A Palestinian father in Gaza builds a homemade swing for his children.

Vincent van Gogh (1889)

Join us for our 30th anniversary celebration on Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m. ET. 🔗 democracynow.org/30 🎤 Special Guests & Performers • Angela Davis • Patti Smith • Michael Stipe • Mosab Abu Toha • V (formerly Eve Ensler) • Hurray for the Riff Raff …and more!

Two Black women in Florida were forced to have c-sections by a judge over Zoom while in active labor. The Hospital went to the courts to enforce fetal personhood laws.

Ramadan ends tonight & I’m getting the usual questions, so lemme clear things up. If anyone says “Eid Mubarak,” to you, here are perfectly good replies: •Eid Kareem! •Khair Mubarak! •Eid Mubarak to you! •I will buy you tacos for Eid!❤️ (OK last one may be apocryphal but I stand by it😅) EID MUBARAK!

Happy Newroz, Nowruz, Nawroz, Novruz! Along a wide geography spanning from the edges of Europe’s eastern borders to western frontiers of China, Kurds, Persians, Tajiks, Afghans, Azeris and many others celebrate New Year’s Day on March 21.

Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. It’s the first nationwide blackout since the US blocked the flow of oil to Cuba. This was entirely caused by the US. The US is strangling Cuba to death so it can come in & take control of the country.

Cuba — which does NOT pose an eminent threat to the U.S. — just had it’s power grid collapse after weeks of U.S. oil blockade | CNN www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

Arms supplies from the #UAE to the #RSF have dried up since Iran began its Operation True Promise IV and blocked access to the Straight of Hormuz. As a result, the Sudanese army has advanced to recapture towns from the UAE-backed RSF. #Sudan #Africa #EpsteinFury #Iran

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released on bond Monday after more than a year in ICE detention.

#AMC #AllMyChildren #Sinners #Oscars 🥹

The biggest terrorist in the world did this.

“All of the same arguments, the same talking points, the same propaganda to justify the same mass casualty war.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social warns that the “Gaza playbook” is now being repeated in Iran zeteo.com/p/will-the-u...

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza. On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025. #Infograph

“This is just yet another so-called reason to get rid of her because she has caused the White House so much embarrassment over recent months.” Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social breaks down the incredibly stupid reason Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fired by Trump.

“The transparent ‘Israel First’ impetus has never been so visible.” Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy argues that U.S. incoherence under Donald Trump has enabled Benjamin Netanyahu to advance a strategy of regional domination. Read more: zeteo.com/p/netanyahu-...

I will always stand with nurses. At the same hospital where I worked as a registered nurse, we came together to demand fair wages and safer working conditions for healthcare workers. I’m proud to stand with NNU as we call out ICE for what it is: one of the country’s top public health threats.

Texas republicans just pissed off a ton of voters by shutting down county wide voting in Dallas, and blocking the polls staying open until 9.

We Stan a queen

Kingfisher, a quiet little moment of feather-preening and stillness. #WorkinProgress #Kingfisher #Birds #Nature #Watercolour #Painting #Art #Artist

"It's 100% true that Epstein is a factor in [US attacks on Iran.]" @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talks to @premthakker.bsky.social about whether the attacks on Iran are a strategy to shift public attention away from Trump's problems at home. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/iran-epste...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

Industry's season finale was amazing! I was surprised by the critique of neoliberalism, right-wingers, N@zism, and the inclusion of a storyline reminiscent of Epstein's network among the western elite. Harper/Myha'la & Yasmin/Marisa Abela made this episode one of the best season finales I've watched

The United States of America and Israel has just bombed a school full of students in Iran. ~40 students killed and 48 injured. This violates Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to the U.S. and Israel. #cdnpoli

Chapters 40 and 41 of 'Who Do You Love?' are up. #Sprina #Trina #Fanfic archiveofourown.org/works/630976...

It’s been 14 years since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was pursued, shot, and killed by an armed vigilante while walking home from a Florida convenience store. Trayvon’s family have not received justice—in part, due to Florida’s Shoot First law, which essentially gives people a license to kill. 🧵

Marielle.

ajplus Almost 8 years since human rights leader-turned-politician Marielle Franco was assassinated, Brazil’s Supreme Court has convicted 5 more men responsible for her murder. They include two politician brothers who led a paramilitary group linked to illegal land grabs

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib heckle Trump as he goes full fear-mongering white nationalist

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

Children are being arrested and detained during the time of the Epstein files, and no one is making the connection?

Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”

joelyoshonis Justice for Da’Quain Johnson. Fk GRPD.

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Winter Heath (Erica carnea) Today in Dash Point, Washington #photography #art #macro #flowers #bloomscroll

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Happy anniversary to Democracy Now!

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

“It’s really about respecting someone’s lived experience.” I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to share my thoughts on authenticity reading in this week’s Editors Toronto article. editorstorontoblog.com/2026/02/18/t... #Editors #Editing #AuthenticityReading #SensitivityReading #WritingCommunity

Rest in Power Dr. Linda Davis. #sayhername

The real reason CBS didn't let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico is that the Ellisons are still trying to buy Warner Bros. David Ellison runs Paramount, which owns CBS. He's using CBS to show what loyal oligarchs they are as they seek FCC approval for a WBD deal.

Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽