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‘A tremendous chilling effect’: Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world.
'Full-blown constitutional crisis' deepens as Bukele refuses to release Maryland resident

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Julia Conley

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 14, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. “Everyone here is pretending,” said immigration policy expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick as a video of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaking in the Oval Office circulated on Monday.
Inside Trump's assault on universities

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests.
Fetterman joins GOP in voting to confirm Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Sharon Zhang

This story originally appeared in Truthout on Apr. 09, 2025. It is shared here with permission. The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas governor and fervent Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee as the U.S.’s next ambassador to Israel after numerous rights groups called on the Senate to oppose his nomination. Huckabee was confirmed 53 to 46, in what was a largely party line vote — except for Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), who voted with Republicans in favor.
Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

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Birju Dattani lost his job for criticizing Israel-but he's fighting back

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Marc Steiner |Marc Steiner Host

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Hands Off! Trump-DOGE backlash packs DC

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Taya Graham |Stephen Janis

On April 5, 100,000 gathered at the Washington Monument to tell the Trump administration in no uncertain terms that the DOGE attacks on federal workers at Veterans Affairs, Social Security, the Consumer Finance Bureau, USAID, and more were harming not only Americans but our relationships worldwide.
What's really behind Trump's war on federal unions?

3 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

Last week, President Trump escalated his administration’s war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions across the government. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 government employees, has sued the Trump administration over the executive order.
Huwaida Arraf on Gaza: ‘We will look back and truly feel ashamed’

3 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Marc Steiner |Marc Steiner Host

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Brazil’s military dictatorship seemed invulnerable-until metalworkers went on strike

3 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Michael Fox

São Bernardo do Campo is a working-class neighborhood on the edge of the city of Sao Paulo. Gritty. Industrial. The Detroit of Brazil. In the late 1970s, this is where hundreds of thousands of workers labor in the factories. Metal workers. Assembling the cars that run across the highways of Brazil and South America. Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz. But in the late 1970s… Brazil’s economic miracle is over. Wages are squeezed. Inflation spiraling.