“We swore an oath when we took these positions to defend the Constitution and to provide these services to the American people… what’s going to happen to your everyday American when they don’t have Social Security or food assistance or Medicare?”
Posted inRattling the Bars
Nebraska inmate punished for speaking on wife’s podcast
“Don’t be afraid to fight back when you think that you’ve been wronged by the prison system because it’s so important that more of us are doing this so that they’re held accountable just like they expect our loved ones to be held accountable.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%—including ‘guided missile warheads’
“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump: no money for health care, plenty for Argentina
Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, is the lucky winner of $40 billion that Donald Trump managed to conjure from thin air. Less lucky are the Americans who rely on the government programs Trump has gutted to be able to “save” that sum.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
A ‘Hate America’ rally?
Our full on-the-ground coverage of the Oct. 18 “No Kings” protests in Washington, DC, and Baltimore County.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump baselessly calls Colombia’s Petro ‘drug dealer’ as US bombs another boat
The leftist Colombian president retorted that “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.”
Posted inRattling the Bars
Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement
“We felt that there was a need for this organization because we didn’t see anywhere to go where someone could understand and could feel our pain with the loss of our children”
Posted inStories of Resistance
The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
Hasta La Victoria’s music is rock and punk, hip hop, and circus. They have found an outlet to focus their pain and their suffering. To define it, and direct it back. This is episode 72 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
As Trump openly plots regime change in Venezuela, top Dems’ response ranges from silence to half-hearted opposition
Are Democrats not an opposition party—or do they just agree with what Trump is doing?
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
31,000 healthcare workers are on strike at Kaiser Permanente—and more may be joining soon
The strike began on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. Calling in from the picket line, we speak with striking Registered Nurse First Assistant Nick Eng.
