Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to be New York City mayor has terrified the establishment and been a spark of hope for ordinary people. He has a clear message, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.” New York was full of Mamdani’s blue and yellow stickers and posters during the campaign. A mass rally last Sunday...| Socialist Worker
On October 7, 2025, the Senate approved two key employment agency nominations, confirming Brittany Panuccio to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity| Law and the Workplace
White CHRISTIAN nationalist, my foot. It's obvious Trump would have no compunction about shooting an angel in the face on Fifth Avenue given his administration's policies and actions. The post A Lapsed Catholic’s Sunday Bible Study appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Trump-GOP's refusal to negotiate on health care subsidies is a Dickensian death panel: "If they would rather die, ...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." The post Trump’s GOP Death Panel in Progress appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Nearly a dozen environmental and community groups are challenging the EPA’s exemption that farms don’t need to report hazardous gases released from animal waste.| Sentient
While SNAP payments and food safety inspections continue, disaster payments, farm loans and federal workers’ pay are on hold indefinitely.| Sentient
Researchers are more reluctant to give interviews since Trump returned to the White House.| Sentient
The nonprofit now boasts educational partnerships in 10 states — and has its sights on many more. Here's a look at who's backing it and the views it's promulgating.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
If philanthropy is serious about helping advance a new majoritarian politics, it will have to shift away from identity frames.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
With Trump now taking aim at mail-in voting, philanthropy’s role in supporting the right to vote has become all the more critical, and it’s not just “democracy funders” who need to step up.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
The Trevor Project’s Emergency Lifeline Campaign for LGBTQ+ Youth has already raised approximately $18 million from more than 17,000 donors.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) has built a network for collaboration, information-sharing, research and relationship-building.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
JP Richardson is a wealthy crypto mogul who hosted an industry event for Trump. He is also a major Trump donor.| Revolving Door Project
Emily Donovan wants to “make the polluters pay” for what they’ve done to her North Carolina community, and others around the country.| The Revelator
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?| Revolving Door Project
The administration says animal welfare laws in California are raising egg prices nationwide.| Sentient
These three community foundations are gauging the scope of regional need, providing emergency grants and helping grantees diversify revenue streams.| www.insidephilanthropy.com
In this interview with TVO The Agenda’s Steve Paikin, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert discusses his recent trip to the White House, the impact that the Trump administration's policies will have on cyber security worldwide, and why Canadians should be concerned by a potential bilateral surveillance agreement with the U.S.| The Citizen Lab
“I would hate to look back in five or 10 years at this moment and think, wow, what we could have done right now could have prevented so much.”| Sentient
Sentient has learned that the primary federal laboratory for farm animal welfare research has lost its probationary scientists to the mass firings.| Sentient
