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This is a moment of maximum Democratic leverage that they will not have again until the midterms and that is not a lock. It is a tragic, stupid and rather repugnant move.

Now we know, in all their serious nonsense about not being able to afford to battle climate breakdown, afford to save the planet, or afford a basic decent life for ordinary humans - it isn’t expediency at all. It is ideology disguised as expediency.

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The closest thing we have to a Trump economic spokesman is Elon Musk, who sees dead people collecting Social Security. And here’s the thing: while there’s still a dwindling Musk/Tesla cult, to a first approximation everyone else hates Elon.

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

The main thing to know: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individuals. But here's more about boosters, young children, infection-induced immunity and transmission.

The most important people may not be on the stage but in the audience. Without social media, a big national march connected activists and culminated the protest. “Nowadays ... protest becomes the beginning of a movement rather than the end.”

UAW called for unions to synchronize contract expirations on May 1, 2028. How can we harness this compression point to coordinate our movements?

It’s the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now. Why should any member of Congress vote to give Trump and Musk a trillion dollars and then let them decide how to spend it — or not spend it?

The following is a press statement from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife. Khalil was unconstitutionally arrested by ICE agents over the weekend. "I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention ....."