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We Will Not Comply
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Published: March 15, 2025 08:02
Freefalling through our authoritarian takeover, this week saw New York police in the grotesque faux-gold belly of the beast arrest about 100 Jews of conscience chanting "Free Free Palestine" and protesting the ICE abduction of a Palestinian peace advocate…
'First They Came for the Immigrant': Immigration Crackdown the 'Tip of a Very Dangerous Spear' for Democracy
Published: March 14, 2025 19:46
This week alone, by using new levers of state power and old, inapplicable statutes, the Trump administration has: Initiated deportation proceedings against a green card holder for protesting on a college campus – a clear attempt to weaponize immigration…
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation in Yasuní National Park
Published: March 14, 2025 19:36
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) released a judgment declaring Ecuador’s international responsibility for violating the rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The Court determined that the…
AFGE President Condemns Elon Musk's Comparison of Federal Employees to Nazi, Communist Murderers
Published: March 14, 2025 19:35
In response to a post on X in which Elon Musk tried to recast blame for history’s worst genocides away from Hitler, Stalin, and Mao and onto public-sector workers, American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley issued the…
Columbia University Went All In on Repressing Student Protest. It Didn't Matter.
Published: March 14, 2025 19:33
Jewish Voice for Peace calls on Columbia University President Katarina Armstrong to rescind all disciplinary charges against anti-war student protesters and to stand up for its core values. Yesterday, the University announced it had expelled, suspended, or…
Unqualified to Be CMS Administrator, Mehmet Oz Indicates He Will Not Protect the American People
Published: March 14, 2025 19:31
In his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Mehmet Oz failed to distance himself from his previous statements on privatizing Medicare and demonstrated that he is completely unqualified to become the Administrator of the Centers for…
Nearly 200 Groups Call on Democratic Leaders to Oppose Immunity for the Fossil Fuel Industry
Published: March 13, 2025 16:13
Amid a growing number of legal and legislative efforts to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis, a coalition of nonprofit groups are calling on Congressional Democrats to “proactively and affirmatively reject” potential…
Trump EPA Shutters Environmental Justice Offices, Cancels Grants
Published: March 12, 2025 20:57
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to cancel $2 billion in grants to help communities burdened by pollution and will shutter every environmental justice office nationwide, according to published reports.The following is a reaction by…
Donald Trump’s ‘Historic’ Wholesale Attack on the American People
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Published: March 12, 2025 20:56
Today, Donald Trump’s EPA announced 31 deadly and dangerous actions the agency is taking, including attacking safeguards to limit pollution from power plants and vehicles, methane and other deadly emissions from oil and gas sources, Mercury and Air Toxics…
Trump Moves to Revoke EPA Endangerment Finding, Threatening Core Basis for Federal Climate Action
Published: March 12, 2025 20:55
President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency moved today to potentially scrap the landmark scientific finding that forms the core basis of federal climate action. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced plans to reconsider the agency’s endangerment…
EPA cuts choose billionaires over life on Earth
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Published: March 12, 2025 20:47
This afternoon, the Environmental Protection Agency announced they are "reconsidering" 31 climate and environmental protections. EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin called it a "dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion." In response, Sunrise…
New Grounds For Impeachment Proceedings: Trump Administration Violates The Constitution By Refusing To Comply With Court Orders
Published: March 12, 2025 20:33
Impeach Trump Again, a non-partisan campaign led by Free Speech For People, added the Trump Administration's blatant disregard for the judiciary branch as a new ground for an impeachment investigation against President Trump. Some of the Trump…
U.S. Egg Prices Hit New High: Near $6/Dozen
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/u-s-egg-prices-hit-new-high-near-6-dozen
Published: March 12, 2025 20:27
Average U.S. egg prices have hit a record high of $5.90 per dozen, according to the latest monthly consumer price index, released today. This eclipses the previous record high of $4.95/dozen in January. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts egg…
100-Plus Groups Call on Schumer, Senate Dems to Reject GOP Budget Bill
Published: March 12, 2025 20:25
In a letter delivered this morning to Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and fellow Senate Democrats, nearly 150 advocacy groups from across the country called on them to reject the Republican budget proposal passed by the House yesterday, in light of…
USA: Arrest and Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is Chilling Attack on Human Rights
Published: March 12, 2025 20:24
In response to the Trump administration’s unlawful arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia University, Paul O’Brien, Amnesty International USA’s Executive Director, made the following statement:…
The world’s richest nations discuss the future of export credits in Paris following failure to end fossil fuel finance
Published: March 12, 2025 17:44
Discussions at this week’s OECD Export Credits Forum in Paris face a new geopolitical reality after South Korea blocked a landmark climate agreement that would have ended USD 41 billion in annual taxpayer financing for fossil fuels at the end of last year.…
Global banks will vote to retreat from climate commitments, jeopardizing global climate goals
Published: March 12, 2025 17:42
In a concerning development, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), the world’s largest banking climate alliance will hold a vote on a proposal that would weaken its commitment to align $54 trillion in assets with the Paris Agreement’s critical target of…
New Laws Implicitly Sanction Trump and Musk’s Violation of Existing Laws
Published: March 12, 2025 12:49
With Congress moving to vote on a government spending bill despite the Trump administration’s ongoing and explicit refusal to honor existing appropriations levels, Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser issued the following statement: …
Senator Sanders, Rep. Doggett Prove Their Leadership By Improving Traditional Medicare
Published: March 11, 2025 19:37
Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders released the Medicare Dental, Hearing and Vision Expansion Act on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The bill would greatly expand enrollees' access to dental, vision, and hearing services through the traditional Medicare Program. A…
Medicare Advantage Companies Spend $330M+ To Influence Policy
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/medicare-advantage-companies-spend-330m-to-influence-policy
Published: March 11, 2025 18:35
Ahead of Friday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Public Citizen released a new research brief shining a light on the hundreds of millions of dollars Medicare Advantage companies have spent…
House Republicans Poised to Clear the Way for Big Tech Financial Fraud
Published: March 11, 2025 16:32
Putting the millions of Americans who use digital payments systems at risk of fraud, the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) is taking up a resolution to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) “larger participant rule”…
Amidst Abiding Stupid, Evil and Racist, Selma Is Now
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Published: March 11, 2025 04:23
The juxtapositions are Orwellian. This weekend marked the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when racial justice marchers "rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their blood"; it also saw the current regime move ever further to erase that story…
ACLU Strongly Condemns Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Columbia Student Activist
Published: March 10, 2025 21:17
On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at the Gaza solidarity encampment in spring 2024.…
Oil Change Response to Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s Speech at Major Oil and Gas Conference
Published: March 10, 2025 17:51
In response to U.S. Energy Secretary and former fracking CEO Chris Wright’s opening remarks at CERAWeek, the fossil fuel industry’s largest annual conference, Allie Rosenbluth, United States Campaign Manager at Oil Change International, said: “Chris…