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- Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian Columbia Student Targeted by Trump, Hails Court Ruling Blocking Deportation
An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University graduate and green card holder who was detained last April at what he thought was a citizenship interview. Mahdawi grew up in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and was an outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza while attending Columbia. He spent two weeks in ICE custody before a federal judge ordered his release. Mahdawi’s case is part of a broader pattern of the Trump administration targeting international students for expressing solidarity with Palestinians and demanding divestment from the Israeli government. Mahdawi says even though immigration judges are part of the executive branch, the Trump administration […]
- “Colonial Apartheid Regime”: Jeremy Scahill on Trump's "Board of Peace" & Plans For Gaza
Journalist Jeremy Scahill says the Trump administration’s vision for the Gaza Strip is of a continued “colonial apartheid regime” with Israel and U.S. interests controlling the lives of millions of Palestinians in perpetuity. “Palestinians are being told that they must completely surrender,” says Scahill. President Trump chaired the first meeting of his so-called Board of Peace this week, a body established for Gaza but whose remit has already expanded.
- Jeremy Scahill: Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is "Obsessed" with Destroying Iran
Despite chairing the first meeting of his newly formed Board of Peace on Thursday, President Donald Trump continues to threaten war against Iran as the Pentagon positions a massive fighting force in the Middle East. Trump said he would give Tehran about two weeks to reach a deal on its nuclear program, but media reports indicate that he could launch an attack within days. Iran maintains its nuclear enrichment program is for peaceful civilian purposes. Journalist Jeremy Scahill says Trump already “used the veneer” of negotiations to attack Iran last year, and that despite ongoing talks between the two countries, he has essentially already decided to launch a new war that could quickly spiral out of control. “I’ve been told by […]
- Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where is the Accountability in U.S.?
British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday after 11 hours in custody, with his shocking arrest earlier in the day making him the first senior British royal to be arrested in nearly 400 years. Police are probing his connections to the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and whether he shared classified government information with him while serving as a U.K. trade representative from 2001 to 2011. King Charles’ brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal title, is the most high-profile figure in the U.K. to be implicated in a widening scandal over ties to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial on sex trafficking. Authorities did not reference sexual abuse […]
- Headlines for February 20, 2026
WSJ: Trump is Considering “Limited” Strikes on Iran, With Option to Ramp Up Assault, Trump Says U.S. Will Give $10B in Funding to His U.N. Alternative, the “Board of Peace”, Israeli Settler Fatally Shoots Palestinian-American Teen in Occupied West Bank, Palestinian Journalists Describe Beatings, Starvation and Sexual Assault by Israeli Captors, “Hallmarks of Genocide”: U.N. Experts Sound Alarm Over Sudanese Paramilitary Group’s Atrocities, U.K. Police Raid Former Home of Ex-Prince Andrew, Arrested Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein, French Prosecutors Reopen Probe Into Epstein Associates Including Model Scout Jean-Luc Brunel, Trump Banner Draped over DOJ Headquarters Amid Growing Demands for Full Release of Epstein Files, Judge […]
Anthropocene
- Which type of chocolate has the lowest climate impact?
A lifecycle analysis compares dark, milk, white, and compound chocolate, and detects the surprising environmental burden of different ingredients.
- Are we jumping the net zero gun with EVs and heat pumps?
The two big electrification tools are not delivering on emissions, researchers say. Countries need to prioritize renewables, grid capacity, and carbon capture.
The Guardian
- Trump raises tariffs to 15% on imports from all countries
President announced increase from 10% using different authority from mechanism that supreme court struck down on FridayDonald Trump announced on Saturday that he would raise a temporary tariff rate on US imports from all countries from 10% to 15%, less than 24 hours after the US supreme court ruled against the legality of his flagship trade policy.Infuriated by the high court’s ruling on Friday that he had exceeded his authority and should have gotten congressional approval for the tariffs, the US president railed against the justices who struck down his use of tariffs - calling them a “disgrace to the nation” – and ordered an immediate 10% tariff on all imports, in addition to any existing levies. Continue reading...
- US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention
Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Georgia barber Rodney TaylorRepresentative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the one-year anniversary of when agents seized the double amputee outside his suburban home in Loganville, about 40 miles north-east of Atlanta.The representatives sent a two-page letter on 17 February to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Todd Lyons, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), drawing extensively from the Guardian’s reporting and quoting several stories in detail with “grave concern” due to Taylor’s […]
- ‘Trump, I’m not afraid of you’: meet some of the people suing the president
More than a hundred lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration over the past year. Four people explain why it’s important to protect rights and fight backDonald Trump’s second term has been marked by a rollback of civil liberties.He has terminated all federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices and positions. He has declared that the government will only refer to individuals by their biological “sex” instead of their gender identity. He has also set a sweeping anti-immigration agenda, attempting to end birthright citizenship, pausing refugee admissions and increasing immigration enforcement operations around the country. Continue reading...
- Trump’s global tariffs have finally been overturned. What next? | Steven Greenhouse
The US supreme court ruled against the president. Let’s hope the court removes its pro-Trump glasses on other issues and stands up for the rule of lawThere’s no denying that the US supreme court’s long-awaited ruling that overturned Donald Trump’s global tariffs is important, and if the ruling turns out to be a harbinger that the court is ready to abandon its startling sycophancy toward the US president, it could prove hugely important. The ruling this Friday is the first time during Trump’s second term that the justices have struck down one of his policies. Not only that, the policy they struck down is Trump’s signature economic policy – he has used tariffs to bash, lord over and terrorize dozens of other countries and make […]
- DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers.In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations, often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties. Continue reading...
Aeon
- Going-against-the-grainers
If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention?- by Dane Leigh GogoshinRead on Aeon
The Conversation
- As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
Polling in Russia suggests strong support for President Vladimir Putin. Yet below the surface, popular sentiment is more mixed.
- Supreme Court rules against Trump’s emergency tariffs – but leaves key questions unanswered
The ruling strikes down most of the Trump administration’s current tariffs, with more limited options to replace them.
- After a 32-hour shift in Pittsburgh, I realized EMTs should be napping on the job
A paramedic and university professor shares data about how strategic napping could help his own health while saving the lives of others.
- How Dracula became a red-hot lover
Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
- Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s
Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.
Inter Press Service
- UN Report Warns of Escalating Human Rights Abuses Against Migrants and Refugees in Libya
A new UN report warns of the “brutal and normalized reality” for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya as they face exploitation and human rights violations. On February 18, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a joint report
- Ode to U.S. Civil Rights Icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr: A Life That Carried the Rainbow
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. declared, “Keep hope alive,” it was not a slogan. It was a discipline. It was a moral posture. It was a promise to those America had locked out of its prosperity and pushed to the margins of its democracy. And for more than five decades, Jackson kept that promise
- Players Score Dignity in India’s First Transgender Football League
Pyari Hessa, 26, balances long shifts as a loco traffic controller at a steel company in Jamshedpur with evening football practice on the same turf where professionals train. A trans woman from the Ho tribal community, she was born Pyare Lal in Bedamundui, a remote village 50 kilometres away from Chaibasa, the headquarters town of
Sludge
- Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO
Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virginia Democratic Party.
Grist
- Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires
Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are ... syncing up?
- ‘A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
- Team USA is proving that world-class skiing doesn’t require PFAS wax
U.S. ski techs reflect on competing at the first Olympics banning waxes with "forever chemicals."
Truthout
- Calls for Accountability Mount in ICE Shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez Last March
“It shouldn’t take 11 months and a FOIA lawsuit to learn that the government killed someone,” said a watchdog.
- Palestinian Women Arrested to Bait Their Relatives Israel Labels as “Wanted”
This practice falls under the category of collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law.
- EPA Repeals Regulations for Mercury and Toxic Air Pollutants From Power Plants
Environmental and health groups said the rule will make people sicker and supports a dying industry.
Labor Notes
- Unions Held the Line in 2025 Membership Numbers
For four decades, a federal count of union members has been the annual physical exam for the labor movement. Did we grow or shrink, and where? The tally just came out for 2025. At face value, the number looks better than expected, given a year of open warfare on us from CEOs who want to automate everything and a bloodthirsty federal government.
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