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05/23/2026

New Immigration Policy

“With the new USCIS policy, many green card applicants in the US will probably be required to leave while their cases are processed – particularly affecting mixed-status families nationwide by forcing green card applicants to leave jobs, homes and relationships for an unknown amount of time. The agency is already struggling with a backlog of visa and green card cases.”

Change criticized by advocates marks the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy

05/08/2026

04/29/2026

“It is unclear how much is left of the provision, known as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the main way to challenge racially discriminatory election practices.”

The Supreme Court has weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere.

04/17/2026

“We cannot continue to ask them to carry the physical, economic, and psychological burden of this broken system, nor should we continue to put patients at risk by placing them in the care of overworked caretakers,” Vittoria Fariello, a district leader with Downtown Independent Democrats, said in a statement. “Home care work is both physically and emotionally taxing, and many women who worked 24-hour shifts have become patients themselves because of the work. I would ask the governor if she would accept this if her own mother were a home attendant.”

04/15/2026

Good Read:
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who pledged to expand the program during his campaign, is now trying to negotiate a compromise that will cost less and is fighting the City Council over implementing the laws. His administration said broadening eligibility for the $1.2 billion program is too expensive, and would drive costs up to $4.7 billion by 2030 — about the size of the city’s entire homeless services agency.”

The Mamdani administration said a package of laws to expand CityFHEPS is too costly.

04/07/2026

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03/30/2026

Good Reads:

“One of the first things an Argentine emigre did after her son was born in Florida last year was get him a U.S. passport. She saw the passport as tangible evidence that he’s an American. But now people like her are in a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s executive order that would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to people who are in the country illegally or temporarily.”

An Argentine emigre in Florida quickly got her newborn son a U.S. passport last year. During a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s executive order to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to people in the country illegally or temporarily, the passport was tangible evidence the baby i...

02/03/2026

“A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants, who are allowed to live and work in the US legally under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).”

"Plaintiffs charge that Secretary [Kristi] Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely," Reyes wrote.”

The judge said the Department of Homeland Security Secretary did not have facts or law on her side.

02/02/2026

Good Reads:

“In Trump’s first term, grassroots Democrats focused their ire on the Republican president. But now, after President Joe Biden’s reluctance to step aside in 2024 at age 81 helped pave the way for Trump’s return to the White House, many see their party’s own veterans as part of the problem”

“I’m not waiting for permission,” Vang said. “Because our communities are under attack, and we need leaders in this moment that understand the day-to-day struggles of our working families, and I believe that I could be the leader in this moment.”

Young Democrats across the United States are challenging veteran party figures, aiming to mount tougher opposition to President Donald Trump.

02/01/2026

Must Read: Do we still live in a Democracy? With the rapid rise of AI and digital technologies, the power once held by citizens is being eroded at an alarming pace.

“The deeper we dig, the more remnants of bias we will find in our technology. We cannot afford to look away this time, because the stakes are simply too high. We risk losing the gains made with the civil rights movement and women's movement under the false assumption of machine neutrality. Automated systems are not inherently neutral. They reflect the priorities, preferences, and prejudices—the coded gaze—of those who have the power to mold artificial intelligence.”

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a preliminary excavat…

01/24/2026

Minnesota Strong!!!

A mass march and news conference unfolded in Minneapolis as civic leaders, labor unions, faith groups, and community members launched a “day of action” and g...