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Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats
Economist Dean Baker says Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is a “five alarm fire.”
ICE Is Enticing New Recruits With Student Loan Forgiveness
Trump has weaponized student loan forgiveness to advance his agenda.
Trump Administration Is Deploying Soldiers to Immigration Jails in 20 States
Immigrant rights advocate Setareh Ghandehari called the move “another marker of an authoritarian regime.”
DHS Attacks DACA Recipients, Tells Them to Self-Deport
Under Trump, federal agents have detained and attempted to deport recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Yosemite Employees Worked for Weeks Without Pay After Chaos of Trump Budget Cuts
Trump’s proposed 2026 budget would cut nearly $4 billion from national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and more.
Trump’s Motives Can Be Opaque. I Asked a Feminist Economist to Bare Them.
Trump’s policies cater to the 1 percent, but they don’t neatly align with capitalist interests in the traditional sense.
Bipartisan US Push Tries to Label Democratic African Government as “Terrorist”
The UN treats the Polisario as the legitimate representative of the Western Sahara people. The US is now vilifying it.
US Abducts, Illegally Deports Mother, Child With Cancer, Suit Says
A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of abducting two families and then illegally deporting them.
Democrats Are Struggling to Block Trump’s Texas Power Grab
“When you can’t win fairly, you cheat, and that is exactly what this is,” a civil rights advocate said of Trump’s ploy.
Trump Plans to Build $200 Million White House Party Room
It’s unclear how much of the funds needed for the project would come from taxpayers.