Resistance is Everywhere
Hundreds of stories, one message: resistance is everywhere you look.
Resistance is speaking out
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Student awarded CBS News scholarship explains why he called out network at event: ‘I had to do it’
Standing in front of the most powerful and well-known people in the television news business on Wednesday night, in a glitzy New York City ballroom, 18-year-old high school student Santiago Campos shocked – but also delighted – many…
Resistance is protests
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Pro-democracy protest photos
Pro-democracy protesters showed up recently all over the country: Sedona, AZ; Platteville, WI; Londonderry, NH; San Jose, CA; San Clemente, CA; Cary, NC; Beatrice, NE; Silver Spring, MD; Northampton, MA
Resistance is in the courts
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Seven US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project
Seven states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cancel a major offshore wind lease off the coast of New York. In March, federal officials announced they would pay nearly $1bn in taxpayer dollars to French energy…
Resistance is elected officials
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Ocasio-Cortez, Crow, Levin Launch End Corruption Caucus
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) launched the End Corruption Caucus alongside Representatives Jason Crow (CO-06) and Mike Levin (CA-49). This new caucus will work to…
Resistance is community
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NYC Council celebrates LGBTQ+ history with ballroom party
New York City Hall transformed into a performance stage Tuesday night, as LGBTQ+ city lawmakers converted their chambers into a ballroom runway for artists representing each of the city’s five boroughs. The New York City Council LGBTQIA+…
Resistance is Democratic pushback
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House passes resolution for first time to halt military action against Iran in rebuke of Trump
The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying the president as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long war that has reordered politics at home…
Resistance is scientists
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Research confirms Rx Kids improved outcomes for Flint babies, families
A new study published in The Lancet Public Health found that Rx Kids, the nation’s first community-wide prenatal and infant cash prescription program, led to significant improvements in birth outcomes for infants born in Flint, Michigan.…
Resistance is protests
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Pro-democracy protest photos
Pro-democracy protesters showed up recently all over the country: San Luis Obispo, CA; Brainerd, MN; Northampton, MA; Redmond, OR; Franconia, NH; Bethlehem, NH; Taos, NM; Newburyport, MA; Oakland, CA; Cape Cod, MA; Wynola, CA; Shokan, NY;…
Resistance is in the courts
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Judges in Maine and Wisconsin reject DOJ efforts to obtain voter rolls
Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to compel the states to hand over detailed voter registration information. U.S. District Judge James Pederson in Wisconsin…
Resistance is standing up for your rights
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Appeals court revives challenge to military HIV ban
A federal appeals court has revived a major challenge to the U.S. military’s HIV enlistment ban, reopening a closely watched case that could determine whether people living with HIV can continue to be categorically barred from serving. In…
Resistance is elected officials
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Senate rejects yet another GOP push to revive SAVE America Act - Democracy Docket
The amendment, offered by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), failed in a 48-50 vote. The vote showed Republicans didn’t even have a simple majority for the proposal, even before reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome procedural…
Resistance is in the courts
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Judge tosses breach of contract lawsuit against Chuck Redd
Attorneys for musician Chuck Redd say a D.C. Superior Court judge dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Redd after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s…
Resistance is speaking out
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Kentucky student goes off script in viral graduation speech
A Kentucky student denounced homophobia and racism during a speech at his 8th-grade graduation. The words rapidly went viral as he left behind the campus he called an oppressive environment. “Apparently, this school doesn’t know better…
Resistance is in the courts
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‘Outright theft’: legal experts decry $1.8bn Trump anti-weaponization fund
Legal challenges to the fund and its addendum have been growing. A bipartisan group of 35 ex-federal judges on 27 May filed a motion appealing to a federal judge in Miami who oversaw Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS to reopen the case, and…
Resistance is elected officials
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NY State Legislature passes one-year data center moratorium
On Thursday night the New York State Legislature passed a one-year moratorium on data centers that would pause permits for the facilities. The law would also require new data center rules on utilities, energy efficiency goals, community…
Resistance is protests
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Pro-democracy protest photos
Pro-democracy protesters showed up recently all over the country: Santa Cruz, CA; Iowa City, IA; Petaluma, CA; Kansas City, MO; San Diego, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Keene, NH; Missoula, MT; Peterborough, NH; Baltimore, MD; Oakland, CA; Chapel…
Resistance is oversight
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US senator says he was pepper-sprayed by federal agents during protest at ICE facility
Kim, a senator from New Jersey, had joined the state’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, also a Democrat, at the protest to speak with relatives of some of those detained. He told USA Today that the incident in which he was sprayed by a chemical…
Resistance is elected Democrats
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Democrats oppose Trump officials’ effort to include crypto in 401(k) plans
Congressional Democrats are strongly opposing a US Department of Labor proposal that would allow 401(k) investments to include cryptocurrency, private credit and private equity assets, arguing the change will expose workers to riskier and…
Resistance is professional organizations
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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic stock market debut. But the S&P 500 stock market index representing many of the largest profitable US companies has…
Resistance is grassroots
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‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
Quilicura’s experience with datacentres has raised the alarm in other parts of the Santiago region. In 2024, residents in the district of Cerrillos succeeded in halting plans for a second Google datacentre. “In 2019, we learned about the…
