14 h. ago Donald Trump warned of 'truly massive' protest after major hint on UK state visit date

Thousands protested during Trump's last state visit and a giant inflatable Trump 'baby blimp' - showing the US President wearing a nappy - was flown over Parliament Square

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14 h. ago 'Truly massive' Donald Trump protest planned for UK visit after major hint on date

Thousands protested during Trump's last state visit and a giant inflatable Trump 'baby blimp' - showing the US President wearing a nappy - was flown over Parliament Square

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30 h. ago Trump’s counterterrorism czar says Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s supporters could be charged with ‘aiding and abetting’

Sebastian Gorka says critics are ‘on the side of the terrorists’ as administration attacks opponents of president’s deportation agenda

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5 d. ago Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’

US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since FebruaryThe Vermont senator Bernie Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which included musical acts from Joan Baez and Neil Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by the progressive New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the team set the record in Tempe, Arizona, for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In Denver, Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in Los Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people packed a downtown park. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The power and pitfalls of protest: how to speak out without falling victim to Trump’s playbook | Jonathan Smucker

As mass protest surges against Trump and Musk, how can we show up as effectively as possible?On Saturday I was heartened to be one of millions of Americans who took to the streets in cities and towns across the United States to stand against “the most brazen power grab in modern history”. While no official total tally of “Hands Off!” participants is yet available, the anti-Donald Trump, anti-Elon Musk actions on Saturday were certainly among the largest single day protests in US history, with rallies in all 50 states.As we seem to be entering a new stage of popular protest movements, it’s worth assessing the strategic value of protest, as well as the limits and potential liabilities. History is full of powerful examples of consequential bottom-up protest movements. The women’s suffrage movement secured voting rights after decades of struggle. The civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow segregation. The labor movement won the eight-hour workday, the weekend and much more. Protest w...

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9 d. ago US sees surge in bills seeking criminal punishments for protected speech

Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2024, according to law trackerAnti-protest bills that seek to expand criminal punishments for constitutionally protected peaceful protests – especially targeting those speaking out on the US-backed war in Gaza and the climate crisis – have spiked since Trump’s inauguration.Forty-one new anti-protest bills across 22 states have been introduced since the start of the year – compared with a full-year total of 52 in 2024 and 26 in 2023, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) tracker. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Seven bombshells from Lily Phillips shock interview with BBC's Victoria Derbyshire

During Lily Phillips' chat with BBC Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire last night, the adult entertainer spoke about her experience at the hands of internet after her sex marathon

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1 week ago Netflix star shares bizarre Hailey Bieber request following viral clip

Francesco Farago, of Love Is Blind and Too Hot To Handle fame, has claimed she received a bizarre request after an internet trend involving Hailey Bieber went viral

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1 week ago Being a librarian was already hard. Then came the Trump administration

Already facing burnout and book bans, librarians face a ‘catastrophe’ for institutions deemed central to democracyFor many librarians, the stakes of the job are high – they’re facing burnout, book bans, legislation pushed by rightwing groups, and providing essential resources in an effort to fill gaps in the US’s social safety net.Now, as Donald Trump’s administration rolls out their agenda, many librarians are describing his policies as “catastrophic” to accessing information and the libraries themselves – institutions considered fundamental to democracy. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Best signs from the nationwide Hands Off protests denouncing the Trump administration

Millions took to the streets worldwide on Saturday to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s policies

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1 week ago Trump and Musk denounced as thousands protest in cities across US: ‘The politics of Mussolini’

Protesters flooded the streets in hopes of stopping what one dubbed ‘the most brazen power grab in modern history’

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1 week ago Handle with care: the international community sending parcels of pure joy through the mail

Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book. It was the start of a lifelong hobbyAustralian Anna Ryan-Punch was 15 when she received her first friendship book – a handmade and decorated pocket-sized booklet full of names and addresses of people looking for pen pals. Recipients were invited to add their details to the list, send a letter to other signatories, and then pass the booklet on to someone new.“They were included in letters as a side thing,” Ryan-Punch, now 44, says. When it was full of potential pen pals, the friendship book would, hopefully, be returned to the person who made it. “I didn’t have anyone to send them on to, but I wrote to people out of them and that kind of grew into a circle.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump live updates: Millions protesting at ‘Hands Off’ rally nationwide to push back on Trump and Musk agenda

Demonstrators on Saturday are calling for the Trump administration to get its ‘hands off’ Medicaid, Medicare, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ rights

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1 week ago International "Hands Off" protest against Trump administration's agenda

International "Hands Off" protest against Trump administration's agenda  USA Today

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1 week ago Hundreds gather in central London for protest against Trump administration

Crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon with banners which read ‘No to Maga hate’ and ‘Dump Trump’.

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1 week ago Trump live updates: Thousands to protest at ‘Hands Off’ rally nationwide to push back on Trump and Musk agenda

Demonstrators on Saturday are calling for the Trump administration to get its ‘hands off’ Medicaid, Medicare, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ rights

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1 week ago Trump news today: Thousands to protest at ‘Hands Off’ rally nationwide to push back on Trump and Musk agenda

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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2 w. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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2 w. ago After months of surrender, the Democrats have finally stood up to Trump – thank you, Cory Booker | Emma Brockes

Watching the New Jersey senator hold court for 25 hours felt radical and catharticOne of the problems beleaguering political opponents of Donald Trump has been finding a form of protest that, given the scale of his outrages, doesn’t seem entirely futile. You can parade outside a Tesla showroom. You can hold up dumb little signs during Trump’s address to Congress inscribed with slogans such as “This is not normal” and “Musk steals”. You can, as Democrats appear to have been doing since the election, play dead.Alternatively, you can go for the ostentatious, performative gesture. On Monday evening, Cory Booker, the Democratic senator for New Jersey who carries himself like someone who’d have been happier in an era when men wore capes, started speaking on the floor of the Senate and carried on for 25 hours and five minutes, breaking the chamber’s record by almost 50 minutes and delivering – finally – a solid, usable symbol of rebellion.Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue readi...

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2 w. ago Senator Cory Booker delivers marathon speech in bold protest against Trump, Musk

Senator Cory Booker has been speaking for more than 12 hours since yesterday evening

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