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The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas

Jack Herrera The New Yorker
Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

Bernie Asks Us To Run for Office

Bernie Sanders berniesanders.com
We need people in every state, county and town in this country to raise their hand and say they are prepared to run for city council, school board, mayor, state legislature, Congress and more.

What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care

Hailey Huget Convergence
When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest companies.

A World Beyond Tariffs

Luis Feliz Leon The American Prospect
The United Auto Workers weren’t always in favor of tariffs; they earlier supported cross-border coordination to support better jobs and a peaceful future.

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29, 2025

Portside
Cartoon shows President Trump dressed as a doctor getting ready to give Uncle Sam an injection of disinfectant Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)
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