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Trump Plan for Gaza “Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing,” Says UN Human Rights Expert
Unlawful deportation or transfer of a population constitutes both a war crime and a crime against humanity.
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As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers?
From limits on heat exposure to overtime rules, states can fill in some gaps as Trump dismantles federal protections.
![A hurricane specialist works on tracking Hurricane Beryl at the National Hurricane Center on July 1, 2024 in Miami, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2160108815-400x300.jpg)
DOGE Ransacks NOAA, Raising Fears About Privatization of Climate Data
Right-wing climate denialists accuse the National Weather Service of promoting alarmism over the climate crisis.
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Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True
To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.
![People gather to defend transgender rights in New York City, on February 3, 2025.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0207-trans-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield.
If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable.
![President Donald Trump arrives to sign an executive order in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0207-t-400x300.jpg)
What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class?
Trump’s challenge to the neoliberal order is aimed at increasing capitalists’ profits, not helping workers.
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Trump Admin Twists Civil Rights Law to Enforce Anti-Trans Crackdown
“This is just a transphobic witch hunt using taxpayer dollars,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman.
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on February 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0207-netanyahu-400x225.jpg)
Netanyahu Gifts Trump a Golden Pager, Seemingly Celebrating Lebanon Attack
The pager attack killed dozens, including at least two young children, and injured thousands across Lebanon.
![A group of immigrant supporters cheer with the news that a favorable ruling had occurred regarding immigrant birthright status, at the CASA Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Maryland, on February 5, 2025.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0207-im-400x225.jpg)
Judge Places Indefinite Injunction Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
“No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.
![Displaced Palestinian children sit on a sand mound overlooking tents set up amid destroyed buildings in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 6, 2025.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0206_gaza-c-400x225.jpg)
Gaza Is Not for Sale — No Matter What Trump Says
Trump’s absurd plan to annex Gaza will never be tolerated by Palestinians.
![A statue of civil rights organizer Rosa Parks is seen behind President Donald Trump as he speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on February 6, 2025.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_0206-trump-rosa-parks-400x225.jpg)
Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education
Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.
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We Won’t Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
Tenant unions can teach us to strategize “with every lever that we have,” says tenant organizer Tracy Rosenthal.
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LA Fires Didn’t Discriminate in Their Destruction — But Recovery Efforts Could
Amid rent gouging, land speculators and insurance woes, the cost of rebuilding may exceed working people’s means.
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The EPA Has Suffered Decades of Attacks — But Trump’s Are the Worst Yet
Trump’s Project 2025-stoked sabotage of the Environmental Protection Agency will unleash rampant carcinogens in the US.
Environment & Health
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Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast
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Distraught EPA Employees Fear for Their Futures Under Trump
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Communities of Color Hit Hardest as Trump Shutters Environmental Justice Office
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Sanders Slams RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Lies as Senate GOP Advances Nomination
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Doctors Rush to Access CDC Archives After Website Is Purged on Trump’s Orders
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Agriculture Department Web Managers Ordered to Remove Climate Change From Sites
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RFK Jr. Wrongly Claims Most Americans “Are Not Happy” With Medicaid
“Trump’s longstanding war on education has taken a more dangerous turn with his incoming order to eliminate the Department of Education through executive fiat.”
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Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation
![A woman walks along a path through rubble with her children as displaced Palestinians return to northern Gaza to live in tents built on the ruins of their homes, on January 28, 2025, in Gaza, Palestine.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2195927741-800x550.jpg)
The War on Gaza Has Taken My Home, My Dreams and My Grandmother. What’s Left?
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A Forged Viral Post Has Made Pro-Palestine Students in Missouri Live in Fear
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Even at an Anti-Racist Educators’ Summit, Decrying Genocide Proved Controversial
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Israel’s Killing of Hind Rajab 1 Year Ago Is a Stain on Our Collective Humanity
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Until Israel’s Siege and Occupation End, Every Palestinian Remains a Hostage
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Gaza Needs More Than a Ceasefire. We Must Demand an End to the Blockade.
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In Gaza, Ceasefire Will Be a Chance to Finally Breathe