When 5 million demonstrators flooded the streets for the national “Hands Off!” protests on April 5 — demonstrating against the unconstitutional actions and authoritarian aims of the Trump administration — a large fraction were mobilized by a leaderless grassroots collective that didn’t even exist at the start of 2025. It’s …
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The Department of Health and Human Services was by no means spared the hatchet job by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE), and big changes are coming to food safety standards and communications over public health risks — and not in a good way. According to a Thursday report …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador this week to get answers about the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man Donald Trump’s administration illegally sent to a mega-prison in the Central American nation and is now refusing to bring back to the U.S. despite a Supreme …
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The Donald Trump administration’s unlawful removal of hundreds of migrants to a gulag in El Salvador — and their subsequent legal battle to keep them there — have showcased the president’s clear disregard for human rights and the United States court system. They are planning to do it again. Most …
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Chaos continued to reign supreme at the Internal Revenue Service after President Donald Trump ousted the agency’s interim commissioner only three days after appointing him. Interim Commissioner Gary Shapley was ousted on Friday, about 72-hours after assuming the role on Tuesday. It’s not entirely clear if Shapley did anything that …
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Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, was asked what should have been a pretty simple question during a Fox News appearance on Monday night. “Is that legal?” Jesse Watters wondered, referring to Donald Trump musing earlier in the day about sending “homegrown” American citizens to El Salvador. …
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) acknowledged during a leadership summit in Anchorage this week that “we are all afraid” three months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Murkowski has been a fairly outspoken critic of Trump in a Republican Party that publicly worships him. An audience member asked Murkowski …
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Shortly before midnight on April 15, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, Tanya S. Chutkan dealt Donald Trump’s administration another in a series of lower court losses. The court issued a preliminary injunction that blocked Trump’s effort to claw back $20 billion in federal funding for …
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SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space technology company, is a top contender to build key parts of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” project, Reuters reported Thursday. Trump first announced the creation of a Golden Dome, a satellite-based version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense shield, in a January executive order. SpaceX would …
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An appeals court smacked down Donald Trump’s latest effort to avoid complying with directives from the Supreme Court and a district court, which both ordered the administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man it illegally sent to a notorious torture prison in El Salvador. A three-judge panel on …
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