Mike Ludwig

New Orleans

Staff Reporter at Truthout

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Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers

1 week ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Samantha Borek

Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers “People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer,” one Louisiana-based organizer told Truthout. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout Published May 27, 2025 A house sits along the long stretch of River Road by the Mississippi River and the many chemical plants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 12, 2013.
Big Pharma Front Groups Muddle Debate Over Drug Prices, Patient Advocates Say

2 weeks ago | popularresistance.org | Mike Ludwig

Above photo: Medications are stored on shelves at a pharmacy on May 12, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Eric Thayer / Getty Images. Big Pharma is using dark money to fund groups that sound like patient advocacy organizations. But they represent the industry. The brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season.
Big Pharma Front Groups Muddle Debate Over Drug Prices, Patient Advocates Say

2 weeks ago | scheerpost.com | Mike Ludwig

By Mike Ludwig / TruthoutThe brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season.
Big Pharma Front Groups Muddle Debate Over Drug Prices, Patient Advocates Say

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Merula Furtado

The brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season.
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths

3 weeks ago | scheerpost.com | Mike Ludwig

By Mike Ludwig / TruthoutThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on May 14 that the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States dropped by nearly 27 percent in 2024. The number represents a significant decrease after more than a decade of steeply climbing drug-related fatality rates that billions of dollars in federal spending on policing and border enforcement failed to contain. At the beginning of 2015, the CDC reported fewer than 50,000 overdose deaths annually.
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths

3 weeks ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Samantha Borek

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on May 14 that the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States dropped by nearly 27 percent in 2024. The number represents a significant decrease after more than a decade of steeply climbing drug-related fatality rates that billions of dollars in federal spending on policing and border enforcement failed to contain. At the beginning of 2015, the CDC reported fewer than 50,000 overdose deaths annually.
GOP Advances Bill to Fast-Track Fracking, Logging and Mining on Public Lands

1 month ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Samantha Borek

The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a portion of the GOP budget package this week that would open vast swaths of public lands to private oil and gas extraction, logging, and coal and mineral mining while fast-tracking permits and slashing oversight of proposed fossil fuel projects.
3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration Jails

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Mike Ludwig

The Trump administration has created a human rights crisis with its draconian, made-for-TV campaign of mass deportation. As arrests ramp up across the country, three people died inside immigration jails and detention centers in April alone, bringing the total number of people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since Trump returned to office to at least seven, according to the Detention Watch Network and media reports.
3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration Jails

1 month ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Samantha Borek

The Trump administration has created a human rights crisis with its draconian, made-for-TV campaign of mass deportation. As arrests ramp up across the country, three people died inside immigration jails and detention centers in April alone, bringing the total number of people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since Trump returned to office to at least seven, according to the Detention Watch Network and media reports.
Rights Groups Detail “Authoritarian” Reality of US Surveillance in Report to UN

1 month ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig

A new report from human rights experts urges the United Nations to condemn the “evaporation of fundamental rights” in the United States, where the Trump administration is using high-tech surveillance tools and a nebulous “anti-terrorism” legal framework that has ballooned since 9/11 to weaponize law enforcement against social movements that challenge state power.

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RT @chicago_commune: A large anti-ICE protest in San Diego escalated into clashes with police after streets were taken over and an unlawful…

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RT @muhammadshehad2: 🚨Conclusive evidence of Israel running the very criminal gangs looting aid in Gaza🧵 Hamas released footage today of a…

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20 May 25

I never make political predictions, but something tells me RFK Jr. and Trump are going to be hiding public health data before this term is over. https://t.co/PktgpU5onb