Sunday, May 17, 2026

Minnesota labor and communities move toward historic general strike amid ICE occupation of the...

A rapidly expanding coalition of unions, immigrant organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses is calling for a statewide economic shutdown on January 23 as opposition intensifies to ICE’s presence and tactics in Minnesota.

Judge blocks Noem effort to bar surprise ICE jail inspections as detention deaths mount

A federal judge halted the DHS secretary’s renewed effort to block surprise inspections as deaths, overcrowding, and abuse allegations inside immigration detention facilities continue to rise.

Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship faces backlash as unconstitutional and un-American

Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship sparks constitutional challenges and condemnation as discriminatory and un-American.

Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...

Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.

Mass die-off of Western Monarch butterflies linked to pesticides, study finds

Western monarch butterflies overwinter along the Pacific coast, but they are vulnerable to pesticide residue and drift from nearby farms and urban areas.

Plastics endanger human, planetary health at ‘every stage of their lifecycle,’ study finds

From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.

Voter backlash defies MAGA’s anti-reality hokum, entrapped by its own BS, rip-offs, venom &...

Trump promised unremitting revenge but that is a sharp, merciless two-edged sword about to redound on him and MAGA.

Hedges: Chronicle of a war foretold

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

You can’t worship God and money

We must build the strength to make a theological and spiritual vision of everybody-in-nobody-out a reality and create the capacity, powered by faith, to make it so.

Why won’t Newsom tax billionaires?

Not only are Californians struggling to make ends meet, they also have to contend with a governor who cares more about billionaires and his own presidential aspirations.