Progressive politicians and advocates have reignited calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after an ICE agent shot and killed a man in Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, on Tuesday. Politicians like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-Illinois) called to abolish the agency after Salgado Araujo’s…
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Days after being fired from the CBS News program “60 Minutes” for speaking out against the dismissal of several top correspondents and declaring that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was “brought in to kill” the show, veteran journalist Scott Pelley described in detail the right-wing former opinion columnist’s efforts to push for political coverage that centered the White House’s point of view…
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For antiwar progressives in Congress, public disgust with Donald Trump’s violent, fumbling presidency has presented them with a specific challenge: confronting Trump’s brutality at home and abroad, while pressing a global reset button on human rights. With voters angry about tax dollars funding genocidal carnage overseas, and her Chicagoland district among the many communities reeling from Trump’s…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has investigated at least two employees of the agency who attended a vigil or spoke to the press regarding the killing of VA nurse Alex Pretti this January by Customs and Border Patrol agents, new reporting finds. Becky Halioua, a VA recreational therapist and union leader in Augusta, Georgia, told CNN that she has been subject to an internal…
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The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…
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The resistance to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis was a courageous response to our nation’s ongoing moral crisis in immigration policy. Acts of civil disobedience over the last couple months have raised public consciousness of corporate collusion with state violence, encouraged people to take risks in defense of their neighbors, and even elevated the role of love in resistance.
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