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As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong

Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle — if not the wrong side of history — for most of the last couple of years. Flock’s automated license plate readers (ALPR…

Unionbusting is About Power, Not Money - Lawyers, Guns & Money

For the cost of what employers pay their unionbusting firms, they could just use that money to pay their workers: Amazon alone spent $26 million dollars on this, with the hospital companies holding much of the rest of the top 10. These reports represent only a fraction of the total money spent on anti-union campaign […]

“This Is the Real Belfast”: Major Antiracist Rally Condemns Anti-Immigrant Riots

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is in Belfast, where several days of racist riots have targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities with violence, threats and property destruction. It is the third consecutive summer of organized mob violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland, with roots in the extant paramilitary structures that remain there after decades of sectarian warfare. Our broadcast from the Northern Ireland capital features guests Sinéad Marmion, an immigration lawyer, and Patrick Cor

‘Misuse’ of Crowd Control Weapons on ICE Protesters Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries, Report Finds

It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

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Immigrant workers launch largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years

“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: Frederick Douglass Speech Read by James Earl Jones

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The late actor James Earl Jones read the historic address during a performance of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, whi

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No union dues for genocide: Inside the historic UAW vote to divest from Israel

“With this vote, we're really proud to finally be respecting the call from the Palestinian trade union movement so that we can stand in solidarity—as American, Canadian, and Puerto Rican workers here in the UAW—with members of the working class in Palestine.”

We Should Pick Democrats Who Don't Suck - Lawyers, Guns & Money

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain urges Democrats to maybe pick Democrats who don’t suck by being pro-corporate hacks who fuck over workers. We call on elected officials to pick a side. You can fight for the working class or do the bidding of billionaires and corporations, but you cannot do both. If Democrats want […]

The Fight Over Trans Girls’ Sports Participation Moves to the November Ballot

This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Meet...

Taxing Billionaires Is the Easiest Way Democrats Could Gain Voter Trust

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The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations Is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

Several years ago, before he was elected as a U.S. senator from Montana, Tim Sheehy was running an aerial firefighting business that was struggling to secure clients and desperately hunting for cash to build out a fleet of aircraft. Then he found a lifeline: As Mr. Sheehy has told the story over the years, Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman of the private equity group Blackstone Inc., helped steer a $150 million investment from his company into Mr. Sheehy’s.

Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”

A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded. Ei

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On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - The American Prospect

The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich.

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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The Teamsters picket Amazon in Baltimore to demand company rehire fired unionized drivers in California

Striking Amazon workers from California came to Baltimore to picket the company's BWI5 warehouse. TRNN was on the ground speaking to strikers and local union and community members who came out to show support for them.

Medicaid Work Requirements Squeeze Community Health Centers

Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years.And CEO Brad Meyer fears times will soon get worse for the clinic and its 21,000 patients. That’s because Nebraska is set to become the first state to require certain Medicaid enrollees to work or lose their coverage under new rules in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Republicans Want to pull state funding from HBCU in SC

A tiny California tribe just donated $2 million to MAGA Inc. Here’s why.

A case study on how everything has a price in Trump’s Washington.

Heterosexuality During Wartime

Last fall, I sat down to watch newly rebranded “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth stalk around a stage with the energy of a cocaine-addled banker (with a dash of high school wrestler taking his loss out on his girlfriend). The subject of his speech, to a roomful of what are often euphemistically called military brass, was to hammer home the point that the military had gone soft, woke, and girly.

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DeSantis vetoes funds for financial literacy, food insecurity in Orlando, and more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the FY 2026-27 state budget into law on June 29, 2026. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed about $810 million in line-item

'I figured there was some quid pro quo. I just didn’t think it would be that brazen.'

Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by over 5 million people (nearly 13 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and June 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It With Palantir

The Trump administration’s continual trend towards maximum awfulness means that every report seems to be “I’ve got bad news and I’ve got worse news.” What was already …

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A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock cameras

Carl Gunn in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 25, 2026. Photo by Valerie Smith. Carl Gunn, 77, was concerned for his privacy when he spotted a camera

The sanewashing of Elon Musk - Lawyers, Guns & Money

As Jamelle Bouie points out, Elon Musk spends a great deal of time on the social media site he owns both personally pushing and amplifying themes directly derived from prominent works of violent white supremacy, attracting very little attention from the mainstream press: Over the past month in particular, he has adopted the imagery of […]

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Budget Cuts, Apathy Lead To Trump Administration Being Slow Acknowledging Two Cyclosporiasis Deaths

A couple of weeks ago we discussed how the cuts made to HHS and specifically the CDC’s FoodNet tracking platform were making it much harder to track and back trace the source of the country&#…