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Trump Just Killed the EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court. The post Trump Just Killed the EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change appeared first on Truthdig.
13.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces The company’s tentacles are tightening around every aspect of the economy, but its operations are full of chokepoints where workers have major leverage. The post The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces appeared first on Truthdig.
13.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fight to Keep ICE From Reopening a Notorious Prison Survivors of abuse at a shuttered federal prison known as “the rape club” are teaming up with local activists to keep ICE out of Northern California. The post The Fight to Keep ICE From Reopening a Notorious Prison appeared first on Truthdig.
13.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Letter from Czechia: Motorheads Against Brussels A strange new far-right party has entered the government, threatening the EU’s environmental agenda and sparking the biggest demonstrations since the Velvet Revolution. The post Letter from Czechia: Motorheads Against Brussels appeared first on Truthdig.
12.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Data Centers Are Scrambling to Power the AI Boom With Natural Gas As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects. The post Data Centers Are Scrambling to Power the AI Boom With Natural Gas appeared first on Truthdig.
12.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump vs. His China Hawks The president ushered in a bipartisan push for confrontation with Beijing in his first term. Is he now trying to usher it out? The post Trump vs. His China Hawks appeared first on Truthdig.
12.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Guantánamo Assignments While torture hasn’t been reported from the infamous facility, ICE shift reports note detainees are resorting to hunger strikes and self-harm. The post Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Guantánamo Assignments appeared first on Truthdig.
11.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Noam Chomsky’s Split Personality While not a complete answer, Chomsky’s military-funded work in linguistics offers clues about how he could rationalize a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The post Noam Chomsky’s Split Personality appeared first on Truthdig.
11.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste May Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School A 2,500-home Dallas-Fort Worth subdivision and a school have risen atop layers of oil and gas drilling waste. One worker who helped spread the material is speaking out. The post Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste May Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School appeared first on Truthdig.
11.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One for the Money, Two for the Shoah A new book explores rock ’n’ roll’s long and complicated infatuation with Nazi Germany. The post One for the Money, Two for the Shoah appeared first on Truthdig.
10.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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For NYT’s David Brooks, a Long-Overdue Goodbye For decades, the columnist has defended the powerful, denigrated the vulnerable and decried a toxic political culture via tossed-off listicles. The post For NYT’s David Brooks, a Long-Overdue Goodbye appeared first on Truthdig.
10.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The EPA Just Used the Clean Air Act to Prop Up Coal The Environmental Protection Agency threw out Colorado’s entire haze reduction plan, a move critics called "illegal" and a possible warning to other states not to close fossil fuel plants. The post The EPA Just Used the Clean Air Act to Prop Up Coal appeared first on Truthdig.
10.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Immigrants File Record Number of Habeas Cases In the last year, federal courts have received 18,000 habeas petitions, representing people who in the past would have been released on bond or not been detained in the first place. The post Immigrants File Record Number of Habeas Cases appeared first on Truthdig.
10.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Guide to Taking Meaningful Action ICE actions have produced thousands of first-time activists — and it’s easier than ever to resist locally. The post A Guide to Taking Meaningful Action appeared first on Truthdig.
09.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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90% of Student Discrimination and Harassment Complaints Were Dismissed Last Year Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education to intervene for them, new reports find. The post 90% of Student Discrimination and Harassment Complaints Were Dismissed Last Year appeared first on Truthdig.
09.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Family of New Jersey Immigrant Who Died in Federal Custody Seeks Answers Jean Wilson Brutus was detained by immigration officials and died less than 24 hours later in their custody at Delaney Hall in Newark. The post Family of New Jersey Immigrant Who Died in Federal Custody Seeks Answers appeared first on Truthdig.
09.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is the NFL America’s Last Bastion of New Deal Economics? The league proves that rules, referees, equality, and “redistribution” are the only way any game actually works. The post Is the NFL America’s Last Bastion of New Deal Economics? appeared first on Truthdig.
09.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grin Without a Cat <p>It’s time for elected Democrats to seize the moment — and cease triangulating with nihilism.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/grin-without-a-cat/">Grin Without a Cat</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
06.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let Them Eat Cake <p>Iraq’s Oscar submission explores U.N. sanctions through the eyes of a child.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/let-them-eat-cake/">Let Them Eat Cake</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
06.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Indigenous Concerns Surface as Trump Calls for Seabed Mining in Alaskan Waters <p>“It really feels like another false solution.”</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/indigenous-concerns-surface-as-trump-calls-for-seabed-mining-in-alaskan-waters/">Indigenous Concerns Surface as Trump Calls for Seabed Mining in Alaskan Waters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
06.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind <p>The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/with-ice-using-medicaid-data-hospitals-and-states-are-in-a-bind/">With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
06.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act? <p>Schooled in the teachings of Roy Cohn and backed by a friendly Supreme Court, the mad king is poised to deploy the military.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/will-trump-invoke-the-insurrection-act/">Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
05.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think <p>While pandering to business elites, the California governor has slashed health care, housing and food assistance for the poor and near-poor in a state where 7 million live in poverty.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/gavin-newsom-is-much-worse-than-you-think/">Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
05.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last Treaty Curbing US, Russian Nuclear Weapons Has Collapsed <p>With New START gone as of Feb. 5, the world has lost the last legal check on the U.S.' and Russia’s nuclear arsenals.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/last-treaty-curbing-us-russia-nuclear-weapons-has-collapsed/">Last Treaty Curbing US, Russian Nuclear Weapons Has Collapsed</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
05.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Democrats Hold a Principled Line Against ICE Funding? <p>After listening to voters and threatening the future of paramilitarized immigration enforcement, Democrats sign a budget deal that sets the stage for half-measures and spineless compromise.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/can-democrats-hold-a-principled-line-against-ice-funding/">Can Democrats Hold a Principled Line Against ICE Funding?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
04.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘No Family More Evil’: The Sacklers’ Second Act <p>Though publicly shamed, the Sacklers avoided prison, remained billionaires, and are set to launch a new company, Knoa Pharma.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/no-family-more-evil-the-sacklers-second-act/">‘No Family More Evil’: The Sacklers’ Second Act</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
04.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Immigration Enforcement Is ‘At the School Yard Gate’ <p>ICE may not be conducting large-scale raids inside schools. But agents are getting close to schools, leaving a mark on students across the country.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/immigration-enforcement-is-at-the-school-yard-gate/">Immigration Enforcement Is ‘At the School Yard Gate’</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
04.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Doubles Down on Calling for the Feds To Take Over State Elections <p>The issue renews concerns over Trump’s expansion of presidential power.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-doubles-down-on-calling-for-the-feds-to-take-over-state-elections/">Trump Doubles Down on Calling for the Feds To Take Over State Elections</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
04.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US Tightens Blockade Against Cuba <p>On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security, expanding tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/us-tightens-blockade-against-cuba/">US Tightens Blockade Against Cuba</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
03.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Appeals Court: Administration Illegally Stripped Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans <p>The decision comes as advocates say the justification for the Jan. 3 military action contradicts the claim that Venezuela is safe enough to end TPS.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/appeals-court-administration-illegally-stripped-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/">Appeals Court: Administration Illegally Stripped Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.truthdig.com">Truthdig</a>.</p>
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