2025-01-28: News Headlines

David Dayen (2025-01-28). We found the $2 trillion. indybay.org How Democrats should deal with DOGE has become a top-level conversation. One school of thought calls out Musk's game of using spending cuts to make room for their own tax cuts. Others draw red lines on cherished, popular programs like Social Security & Medicare or highlight serial conflicts of interest. Still others counsel constructive engagement. The Musk/DOGE plan is one of self-enrichment & outward punishment. A different path is needed!

Pressenza New York (2025-01-28). "Borderland | The Line Within: Exposing the Human Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Inspiring Resistance" pressenza.com As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accelerates its efforts to deport Latino immigrants, Pressenza, in collaboration with Tsuru for Solidarity, is sponsoring a screening of the documentary The Line Within, hosted by The United States border is not just a geographic location—it is everywhere. It resides within every undocumented immigrant family, a constant threat that at any moment they could be…

Staff (2025-01-28). Headlines for January 28, 2025. democracynow.org DOJ Fires Slew of Officials Involved in Special Counsel's Probes into Trump, D.C.'s Acting AG to Investigate Prosecutors Who Charged Jan. 6 Rioters with Obstruction, CDC Orders Employees to Immediately Cease Collaboration with WHO, Trump's Pentagon EOs Take Aim at DEI, Trans Military Members; Order "Iron Dome"-Like Defense System, "This Will Have Devastating Consequences": OMB Orders Workers to Pause Most Federal Aid, Navajo Nation Says Immigration Agents Targeting Indigenous People Amid Crackdown, Mexico Confirms It Has Received Non-Mexican Deportees from the U.S., DHS Halts…

Olivia Wood (2025-01-27). CUNY Union Votes to Divest From Israel, Sets Example for Broader Labor Movement. truthout.org Thursday night, delegates of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), the union representing faculty, graduate assistants, and many staff titles at the City University of New York (CUNY), voted 73-70 in favor of a resolution for the union to divest from Israeli companies and government bonds, identify other potential investments for divestment, and recommend that the Teachers Retirement System… |

Human Rights Watch (2025-01-27). Egypt: Declining Funding Undermines Education. hrw.org Click to expand Image | An Egyptian teacher instructs students on the first day of the academic year at Orman school, in Cairo, Egypt, September 22, 2024. | © 2024 Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters | (Beirut) — Egyptian authorities have severely undermined the right to education in recent years by failing to allocate sufficient budgetary resources, Human Rights Watch said today. The government has reduced the national budget for education in real terms and as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and expenditure, further exacerbating a crisis of poor-quality education, a shortage of adequately tra…

Ed Grystar, Counter Punch. (2025-01-27). Labor Faces Artificial Intelligence And Outsourcing. popularresistance.org Two recent articles on AI / automation and outsourcing / immigration offer a glimpse of what faces labor unions and the working class as capital, emboldened by the election of Trump and his alliance with Big Tech, sets up to continue its push on automation, subcontracting, outsourcing, and the importing of foreign labor — despite Trump's tacit claims to support "American jobs". Organized labor, which, with the exception of the Teamsters, doubled down on its support for Biden and the Democrats in November and clinging to the lost strategy of labor-management cooperation, now appears more on the backfoot than…

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