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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…...
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…...
Nonprofits Sue to Block New USDA Rules That Force Them to Change or Abandon Food-Access Work
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1707+ words) The plaintiffs - Agroecology Commons, Oregon Farm Corps, Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA), Third Sector New England, and the Washington Farmland Trust - are represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, Earthjustice, and FarmSTAND. "Today’s decision reaffirms that immigrants who contribute to our…...
PEER Warns OMB Grant Proposal Would Institutionalize Corruption and Destroy American Science
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1784+ words) The OMB proposed rule would require all discretionary federal awards to “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities” and would essentially abandon merit-based federal grantmaking. Specifically, this rule would: “This is not a grant reform — it is a blueprint for a…...
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…...
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,…...
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…...
FCC Moves to Yank Disney Broadcast Licenses as Trumps Demand ABC Fire Kimmel
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (760+ words) Common Dreams...
'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…...
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…...