- Democracy’s Fate Will Be Decided at Work
- The Week That Was
- Inside the Deportation Flights
- States Sue to Defend Electoral Process
- Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch Stands Tall
- Columbia Submits
- A Modest (Grant) Proposal
- MAGA Targets Churches
- Women and the DEI Crackdown
- Constitutional Collapse
Democracy’s Fate Will Be Decided at Work
By Todd Brogan
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Unions serve as pillars of democratic life, through which diverse groups of working people democratically and collectively pursue their common interests at work and in society.
By Zack Beauchamp
Vox
Donald Trump’s tariffs were at once predictable and shocking. Predictable, in the sense that Trump had been crystal-clear about wanting across-the-board tariffs during the campaign. Shocking, because they have been implemented in a manner that appears extreme and incompetent even by previous Trump standards. As a result, the world is historically unsettled
Inside the Deportation Flights
By McKenzie Funk
ProPublica
Most of the migrants crowding the back seats of ICE Air’s planes have not been, historically, convicted criminals. ICE makes restraints mandatory nonetheless. “Detainees transported by ICE Air aircraft will be fully restrained by the use of handcuffs, waist chains, and leg irons,” reads an unredacted version of the 2015 ICE Air Operations Handbook.
States Sue to Defend Electoral Process
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Christina A. Cassidy
Associated Press
Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the U.S., calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ clear authority to run their own elections. The executive order seeks new requirements that people provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and a demand that all mail ballots be received by Election Day.
Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch Stands Tall
By Christine Ledbetter
Chicago Tribune
Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Bunch may be one of the few leaders in Washington fearless enough to navigate the Trump administration’s machine gun attacks on the arts.
By Adam Shatz
London Review of Books
There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also despises. What is shocking is the ease with which his attack has so far succeeded. American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out ‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader.
A grant proposal concerning reparations for the descendants of slave owners, submitted in good faith to Elon Musk during this cruel and unusual time of oppressive wokeness.
MXA News
MAGA hordes shed another costume they wore for the election. Self-declared men of piety barged into an Orlando Church service. They shouted obscenities after a song performed by a choir of children. However, communities refuse to take it lying down. Like an Ohio community arming themselves against Neo-Nazis invasions, people’s patience with the MAGA movement is wearing thin.
By Andrea Hsu
NPR
President Trump revoked EO 11246 on his second day in office as part of his own executive order cracking down on what he sees as widespread and illegal use of “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences” under the guise of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
By Aziz Rana
New Left Review
Trump has issued a flood of executive orders that explicitly violate congressional law as well as the written text of the Constitution, on everything from the denial of birthright citizenship, to crackdowns on efforts at racial, gender and sexual orientation-based inclusion, to the destruction of legislatively authorized government agencies.
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