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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

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University of Virginia agrees to Trump administration demands over admissions and hiring School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Capitulation to the wannabe dictator violates higher ed independence @UniversityofVirginia. Bad call.

Treasury tells employees not to share photos of White House ballroom construction - The Wall Street Journal See no evil

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

The call for an ethics probe follows reporting from ProPublica that revealed a web of past business relationships involving border czar Tom Homan, his senior adviser Mark Hall, and consultants and firms seeking DHS contracts.

White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way

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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

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Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today. n.pr/3Jd0PoI

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

As the regime's brings its lies to Bluesky, it shows that no part of civil society will be spared from attack. Then the toddler President, woken from his nap, posted a video of him dropping poop on yesterday's protesters to make the message clear.
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... ~7 million of us. Stay tuned, more to come.

Acting Now to Protect the Future We should not be curious about the Trump higher ed "compact."

Acting Now to Protect the Future
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Ten Exercises You Can Do to Resist Fascism - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/09/t...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Thank you to the 14K people who tuned in last night for our Know Your Rights training ahead of the rallies on October 18 💪

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

So he's rereleased the Epstein Files? (Kidding)

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison

Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... An all too rare consequence for men's violence against women.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... Yes indeed.

Routine vaccinations, sanitation, and a look back at history Sanitation vs. vaccine impact, requirements, universal recommendations, Hep B and more

Routine vaccinations, sanitation, and a look back at history
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... Resist this attempt to coerce bigotry.

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The Roberts Court: Twenty Years of Democracy Undermined - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/01/t...

Committee for the First Amendment

www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com/home An idea whose time has come, again.

Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration chilled free speech in violation of the U.S. Constitution by adopting a policy of revoking the visas of foreign students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy, and arresting, detaining and deporting them.

Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules reut.rs/42ikvOq

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to billionaires and massive corporations?

Measles outbreak growing and common cold surging, hunger survey is stopping, abortion pill watch, why we can't split up MMR, and some great news! The Dose (September 30)

Measles outbreak growing and common cold surging, hunger survey is stopping, abortion pill watch, why we can't split up MMR, and some great news!
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Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.

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