The Milken Conference in Los Angeles is designed for the global financial elite. Their thinking about the Iran war is childish.
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Collective Bargaining Continues to Support Educators, NEA Report Reveals
In 2024-2025, unionized educators saw significant pay improvements due to collective bargaining.
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A May Day Push to ‘Shut It Down’ Takes Shape Across the Country
Unions join community groups in planning marches, walkouts and economic actions on May 1 as a show of worker power ahead of the midterm elections.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
H.R. 7640 would require state and local police departments to help federal agents carry out their mass deportation drive. Democrats used a states’ rights argument to say why that’s bogus.
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Olympic Spirits on ICE
Why would tourists come to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics when Trump is transforming the entire country into a xenophobic danger zone?
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Do L.A. and D.C. Have Their Own Mamdanis?
Two somewhat socialist mayoral candidates are working to see that they do.
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‘We’re the Resistance’
Rossana Pérez arrived in Los Angeles as a refugee more than 40 years ago. Now, the professor, writer, and activist reflects on how to cope with the terror and trauma of ICE raids in her city.
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Jefferson Davis Trump
With each passing day, the two fundamental facts about our current political period become steadily clearer. The first is that the only presidential precedent for Donald Trump’s second term is that of the Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis. The second is that the most crucial deterrent to the one-sided civil war that Trump is waging […]
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Press Freedoms Protected From ICE Assaults in Los Angeles
A federal judge orders Department of Homeland Security officers to stop violent activity against reporters and peaceful protesters.
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Squad Hopeful in L.A. Has Lived Through ICE Terror Before
Justice Democrats today endorsed Angela Gonzales-Torres, who is challenging incumbent Jimmy Gomez for his seat in California’s 34th District.