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Civil Rights Lawyer: SCOTUS Voting Rights Ruling Is “Free Pass to Discriminate”
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state.
Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory
“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.
Iran Isn’t Begging for Negotiations. It’s Setting the Terms for Ending the War.
“The [Trump] administration is desperate to find some form of an off-ramp,” says Drop Site News' Jeremy Scahill.
Chicago Teachers Are Organizing to Fight Beyond a Day of Action on May Day
Jackson Potter, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, wants people to build “organized power at every level.”
Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients
Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks about the administration's effort to “weaponize the court system” against immigrants.
Trump Administration Moves to Bring Back Firing Squads in Effort to Ramp Up Executions
“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy," said Sister Helen Prejean.
As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse
Organizers also channeled mass outrage into long-haul organizing for immigration justice in Oklahoma and beyond.
Musk and Silicon Valley Aren’t Libertarian. They Want to Fuse With the State.
Big Tech seeks “a closer relationship to the state than they had before,” says author Quinn Slobodian.
Prolonged Closure of Strait of Hormuz May Lead to Global Hunger Catastrophe
A global food crisis is unfolding amid “the worst debt crisis on record” for developing countries, says Adam Hanieh.
Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities
Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.