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Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity
Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.

Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.

LA Protests Seem to Show That Courts Won’t Stand in the Way of Trump’s Agenda
Portland’s attempts in 2020 to fight back against the deployment of federal agents offers lessons about what to expect.

JD Vance Says Medicaid Cuts for Millions “Immaterial” Compared to Funding ICE
Vance handwaved away the Medicaid cuts — expected to lead to thousands of deaths yearly — as “minutiae.”

Supreme Court Paves Way for Trump Mission to End Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court effectively blocked the judiciary’s ability to stop Trump from implementing a huge range of policies.

Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite
“They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway,” says Astra Taylor.

From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.

Trump Orders ICE to Ravage Democratic Cities After Countrywide Protests
Trump says he’s ordering his entire administration to attack cities he calls “the Democrat Power Center.”

“No Kings Day” Protests Overshadow Trump’s Military Parade
At least 5 million people joined protests in the largest day of action against Trump since his return to office.

Sen. Alex Padilla Tackled to the Ground, Handcuffed at Noem Press Conference
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator … imagine what they’re doing” to everyday Americans, he said.