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Jeff Holmstead may be second-in-command at the EPA, where he will be in charge of overseeing the coal companies that he spent the last decade lobbying for.
The US is and always has been an ideal fascist breeding ground.
Local 2850 organizers and activists take part in an anti-Trump march in Oakland, California, after Trump's ascension to the presidency. (Photo: David Bacon)
Even as activists push for sanctuary cities and schools, unions, workers and their allies are organizing to make workplaces safe from enforcement raids by immigration officials. Their goals include preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from using Social Security numbers to identify undocumented workers and training workers to act together on the job to resist raids and firings.
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Trump took an oath to defend the First Amendment, but when peaceful demonstrators outside the Turkish embassy were assaulted by Turkish presidential bodyguards, Trump's prolific Twitter account was strangely silent. Was the silence owing to diplomatic discretion or a conflict of interest in the shape of two luxury towers in Istanbul bearing the Trump name?
In Georgia's special election, Karen Handel dimmed, if not doused, Democratic hopes that younger candidates will bring younger voters to polls. As both parties' strategists evaluate the lessons of the race, their attention will turn to the role that Ossoff's age played in his initial pre-runoff success and eventual failure.
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