Princeton University's visiting professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan: As Israel Escalates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Attempts to Crush Free Speech on Campus

Yale University's Jason Stanley: Tyrants Use Racism and Patriarchy to Split Civil Society Apart and Dismantle Democracy

Connector newsletter Editor Micah Sifry: Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement?

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Trump team facing competing counter-terrorism strategies for Somalia
• Medicaid cuts likely to hurt rural Trump country hardest
• Tearing down small dams help restore Northeast rivers for migratory fish

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Institute for Policy Studies' Omar Ocampo: Trump’s Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen U.S. Economic Inequality

Labor historian and documentary filmmaker Fred Glass: The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike

New York State Jails Justice Network's Jerome R. Wright: Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Eritrea has imprisoned, tortured 14,000 journalists, ministers and opposition leaders
• Supreme Court could be lowering bar for whites to prove reverse discrimination
• Fracking has spiked volume of toxic solid waste and wastewater at Pennsylvania landfill

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Anti-racism educator and educator Tim Wise: Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Vile White Supremacist Agenda

Georgetown University's Nader Hashemi: Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All

IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem: Trump Attack on Immigrants and Aid Groups Felt at Local Agencies Across the US

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Student activists protest President Vucic's corruption in Serbia
• Congo accuses Apple of ‘laundering’ minerals
• Trump cuts federal wildfire crews

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American Constitution Society's Christopher Wright Durocher: Trump Defiance of Rule of Law Plunges U.S. into Deepening Constitutional Crisis

The New Republic's Aaron Regunberg: As Voter Anger Rises Over Trump Attacks on Federal Government, Bernie Sanders & AOC Rally, Energize Democracy Defenders

Pipeline Safety Trust's Bill Caram: Trump Fossil Fuel Deregulation and Staff Cuts Could Lead to Increase in Pipeline Accidents

Between The Lines' Under-reported News Summary
• U.S.-backed Kurdish army signs peace deal with Syria's interim government
• Trump expels South Africa's ambassador to US over criticism
• USDA cancels $1 billion in funds, hurting farmers and low-income school children

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American Doom independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Shatter Program Serving the Nation’s Most Vulnerable

Public Citizen Co-Executive Director Lisa Gilbert: Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness

Left Voice Editor Sam Carliner: Trump Suppression of Free Speech an Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Former Philippines President Duterte in Hague after ICC arrest
• Executives at White House Crypto Summit gave $11M to Trump inaugural
• New secretary of Veterans Affairs cancels 875 vital services contracts

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Yale professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump’s Methodical Assault on Democracy Closely Mirrors Authoritarian Regimes Through History

Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant: Target's Elimination of Its DEI Policy Provokes 40-Day Nationwide Boycott

Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman: In Effort to Suppress Climate Protests, Fossil Fuel Company Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace USA

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney challenges Trump tariffs
• Project 2025's architect dismissing Consumer Finance Protection Bureau cases
• Peace deal could boost development in Senegal's Casamance region

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RootsAction.org Co-Founder Norman Solomon: Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to Trump Coup

New Haven, CT Mayor Justin Elicker: Nearly 2 Dozen U.S. Cities Sue Trump Regime for Threat to Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities

Committee to Protect Journalists Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen: Trump Launches Campaign of Threats and Intimidation to Suppress US Press Freedom

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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid 

Horizons Project Co-Lead Maria J. Stephan: Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup

Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Director Michael Gerrard: As NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Generates Funds for Mass Transit, Trump Wants it Shut Down

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
• New DNC chairman: Democrats are “true party of labor and working people"
• U.S. firm accused of Guantanamo migrant rights abuses
• Impeachment calls for Argentina president after cryptocurrency crashes

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Constitutional lawyer and Free Speech for People President John Bonifaz: Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment

Journalist and author Fred Pearce: After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis

Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Creates Rift with European Allies

Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary

• Trump executive order awards refugee status to South African Afrikaners
• New U.S. protectionism leaves power vacuum for China to fill
• Red states create their own DOGE task forces 

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Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Phyllis Bennis: Trump Doubles Down on His Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza

Salon Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Elon Musk’s Racist Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies

50501 Organizer Praisely McNamara: Nationwide 50501 Anti-Trump Protests Mobilize to Protect Democracy from Authoritarian Power Grab

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary:

• Germany’s AfD migration bill fails
• Māori protesters turn their backs on right-wing ministers
• New Orleans nurses call strike coinciding with Super Bowl

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