A little bit of everything
As the Trump administration does its best to ignore vulnerable children, terrorize immigrants with dark skin, and cut thousands of government workers from their livelihoods, a question lingers in the air.
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Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks joined other members of the state’s congressional delegation and federal employee unions near the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to denounce the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal civil service.
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House and Senate Democrats, the minority in both chambers, have staged protests across Washington all week. They demonstrated outside USAID headquarters Monday, the Treasury Department Tuesday, and the Labor Department following Wednesday’s rally near the Capitol.
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“The First Amendment does not allow campus officials to establish free-expression black-out days, even on occasions that may be emotional or politically polarizing,” said Gadeir Abbas, CAIR’s national deputy litigation director.
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Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin’s planned lecture on democracy Thursday at the University of Maryland instead turned into a lively discussion on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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The Baltimore woman had a miscarriage and needed medication to expel the nonviable fetus, she said in an interview with Capital News Service. If Clime-Coates hadn’t had access to this medication to end her painful ordeal and save her uterus, she said, she might have not been able to have her daughter.
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Demonstrators stood in front of the Supreme Court Thursday, most of them making the case that former President Donald Trump should be kept off of the Colorado primary ballot.
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To my gleeful surprise, the “March for Israel” was strong, and bipartisan (no, Rashida Tlaib apparently couldn’t make it – she was busy looking up “From the River to the Sea” to prove that it meant swimming locations for Hamas sign-ups).
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Medea Benjamin (Photo by Bill Hughes) Two of the finest social justice activists that I have known, Jodie Evans and
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“It takes a village: the courage to act.” Motto of Black Faculty and Staff Association. Thanks to a community notice
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