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This lithium company is trying to sue Indigenous land defenders into silence

6 days ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine in Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, but for nearly five years several local Indigenous tribes and environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action.
Conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism makes Jews less safe, not more

6 days ago | therealnews.com | Marc Steiner

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‘Like being tortured’: Texas residents living next to bitcoin mine are getting sick and being ignored

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

While state officials and legislators have positioned Texas to be “the bitcoin mining capital of the world,” in small towns like Granbury, working-class residents living next to giant, loud, environmentally destructive data centers are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boom. “None of us are sleeping,” Cheryl Shadden, a Granbury resident who lives across the street from a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining data center owned by Marathon Digital, tells TRNN.
Fired after Zionist uproar, artist Mr. Fish won’t stop drawing the truth

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Marc Steiner

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'AIPAC didn’t make me, so AIPAC can’t break me'

1 week ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

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Federal judge orders release of Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Michael Arria

This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on Apr. 30, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after a federal judge in Vermont ordered his release. It’s the first order mandating the release of a student detained by the Trump administration.
‘The raids happened Wednesday, finals started Thursday’: FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

The Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent—and university administrators and state government officials are willingly aiding that assault. On the morning of April 23, at the direction of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the homes of multiple student organizers connected to Palestine solidarity protests at the University of Michigan.
'Trump is trying to break us,' Carney warns as Liberals win Canadian election

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Jake Johnson

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 29, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that his country’s “old relationship with the United States… is over” after leading his Liberal Party to victory in Monday’s federal election, a contest that came amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s destructive trade war and threats to forcibly annex Canada.
‘Worse’ than McCarthyism: Trump’s war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent

2 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Maximillian Alvarez

A dystopian reality has gripped America’s colleges and universities: ICE agents are snatching and disappearing international students in broad daylight; student visas are being revoked en masse overnight; funding cuts and freezes are upending countless careers and our entire public research infrastructure; students are being expelled and faculty fired for speaking out against Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Abrego Garcia family flees to safe house after Trump DHS posts home address on social media

3 weeks ago | therealnews.com | Jessica Corbett

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 23, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The Trump administration has not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran megaprison due to an “administrative error” and so far refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the United States, but also shared on social media the home address of his family in Maryland, forcing them to relocate.