Michael Rass
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Journalist: World News & Climate Crisis. Views here are mine
I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump | Yaqiu Wang www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump | Yaqiu Wang
While acting on your moral convictions can be risky, it can also feel profoundly good
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December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I’m a Chinese pro-democracy activist. Here’s how to find courage to oppose Trump | Yaqiu Wang www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The climate crisis supercharged the recent deadly monsoon floods in Asia
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
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December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The climate crisis supercharged the recent deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Racist anti-immigrant hate speech and policies intensify across Europe
Anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies intensify across Europe
In the past year, tens of thousands hostile to immigrants marched through London chanting “send them home!”
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December 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Racist anti-immigrant hate speech and policies intensify across Europe
Two gunmen have killed at least 11 people during a Jewish event on Sydney's Bondi Beach
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Gunmen kill at least 11 people during a Jewish event on Sydney's Bondi Beach
Two gunmen have shot dead at least 11 people during a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Two gunmen have killed at least 11 people during a Jewish event on Sydney's Bondi Beach
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As Harvard University continues to negotiate with the Trump regime, deep cuts keep spreading through the campus
As Harvard continues negotiations with Trump administration, deep cuts keep spreading through campus - The Boston Globe
Expected changes in federal grants and a forthcoming endowment tax have led to job cuts across several schools, lower graduate student admissions, and drawn-out negotiations with campus unions.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
As Harvard University continues to negotiate with the Trump regime, deep cuts keep spreading through the campus
For many non-white immigrants in the United States, the final legal step — taking the oath of citizenship — has become harder under the racist Trump regime
Many immigrants' final legal step — citizenship — has become harder under the Trump administration
Green card holders are among the most thoroughly vetted individuals in the nation's immigration system, but citizenship is currently uncertain for many of them.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For many non-white immigrants in the United States, the final legal step — taking the oath of citizenship — has become harder under the racist Trump regime
The Trump regime flags a DEI-themed college essays as “potentially unlawful.”
White House flags DEI-themed college essays as potentially unlawful - The Boston Globe
Navigating the college admissions landscape has never been easy, but for the class of 2030 it’s particularly fraught.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Trump regime flags a DEI-themed college essays as “potentially unlawful.”
The Trump regime sues Massachusetts and three other states after they refused to hand over their voters’ personal data
DOJ sues Massachusetts, three other states after they refused to hand over voters’ personal data - The Boston Globe
The federal lawsuits are the latest in a string of litigation the DOJ has brought against states in a bid to compel them to turn over voters' personal information.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Trump regime sues Massachusetts and three other states after they refused to hand over their voters’ personal data
One million Ukrainian households are without electricity after Russian air strikes
One million households without electricity in Ukraine after Russian strikes
The latest overnight attacks come as US envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to hold more talks with Ukraine's president.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One million Ukrainian households are without electricity after Russian air strikes
The man behind the new Trumpist anti-European foreign policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You and me against the world: who was behind Trump’s anti-Europe foreign policy?
The US’s national security strategy, shared last week, claims European immigration will cause ‘civilisational erasure’
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December 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The man behind the new Trumpist anti-European foreign policy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Speaker Johnson has unveiled a “healthcare” plan as desperate Trumpists scramble for an alternative to the expiring ACA tax credits they refused to extend
Speaker Johnson unveils health care plan as divided Republicans scramble for alternative
The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week. Now it’s the House’s turn. Speaker Mike Johnson late Friday released a package of proposal to address growing health care costs.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has unveiled a “healthcare” plan as desperate Trumpists scramble for an alternative to the expiring ACA tax credits they refused to extend
House Democrats release Epstein photos with felon Trump, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, and others www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
House Democrats release Epstein photos with Trump, Bannon, Clinton and others
Notable figures in the batch of images include Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Woody Allen and Bill Gates
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December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
House Democrats release Epstein photos with felon Trump, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, and others www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They were ready to be American citizens. Then the Trump regime pulled the plug. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/o...
They were ready to be Americans. Then the government pulled the plug. - The Boston Globe
Immigrants were denied their citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall. No explanation. No timeline. No guidance. Only silence. Is this what we have become as a nation?
www.bostonglobe.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
They were ready to be American citizens. Then the Trump regime pulled the plug. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/o...
Climate Emergency: 2025 on course to be joint-second warmest year, with November third-warmest on record | Copernicus climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2...
Copernicus: 2025 on course to be joint-second warmest year, with November third-warmest on record
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Climate Emergency: 2025 on course to be joint-second warmest year, with November third-warmest on record | Copernicus climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2...
The Trump regime is threatening to “investigate” Boston’s housing policies for “anti-white bias”
Trump administration says it will investigate Boston’s housing policies for anti-white bias - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration said Boston may have discriminated against white people by prioritizing people of color, rather than all low-income residents, in its efforts to support homeownership.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Trump regime is threatening to “investigate” Boston’s housing policies for “anti-white bias”
Climate crisis flooding remains a threat in the Pacific North-West as Washington State declares an emergency www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Flooding remains threat in Pacific north-west as Washington declares emergency
Torrential rain has caused mudslides, washed out roads and submerged vehicles with more deluges expected on Sunday
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December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Climate crisis flooding remains a threat in the Pacific North-West as Washington State declares an emergency www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Trump regime has ordered US national park gift shops to purge merchandise “promoting DEI”
US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI
The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Trump regime has ordered US national park gift shops to purge merchandise “promoting DEI”
The Trump regime has removed any mention of fossil fuels—the main driver of global warming—from a popular Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) webpage that is supposed to explain the causes of the escalating climate crisis. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Fossil fuels removed as cause of global warming on EPA website
'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer,' says one climate expert.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Trump regime has removed any mention of fossil fuels—the main driver of global warming—from a popular Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) webpage that is supposed to explain the causes of the escalating climate crisis. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
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This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Traitor Trump issued a symbolic pardon for fellow traitor Tina Peters, but it won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator convicted under state laws of orchestrating a data breach driven by Trumpist lies about the 2020 presidential election.
Trump pardons former Colorado elections clerk, but it alone won't free her from prison
President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Traitor Trump issued a symbolic pardon for fellow traitor Tina Peters, but it won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator convicted under state laws of orchestrating a data breach driven by Trumpist lies about the 2020 presidential election.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from a Trumpist dungeon!!
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from a Trumpist dungeon!!
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Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump regime went after her anyway. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...
Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump administration went after her anyway. - The Boston Globe
In March, masked agents swarmed her on a Somerville street. The crackdown on foreign scholars was just beginning.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump regime went after her anyway. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...
Senate Trumpists have rejected the extension of Obamacare subsidies the Democrats asked for and now the healthcare costs for millions of Americans will rise significantly
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Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Senate Trumpists have rejected the extension of Obamacare subsidies the Democrats asked for and now the healthcare costs for millions of Americans will rise significantly
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Catastrophic Pacific Northwest climate crisis floods leave 100,000 people facing evacuation
'Catastrophic' Pacific Northwest floods leaves 100,000 facing evacuation
Gov. Bob Ferguson said late Wednesday “catastrophic flooding is likely” and urged people to listen to official advice and follow evacuation orders.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Catastrophic Pacific Northwest climate crisis floods leave 100,000 people facing evacuation
Trump’s crazy tariffs have cost US households an estimated $1,200 each since January
Tariffs have cost U.S. households $1,200 each since Trump returned to the White House, Democrats say
Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress’ Joint…
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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump’s crazy tariffs have cost US households an estimated $1,200 each since January