Musk Endorses Neo-Nazi German Party Hours After Sanders
6 days ago · Musk’s influence within the Republican Party is so inviolable that some in the GOP have actually called for him to replace Johnson as Speaker of the House.Musk and Trump have said that Republicans who do not support the spending bills they endorse should be primaried out of their seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
It’s Becoming Harder to Protest Gaza War on Campus - Truthout
6 days ago · Expressive Activity. Cornell (where the author is a postdoctoral associate) is one of dozens of universities that have introduced new regulations on when and how protests can take place on campus, erecting bureaucratic barriers for planning and registering protests. Cornell’s enforcement of such rules has created a Kafkaesque review process, leading to extraordinary …
Nearly 120 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Filed Across the US Before 2025
5 days ago · Another common type of anti-trans legislation that is common is sports bans.Many bills aim to expand existing restrictions to even broader contexts. In Texas, one proposed bill seeks to deny private sporting events access to the state’s Events Trust Fund — a source of professional funding for major sporting events — if they allow trans athletes to compete.
Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children | Truthout
5 days ago · Israel’s war on Palestinian youth is genocidal — not only in the starvation, maiming and unimaginable killing of children but in its relentless assault on any viable notion of what it means for these young people to be valued, human and alive with hope. It seeks to strip them of their dignity, rendering them invisible and unworthy in the eyes of the world, as if their lives are …
Elon Musk’s Threat to Primary Democrats Spurs New Urgency
4 days ago · Before the shutdown showdown, Musk was already incredibly influential in politics as a financial backer: He spent at least $277 million on the campaigns of President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans in 2024, including over $19 million on House races alone. Musk also spoke at Trump campaign rallies and was tapped by the president-elect to co-lead a new …
Affordable Care Act Sign-Ups Lag Following Trump’s Election
5 days ago · The Biden team was granted a temporary stay on Dec. 16 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit regarding a Dec. 9 order by a federal judge in North Dakota. That district court judge had ruled in favor of 19 states that sought to block the Biden administration’s Dreamers directive. Without a stay, the decision in that case, Kansas v. the United States, …
Netanyahu Tapped a Far Right Settler to Be the Next Israeli
4 days ago · Leiter was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Israel at age 18 in 1978. He quickly became part of the colonialist settler movement in the West Bank and was one of the first residents of the Admot Yishai settlement founded in Al-Khalil (Hebron) in 1984.
UN Asks International Court to Probe Legality of Israel’s ... - Truthout
6 days ago · The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an opinion on the legality of Israel’s latest legislative attack on the primary humanitarian group for Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere as experts and advocates say such attacks warrant expulsion from the international body.
The Once Refreshing Stillness of Gaza’s Winter Has Become
4 days ago · Winter at our home in Gaza was always a season of love, warmth and the irresistible aroma of delicious food. Following my grandmother’s timeless advice — “If the cold comes, prepare your fresh olive oil and wood” — our preparations for the season brought us closer together. Winter meant ...
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