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A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”

Israel targeted displaced Palestinians in a tent encampment in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, designated for civilians. Eight children were burned alive and charred beyond recognition alongside six others.

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Harvard is refusing the plainly illegal demands by the Trump administration. That sends an important signal: resistance is possible.

from The Wire [online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

Hogg, a 25-year-old gun control activist, who was elected the DNC’s vice chair, has sparked an intra-party uproar over his announcement that his political group, Leaders We Deserve, would be spending $20 million to challenge “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in deep-blue districts.

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia.

The White House said China is now facing up to a 245 percent tariff on imports to the U.S. "as a result of its retaliatory actions," another escalation in a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Harvard University has been hit with a $2.3bn federal funding freeze after the Ivy League institution took a stand against the Trump administration’s ongoing demands.

At home, people can use EWG’s updated Tap Water Database to find out what contaminants are in their drinking water. It describes which home water filters are best to use for removing disinfection byproducts, based on the contaminants found in a particular system. Activated carbon and reverse osmosis home water filtration systems are usually the most successful.

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The US State Department has found no evidence to support allegations that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, was involved in antisemitic activity or supported terrorism, according to a report in The Washington Post.

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A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Homeland Security officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a welfare check on migrant children, not for immigration enforcement, the department said Friday.

"They took the clothes off some of the guys and would do shameful acts… They forced guys to perform sex acts on each other. I saw it with my own eyes. It wasn't penetrative sex. He would tell one guy to suck another guy. It was obligatory."

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Despite Meta’s awareness of Israel’s aggressive censorship tactics for at least seven years, according to Meta whistleblowers, the company has failed to curb the abuse.

The Kentucky AFL-CIO is planning a rally and know-your-rights trainings for affiliated unions whose members may also be affected by deportation orders.

"If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone," one of his lawyers warned.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy.

So here we are. China has responded to Trump’s tariffs by cutting off U.S. supply of some of the most essential ingredients of the modern world. The U.S., meanwhile, is standing in the cold, holding a clipboard and wondering where the magnets went.

An immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration has until 5pm on Wednesday to present evidence as to why Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, should be deported. She said that if the evidence does not support deportation, she may rule on Friday on his release from immigration detention.

Labor unions from Utah and across the country have poured over $2.6 million in cash and in-kind donations to help with the effort to overturn HB267, the controversial union busting bill that stripped collective bargaining rights from Utah’s public employees.

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The additional levies will mean all goods from China will be subject to a tariff of at least 104%.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's event on Monday at Princeton University in New Jersey was disrupted by protesters who interrupted his speech and staged a walkout, with the event eventually ending due to an emergency alarm that sounded.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged a first ever $1 trillion defense budget proposal on Monday, a record sum for the military.

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Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.

(Photo is missing Hawaii, & Alaska that had protests too)

We are building a massive, visible, national rejection of this crisis—and today’s numbers are proof that the people—the majority—are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover.

Anna Feder worked at Emerson College in Boston for 17 years. For 12 of them, she ran the school’s exhibitions and festivals program and curated the Bright Lights Cinema Series, which screened documentaries about liberation struggles, social justice, and marginalized communities.

Ok, so cutting to the point.

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, while a U.S. government attorney was at a loss to explain what happened.

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Ramallah, April 3, 2025—The autopsy report for a 17-year-old Palestinian child detainee who died in Israeli custody at the end of March indicates that he likely died from a combination of starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention.

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If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."

Here's and idea: if your cost of goods has been increasing or is set to increase due to Trump's tariffs, instead of rolling that cost increase into your total to your customers, add it as a separate line item on your invoice and title it "Trump Tariffs" or something similar.

Trump announced a minimum tariff of 10% on imports, with the tax rate running much higher on products from certain countries like China and those from the European Union. It’s “plausible” the tariffs altogether, which would rival levels unseen in roughly a century, could knock down U.S. economic growth by 2 percentage points this year and raise inflation close to 5%, according to UBS.

For those who do not know Rabbi Shmuley he is known for his Piers Morgan appearances https://youtu.be/aE9ggnTvhL4

Conservative TV company Newsmax has seen its stock market valuation surge by more than 2,200% since its debut in New York on Monday.

The preachers, who a UC spokeswoman said were not affiliated with campus, left by 4 p.m. Shaikh said it wasn't their first time there.“Today it was particularly aggressive,” Shaikh said. “They were berating students walking by.”

Where were you when they took the economy down with tariffs, when they took the economy down by threatening it so consumer confidence drops. Where were you?”

• You’re his property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say

One of the most common refrains now, extending from liberals to conservatives, is the reference to “agency” and its supposed denial by anyone who brings attention to imperialism and the acts of Western states. “Oh, you’re pointing to the CIA’s influence in that coup? Well have you considered you’re denying the AGENCY of the people of that country when you say that? CHECKMATE!”

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters.

The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services slashed the staffs of major federal aging, disability and anti-poverty programs, leaving the future of those programs uncertain.

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits.

Two appeals courts have recently rejected efforts by private parties to use copyright to restrict access to the laws that most directly affect ordinary citizens: regulations that ensure our homes, workplaces, devices, and many other products, are safe and fit for purpose. Apparently hoping the third time will be the charm, a standards organization is asking the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to break ranks and hold that a private party that helps develop a law also gets to own that law. In an amicus brief filed with co-counsel Abigail Burton and Samuel Silver of Welsh & Recker, P.C., on behalf of multiple entities— including Watch Duty, iFixit, Public.Resource.Org, and multiple library associations—EFF urged the court to instead join the judicial consensus and recognize that no one owns the law.

At midnight one day in spring 2023, a team of animal rights investigators decked out in biosecurity gear snuck onto a massive chicken farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an hour and a half drive from Baltimore. The operation was raising some 75,000 birds for Mountaire Farms, the nation’s fourth-largest chicken company.

February 28, 2025

We the People, endeavoring in an ever more perfect Union. Establish the Progressive Party of the United States. Party members will emphasize the value of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. As these are understood to be the foundation of Freedom.

President Donald Trump’s recent election executive order is more than just a lawless overstep of presidential power — it’s another example of the ways in which Trump’s Justice Department has become an extension of the White House and is involving itself in all of the President’s grievances.

History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.

Grieving Palestinian Americans are demanding an arms embargo from their lawmakers as Israel escalates its genocide.

Why are we taxing working people more than billionaires?

Mark Lowen considered ‘threat to public order’ after reports on nationwide anti-government demonstrations

“How do your people in the field determine that someone is a gang member?” Jonathan Karl, a co-anchor of ABC’s “This Week,” asked.

For months, we urged Senate Democratic leadership to use every tool at their disposal to fight back and raise the alarm. We asked them to stay unified against Trump’s nominees – a cabinet of billionaires and extremists who openly flout the law. We asked them to organize against Maga bills such as the Laken Riley Act, which expands Trump’s mass deportation powers. We asked them to use every procedural tool to halt business as usual. All too often the response has been: “We’re in the minority, we don’t have the votes.”

"Immigrants are not the enemy, we are part of the worker movement towards justice which includes fair wages, healthcare, education, housing, and solidarity," said one social justice group.

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The Atlantic announced today that its editor was inadvertently added to a group text including the Vice President, CIA Director, Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor where they discussed Yemen war moves and other matters of national security. The Trump administration’s carelessness would soon be outdone by the squeamishness of the magazine.