Qualified immunity: Supreme Court doubles down on nonsensical rule
Police don’t know the law, and SCOTUS sticks to bizarre rule that there must be nearly identical facts to recover for...
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‘Everybody’s Excited’: Amazon Workers in Staten Island to File for Union Vote
Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group — but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort Source:...
read moreAlert: The Supreme Court is Poised to Put Politics Ahead of Gun-Violence Prevention
New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, but at...
read moreDeSantis to offer unvaccinated police who relocate to Florida bonuses
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans Sunday to “hopefully sign” legislation to provide a $5,000 bonus to police officers who...
read moreHeroes or Parasites: Europe’s Selfish Refugee Politics
Instead of developing a unified global strategy that places the welfare of the refugees of these conflicts as a top priority, many...
read moreThe White Supremacists Behind The Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Going To Court. Here’s What You Need To Know.
“This really will be the first time the entire story of Charlottesville will be told out loud,” said Karen Dunn, co–lead...
read moreTaxi driver released from Gitmo after 17 years of torture, with no charges
A Pakistani taxi driver will leave US detention at Guantanamo Bay after 17 years behind bars. Mistaken for a wanted terrorist, the...
read moreWhite House delays release of JFK assassination files “to protect against identifiable harm”
The White House said Friday it would delay the release of long-classified documents related to the assassination of former President...
read moreAlert: New US-Mexico Agreement Under Biden Leaves Failed Drug War Policies Intact
Despite the shifts in packaging and rhetoric between the previous versions of the Mérida Initiative and the new Bicentennial...
read moreBiden admin releases first national strategy to promote gender equality
The Biden administration’s plan in part focuses on improving economic security for women by strengthening laws that prohibit...
read moreAOC Joins India Walton at Buffalo Rally
The two progressives joined striking hospital workers on the picket line at Mercy Hospital after the early voting rally. Source: AOC...
read moreCA weather: Heavy rain helps water supply, won’t cure drought
The main problem is that the drought, coupled with climate change, has dried out the soils of Northern California —...
read moreAmerica’s anti-abortion movement has a secret dirty weapon: gerrymandering
The majority of Americans support legal abortion. Redistricting has allowed extremism to flourish without fear of repercussion...
read moreBiden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action
After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Joe Biden...
read moreAlert: Israel to build 1,300 settlement units in occupied West Bank
Palestinian PM Shtayyeh urged nations to confront Israel on settlement policy, which is illegal under international law. Source:...
read moreSocialists Are Rebuilding Bolivia
In 2019, a right-wing coup deposed Bolivia’s elected government. But the people fought back — and now the socialist government...
read moreNew Research Says Police in Schools Don’t Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests
While police in schools “do effectively reduce some forms of violence,” they intensify the use of school discipline and...
read moreOregon Governor Grants Clemency To Dozens Of People Who Committed Crimes As Kids
A recent juvenile justice reform bill excluded hundreds of people facing long prison sentences for crimes they committed before they...
read moreThe Psychological Tolls and Moral Hazards of Drone Warfare
Two new books shed light on what remote warfare does to military operators, the standing of the U.S., and societies abroad. Source:...
read more‘We need him to deliver’: Biden faces wrath of disappointed supporters
The US president hoped to be a transformational figure like FDR but inaction on voting rights, the climate crisis and social policy...
read moreAll eyes on Garland after Bannon contempt vote
5 seconds of 52 secondsVolume 90% The decision on whether to prosecute former White House strategist Steve Bannon for defying a...
read moreBecoming Typical Mideast Dictatorship, Apartheid Israel Declares Palestinian Human Rights Groups “Terrorists”
on Friday, the Israeli government declared six human rights organizations active in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank to be...
read moreTrump’s executive privilege claim in Capitol riot case gets Nov. 4 hearing
A U.S. judge will consider on Nov. 4 former President Donald Trump’s claim of executive privilege in response to a document...
read moreSenate Democrats Reportedly Near Agreement on Plan to Raise Taxes on Billionaires
Democrats in the U.S. Senate appear to be closing in on an agreement to create a new tax system for the country’s richest...
read moreCDC signs off on Moderna and Johnson & Johnson boosters and says people can get a shot different from their original one
The decision means that those eligible for boosters can choose any of the three now authorized in the United States. Source: CDC...
read moreAlert: Secretive House Caucus Is Appointing Corporate Democrats to Key Committee Seats
How did Democrats in the House of Representatives decide that the top House recipient of corporate PAC money should run the tax...
read moreHow Developing Countries Can Make mRNA Covid Vaccines
Wealthy nations are failing to vaccinate the world, health experts say. Here are 10 companies outside the US that have the production...
read moreAlert: Opponents of Voting Rights Compete in GOP Primary for Arizona Secretary of State
The leading contenders for the GOP nomination for Arizona secretary of state, whose agency oversees elections and certifies election...
read moreNIH ADMITS to funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses
The National Institutes of Health has finally admitted to funding gain of function research on bat coronaviruses in it’s Wuhan...
read moreFoolish Provocation Against China Is the Opposite of What the World Needs Right Now
Calling for a “reckoning” and “retaliation” against a nuclear-armed superpower is foolish and...
read more‘In the Spirit of Mandela’: International Tribunal Seeks to Charge U.S. Government with Crimes Against Humanity
Though the growth of the prison industry has been well documented, there is virtually no documentation and even less news about the...
read moreFate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings
The press still has the power to challenge and prevent U.S. wars. However, this power hangs in the balance in the form of Julian...
read moreUS border agents engaged in ‘shocking abuses’ against asylum seekers, report finds
Revealed: documents released after six years of legal tussles uncover over 160 cases of misconduct and abuse Source: US border agents...
read moreSinema Is the Dying Scream of the Corporate Democratic Party
Sinema’s subservience to big moneyed interests is a holdover from an era of politics that is fading noisily into the past. Source:...
read moreThere Are No Real Climate Leaders Yet – Who Will Step Up at Cop26?
Because all it would really take is one — one world leader or one high-income nation or one major TV station or leading...
read moreAlert: Capitol Rioters in Jail’s ‘Patriot Wing’ Have Their Own Rituals and a Growing Fan Base
Experts worry that a lack of de-radicalization efforts in jail could mean inmates falling further into the narrative that led to the...
read more‘The State’s gambit has worked’: Justice Sotomayor decries the court’s refusal to lift the Texas abortion ban
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a lone dissent on Friday as her colleagues once again refused to block the Texas...
read moreWatchdog Exposes Huge Conflicts of Interest Missteps With DeJoy Appointment
The documents detailing DeJoy’s conflicts of interest — as well as his failure to stay out of decision-making processes in the...
read moreReport: How Pfizer Silences World Governments in Vaccine Negotiations
Contracts Show Pfizer Controls Vaccine Donations and Delivery Schedules, Bars Governments’ Public Discussion of Agreements Source:...
read moreTop Dem Calls on Biden to Toss Legally ‘Erroneous’ Trump Memo and Ratify Equal Rights Amendment
U.S. House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to rescind the former Trump...
read moreDonald Trump’s new ‘social media platform’ isn’t a Twitter rival. It’s an investment scam
The real point is that this is a scheme through which Trump can collect several hundred million dollars, even if his new social...
read moreAlert: Lethal ‘forever chemicals’ taint our food, water and even blood. The EPA is stalling
There is no longer any population or place on earth untouched by PFAS contamination. We are living through a toxic experiment with no...
read moreManagement by Metrics Is Upending Newsrooms and Killing Journalism
Designed to discipline workers into producing clickable and profitable content, newsroom analytics are radically changing the nature...
read moreAT&T has yet to answer for its support of OAN, and customers have had it
OAN head Robert Herring Sr. revealed in a 2019 deposition obtained by Reuters that AT&T executives were the ones who approached...
read moreThe Many Crimes of Colin Powell
Colin Powell’s death is an opportunity to question the inclination to respect the Black face in a high place. Powell’s...
read moreReport Reveals European Firms Have More Than $255B Entwined in Illegal Israeli Settlements
The continuous settler takeover of Palestinian land has prevented Palestinians from developing and utilizing their resources and...
read moreHaugen claims backed by new Facebook whistleblower filing with SEC
The latest complaint to the SEC blames top leadership for failing to warn investors about serious problems at the company. Source:...
read moreAlert: Insurance Companies Are Trying Desperately to Stop Medicare Expansion in the Budget Reconciliation
The health insurance industry is spending big to halt efforts to expand Medicare benefits — and running false ads claiming...
read moreTribunal of activists puts US on trial in effort to protect Assange – YouTube
Supporters of Julian Assange held a people’s tribunal in London to examine allegations of U.S. war crimes and how uncovering...
read moreChuck Schumer Endorses Socialist India Walton in Heated Buffalo Mayoral Race
Though Walton, a socialist, won the Democratic primary for the position in June, the New York state’s Democratic Party establishment...
read moreTwitter Admits Algorithm Bias for Rightwing Politicians and News Outlets
Twitter examined political bias in its algorithm in seven countries. In six of seven countries tweets from rightwing politicians and...
read moreAlert: In Historic United States First, National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw confirmed to the Center for Immigration Studies that the first of some 3,000 policing-trained...
read moreChina’s overseas coal ban raises pressure on developing countries to go green
The approach, while welcomed by climate activists, leaves poorer nations in even greater need of a quick transition to renewable...
read moreReform District Attorneys Aim to Boost Police Accountability With Brady Lists
Newly elected prosecutors won’t take cases from unreliable officers—but are these no-call lists fair? Source: Reform District...
read moreHappy Striketober. Let’s Restore the Legal Right to Strike.
Now’s the perfect time to fight for the right to return to a job once a strike is over. The United States is experiencing a wave of...
read moreGiuliani Associate Lev Parnas Convicted of Campaign Finance Crimes
A Florida businessman who helped Rudy Giuliani’s effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine was convicted Friday of campaign...
read moreAs COVID Travel Restrictions Ease, It’s Past Time to Repeal Title 42
But it’s along the southern border with Mexico that the full irrationality and cruelty of the pandemic-era travel restrictions remain...
read moreCinematographer’s Death by Prop Gun Is Not Just a Tragedy. It’s a Labor Issue.
The entire camera crew, except Hutchins and one other crew member, walked off the job the morning Hutchins was shot, resigning over...
read moreTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had to pay out his first voter fraud bounty to a progressive poll worker in Pennsylvania who caught a Republican voting illegally
The poll worker who received the prize said he was told he only received the minimum reward as larger ones were reserved for...
read moreAre lobbyists trying to gut Biden’s budget? No one knows – and that’s the problem
Our campaign finance system makes it nearly impossible to track money in politics or hold our representatives accountable Source: Are...
read moreGOP is planning a ‘coup’ for 2024 — and Democrats aren’t doing enough to prevent a ‘constitutional crisis’: reporter
“What is clear is that the administration has not lobbied Manchin, Sinema, or other members of Congress to support voting...
read moreHouse Votes to Hold Bannon in Contempt; Nine Republicans Support Resolution
The contempt charge will now be forward to the Department of Justice, which ultimately decides if Bannon should be prosecuted. If...
read moreIs The Final Stage for the GOP & Democracy the 2022 election?
Nineteen states have already changed thirty-three voting laws to accommodate Trump’s and John Eastman’s 6-point-plan to...
read moreAlert: The Biden Administration Is Building Back to the Brink of a New Cold War
Before it’s too late, we need to ask ourselves a crucial question: Do we really — I mean truly — want a new Cold War with...
read moreSchiff ‘vehemently’ disagrees with Attorney General Garland’s reluctance to pursue Trump
House intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says he “vehemently” disagrees with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s failure so...
read moreRepublicans filibuster bill to save fair elections. Democrats keep filibuster in place
A White House statement about the bill didn’t say anything about filibuster reform or whether it came up in Biden’s discussions with...
read moreBad News: 11th Circuit rejects Black women’s challenge to Florida felon voting law
A unanimous panel ruled that a Florida law requiring felons to pay fines, fees and restitution before regaining the right to vote...
read moreCivil rights group files complaint on behalf of nearly 50 Haitian families abused in U.S. custody
Nearly 50 people who fled threatening conditions in Haiti, only to be detained under a bridge by Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...
read moreBolivian Government Says Haitian President’s Assassins Were Part of a Plot to Kill Its Own Leftist Leader
Citing a previous Intercept investigation, the Bolivian government said it has evidence of a plan to kill Luis Arce, a protégé of Evo...
read moreLeaked Docs Reveal Fossil Fuel-Soaked Nations Lobbying to Sabotage Climate Action
“They are using every opportunity to protect their corporate interests and continue with business as usual while the planet...
read moreTexas congresswoman wants to take asylum seekers out of CBP custody and into new ‘humanitarian centers’
The new Humanitarian Processing Centers would limit the presence of CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on the...
read moreNFL Agrees To End Race-Based Brain Testing In $1 Billion Settlement
The revised testing plan follows public outrage over the use of “race-norming,” a practice that came to light only after two former...
read moreRevolving doors of FDA and Big Pharma
Have an experimental drug that needs rapid authorization from the FDA in order to be sold to the masses? Looking to siphon billions...
read moreAlert: Big Pharma, Rich Nations Have Delivered Just 14% of Vaccine Doses Promised to Poor Nations
“It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical...
read more‘Historic Victory’: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal
“This is a landmark ruling. For 20 years, successive U.S. administrations have asserted their right to imprison people...
read moreChild tax credit: Joe Manchin wants to add a work requirement to the child tax credit. Here’s what that would do
The senator’s office did not return a request for comment, but experts said the simplest way to mandate that households work to...
read moreA dire warning from Florida election officials
The Florida Supervisors of Elections, the association that represents the officials who actually run the state’s elections, is...
read moreAmazon and Google: partners in Israeli apartheid
But while Israel risks becoming a pariah among some cultural producers, it is being aggressively embraced by globe-spanning...
read moreFossil fuel producing countries pushing back against climate action in landmark UN report, leaked documents show
Some of the world’s biggest coal, oil, beef and animal feed producing nations are attempting to strip a landmark UN climate report of...
read moreBiden’s DOJ uses a Trump tactic: Federal prosecutors label Black Lives Matter protesters terrorists
This time last year, during the final presidential debate, Joe Biden promised to “fundamentally change” the administration of...
read moreRevealed: DEA approved more than 50 requests for covert surveillance of racial justice protests last summer
The Drug Enforcement Administration approved at least 51 requests from state, local and federal law enforcement agencies to conduct...
read moreReport Details ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Abuse of Asylum Seekers by US Border Agents
The accounts of 160 asylum officers portray “DHS as an agency that appears to have normalized shocking abuses at the U.S....
read morePhil Knight: A Case Study in how to Dodge Over $3.6 Billion in Taxes
Using public SEC filings and other publicly available data, Lord “reverse engineered” an analysis of Knight’s tax planning...
read moreStates can save us from the Supreme Court’s brutal qualified immunity rulings
With our federal government now having failed to affirm the rights of victims of police abuse, it’s now fully up to the states to...
read moreBiden Faces Deadline on Release of JFK Assassination Papers
John F. Kennedy was assassinated 58 years ago, but the U.S. government has balked at the full release of some secret CIA documents....
read moreTrump faces new criminal investigation into New York golf club
Prosecutors in Westchester County have subpoenaed tax records related to Trump’s club. Source: Trump faces new criminal investigation...
read moreHow Israeli Squatter-Settlers attack Palestinians and their Olive Harvests with Impunity
As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel’s illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking...
read moreActivism Uncensored: 400 Arrested as Environmentalists Target Biden
News2Share crew document five days of “People Versus Fossil Fuels” protests outside the White House. Over 400 were arrested over the...
read moreIn World First, New Zealand Law Will Force Banks to Disclose Climate Impacts of Investments
“This is a landmark day.” Source: In World First, New Zealand Law Will Force Banks to Disclose Climate Impacts of...
read moreMontana Refuses to Gerrymander
An American Indian woman heads the country’s oldest bipartisan redistricting commission, and she’s determined to set an example for a...
read moreBad News: Assange to Get Same Judge Who Sided with US on Appeal Over Medical Issues
After learning Holroyde would indeed oversee the hearing next week, Mercouris said it was “extremely disturbing news” and “very...
read more‘Hanging Your Constituents Out to Dry’: 5 Sinema Advisers Quit in Protest
“You have become one of the principal obstacles to progress, answering to big donors rather than your own people.”...
read moreOath Keepers in the State House: How a Militia Movement Took Root in the Republican Mainstream
A membership roster for the Oath Keepers, a violent extremist group whose followers have been charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection,...
read moreBehind the Fortenberry scandal: Another member of secretive Christian network goes down
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., who was indicted Tuesday on charges of lying to the FBI, has deep connections to The Family, the...
read moreDonald Trump Announces Launch of Media Company, Social Platform
Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its “TRUTH Social” app is to create a rival...
read moreColumn: The IRS wanted a new tool to go after tax cheats. Republicans and bankers blocked it
Latest case in point: a provision in the Build Back Better bill, the Biden administration’s omnibus spending package, that...
read moreAlert: Imperialists apply Africa destabilization model to Latin America
Now that U.S. imperialism has not just entered into a tailspin of decline in geopolitical influence, but suffered a series of defeats...
read more‘Nightmare scenario’: Substantial majority of Americans don’t trust Supreme Court, want reforms
The latest such survey, conducted nationally by Selzer & Company for Grinnell College, shows that 62% of Americans view...
read more‘Haitians are kidnapped every day’: missionary abductions shed light on growing crisis
Kidnappings of 16 Americans and a Canadian in Port-au-Prince come as hundreds of local residents face similar targeting, with at...
read moreWisconsin Imprisons 1 in 36 Black Adults, the Highest Rate in the US
A 2021 Sentencing Project report confirms the state’s deep racial disparities in incarceration, which one advocate calls a...
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