Saturday, August 30, 2025
■ The Week in Review
"This is about workers showing up and demanding what workers deserve all across the country," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
By Stephen Prager • Aug 29, 2025
One labor leader called it "another clear example of retaliation against federal employee union members who have bravely stood up against his anti-worker, anti-American plan to dismantle the federal government."
By Jessica Corbett • Aug 28, 2025
"We need congress to intervene," said one of the CDC officials who stepped down this week.
By Brad Reed • Aug 28, 2025
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.
By Stephen Prager • Aug 28, 2025
One ACLU expert said the move sets "a terrible precedent that would only embolden dictators and autocrats and dangerously weaken respect for human rights at home and abroad."
By Jessica Corbett • Aug 28, 2025
While acknowledging that "hunger is a real issue in Gaza," the US ambassador to the UN repeated a debunked claim that the world's leading authority on starvation lowered its standards to declare a famine.
By Brett Wilkins • Aug 27, 2025
"The Trump administration's move to gut this bedrock protection is nothing more than a handout to logging interests at the expense of clean water, wildlife, and local communities," said one advocate.
By Julia Conley • Aug 27, 2025
In a race that bodes well for Democrats' hopes in 2026, Catelin Drey won by championing "affordable housing, childcare, and healthcare, strong public schools, and bodily autonomy," wrote one progressive Iowa journalist.
By Stephen Prager • Aug 27, 2025
"Reckless tariff policy is wreaking warrantless chaos on our economy, with grocery giants shifting market uncertainty onto consumers," said Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone.
By Stephen Prager • Aug 26, 2025
DOGE officials have been responsible for "serious data security lapses" that risk the safety "of over 300 million Americans' Social Security data," the whistleblower complaint said.
By Brad Reed • Aug 26, 2025
The new order, he says, would essentially allow "random fascist vigilantes" to "sign up to be a Brownshirt" for Trump's militarized occupation forces.
By Stephen Prager • Aug 26, 2025
"It's another sign of just how out of touch Democratic Party leadership is today," said one supporter of the resolution.
By Brad Reed • Aug 26, 2025
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the president's attack on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook "blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and any court that follows the law will overturn it."
By Jon Queally • Aug 26, 2025
