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They Could Not Close It. So They Are Staffing It.

Federal courts blocked the effort to dismantle the consumer bureau. On Saturday it changes hands anyway, by statute, to the lawyer who pledged to protect servicemembers months before the agency tore up a $95 million order owed to them. No vote required.

National

The Law Has Two Blades.

A federal judge found the government chose to lose a $10 billion case because losing was the point. The same department that calls January 6 prosecutions weaponized signed an audit shield for the president. One word explains both: discretion.

National

The Defendant Switched Sides.

When the campaign finance limits reached the Supreme Court, the agency charged with enforcing them argued to strike them down. The Court appointed one private lawyer to defend the statute. He lost 6 to 3, and the agency cannot act anyway: it has two commissioners and needs four.

National

The Seed Money Is Public. The Pipeline Is Private.

Treasury seeded 500,000 children's accounts on July 4. The custodian is a brokerage fined $26 million for failing to verify customer identities. The means testing is billionaires choosing ZIP codes, at the government's request. The rules for who keeps six million customers at 18 are unwritten.

National

Two Weeks, Two Election Agencies, Zero Referees.

The Supreme Court granted at will removal power over independent agencies on June 29. The White House used it to empty the Election Assistance Commission on July 9, and cited the ruling by name. The other federal election referee, the FEC, has no quorum at all. Two agencies, two weeks, two methods.

National Featured

The Revolution Will Be Financialized

In 2017 Larry Fink called Bitcoin an index of money laundering. By 2026 BlackRock controlled 60 percent of all Bitcoin in U.S. spot ETFs. The public comment window on the rules that govern all of it closes today. Banking trade groups filed. Remittance households did not.

National

Whose Face Gets to Be on the Money

A $250 bill with Trump’s face moved from proposal to active Treasury planning in 14 months. The Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been in process for a decade. The difference between those two timelines is not bureaucracy. It is policy.

National Featured

The Audit Exemption They Buried in the Fine Print

The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund dominated headlines. The one-page addendum posted the next day permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization, closing an active $72.9 million dispute. That part was quieter. It was designed to be.

National

The Overtime Rule Is Gone. The DOL Called It a Technicality.

The DOL called rescinding the overtime rule “a technical correction.” What it actually did was permanently eliminate overtime protections for 4 million workers. The language is designed to ensure it doesn’t read like a policy decision. It was.

National

The Election Was the Point. They Took That Too.

A bourbon distillery in Kentucky is not where most people would expect federal labor law to get rewritten. But the Sixth Circuit just used it to dismantle one of the most significant worker protections built in the last decade. Most workers don’t know it happened.

National Featured

The Streets Were Full. The Question Is What Comes Next.

Thursday happened. Thousands marched. The coalition was the broadest it has been in years. The administration dismissed it before the marches ended. That gap is the thing worth sitting with this Monday morning.

National Featured

The Strike Fund America Never Had

American labor has always known the problem: workers run out of money before employers do. Union Now is the first attempt to build a national structure that changes that calculation. The question is whether the architecture matches the ambition.

National Featured

The Strikes They Didn’t Teach You. The Losses You’re Still Paying For.

The eight-hour workday, the weekend, the right to organize. None of these arrived because employers decided to be generous. They arrived because workers held a line at tremendous cost. Here is what that cost actually looked like.

National

The Rulebook Has Been Rewritten. Most Workers Don't Know Yet.

The largest meatpacking strike in 40 years ended without a contract. The legal architecture that was supposed to make that posture costly has spent a year being dismantled. A bourbon distillery, a quorum gap, and fifty years of precedent explain what happened in Greeley.

National

They Came Back to the Table. JBS Didn't Move.

The largest meatpacking strike in 40 years ended without a new contract. 3,800 workers returned to work Tuesday on good faith. JBS returned to the table without moving its offer by a single cent, on $415 million in quarterly profits. The negotiations resume today.

National

The Ceasefire Is Two Weeks. The Contracts Are Ten Years.

The Strait of Hormuz reopens for two weeks. The contracts signed during 40 days of bombing run ten years. Palantir processed 11,000 targets. The president's sons are selling drones to the countries his father is protecting. The ceasefire pauses the bombs, not the business.

National

They Published the Schedule, and Now They Are Running It

The airport chaos has a name, a document, a sequence, and a private contractor waiting at the end of it. The staffing shortage is the cover story, the scheduled transfer of public infrastructure to private hands is the mechanism, and the workers are the proof of concept.

National Featured

The SAVE America Act Was Engineered to Shrink the Electorate

The SAVE America Act is being sold as election security, but it makes 69m married women, 140m Americans without a passport, and every eligible voter who has ever changed their name prove they deserve to cast a ballot

National

They Do Not Want a King, They Want Their Country Back

More than 3,000 protests. All 50 states. One question the mainstream coverage is not asking: when organized labor, antiwar organizers, and immigrant rights coalitions march together, is that still just a protest?

Project 2025

They Followed the Playbook. Did Anyone Read It?

The Heritage Foundation published a 900-page governing blueprint in 2022. 53% of it is already done. This is not chaos. It is a checklist. Here is what has been executed, what it has cost, and what is coming next.

National

110 Children and $25 Billion in One Day, Ask Yourself Who This War Is For

Lockheed Martin's stock was up before the smoke cleared in Minab. That's not a coincidence, that's the business model.

National

They Broke the Airport on Purpose

FAA, DOGE, and 45 Years of Aviation Policy

Local

From Pullman to Pomona: Cycles of Resistance in Southern California

Local Struggles, Global Echoes Los Angeles is often portrayed as a city of freeways and fantasies — a place where the future is scripted on screens. But beneath the glamour lies another history, one built by workers whose labor made the city and whose resistance shaped its character. From the sweatshops

National

From Haymarket to Occupy: The Unfinished Revolt of Labor and Democracy

Echoes in the Streets History rarely advances in a straight line. It lurches forward, stalls, and then rises again when people refuse to accept indignity. Chicago’s Haymarket Square in 1886, when workers demanded an eight-hour day, was not the first rebellion and would not be the last. The

Local

What Does Labor Day Mean in Los Angeles?

Not Just a Holiday, But a History In Los Angeles, Labor Day weekend often looks like a postcard: backyard barbecues, traffic to the beaches, sales at the malls. But behind the three-day weekend lies a history of struggle that is written into the streets of this city as much