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Trump’s Deportation Black Hole

On March 15, federal agents rounded up more than 230 Venezuelan nationals who were then deported to El Salvador and locked up in the country’s notorious megaprison. The Trump administration said the men belonged to a violent Venezuelan gang, but presented no evidence, and there were no court hearings in which the men could contest […]


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Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found. An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more […]


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Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules

A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that recent Columbia graduate and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported—even though Khalil has a green card, is a lawful permanent resident, and has not been charged with any crimes. The judge gave Khalil’s attorneys until April 23 to ask for a stay of the deportation. There is […]


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Democrats Home In on Trading Activity Before Trump Flip on Tariffs

Democratic lawmakers are calling for federal agencies and state attorneys general to investigate whether President Donald Trump, members of his administration, or any of his associates manipulated markets or helped enrich allies in connection with Trump’s sudden reversal on tariff polices Wednesday. Six top Democrats wrote to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins Friday, asking the agency […]


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Inside Trump’s Federal “Probie” Purge

On Wednesday, S.W., an award-winning probationary worker at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), spent the day crying in bed.  S.W., who is being identified by her initials due to fear of retaliation for speaking out, is one of more than 24,000 federal probationary employees, those who have been in their jobs for […]


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Who’s Advertising on Twitter? One of Its Biggest Investors: Saudi Arabia 

In the summer of 2023, Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a 55-year-old retired teacher, was sentenced to death by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for posts he made on Twitter and YouTube, criticizing the country’s ruling family and calling for freedom for religious clerics. His punishment was commuted to 30 years the following year, a sentence […]


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AI Slop Farms Are Churning Out Fake Heartwarming Videos About Trump Figures  

The judge demanded that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt remove her cross necklace, but soon he was humiliated. A man tried to yell at Vice President JD Vance in a cafe, but soon, he too was brought low. Barron Trump triumphed in a debate over a “liberal student” who bore a striking resemblance to […]


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How Does Climate Change Affect Our Brains? Trump’s NIH Just Cut Funding to Study It.

On March 10, around 9:20 pm, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, an environmental health professor at Columbia University, got the email she’d been dreading: The Trump administration cut funding for a new center she had been tasked with co-leading called “Climate and Health: Action and Research for Transformational Change.” CHART focused on researching the effects of climate change […]


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How GOP Lawmakers’ Districts Benefited from Biden’s Energy Spending

President Trump’s overarching embrace of fossil fuels includes repealing a landmark Biden legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act, which has helped support major investments in clean energy infrastructure.  While this will be the 55th time Republicans will have tried to roll back part or all of the $370 billion IRA, a Mother Jones analysis shows […]


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Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Pick Bails Out Over January 6 Condemnation

This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday. The move comes two days after a watchdog group surfaced private comments in which Sgamma condemned President Donald Trump’s […]


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How to Travel Abroad as the World’s Most Toxic Brand: American

President Donald Trump’s convulsive tariff policy, which all but reversed course Wednesday with the caveat that the same pain would return in 90 days, continues to scramble the world’s economic order. But against the upheaval of broken alliances and global supply chains, a small anxiety is emerging among Americans with wanderlust: how to travel with […]


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Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back.

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see […]


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