Included US Permanent Resident

The Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations on Tuesday led condemnation of Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in...

16.10.2024 4

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Israel Used US-Supplied Bomb in Beirut Strike That Killed at Least 22

At least one U.S.-supplied bomb was used by Israel in a Thursday night airstrike that killed at least 22 people and wounded over 115 more in the...

12.10.2024 10

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Bombshell New Motion Lays Out Legal Case for Trump’s Culpability on January 6

Jack Smith, the special counsel probing former U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential contest, on Wednesday...

03.10.2024 3

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Congress Averts Shutdown After Speaker Drops Voter Proof-of-Citizenship Demand

Congressional leaders on Sunday said they reached an agreement on legislation to fund the federal government for three more months, averting a...

23.09.2024 2

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Israeli Minister of Education Suggests Lebanon Will Be “Annihilated”

As Israel followed up its remote bombings of communications devices in Lebanon with airstrikes on Beirut, the United Nations Security Council held...

21.09.2024 4

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Cops Attack Antiwar Protesters Outside International Arms Expo in Australia

Police in the southern Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday attacked anti-war protesters with so-called “less lethal” weapons including stun...

11.09.2024 2

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Israel Urges US Congress to Press South Africa to Drop Genocide Case at ICJ

Israeli officials are lobbying U.S. lawmakers to pressure South Africa into dropping its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of...

10.09.2024 3

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Federal Judge Blocks Student Debt Relief Rule That Hasn’t Even Been Finalized

A Republican-appointed U.S. federal judge in Georgia raised eyebrows and objections Thursday after taking what observers called the “unprecedented”...

06.09.2024 4

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Brazilian Judge Suspends X After Musk’s Refusal to Block Far Right Accounts

Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the nationwide suspension of Elon Musk’s X social media platform in...

31.08.2024 2

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Report: RFK Jr. Expected to End Presidential Bid and Endorse Trump

Following months of increasingly obvious hints, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will drop his longshot Independent presidential bid and endorse former U.S....

22.08.2024 3

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UN Chief Calls for Truce as Infant Tests Positive for Gaza’s First Case of Polio

Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded its first case of polio since the highly contagious virus was eradicated there 25 years ago,...

18.08.2024 3

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SCOTUS Rejects Biden Admin’s Request to Reinstate Expanded Title IX Rule

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied the Biden administration’s emergency request to reinstate parts of its updated Department of Education...

17.08.2024 10

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Newsom Threatens to Defund CA Counties That Don’t Clear Homeless Encampments

After personally participating in the forced displacement of homeless people in a Los Angeles encampment, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom...

10.08.2024 8

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US Tech Giants Are Storing Data for Israeli Military as It Destroys Gaza

The Israeli military is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by U.S. tech titans for “direct participation and...

06.08.2024 2

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Green Groups Slam Energy Reform Bill as a Giveaway to the Fossil Fuel Industry

A bipartisan energy permitting reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate — and described by one campaigner as “the biggest giveaway in...

01.08.2024 2

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House Democrats Introduce Sweeping Bill to Protect Workers’ Rights and Safety

A group of Democratic U.S. House members on Friday unveiled legislation “aimed at bolstering protections for America’s workers and ensuring...

27.07.2024 30

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