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-Trump-Musk feud explodes: Billionaire calls President a pedophile -Bannon urges Trump to deport Musk "immediately" -DOGE has destroyed government efficiency -Rich Dick should stick his veto pen somewhere else
-The U.S. is the lone veto of a Gaza ceasefire at the U.N. -RFK Jr. moves to imperil the health of pregnant people -UAW endorses NYC socialist mayoral candidate -Working Class History: Strike on the Faroe Islands!
-W.H. exploits Colorado attack to advance mass deportations -Musk may be out of DC, but government still works on his behalf -Linda McMahon updates Senators on progress destroying Dept. of Ed -Trump's trade war with China put automakers in a crunch
-Aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza as more Palestinians killed at US-backed food relief sites -Pentagon eyes new wars in China, Africa -FEMA, and its administrator, not at all prepared for busy hurricane season -GOP Senator unbothered by deadly Medicaid cuts
-More reports of violence against Palestinians at U.S.-backed sham aid site in Gaza -Dept. of Education launches brazen attack against its employees union -Rep. Nancy Mace continues her crash out -Rich Dick oil CEO blames the kids for global warming
-Sec. of State Rubio expands visa revocations, now targeting Chinese students -Trade court strikes down Trump's tariffs -Canadian doctors tell horror stories from Gaza -Working Class History: The Rochester General Strike
-U.S.-backed aid site in Gaza fails, Israeli helicopter shoots at civilians -State Dept. pauses all new student visa interviews -Trump floats ditching all greenhouse gas regulations on power plants -Another Starship test ends in failure for Musk
-Rubio melts down when confronted over student visa revocations -Gaza starvation crisis deepens: 14,000 kids at risk of imminent death -Trump reveals price of "Golden Dome" welfare program for war profiteers -Nearly a quarter of all species face extinction due to man-made global warming
-Israel renews quest to conquer all of Gaza, ministers cite Trump's removal plan -GOP advanced budget bill that eviscerates Medicaid & SNAP -Senate Dems cave on industry-friendly crypto bill -New Orleans PD busted using illegal mass surveillance tool
-SCOTUS weighs limiting the power of the judiciary in order to aid Trump's mass deportations -Israel accelerates killing in Gaza on anniversary of the Nakba -New Sesame Street union just dropped -Rich Dick wants to be a reality TV star
-DHS Sec. endorses suspending habeas corpus to aid mass deportations -Another round of protests on Capitol Hill against Medicaid cuts -Third international student freed from ICE detention -Working Class History: 1913 Philly Longshoremen Strike
-Trump inks largest ever weapons deal with Saudi Arabia -Protesters storm Capitol Hill, try to derail GOP's Medicaid cuts -Leftwing content creators harrassed by federal agents -Republicans want to block local regulations of AI Â
-DHS arrests Newark Mayor, threatens Members of Congress -Trump surrenders in trade war with China -From meme coins to luxury jets, the W.H. is swimming in corruption -Hamas drives a wedge between Israel and the U.S.
-Trump admin. continues to defy court orders in Abrego Garcia case -Relatable: First American Pope is not a fan of JD Vance -Sludge merchants get a big win with GOP budget bill -Rich Dicks profit off human rights abuses
-Columbia U once again sics the NYPD on anti-genocide protesters -Musk unlocks a new level of corruption within the State Dept. -U.S. spies directed to target Greenland -Working Class History: 1912 NYC Waiters Strike
-Pentagon finds off ramp from costly and illegal war against Yemen -Pakistan and India escalate tensions amid nuclear standoff -VP Vance sends hostile message to 2026 World Cup visitors -Trump henchman in DC may be out of a job soon
-Yemen bombs Israeli airport in latest salvo to end the genocide in Gaza -Trump, horny for prisons, wants to reopen Alcatraz -U.S. air transportation system is breaking down -Rep. MTG caught up in another insider trading scheme
-Student activist targeted by Marco Rubio's visa purges is finally released -Trump signs order to "unleash" the police on U.S. cities -W.H. debuts new briefing with rightwing sycophants -Working Class History: MAY DAY!
-W.H. braces for the consequences of its trade war with China -Trump reveals serious brain rot with MS-13 tattoo claims -The military industrial complex goes global, record war spending worldwide -Don Jr. is trying to get rich selling access to his dad's administration
-Trump admin threatens more local officials after arrest of judge -Measles outbreak spreads under Health Sec. RFK Jr. -Canadian voters rebuke Trump, keep liberals in power -Numerous U.S. aircraft lost in six-week bombing cmapaign of Yemen
-Sicko Secretary RFK Jr. compiling a list of people with autism -Medical researchers who rely on NIH funding barred from Israeli boycotts -Interior Dept. limits environmental reviews for fossil fuel projects -Rich Dick, notorious for being wrong, has more bad advice for Democrats
-FBI raids in Michigan target pro-Palestine activists -Trump polling numbers sink due to widespread immigration abuses -EPA mass fires environmental justice workers -Working Class History: 19th Century Beer Riots
-More insider trading and market manipulation by the W.H. -Another man is disappeared by ICE, likely in Salvadoran torture prison -Trump restarts student loan collections, millions could see wages garnished -Prayers for Musk's downfall are working!
-SCOTUS temporarily blocks admin's Alien Enemies Act deportations -Pope dies after meeting with JD Vance -Port workers in Morocco disrupt weapons shipments to Israel -U.S. carries out deadliest airstrike yet against Yemen
-Senator secures meeting with wrongfully deported man in El Salvador -Attorneys for Luigi Mangione try to protect their client from execution -Trump dismantles climate research at NOAA -This Week's Rich Dick wants to build a space death laser
-U.S. Senator denied access to Abrego Garcia in El Salvador -Trump delivers big win to predatory for-profit tax filing industry -Unions launch new initiative to protect federal workers -Working Class History: The Limerick Soviet
-Judge weighs contempt charges as Trump lawyers defy court order -Israel bombs more hospitals in its genocide against Gaza -Whistleblower: Musk's DOGE team stole sensitive union data -Trump's trade war hastens demise of U.S. military
-Trump's favorite goon on the world stage Nayib Bukele visits W.H. -President asks Bukele to expand torture prison to hold U.S. citizens -Another Columbia U. student activist arrested by ICE -NASA cuts suggest the future of space is just joy rides for rich people
-SCOTUS orders admin. to return man wrongfully deported to Salvadoran prison -Sec. of State Rubio concedes Mahmoud Khalil broke no laws -Trump to get what he desires most: a big, stupid military parade -This Week's Rich Dick think pollution rules shouldn't apply to him
-Trump caves on tariffs, pulls the world economy from the crisis he started -White House accused of market manipulation amid the chaos -A major oil spill along the Keystone Pipeline -Working Class History: 1970 Teamsters Wildcat Strike
-A new lawsuit is launched to stop deportations to El Salvador torture prison -Government on deadline to turn over evidence in Mahmoud Khalil case -Climate Doom: Trump signs order to supercharge coal production -AIPAC goes after Dems who voted to block weapons to Israel
-SCOTUS greenlights "alien enemy" deportations, W.H. eyes removing U.S. citizens -Mass protests rock DC to end the genocide in Gaza -Clown economy: Markets swing wildly on fake news tweets -Trump proposes $1 trillion dollar military budget
-Senators reject Sanders bid to block weapons sale to Israel -DOJ drops its trust bustin' agenda, approves mega credit card merger -AI and fossil fuel companies set to muck up public lands -Rich Dick admits mistakes while destroying public health in the U.S.
-Even the penguins are included in Trump's trade war -Unions grow members just as W.H. guts federal labor mediators -Climate change deniers in Congress are getting dumber -Working Class History: The 504 Sit-ins
-DHS admits "error" in deporting protected US resident to El Salvadoran prison -Another atrocity in Gaza: Israel kills 15 rescue workers -DOJ seeks the death penalty against Luigi Mangione -Booker breaks Senate speech record, but accomplishes little
-Trump's gestapo kidnaps another student over her pro-Palestine views -Singal chat messages reveal evidence of a war crime, prove top officials lied -RFK Jr. is shutting down Long Covid research -Boeing set to receive a bailout with new military boondoggle
-More U.S. bombs fall on Yemen, but Houthis are undeterred -Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee protested at Senate hearing -Trump finds new stooge to oversee the destruction of Social Security -U.S. spies no longer regard climate change as a threat
-The U.S. has bombed Yemen for 11 straight days now -Israel assassinates more journalists in Gaza -Judge notes that nazis were treated better than Venezuelan migrants -Mega bank plans for post office privatization
-DHS claimed a soccer tattoo was a gang symbol to justify deportation -Conservatives want to execute Tesla vandals -Amazon union buster set to be NLRB's top lawyer -Rich Dick attempts small village coup
-Another student is targeted for deportation for Pro-Palestinian speech -Trump and Musk are trying to break Social Security -New E.O. slashes pay for federal janitors, food service workers -Working Class History: Mass wildcat strike shuts down the mail system
-Men deported to El Salvador were not in a gang, family members say -Mahmoud Khalil releases letter to the public from detention -U.S. bombs Yemen for the 4th straight night -- a war not declared by Congress -More Teslas set ablzae as Musk forces cuts at EPA
-Over 400 dead in Gaza as Israel shatters ceasefire, resumes mass bombings -Trump admin. launches airstrikes on Yemen, threatens Iran -W.H. deports hundreds of residents to El Salvador concentration camp -Dem Party apprival sinks to all-time low after capitulation
-Protesters hit Trump Tower demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil -Neo-McCarthyism sweeps the U.S., punishing people for criticism of Israel -Senate Democrats under pressure to not cave on GOP spending bill -Rich Dick hopes to save his failing burger chain by going full MAGA
-Israel reimposes collective punishment on Gaza -FTC asks for delay in Amazon trial due to DOGE cuts, then reverses itself -EPA announces massive rollback in regulations, environmental justice -Working Class History: Workers win the Bread and Roses Strike
-W.H. absurdly claims Mahmoud Khalil undermined U.S. foreign policy -Trump comes to the rescue of his new money man, Elon Musk -House Republicans screw over D.C. residents with forced budget cuts -Starbucks workers arrested while protesting for a first labor contract
-Trump promises more arrests and deportations of student activists -New U.S. Energy Secretary lies about renewables, wants us all to cook -South Carolina man killed in a gruesome firing squad execution -SpaceX rocket explosion disrupted hundreds of flights
-Trump ushers in "Golden Era" for corporate wrongdoing -For-profit jailers are giddy on earning calls discussing mass deportations -Musk is "finding out" as Tesla infrastructure gets torched -Working Class History: The Italian strikes that brought down fascism
-Democrats flail in response to Trump's Address to Congress -RFK Jr. ignores measles outbreak to instead restrict speech at colleges -NY prison guards strike proves why cop unions shouldn't exist -Oregon nurses back on the job after winning 46-day picket
-Trump starts trade war that will hurt working class across the continent -The U.S. government is increasingly just a series of crypto scams -Israel reimposes total blockade on Gaza -America First*: Trump signs off on more bombs for the IDF
-Epstein files debacle, Tate brothers flight prove Pedocon Theory correct agin -DOGE moves to privatize weather forecasting -Asteroid no longer a threat to Earth -Rich Dick wants to lay off entire USPS workforce
-American empire demands more sacrifices from Ukraine -U.S. economy increasingly reliant on rich peoples' spending -Oligarch Jeff Bezos exerts control over WaPo opinions -Working Class History: the 1976 Beer Strike