Along with "vindictively" harming the defendants, said the head of Campaign for Accountability, Lindsey Halligan "is singlehandedly undermining—maybe irrevocably—the public's confidence in the impartiality of the Department of Justice."​

The death penalty "should not be imposed in any circumstances, let alone weaponized as a blatantly discriminatory tool of state-sanctioned killing, domination, and oppression," an Amnesty campaigner said of an Israeli bill targeting Palestinians.

While experts hope the US Supreme Court will reverse an "objectively insane" appellate decision​, a ruling in favor of the Republican National Committee could reduce the rights of Americans who vote by mail.

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida

A Center for Biological Diversity report details how fossil fuel-powered data centers for the artificial intelligence industry in the United States are "threatening to sabotage the country's already faltering climate goals."

After the Federal Reserve announced another interest rate cut, one economist said that "Trump's reckless economic agenda is pushing our economy to the brink, and working families are paying the price."

"This isn't justice. Justice is Sonya Massey still being alive. This is merely accountability," Nina Turner said after an Illinois jury found white ex-cop Sean Grayson guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting the unarmed Black woman in her home after she called 911.

"This federal court decision is the result of organized labor standing together and leading the fight against the administration's unprecedented, politicized, and unlawful attack on federal workers' rights," said one union leader.

Although the European Court of Human Rights sided with the Norwegian government over six young adults and a pair of climate groups, the plaintiffs still welcomed the tribunal's ruling as "a major step forward," in the words of Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace Norway.

"This is a leader who is trying to transition our government from a democracy to something much closer to a totalitarian state,"​ said US Sen. Chris Murphy, arguing that President Donald Trump won't negotiate to end the shutdown "because he thinks he can exercise king-like powers."

"We call on ICE to immediately account for and release Mr. Hamdi, whose only 'crime' is criticizing a foreign government that committed genocide," said the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

As John Bolton, James Comey, and Letitia James fight the various charges against them, polling shows a majority of American adults think President Donald Trump is using US law enforcement "to go after his enemies."

As polling shows Americans believe Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice, the DOJ is drawing accusations of voter suppression by sending election monitors to California and New Jersey.

"While the paychecks have stopped, the bills have not. Rent needs to be paid. Mortgage payments are due. Groceries must be bought."​

As the government shutdown continues, yet another poll shows a rising majority of voters are concerned about skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

"Stephen Miller is the most evil, fascist, wannabe authoritarian in the Trump regime. And that’s saying something," Arizona Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari said of the White House aide's threat to arrest Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

As outrage over Trump's deadly boat bombings mounts, The New York Times reported that his administration secretly authorized the CIA to carry out operations in Venezuela and the Caribbean, with the ultimate aim of ousting Maduro.

"DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth," Graham Platner said of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee partnering with his primary opponent, Gov. Janet Mills.

"[W]e demand arrest warrants for the perpetrators of crimes against our fellow journalists in Gaza." "We encourage American and international media outlets to demand direct, unsupervised access to Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire agreement." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Incarceration #Genocide

Senate Democrats are blasting Trump's increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon.

"These mass firings are illegal and will have devastating effects on the services millions of Americans rely on every day," warned the leader of a federal worker union challenging Trump and Vought's layoffs during the government shutdown.

"MIT did the right thing: It put its students first and preserved the social fabric of its university life," Amnesty International USA said after the school rejected Trump's compact. "We hope other universities will follow suit."

Sen. Bernie Sanders argued at Fox News that artificial intelligence "must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires," and released a report warning that AI puts up to 97 million US jobs at risk.

As President Donald Trump continues to terrorize Chicago and its suburbs with the anti-immigrant Operation Midway Blitz, the city, the state of Illinois, journalists, and protesters filed a pair of federal lawsuits against the administration's "invasion."

"This mission is an appeal to our colleagues—and to the institutions that represent us globally—to break their silence, uphold their ethics, and stand on the right side of history," said a doctor on a new Gaza-bound flotilla.

"This is murder. The US government must be held accountable," Amnesty International USA said of Trump's latest lethal boat bombing.

"The labor movement's message to the administration is clear: Get to work. Fund the government. Fix the healthcare crisis. Put working people first."

Watch the Global Sumud Flotilla livestream from several vessels carrying humanitarian aid as they near the Gaza Strip:

"You know exactly how chilling and unconstitutional your statements have been," a coalition wrote to FCC Chair Brendan Carr, demanding the Trump appointee resign over his role in Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.

"It's like they're trying to cover up a homicide," the Environmental Voter Project said of an Energy Department office banning "climate change" and related terms. www.commondreams.org/news/climate...

"Unlike Trump, I believe we need more than just press releases, polite requests to drug companies, and pilot projects," said @sanders.senate.gov. www.commondreams.org/news/drug-pr...

One campaigner called a new coal bailout "nothing more than a wealth transfer from the American people to Trump's billionaire friends sitting atop a failing industry."​ www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...

Press freedom advocates celebrate the dismissal of some federal charges against journalist Timothy Burke as "a crucial victory for the First Amendment." www.commondreams.org/news/tim-burke

Scenes from an authoritarian regime

"Though a step in the right direction, this is not enough to end Microsoft's complicity in the genocide perpetrated by Israel," one legal advocate said after the company cut off the Israeli military from some cloud storage and other technology. www.commondreams.org/news/microso...

"Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police and ICE." www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

Good to see Italy and Spain stepping up. Especially Spain. Article by @corbettjessica.bsky.social

"Donald Trump is redrawing election maps to force through a Congress that only answers to him, not the people," @aoc.bsky.social says in a new video ad promoting California's Proposition 50. www.commondreams.org/news/2026-el...

The gap between the weekly wages of US public school teachers and other college graduates not only continued to grow last year, but "reached a record high," according to @ceprdc.bsky.social and @epi.org. www.commondreams.org/news/teacher...

"AFRICOM's perfunctory acknowledgment and empty condolences are not just underwhelming, they are a profound injustice," ​said the rights group Hūmānus, which represents two families of victims killed by US strikes in Somalia. www.commondreams.org/news/us-airs...

"The combination of cruelty and impunity in pursuit of a mass deportation crusade is dangerous," said one rights advocate after a family accused ICE agents of trying to use a 5-year-old autistic girl to lure her immigrant father outside. www.commondreams.org/news/immigra...

"Rest in peace to the presidency, and long live the king," quipped one attorney after the Supreme Court let Trump fire an FTC commissioner and agreed to review a 90-year-old precedent. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ftc

The battle over Texas' Senate Bill 10 continues, with families in the state filing a federal lawsuit to block the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. www.commondreams.org/news/texas-t...

"It is unconscionable that the agency charged with protecting Americans from environmental threats would consider rescinding policies based on years of evidence-based practice," said the head of one nursing group. www.commondreams.org/news/climate...

"The fact that he may now be put on a plane to El Salvador, a country he fled out of fear, at any moment, despite a clear path to becoming a permanent resident, is despicable," an @aclu.org attorney said of journalist Mario Guevara. www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

"​What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power—and it’s still nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities," said Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...

"While Palestinian mothers in Gaza are left to watch their children waste away from starvation under Israel's genocide, arms companies and others continue to reap substantial profits," said @amnesty.org secretary general @agnescallamard.bsky.social. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

"No one wants Lecornu or Macron anymore," said one National Assembly member as hundreds of thousands of people joined protests across France over the government's proposed austerity measures. #18septembre www.commondreams.org/news/french-...

"It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again," said Mahmoud Khalil. www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud...