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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa after she got extraordinary access to an ICE detention center in Colorado, where she interviewed the immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. The undocumented mother of four was arrested by federal agents in Denver in March after she successfully fought multiple deportation efforts since 2009, including when she took sanctuary in a Denver church with her children in 2017.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Julia Conley |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
After walking an average of 9.3 miles to an aid distribution hub set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed private foundation that Israel has allowed to provide humanitarian relief in Gaza, Palestinians on Tuesday faced gunfire from Israeli troops at the site, with at least one person killed and 48 wounded — and rights groups’ worst fears about the aid scheme confirmed.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Kelly Hayes |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Maya Schenwar
As other branches of government fail to check the Trump administration, the balance of power shifts toward oligarchs.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Noah Berlatsky |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
This story was originally published by Prism. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order safeguarding the medical records of autistic people in Illinois. The order follows a recent federal proposal by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a national autism database. It prevents state agencies from sharing autism-related information with anyone outside of state government without a clear reason and informed consent.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Curtis Duncan |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Kamau Franklin
This essay is an excerpt from No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement, edited by Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind and Mariah Parker, Copyright © 2025. This text was originally published by Haymarket Books and has been reprinted here with permission. Community Movement Builders (CMB) was formed in 2015 as a mass-based Black organization, advancing radical politics with a build-and-fight strategy.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Eloise Goldsmith |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut urged a federal judge to consider holding the officials in contempt of court. By Eloise Goldsmith , CommonDreams Published May 21, 2025 U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) speaks to press outside the Senate Chambers after voting in the U.S. Capitol on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Senate will take up budget negotiations after the House passed the spending bill on Feb. 25, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor and the elderly and the youth of our country,” says Barber, citing the bill’s cuts to essential social services like Medicaid and paralleling those cuts to the government’s funding of defense and deportation initiatives.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Jake Johnson |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
The legislation is aimed at making public colleges and universities tuition-free for most Americans. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams Published May 21, 2025 Sen. Bernie Sanders uses a cellphone while walking to a vote on May 8, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images As U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans move to gut federal student aid programs to help fund tax cuts for the rich, Sen.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Amid President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, we continue our interview with DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson and HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed about Trump’s acceptance of a luxury plane gifted to him by the Qatari government, nuclear negotiations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, a less cooperative relationship with Israel and more. TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Akbar, I wanted to follow that up on Iran.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Katya Schwenk |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. As President Donald Trump tries to bar almost all refugees from entering the country, his administration is planning to use federal funds reserved for sick, elderly, and at-risk refugee populations to facilitate an influx of white South Africans within days, according to a government source and an internal memo viewed by The Lever.
