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Reader Comments: Trump's Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump's MRI results; New resource - Zohran and municipal socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity with Ukraine; Lots more....

How can the New York respond to aggressive, spectacle-driven immigration operations without triggering the showdown with federal agents that the administration is trying to provoke?The plan is a split approach -fight deployment, and act as buffers..

On Tuesday, President Trump called my friends and me “garbage.” This comment was only the latest in a series of remarks and Truth Social posts in which the president has demonized and spread conspiracy theories about the Somali community and me.

Our election system is reaching a breaking point. Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber

Authoritarian regimes rarely criminalize dissent all at once; they normalize repression step by step. Authoritarianism is a political system that suppresses political freedoms and civil rights, using various levers of control to shift power...

Readers Comments: Chicago Invaded-by ICE, Texas National Guard; Trump's Labor Dept Says ICE Raids Causing Food Crisis; Boat Strikes Just the Beginning, Now CIA Missions Planned Against Venezuela; What's Happening in US Socialism; All-Out for Oct 18;

Repression and resistance

The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in the U.S. The government wanted others like him to fear them. It wanted noncitizens and immigrants to stop speaking out. If they could do this to Khalil...

Readers Comments: Trump Screwing Country, World, Climate, Gaza, Now Ready to Make Deal with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell; McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again; Keep ICE Out of MLB Stadiums; Israelis Call for Crippling Sanctions on Israel

Readers Comments: Working-Class Social, Economic Attitudes; Genocide; Academic Scholarship on Israel, Palestine; Minneapolis Selects Democratic Socialist; Dem Youth Wing Passes Amendment Opposing Ongoing Genocide in Gaza; Deportations Destroys Jobs