Wednesday, July 9, 2025
UAW President Denounces Trump-GOP Budget Law as 'Total Betrayal' of American Working Class
After Republicans pushed their unpopular reconciliation package through Congress last week, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson hailed the legislation as a step toward "a future where working Americans can feel relief." more
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Sanders Slams 'War Criminal' Netanyahu Ahead of New Meeting With Trump to Plan Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
The progressive senator underscored that the Israeli leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court "for overseeing the systematic killing and starvation of civilians in Gaza." more
Trump has the midterms in his sights. We must be vigilant
With last week’s passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” followed by Donald Trump’s elaborate signing ceremony on July 4, media chatter has turned to how the legislation might affect the Democrats’ prospects in the next year’s midterm elections. more
Monday, July 7, 2025
Leavitt defends Bondi’s Epstein bluff to Fox News
MAGA is eating its own following a disappointing end to the “Epstein Files” saga.
The Department of Justice released a memo on Monday, concluding that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein kept no client list and committed suicide in his jail cell. The memo came after years of right-wing clamoring for the release of the FBI’s files on the late financier, stoked by Donald Trump and members of his administration. MORE
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ICE’s $175 billion windfall: Trump’s mass deportation force set to receive military-level funding
President Donald Trump’s budget, which passed the Senate Tuesday, allocated some $175 billion towards his mass deportation campaign, more money than almost any country spends on its military, and many times the estimated yearly cost it would take to end world hunger. more
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Stateless Palestinian Woman Details 'Very Traumatizing' Abuse Suffered in ICE Detention
A newlywed Palestinian woman from Texas released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention earlier this week says she was shackled for long periods, denied food and water, and subjected to other human rights abuses during nearly five months in ICE custody—all because she is a stateless person. more
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Pam Bondi sues Los Angeles alleging discrimination against ICE agents
Pam Bondi announced that she is suing the city of Los Angeles, claiming that it's discriminating against ICE agents. MORE
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Local Photographer Guido Maniscalco
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -R. Tagore
Florida AG Threatens to Remove Key West Officials After ICE Vote
City officials this week put Key West in the ever-growing crosshairs of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier by voiding the immigration enforcement agreement signed by the city's police chief in March. more
This GOP bill is the mother of all attacks on the American people
With President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline looming, Republicans are set to sell out working class families by passing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — all to please their billionaire backers. Inside this devastating bill are a host of tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, paid for with cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs. It would also effectively eliminate the middle class in America as we know it. MORE
Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side
I don’t mean that we are trapped in an inflexible pattern of endlessly repeating historical cycles, as in the more esoteric propositions of Vico and Nietzsche. (“Time is a flat circle,” as some lowlife says in the first season of “True Detective,” moments before getting murdered by cops.) But too many of us, including a large proportion of liberals who ought to know better, are indeed trapped in the delusional one-way narrative of progress known as American exceptionalism, leading us to announce in horrified tones, with every new outrage of the Trump administration, that this is “not who we are.” more
Saturday, July 5, 2025
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