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Over 30 Scholars of Antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish History Challenge Trump’s Attack on Free Speech
Published: April 18, 2025 12:46
Over 32 prominent Jewish scholars of antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish History today challenged the Trump administration’s authoritarian crackdown on free speech by demonstrating the danger and falsehood of its false claims to care about Jewish…
Home Growns Are Next
https://www.commondreams.org/further/home-growns-are-next
Published: April 18, 2025 04:42
In a "breathtaking departure from the rule of law" - and facing multiple legal routs - Trump and his fascist flunkies continue to lie, stall and gaslight on their right to disappear a Maryland sheet metal worker and other brown-skinned migrants to an El…
USA: Google must move to a rights respecting approach after court declares it’s Adtech function a monopoly
Published: April 17, 2025 19:42
Responding to a US court ruling declaring Google’s online advertising monopoly illegal, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “A rights respecting break-up of Google’s monopolistic hold could be an important first step towards…
AFT’s Weingarten on Florida State Shooting
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/afts-weingarten-on-florida-state-shooting
Published: April 17, 2025 19:41
AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after a mass shooting today at Florida State University, following other incidents this week in Dallas and San Antonio. One of the people injured was a member of United Faculty of Florida, which…
Google’s Illegal Internet Ad Monopoly Blunts America’s Competitive Edge in Tech
Published: April 17, 2025 17:53
On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Google maintains an illegal online advertising monopoly. The internet search megacompany faces another court date soon to determine remedies after another federal judge ruled last fall that it broke the law by…
Biden’s Lax Corporate Crime Enforcement Gives Way to Trump’s Total Lawlessness
Published: April 17, 2025 16:24
A new Public Citizen report found that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) prosecuted fewer corporate criminals in 2024 than in any previous year over the past three decades. Over the course of Biden’s four-year term, the DOJ prosecuted fewer…
Trump Administration Moves to Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife
Published: April 16, 2025 21:20
The Trump administration issued a proposed rule today that would rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species nationwide. These protections for the places where endangered plants and animals live are crucial to ensuring they don’t go…
Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans
Published: April 16, 2025 18:02
Students in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools on military bases sued today, arguing that DoDEA’s book removals and curricular changes following several executive orders from President Donald Trump violate their First Amendment…
Labor and Democracy Partners Announce Rise Up: Legal Defense Network for Fired Federal Workers
Published: April 16, 2025 15:46
The labor movement and allies announced the formation of Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network today, a new project to connect federal workers whose rights have been violated by the Trump administration with free legal support.Since January,…
Groups Challenge Unlawful Termination of Global Labor Rights Programs
Published: April 15, 2025 21:47
Today, the Solidarity Center, Global March Against Child Labour, and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s unlawful termination of…
Greenpeace Slams Impossible Metals’ Deep-Sea Mining Lease Bid as Desperate Move Amid Industry Collapse
Published: April 15, 2025 21:00
Today, Greenpeace USA condemned Impossible Metals’ application for a deep-sea mining lease off the coast of American Samoa, in U.S. federal waters, calling it a reckless and desperate attempt to prop up a speculative and struggling industry by exploiting…
Direct File is Government Efficiency At Work, Says Groundwork’s Richards
Published: April 15, 2025 17:31
As the 2025 tax filing season wraps up, Americans across the country are eager for the IRS to expand Direct File, a free, easy-to-use tool that allows taxpayers to file their taxes directly with the IRS. New polling from Groundwork Action and Data for…
Major Climate Groups Call for Mass Mobilization Against Trump and Musk's Authoritarian Attacks
Published: April 14, 2025 20:58
Just two weeks after the massive Hands Off! Mobilization brought millions to the streets, major climate groups—both national and grassroots—are teaming up with pro-democracy allies for “All Out on Earth Day,” a powerful wave of mobilizations from April…
Trump Administration Rolls Back Protections for Migratory Birds
Published: April 14, 2025 20:52
The Trump administration late last week reinstated a dangerous opinion under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act from the president’s first term that allows extractive energy industries to harm or kill migratory birds in the name of seeking energy dominance. The…
Trump Urges FCC Chairman Carr to Violate 60 Minutes' First Amendment Rights
Published: April 14, 2025 19:14
On Sunday, President Donald Trump called on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to strip CBS of its broadcast license. Trump issued this order following a 60 Minutes interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a second segment on the fate of…
Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to Trump and Bukele Meeting
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/vanessa-cardenas-reacts-to-trump-and-bukele-meeting
Published: April 14, 2025 19:13
The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the details and implications of today’s White House Oval Office meeting between President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele:“What we saw today…
Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice Websites and Data
Published: April 14, 2025 19:12
A group of environmental and science organizations, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of public information from climate and environmental justice federal agency…
The Observance It Deserves
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Published: April 14, 2025 06:51
Which is more astounding: That a right-wing yahoo got into and set ablaze the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his wife and four kids, or that an orange madman - who assails both those who vandalize cars and those who oppose killing brown…
Despite Lack of Evidence, Louisiana Immigration Judge Rules Against Mahmoud Khalil in Deportation Hearing
Published: April 11, 2025 20:17
In a decision that appeared to be pre-written, an immigration judge ruled immediately after a hearing today that Mahmoud Khalil is removable under U.S. immigration law. This comes less than 48 hours after the U.S. government handed over the “evidence” they…
Keystone oil spill shows need to protect rights to protest and free speech
Published: April 11, 2025 18:35
In response to a reported 3,500 barrels of oil spilling from the Keystone pipeline this week in North Dakota, Sushma Raman, Interim Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, said: “We know fossil fuels are unhealthy at every stage of their life-cycle. There is…
EPA Environmental Justice Staff Seeks Return to Work
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/epa-environmental-justice-staff-seeks-return-to-work
Published: April 11, 2025 13:41
For the past two months, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff who had been assigned to work on environmental justice issues have been on paid administrative leave, with no agency access, and under orders not to conduct any official business. A legal…
Gulf Of Willful Ignorance
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Published: April 11, 2025 07:47
Because our current regime remains laser-focused on the vital issues of these dark and baleful times, the House just had a hearing on a bill by inimitable Klan Mom MTG to retool the Gulf of Mexico into a glorious new Gulf of America. Irked Democrats took…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Weaponizing Social Security
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-are-weaponizing-social-security
Published: April 10, 2025 22:00
The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on reports that the Trump administration is planning to declare legal immigrants dead on the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File:“This is an outrageous abuse…