Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he would soon force a vote in the Senate on two joint resolutions to block the Trump administration from selling an additional $8.8 billion in certain bombs and weapons to Israel in the next week. While the...
“New York’s shield law was created to protect patients and providers,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. On Thursday, a New York county clerk refused to file a Texas court judgment of over $100,000 against a New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas. “New York is grateful for...
As Republican lawmakers wage an all-out assault on transgender people, Democrats are reportedly “reshuffling.” In a recent article, sources told NOTUS that the party is attempting to adjust its tone on trans issues following its crushing losses in the 2024 election, instead seeking a sort of middle ground that won’t “inflame” voters. The myth that...
We’re joined by the four-time Grammy-winning musician Macklemore, a vocal proponent of Palestinian rights and critic of U.S. foreign policy. He serves as executive producer for the new documentary The Encampments, which follows last year’s student occupations of college campuses to protest U.S. backing of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. He tells Democracy Now! why...
Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza for over three weeks, the longest total aid blockade so far. Palestinian children in Gaza are so hungry that they’re drawing pictures of food in the sand, according to a Gaza reporter, as the population is being starved by the most brutal form of Israel’s aid blockade...
Three-quarters of Americans are troubled by the administration’s use of Signal to discuss military plans, polling shows. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) is reportedly drafting articles of impeachment against three Trump administration officials who discussed U.S. plans to bomb Yemen in a Signal group chat that came to light after a journalist was mistakenly added...
The Trump administration seemingly labeled hundreds of Venezuelan people in the U.S. as gang members simply because they had tattoos, defying court orders earlier this month in order to send them to a torture center in El Salvador. Mother Jones reports in an article published Wednesday that numerous families of deported Venezuelan men say that...
A push to claw back a process-oriented change in New York’s criminal legal code shows just how readily Democrats will capitulate to carceral demands in 2025. After years of advocacy, New York lawmakers passed a suite of criminal legal system reforms in 2019. The hard-won changes included the elimination of cash bail for most misdemeanor...
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. More than a dozen legal groups bankrolled by tens of millions in dark money tied to a conservative judicial mastermind are urging the Supreme Court to kneecap federal agencies’ ability to protect...
J.D. Vance said it was “excellent” that a strike collapsed a building. Thirteen civilians died, according to one count. Trump administration officials effectively admitted to and celebrated a war crime when discussing the U.S.’s airstrikes on Yemen earlier this month, a House Democrat and policy experts have said, citing newly leaked messages published by The...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica....
The top Democrat on the U.S. House committee tasked with holding the Trump administration accountable said Tuesday during a debate on a Republican proposal that the GOP knows President Donald Trump cannot legally “‘delete’ whole federal agencies” or “take a chainsaw to beloved programs like Social Security and Medicaid.” “Congressional Republicans also know these dangerous,...
Treatment for those struggling with opioid addiction in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is about to get a lot worse, warn a former BOP case manager and a medical professional who recently left the agency. The BOP directed staff about a month ago to require all participants in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs to switch...
The Gaza hospital director has faced relentless torture in his three months in Israel’s camps, his legal team says. An Israeli court upheld and extended north Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya’s detention in a notorious Israeli torture camp for another six months on Tuesday, based on “secret evidence” submitted by prosecutors. The decision by the...
The Social Security benefits of millions of people in the United States are at risk as the Trump administration institutes drastic changes billed as “anti-fraud” measures, but which critics say are aimed at weakening the popular program and potentially laying the groundwork to privatize it. The Social Security Administration has already shuttered dozens of offices...