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Chinese Students and Scholars Faced Targeting Before Trump. Now It’s Escalating.
As the US and China jockey for dominance, anti-Chinese bigotry is driving visa denials for students and scholars.
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Abortion Bans Criminalize People — and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant
Post-“Roe,” pregnancy outcomes — and even actions taken to help pregnant people — face escalating criminalization.
New England Couple Detained “for Several Hours” at Border Despite Being Citizens
Border Patrol agents kept the couple in separate cells, and demanded to go through the husband’s emails.
UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options
“The options for health care — especially emergency care — for the people of Gaza are reduced to zero,” the expert said.
Kilmar Abrego García Case Shows Constitutional Crisis Is Here
"Depriving due process is the domino that causes the rest of the legal system to fall,” one constitutional scholar said.
To Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Education, We Need Democracy in Our Unions
Education workers are mobilizing for a day of action on May 1. Building toward a national walkout should come next.
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Mahmoud Khalil Writes From Prison: “Democracy for Some Is No Democracy at All”
“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote.
Trump Has Issued 8 “National Emergencies” Since Reentering the White House
Trump's many national emergency declarations take “misuse of this law to a new level,” one critic said.
DOGE Aims to Embed Agents in All Nonprofits That Receive Federal Funds
“We can only surmise that these tactics seek to silence us,” said one nonprofit that has been targeted by Trump.
Fascism Isn’t Coming — It’s Here. Now What?
“We don’t get to choose the people who show up for us and who save us sometimes,” says organizer Ejeris Dixon.
Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Defends Students From Trump’s Anti-Migrant Crackdown
Some unions like United Teachers Los Angeles are including immigrants’ rights protections in their bargaining proposals.
To Resist Trump’s Academic Purge, Campuses Must Unite With Each Other
Trump’s attack on US universities is escalating. Here’s how we resist.
Solidarity Is the Core of Our Movements — It’s Also Messier Than We Often Admit
Sarah Schulman discusses her new book, which examines solidarity as a practice, creative endeavor and performance art.
Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress
With no recourse in US courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to UN Human Rights Council.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Van Hollen Meets Abrego García After Saying Officials Breaking International Law
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Van Hollen Denied Visit With Abrego García as Republicans Take Selfies at Prison
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Trump Adviser Compares Opposing Abrego García’s Detention With Backing Terrorism
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Judge Says He May Find Trump Officials in Contempt of Court for Defying Orders
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19-Year-Old Was Not Whom ICE Was Looking For. Now He’s in an El Salvador Prison.
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Abrego García’s Senator Vows to Go to El Salvador If He Isn’t Released
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Sanders Dubs Trump’s Defiance of SCOTUS Order “New Step” Toward Authoritarianism
“Trump’s assault on education isn’t a distraction — it’s the strategy: the leading edge of enforcing fascism today, and an attempt to indoctrinate the next generation to accept it as normal.”
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Movement Memos
Let’s Be Politically Promiscuous
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We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference
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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
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We Won’t Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives