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- New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for WorkersAs record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations, trade groups, and their political allies to block enforceable heat protections for […]
- Senate Republicans Pander to Trump in Reconciliation Bill, Throwing Billions More to ICE and Trump’s Tacky BallroomThe Senate Judiciary Committee released its reconciliation bill, tacking $1 billion for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project and $70 billion for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).Public Citizen Co-President Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement:“The idea of using a simple majority process to fund billions more in ICE cruelty is […]
- Winning Blind Cruel Inept Nationalism, Also CultismHoo boy. The stupid and evil, somehow accelerating, burn. America's so-called leader, the "Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath," manifests ever more cognitive dissonance on steroids. Absurd, addled, vindictive, looming above "a circus of death and chaos," he commits war crimes, guts voting rights, plots devastation, abases decency, murders mercy, yet whines about mean jokes. […]
- Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different NamePresident Trump signed off on a key permit to construct the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project, often referred to as “Keystone Light” because it would pump huge volumes of Canada’s sludgy tar sands oil along a portion of the controversial canceled Keystone XL pipeline’s route.Following is reaction from Anthony Swift, a longtime leader in the fight […]
- Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.At least four CEOs of major corporations each pocketed over $100 million in pay and bonuses last year. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan led the pack at over $205 million. Billionaires were paid $2,500 per second in dividends in […]
- 100,000+ Students to Walk Out Alongside Workers in Largest One-Day Strike in Over 80 YearsToday, more than 100,000 students across the country are walking out of their classrooms as part of the largest one-day student strike in over 80 years, joined by coordinated Sunrise Movement actions and community mobilizations nationwide, from Minneapolis to New York City. Students are participating in school walkouts while community members organize alongside them in […]
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- New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for WorkersAs record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations, trade groups, and their political allies to block enforceable heat protections for […]
- Senate Republicans Pander to Trump in Reconciliation Bill, Throwing Billions More to ICE and Trump’s Tacky BallroomThe Senate Judiciary Committee released its reconciliation bill, tacking $1 billion for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project and $70 billion for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).Public Citizen Co-President Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement:“The idea of using a simple majority process to fund billions more in ICE cruelty is […]
- Winning Blind Cruel Inept Nationalism, Also CultismHoo boy. The stupid and evil, somehow accelerating, burn. America's so-called leader, the "Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath," manifests ever more cognitive dissonance on steroids. Absurd, addled, vindictive, looming above "a circus of death and chaos," he commits war crimes, guts voting rights, plots devastation, abases decency, murders mercy, yet whines about mean jokes. […]
- Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different NamePresident Trump signed off on a key permit to construct the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project, often referred to as “Keystone Light” because it would pump huge volumes of Canada’s sludgy tar sands oil along a portion of the controversial canceled Keystone XL pipeline’s route.Following is reaction from Anthony Swift, a longtime leader in the fight […]
- Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.At least four CEOs of major corporations each pocketed over $100 million in pay and bonuses last year. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan led the pack at over $205 million. Billionaires were paid $2,500 per second in dividends in […]
- 100,000+ Students to Walk Out Alongside Workers in Largest One-Day Strike in Over 80 YearsToday, more than 100,000 students across the country are walking out of their classrooms as part of the largest one-day student strike in over 80 years, joined by coordinated Sunrise Movement actions and community mobilizations nationwide, from Minneapolis to New York City. Students are participating in school walkouts while community members organize alongside them in […]
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