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Budde, 65, asked president to ‘have mercy’ on immigrants and LGBTQ+ people in prayer service on Tuesday

Media in galloping retreat

The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules.

“There is huge concern because we’re talking about the mandatory imprisonment based on an accusation without a person even being charged, let alone being convicted, and this applies to kids,” one senator said.

Amy Lieberman, a politics editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with scholar Jean Lantz Reisz, co-director of the University of Southern California’s Immigration Clinic to understand the meaning of Trump’s new executive orders...

Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.

The reaction to racial justice is relentless and comes whenever strives are made to make the nation more inclusive.

If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?

The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

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