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ICE breaking, data center shutting and more

“ICE has been ordered to round up nurses, home health aides, factory workers, teachers, students, and thousands of others who have been living and working here legally for years; who’ve done nothing wrong.”

Rebels Aren’t the Noble Warriors They Would Like to Think They Are (1861), The Civil War Was Over, but Not the Bloodthirsty Racism (1866), Take Your Fugitive Slave Law and Shove It! (1836), Killing Anti-Eviction Protesters Isn’t a Good Look (1931)

Some Democrats are showing up for the class war. Others conspicuously are not. The party's prospects rest on advocacy for the economic interests of the working and middle classes, and against opponents who champion the interests of the rich.

Artificial intelligence systems—now an integral part of the Israeli war machine—began as tools developed to surveil every aspect of Palestinian life.

Around 300 staff with the Bronx Defenders Union walked off the job on Monday — the third such guild to strike this month over economic demands on behalf of its lowest-paid workers.

Previously companies created products and sold them via celebrities and marketing campaigns. The protein craze seems to have reversed this flow, with businesses desperately pumping out products to meet the demand created by social media influencers

The 1990 accessibility law has helped our nation chart a course of progress. Period.

What does is mean for the universe to have a wave function? How does Hawking’s “no boundary” proposal mean that the universe comes from itself? And is it really the final answer?

Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.