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Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal.
You’d never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack.
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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Government Lawyers Trying to Deport Mahmoud Khalil Won't Stop Whining
A judge asked a very basic legal question and the Trump administration lawyers complained that they were very busy.
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The Supreme Court Just Imperiled the Rights — and Lives — of All Trans People
The court let a military trans ban go into effect — potentially setting a precedent to accept the anti-trans myth behind Trump’s executive order.
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Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.
In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have To.
In their haste to comply with apparent directives from Trump, universities became unwitting handmaidens of the deportation machine.
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Mahmoud Khalil and the Necropolitics of Trump’s Deportation Regime
Death is the point.
Israel’s War on Gaza
This College Staffer Lost Her Job After Showing a Film Critical of Israel. Now She’s Suing Over Free Speech.
She lost her job at Emerson College after screening a film critical of Israel. Her lawsuit seeks to leverage an unusual Massachusetts free speech law.
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Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.
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If Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil, Freedom of Speech Is Dead
It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.
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Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal Funding
Instead of outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.