Tuesday, May 7, 2024

How white supremacist ideology & conspiracies have fueled US domestic terror & hateful violence

“The shooter in Pittsburgh was not just anti-Semitic. He had been radicalized by white supremacist ideology."
Greg Palast confronts Kris Kobach

EXCLUSIVE: Trump may name Kris Kobach new immigration czar

Their real agenda: 2020 vote suppression.

Harvard Has Billions, So Why Won’t It Pay Workers a Living Wage?

Striking dining hall employees at the Ivy League school have turned the spotlight on the low salaries of administrative positions nationwide.

The US is quietly opening shelters for babies and young kids. One has 12...

One of the infants is just 2 weeks old and was born in the United States, making the child a U.S. citizen in the custody of the federal refugee agency.

I couldn’t go to Standing Rock, so I closed my bank accounts instead

There are 38 banks supporting the Dakota Access pipeline. I found out mine was one of them.
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Big tech platforms have had a “profound negative effect on democracy.” Is it time...

“People of all political stripes understand that there’s a problem here.”
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Meet Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower releasing troves of new files from data firm

A new trove of internal Cambridge Analytica documents and emails are being posted on Twitter detailing the company’s operations, including its work with President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.

Will Betsy DeVos restart the ‘Education Wars’?

This time the lines dividing political parties won’t be blurred, and Democrats will know whose side they should be on.

Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport and questioned about religion

The Ali family is currently considering filing a federal lawsuit while seeking out others who received similar discriminatory treatment as Ali and his mother.

Activist voices missing from corporate coverage of uprisings

Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.