Now On Fast Track To A Historic Constitutional Clash

It looks like potential contempt proceedings in the Alien Enemies Act case and the Abrego Garcia case will be running in parallel, leapfrogging each other for the right to be the Supreme Court’s biggest test so far of the Trump II presidency.

Palestinian Student Detained in Vermont

He is widely known in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, where he has been based since moving to the United States more than a decade ago, as a spiritual man who grew up Muslim, a practicing Buddhist, and whose closest friends are Jewish.

Jewish Israeli in the US Standing Up For Palestine

I have committed the same acts they have committed, including publishing an article that calls the war in Gaza a genocide, participating in a protest against the genocide in Gaza... being vocal in general about the atrocities committed by Israel

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, April 17, 2025

Reader Comments: First they came for Kilmar; We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid; New Resource: Immigrants And the Economy; Lots of Cartoons as we struggle to make the world better; and more

Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Across US

"What is at stake is the defense of our fundamental democratic rights and constitutional freedoms," said one organizer.

You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take

The Power of the Poor in Trump’s America

Shawn Fain: We Need a Political Movement for Workers

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain explains his union’s position on tariffs and argues that we need a political movement that puts working-class people first to address the current political crisis in the US.

Are We About to See Really Mass Deportation?

The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

Global Left Midweek – April 16, 2025

A week for general strikes
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Culture

books

‘Infinite License’

Omer Bartov The New York Review of Books
An Israeli-American historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies covers the dynamic of a Jewish state that has thrived on Holocaust roots, how that legacy has been exploited becoming an apartheid state, a practitioner of genocide of Palestinians

film

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

An interview with Jean-Claude Barny Jacobin
In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.

food

How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

David Bacon The Nation
ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

poetry

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

Labor

labor

Kentucky Unions Stand Up To Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
“The labor movement has an opportunity to strengthen our organizations and show that we fight for all members. If the Trump administration can get away with coming after immigrants and federal workers, they’ll keep coming for more of us.”

labor

What Is DOGE Doing to Social Security?

Monique Morrissey Economic Policy Institute
Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts.

labor

Unions Without Strikes

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
Military with batons in the foreground. Striking workers in the background w Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

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