Hundreds of incarcerated migrants go on hunger strike in remote Michigan prison
Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.
‘This is piracy’: Israel condemned for seizure of Gaza-bound flotilla near Greece
“How on Earth,” asked the UN’s top Palestine expert, “is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe?”
The Atlantic’s Hasan Piker meltdown perfectly distills elite media’s warped priorities
Zero stories in the Atlantic about Hind Rajab, zero stories about Israel killing medical workers or journalists—but five articles in two weeks on a Twitch streamer.
Politico boss reportedly demands allegiance to Israel from editorial staff
The publication’s parent company, Axel Springer, considers Israel’s right to exist one of its “essential” values.
‘Tragic day for the freedom to vote’: Supreme Court guts remnants of Voting Rights Act
“Make no mistake: This ruling isn’t about the law, it’s about power, and giving Republicans more US House seats they couldn’t otherwise win at the ballot box,” said one critic.
New Mexico becomes the latest state to end cooperation with ICE under new law
Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.
May 1: Unions, community orgs plan nationwide ‘economic blackout’ against billionaires and authoritarianism
“Nobody else is coming to save us. It is our world that we're going to fight for. And May Day is the day that we have set to lead that fight.”
What to the slave is the 250th anniversary of the US?
“America at 250” celebrations rely on a national mythology about the American Revolution that only really includes Patriot and Loyalist elites. Through the eyes of enslaved…
‘These are murders’: Trump killing spree hits at least 185
“The International Criminal Court is prosecuting the former Philippines president [Rodrigo] Duterte for the exact same thing.”
Trump is turning warehouses into ICE detention camps. Can Maryland stop him?
“Everything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive way” Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.
‘The rain was black’: A plant explosion set off a toxic bomb in this Louisiana town
“These people that say, ‘It was an accident, move on,’ they don't have to worry about what the contamination is going to do to their health long term... I can't afford to just go…
‘Territorial theft with better branding’: Israel keeps advancing its ‘Yellow Line’ in Gaza
One Palestinian American researcher warned that Israel is seeking “annexation without legal burden.”
State Department pushes human rights watchdog to ignore deadly, illegal boat strike campaign
As the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was advised not to investigate the bombings, Pentagon officials expressed support for strikes on land, ostensibly against drug…
Zionist doxxing campaigns upended their lives. Now they’re suing for damages.
Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.
‘Hungary has chosen Europe’ as voters end 16 straight years of Orbán’s far-right rule
“Europe has always chosen Hungary,” said the head of the European Union. “Together, we are stronger.”
Trump’s extreme use of military is stirring a crisis of conscience among troops
US soldiers have a rich history of questioning the wars they’re told to wage abroad.
Virginia voters deal major blow to Trump-GOP ploy to ‘steal the 2026 midterms’
“Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a president who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress,” said Democratic Gov. Abigail…
‘The era of climate migration is already here’
“Worldwide, natural disasters drive people out of their homes more than twice as often as war and other conflict… The era of climate migration is already here. We're just finally…
Freed Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda speaks
In this blockbuster episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner in the US—speaks with Palestinian political prisoner Mahmoud al-Arda…
As Mexico enacts universal healthcare, advocate says insurers’ ‘stranglehold’ is moving US in ‘opposite direction’
Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said it’s “both inspiring and frustrating” to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.
Want to resist a data center? These organizers share how they did it.
Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.
After three-week strike, JBS concedes to meatpacking workers
Last month, 3,800 meatpacking workers in UFCW Local 7 in Greeley, Colorado launched the industry’s first major strike in 40 years.
‘Let me show you’: Survivors cling to life in Gaza’s tent cities
“I'm going to show you our tent, where I live with my family and my sisters... As you can see, our lives are a real tragedy.”
J Street’s ‘cut off military aid’ PR gambit changes nothing
The move from paying for genocidal weapons to simply selling them is about buying time and misdirecting activist energy.
Inside Israel’s Prison Regime
"There is one law for Israeli Jews and there is another law for Palestinian Arabs."
How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue
Israel bombed Tehran's Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism's willingness to treat Jewish life as…
Will ICE be used to intimidate voters? A new bill might make that possible.
With ICE funding already up 400%, lawmakers question whether another $70 billion is about enforcement, or expanding unchecked power ahead of the midterms.
A lack of democracy in the United Farm Workers gave Chavez immunity
Frank Bardacke's history of the Farm Workers union opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self.
Israel is racing to expand West Bank settlements before new political realities end its era of impunity
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact…
Israel kills journalist in Lebanon after “hunting” down her and a colleague
Israel targeted the slain journalist’s colleague with three strikes, including one on an ambulance she was in.
Everyone knows Israel is sabotaging the Iran ceasefire—even the Trump administration
“It's really a bit of a clown show… I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for it”
Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz after Israel-Lebanon truce as Trump continues blockade
Meanwhile, Israel responded to Trump’s purported prohibition of Israeli attacks on Lebanon by attacking the country.
Iran’s top diplomat says Trump team sabotaged talks with deal ‘inches away’
“Zero lessons earned,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
‘We’ve all been changed by this’: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on documenting Israel’s (ongoing) war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
“People think that there's a ceasefire and it's over, but it's not,” Sharif Abdel Kouddous of DropSite News tells us. “We can't normalize what happened. We can't start talking…
War isn’t working for American workers
While Pentagon budgets have steadily increased in recent years, the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated, and less labor-intensive. The warfare state is not…
Is AI creating a new ‘Epstein class’?
From Epstein to AI, the question is the same: who is above the law? Congressman Khanna responds as fears grow of a new era of power without consequences.
US-Israeli war on Iran is intensifying all of global capitalism’s problems
This war is widening the deep systemic problems that were already present before February 28, says scholar Adam Hanieh.
‘Shameful’: $4,049 of average US taxpayer’s bill last year went to war and weaponry
“Our tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.”