Support independent journalism!

This uniquely grassroots model means we’re not dependent on any one entity — or its monied interests — for our existence; instead, we rely on thousands of readers who care about the truth, including you. Please participate by donating today! truthout.org/donate

This woman has been in ice jail for 10 months for absolutely no reason. It also shows how an arrest at a protest caused massive consequences - essentially creating a flag on her at her next immigration check in- even though charges were dropped

"They're worried about the coal mine." "They don't care about us, but when they run for reelection, they get coal miners standing beside them. But yet, when it comes to protecting us, they ain't protecting us." "We just die. And they just put somebody else in our place." #USA #Mining #Labour

Hawai‘i is nearing a pivotal deadline on military land leases, exposing how the US has long abused Hawaiian land and opening a rare chance for Native communities to assert Indigenous sovereignty and demand the land’s return for public and ecological healing.

Here's a fun fact to share with relatives: Trump promised over and over to slash our energy bills in half but also embraced the fossil fuel industry's rush to export as much fracked gas as possible. Now winter heating bills are up 22% over 2024, even though the US is the world's top gas producer!

It would be great if more politicians meaningfully considered whether transit fares are worth their costs.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.

"Staunton announced this afternoon that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove the six automated license plate readers installed throughout the city."

"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Media #Censorship #Technology #Genocide

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Probably more important than his rambling speech. They’re going to strip people of their citizenship.

I think there is a decent chance that this is a top line foreign policy issue in the Democratic primary— Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker have both already been asked by multiple Democratic aligned podcasts if they would sign a new MOU with Israel. Buttigieg said no, Booker did not answer.

I try to eliminate my own hypocrisy wherever I find it, and this year that's meant addressing my media diet - to that end, I began donating monthly to @truthout.org this summer to support their indispensable journalism. Highly encourage you to join me in putting our money where our values are!

In 2026, let’s take back the media — and our minds and spirits — from the billionaires. This op-ed that @neginowl.bsky.social and I wrote today is close to my heart! truthout.org/articles/bil...

Worried about the billionaire takeover of journalism? Boy do @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and I have the antidote for you! The control of the ultra wealthy over the news isn’t inevitable, not in the least. But it does require collective action.

"Obama also institutionalized the weekly 'kill list,' which evolved into a bureaucratic process for targeted killing." "Critics warned at the time that any president could inherit this system." "Trump did exactly that." #USA #Venezuela #Afghanistan #Yemen #Somalia #Military #Weapons

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Absolutely horrific and repulsive. Solidarity with Jewish friends, especially as it’s the first night of Hannukah www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

> @miatretta.bsky.social

I think that we are all underestimating how terrible the economy is going to be next year. A lot of the impact(s) of the horror bill will come on line in the next couple of years.

House members who voted for the $901 billion military bill received four times as much money from military contractors as those who opposed it. www.stephensemler.com/p/congress-i...

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

While the Divorced Sitcom Writer continues on his decade-long tantrum that nobody wants to work with him & listen to his bile any more, Robin Ince voluntarily resigns with dignity from his show because he wouldn't just be quiet in his support of marginalised people. What a world.

"Faith Based Oil Driller" is why every alien vessel that enters our atmosphere turns right the fuck around.

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

The rise of Starbucks Workers United has energized the labor movement, as the struggle to unionize the mega-chain represents far more than baristas pitted against managers: Starbucks is a global powerhouse. Current fights at places like Starbucks will shape the labor movement for decades to come.

Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their “commitment” to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for “terrorists” who kill Israelis.

"The violence he carried out in Washington, D.C. is linked to the violence he carried out in Afghanistan." "It is the direct outcome of a U.S. military strategy that relied on militias empowered to kill without consequence." #WashingtonDC #USA #Afghanistan #Deportation #Military

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

if you missed it—i want everyone to know about the extremely disturbing warrantless spying made possible by "Flock Safety," a policing surveillance startup that gives local cops (and even some corporations) an AI-enabled camera network, empowering them to follow individual drivers all around a city.

This is incredible

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input. That violated their contract, the arbiter found.

The family of a Colombian man believed to be killed by a strike on a boat in September has filed a human rights complaint against the United States, saying that the attack was “murder” and that he was denied the right to due process.

Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.

given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

“When you run a shadow war for two decades, eventually it stops staying in the shadows.”

Days before Thanksgiving, the mayor of Nashville quietly submitted a resolution to enable $15 million in state surveillance funding to flow to a local nonprofit — a controversial move that could stymie accountability over the use of such surveillance technology.

Reminder that as Trump dehumanizes and slanders Somali-Americans, this is what his administration is doing to Somalia.

This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/

A real grassroots alternative is needed to mainstream media — journalism for the 99%. Please, this #GivingTuesday, make a donation to Truthout. Every single dollar makes a difference, so dig deep if you can! truthout.org/donate/

In a troubling scene, NY Justice Carro’s CSOs just ejected a veteran court reporter for trying to challenge the sealing of footage in Luigi Mangione’s case. They shouted over her and threatened her with contempt as she tried to ID herself and object as a surrogate for the public.

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. 🔍 Zoom in…

One of the many things I’m grateful for is independent, perceptive, fact-based journalism. One source of actual journalism I support is Truthout, but there are many others to be found on Bluesky. From this article, which you should read in its entirety: