Social Security Works' Alex Lawson: Trump-GOP House Budget Bill will Literally Kill Americans Who Lose Access to Healthcare

Vietnam veteran Russell Brown: Veterans and Allies’ 40-Day Fast Demands Israel Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Connecticut Action Group's Helen Humphries: Campaign Targets Insurance Companies to End Their Underwriting and Investments in Fossil Fuels

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Salvadoran dictator arrests human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez
• Peru courts grant "personhood" status to Marañon River in Amazon basin
• Trump emergency logging directive supercharges wildfire risk

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Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts

Democracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Outcome

Democratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution’s Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power Grab

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• South Sudan conflict escalates
• New policies criminalize homelessness
• Unique labor organization organizes ex-convicts

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Lawyers for Civil Rights Senior Attorney Jacob Love: Challenging Trump’s Unconstitutional Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

Economic Policy Institute Senior Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock: New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers

International Association of Machinists Union member Phil Clarkin: Machinist Strike Against Pratt and Whitney Over Job Security Enters 2nd Week

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• Russian drone strike's multi-million-dollar damage at Ukraine's nuclear plant
• Dairy farmers fear loss of workers from ICE raids
• Several pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists arrested again

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' former NYC Office Director Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes Thousands of Children for Acute Malnutrition

The nation's leading public interest lawyer Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Labels Trump’s 100-Day Attack on Democracy a ‘Fascist Dictatorship’

Memphis Community Against Pollution Executive Director KeShaun Pearson: Memphis Resident Fighting to Shut Down Elon Musk’s Polluting Super-Computer Data Center

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• Halted Agent Orange cleanup outs thousands at risk
• Trump border nominee accused of ‘cover-up’
• FEMA eliminates popular disaster adaptation program

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Alianza Americas Executive Director Dulce Guzmán: Trump Deports U.S. Citizen Children, Arrests Wisconsin Judge

Child Labor Coalition Director of Child Labor Advocacy Reid Maki: As Trump Weakens Worker Protections, Assault on State Child Labor Laws Escalates

Investigative journalist Gareth Gore: Opus Dei, Pope Francis, the Catholic Church and Trump’s MAGA Movement

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• How vulnerable is the US dollar?
• EPA plans to eliminate data collection for polluters
• Sri Lanka pledges to build a “sustainable” world

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Climate Disobedience Center organizer Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor: Campaign Prepares to Challenge Trump’s Future Invocation of the Insurrection Act

National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Protests Target Avelo Airlines for Its Trump Contract to Fly ICE Deportation Flights

Roots Action Political Director Sam Rosenthal: Groups Demand Democrats Convene Emergency Meeting to Counter Trump’s Authoritarian Coup

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Landmines in Syria killing hundreds
• American detained by the Taliban is freed
• Justice Department scales back crypto cases

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Princeton University's visiting professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan: As Israel Escalates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Attempts to Crush Free Speech on Campus

Yale University's Jason Stanley: Tyrants Use Racism and Patriarchy to Split Civil Society Apart and Dismantle Democracy

Connector newsletter Editor Micah Sifry: Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement?

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Trump team facing competing counter-terrorism strategies for Somalia
• Medicaid cuts likely to hurt rural Trump country hardest
• Tearing down small dams help restore Northeast rivers for migratory fish

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Institute for Policy Studies' Omar Ocampo: Trump’s Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen U.S. Economic Inequality

Labor historian and documentary filmmaker Fred Glass: The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike

New York State Jails Justice Network's Jerome R. Wright: Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Eritrea has imprisoned, tortured 14,000 journalists, ministers and opposition leaders
• Supreme Court could be lowering bar for whites to prove reverse discrimination
• Fracking has spiked volume of toxic solid waste and wastewater at Pennsylvania landfill

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