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commondreams.org > opinion > trump-grant-rules-dangerous

How New Federal Grant-Making Rules Will Endanger Survivors

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (338+ words) Members of Safe Horizon carry a banner in the NYC Pride March on June 28, 2026. A proposed Office of Management and Budget rule change giving a small group of presidential appointees final approval over $1 trillion in grant money would be devastating…...


commondreams.org > news > trump-fcc-tv-consolidation

Legal Challenge Promised After GOP-Controlled FCC Lifts TV Ownership Limits, Allowing Trump Allies to 'Swallow Up Stations"

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (744+ words) Free press advocates protest Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr's assault on First Amendment rights, holding a series of signs that document the chairman's efforts to censor and control the media on August 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. "Media consolidation and deal approvals…...


commondreams.org > opinion > diversity-makes-america-great

We Should Never Forget That Diversity Is What Makes America Great

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (286+ words) An immigrants rights supporter holds a sign reading, "Immigrants Make America Great" before marching downtown during a March for Dignity on March 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Amid Trumpian attacks on immigrants and erasure of history, it is more important than…...


commondreams.org > opinion > how-left-can-win-on-crime

How the Left Can Flip Crime From a Political Liability to a Political Advantage

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (271+ words) National Guard Members patrol 14th street, working with Washington DC Metro Police on August 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Democrats can go on offense by defining what it actually means to be serious about safety: not by stoking fear, but by advancing a clear,…...


commondreams.org > newswire > fpf-commends-abc-for-fighting-back-against-fcc-censorship

FPF commends ABC for fighting back against FCC censorship

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1508+ words) ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission of violating the First Amendment and chilling press freedom, in a regulatory filing in its dispute with the FCC over whether “The View” is a bona fide news program exempt from the agency’s…...


commondreams.org > news > trump-fires-national-science-board

'More Destruction of Science': Trump Fires Every Member of US National Science Board

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (371+ words) University of Minnesota researchers, scientists, and others protested President Donald Trump's proposed scientific research funding cuts on March 7, 2025. "This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation." The NSB sets the…...


commondreams.org > opinion > rei-goes-trump

Consumers Looking to Avoid Trump Have One Fewer Option in REI

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (390+ words) REI's flagship New York store stands in Lower Manhattan on January 25, 2022 in New York City. REI’s leadership has endorsed leaders who gutted public lands, greenwashed their use of AI, deployed a union-busting law firm, and rigged their governance structure to…...


commondreams.org > opinion > trump-anti-black-global

The Trump Administration’s Anti-Blackness is Showing on the Global Stage

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (622+ words) Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Anti-Blackness is Showing on the Global Stage Common Dreams...


commondreams.org > opinion > maga-is-anti-black

MAGA Is Anti-Black

7+ mon, 6+ day ago   (526+ words) US President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John's Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd on June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC. Trump refused to apologize, insisting that…...