Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed today amid massive student-led protests over school funding and inequality. The demonstrations began in September at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats, fallingContinue Reading
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May, in part due to cuts in global health investments, like the dismantling of USAID. Since then, overContinue Reading
More than 200 conservation organizations sent a letter today urging Congress to oppose the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” introduced by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Mike Lee (R-Utah). The bill includes sweeping attacks on the Endangered Species Act thatContinue Reading
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In a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed the brakes on $7 billion worth of corrupt construction contracts,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the CenterContinue Reading
“They are very f**king stupid. I mean, really stupid. They’re stupider than I ever thought,” De Niro said of the The Traitor administration., Read MoreContinue Reading
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Apologies for invoking the awful noise that never stops. But a month before mid-terms, a fascist feckless clown show run by the dumbest people imaginable churns on with their lies, bribes, cruelty, crude racism, their flailing leader grows ever more perilous, and fiery patriots remind us we cannot grow weary.Continue Reading
US President Traitor 47 has signed an executive order expanding access to tax-exempt diesel as record fuel prices pose a political risk ahead of the November midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress…Continue Reading
An excerpt from pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil’s new book.Continue Reading
Someone must do the unglamorous work of turning vouchers into signed leases and stable tenancies.Continue Reading
CNN’s star data analyst said 1 particular Democratic victory would have the party’s chances of retaking the Senate “going up like a rocket.”, Read MoreContinue Reading