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New CBS polling shows that voters have soured on Trump's handling of economic issues.

60% of voters now disapprove of his overall handling of the economy.

On inflation it's even worse for Trump, with 65% disapproving.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

The Trump admin is preparing a plan to make it harder for older Americans to get Social Security disability payments.

Officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether or not someone is capable of working.

Hundreds of thousands of people could lose out.

This is bad, too. Between foreclosures increasing and bankruptcies increasing...

The Trump administration is proposing cutting the NASA budget nearly in half.

ICE, immigration courts, and the rest of the deportation-machine agencies are humming along as if it’s still September 2025; only 5% of Homeland Security personnel are being furloughed, compared to 89% at the EPA and 87% at the beleaguered Department of Education.

Government Shutdown Gives Trump Yet Another Opportunity to Expand His Power Project 2025 architect Russell Vought wants to seize the shutdown to further slash spending with mass federal layoffs.

As crucial services grind to a halt and federal workers go without pay, Donald Trump is using the ongoing government shutdown to do what he does best: grab more power.

New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization - Inside Climate News Extreme shifts in federal climate policy will make it hard for the U.S. to reach the Paris Agreement targets, but action by states, cities and businesses could still deliver significant emissions cuts...

Ten years after the Paris Agreement was signed, the global energy transition seems unstoppable, but a new report shows that more ambitious national climate plans are needed to curb global warming close to the agreement’s temperature target.

When all protest is terrorism The groundwork for Trump's free speech crackdown was laid by the War on Terror.

The groundwork for Trump’s free speech crackdown was laid by the War on Terror.

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...

The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”

(Published April 2025)

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

As Chicago braces for possible deployment of federal troops, ICE agents conducted a high-profile raid on a residential building.

Chicagoans have not “heard any justification or rationalization for why it was that they needed this kind of overwhelming force,” says Ed Yohnka with ACLU Illinois.

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people. Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.

Two Years of Genocide: The guilt we live with from the miserable safety of exile Every day, when we turn on the news, we thank God we survived the genocide. And every day, we regret it.

READ: Two years of genocide.

From exile, Tareq S. Hajjaj writes about what it means to survive Gaza’s destruction — and to live with the guilt of survival. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/two-...

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

“Trump’s Invasion”: Illinois Officials Denounce Troop Deployment to Chicago as ICE Escalates Raids As Chicago braces for a possible deployment of National Guard troops by President Trump, we speak with Ed Yohnka from the ACLU of Illinois about how the administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown ...

"When anybody protests, then that’s seized upon by the administration as a claim for the need to bring in further forces.”

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

Is America contagious? Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

With the US in democratic freefall, experts are concerned that other countries may dismantle themselves too.

As professor Stefanie Walter explains, pro-Trump echo chambers could mean that even policies that prove disastrous for ordinary people may spread further and faster than ever.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" [via
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs A growing number of Americans, squeezed by inflation and elevated interest rates, face the risk of losing their home in foreclosure.

www.cbsnews.com/news/housing...

Foreclosures are rising yall...

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is “abhorrent.”

Several homes in the neighborhood have a yard sign in the front proudly declaring: “This house supports federal workers.” That includes the house right next door to his.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

In the Third Reich, Hitler’s will replaced German law. Whatever he wanted, he did.

Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects.

The US Media Ignores Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Captivity While the fates of Israelis held captive by Hamas regularly make front-page news, US corporate media almost never reports on the Palestinians who die in Israeli captivity.

While the fates of Israelis held captive by Hamas regularly make front-page news, US corporate media almost never reports on the Palestinians who die in Israeli captivity.

...Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the UK, Serbia, and the United States.

Israeli Foreign Ministry says 171 participants in the Sumud Flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, were deported today from Israel to Greece and Slovakia. Middle East Eye reported the flight to Greece will be arriving shortly.

The activists are reportedly citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland...

Trump’s Minions Are Trying to Terrorize Judges Into Submission Facing rebukes from the courts, Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are threatening the independence of the judiciary.

Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by attacks on the Constitution so extreme that even judges Trump appointed in his first term are aghast.

WIC ends in two weeks...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy The Nation's justice correspondent previews the court's coming term--and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

A case to resurrect conversion therapy. A case to kill the Voting Rights Act. A case to further gut campaign finance reform. These are just a few of the cases on the Supreme Court’s new docket.