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Documents Reveal the Federal Government’s Vast Minnesota Surveillance Dragnet

Newly released court records show the Department of Homeland Security conducted a months-long surveillance campaign against left-wing groups in...

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Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under Trump appointee Mehmet Oz, changed their guidance on voting in nursing homes last month. Now, a...

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An Infamous Attack Ad Just Got an AI Resurrection

In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign ran a terrifying 60-second advertisement. It opens with a three-year-old girl in a field, pulling petals off a...

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Anti-AI Populism is Reshaping American Politics

Opposing data center construction is one of the most popular positions a candidate can possibly take right now—and those who fail to do so are...

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The US Lost 23,000 Jobs in July

The Labor Department reported Friday that American nonfarm employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, a drop some attribute to employers’ wariness to hire...

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What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals?

Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical...

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She Followed ICE’s Advice to Self-Deport. Five Weeks Later, She Was Dead.

When 25-year-old Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz took her three daughters and boarded a plane from St. Louis to Guatemala City on June 17, her...

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Wesley Bell and Cori Bush Head for a Rematch

In Tuesday’s Democratic congressional primary, voters in Missouri’s first district will decide whether to re-elect moderate incumbent Congressman...

04.08.2026 9

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George Santos Got Busted For Manipulating Political Betting Markets—and Seems to Have Little Remorse

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Friday that former congressman and current legend George Santos has been fined $35,000 for...

01.08.2026 8

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“The ICE Agent Behind Me Grabbed the Back of My Shirt and Just Threw Me Like a Sack of Trash”

A 68-year-old nurse who brought her mobile clinic to serve visitors at an ICE detention center, only to be thrown to the ground by ICE agents. A pair...

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Can Opposing Data Centers Help Progressives Win?

When Donald Trump came to Michigan last week to speak at a General Motors vehicle-testing facility, he likely expected to find a friendly crowd. That...

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Maine Just Told ICE to Get Out

A suite of new laws restricting cooperation between Maine law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents is set to take effect today, less...

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How Fossil Fuel Companies Made Us Believe Gas Was Clean

About half of Americans think natural gas—a methane-based, planet-warming fuel—is a “clean” energy source, according to a recent poll. And a...

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Trump’s Push to Build Data Centers for the US Military

If you live near a military base, there’s a chance you’ll soon find that a privately owned data center has moved into your area. A year ago,...

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Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP Agents Have Abused Women and Children

This week, we published an investigation into David Brouillette, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who reportedly killed 25-year-old Johan...

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How to Keep an Alleged War Criminal Out of New York

Earlier this month, Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir—possibly the most prominent figure on Israel’s extreme right—cancelled a...

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Police Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People

Flock cameras—solar-powered, automated license plate readers, weighing less than 3 pounds and designed to be unobtrusive—can be found on 80,000...

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Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the White House and Heritage Foundation

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spent months in ICE detention, has filed a federal lawsuit against what he alleges is a “public-private...

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Attack Ad Calls Climate Activist an Oil Investor Because of His 401(k)

William Lawrence, the 36-year-old Sunrise Movement co-founder running a progressive congressional campaign in Michigan, has positioned himself as an...

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A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better

When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that...

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Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after...

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ICE Keeps Using The Same Justification For Killing Drivers

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and a three-decade Houston...

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Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Communists

When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a circle until he’s bored and moves on to the next thing. He...

08.07.2026 10

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DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company...

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Left-Wing Challenger Melat Kiros Upsets 15-Term Incumbent in Colorado

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, has won the high-profile primary for Colorado’s first congressional district, the Associated Press...

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Gaza Is Costing Democratic Incumbents Their Seats

Two years ago, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old sociology graduate student at the City University of New York, was sitting in a tent on...

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Trump’s Next ICE Pick: A Trooper Poised to Turn Local Cops Into Deportation Agents

On Saturday, President Trump nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma State Trooper, to serve as the Director of Immigration and Customs...

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Trump’s Sons Stand To Profit From The Critical Minerals Arms Race

Donald Trump’s network of family businesses—and network of US government deals with those businesses—is mind-bogglingly wide. A New York Times...

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Prosecutors Can’t Demand New York Trans Kids’ Medical Records, Judge Says

Yet another Trump administration effort to gain access to trans kids’ private health information has been, for the moment, halted. A district judge...

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Is It Time for Jews To Leave New York?

New York City’s right-wingers, who evidently cannot handle losing elections, are dealing with their anger by once again attempting to fearmonger...

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DHS Still Has a Civil Rights Team. Aliya Rahman Is Testing It.

When Aliya Rahman’s lawyers approached her about filing a complaint with the civil rights office of the Department of Homeland Security, she almost...

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“Willful Neglect”: A New Report on the State of Fatherhood Pulls No Punches

In many countries around the world, it’s Father’s Day, a time to celebrate the contributions of dads. But aside from the inevitable barbeques and...

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Trump Threatens Iran as JD Vance Announces “Great Progress” on Ceasefire

This morning, Vice President JD Vance touched down in Switzerland for the first round of talks with Iran. The stated goal: extending last week’s...

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Report: ICE Caused Humanitarian Crisis in Minnesota

The global NGO Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday alleging widespread human rights violations by the federal government during “Operation...

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Grok Is More Important Than Clean Air, DOJ Says

The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon...

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DOJ’s New ICE Protest Indictment Is Its Most Absurd Yet

In the latest installment of Trump’s campaign against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Justice has charged 15 Minneapolis-area residents for...

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She Froze After Being Released by ICE. The Medical Examiner Ruled It a Homicide.

Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old Haitian asylum seeker, was found dead of hypothermia at a Pittsburgh bus stop March 2, three days after being released...

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Trump Wants Reporters to Know He’s Very Mad at Netanyahu

Update, June 14, 6:10 pm: Trump announced Sunday evening that his deal with Iran “is now complete.” The president wrote on Truth Social: “I...

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The Oligarchy Attends a Cage Fight

While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting...

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Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Still Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters

An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is Palestinian, to Jordan in a legal...

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“I Love Inflation,” Trump Says, As Rates Rise Thanks to Iran War

At a press conference this afternoon, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if he is concerned about inflation rates after new data showed the...

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Trump Told Prosecutors to Target ICE Protesters. A Chicago Jury Wasn’t Buying It.

The grand jury transcripts from the “Broadview Six” case, in which the federal government tried to charge six Chicagoans with felony conspiracy...

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Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare

Despite reaping billions in the weapons industry as cofounder of the military-tech company Anduril, Trae Stephens says he does not believe that...

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How the Flamingo Became a Potent Protest Symbol

It’s not unusual for a protest movement to involve absurd-looking symbols. Unions deploy giant rat inflatables to picket companies using non-union...

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Inside Delaney Hall’s Black Box

Early Saturday morning, a woman whose husband is detained at ICE’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, drove nearly two hours to visit him. She was...

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“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?”

Scott Pelley spent 37 years at CBS News, only to be fired last week after coming into conflict with Free Press founder Bari Weiss, who took control of...

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The Delaney Hall Strikers Are Hitting GEO Group Where It Hurts

It has now been almost two weeks since the laborers keeping ICE’s Delaney Hall mega-jail open went on strike—demanding a chance to speak with New...

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Greg Bovino Keeps Posting to Get His Job Back. No One Is Listening.

Greg Bovino, the Nazi-garbed former Border Patrol commander, was ousted in January after CBP and ICE agents during his tenure killed Minneapolis...

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Washington Protesters Convicted of “Conspiracy to Impede” ICE Agents

On a Wednesday afternoon last June, Bajun Mavalwalla II, Jac Archer, and Justice Forral gathered with hundreds of others to protest outside an ICE...

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Elizabeth Warren Has Some Questions for the Private Prison Executive Running ICE

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a few questions for the head of ICE. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Democrat sent a letter to David Venturella, the new...

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