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Environmental Victories in Harrisburg Give Hope During Upcoming Trump Era
Governor Shapiro and our state legislature can – and must – act as a bulwark against any Trump-era rollbacks by strengthening enforcement of our existing environmental laws even as they work to enact new policies that make our state a leader in environmental protection.
Militias Are Standing Back, but Standing By as They Await Trump’s Immigrant Roundup and Mass Deportation Operations
Local police may even deputize certain militias to help them deport immigrants, warns militia expert Amy Cooter.
Feds Accuse Trenton Police of Pattern of Unconstitutional Brutality and Stops
A report by federal prosecutors offered example after example of brutality and constitutional violations, many of which disproportionately impacted Black people and Latinos in this city of almost 90,000 residents.
Media Analysis: NPR’s ‘Balance’ Serves to Normalize Trump’s Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks
The incredibly lopsided “balance,” lack of actually diverse viewpoints, and dubious fairness and accuracy displayed in the network’s nomination coverage reveals what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is really going for with the new oversight it installed, writes FAIR’s Julie Hollar.
Interview: The Democratic Party Needs a Generational Change in Leadership, with Daily Beast Columnist Rotimi Adeoye
“The American people have said that the Democratic Party of right now is not what they want,” the Bucks County native told Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
ACLU and Ramsingh Legal Ask Federal Court to Order Souderton Area School District to Stop Targeting Critics and Stifling Free Speech
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
Riled Up MAGA Faithful From Across Pennsylvania Crash Bucks County Commissioners Meeting
Sean Moon, leader of the “antigovernment Christian gun cult” Rod of Iron Ministries, even made an appearance.
Protecting Central Bucks School District from the Trump Administration Depends on Community Engagement
The 2023 school board election that swept Moms for Liberty-backed MAGA candidates at the polls illustrates the power of community organizing in defense of public education.
PSEA Urges Lawmakers to Pass a Budget to Fund Pennsylvania’s Public Schools, Not Use Students as ‘Bargaining Chips’ to Divert Money to Cyber and Religious Schools
“Our kids are not bargaining chips,” PSEA President Aaron Chapin said. “Our kids are not pawns in some grand strategy to enact a tuition voucher scheme that will shift taxpayer dollars away from our public schools and send them to private and religious schools.”
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
