Friday, November 13, 2026

CBS invited a war criminal to their dinner party

This is just one example of mainstream media not only refusing to ask questions of war criminals, but blatantly befriending them.
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Judge Amit Mehta issued the order. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rep. LaMonica McIver isn’t just fighting for reelection — she’s fighting for freedom

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a trial that could send the New Jersey congresswoman to prison over a 2025 clash with officers at an immigration detention center.

The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco

ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
The Strait of Hormuz, off Iran's Hormozgan province. Photo: Hadi Karimi / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

US strike on Iranian wedding kills at least four, drawing war crime accusation

Iran's Red Crescent has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate, as both sides accuse each other of violating a June ceasefire.
Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
The Texas State Capitol in Austin. Photo: Larry D. Moore / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising...

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
A flare burns at the Satorp oil refinery in Saudi Arabia

Punishing Trump: New War on Saudi Refineries by Iran Allies

The Trump administration's 13 nights of strikes on Iran, including on bridges and energy infrastructure, have been followed by three nights of calm. The Iranians, ho...

Senate vote on Sanders resolutions marks historic shift in US support for Israel’s war...

Though blocked, Bernie Sanders’s efforts to halt weapons transfers to Israel gained unprecedented Democratic support amid Gaza’s worsening famine and civilian death toll.

How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?

Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.