Tag: Washington D.C.

Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.

As National Guard deployment grows and Section 740 takeover faces legal tests, residents report civil liberties concerns while officials defend public safety rationale.

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.

The incident currently remains under investigation.

Isn't it reassuring that Russia has its own unhinged, Trumpian-Marjorie Taylor Green-types?

“We have a mountain of evidence of what they knew and what they did to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. And yet we’ve only scratched the surface.”

Here are five ways he’s made the swamp even swampier.

West Wing's Martin Sheen and Joker's Joaquin Phoenix were arrested and ticketed in an act of civil disobedience alongside hundreds of other activists.

The American occupiers in the country’s Georgetown embassy have mobilized in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and in the hope that they can help to prevent a war, the international left must support them.

Doing so will remove long standing barriers that have slowed and blunted climate action.