Wednesday, October 28, 2026

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Israel’s blowback genocide.
Early voters wait inside a polling place in Florida. Photo: Alex Johnson / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lawsuits ask courts to bar armed federal agents from polling places before the midterms

New Mexico has already barred them by state law, and the Department of Homeland Security says it has no plans for operations at polls.

News from the far side of nowhere

In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...

It’s more than a church parking lot. It’s a safe zone for homeless women...

Some say safe-parking programs aren’t a solution to homelessness. But these women and families are grateful this church has one.

Who the Election Should be For: The 7 Most Beaten-Down Americans

The election should be about the economy - but the economy of average Americans, not of establishment wealth. The election should be about these beaten-down groups of Americans.

In Trump’s world where money talks, Saudi Arabia gets a free pass

In Trump’s world where money talks, poor refugees are banned from entering the United States while Saudi princes who cling to power by torturing and beheading dissidents get safe passage to their luxury digs in Manhattan’s Trump Towers.

Searching for Rojava

Rojava’s experiment is no more than a radical democracy, which grew out of a cult of personality. So why is an experiment in direct democracy under siege the best-kept secret in the Middle East?

New from Trump University

Election rigging 101

Homeless Activists Go Organic And Feed An Entire Shelter With Rooftop Garden

Activists in Atlanta are working with the homeless to produce healthy organic food instead of expecting donations.

Suffocating an island: What the US blockade is doing to Cuba

The American people need to know what the U.S. is doing to Cuba.