Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Tag: civil rights

Zohran Mamdani’s movement victory reshapes New York politics

A data-driven look at the coalition, turnout, and affordability agenda that defeated a billionaire-backed machine and what it means for governing.

Supreme Court to weigh same-sex marriage challenge from former Kentucky clerk...

At a Nov. 7 conference, justices will decide whether to revisit the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized marriage equality nationwide.

Unfettered and unaccountable: How Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal...

“When is it that we just decided to do things a different way? There’s due process, there’s a legal way, and it just doesn’t seem to matter anymore.”

Video claim challenges DHS account of Border Patrol shooting in Chicago

Attorney says body camera shows agent saying “Do something, b––” before firing; prosecutors charge two drivers as officials expand Operation Midway Blitz.

Going backwards on rights with Trump

Or are we going in circles?

Florida traffic stop beating of Black student sparks federal civil rights...

Attorneys say Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office policies enable racial profiling and excessive force as prosecutors decline charges and lawsuit targets sheriff, officers, and city officials.

Supreme Court ruling allows ICE to use racial profiling in Los...

Civil rights groups warn that Trump’s immigration crackdown has been given a green light to target Latinos across Southern California.

102 organizations press Rubio to free Palestinian American teen held at...

Coalition says Florida teenager Mohammed Ibrahim’s life is on the line after months without family contact or medical care.

Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low...

President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.

Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust...

The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.

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A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
A Navy fighter jet approaches an aircraft carrier. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain

Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.