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Metro areas signal what’s at stake for Black Americans under Trump’s anti-equity agenda

Voters in GOP-controlled states are passing progressive policies at the ballot—only to watch Republican legislators repeal them. Will it change how voters choose candidates?

If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology.

When Florida growers last attempted to plant coffee in the 1940s it “got frozen out,” unable to tolerate temperatures in the 40s and 50s.The number of freezing events per year has sharply decreased opening the possibility of growing crops like coffee

While the Trump administration’s attacks on workers and unions continue to escalate, some states are stepping in to shore up and expand workers’ rights and protections.

Voting Rights Trial By Fire (1965), Take Your Racist Law and Shove It (1850), Let Slip the Dogs of War! (1775), Never Forget How We Got Here (1791),Thirty Years Too Many (1945), Born to Run, Indeed (1975), Nothing to Lose But Your Chains (1970)

Responding to Trump’s threats, Mayor Johnson says his city will not “cower or bend or be intimidated by these attempts to divide and conquer our communities.”

The traditionally Russian-speaking area is at the heart of what the Russian president calls the “root causes” of the war, and taking it over is near the top of his list of territorial and political demands.

The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

Late-night host discusses Trump’s rambling Kennedy Center speech and his deployment of the national guard in DC as a playbook for other cities