Tag: Trump administration
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Judge frees Trump political prisoner Rümeysa Öztürk, warns of grave threat to free speech
Judge rules former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for constitutionally protected activism
Trump orders nearly 1 million migrants who entered US legally to leave ‘immediately’
JD Vance says Greenland is “cold as shit”—just like locals’ reaction to his visit
Critics blast ‘retaliatory’ ICE arrest of Palestinian green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead Columbia’s Gaza solidarity camp
Critics condemn Trump administration’s use of AI to revoke visas of students deemed supportive of Hamas
Trump administration erases transgender people from Stonewall National Monument website
‘Dirty and dangerous’: New data show higher rates of contamination in pork plants using new slaughter system
Under pretext of pandemic, babies born in US—legal American citizens—expelled with mothers to Mexico
Yemeni families file petition against US for ‘unlawful’ killing of scores of relatives
ACLU says new IG report shows just how far Trump ‘was willing to go to destroy’ immigrant families
Palestinians, advocates blast new US rule requiring ‘made in Israel’ label on settlement goods
‘Most anti-wildlife president in history’ puts out lame duck rule to gut species protection
Report blames Trump administration for 330% rise in Afghan civilian casualties
Director of National Intelligence admits government used Section 215 to track browsing history
Trump rushes to auction off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights before Biden inauguration
Lawyers can’t reunite 666 seized migrant children with their parents—121 more than previously believed
From police violence at home to killing civilians abroad, US faces human rights reckoning at UN
House issues scathing report on Trump migrant family separation policy
Jared Kushner eviscerated as ‘face of white privilege and nepotism’ after mocking racial justice protesters
ACLU sues to obtain key records on government handling of coronavirus pandemic in prisons
State Department plan to declare human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’ slammed as ‘desperate,’ ‘obscene’
With focus on Assange, Belmarsh Tribunal puts ‘US war crimes on trial’
Life in supermax for the ‘crime’ of journalism? UK court told Assange likely to be sent to notorious US prison
Trump EPA OKs continued use of chlorpyrifos
ACLU rebukes Barr for urging sedition charges against protesters
Daniel Ellsberg tells UK court that US seeks both ‘revenge’ against Julian Assange and to ‘crush’ future whistleblowers
USDA and meatpacking industry collaborated to undermine Covid-19 response
New UN report recommends ICC investigate possible war crimes by all sides in Yemen
New report details dozens of Trump rollbacks perpetrated under cover of Covid-19
Peace activists say Trump drawdown in Iraq not nearly enough
Public health experts sound alarm over FDA willingness to roll out Covid-19 vaccine before finishing Phase 3 trials
Antiwar.com — US to ‘reinterpret’ arms pact to sell more drones
Common Dreams — Rights groups urge Senate to reject nomination of torture advocate to top human rights post
Common Dreams — The exceptionally American historical amnesia behind Pompeo’s claim of “40 years of unprovoked Iranian aggression”
Shades of COINTELPRO: FBI designates ‘black identity extremists’ domestic terror threat
Daily Kos — The bloody hypocrisy of sanctioning Venezuela’s Maduro
Daily Kos — San Francisco’s mayor is right — Sanctuary cities are safer cities
Daily Kos — James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, war criminal
Daily Kos — Cory Booker delivers unprecedented testimony against AG nominee Jeff Sessions
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