Wednesday, May 27, 2026

21 Peaceful Protestors Arrested During Prayer Ceremony at Standing Rock

The officers responsible were from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, the same department that sent officers armed with mace and attack dogs against the protestors earlier this month.

Denouncing corporate climate profiteers, comedy icon Lily Tomlin arrested at #FireDrillFriday protest in DC

"These corporations are making oodles of money on the front end, oodles of money on the back end. It is beyond reprehensible."

Colorado attorney general sues Boulder County to end fracking ban

Records show that energy companies have spent millions of dollars to stop the anti-fracking measures.

Former Minneapolis cop pleads guilty to manslaughter during George Floyd arrest

“His acknowledgment he did something wrong is an important step toward healing the wounds of the Floyd family, our community, and the nation."

Iranians continue protests, defying rising death toll and potential execution

Nine weeks into anti-regime protests led by women and young people, one human rights group estimated that Iran's security forces have killed at least 326 people, including 43 children.

Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for

Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.

The student-built website that keeps government climate data safe

Since Trump’s election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.

Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach

Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.

America wasn’t a ‘gun-loving country’ until a $13.5 billion industry made it so

Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns – and mass shootings.

NationofChange at the Republican Convention: And So it Begins – Protests, Rallies Take Cleveland

From "Open Carry" rallies to Stand for Love, the Republican Convention (and all the demonstrations that go with it) is in full swing.