'They Came to the Wrong Community': Neighbors Form Human Chain to Stop ICE From Arresting Longtime Nashville Residentcommondreams.org Two ICE agents who attempted to detain a man in Nashville's Hermitage neighborhood early on Monday morning "came to the wrong community," according …
New York City 'This is What the Climate Crisis Looks Like': One Day After Crushing Heat Wave, Flash Floods Inundate New York Citycommondreams.org "Looks like New York City declared their climate emergency just in time."Less than a month after New York City declared a climate emergency, the …
Wildfires Satellite Images Ignite Alarm Over 'Unprecedented' Scale and Planet-Heating Emissions of Raging Arctic Wildfirescommondreams.org On the heels of several studies revealing that last month was the hottest June in recorded history, new satellite images show that wildfires in the …
Kabul 'An Insult to All Afghans': Kabul Outraged After Trump Floats Plan to Kill Millions, Wipe Afghanistan Off Face of the Earthcommondreams.org The U.S. president said he has not acted on the plan because he doesn't "want to kill 10 million people"Kabul reacted with outrage and demanded …
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson—Denounced as "Liar, Racist, and Donald Trump's Poodle"—Elected by Tory Party to Become New UK Prime Ministercommondreams.org "Around 100,000 Tory Party members have inflicted on us a prime minister with a record of bigotry, racism, lying, and incompetence, Boris Johnson," …
Richard Neal 'Why Is He So Afraid?': Congress Urged to Fight Back Against Trump Lawsuit to Keep Tax Returns Hiddencommondreams.org "This is yet another desperate attempt by Donald Trump to block congressional oversight and obscure the truth from the American people about his …
Debbie Stabenow 'Unconscionable': Trump USDA Proposes New Rule to Strip Food Stamps From Over 3 Million Americanscommondreams.org The proposal, said Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, would "take food away from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder …
Yvette Clarke To Keep Public Housing From Becoming 'Panopticon of Automated Face Scanning,' Democrats Push Facial Recognition Bancommondreams.org Privacy and civil liberties advocates applauded Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Yvette Clarke on Tuesday as they prepared to introduce legislation to protect …
Play buttonNAACP 'Unfit to Serve': NAACP Delegates Vote Unanimously for Trump Impeachmentcommondreams.org "We will make sure," said president and CEO Derrick Johnson, "that the NAACP is at the forefront of pushing Congress to proceed with the impeachment …
Candida Auris 'This Is the Beginning': New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbugcommondreams.org A new analysis warns that "global warming may have played a pivotal role" in the recent rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug, sparking …
South Texas With 18-Year-Old US Citizen in DHS Custody for Nearly a Month, Rights Advocates Demand Immediate Releasecommondreams.org The weeks-long detention of an 18-year-old U.S. citizen in South Texas prompted the latest calls on Tuesday for an immediate end to the Trump …
Rhode Island 'Big Win' for Rhode Island in Court Battle to Make Polluters Pay for Consequences of Climate Crisiscommondreams.org In what one advocate called a "big win" for climate liability litigation, a federal judge on Monday remanded Rhode Island's lawsuit targeting 21 …
India 'Amateurish and Delusional' Comments From Trump on Mediating Kashmir Dispute Set Off Political Row in Indiacommondreams.org "Everyone who knows anything about foreign policy in South Asia knows that India consistently opposes third-party mediation re Kashmir."Comments from …
Nancy Pelosi "It's as Bad as It Looks": Pelosi Under Fire for Debt Ceiling Deal That Hands GOP Power to Kneecap Progressive Agendacommondreams.org "It sets up a crisis of the first year of the next president's administration," said a former congressional staffer. "We're letting them light the …
Richard NealCiting Corporate Ties and Lack of 'Urgency,' Progressive Mayor Launches Primary Bid to Unseat Powerful Democrat Richardcommondreams.org A progressive mayor who was born the same year Democratic Rep. Richard Neal took office announced Monday that he is challenging the House Ways and …
Elizabeth Warren 'Warning Lights Are Flashing,' Says Elizabeth Warren, Detailing Plan to Stave Off Impending Financial Crisiscommondreams.org Democratic presidential hopeful warns of "a number of serious shocks on the horizon that could cause our economy's shaky foundation to …
Ilhan OmarAs Trump Tweets More Racism on His Way To 'Pay Respect' to Justice Stevens, Ilhan Omar Calls for Cancelling Student Debtcommondreams.org "Trump continues to foment hate and racism that is endangering the lives of women of color in Congress and so many others. We all need to call it …
Elizabeth Warren Progressive Straw Poll Shows Sanders Leading 2020 Democrats, With Green New Deal and Medicare for All Top Prioritiescommondreams.org "There is no doubt that, in 2020, Democrats are better positioned to nominate an unapologetic champion for progressive values for president than …
Palestinian Authority'Ethnic Cleansing With Impunity': Israel Denounced for Demolishing Dozens of Palestinian Homes in Violation of Internationalcommondreams.org Global outcry erupted on Monday—with one critic condemning the move as "ethnic cleansing with impunity"—after Israeli forces demolished dozens of …
Iran 'The Bolton Gambit Succeeded': Critics Warn Top Trump Adviser Has Put UK on Path to War With Irancommondreams.org "By threatening Iran with 'serious consequences,' without knowing what that may entail, Britain blindly dances to the beat of [U.S. national security …
Ricardo Rosselló 'He Needs to Go!' Hundreds of Thousands Set to Pour Into Streets as Puerto Rico Gov. Rosselló Refuses to Resigncommondreams.org "The people are not going to go away. That's what he's hoping for, but we outnumber him."As mass street protests demanding his immediate resignation …
Medicare Trump's Medicare Chief: 'I View a Public Option and Medicare for Allcommondreams.org Seem Verma, President Donald Trump's administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), came out swinging on Monday against the …
United States Warning of New 'Show Me Your Papers' Era, Rights Advocates Vow to Fight Unlawful Trump Plan for Expedited Deportationscommondreams.org In a move that rights advocates say will result in the unlawful deportation of thousands, the Trump administration on Monday announced it would …
Play buttonMauna Kea Native Hawaiians Continue Protest a Week After Telescope Construction Was Set to Start on Sacred Landcommondreams.org A week after construction was scheduled to resume on a long-delayed $1.4 billion telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea—a dormant volcano on Hawaii's …
Ricardo Rosselló 'The People Have Spoken': Estimated 400,000 Puerto Ricans Flood Streets to Demand Rosselló Resign Immediatelycommondreams.org "For him to think he can keep governing for another year and a half as if nothing has happened is insulting to our core."Hours after Gov. Ricardo …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Trump's Agenda Driven by 'Ethnicity and Racism'commondreams.org At town hall event, New York Democrat says Trump "relished" racist chant directed at fellow lawmakerRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sustained her …
Play buttonGlaciers To Call Attention to "What's Being Lost" to Climate Crisis, Former Glacier to Receive Monumentcommondreams.org "With this memorial, we want to underscore that it is up to us, the living, to collectively respond to the rapid loss of glaciers and the ongoing …
Greta Thunberg Bestowed With "Freedom Prize," Greta Thunberg Holds Up D-Day Veteran's Call to Avert Collapse of Civilizationcommondreams.org Climate activist praises "the most powerful words on the climate and ecological emergency I've ever heard."Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday …
Bernie Sanders 'This Man Can Beat Trump': Sanders Viewed Most Favorably of 2020 Democratic Candidatescommondreams.org 'This Man Can Beat Trump': Sanders Viewed Most Favorably of 2020 Democratic CandidatesA new Gallup poll showed that Bernie Sanders is the most …
