- Harvard Student Bears Witness to the Crisis
- The Long Backlash
- They’re Going Postal: The Right vs USPS
- Brownsville Community Does What NYPD Can’t
- Who ‘Invented’ Country Music?
- Ex-Cubans’ Rude Awakening
- Medicare Fraudsters and UnitedHealth
- Israel365: MAGA Zionism
- Hypernormalization – You’re Soaking in It
- Town or Country, Pride Stays Proud and Loud
Harvard Student Bears Witness to the Crisis
By Kawala Xie
South China Morning Post
A Chinese student’s graduation speech at Harvard University emphasising “shared humanity” and calling for global unity has gone viral, days after the Trump administration pledged to “aggressively” revoke the visas of students from China. The speech was delivered on the same day that a federal judge blocked a DHS order seeking to prevent the university from enrolling international students.
By Olayemi Olurin
Teen Vogue
It’s important to reflect, not just on our collective actions, but the state’s violent response to them — the consequences and the backlash that always follow. Our collective actions are part of an ongoing struggle and resistance, not a final resting place. There will always be a response. The powers that be won’t simply acquiesce to our requests without a fight, no matter how many of us protest.
They’re Going Postal: The Right vs USPS
By Sonali Kolhatkar
St. Louis-Southern Illinois Labor Tribune
Right-wing forces have long had their sights on the Postal Service, and have carried out an effective propaganda campaign against USPS’s financial viability to justify gutting it. For example, the Heritage Foundation has claimed for years that the nation no longer needs a postal service.
Brownsville Community Does What NYPD Can’t
By Chip Brown-lee
The Trace
The Brownsville Safety Alliance takes place for one week each quarter. For those BSA days, on two blocks of the neighborhood, violence prevention groups like Brownsville In, Violence Out take the lead on public safety — instead of the police. By stepping in to calm conflicts and route emergencies to services instead of cuffs, they work to prevent violence without force or incarceration.
By Chris Willman
Variety
Shaboozey appeared to have reached some kind of tipping point when he and fellow country star Megan Moroney presented at the American Music Awards. Viewers couldn’t help noticing the singer’s suddenly puzzled facial expression, followed by an abrupt chuckle, in response to his co-presenter reading a line off the prompter stating that the Carter Family “basically invented country music.”
By Joshua Goodman
Associated Press
Amid record arrivals of migrants from the Caribbean island, Trump in March revoked temporary humanitarian parole for about 300,000 Cubans. Many have been detained ahead of possible deportation. It's a shock for the 2.4 million Cuban-Americans, who strongly backed the Republican twice and have long enjoyed a place of privilege in the U.S. immigration system.
Medicare Fraudsters and UnitedHealth
By Daniel Boguslaw
The American Prospect
Prior to Trump’s election, Medicare Advantage purveyors like UnitedHealthcare were bullish on the hyper-accelerated privatization push heralded by Trump’s return to the White House. Project 2025, the proposed road map for Trump’s second term, laid out the plan to ramp up privatized health care, placing vast swaths of an aging population into the hands of Medicare Advantage providers.
By Ben Lorber
Jewish Currents
With the support of evangelical allies, Israel365 is now bringing a Christian Zionist, End Times-inspired project to the institutions of the Jewish Zionist diaspora. “I see Israel365 as the MAGA movement inside the Jewish people and for Israel,” far-right leader Steve Bannon podcasted.
Hypernormalization – You’re Soaking in It
By Adrienne Matei
The Guardian
Hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening. The first is people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken. And the second is that, for reasons including a lack of effective leadership and an inability to imagine how to disrupt the status quo, people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction.
Town or Country, Pride Stays Proud and Loud
By Christina Cauterucci
Slate
Across the country, a growing right-wing movement is placing LGBTQ+ people under attack. But even in this hostile climate, in some small towns and cities, queer and trans Americans are stepping up to organize their communities’ very first Pride celebrations, eager to give their neighbors an afternoon of joyous release in a stressful time.
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