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"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (1028+ words) On February 4, former FOX News host Tucker Carlson delivered what, in other times, would be a'shocking assessment: that the future of the Republican Party is a'31-year-old, long-shot candidate in Florida's gubernatorial race with a'string of financial and sexual misconduct…...
Trump’s Assault on Immigrants Hurts U.S.-Born Workers, Too
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (565+ words) The worker is now in deportation proceedings. But his courage helped win policy changes in Ramsey County, and his fierce advocacy in a'similar wage theft case in nearby Hennepin County also paid off: more than 70 subcontracted workers for Hennepin County…...
ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (543+ words) This story is being co-published by In These Times and The Appeal. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a'million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and $58,000 to Democratic congressmembers, from 2021 through 2025, according to an investigation by…...
The Fake Clinics Taking Over Reproductive Healthcare
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (1183+ words) One organization, Georgia Wellness Group, was set to receive a'much bigger prize: $450,000. CPCs have been roundly denounced by the American medical community for pressuring and misinforming clients. Without medical licenses, most CPCs are unaffected by federal privacy laws, like'HIPAA. Georgia…...
Poll Shows Massive Participation in Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (807+ words) Roughly one in four Minnesota voters either participated in the January 23day of shutdown and protest against ICE, or have aloved one who did, according to new pollingdata. Of those participants, 38% percent stayed off the job, either because they did not…...
Minneapolis Fights Back: An Episode of The Dig
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (1803+ words) On Jan. 23, tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved subzero temperatures and took to the streets as part of a'call for "no work, no school, no shopping" in protest of the brutal and deadly occupation of thousands of ICE and Border…...
The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (1114+ words) The strike rolled through one of the largest public university systems in the United States, with 19,780 workers voting to authorize the work action. The University of California campuses became sites of a'pitched labor battle and a'broader student struggle to stand…...
A Staggering Number of Minnesotans Took to the Streets Friday to Demand ICE Leave. The Next Day, ICE Responded by Killing Another Resident.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (484+ words) About 50,000 protesters took to the streets in downtown Minneapolis on Friday to demand ICE and its thousands of federal agents immediately leave the state and stop brutalizing and killing residents and, as recently as Tuesday, snatching'preschoolers. The next morning, ICE…...
"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"
2+ week, 4+ day ago (182+ words) Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week. The Minnesota shutdown is well underway, kicked off with a'large picket line by workers and…...
A Huge Group of Faith Leaders Are Blocking a Key Road Outside the Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport
2+ week, 4+ day ago (848+ words) About 100 faith leaders have blocked the road outside of Terminal 1departures at the Minneapolis'Saint Paul International Airport Friday morning in amajor act of civil disobedience. They could be heard chanting "ICE out!" and the act of civil disobedience followed apicket line…...