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Trump Admin’s Focus on Child Labor After California Raids Is a Bait and Switch
The Trump administration’s raids are part of the same immigration system that makes child labor conditions possible.
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.
Trump Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations
The system, which would enable sharing of massive amounts of sensitive data, may be launched before the end of July.
Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US
Democratic lawmakers are blasting the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration jail in the Everglades.
“Tax-Dodging Consultant” Is Now the US Treasury’s Top Tax Policy Official
As a lobbyist, Ken Kies secured tax giveaways for major corporations. Now, he’s helping implement the GOP budget bill.
Climate Erasure Replaces Climate Denial Under Trump Administration
The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to an effort to withhold the raw information itself.
FEMA Missed Thousands of Texas Flood Victims’ Calls After Noem Fired Contractors
The DHS Secretary moved forward with the layoffs immediately after the disaster, as the demand for help was highest.
US Aid Has Always Been a Tool of Control. Under Trump, It’s a Tool of Death.
The president’s cuts to USAID are starving the nations that were made dependent on aid by previous administrations.
Public Support for Immigration Reaches Record High Amid Mass Deportation Efforts
A new poll finds only 38 percent of Americans support deporting all undocumented immigrants, a 9 point drop from 2024.
Trump Revoked Rules Meant to Protect Against Disasters Like Texas Floods
A commonsense rule created building requirements for projects receiving federal funds. Trump revoked it twice.