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Democracy Now!
- Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges
A federal jury last week convicted three people on felony conspiracy charges over their involvement in an anti-ICE protest in Spokane, Washington, last June. The “Spokane Three” are awaiting sentencing and face up to six years in prison for conspiracy to impede or injure ICE officers. They had attempted to block the transfer of a group of detained immigrants by sitting in front of a bus. Six of the nine protesters originally charged took plea deals, but the Spokane Three decided to fight the charges. “If I had taken a plea deal, it would have essentially been me lying and saying that I did something that I didn’t do. I didn’t assault anybody,” says Bajun Mavalwalla, a U.S. military veteran and one of the Spokane Three. “What […]
- "Revolving Door": Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief
President Donald Trump has tapped David Venturella, a former ICE official and executive at the private prison company GEO Group, to replace Todd Lyons as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GEO Group saw its profits jump from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025 as the Trump administration expanded government contracts with ICE jails nationwide. Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, says private prison companies have an “intricate” relationship with ICE. “It’s really a revolving door,” she says, pointing out that Venturella worked for ICE under Presidents Bush and Obama, then went to GEO Group before this latest appointment by President Trump. “It’s really hard to see […]
- "We Closed Our Account": Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails
We look at a growing boycott against Citizens Bank amid a campaign to pressure the corporation to divest from financing CoreCivic and GEO Group, two of the nation’s largest private operators of ICE jails. An interfaith coalition of dozens of religious groups in Boston said Citizens Bank has failed to adequately address its concern about financing private prisons, so the group has withdrawn $1 million from its estimated $14 million account with the bank and threatened to keep removing funds until its demands are met. Filmmaker Julie Cohen and journalist Paul Barrett, who are married, recently wrote an opinion piece about closing their account at Citizens Bank over its complicity with Delaney Hall and other ICE jails. “Over more than a […]
- NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall
An estimated 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, are continuing a hunger and labor strike to demand their freedom. Amid ongoing protests, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has deployed state police, who erected a barricade around the facility and have reportedly brutalized activists. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has also imposed a nightly curfew around Delaney Hall until further notice. Local investigative journalist Bob Hennelly joins Democracy Now! to talk about the ongoing hunger and labor strike, launched on May 22, and its historical implications in Newark and the rest of the country. In letters at the outset of their strike detailing the conditions in the ICE jail, detainees have “written […]
- Headlines for June 1, 2026
Trump Claims U.S. “Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran” in Fox News Interview, Israeli Troops Push Deeper into Lebanon, Capturing Medieval Beaufort Castle, Israeli Attacks Kill Two Palestinians in Gaza, 2027 National Defense Authorization Act Proposes to Integrate U.S. and Israeli Militaries, Former AG Bondi Claims She Lacked Authority in the Release of Epstein Files, Federal Judge Orders Temporary Halt to Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund for Insurrectionists, Immigrants at Delaney Hall Continue Hunger and Labor Strike Demanding Their Release, Texas Police Arrest ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant in Minneapolis, U.S. Military Strikes Vessel in Eastern Pacific, Killing Three People, Pro-Trump Right-Wing Candidate Takes Lead in First […]
Anthropocene
- Does energy efficiency reduce carbon emissions?
An argument from the 1860’s has profound consequences for modern climate policy.
- What doesn’t kill a soil microbe makes it stronger
Decades of agricultural stress appear to have forged unusually heat-resistant microbial communities. Researchers think cropland soils could be transplanted to restore fragile ecosystems.
The Guardian
- Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan Omar
Trump and Republicans are not interested in combatting fraud and corruption. They are interested in ransacking the public good for their own profitDonald Trump called me “crooked as hell” as he spread lies about the fraud that occurred in Minnesota. Any keen observer will recognize the pattern of inciting hostility against me and the Somali community whenever his own failures and corruption catches up to him. He routinely reaches for the same tired playbook of lies, racism and deflection.This is not a new strategy. Lyndon B Johnson once said: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his […]
- ‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening.Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a […]
- Trump reportedly mulling retreat from $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund
Democrats decry president’s ‘most brazen act of self-dealing yet’ and vow to challenge fund in CongressDonald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order.Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund has faced legal setbacks since it was announced two weeks ago. The idea has also faced a mounting political backlash from Republicans concerned by a lack of oversight and the possibility of payouts to participants in the January 6 2021 riot at the US Capitol. Continue reading...
- Trump news at a glance: Trump mediates between Israel and Hezbollah in effort to salvage Iran peace talks
Tehran says Israel’s operation in Lebanon is violation of existing ceasefire with US, throwing wrench in planned peace talks – key US politics stories from Monday 1 JunePeace talks planned between the US and Iran are in limbo yet again, sparked by the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said “unequivocal violation of the ceasefire on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts” and the US and Israel would be held responsible. A news agency aligned to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Tehran was suspending its participation in talks designed to end the blockade of the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...
- Pentagon bars journalists from entering its press office citing re-designation
Revocation of access newest attempt by Trump’s defense department to restrict reporting on military affairsJournalists may no longer enter the Pentagon’s press office, which has been designated as a classified space amid growing moves to restrict press access to the defense department.“This is the most transparent war department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change that,” Jose Valdez, the acting defense department press secretary, said in a social media post. “The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility.” Continue reading...
Aeon
- Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments- by Dorian BandyRead on Aeon
The Conversation
- In Iran war’s shadow, Israel’s renewed Lebanon campaign risks repeating failed lessons – and occupations – of the past
Unable to defeat Iran, Israel shifts its focus to Lebanon, fearing U.S. negotiations with Tehran could limit operations against Hezbollah.
- The World Cup and human trafficking: What the research reveals about the real risks at major sporting events
Public awareness campaigns around the World Cup and other sporting events are well intentioned – but not backed by research.
- Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white
Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
- For 2 centuries, Latter-day Saints have revered religious freedom – but their definition is evolving
Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
- What happens to debt when someone dies?
Whether or not there’s a will, the results are the same.
Inter Press Service
- Increased Rates of Deaths, Displacement and Diesel Amid New Ceasefire Escalations in Lebanon
Last week on May 28, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) issued an evacuation order to Lebanese civilians ordering them to move north of the Zahrani River, approximately 25 miles from the Israeli border, and roughly 20 percent of the Lebanese territory. These new escalations bring the displaced population to more than 1.3 million people, including
- World Environment Day, 2026
2025 was one of the three hottest years ever recorded. The years from 2015 to 2025 were the hottest eleven years on record. The planet is now about 1.43 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average. The oceans are absorbing heat at a staggering rate — about eighteen times humanity’s annual energy use each
- Bhutan’s WTO Path: Learning from the Global South
Bhutan’s decision to restart its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) comes at an important junction. Since graduating from Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2023, the country is entering a new phase of development, which requires stronger competitiveness, deeper global engagement and greater economic resilience. Yet Bhutan’s experience is not only about joining
Sludge
- The Dark Money Network Attacking Graham Platner
Two shadowy Delaware nonprofits have pumped $750,000 into attack ads against Graham Platner. One faces a federal straw donor complaint, and both are part of a sprawling dark money network with ties to AIPAC, Kristi Noem, and a Hakeem Jeffries-aligned super PAC.
Grist
- Why is this Trump official dead set on saving a failing California dam?
Brooke Rollins’s latest culture war crusade threatens a delicate compromise between Potter Valley farmers and nearby tribes.
- The hidden cost of owning an EV: Expensive insurance
Electric vehicle insurance costs an average of 42 percent more than it does for other cars.
- The fight to protect pollinators and people from the ‘pesticides that are everywhere’
Neonics are contaminating ecosystems and communities.
Truthout
- New Jersey Governor Acquiesces to DHS, Deploys Police Outside Delaney Hall
“There has been collaboration in the tactics [ICE and the police] used to attack the protesters,” said an activist.
- Utah Senate President Calls for Major Reduction in Scale of Planned Data Center
The project, backed by celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary, has spurred major controversy amid Utah's water challenges.
- Iranian Media Says Iran Is Suspending Talks With US Over Ceasefire Violations
“We now live in a world where ceasefire means that Israel can continue bombing,” said a Lebanese professor.
Labor Notes
- Oil Tanker Mates Fight for First Contract Against Familiar Employer Stalling Tactics
Imagine sleeping each night above more than a million barrels of oil while navigating the open ocean, maneuvering through narrow channels, and passing beneath bridges in some of the country’s most congested waterways. The hours are long, the work is physically demanding, and the risks are ever present.
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