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Harvard became the first university to push back and sue Trump over his intrusions into academia. Before Harvard, Columbia folded. As with the law firms, the question is, who will bend the knee and who would tell the tyrant-in-the-making NO!

Kennedy announced by tweet that Covid vaccines have been removed from the CDC's recommended schedule for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing any rigorous decision process. Health care for millions is at stake.

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A former CIA officer who once headed American schemes to train right wing contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s has been working with the Israelis to hatch a new aid organization... To say something stinks here is an understatement.

Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is the way it reflects our preposterous nightmare world. It’s not fun to live in a dawning age of technofeudalism, but it is satisfying to see it channeled into comedy.

Hundreds of high school students in New York City walked out of class Tuesday for what organizers called an “anti-Trump, nonpartisan” protest against attacks on democracy under President Donald Trump’s administration.

The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle. He had the audacity to suggest that “our sacred rule of law is under attack.

Resistance anywhere builds resistance everywhere

America’s richest earn in hours what ordinary workers earn over lifetimes. As Donald Trump’s tax bill seeks to make the plunder of the filthy rich permanent, “inequality” no longer feels like a strong enough word for what we’re facing.