“By targeting beliefs and protest activity, the directive positions dissent itself as a potential crime,” one news organization said.
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Federal agents are abducting any DC residents who appear Latino, new suit says
Federal agents detained one resident while he was on his way to dialysis treatment, according to the complaint.
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Harriet Tubman showed how to act bravely in dark times
September is Underground Railroad Month. The month when both Harriet Tubman and the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass freed themselves from slavery. This is episode 69 of Stories of Resistance.
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‘We have experienced every kind of oppression’: Gaza’s children speak
“Every time I speak to other moms, they say: ‘My child wasn’t like this before the war.’”
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We’re finalists for the prestigious Signal Awards. Help us win!
Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here…
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Healthcare is the hill Democrats should die on
As a government shutdown looms, Republicans need Democratic votes to pass funding legislation. But will Democrats finally use their leverage to save critical healthcare subsidies, or will they blink like they did in the past?
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Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
They’re funded by real estate and Silicon Valley and—in a total inversion of reality—keep taking credit for Mamdani’s primary win.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
How Democrats set the stage for Trump’s assault on free speech
Jimmy Kimmel’s show is back on the air… kind of. But the consolidation of corporate control over the media, mixed with a ravenously censorious Trump administration, leaves free speech in America hanging by a thread.
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EXCLUSIVE: Federal whistleblowers expose how Trump’s HUD is abandoning vulnerable Americans
“The frank fact of the matter is that, right now, discrimination is not being prosecuted. Fair housing laws are not being enforced… And so, we felt that we had no choice but to go public.”
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‘We’ve got four public prisons and one private prison closed’: CA abolitionist coalition takes on the prison-industrial complex
“We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison… detoxify the land, give it back to the local communities.”
