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Bernie Sanders: Democrats have to decide whether they’re on the side of the wealthy or working people

Bernie Sanders: Democrats have to decide whether they’re on the side of the wealthy or working people

  CBS News reports: Ever since President Trump took office, surrounded by some of the richest men in the world, Senator Bernie Sanders has been sounding the alarm: “This country today faces an unprecedented level of danger, something that I’ve never seen in my lifetime,” he said. “We are a nation that is moving rapidly toward oligarchy, which means that we have a government run by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.” “You’ve had this consistent message for a…

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Musk melts down at Trump’s tariff guru, Peter Navarro, as feud goes public

Musk melts down at Trump’s tariff guru, Peter Navarro, as feud goes public

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has taken a massive swipe at President Donald Trump’s trade adviser amid the deepening economic chaos caused by the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. In a Saturday X post, the Tesla CEO ripped Peter Navarro as someone who “ain’t built s–t” and shaded his Harvard PhD in economics as “a bad thing, not a good thing.” Musk, who’s openly expressed disdain for Ivy League institutions, commented, “yup” under a quote from U.S. economist Thomas Sowell…

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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why anti-Elon Musk satire is flourishing in Britain

‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why anti-Elon Musk satire is flourishing in Britain

The New York Times reports: The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute. “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the ad reads. “Tesla. The Swasticar.” Another mock ad shows Mr. Musk and President Trump in front of a red Tesla…

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Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’

Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States. There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang, U.S. District Judge Paula…

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Detained Tufts student suffering serious health issues and denied medication while in DHS custody

Detained Tufts student suffering serious health issues and denied medication while in DHS custody

The New Republic reports: Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student brazenly abducted by masked immigration agents on a public street in Massachusetts, is suffering serious health issues in Homeland Security custody. Representative Ayanna Pressley, whose district includes the university, posted on Bluesky Thursday night that Öztürk has had three separate asthma attacks in custody while being denied access to her required medications, “a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.” “This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is…

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In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream

A Palestinian woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her home, which was destroyed in an Israeli strike on March 18, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images By Tamir Sorek, Penn State Thirty years ago in Israel, advocating for genocide could land you in prison. In April 1994, an Israeli rabbi named Ido Alba published an article that read, in part, “In war, as long as the war has not been decided, it is a commandment to kill every…

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Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Ten years after Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen, there is only irreparable loss

Afrah Nasser writes: “Keep Yemen weak,” King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, is said to have told his sons on his deathbed. Whether those words were apocryphal or not, the sentiment behind them aligns with Saudi Arabia’s long-standing geopolitical strategy toward its southern neighbor. Historically, Saudi policy has sought to maintain a balance of power in Yemen—strong enough to prevent total collapse and regional instability, but weak enough to prevent it from becoming a powerful, independent…

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As Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda, protests sweep the nation

As Obama calls on citizens, colleges and law firms to resist Trump agenda, protests sweep the nation

  Greg Sargent writes: For months now, Democrats have been eating themselves alive with an internal argument over how aggressively to criticize Trump’s destruction of the rule of law and constitutional order. Some Democrats think raising this is mostly a waste of time, and if raised, it must feature a quick pivot to prices. By this account, Democrats face a choice: Either attack Trump’s lawlessness or indict his degradation of people’s everyday material conditions. Do the former, and you’re distracting…

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Trump’s tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan

Trump’s tariffs will tip America into recession, warns JP Morgan

The Telegraph reports: Donald Trump’s tariffs will tip the world’s largest economy into recession, America’s biggest investment bank has warned. Investment bank JP Morgan has torn up its growth forecasts for the US, after global stocks tumbled and wiped more than $5 trillion (£3.8 trillion) off America’s most valuable companies in only two days. The investment bank downgraded US growth by 1.6 percentage points for this year, while predicting far higher unemployment that could leave nearly 2m additional Americans jobless….

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More than 500 law firms back Perkins Coie in fight with Trump

More than 500 law firms back Perkins Coie in fight with Trump

The New York Times reports: More than 500 law firms on Friday threw their support behind some of their embattled peers, declaring that President Trump’s recent crackdown on the law firm industry poses “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.” The firms, 504 in all, signed a so-called friend of the court brief that was filed on behalf of Perkins Coie, the first firm to receive an executive order restricting its…

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Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately

Trump administration accidentally tells Ukrainian refugees they must leave U.S. immediately

CBS News reports: The Trump administration on Friday said it accidentally told some Ukrainian refugees they needed to leave the U.S. immediately because their legal status was being revoked, telling CBS News the message was sent by mistake. Some Ukrainians who had entered the U.S. under the Biden administration following Russia’s invasion of their homeland received emails this week telling them that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security would be terminating their legal protections, according to advocates and a notice…

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Americans were souring on Trump’s economic plans even before tariff bloodbath

Americans were souring on Trump’s economic plans even before tariff bloodbath

The Wall Street Journal reports: Americans elected Donald Trump with a favorable opinion of his economic plans. But his expansive push for tariffs has helped turn that confidence into skepticism, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds. Tepid support for tariffs through the past year has become disapproval, with 54% of voters opposing Trump’s levies on imported goods, 12 points more than those who support his plans. Three quarters of voters say that tariffs will raise prices on the things…

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As financial meltdown plays out, the Trump family’s cash registers ring

As financial meltdown plays out, the Trump family’s cash registers ring

The New York Times reports: The financial market meltdown was underway when President Trump boarded Air Force One on his way to Florida on Thursday for a doubleheader of sorts: a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his family’s Miami resort and a weekend of fund-raisers attracting hundreds of donors to his Palm Beach club. It was a fresh reminder that in his second term, Mr. Trump has continued to find ways to drive business to his family-owned real-estate ventures, a practice…

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Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again

Jagan Chapagain writes: Which was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed? Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests….

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