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Project 2025 puts forward a total attack on education, closing the Dept. of Education, including book bans and curricular limitations on classes. They want to cancel the federal student loan program; revoke Title IX policies; and end faculty tenure.

The NATO issue did not trigger the war. However, the thoughtless expansion of NATO contributed to a climate of mistrust that was a factor in Russia’s moving in an aggressive, nationalist direction. But there are two more parts to the story.

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Worker-led and initiated organizing is certainly positive, as labor writer Eric Blanc points, but this emphasis is one piece of a much larger analytical framework for success in organizing.

This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that made it hard for politicians to sue the press for defamation.

“When you’re in crisis, nothing would unite your government, nothing would suppress any sort of protest or opposition, more than killing Palestinians.”

Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

'My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a freePalestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.'

The Trump administration is telling agencies to ignore any provisions in their collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that would impede reductions in force (RIFs), as agencies take steps toward implementing their initial RIF plans.

Trump has not forgotten the John Roberts decision removing presidents from legal liability for committing crimes while in office. So who can blame Trump for making increasingly goofy arguments in court while defying court orders?