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After more than two years of Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, over 72,000 Palestinians are dead and more than 171,000 are injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Amid these enormous losses, we are observing Eid al-Fitr, the “festival of breaking the fast” that takes place at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The last four celebrations of Eid in Gaza have been marked by the…
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Idaho Republicans have passed a bill that would hit Boise with $2,000 in fines every single day it flies a Pride flag and it’s now one signature away from becoming law.
https://www.kpvi.com/news/regional_news/idaho-senate-passes-bill-to-fine-the-city-of-boise-for-flying-lgbtq-pride-flag/article_89896089-8fbc-5b17-b6da-23dfd7e648e1.html
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The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S.
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Trump claims ICE is doing such a “wonderful” job running airports that they’re also completely incapable of handling it and now they need the National Guard to help. 🙄
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A signature piece of voting legislation championed by President Donald Trump may not have much of a future in the U.S. Senate, but in Florida, the future is here. Earlier this month, Republican lawmakers in Trump’s home state approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s voter registration system, one that mirrors the core idea behind the federal SAVE America Act: requiring proof of citizenship…
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At 15, with my skinny legs swinging off the exam table, I sat and listened as my gynecologist stood before me with serious eyes and told me that I had a high risk of developing cancer someday. It was a shocking message to get as a teenager; nonetheless, I made immediate decisions to protect myself. I stayed on birth control pills for years despite wild swings of emotion…
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Dubbed the “Queen of Conspiracy” and a “modern Sherlock Holmes,” Mae Brussell (1922-1988), the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles rabbi and a Beverly Hills housewife, became one of the 20th century’s foremost researchers of the so-called “deep state.”[1] The latter concept implies a hidden aspect of the U.S. government dominated by the CIA and […]
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The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend. Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, which will accept him as a refugee, and is fighting his removal to another third…
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The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind. The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States paying $928 million to reimburse…
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An appeals court cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting immigrants to third countries (not their home countries) while the case plays out. Third-country deportations are wrong.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896.00108417272.0.pdf
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether the Trump administration can turn away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-asylum-seekers.html
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is demanding “urgent answers” from Attorney General Pam Bondi over a memo suggesting that President Donald Trump may have used the classified documents he improperly removed from the White House at the end of his first term for his own financial gain. In his letter, Raskin said the memo in question — which…
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President Donald Trump dubiously claimed on Tuesday that the U.S. and Israel have already “won” their war on Iran, blaming the media for the continuation of the war as news emerges that the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops to the Middle East. “We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” Trump said in remarks to the media on Tuesday, parroting the same claims of victory he’s asserted for…
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As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to launch major strikes on Iran, while Iran has retaliated by repeatedly striking Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates…
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Pope Leo XIV has said that aerial bombings should have been banned forever after the wars of the 20th century, carving out the strong anti-war stance amid a backdrop of a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that has received international condemnation for its wanton civilian slaughter. The pope made his remarks in an address to the staff of Italian carrier ITA Airways on Monday, where he tied papal air…
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A win! A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from arresting and detaining refugees who haven’t obtained a green card within a year of arriving in the U.S.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.296756/gov.uscourts.mad.296756.1.0.pdf
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Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully…
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The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…
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The Pentagon handed Elon Musk’s xAI access to classified military networks.
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John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare. He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment tripled this year to $2,460, about a third of his income, he said. And with a $2,700 deductible, he’d be on the hook for most of the diagnostic exam…
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You might be wondering why Trump is deploying ICE agents and now threatening the National Guard to airports. It’s not about helping TSA or improving security. It’s a test run.
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What do Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela, and Thomas Sankara have in common? The answer is simple: All three were intent on meeting with the leaders of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei. All three knew what it meant to liberate a people from colonialism; all three knew imperialism well; and all three recognized […]
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to deport nearly 300 veterans and their family members in Donald Trump’s first year back in office, according to new data released by Democratic lawmakers, despite protections offered to those officers when they joined the military. Between Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and January 26, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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Fascism depends on our compliance. Authoritarians know they cannot sustain rule by individually repressing each person in the country. They use threats and violence to inflict fear — a primary weapon to force compliance. If fear is their strategy for compliance, then we need a strategy for sustaining dissent. Amid Trump’s unjustified and illegal war on Iran, many of us need space to…
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The best thing we saw today was Trump begging for help from NATO and European allies. The responses? Priceless. Thank you for making us smile.
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The Israeli Defense Forces killed a Palestinian couple and two of their children in the West Bank on Sunday, on one of the deadliest days for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in weeks. The soldiers opened fire on a car in the village of Tammun in which 37-year-old Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, his 35-year-old wife Waad, and their four sons Mohammad, Othman, Mustafa, and Khaled were traveling.
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The first bill that Tarra Simmons passed restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated Washingtonians. That was in 2021, the year after she was elected Washington’s first formerly incarcerated state representative. “That was my freshman bill,” she told Truthout. The following year, the state passed her bill to expand housing assistance vouchers from three to six months for people…
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US President Donald Trump late Sunday floated “treason” charges against media outlets that he accused of reporting false information about the Iran war as the human and economic costs of his illegal military assault continued to mount. In a tirade posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that media outlets he accused of circulating “fake news” should “be brought up on Charges for…
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Florida really surprised us yesterday. Thank you to everyone who showed up and voted!
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Israel is planning to use Gaza as a “model” for its expanding assault on Lebanon, its defense minister said on Sunday as he pledged to begin the demolition of homes in border villages. In a statement Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to “immediately destroy all the bridges over the Litani River that are…
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Reports from White House officials say Trump was hoping the Iran war would boost his approval ratings. It hasn’t worked. So now the administration has moved on to phase two is controlling what you see on TV.
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Sixty-five-year-old Kristy Madden works to coordinate government-funded assistance for disabled people and others in need of in-home care. But while she loves her job, she worries that, if the Trump administration has its way, access to this essential aid may be eliminated. “I have muscular dystrophy (MD) and live with my younger sister who also has MD,” Madden says.
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Israel announced on Monday that it is expanding its ground in southern Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah as Israel’s defense minister pledges that “hundreds of thousands” of people already forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks “will not return” for the indefinite future. In a statement, Israeli forces said that soldiers are carrying out “limited and targeted ground operations” in…
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A couple of days ago, Kash Patel’s finest showed up at a Dildo Distribution Delegate’s door. They saw the dildos. They emotionally compartmentalized the dildos. And then, in a stunning act of professional restraint, they chose not to acknowledge the dildos.
It was the morning after we secured, transported, and worked to unpack and repack 6,600 dildos.
Six thousand six hundred physical, rubber, unapologetically detailed dildos that had been unloaded, unwrapped, de-plasticed, sorted, counted, stacked, and psychologically imprinted on every volunteer involved.
The warehouse smelled like sweat and determination.
Hands were sore. Backs were shot. At least one person had seen so many dildos in such a short period of time that their brain had simply stopped assigning meaning to the concept of time entirely.
That person had certainly earned the right to go home and relax in the comfort of his bathrobe.
And then — because the universe has a sense of humor so sharp it should arguably be registered as a weapon — someone knocked on the door.
Two FBI agents.
Real ones. With badges. With guns. With training. With what used to be promising careers.
Standing on a doorstep because somewhere, deep in the federal bureaucracy, a sentence had been typed that read something like:
“We may have a situation involving several thousand dildos.”
And instead of deleting that sentence and going outside for some fresh air, someone hit “send.”
The Delegate opened the door.
Behind him, on the counter, sat two dildos.
Not hidden. Not subtle. Not tucked away like a shameful secret.
No. These were front-and-center. Upright. Suction-cupped. Locked in like they were awaiting further instructions from Command.
The FBI looked directly at them.
Made eye contact with them.
Mentally cataloged them.
And then did what can only be described as the most heroic act of denial in modern law enforcement history:
They pretended the dildos did not exist.
Instead, the agents asked questions including, “How do they organize?”
The Delegate, wrapped in the constitutional authority of “none of your fucking business,” provided exactly zero useful answers.
The agents left.
And somewhere in that car, in the quiet hum of government upholstery, one of them most likely asked,
“Are we seriously doing dildo work now?”
And the other one, staring straight ahead, said nothing. Because the answer was yes.
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Donald Trump painted his military campaign in Iran with the same gold shine as his plans for the new Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in remarks on Monday—but despite his assured posturing, he is asking for help.
The president’s comments came at a press conference prior to a Monday vote among Kennedy Center board members on whether to close the institution temporarily for repairs. Trump previously insisted the building was in disrepair and that its programming was “woke,” pushing Congress to appropriate $257 million via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to fund renovations.
In Iran, the president has created more serious problems. In the same Monday remarks, despite claiming that the US military had bombed Iran’s mine-laying ships to the extent that vessels could safely transit the Strait of Hormuz, an essential passageway in the Persian Gulf where roughly 20 percent of global crude oil and natural gas flows, Trump reiterated calls on allies to help reopen the shipping lane.
“Every one of [the mine-laying ships] is gone, but it only takes one,” Trump stated. “It’s a little unfair [given] you win a war.”
“You need people to watch and people to see,” he added.
On Monday, Trump said that some nations were “enthusiastic” to help. But that appears to be an overstatement, as many NATO countries have refused Trump’s request for naval and other military support. And on receiving a tepid response, Trump warned allies on Sunday about a “very bad” future if they did not help, and complained at his Monday press conference that the US was not receiving reimbursement for providing protection.
“This war has nothing to do with NATO,” Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said on Monday. “NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory.”
As Trump’s military campaign in Iran enters its third week, US and Israeli strikes have killed over one thousand people in the country and led to bombings across the region. The White House seems to have no set goal—let alone a plan—despite costs now well into the tens of billions of dollars.
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On Saturday, March 28, millions of people around the United States will gather for the No Kings demonstrations. This is a good opportunity to address large numbers of people to propose more concrete forms of resistance. To make this as easy as possible, we present three handbills you can give out to people—one about resisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one introducing anarchist ideas to those who are unfamiliar with them, and one explaining the Prairieland case. Please prepare and distribute your own materials as well!
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Finally, courtesy of Fire Ant Movement Defense, we offer this handbill about the Prairieland case.
You can learn more about the Prairieland case here and donate to their support fund here.
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Florida just handed Ron DeSantis a weapon to fire elected officials for supporting their own constituents.
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President Donald Trump wondered if the U.S. “shouldn’t even be there” when answering questions about the war on Iran on Sunday, claiming that Iran’s military is already totally obliterated as the U.S. and Israel’s bombardments enter their third week with no end in sight. A reporter asked Trump on Sunday about his demands that other countries aid him in trying to force transit through the…
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A battle over a data center complex in rural Western New York may seem like a purely local affair. But an analysis of the project’s owner reveals ties that include the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the government’s crackdown on U.S. campuses, and the imposition of neocolonial rule over Gaza. Over the past year, residents of Genesee County, New York — located between Buffalo and Rochester — have…
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Wow, even Oklahoma is joining the resistance! City Manager Mike Carter started 2026 with what he framed as huge news for the 20,000 residents of this Tulsa suburb. Google was interested in building a massive
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Israeli settlers have rampaged through multiple towns in the occupied West Bank for two nights in a row, unleashing a campaign of destruction and terror on Palestinian residents with the backing of the Israeli and U.S. governments. On Saturday, Israeli settlers attacked at least six communities, including Jenin in the north and Masafer Yatta in the south. Settlers set homes and cars on fire…
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Several allies to the U.S. have rebuffed President Donald Trump’s demands and threats this weekend for countries to aid in opening transit through the Strait of Hormuz, as oil prices spike in the third week of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran. As of Monday morning in the U.S., no countries had committed to aiding in Trump’s plan to form a naval coalition for access to the strait as Iranian…
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Josué Aguilar Valle, a Honduran national, recalls the “terrible” conditions at the migrant jails where U.S. immigration authorities imprisoned him last year. In La Salle County, Texas, Aguilar shared a frigid cell with 50 men, sleeping on the concrete floor. “I thought I was going to experience hypothermia,” he explained. Aguilar’s wife struggled to locate him…
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On Monday, at the order of President Donald Trump, ICE agents were deployed to over a dozen airports across the United States, purportedly to help handle Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) duties amid a continued Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. The shutdown is the result of disagreements on funding the department, with Democrats demanding reforms to Immigration…
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The U.S.’s oil blockade on Cuba, a small island country already suppressed from decades of a comprehensive U.S. embargo, amounts to “economic warfare,” the purpose of which is to “suffocate” the country, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Saturday as Cuba was plunged into its second nationwide blackout in a week. “We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed…
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The Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary.
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