Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
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The Education Department is being hollowed out around disabled children
The Trump administration is trying to make a civil rights office disappear without admitting what disappears with it. On June 16, the Education Department announced four new "partnerships" that send…
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Congress handed ICE a blank check for three years
I keep coming back to one ugly fact: on June 10, Congress did not just fund immigration enforcement. It handed ICE and CBP a three year runway of nearly $70 billion and then pretended that was…
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New York should make data centers pay their way
New York just moved toward the country’s first statewide moratorium on new large data centers, and the anger behind it is not fake. On June 5, the state legislature passed the Responsible Data Center…
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Family values do not include charging disabled people for living at home
A government that claims to believe in family values should not punish disabled adults for living with family. But that is exactly what the Trump administration is preparing to do.
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The DOJ's anti-Christian bias report is a demand for Christian privilege
The Trump Justice Department released its "anti-Christian bias" report on Thursday, and the title alone tells you the scam. This is not a civil liberties audit. It is a federal argument that when the…
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The White House is not an anonymous donor lounge
The White House is supposed to be the people’s house. Donald Trump is turning it into a donor lounge with a federal address.
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Lee Zeldin took the EPA to a climate denial pep rally
When EPA chief Lee Zeldin walked into a Heartland Institute conference and told a ballroom full of climate denial activists it was "a day to celebrate vindication", he gave the whole game away. This…
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Federal voter purges are being scaled up before the midterms
The Trump administration is trying to build a federal voter purge machine before the midterms. Reuters reported this week that voting rights groups have sued the Justice Department over its demand…
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Trump's DOJ is putting the anti-hate movement on trial
The Trump administration is not just indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is trying to teach every anti-hate group in America a lesson.
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Immigration court is being packed to industrialize deportation
When the White House starts bragging that the president has "replaced activist judges" and that there will be "no more activist judges shielding criminal illegals", you do not need to squint to see…