Friday, November 13, 2026

GOP budget proposal threatens Medicaid and SNAP benefits for millions

House Republicans push forward with a budget resolution that could cut critical social programs to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

Unarmed Black Man Killed by San Diego Police

Unarmed Alfred Olango was shot and killed by San Diego police after his sister called police to help with her brother's mental health emergency.

Judge halts Trump’s Portland troop plan as governors warn of martial law

Federal judge Karin Immergut blocks National Guard deployments to Oregon and beyond as the White House escalates rhetoric and appeals the ruling.

Open letter calls on country’s largest tech company CEOs to power data centers with...

AI data center proposals across Indiana are said to have utility companies profiting and raising costs for customers.

Africa’s forests no longer help fight climate change, shift to net carbon source

Data published in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that this "safety net" has diminished.

Arizona GOP resolution seeks to shift presidential elector selection from voters to legislature

The bill, which has not yet been assigned to a committee, faces significant hurdles given its radical proposition to dismantle voters' rights in presidential elections.

Asking the right questions when lawless US officials go on a murder spree

What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?
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‘I will govern as a Democratic Socialist’: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at...

Mamdani vowed to “govern expansively and audaciously” for residents.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.

In patriarchy, sexual “misconduct” not surprising

None of us – women or men – should be surprised, because the United States is a patriarchal society and in patriarchy men routinely claim the right to own or control women’s bodies for reproduction and sexual pleasure.