Resistance is Everywhere

A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter registration rolls Thursday, marking the fourth loss for the agency, with zero wins, out of 30 active cases.

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct…

But a funny thing happened on the way to the erasure of American history in favor of a whitewashed authoritarianism. The American people began to preserve the truth of who we have been. Volunteers worried at the potential loss of National…

Letters from an American

A federal judge on Monday blocked major parts of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s broad overhaul of U.S. vaccine policy in a decision that sides with six medical groups, including the American Academy of…

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But Barker also worried about his ability to act ethically if he stayed on the job. When he learned members of his office were preparing a conspiracy indictment against Mavalwalla and eight others, he decided to resign. “I didn’t feel in…

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As he awaits trial, Mavalwalla said he will continue to speak out. “Every single person here, except for the people who are indigenous to the Americas, is an immigrant or comes from immigrants,” he said.

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About 60 volunteers, many of whom live in suburbs, have been working in shifts to take the center’s staff to and from their homes in neighborhoods across the city. The effort is just one example of the elaborate systems of mutual aid and…

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But the community rose to meet the challenge. Initially they had nearly a dozen people who volunteered as delivery drivers; now they have about 130. One volunteer built an app to help make the process smoother for people working on the…

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A federal judge has slammed Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and plan to build a $400m ballroom where it once stood as “brazen”, and has indicated he might terminate the project later this month.

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“The courts have said, ‘We agree, this is first amendment protected speech,” said Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, which filed briefs in many of the cases. That, she continued, has resulted in “wins for Palestinian rights…

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A coalition of 24 states, alongside a dozen cities and counties, has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the bedrock scientific determination underpinning virtually all US climate regulations.

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“Those who drafted the first amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech,” US district court judge Paul…

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“The notion that ‘I will go forward and issue a declaration and see if we can get away with it’ is not a principle of governance that adheres to the overarching commitment to a democratic republic that requires the rule of law to be…

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A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing a new policy that would subject thousands of refugees to arrest and detention if after a year ​in the United States they had yet to obtain green…

Judge Lin’s ruling found that the government overstepped its authority in its attempts to punish and coerce Anthropic, stating that the Pentagon designating the AI company as a “supply chain risk” is “likely both contrary to law and…

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As of Thursday, the Republican-led initiative slipped below the number of signatures required for the measure to go to voters, as thousands of voters statewide and hundreds in one key Senate district withdrew their support.

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Nurses, pro-Palestinian activists and social and climate justice groups applied pressure on the city government as part of a nationwide campaign known as Purge Palantir to stop the company from contracting with government agencies,…

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James Talarico, the Texas Democratic state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, has said he forgives Pete Hegseth’s pastor for praying for his death. On Tuesday, Texas’s popular Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat pushed back…

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More than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, to resign or be fired.

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The bill’s official introduction comes as calls to halt AI datacenter expansion have gone from the margins to the mainstream. Since August 2025, towns and counties across the country – including in Missouri, Indiana, Georgia and North…

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