Jacobin
- How Local Elected Officials Are Trying to Check ICE
Ending the collection of vehicle location data. Campaigns to pause evictions. Strict limits on where agents can operate. Restrictions on who can collaborate with them. As Congress has come under bitter criticism for failing to enact stringent enough restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents more broadly, these
- The UAW Is Leading the Push for Green Jobs in California
Can unions lead the push toward an environmentally sustainable future, and secure more good jobs in the process? With the Trump administration attacking federal investments in green industries from electrical vehicles to wind, the United Auto Workers (UAW) is attempting this strategy at the state level in California. Last summer, the union issued a report
- Diego Rivera Was the Painter of the Mexican Revolution
The art of Diego Rivera is inseparable from the revolution that Mexico experienced in the early twentieth century and the state that was built in its aftermath. The revolutionary process began in 1910, when Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled Mexico for thirty-four years, announced that there were going to be presidential elections. Díaz had overseen
- Don’t Expect a Refund for Your Tariff-Inflated Expenses
Now that Donald Trump’s tariffs have been ruled illegal, the government may be on the hook for up to $170 billion of refunds of levies that were unduly collected. Consumers might have been in a position to have some sense of how much of those refunds they are personally owed. But President Donald Trump and
- The Genocide in Gaza Has Not Ended
The destruction of the Gaza Strip that has unfolded since October 7, 2023, is unparalleled even among past Israeli crimes. Some estimates say that over 80 percent of material infrastructure has been destroyed, and even Israeli forces admit a death toll of over 70,000. Since the so-called ceasefire began, the Israeli military has continued bulldozing
Dissident Voice
- Canada’s Filth Business
A history of repression in Canada. Yves Engler is the latest victim. Mark Carney wants a Zionist Palestine state. And Canadians see the US as their main threat. And why wouldn’t they? The post Canada’s Filth Business appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- The Rise and Fail of the Griftocrats
I have been writing for decades that Oprah Winfrey was a more effective force insofar as retailing capitalist propaganda than the Joseph Goebbels’ progeny of Fox News/NewsMax outrage peddlers and the corporate-funded nomenklatura/apparatchik clowns of the rightwing think tank shit-circuses. Oprah’s grift emanates from the same capitalist ideological snake oil of self-bootstraps transcendence; withal, if The post The Rise and Fail of the Griftocrats appeared first on Dissident Voice.
- The War in Ukraine at Four
It is old hat for those who know a bit about peace that it cannot be created by looking only at the various types of violence employed. The world’s focus on the Ukrainian battlefield and its characteristic mixing up ceasefire with peace is misplaced. One has to ask: And why did they take to violence The post The War in Ukraine at Four appeared first on Dissident Voice.
Mother Jones
- The Trump Administration’s Favorite Nuclear Startup Has Ties to Russia and Epstein
At 26, Isaiah Taylor had accomplished more than most people do by the time they’re twice his age. The founder of Valar Atomics, a Southern California-based company that aims to make small-scale nuclear reactors, Taylor, a father of four, has government contracts, invitations to Mar-a-Lago, and investments from some of the biggest names in Silicon
- Trump May Force Banks to Demand Your Papers. Survivors of Abuse Will Pay.
The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would compel banks to collect citizenship information from customers, new and existing, who want to maintain service in the United States, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal. This potential escalation in the administration’s campaign against non-US citizens would also add more hurdles for
- Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya Refugee Dumped by Border Patrol, Dies in Cold
On Tuesday evening, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area. He was 56. The story of Shah Alam’s
- Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Proves Devoted to MAHA’s Dangerous Talking Points
President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, wellness influencer Casey Means, parroted various MAHA talking points throughout a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, while deflecting on key issues such as vaccines and birth control. Some of Means’ responses even appeared to contradict previous public health-related statements she’s made in order to fall in line with the
- Watch: Gregory Bovino Asks Our Journalist to Bake Him a Pie
It all started when Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted that “Gregory Bovino has to go.” Bovino—the erstwhile roving warlord atop President Donald Trump’s Border Patrol junta—had other ideas. And those ideas involved armed federal agents. And pie. “Nah, gubner, too busy leading agents to arrest illegal aliens,” Bovino responded. “Besides, Chicago may need another double
The Real News Network
- Cuba says men on Florida boat ‘intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes’
The Cuban Interior Ministry said it detained seven people involved in the plot, including one who “had allegedly been sent from the United States to facilitate the landing and reception of the armed group.”
- Hegseth demands Anthropic let military use AI however it wants—even for autonomous killer drones and spying on Americans
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.
- ICE is using the same Microsoft tech Israel uses to surveil and kill Palestinians
“A lot of the surveillance technology that's coming for us in North America is framed as ‘battle tested’ in Palestine.”
The Progressive
- The Right to Discriminate
States are fighting to overturn rules meant to help trans youth.
- Why the Rent-Control Movement Is Growing
The only way to overcome the real estate industry is to have a unified, people-power rent-control movement.
- Arrested for Political Dissent
An artist and former Dreamer moved a box of zines. Now he faces felony charges and possible deportation.
Z Network
- Living Hell: Israel’s Prison System as an Instrument of Oppression
In January 2026, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a grim update to its earlier work, titled Living Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps. This report documents the horrific conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and detention facilities, revealing structural brutality that must be understood not as
- Trump’s 2026 SOTU Speech: Economic Obfuscation & Political Theatre
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech was historic—but only in the sense of the longest ever at 1 hour and 47 minutes. Apart from that, the speech was one third misrepresentations about the state of the American economy followed by more than an hour of pure political theater which has come to increasingly feature
- Europe’s New Asylum Rule Will Be Its “ICE Moment”
Europe is about to normalise offshore asylum processing — and with it, a more distant and less accountable model of deportation. New EU rules will allow governments to fast-track claims by sending applicants to “safe” third countries – including places they have never even set foot in. This reform signals a retreat from the human rights-centred migration model Europe has
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
FAIR
- Corporate Media Mock Chicago Teachers for Trying to Help Their Community
Billionaire-owned media outlets have framed teachers' advocacy for their students and communities as self-serving.
- Media Focus on Epstein’s Powerful Friends Erases Their Victims
Most elite media coverage has focused not on Epstein’s victims, but on the lifestyles of Jeffrey Epstein and his rich and famous friends.
- ‘The Risk Is Reporting This Like It’s a Normal Political Story’: CounterSpin interview with Ari Berman on attacks on voting
"While it's been portrayed as about 2020, I think the bigger reason they want the ballots is about 2026 and 2028."
Counterpunch
- Trump or Hegseth Spore to Killer Bot: a Glyph
The post Trump or Hegseth Spore to Killer Bot: a Glyph appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Secession, Anyone?
Alberta is poised to hold a referendum on seceding from Canada later this year, and supporters of independence credit Trump’s disruptive energy for adding fuel to their movement. —Wall Street Journal, February 2026. Consider this: if you would ever try To take an oblong tray that’s full of water Clear across a room, you would More The post Secession, Anyone? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- ICE Brings the War Home
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado. They took the people away in handcuffs, according to a witness, and left the cars idling at the side of the road. When family members of the disappeared immigrants arrived, there was no sign of their loved ones. What they found instead were customized ace of spades playing cards that read “ICE Denver Field Office.” More The post ICE Brings the War Home appeared first on CounterPunch.org.