The federal work force, like much of the country, is in a do-or-die moment. As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.
Some states are already modeling Project 2025 proposals to allow states to “opt out” of federal labor laws
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.
Florida is not the first state to loosen child labor protections, or even the most aggressive in that effort. Last year eight states, all led by Republicans, did so, according to a tracking by the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute.
The new order effectively allows police to get away with murder. And that’s just the beginning.
Whether in the past or present, imperialism that is reframed in patriotic language does not make it less brutal to those who lose their land, liberty, and lives—or have their identities folded into American conquest.
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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.
Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; lots more and Cartoons;
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.
Spread the word