GOHMERT: Biden Needs To Realize There Have Been Worse Things Than Unarmed Election Protesters ‘Coming Into a Building’
“You know, I just want the President to understand, there have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building”
Protests Across Israel Signal Growing Palestinian Solidarity
The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into Israel. It follows…
Anti-Fascism Is Not Simply a Moral Objection — It Is a Practical One
Recent years have been scarred by an incipient fascism, plague and pestilence, and the violence that marked the end of the Trump administration. A renewed cycle of autonomous working-class organizing,…
Activists Push for Charges to Be Dropped Against Demonstrators for Black Lives
In early June 2020, a young Black mother who had just finished grocery shopping with her husband and 2-year-old child in Austin, Texas, was abducted by agents in an unmarked…
Biden Infrastructure Plan Is a Step Toward Equity and Countering Climate Crisis
President Joe Biden’s economic plan, which is aimed at overhauling U.S. infrastructure, helping workers and their families, and raising taxes for the ultrarich, surely represents a big step in the…
Pharma-Backed Dark Money Group Attacks House Democrats’ Lower Drug Pricing Plan
The American Action Network is pouring millions of dollars into a TV, digital advertising and phone campaign attacking House Democrats’ proposal to lower prescription drug costs. H.R. 3, the legislation…
Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at Border
Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad…
Twitter politely asks you to protect its targeted ad dollars in new iOS 14.5 prompt
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of iOS 14.5, Apple’s App Tracking Transparency forces developers to ask permission for something they used to be able to do…
COVID Has Catalyzed a Wave of Tenant Organizing That Was Long Overdue
Fifty billion dollars. That’s the amount of past-due rent accumulated during the first year of the pandemic, according to some estimates. And with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
My Grandparents Lived Through the Nakba. Now It’s Happening Again.
On May 15, Palestinians around the world mourn the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic. The Nakba traditionally refers to a dark period of our history in 1947 and 1948 when…