Boston Mayor and progressive icon Michelle Wu told the Trump administration Tuesday that the city will “not back down” from its sanctuary city policies—despite legal threats from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

At a City Hall press conference, Wu slammed the Trump DOJ’s letter threatening prosecution and federal funding cuts, saying Trump officials were using cities as scapegoats for their own failures.

THE DETAILS: Boston is one of 32 cities being targeted by the DOJ for so-called “undermining” Trump fascist immigration scapegoating and crackdown.

Bondi’s letter demanded cities “eliminate laws” that impede mass deportation and comply fully with ICE—or face prosecution.

Wu, Boston’s first woman and first person of color to serve as mayor, didn’t flinch: “Boston follows the law. And Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.”

“Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away,” she said.

She added that cities like Boston are being targeted for refusing to “bow down to unconstitutional threats and unlawful coercion.”

THE BACKGROUND: Trump and Bondi have amped up their rhetoric on immigration, portraying Democratic-run cities as crime havens.

In reality, cities like Boston have worked with federal agencies on counterterrorism, drug trafficking, and safety—while rejecting xenophobic crackdowns.

WHY IT MATTERS: This clash isn’t just about immigration—it’s about stopping fascism in its tracks.

Fascism always needs a scapegoat: Jews, communists, immigrants. Trump has chosen the poor, undocumented brown person as his target.

By standing up to these threats, cities like Boston are drawing a line against authoritarianism — and refusing to be complicit.

In Texas, Democrats are refusing to comply with authoritarian “permission slip” rules imposed by Republicans, who are using police escorts to track lawmakers as they push through Trump’s gerrymandered maps. The bizarre surveillance scheme shows how far the GOP is willing to go to rig elections—treating elected officials like criminals in order to lock in power for the wealthy and their political enablers. Full story from The Guardian.

John Deere is slashing jobs across Iowa and Illinois after Trump’s reckless tariff war tanked farm equipment sales, leaving workers and farmers to shoulder the cost of his failed economic stunt. While corporations blame “uncertainty,” the reality is that Trump’s policies are gutting blue-collar livelihoods so Wall Street and billionaires can keep lining their pockets. Full story from Common Dreams.

At a Hamptons fundraiser, Andrew Cuomo admitted he’s banking on Trump and GOP elites to steer Republican voters his way in order to block Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who beat him in the primary. Cuomo’s backroom plea for billionaire and MAGA support exposes the ruling class’s real fear: that working-class New Yorkers might finally have a mayor who represents them instead of the corporate elite. Full story from Politico.

More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants forced the airline and government to back down after walking off the job over pay and brutal schedules. Even when Ottawa tried to crush the strike with binding arbitration and police threats, workers held the line—proving once again that solidarity, not corporate power, is what keeps the planes in the air. Full story from NBC News.

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