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The Supreme Court stripped immigration judges of the ability to pause certain deportation proceedings on Tuesday, declining to block a deal slammed as “egregious collusion” between the Justice Department and the state of Texas. truthout.org/articles/suprem…
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The unsigned order on Tuesday halts the practice known as “administrative closure,” which allows judges to pause deportation cases. The practice affects thousands of cases a year, and has been granted 360,000 times since 1990.
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There were no noted dissents to the Supreme Court’s decision, and the Court provided no explanation for its reasoning. The decision hands the Trump admin yet another tool as immigration officials wantonly violate court orders and pressure judges to issue more deportation orders.
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On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he would only accept the results of the 2026 midterm elections if he felt they were “honest” — echoing statements he’s made in the past while peddling baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.truthout.org/articles/trump-…
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Trump has continued to sow doubts about elections, including the midterms, publishing questionable reports suggesting that thousands of voters are registered illegally. He has pressured states to remove these residents from voter rolls, and has called for nationalized elections.
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Trump’s most brazen attempt to interfere with this year’s elections took place in Alaska last week, when he ordered the DOJ to preemptively sue to block the state from certifying a U.S. Senate election if the incumbent Republican, a loyalist to the president, lost the race.
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Elon Musk, the largest single political donor in modern American history, has poured nearly half a billion dollars into backing Republicans in the midterms. Mike Rogers is now calling on supporters to donate to his campaign in order to “protect Elon.”truthout.org/articles/rogers…
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“When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk, protecting the movement to audit the federal government, and stopping this socialist retaliation plot dead in its tracks,” the leaked campaign email reportedly says.
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Mike Rogers claimed that he was not interested in undoing a 2022 ballot measure that codified the right to abortion care in Michigan. But a recent donation from an anti-abortion PAC left abortion rights advocates warning that Rogers might flip his stance. truthout.org/articles/mike-r…
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An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of independent news site Mada Masr and the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000. She was convicted on charges of managing an unlicensed website.truthout.org/video/egypt-shu…
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Students are campaigning for a ballot measure in Culver City, California, which would lower the voting age for local and school board elections from 18 to 16, allowing teenagers to participate in the decision-making process on many issues that affect them.truthout.org/articles/studen…
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Teenagers in the city have pressed for the measure to be passed before, including in 2022, when it failed by only 16 votes. The proposal gained additional support after last year, when school board budget cuts led to dozens of school employees and teachers being fired.
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The Trump administration has reportedly advocated for Viktor Orbán, ex-PM of Hungary, to serve as UN Secretary-General, despite his record of plunging Hungary into fascist authoritarianism and maintaining power and control through corruption and violence. truthout.org/articles/report…
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Orbán could “act as an apologist for Putin and other dictators,” WSJ’s editorial board wrote. But the U.S. is willing to set such concerns aside for the rabidly anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ figure because he is “the dream MAGA-conservative candidate,” a U.S. official said.
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Trump’s 2nd term has been a financial boon to the private prison industry. Since January 2025, private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group have received more than $1 billion in contracts with ICE. Now they are pouring money into Republican coffers.truthout.org/articles/privat…
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Alaska election officials have filed a motion calling for the “immediate” dismissal of a lawsuit, brought forward last week by the U.S. Department of Justice, that seeks to invalidate the state’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican candidate loses.truthout.org/articles/alaska…
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Beyond the unprecedented nature of preemptively calling for an election result to be dismissed, the DOJ’s filing was unusual in that President Trump ordered it to happen. In previous years, the DOJ has tried to appear nominally independent from the president.
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To disarm the big tech bomb, the public needs to be on high alert — as AI firms start to visibly wobble, we need clear demands and firm commitments from our leaders that if it all comes crashing down, the public won’t be the one left holding the bag.truthout.org/articles/as-the…
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The media narrative detailing a massive split among Michigan Democratic voters is undermined by actual polls that find that 95% of Democrats say they’re voting for El-Sayed, while only 4% say they will vote for Rogers.truthout.org/articles/poll-c…
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3% of Michigan Republicans actually say they’re voting for El-Sayed, but this minuscule number certainly hasn’t led to a host of stories about divisions within the GOP.
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