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Thousands Protest Outside Tesla Dealerships During Global Day of Action
Tens of thousands worldwide held “Tesla Takedown” protests at over 200 locations on Saturday.
Read MoreInvestors From China Are Secretly Buying Stakes in Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records. The rare picture of SpaceX’s approach recently emerged in an under-the-radar corporate dispute in Delaware. Both SpaceX’s chief…
Read MorePostal Workers Defend USPS Against DOGE Attack
From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service — and the nation’s largest union employer — against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.” “U.S. Mail Is Not for…
Read MoreMartin Sostre’s Life Teaches Us Revolutionary Moments Are Always Upon Us
Outside of prisons and the movements that work to abolish them, the life and legacy of Martin Sostre is little known. A Black Puerto Rican anarchist born in East Harlem, Sostre became a politicized prisoner in the early 1960s who, as a renowned jailhouse lawyer, used the criminal legal system to benefit himself and those…
Read MoreWisconsin Court Race Is Most Expensive Ever. Where Is the Money Coming From?
Wisconsin’s state supreme court election on April 1 is officially the most expensive in U.S. history, with spending that has reached $76 million — with some predictions that the ultimate tally will top $100 million, almost twice the record spending in the state’s 2023 race. The biggest right-wing groups running an attack ad blitz against…
Read MoreFarmers in Trump Country Banked on Clean Energy Grants. Then Things Changed.
Laura Beth Resnick, photographed here collecting flowers at her Maryland farm, spent $36,000 to have solar panels installed at the farm, expecting to get the same amount in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the grant she was set to receive has been put on hold. Now she has joined a lawsuit…
Read MoreThe Energy Mix – The climate news you need
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Read MoreTrump Tells SCOTUS There’s a “Rigorous Process” for Deporting Venezuelan Migrants. Yeah, Right.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court ruling blocking the mass deportation of thousands of detained Venezuelan migrants under the controversial Aliens Enemies Act of 1798, claiming in…
Read MoreVP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, and two top Trump administration officials traveled to Greenland on Friday on an itinerary that was markedly curtailed from its original plans due to Greenlanders’ frosty reception amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to take the Arctic island from NATO ally Denmark — even by armed…
Read MoreTrump’s EPA Is Giving Power Companies Free Reign to Leave Behind Toxic Coal Ash
On January 15, a group of utility companies wrote a letter to Lee Zeldin, then president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “We provide the electricity for millions of homes, businesses, and institutions across the U.S., create thousands of good-paying jobs, and drive economic progress and American prosperity,” the letter stated. After…
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