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2 days ago | 
truthout.org | Nicole Froio |Samantha Borek
This story was originally published at Prism. Pittsburgh residents will not get to vote on whether to divest from genocide in the May 20 primary election after legal challenges ultimately killed a local ballot effort. The grassroots campaign Not On Our Dime withdrew its petition for the ballot question a second time last month despite spending months campaigning and collecting over 21,300 signatures to add the referendum to May’s ballot.
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5 days ago | 
truthout.org | Marianne Dhenin |Samantha Borek
The U.S. approach to addressing homelessness in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling will maim and kill people, housing rights advocates and experts tell Truthout. It will disproportionately harm disabled Americans, who comprise more than a quarter of the nation’s population and about half of its unhoused population. The court’s decision in Grants Pass v.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Jessica Corbett |Samantha Borek
Accepting the offer could sabotage pending or future cases people might have in US immigration court, an expert warns. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams Published May 5, 2025 A young activist, 5, joins demonstrators protesting Trump's immigration policies on February 3, 2025, in Santa Ana, California.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Shefali Luthra |Samantha Borek
This article was originally published at The 19th. Columbia, Missouri — Celeste Athon had played softball from the day she was old enough to sign up for a local youth league. She’d never felt like this before. Athon, a second base player for the local Stephens College, found herself tired much faster. Even sprinting just a few feet left her short of breath.
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1 week 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.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Michael Fox |Samantha Borek
Two days after the Ecuadorian presidential election, leftist economist and politician Diego Borja traveled by car to the Colombian border with his wife. They hoped to vacation in the neighboring country for the Catholic holy week of Semana Santa. But there, Ecuadorian border agents confiscated his ID cards and detained him. They said Borja, whose party lost the country’s election on April 13 to hardline President Daniel Noboa, was trying to flee the country.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Shannon Kelleher |Samantha Borek
This story was originally published by The New Lede. Moves by the Trump administration to draw up a new regulatory framework for types of toxic chemicals has sparked suspicion among health advocates who fear the changes will protect polluters but not public health.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Samantha Borek
Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the State Department warned international scholars and students — people who had come to the U.S. to teach, conduct research and learn — that it planned to revoke visas based on allegations of antisemitism or for their purported support for groups like Hamas or Hezbollah.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Kelly Hayes |Samantha Borek
Part of the Series Movement Memos “We need to think deeply about cultivating that mindset of collective survival, of needing to understand each other and work together, even if we don’t like each other, and would never actually choose each other, because this is the ‘us’ we’ve got in an us versus them situation,” says Kelly Hayes.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Michael Arria |Samantha Borek
On March 14, President Donald Trump quietly rescinded a Biden-era executive order that raised the minimum wage for private sector employees on federal contracts. The move is just one part of a wider war the administration has launched against the working class since assuming power. Executive Order 14026 was issued by former President Joe Biden in 2021. In addition to increasing the minimum wage rate for federal contractors, it set adjustments to account for inflation.
