Saturday, March 22, 2025
■ The Week in Review
"If genuine steps are taken to remove U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in El Salvador," said one legal expert, "this removal would violate not only U.S. law but the U.S. Constitution."
By Jon Queally • Mar 21, 2025
"I have called Trump out on his bullshit and dare him to fire me for being unapologetically queer, and critical, for showing up everyday in my best red lip and woke gender ideology that says don't fuck with me."
By Brett Wilkins • Mar 20, 2025
"Launching chaotic trade wars with our allies and gutting Social Security, Medicaid, and other vital programs in order to fund tax breaks for his billionaire donors isn't making life more affordable for working-class families."
By Brett Wilkins • Mar 19, 2025
"We truly urge policymakers, stakeholders, and the public to see these executive orders for what they truly are: an unnecessary and counterproductive retreat to outdated energy strategies."
By Olivia Rosane • Mar 19, 2025
"We will not be silenced," the green group said in response to the verdict.
By Jessica Corbett • Mar 19, 2025
"Americans deserve a legal system that isn't influenced by billionaires and special interest backers pushing an agenda at the expense of working families," said a watchdog group leader.
By Jessica Corbett • Mar 19, 2025
"The fact is, we work for everybody. If Republican politicians can't get that we work for the public, then the public should give them the boot," said the Democrat from New York.
By Eloise Goldsmith • Mar 19, 2025
"One has to ask why the world's richest man—who has received in the tens of billions of dollars in federal contracts—is targeting the agency that helps so many Americans keep their heads above water," said one advocate.
By Julia Conley • Mar 19, 2025
"Donald Trump is not concerned with Americans' health or economic wellbeing. He is only concerned with helping out his billionaire buddies in the fossil fuel industry," said one climate advocate.
By Eloise Goldsmith • Mar 18, 2025
"Delaware's Senate just chose billionaire insiders—like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg—over pension funds, retirement savers, and other investors by passing S.B. 21."
By Jessica Corbett • Mar 18, 2025
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, called the Trump administration's open defiance of federal court orders "a real slippery slope to a different kind of country."
By Jake Johnson • Mar 18, 2025
"This return to violence does not come as a surprise," said one advocacy group. "Netanyahu has, from the beginning, signaled his intention to abandon the cease-fire process before it could become a lasting peace."
By Jake Johnson • Mar 18, 2025
"Any potential deal that would give Elon Musk and his DOGE associates unilateral authority to manipulate the most critical, expansive national mail network on the planet is deeply troubling," wrote a group of House Democrats.
By Eloise Goldsmith • Mar 17, 2025
