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Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement
Nationwide, faculty and students fight against Trump’s assault on higher education — and administrators capitulate.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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They Tried to Smear Zohran Mamdani as an Antisemite. Voters Saw Right Through It.
Mamdani’s victory means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.
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Feds Say Kat Abughazaleh “Impeded” ICE Agents. That Would Put Her on the Right Side of History.
If six people nonviolently protesting outside an ICE facility is a criminal conspiracy, all First Amendment-protected activity is at risk.
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“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
After shots were fired at a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two protesters.
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The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.
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Trump’s Idea of the Criminal Left Is a Fiction. A Coordinated Defense Against His Fascism Shouldn’t Be.
The president describes a cartoonish fantasy of a George Soros-backed criminal network. If only the left were that good at collective defense.
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Nothing Will Stop Trump From Weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s Killing to Attack the Left
Charlie Kirk’s killer has not been identified. That didn’t stop Trump or his acolytes from blaming the “radical left.”
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Trump’s DOJ Wants to Deprive Trans People of the Right to Self-Defense
The Justice Department’s interest in stripping trans people of Second Amendment rights would expose vulnerable communities to more danger.
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Bari Weiss’s Free Press Wants You to Know Some Kids Being Starved by Israel Were Already Sick
The site did an “investigation” into preexisting conditions in starving kids in Gaza — the same logic that would have you believe typhus killed Anne Frank.
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Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.
Monuments to racism license racist violence. White supremacists, for their part, know this well.