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Grants To Help Domestic Violence Survivors Are Back — With Strings Attached - Truthdig

1 day ago | truthdig.com | Jasmine Mithani

This story was originally published by The 19th. The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women released new grant opportunities after deleting a previous set of them in February and telling organizations to halt their applications.
The Politics of Worse for Worse Sake

5 days ago | truthdig.com | Jeb Lund

On Monday, May 5, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would be eliminating divisions dedicated to climate change and energy efficiency, including the one responsible for overseeing the Energy Star program. Anyone who has taken a stroll through the appliance section of a Home Depot or Best Buy in the last 33 years will recognize the Energy Star logo from those big blue stickers affixed to the corners of fridge doors, washers, dryers and dishwashers.
Challenging Police Impunity Under Trump

5 days ago | truthdig.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

On May 3, 2024, Roger Fortson was on a video call with his girlfriend when a knock came at his door. Fortson, a 23-year-old Black man, was a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Florida. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran had responded to a domestic disturbance call at the apartment complex in Fort Walton Beach. Building staff directed him to Fortson’s unit. After the deputy pounded on the door, Fortson opened it, holding his left hand up, palm out, posing no threat.
Criminal-Probe Pretext for NYPD ICE Cooperation Alarms Immigrant Advocates

6 days ago | truthdig.com | Gwynne Hogan

This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch is defending the NYPD’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities currently detaining a Palestinian woman who participated in protests at Columbia University, arguing New York’s strict sanctuary laws don’t apply.
Don’t Abandon the WHO, Reform It

6 days ago | truthdig.com | Ramin Skibba

When Ebola swept through West Africa in the mid-2010s, Ashish Jha joined a chorus of health experts criticizing the World Health Organization’s response. The global health agency, these critics said, was slow to declare a public health emergency and to coordinate the responses needed to contain the deadly outbreak. The disease killed more than 11,000 people, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Report: As Climate Disasters Kill in Pakistan, the True Scale Is Unknown

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Keerti Gopal

When torrential rain in 2022 flooded Abdul Latif’s village in Badin, Pakistan, his roof caved in and he and his six children were forced to live on a road for a month without shelter, clean water or other basic necessities. Soon, his 3-year-old son fell sick with vomiting, diarrhea and a swollen abdomen. A government hospital in the nearest city said it didn’t have the resources to take him, so Latif brought him to a private clinic and paid for temporary treatment.
On Climate, Governors Enter 'Trench Warfare Mode'

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Dana Drugmand

With the U.S. federal government once again abandoning all efforts to confront the climate crisis, any domestic advances in reducing emissions and accelerating clean energy in the near future will have to come from the state and local levels.
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In California, the federal government was deep into an investigation of alleged racial discrimination at a school district where, a parent said, students called a Black peer racial slurs and played whipping sounds from their cellphones during a lesson about slavery. Then the U.S. Department of Education in March suddenly closed the California regional outpost of its Office for Civil Rights and fired all its employees there.
Wikipedia Under Threat After Right-Wing Media Uproar

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Ari Paul

The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
The Battle of Sunset Park

1 week ago | truthdig.com | Siddhant Adlakha

Sunset Park in Brooklyn is suffering. of its population lives in poverty, rents are steadily rising and the neighborhood’s would-be saviors — private developers promising to transform its abandoned warehouses into thriving businesses — have proven to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Emergent City,” directed by Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, follows the step-by-step process of rezoning that allows for such an outcome as well as the community opposition to it.