Friday, July 17, 2026

Crisis or catastrophe: nothing changes

As delegates prepare for COP27 and fossil fuel companies report record profits, the environmental emergency couldn’t be more pressing; the need for action by governments, corporations and populations more urgent, and the stench of complacency more pungent.

To best understand inequality, think class, not generation

We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.
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End trans detention: Biden admin urged to release trans & HIV+ asylum seekers after...

“Many are rejected from their homes. They’re not supported and held with everything that they deserve. And they have no choice but to be out on the streets, trying to survive.”

#MeToo campaign for Sudanese teen highlights the need to end Western saviorism

Noura Hussein, who was sentenced to death in Sudan for killing "rapist husband," was recently changed to five years in prison because of “Sudanese activists, themselves raising the profile of this case, is what [got the attention of] international circles."

Nationwide prison strike in its fourth day, reports of action coming out of prisons

"This is a human rights campaign and each of these demands should be understood through a human rights lens."

The Anti-Empire Report #142

“I stayed up about two hours past my usual bedtime to watch the New Years Eve celebration in Times Square. For one reason only. To see happy people. A year like 2015 can do that to you.”

Albuquerque is throwing out the belongings of homeless people, violating city policy

As a result, thousands of homeless people have lost personal property, according to interviews with community advocates, service providers and those who have had their possessions discarded.

Former police chief sentenced to prison for stealing nearly $80K in cash

“As this case shows, no one is above the law. This office will not allow those who are supposed to protect our community to take advantage of the people of South Carolina.”

Former Green Beret pleads guilty to spying for Russia

“Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins betrayed this nation and his fellow serviceman, putting Americans and our national security at risk by providing national defense information to Russia’s Intelligence Service.”
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Say her name: Breonna Taylor was killed by police in March. Why haven’t the...

The 26-year-old African American woman who was an emergency room technician treating COVID patients and was shot to death by police inside her own apartment in March.