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Maria Peralta: Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.
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“It’s hard to get ahead,” Dave Pinkham, an IBEW Local 520 journeyman electrician from Austin, Texas, told me. “I’m 40 years old, and I live paycheck to paycheck. In spite of all the volatility I’m OK because of the benefits I get through my union, but broadly speaking our members are struggling. When I look at someone with a spouse and three children, I don’t know how they’re doing it.” Pinkham worked for years in the food service industry but left after being disillusioned by what he said was the lack of respect and poor treatment given to workers.
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Norman Eisen: Fight for – & Celebrate! – Unions
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Daily Beast: European Leader Calls Trump a ‘Russian Asset’
COMRADE-IN-CHIEF
The European president said Donald Trump “functions as an asset,” slamming the president for his stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/Y-gS7u3ngw4South China Morning Post: Putin would have ‘played’ Trump if he doesn’t meet Ukraine’s Zelensky, Macron says
NY Times: The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
South China Morning Post: Why Kim Jong-un’s military parade presence could signal a China-North Korea realignment
North Korean leader’s appearance alongside Chinese and Russian counterparts will be an act of defiance against US pressure, analysts say
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Bill McKibben: Trump’s Big Stick Might be…Kind of Puny
Can we actually force the rest of the world to make our energy mistake?
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NY Times: Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Tom Schaller: Making Slavery Great Again
Wired: FEMA’s Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse
Following a week of strife at the disaster relief agency, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem told FEMA employees to “be vocal” about their positive experiences with the Trump administration.
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WSJ: Trump Is Starting to Turn on the People He Handpicked
Multiple Senate-confirmed Trump officials face ouster while longtime aides come under scrutiny
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 29, 2025
Chaos continues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where President Donald J. Trump stepped in on Wednesday night to support Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his crusade to fire recently-confirmed Susan Monarez when she refused to rubber stamp his attack on vaccines.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Marisa Kabas: ‘Intolerable’: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower resigns in blistering email
Charles Borges involuntary resignation comes just days after publicly calling out a critical agency data vulnerability.
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Independent: Trump ally probing rivals’ ‘mortgage fraud’ speaks directly with the president – and skips typical DOJ hierarchy
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arsTECHNICA: Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it
The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.
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WSJ: Higher Prices Are Coming for Household Staples
Companies from Hormel to Ace Hardware forecast prices rising as the costs of Trump’s tariffs are passed on to consumers
AP: Appeals court finds Trump’s sweeping tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now
… the court’s 7-4 decision tossed out a part of that ruling striking down the tariffs immediately, allowing his administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Dean Blundell: No More ‘Pay to Play’: Court Bans Trump’s Worldwide Tariff Racket And [Trump] Is Losing His Mind
Third court ruling deems Trump’s tariff scam illegal – Could cost American Taxpayers 160 BILLION in refunds
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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