Monday, October 26, 2026

We need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’

Our political paralysis enables terrorists of any stripe to acquire as many weapons as they want. 

TSA Checklist Exposed: 'Suspicious Signs' Include Throat Clearing, Whistling and 'Exaggerated Yawning'

There are certain behaviors that are listed as "suspicious signs" on a checklist used by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to identify potential terrorists. But does this controversial behavior-based program really work?

Report details Biden admin’s ‘cruel and unnecessary’ jailing of asylum-seekers

"The Biden administration must alter course, stop jailing asylum-seekers and treating them as enforcement 'priorities,' [and] use its legal authority to release them."

Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror

The police kill citizens with impunity, and that is exactly how the system is designed to work. The numerous little police states that exist in poor urban areas across the U.S. are models for a system that would enslave all of us.

Grassroots organizing in red states is at the heart of abolitionist struggle

One of the biggest struggles for abolitionists right now is for organizers to really believe in their own power to enact the world of abundance and safety that is a necessary part of an abolitionist future.

What faith leaders bring to the resistance

Across the US, progressive clergy are seizing ground from Christian nationalists with testimony and liturgy that inspire and mobilize.

May Day, workers, refugees and the cracks in the left

“Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.”

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.

Hundreds of activists arrested in DC during “Moral Monday”

“I am not afraid, I will fight for liberation cause I know why I was made. I am not afraid.”

Louisiana deputy who slammed a Black woman on the pavement was named in multiple...

Julio Alvarado has been named in nine federal civil rights lawsuits, all involving the use of excessive force.