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Republicans Try to Prosecute Key January 6 Witness Against Trump
New Republic • 1 week ago

Republicans Try to Prosecute Key January 6 Witness Against Trump

Republicans in Congress want the Department of Justice to bring criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a White House aide in Donald Trump’s first administration who testified against the president during congressional hearings about the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. CNN reports that Representative Barry Loudermilk referred Hutchinson to the DOJ just days ago, accusing her of lying to Congress when she testified before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attacks in June 2022. Representative Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, co-signed the referral.  Hutchinson’s testimony was explosive at the time, as she claimed that Trump was fully aware of the potential for violence on Capitol Hill and was extra agitated on that day. She said he wanted to march on the Capitol with his supporters from the Ellipse, but was told by his aides and Secret Service detail that it wouldn’t be safe. Furious, Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of The Beast, the presidential limousine, but when a Secret Service agent took his arm, Trump grabbed the agent’s neck, she said. Hutchinson, who served as an aide to Trump and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, also testified that Trump wanted his armed supporters to be able to protest that day. She said that Meadows overheard a conversation in which Trump said that Vice President Mike Pence “deserves it” as his mob of supporters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” at the Capitol.  For having the audacity to reveal this damaging information about Trump, his MAGA supporters have had Hutchinson in their crosshairs for a long time. In December 2024, Loudermilk accused former Representative Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican on the January 6 committee, of colluding with Hutchinson on her testimony, and FBI Director Kash Patel included Hutchinson on the MAGA enemies list in his 2022 book Government Gangsters.Now it’s up to the DOJ and Attorney General Pam Bondi to decide whether to charge Hutchinson. Bondi has tried to take revenge on some of the president’s adversaries, but none of the attempts have been successful yet. That’s probably because none of them have broken any laws in exposing Trump’s misdeeds. 

A Successful General Strike Requires Trauma-Informed Mutual Aid
ZNet • 1 week ago

A Successful General Strike Requires Trauma-Informed Mutual Aid

The dream of a national general strike to paralyze multiple major industries or corporations is gaining traction.  Across the nation, voices are rising with a righteous call for collective action at scale, especially in the wake of ongoing local economic strikes and protests against the ICE occupation of Minneapolis. The Day of Truth and Freedom on Jan. [...]

North Carolina’s New Era
ZNet • 1 week ago

North Carolina’s New Era

People aren’t talking enough about what happened in NC this week, so let’s talk about it. Contrary to what you might have seen or heard, the most important story from North Carolina’s primaries on March 3rd is not Republican leader Phil Berger losing by two votes or Valerie Foushee defeating progressive challenger Nida Allam. The [...]

Terrible Jobs Report Reveals Shocking Spike in Unemployment
New Republic • 1 week ago

Terrible Jobs Report Reveals Shocking Spike in Unemployment

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs, and unemployment rose 4.4 percent in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, a dismal economic showing for an economy that was already on shaky ground. “Let me put this another way: The US economy has LOST jobs since April 2025. Total job gains since from May 2025 to February 2026 are now -19,000,” Navy Federal chief economist Heather Long wrote. “Companies are not hiring in the face of all of these headwinds and uncertainty. And even healthcare is starting to slow down.”JUST IN: A dismal February jobs report. The U.S. economy LOST 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate ticked back up to 4.4%. Even healthcare shed 28,000 jobs in February. December was also revised down to -17,000. January was revised to 126k.Unemployment rate: 4.4%… pic.twitter.com/hHgQZu0vTB— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) March 6, 2026Job losses hit nearly every major sector, including health care. And Black unemployment is back up to 7.7 percent after being down at 7.3 percent in January.Stagnant job growth has been a defining trend of the Trump economy in this second term, even as the president blames any negative trends on former President Biden while declaring over and over again that the economy is thriving every day. And this February report doesn’t account for the cost of the war President Trump just started with Iran, which will surely drive up gas prices and squeeze people thin while they can’t even find a job.  Trump has yet to comment on the numbers. This story has been updated.

Why Loyalty Shifts are Key to Defeating Autocrats
ZNet • 1 week ago

Why Loyalty Shifts are Key to Defeating Autocrats

After previously representing the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, Minneapolis attorney and Republican politician Chris Madel ended his gubernatorial bid, saying “I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” Meanwhile, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, [...]

U.S. Officials Reveal Chilling Truth of Strike on Iran Girls’ School
New Republic • 1 week ago

U.S. Officials Reveal Chilling Truth of Strike on Iran Girls’ School

U.S. military investigators believe that it’s likely the United States was responsible for the deadly strike that killed more than 175 people, including dozens of children, at a girls’ school in Iran.Two U.S. officials told Reuters Thursday that the horrific attack at Shajarah Tayyebeh over the weekend was most likely the work of the U.S. military, but they noted that the investigation was still ongoing and did not rule out discovering evidence that could point the blame elsewhere. The strike on the girls’ primary school is the deadliest single attack of the U.S. and Israel’s military campaign thus far. Among the dead were dozens of young girls between the ages of 7 and 12, according to the public prosecutor in Minab. In a statement Sunday, Unesco condemned the attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh as a grave violation of international law, which prohibits attacks on schools.An analysis from The New York Times suggested that the school had been struck at the same time as a U.S. strike on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, naval base next door—indicating that the U.S. was likely responsible for both. It was not immediately clear why the school was targeted. Satellite images from 2013 showed that the school was previously connected to the IRGC naval base. More recent satellite images from 2016 showed that the school had been separated from the naval base by a wall.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that the U.S. “would not deliberately target a school.” While one would like to buy into Rubio’s pearl clutching, it’s worth noting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has openly admitted to setting aside the rules of engagement—who’s to say he doesn’t have the same attitude toward international law?

DOJ Abruptly Posts Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files
New Republic • 1 week ago

DOJ Abruptly Posts Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files

The Justice Department released FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of beating her after he sexually assaulted her when she was a child.The interviews took place between August and October 2019. The woman, according to her testimony, was abused by Jeffrey Epstein for years. Her name is redacted across three separate files, but her allegation against the president is clear: Trump punched her on the side of her head after she bit his penis. She was between 13 and 15 years old at the time, she told investigators, when Epstein brought her to a “very tall building with huge rooms” in either New York or New Jersey. That’s where the prolific sex trafficker introduced her to Trump, she recalled.Trump “didn’t like that I was a boy-girl,” the woman told investigators, referencing a tomboy.There were other people present in the room, according to the files, but they left at Trump’s request.She remembered that Trump told her something to the effect of, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.” He then unzipped his pants and put her head “down to his penis.” She “bit the shit out of it,” and Trump “struck her,” saying something to the effect of “Get this little bitch the hell out of here,” according to the interview.The woman claimed that she bit Trump’s penis at the time “because he disgusted her.”“He had money, it reeked off of him,” she said.She noted that Trump appeared jealous of Epstein, though at some point “they ended up on level playing fields.” She recalled that Trump and Epstein would sometimes use the terms “fresh meat,” “untainted,” and “not jaded” when referring to girls.She told investigators she had two additional interactions with Trump but did not linger on the topic.The woman claimed Epstein’s associates harassed her for years after the abuse ended, sending her numerous death threats. In one instance, she and her mother were run off a road while driving, forcing her to remain silent. She also claimed that her mother spent time in prison due to an “embezzlement conviction connected to being blackmailed” by Epstein and a man named “Jim Atkins,” whom she identified as an employee of an Ohio university, “over explicit photographs” that Epstein took of her during the abuse. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the release amounted to “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history.”“The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them—because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” she continued. “As we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein files.”The Department of Justice had previously removed the record of this woman’s FBI interviews from their Epstein database.Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the Epstein files, according to a New York Times review of the DOJ’s February document dump, which consisted of some three million previously unseen pages. All in all, Trump was flagged in more than 5,300 files in the document cache, according to the Times.Nonetheless, deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN’s State of the Union that the DOJ reviewed the files last summer and did not find any credible evidence against the president warranting further investigation.Recent reports indicate that the DOJ has only released a fraction of the Epstein files, potentially holding onto upward of 50 terabytes that the agency has not yet disclosed. The recent releases, which include millions of pages of documents, amount to roughly 300 gigabytes, or 2 percent of the estimated total.

Women Workers Won’t Settle for Less
ZNet • 1 week ago

Women Workers Won’t Settle for Less

International Women’s Day and the TUC Women’s Conference are opportunities for women in the labour movement to come together and discuss the challenges ahead for working-class women.  Women make up the majority of the public service workforce, yet we bear the brunt of unsafe staffing levels, low pay, discrimination and impossible workloads.  The average pay [...]

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