On Tuesday, the Israel Air Force killed nine children, between the ages of 3 and 14. Two airstrikes, a few hours apart, hit a school in al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, that sheltered displaced Palestinians.

People gather to defend trans people rights in New York City on Feb. 3, 2025. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military could be enforced while legal challenges against the policy continue.

On “Liberation Day,” Donald Trump slapped tariffs on 90 countries. The stock market tanked. Recession fears spiked. Even Trump allies panicked—billionaire investor Bill Ackman warned of a coming “self-induced, economic nuclear winter.” Seven days later, Trump backed off—temporarily.

The tariffs may be on pause, but there is a deeper and more destabilizing threat underway: the economic fallout of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who keep the country’s food, housing, and health care systems running.

Friends,

Demonstrations against Trump are getting larger and louder. Fabulous. This is absolutely essential.

But at some point we’ll need to demonstrate not just against Trump but also for the America we want.

Trump’s regressive populism — cruel, tyrannical, bigoted, authoritarian — must be met by a bold progressive populism that strengthens democracy and shares the wealth.

Earlier this year, doctors at Veterans Affairs hospitals in Pennsylvania sounded an alarm. Sweeping cuts imposed by the Trump administration, they told higher-ups in an email, were causing “severe and immediate impacts,” including two “life-saving cancer trials.”

The email said more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for diseases ranging from metastatic head and neck cancers, to kidney disease, to traumatic brain injuries.

“Enrollment in clinical trials is stopping,” the email warned, “meaning veterans lose access to therapies.”

On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.” Attendees included the secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Education, and Labor, as well as over a dozen high-ranking officials in the administration.

Robbing the poor to pay the rich. In order to pay for their personal tax cuts, House Republicans are proposing raising Medicaid premiums and co-pays for the country’s poorest earners, including individuals making as little as $15,650 a year, according to new reporting in The American Prospect.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, photo: screen grab

Palestinians carrying the bodies of their family members killed in Israeli airstrikes for burial. April 28, 2025. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

GAZA CITY—Three generations of the al-Khour family were wiped out when Israel bombed their family home in the al-Sabra neighborhood in central Gaza at dawn on April 26. The elderly patriarch of the family, Talal al-Khour, his wives, daughters, sons, and grandchildren were all killed in the attack. A total of twenty-two people—including twelve children—perished, their bodies blown apart and buried under the rubble.

Janine Jackson interviewed Pregnancy Justice’s Karen Thompson about criminalizing pregnancy for the April 25, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Over the course of 36 hours at the tail end of the three-month legislative session, Indiana lawmakers made significant policy changes that fundamentally alter how state universities conduct themselves.

The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally, but immigration officials insisted they could still try to terminate that legal status despite a wave of legal challenges.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

A sign is seen above a branch of Oxfam, in central London, UK [File: Simon Dawson/Reuters]

Billionaires’ wealth globally grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, global advocacy group Oxfam International says, as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare to attend an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

In its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, Oxfam on Monday said the combined wealth of billionaires rose by $2 trillion to $15 trillion last year.

Well, I see that Trump’s effort to remake America into a gulag has claimed another victim: Americorps. 

If you are unfamiliar with Americorps, a recent description from the Brennan Center might be helpful.

In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after signing an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies..

People attend a protest against the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.Robyn Stevens Brody/Sipa USA/AP